@black3dynamite said in Need to Install SQL Server Management Studio:
You might have to go with Azure Data Studio.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/azure-data-studio/download-azure-data-studio?view=sql-server-ver15
That's cross platform and better to learn anyway
@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
I've got maybe a dozen servers that have been on 20.04 for a week or two. So far, been really good.
I am surprised you would put servers on the beta version.
A couple weeks ago, I posted a thread about intermittent issues I was having on Ubuntu 18.04. Since RC came out yesterday, I decide to upgrade to the Beta a few days before as I figured Beta issues were mostly ironed out by now.
On my Ubuntu 18.04 host I began the update process via CLI which download 2G or so and began to run. Near the end of the upgrade my screen went gray and was unresponsive. I waited in this state for approximately an hour, before forcibly rebooting the system. After the reboot, the system did not come, I would just get a gray screen after unlocking the disk.
So off to my other Ubuntu 18.04 laptop to create a 20.04 Live USB. I was able to unlock the drive and copy my files using Live OS. I only needed to grab a few things because I do everything on Office Online.
I grabbed
User configurations /home/user/.config (mainly for /home/user/chromium/default/Bookmarks)
Network and VPN connections (very convenient) /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
SSH keys /home/user/.ssh
Some other things here or there
Clean install went great. I wiped the disk and most of the little nagging issues I had are gone. I have had wireless die on my twice in 4 days. This was fixed my restarting network-manager
Ubuntu 20.04 seems to be an awesome OS. I wish the upgrade would have worked, but I really needed a clean install anyway.
@notverypunny said in SAS to USB:
I've got a bunch of 2.5" drives that we pulled when swapping SSDs into a few servers. We're using them as spares to replace dead drives in other machines for which they're compatible but they have to be cleared / blanked before being used as replacements in order for the RAID controller to properly accept the drive and rebuild.
Why would you use old drives as replacements? Hard drives are cheap and data is expensive. Spend the money on new drives for swapping.
@Dashrender said in What's the status on DMARC?:
@flaxking said in What's the status on DMARC?:
I've seen many businesses add a banner to email saying - this is from an outside domain as a way to hopefully get users to pay more attention. though the reality is that they are just likely to ignore it over time..
That's actually not the case. We disabled it one day at a previous employer and people were calling IT like crazy saying they don't see the usual external message. It certainly helps most people
@Pete-S said in What's the status on DMARC?:
DMARC records for email in 2020...
Is it:
- a must have
- nice to have, can't hurt
- don't bother
- absolutely not!
Either one or two. If you can it's highly recommended.
@DustinB3403 said in Resume Critique:
@alex-olynyk remove your phone number and email from this document... Ffs are you wanting to be spammed?
Calm your panties. It's a resume that is public shared via Google drive link. Pretty common and he can remove access at any point
@scottalanmiller said in Resume Critique:
There is a lot of stuff on there that I'd want to avoid unless you are looking for a specialty hardware management job... like hardware testing, RMA paperwork, etc. Those are legit tasks that are done, but not things you want to highlight or mention. Especially on the resume.
Yeah it makes his latest job look like a step or even two backwards.
It almost looks like your current/last role was a step down from what you were doing before. Perhaps the pay was higher, but you are listing mostly hardware in your last position and you list Windows 10 as your top proficiency.
Rose Radiology was somewhat impressive and you showcase an architectural and server skillset. Then we see a move into a hardware role, and it appears to not even be a customer facing hardware role, which is even less common.
I guess the question here is do you want to continue to work with hardware or do you want to get back to system administration and SMB IT? If you do, you need to seriously think about how you list your job duties at Beall and try to tweak them to line up more with system administration (without lying of course).
Your summary of qualifications is supposed to be your 10 seconds sales pitch, because you dont know if someone is going to read the rest of the resume. You also want to set expectations for the way they will read the rest of your resume.
The buzzwords you have listed here, dont mean anything to anybody. We all know they are feel good, and dont have any meat to them. Io like that you list your total experience and your industries, but I would do that in bullet points. The first two times I looked at your resume, I focused on bullet points not text above it.
Not only should you list your experience and industries, but you should throw your best shit here. If you could tell me 3 reasons of what separates you from others and why I should hire you for this NEW position not the old one (you are currently working). As in show me you are ready for the next level.
Remina is great on Linux platforms, but the question for me is why is this a need?
This seems like everyone could and should manage this independently. All you need is DNS name or IP to initiate a remote connection. In my opinion, it's better for IT team to know exactly where they are trying to go instead of clicking the wrong button or sending the wrong command
You could also restore in the cloud, if restoring fast is important to you. In the event of a disaster, you could provision an ec2 server and get extremely fast speed to S3.
You don't have to run this sever all the time, you script and only build it when you need it. So if a server costs you $150 a month to run in the cloud you may only need to run it for 3 days at $5 a day. Certainly worth the convince to the company.
There's some effort scripting it, but you can do most of the scripting locally. AWS has Cloudformation for scripting the actual infrastructure part, and it's pretty easy once you do it.
What is the data? Is it basically just a dump from a file server?
First of all, you need move every service you can to SaaS and Pass solution. Get rid of your database servers on prem and put them on PaaS solution. Why do you want to manage infrastructure especially if you are short staffed in IT?
@Pete-S said in Does intra-VM traffic leave the host?:
@IRJ said in Does intra-VM traffic leave the host?:
2.) Why would you want separate virtualization platforms on the same subnet, anyway? Managing traffic by subnet is MUCH easier than trying to manage it by host. Flat networks are frowned upon these days because they are much more difficult to manage traffic.
I'm increasing the segmentation granularity so the traffic is already managed by subnet, however there are a few subnets I would like to lock down even more and it's just too much to make a subnet for every single host.
Yeah in this case you will want to use a host based firewall. In AWS or Azure you would use Security Groups since they are stateful and at EC2 level. Here you will want to use iptables or windows firewall to whitelist ONLY traffic needed.
1.) No
2.) Why would you want separate virtualization platforms on the same subnet, anyway? Managing traffic by subnet is MUCH easier than trying to manage it by host. Flat networks are frowned upon these days because they are much more difficult to manage traffic.
@WLS-ITGuy said in Zoom meeting access::
@scottalanmiller said in Zoom meeting access::
@WLS-ITGuy said in Zoom meeting access::
Not to mention get them trained on it while still using zoom until they're comfortable.
that professors need training on how to use basic tools like this... it's unthinkable.
1/3 of the profs here are in their early 60's so technology isn't as easy for them. Making the changes in a zoom account to require a password, change settings, etc isn't as easy for them.
These are not the people we need teaching our children if they cannot figure out how to operate a zoom call. How can we expect them to teach our kids anything of value if they cannot do simple tech tasks? School is supposed to prepare kids for the real world (which last time I checked, has a ton of technology).
@Dashrender said in Looking for solutions to allow remote users access to their internal psychical computers:
@IRJ said in Looking for solutions to allow remote users access to their internal psychical computers:
I use Bitwarden's generator and just save my passwords. I dont really care about readability
I do care about readability because I frequently find myself at company devices that don't have my password manager installed, so I end up typing it off my phone. That said - LP can make readable passwords.
This is only an issue if you are accessing device physically.
I use Bitwarden's generator and just save my passwords. I dont really care about readability
@WrCombs said in Proposal to my Boss - Thoughts?:
As you know I'm working with the Unifi AP to get it set up for tablets.
I'll be working on getting it set up and testing it tomorrow.I want to propose to my boss that if we keep selling the tablets, that we start selling Unifi AP's. or atleast giving that option to the customer that we will maintain the wireless network for the tablets through the AP's (obviously I'm still learning but the idea is Im going to be learning more networking basics - Thanks @scottalanmiller and @Dashrender for the wake up call. and Will be setting up the AP's)
What are your thoughts on how I should bring that up, or bring it her attention?
Doesn't your company sell software?