@warren-stanley said in chocolatey by any other name???:

Just had a quick look at whats available, I'm on an Insider build so winget is installed

PS C:\> (winget search).count 169

Apparently there's issues with dependency-resolution though.

Nothing MS comes out with is a viable production-usable solution for at least a couple years.

That is nice, all the time when updating images is that kernel that gets the most updates.

@oliveryuan said in SD card not showing up on MacBook Air:

At this point, I think my only option is probably going to be asking for help from a commercial data recovery service...

That's definitely what it sounds like. Tim at Desert Data Recovery is the place to call.

@AshKetchum said in Windows 10 VM:

Yap, hopefully, I only need to get 1 license. As if I need to buy more, I might just need to use one of my physical workstations here instead of VM.

Using a physical workstation for remote Windows 10 is almost always better than trying to go down the VDI route. VDI licensing is draconian and onerous and it's only really useful in special circumstances.

If you can avoid Windows, the VDI is easy.

@JasGot said in VitalPBX / Asterisk Limit Calls Then Go To Voicemail:

@scottalanmiller said in VitalPBX / Asterisk Limit Calls Then Go To Voicemail:

We can't limit in Skyetel, or the calls won't make it to the voicemail.

My first thought would be to route calls (when their are 4 current calls) to a specific DiD that goes right to VM.

Are you working with Skyetel with custom programming or are you limited to their web portal options?

Not sure what we'd have them do to fix the issue.

To do that....

Edit...

sudo vi /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf

And set...

user = "root" group = "root"

And then...

sudo systemctl restart libvirtd

@Kylynx
What make and model tablet have you got? Have a look online to see how to get into Safe Mode.

@syko24 said in Multicast Paging Server:

If doing multicast at a single site from just the phones, is there a device limit or a point at which you can cause issues on the network? This site is 35 phones so I don't see that being the case but just out of curiosity.

No limit, because that is the point of multicast

@jkaspersen said in Is the Physical Thin Client Era Dead?:

@scottalanmiller said in Is the Physical Thin Client Era Dead?:

@jkaspersen said in Is the Physical Thin Client Era Dead?:

forget the ARM... not developed..

Oh, that's too bad.

yes... but it is still the same issue ... where is the volume... as with hardware and thin clients , and with software.. where is the volume... the volume is on X64 hardware.. and not on ARM... i know citrix did some work there... but "others" dont... so the volume is not there.. ps: to my knowledge there we too many firmware updates to the "Texas Instruments" used by Fujitsu.... so we never did a ARM terminal (luckey us)

RP is the best selling single hardware of all time. It's a bit of volume. In fact, essentially every SMB I know that does thin clients of any sort use it. The performance is so good, at a cost so low, hard to imagine using anything else. It seems to have the volume these days.

@dbeato said in VM Windows 10 Pro Licensing On Hyper-V:

@scottalanmiller said in VM Windows 10 Pro Licensing On Hyper-V:

@dbeato said in VM Windows 10 Pro Licensing On Hyper-V:

@scottalanmiller said in VM Windows 10 Pro Licensing On Hyper-V:

@NashBrydges said in VM Windows 10 Pro Licensing On Hyper-V:

There is no AD of any kind.

This doesn't play in. AD doesn't have any licensing. It is included in Windows Server and has no licenses or requirements of its own. If you can use server, you can use it, if you can't, you can't.

Microsoft Active Directory does have licensing.

What do you mean? There's no case where it gets licensed. You license Windows Server and AD is part of it, there's no license for AD itself. Any situation where you'd use AD you already have to have Windows Server license, and nothing extra is ever needed.

Well yeah, in order to use Microsoft Active Directory you still need a Windows Server which yes has to have a CAL (Per user or per device) for using same for SQL, RDS, Sharepoint and Exchange (onprem). So you were right 🙂

Yeah, you can't use AD without a license, but there's no license for AD 🙂

@syko24 said in GrandStream phones with FreePBX:

For now I am assuming the SonicWall was the culprit but tomorrow will tell.

It's a known "doesn't work" piece of hardware. I'm pretty sure, based on the unethical reasons why SonicWall exists and is sold (they are a "only for resellers to screw companies" product, not one for IT to select) that they break VoIP by default to probably support some kind of resell or consulting effort so that when competitor VoIP doesn't work, the unethical VAR who deals in SW can magically make their own work and resell that.

https://pi-hole.net/2020/05/10/pi-hole-v5-0-is-here

@IRJ said in System Admin - checklist for Don'ts and Important points please!:

@gjacobse said in System Admin - checklist for Don'ts and Important points please!:

@Pete-S said in System Admin - checklist for Don'ts and Important points please!:

Maybe I'm alone but on the top of my list:

Only use Microsoft as a last resort when all other options have been explored. If you get paid by the hour disregard #1.

Option 1. - What do you say / do when the Owner specifically states, Windows Only environment. NIX and Apply need not apply -

Look for another job

Lol 🙂

@notverypunny said in Disabling Spectre Mitigations in 2020:

My understanding was that they were essentially a shared code-base so I'm at a loss as to why such a performance difference.

Same basic code base, but with different settings, limits, and features.

@scottalanmiller said in Internet connection sharing:

@fuznutz04 said in Internet connection sharing:

@scottalanmiller said in Internet connection sharing:

I think that the key thing here might be in interpretation of the language.

"We have another business in the building" could mean that they own two companies and those two "companies" are sharing a connection. We might use that terminology for two divisions that do different things but legally can share a connection no problem.

Or it might be some random business that just happens to be in the same building that is trying to not pay for their own Internet, in which case this is a big problem.

Everyone is assuming the second, but I had read it assuming it was the first. But both are just assumptions, to know what the best options are and what is an option really requires understanding that.

Wow, I am terrible at following up with posts in a timely manner....

Yes, it is the first. So you assumed correctly. So I think we are all set with just breaking out the connection via a switch after the modem.

Thanks!

If it was me and it was two companies that I controlled, I'd use an EdgeRouter Lite, it has one WAN in and two LAN out. That way I'd have central control. Make that control owned by the "parent" organization. Then have each place have their own switches after that point. But only one router.

This is also how I would do it. There would only be one company in control of the one router.

@JaredBusch said in Tablet to send customers?:

Buy a laptop with cellular built in.

It gives you

full control via WTFever control app you want. Which lets you even start the meeting for them. the ability to locally record if needed. the ability to use any calling app you want. the ability to have them simply tilt the screen down so that the documents are in view.

Thanks Jared, excellent points, I'll urge them to go this route.

@krzykat Xpenology is a great tool to learn Synology with, or to play but I would never use it in a "production" environment (yep even home). Get a real Synology with support or as others have said a server with RAID, linux dist of choice, and Samba. Myself, Im taking one of the 'servers" someone left in my junk pile and loading Proxmox and from there setting up a shared server of some sort.

Yeah that shouldn't happen. First thing to check on that would be to ensure there were no saved credentials in Windows Credential Manager that may be trying to conflict. Otherwise, that sounds like a fluke issue and not something normal.