I'm in need of some help and advice as we have around 13TB of storage on a Qnap and its taking WAYY too long to convert to a thin volume from a thick... What has been your experience with this? is there any way to stop the process?
Model TS-463U
Firmware version 4.3.6.0.895
Here's a different question...
If we forward an external caller using our SIP/Unity tech, do we incur the long distance charge or does the original caller?
I would think we pay the call, but I'm not finding a definite answer online.
I have a manager that wants to get his hands in the IT department (no prior background) because he is helping his partner start a business. He flat out told me he wants to copy our existing infrastructure at our employment for this new venture to the T. What advice do you have on how I should proceed? Keep in mind I already didn’t trust the guy.
Getting across the board complaints from users about accessibility issues for share point and onedrive but health center shows no advisories or incidents and their twitter account is silent.
Anyone else having troubles this morning?
Hi everyone!
I'm thinking about switching to Duo for 2FA access to our Microsoft RDS servers. Now, I've read that Duo does support TOTP hardware tokens, but without token drift and resync. Currently we are already using TOTP tokens with another software, and here time drift and resync are supported.
As I'm not completely familiar with TOTP tokens, I need a little advice from you: If a TOTP token drifts apart from the auth-server, can we simply re-add the token in the Duo Admin Panel and everything's fine again, or do we need to assign a completely new hardware token and dispose of the old one?
In the long term we would like to switch to other methods (Push, HOTP, ...), but for now we'll continue using our TOTP tokens.
Thanks very much in advance.
Hey, so I just landed my first job as an intern in a small-medium sized company.
Most of the PCs here are running Win10 on SSDs, but we still have a few older ones with Win7 running on HDDs. So one of my first jobs was to upgrade the old ones by putting SSDs in and deploying Win10 on those. Now the guy who initially gave me this task left the company about 2 weeks after I joined and there are still some PCs left that I couldn't upgrade yet (since they are still actively being used).
Now the problem is that I obviously also need to deploy Office again, and activate it, but no one knows how exactly he managed the office keys. We have a huge excel sheet with 200-300 keys and their corresponding office version, but not which PC they have been used on.
What's the solution here? Can you just use the same keys multiple times without getting ducked by Microsoft as long as you have the correct overall number of licenses (I think that's what the guy that left already did)?
Is there an elegant way to extract the office keys being used on those PCs? I read there are some programs that can do this but manually extracting the keys sounds like a hassle, and feels like a pretty dirty solution.
Or is there any other obvious solution we are missing?
My organization wants me to find PII, social security numbers, credit card numbers, etc that are being stored on our servers. We are currently using Synology NAS's so I don't think I can use the Windows Server FCI.
Do any of you use good options out there that you'd recommend? Thanks.
Trying to add a new domain controller to eventually replace an older one.
When I go to promote the new DC and I get to the "additional options" stage to ask which DC I should replicate from, I am getting the error:
Error determining whether the target environment requires adprep: Validation error: Validation error: Unable to check the specified user's group membership.
Exception: The RPC server is unavailable \n
Details:Test.VerifyADPrepCredential.ADPrep.Win32Exception.-2147467259
I'm a domain admin. DNS is pointed to the primary DC. I can ping the primary domain and the domain can ping this system. I can use WMI Query to connect to the DC's. Not sure what else to look at.
Adding a 2016 DC to a 2012 R2 primary DC
Hi all,
Can someone recommend me an alternative to Websense/Forcepoint for the ability to control what users can browse to or email attachments they can send etc please? (i.e. those are the two requirements gleaned from a customer meeting but it'd be nice to have any extra functionality for user security lockdown). Thanks!
This is a proprietary appliance that I believe runs CentOS/Samba under the hood, and does some form of authenticating users against AD, which is also in some form 'joined' to. Vendor support shrugged and said they're unaware of the symptom.
I have a user that uses Symantec VIP Access to access credit cards online. Apparently it doesnt work with Intel Engine 1847.12.0.1183. When i uninstall 1847 and install the newest version 11, it's fine. It keeps updating it to 1847 though. It doesnt seem to happen through Windows and i've tried renaming some files to break the update process. Any help? Thank you.
It's for a HP ProBook 450 G3.
keywords: intel management engine symantec vip access disable stop
We're starting a move into our new office in a week. the server room will be much nicer than we have now. Our business is video and film restoration so we have a mish-mash of equipment on the racks, ranging from 4U servers and workstations to switches to 5U broadcast videotape decks, and even some old 17U video routers. Most of our workstations are racked as well, and we use a Raritan KVM to access these machines in the office.
Since we're starting from scratch, in a larger room with a window into that room from the office, we want it to look extra neat. We're having the electrician run our power to the ceiling above where the racks will be, and we have vertical PDUs that we're going to plug into those. (Server Technology CW-16V1-C20MX). These were previously held to the racks with zip ties. Not pretty, but it worked. Can't locate the Server Tech brackets anywhere in stock, but I'm wondering if I can get screw-in buttons for these to mount on a standard button-mount on the back side of each rack (there are two screw holes on the back of the unit 24.5" apart, which would fit the button mount spacing on our racks. Has anyone seen these, and if so, where can I get them?
More generally, we need to manage a bunch of different kinds of cable: Cat 6, copper DACs for our 40GbE network, a little fiber for a couple workstations in the office, lots of RG6 Coax for video, and of course power connections. We will be organizing the racks so that the servers and workstations are on 2-3 racks placed next to each other, and the video hardware on 2 racks next to them. These are all 42-45U 4-post open racks. The plan is to run everything up, then across a pair of ladder racks hanging from the ceiling, and down into the adjoining racks (such as a tape deck into the video router, or a serial cable from a workstation to a tape deck).
We want vertical between-rack cable management in the back, but we don't want gaps on the front between racks. What should we do on the front of the racks to make them look nice, when they're spaced 4-6" apart from each other to make room for rear cable management?
Pictures! Post your Pictures!
Website is hosted externally with an A record pointing to the website
Started happening today. Both Domain controllers can't access the website, while the other servers in the same network can access it just fine.
Corporate users can't access it but our property users can. If I connect my laptop to a hotspot and change DNS from internal to external, I still can't access the website.
I turned off the Anti-Virus, still no luck.
NSlookup shows the correct website/IP address
Scenario: Windows 7 SP1 w/Office 2016 upgrading to Windows 10 1809 (w/April CU) using SCCM in-place Upgrade Task Sequence.
During our second phase of the Windows 10 1809 upgrade deployment for Windows 7, we became aware of an issue affecting Microsoft Office 2016 when using Protected View to open Office files. The issue causes Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint in this scenario) to report the file as corrupted or display an error. This primarily affects files downloaded from the Internet, which, regrettably, did not come up in test deployments. Either they didn't have any Internet-sourced files or th
I Google researched the issue and narrowed it down to Windows 10 not applying correct permissions to some DLLs in the C:\Windows\SysWOW64. Comparing permissions of a clean Windows 10 install with an upgraded Windows 10 install shows that the Security Objects ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES and ALL RESTRICTED APPLICATION PACKAGES are missing from a small percentage of DLLs.
[EARLY] Solution
One early solution I have been testing is using "ICACLS *.dll /Q /C /RESET" on the SysWOW64 folder to reset the permissions on all DLLs located within. This immediately resolves the issue with Office 2016 when using Protected View. My next step is to narrow down exactly which DLLs Protected View needs so that I'm not modifying unnecessary files.
*Since I'm not taking ownership, the ICACLS command only affects 98 files in my upgraded SysWOW64 folder scenario. The remaining files are access denied, however, this does not prevent the resolution of the issue. For comparison, a clean Windows 10 w/Office 2019 has 30 files affected.
Failed Troubleshooting Ideas:
DISM and SFC: no resolution
Repair/Reinstall Office 2016: no resolution or not reliable
Upgrade to Office 2019: no resolution or not reliable
Disable Protected View w/GPO: resolves issue but not an acceptable fix
Reinstalled C++ 2013 Redistributables: no resolution
Has anyone dealt with or experienced this issue mentioned in this scenario? Anyone have an idea (outside of imaging) we can test?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT 1: Added more troubleshooting ideas tested
EDIT 2: Added note about number of DLLs in my test scenario
good morning everyone, having a weird issue. some emails marked as spam are being sent to my junk folder (as they should) but some spam emails are just straight up being deleted.
ive checked the spam filter rules in O365 and the rules have the emails sent to junk folder. but when i do a message trace i see that the email was deleted per a spam filter rule.
any ideas?
ive checked my spam rules and
Is there a way, in Office365, to have a shared document repository that isn't "owned" by anyone.
So, here's the scenario. My team needs to collaboratively edit documents. Though we are on Office365, we have not migrated our SharePoint infrastructure to Office365, and the internal SharePoint does not have Office Online installed and they don't plan to add it anytime soon.
Our initial thought was to have someone just share a folder via OneDrive, but that gets messy if they change teams or leave the company.
We went through "attachment hell" last week, with at least 3 different versions of an Excel spreadsheet floating around and being edited by different people, with people changing things that were already changed and emailing it back. It was a huge mess and a huge waste of time.
So, without access to OfficeOnline through SharePoint, what are my other options to deploy to my team?
Hey all,
We recently switched to O365 for email in my org. We're about ~100 seats and have E3 licensing for everyone. I'm also looking at moving from Box to Sharepoint and Join.me to Teams. I figure since we're paying for most of it already we might as well make use of everything. I've heard some people tell me in the past that you may want to spread out a bit instead of going all MS, but for an org my size I'm just trying to get the full bang for my buck. Outside of editing documents and hosting conference calls, my users don't have many other tech needs. Any horror stories from going all MS? Is there a benefit to using all MS products besides cost and centralization? If you have a similar licensing structure but use 3rd party tools for the Sharepoint/Teams functions, what do you use and why?
Thanks
We’ve been evaluating Proxmox for a while now at work. It’s really a lot of good stuff compiled into one solution.
Most of the posts here regarding Proxmox quickly fills up with people stating that the best solutions are usually either vsphere or hyper-v. The big names wins. I’ve always rooted the little guy. But...
The biggest issue with Proxmox is the license: AGPLv3. We CANNOT use that within our organization. Googles statement regarding this license really sums it up well. https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/
Well, Hyper-V here we come...
The Anti-Virus(Webroot ) contract for a SMB I work with is expiring and they want to replace it with one of the newer players in the market, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike and etc. They have 150 users. Hoping to get an idea of ballpark cost whether if it's worth the effort to dive into a trial and poc. Any recommended reseller/partner in US westcoast?
My company just revamped all phones company-wide and switched carriers. We currently have 70+ iPhone Xr's in the field and are on a fact-finding mission of the best MDM's out there. I am extremely new to the whole MDM life. Been researching ABM and Maas360. Thoughts?