And when you build an ERP in house, you are obviously stuck maintaining a team for that, for forever. But generally the same if you put in SAP. A good friend of mine does SAP integration for a smaller manufacturer in New York. Their full time, dedicated SAP support team is larger than the in house development team for the bespoke ERP for a larger company.

They are similar manufacturers in that they are both multi-nationals, use similar supply chains, etc. And the SAP implementation is more costly up front, took longer to implement, carries more ongoing risk, requires more ongoing cost, and does less.

@eleceng said in Easily Enable / Disable Internet Access to ESXI VM's:

@dashrender it is a manufacturing network so you would want internet access disabled 95% of the time and only enabled when you need to do application updates, windows updates, etc.

A common approach here is to disable routing.

@eleceng The setting that you want is called "AutoProtect"

@pete-s right the drag and drop functionality keeps you from having to import / export just cant find info on how to use it.

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@dafyre During my rsync it dropped to 101kB/s. Very strange. No other network traffic.

@carnival-boy said in Time Tracking:

I've tried a few. I'm good at starting a timer but then always forget to stop it and end up getting a notification that I've been working on a 15 minute task for 22 hours non-stop.

Same

So it turns out that srv records above 512 bytes is not supported by Freeswitch, so we had to remove these records. I'll update you guys on a different DNS strategy shortly.

@scotth said in What are your thoughts on Using Zerotier as VPN to highly secure networks.:

@dafyre OPNSense has a plugin for Zerotier. Since OPNSense is a fork of PFSense, I'm guessing that PFSense might have a plugin as well.

I've used the ZT Plugin for OPNSense, it seemed to work well enough for what I used it for.

@dashrender said in iPad 2 - are they still considered secure?:

@scottalanmiller said in iPad 2 - are they still considered secure?:

@dashrender said in iPad 2 - are they still considered secure?:

I'm primarily asking in regards to HIPAA.

More importantly than "is it secure" would be "does it meet HIPAA requirements?"

In both cases, the answer is "no". It is a HIPAA violation to use one for PHI.

Well, people are now making excuses - the data collected on them isn't PHI therefore we don't need to worry about it. /sigh.

Then the answer is simple... in no way, in no universe, does using an iPad 2 constitute defensible due diligence. No semi-reasonable court would look on that as anything but an intentional lack of effort at the cost of customer data being put at risk.

So this morning, no one on RDS had printers again.

WTF..

So I manually added a printer direclty on the RDS server (not from the Print Server (the DC)). IT showed up immediately on all users and was able to be printed to.

So I manually added all the printers direct. Issues resolved for the moment.

FFS Microsoft...

@pete-s said in Is XYZ considered secure?:

But if compliance is required, don't you have to abide and make decision based on both real security as well as compliance?

Nothing makes you abide by good security other than the risk of being sued over it. So no, you don't have to abide by both. Is it best to, sure of course, if you value you company.

@irj said in Powershell Start-Process Differences:

@gjacobse said in Powershell Start-Process Differences:

@irj said in Powershell Start-Process Differences:

Have you gave any recommendations on how to use powershell in a secure way? You could ask for a bastion host to that's only purpose is to send out PS scripts and block internet access on it.

Since I'm the new guy.. they don't hear but so well.. maybe in time. And I do bring it up from time to time..

I think sometimes they listen to new guys more. You bring experience from other places

yeah, assuming the new guy is a consultant 😉 since they are paying them huge money, why pay them if not going to listen.. but so often it seems to be the case to ignore internal resources because you just earn a salary.. it's so ridiculous!

Finally I created 10 rooms.

I'd like to have created a single resource with a capacity of 10 but It only allow reserve it to one person.

It's really limited how resources and rooms work in Exchange

@jaredbusch said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

@dashrender said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

@dashrender said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

I've started another set of ports this morning.. they are going much slower than the previous rounds.

uh - maybe not... I just called one of them.. and it's in the new carrier's log.. so looks like that port is already done - just no paperwork to me yet.

If the new carrier is Skyetel and you are making a test call from Skyetel, it will route prior to port.

This is really the same for any carrier. Once it is listed in their network, calls on their network will use it.

DUH!.. thanks.

@jasgot said in ATA sp112 behind Sonicwall to Skyetel:

@jclambert said in ATA sp112 behind Sonicwall to Skyetel:

I never had an issue with Cisco ATAs connected to a cloud service behind Sonicwall devices. I don't recall setting anything up, but I am curious enough to review my setup notes to confirm.

We have not either. We have many Cisco SPA ATAs in service. All of them behind Sonicwalls. This is the only one connected to Skyetel.

Would need to see the packet as I mentioned above to try and give you any kind of answer on why.

@jaredbusch said in Anyone know of current Skyetel Promo codes ?:

Contact your rep for that

@skyetel said in Anyone know of current Skyetel Promo codes ?:

60F85B623E

Good till Saturday.

Or the President will casually drop a code.

@teece I haven't seen that happened ever, no other transport rules modified the DKIM at all.

Thanks @JaredBusch