@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Drinking:

Really, a glass of rum could do the trick.

lol That's the spirit (no pun intended)!

My users keep complaining that our Exchange server won't accept messages/attachments over 15MB. I keep explaining that email is not meant to be a file transfer service and no one seems to get it. I know there are tons of services out there to do this sort of thing. I would like it to be "secure" and also is it possible to provide a way for people outside our company that do business with us access to send us large files, on demand?

What are you using?

Drinking a beer from a local brewery- Institution Ale's Scale the Walls IPA and researching digital pianos.

This is what dash is referring to:

https://www.netwrix.com/auditor.html

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Dallas... where you can drink in the zoo!

Contact the Dallas Tourism Bureau. You have a new slogan.

I have seen complaints with semi-related OneDrive (and similar products), so I can't hold out any hope that there is an end-all solution.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

It should be patients are a virtue. huh dummies.

I don't see the need to separate the drives into different arrays for this.

@WrCombs Yup. You can provision the AP using it. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles the controller does, but it does most of what you want in a home network AP

@NerdyDad Yikes! That is a ton of dough to get you into the same predicament.

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Budget meeting has been postponed 3 times in the past 3 days. 2 of the times, it was a few minutes prior to starting. I hate that.

LMAO - Went over to my boss' office. We are going to need a few more minutes to wrap up something. A few minutes later, the owner has called an impromptu meeting with my boss and the others that were part of my budget meeting. Postponed again!

I have 2 Dell R720XD each with 10x1TB NLSAS in OBR10 and 1 older Dell R710 with 4 10K SAS drives in OBR10 running ESXi 6 (all installed on redundant SD card or USB flash). They are backed up to a Synology DS1813+ with 8x4TB Segate Constellation drives in OBR10 and then backups are uploaded throughout the day to Amazon S3 and Glacier.

Back in mid 2013, the cost for the R720xd servers was $7229 a piece with 4-hour Pro Support. The cost for the Synology was $999 (diskless) and the disks came to $2196. The total was $3195 for a backup target.

2- Dell R720XD servers and one loaded Synology NAS came to about $17,653 (USD), which is half of the lowest end of what you are looking at for a SAN.

Thanks to everyone who chimed in. I got my new car last night. Financed at 72 months at 1.9% and put down 3K on my credit card (which will be paid in full before any interest), with 1.5% cash back and a couple grand via check. Side note... Found out my credit score was 847!

#winning

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

My kids have friends over so they are all maniacs.

From everything I have seen, kids, in general, are all maniacs lol

Never mind. I removed the server entry that was created in the previous version and did it again. It detected the port correctly and after entering the user name and password, it finally detected the base DN and let me proceed. I guess the LDAP/AD integration has some good fixes in version 12, as long as you scrap the setting and start over. LOL

I have a strange issue. We recently migrated our ERP from a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM to a 2012 R2 VM. We have a scheduled task that runs a bat file using powershell (calling old school built-in Windows FTP client) to upload a CSV file (that the ERP software generates) to our website server via FTP.

Ever since we migrated, it hasn't properly updated the site. Upon further inspection, I can see that the file is only created/named on the FTP side and is 0KB. I have tested the bat file manually, by doing a run as administrator and it does the same thing.

I went back and verified the old server is still working fine. I am wondering if there has been a change in the way that powershell handles it. I didn't create the bat file, the VAR for our ERP solution did it a couple of years ago.

Here is the breakdown. Does anyone know why this doesn't work on 2012 R2?

Bat file contents-

powershell ftp -s:C:\ps\FTP\NightlyFTP.txt

NightlyFTP.txt contents-

open 10.20.30.40
ftpUsername
ftpPassword
put D:\Data\FTP.CSV
quit
pause

@scottalanmiller said in Synology NAS for Veeam Backup Repository:

As someone who is a direct competitor with Synology and ReadyNAS here (because I run @restoronix which makes Veeam appliances) I could not with a straight face say that there is anything wrong with the good vendors here. Good products and good support. Are there reasons to go with something higher end, yes. Is it because those products are unreliable, poorly supported or going to corrupt your data? No.

I just looked up restoronix (cool name, BTW) and went to the site but my Latin is a little rusty

As I get ever-closer to hiring a Jr-level, I am looking (again) to start using a ticketing system for IT requests made by users. I am looking for recommendations for easy to use/administer hosted SaaS solutions for 2 techs/agents/users. I don't have a defined budget, as of yet, but I would say around $40/month would be OK.

I would like to have (what seems to be pretty basic)-
An integrated KB for separate access to internal IT only and to logged-in non-IT users.
Ability to import end-user info
Ability to create backups of all data
Reporting
Export of ticket information

What do you guys think?

I am getting everything buttoned down for deploying Windows 10 (1703), which will probably start going into production in a few months. I am looking at my WSUS server and see tons of Windows 10 products. Which ones do I need for 1703? Some are obviously not ones I need; others I am unsure of. Like, do I actually need the driver updates? Generally, I update drivers directly from the hardware manufacturer (Dell, Lenovo, etc.).