@Dashrender said in BackBlaze vs. CrashPlan:

@BBigford said in BackBlaze vs. CrashPlan:

reasoning behind trying BB & CP. Our other servers and Windows workstations are backed up with System Center DPM, which allow for immediate restore after running a successful backup.

Well, that's case case with most products - though it sounds like CP has some sort of indexing it has to do on the server side post backup - so that's a drag.

Are there any more traditional backup products that can be used - hate to mention them, but something like Backup Exec - something that can backup to a local system, then push to a cloud source.

Also, I'm wondering - why do you need to worry about end point computers? Can't your users save all there work to a network drive?

We could use something like Unitrends, but there are only about a dozen Macs so the cost isn't justified. I think we would end up running a few thousand if I remember right. I put OSX Server 10.11 on a laptop to test the new functionality. Not nearly as good as it used to be, and it was never really that good.

Did you reboot post install? 😛

@brianlittlejohn said in OSX Server - Free?:

@scottalanmiller said in OSX Server - Free?:

@brianlittlejohn said in OSX Server - Free?:

I have always loved macs...well since they switched to Intel processors... but could not stand OS X Server. Nothing ever worked right for me with OSX Server and then the documentation on it was horrendous.

I tried using it for a client one time. It didn't work, at all. We escalated the issue to Apple support all the way to engineering. Engineering was super helpful and responsive but their final answer was "the product just doesn't work and Apple is not going to fix or address it, broken is simply the state of the product and will remain so." And that was that. It's simply a non-viable, unsupported product. I would never touch it again.

The two servers I put in, OpenDirectory (or whatever apple calls it) corrupted on both of them... big pain to rebuild.

Yup, Apple just isn't a business focused company. Sure their desktops are better than their server, but the overall issues are really that Apple just doesn't take business needs seriously and still sees their products as an entertainment platform, not a business one.

@Dashrender said in MDT 2012 - PowerShell error:

Does the path include access to PowerShell?

How would one verify?

@aaronstuder said in Encrypted flash drives:

Remember that a VeraCrypt Volume is just a file. It can have no extension or it can have a fake one. I normally fill the flash drive with a bunch of unimportant unencrypted documents, as well some VeraCrypt Volume's named TPS_Report.xls, pics.zip, etc. Any normally person finding the USB drive, just assumes that those files at corrupted, and deletes then or better yet just wipes the drive and reuses it.

Same think I do in my PenDrive using Veracrypt.

Veracrypt is great and Free!!!

Would encryption work in your case? Each individual mac get's its backups encrypted.

I've run dcdiag, everything comes back showing healthy.

I don't want to go the route of the registry fix because I've saw this in multiple domains now, and it doesn't fix the root of the cause, it is just a work around and writing off the situation as "it's just a corrupt profile". Well I don't see how it can be corrupt when it's never been on that server before...

Seems like too common of a problem, and has been happening for years for there not to be more coverage on the matter than just deleting it from ProfileList.

@Jason said in WDS vs. MDT vs. WAIK:

We use WDS approx 30,000 users. The number of users wouldn't really affect how you image if you plan it right. It's not like every user has their own image.

SCCM isn't worth the trouble. You really don't gain much when you count all the time you have to put into it.

Dell KACE is probally one of the best/most flexible options out there. Not cheap though..

Guessing you also use MDT/WAIK for building. Just using WDS to deploy?

I'm not very strong with PowerShell yet. I imagine that's what I have to do in this instance though unless someone knows a better way. I would have to write the script, then just drop it in scheduled tasks. I have never saw anything in the GUI even remotely mentioning automated restores.

@iroal said:

I use Veracrypt, It's fully compatible with Truecrypt.

It's free and very similar to Truecrypt, I use it with Dropbox and Google Drive.

Veracrypt here as well

@scottalanmiller said:

@s.hackleman said:

I played with x10 equipment back in the day and it worked for me. I haven't used the cameras, but you can setup a motion sensor outside that turns on a light inside, and even turn on a few a few seconds appart like someone is moving through the house. It was reliable, affordable, and kinda fun to setup.

How very "Home Alone" of you 🙂

We had all of our network gear in our College apartment on a trigger with a switch at everyones desk. That way we could reboot the 802.11b router every 2 hours with out standing up. 😉

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

We've been expansionist for a long time. The war of 1812 was the result in part of US Expansion.

Are you sure? The Second War of Independence was a defensive war. We had the population being taken for slaves, that wasn't going to stand (strangely.)

I always thought that was small part of it. The bigger parts, from my reading, was the US expansion westward, which resulted in fighting from British supported Native American tribes, and the trade embargoes setup by the British Empire on US interests in Europe.

Hard to say 201 years later, but that always seems to have been a very minor factor.

@BBigford It does everything automatically, via GPO, not really one at a time. LAPS prevents each local admin from having the same password. Obviously, if you want everything to be the same then you wouldn't want to use it.

EDIT: You can still use the bat file (mentioned above) if you want to create a specific user with a specific password and assign it to the local admins group. Keep in mind that it is plain text, as was the method you were previously using.

@s.hackleman said:

I'm less than a 2 hour drive from Branson.

I'm sorry,

@scottalanmiller said:

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@scottalanmiller said:

But that doesn't explain how the copiers POINT to the Exchange 2007 instance. How do they send the email to it in the first place? IP address?

Uses the hostname instead of IP... Some of the settings I've saw in the config:

Server FQDN: exchange-server.domain.com (older server with relay configured)
Server Port: 25
From Address: [email protected] (has a resource mailbox in Exchange, with a password to authenticate)

I can't think of any other settings off the top of my head...

Right... so what are the questions about how to do this with a Linux relay? You already have a dedicated relay. It's just swapping out the name of the OS and the cost and stability involved. Nothing "changes." You are already doing everything as if you had a Linux relay.

There's no more confusion. You answered it way up the thread already. 🙂

I just didn't know how the Linux relay tied to hosted Exchange, but you already said you can define that in the relay by entering credentials for the hosted instance.

They tie through the magic of email 🙂

No, you wouldn't really use the credentials, that's pretty silly. You just... relay. Email is WAY simpler than I think you are picturing. None of that is necessary.

ok, so you point the Linux relay at the IP issued to the O365 instance, with a transport rule setup on the O365 instance to accept the traffic from the relay?

No... still way too complex. You do nothing. I literally listed all of the steps.

Email doesn't need any of those things. It doesn't get pointed anywhere.

How would the Linux relay know how to pass on the traffic from the copier to the hosted Exchange instance then...?

How does email ever get to where it is going? It just sends the email. It looks up the server's MX record. It's how every email everywhere gets delivered.

Oh ok, so the relay relies on MX records found in DNS?

Of course, that's how all email is sent that is not internal to the server itself, which wouldn't actually be email. So to simplify... yes, that is how all email is sent.

Sorry that took so long. Thanks for explaining.

I was overthinking it. It's been a long week. I was overthinking it.

...and after people tearing me down all day about SQL and Apple Mail, I'm pretty brain dead. 😐

@DustinB3403 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@BRRABill said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I drink a lot That's the real solution. If you are not drinking heavily, IT is likely not for you 😉

Do you drink and IT?

I drink and everything.

Scott has just admitted to drinking and driving folks.

f[moderated], if that's all it takes.

I usually am drinking while I'm driving. No f[moderated]s given.

@larsen161 said:

@Dashrender a sort code and account number isn't private. it's on every cheque you have right there for anyone you pay to see. it's also on some bank debit cards. i've never had someone not share their details if I needed to pay them.
these details are published widely even by major banks like Barclays and utility companies, Thames Water so you can pay them.

In the US it is called the ABA not sort code. ABA are certainly not secret.

As for an account number. No thanks. not going to get it from me. Then again I also do not have a checkbook. I pay the minimal fee to get a money order when I rarely (typically not even once a year) need to pay that way.

@JaredBusch said:

@Dashrender said:

where you selling or buying?

Reading comprehension problems today? He is selling stuff.

apparently - while reading his post.. I didn't comprehend what he meant by did a price drop... I do now though.. so I guess it makes sense now.

@BBigford said:

@Jason said:

We tested the EliteBooks.. Didn't like them that well.

I personally owned a HP Pro x2 612 G1. It was interesting but it had a lot of issues.

What didn't you like about the Elitebooks (did you test these new low power ones, or just the "standard" form factor Elitebooks that have been around a while)? We've had some of the Elitebook 2560s, etc. Just standard laptops with good specs. I don't care for the driver support when it comes to WDS, but any laptop seems to be tricky since drivers are so particular with laptops.

Have you tried the M series processors yet? If so, how'd they do for you?

We have some of the Skylake CPUs I believe but not in the HPs we tested. They were fine. We don't worry about them that much..

Elitebooks we tried where a mixture of standard and ultrabooks. The quality wasn't there for us they would not hold up in our environment. The Docks for them are slated to be discounited in favor of USB 3.0 only so that was a major factor too.