@DustinB3403 said in Printer Leasing/Maintenance - Installing Software on the Network for Monitoring Print Devices:

@wrx7m said in Printer Leasing/Maintenance - Installing Software on the Network for Monitoring Print Devices:

@dbeato said in Printer Leasing/Maintenance - Installing Software on the Network for Monitoring Print Devices:

It is common, however just make sure when they configure only the Static IP of the printers to be picking them up. Also make sure the SNMP community is not public (also none of your devices should have that).

I should ask them about this. I am guessing that all the printers are going to have to be networked now.

They aren't currently? Which printers are you looking at having maintenance plans on? Usually you get a few "centralized printers" and that handful of devices are what get managed.

If you wanted Bob in accounting to have his own printer, it could be networked, but usually not on a maintenance contract.

We have way too many printers. We have several managers that have their own, but they are networked. We also have some that are USB only. I am not really sure what the requirements are. Accounting started this process lol

@dbeato said in Printer Leasing/Maintenance - Installing Software on the Network for Monitoring Print Devices:

It is common, however just make sure when they configure only the Static IP of the printers to be picking them up. Also make sure the SNMP community is not public (also none of your devices should have that).

I should ask them about this. I am guessing that all the printers are going to have to be networked now.

That was fast. 3 responses in less than a minute.

I figured it was. Just wanted to see if there were any "yes, but..."

Thanks

We are looking at starting a leasing program for our printers. It seems like this would be common, but I wanted to confirm- They want to install a program

"That will only ping your devices once a day to get meter reads, report issues for servicing purposes and allow us to manage your account better and more efficiently by maintaining your devices on a pro-active basis."

Any issues with this?

@JaredBusch said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:

@wrx7m said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:

I charge my phone whenever for however long. After 2 and a half years on my S8+, I didn't notice any decline in capacity. Previously, I had phone with removable batteries and had some bulge/go bad, so I spent the $18 on amazon and bought a replacement. For me, the cost is low enough to not even care if charge cycles were still a thing.

Charge cycles are definitely the thing. They are the largest thing.

Batteries are rated by charge cycle.

But what Scott is trying to sell is a load of shit.

I meant in terms of full charge to empty. I understand that batteries age and degrade.

I charge my phone whenever for however long. After 2 and a half years on my S8+, I didn't notice any decline in capacity. Previously, I had phone with removable batteries and had some bulge/go bad, so I spent the $18 on amazon and bought a replacement. For me, the cost is low enough to not even care if charge cycles were still a thing.

@DustinB3403 said in Veeam Licenses Quandry:

If you aren't sticking with Hyper-V, what are you considering? ESXi, KVM, XCP-ng, Scale? This could have an impact if you need Veeam at all.

Yeah, this question should be addressed first. Could be moot if you move to something else. Even if you decide to use Veeam agents to backup. Totally different.

I am using Veeam Backup for Office 365 and it is showing Personal Sites for users that have been completely deleted from the Office 365 Admin portal. When I go to the Sharepoint and OneDrive admin pages, I don't see anything related to users' personal sites.

Does anyone know where you can view and delete old Personal Sites?

@IRJ said in Why big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS:

@DustinB3403 said in Why big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS:

@IRJ said in Why big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS:

@JasGot said in Why big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS:

@IRJ said in Why big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS:

this makes search engine data much more valuable

Follow the money, right? Good catch!

Definitely a good thing overall, but as expected something is always in it for Google

It's called money, yes Google is a for profit company. Get over it.

The people that use duckduckgo are the true winners here

I tried to use duckduckgo for about 2 months. I still prefer the google results.

American Express Insider Breaches Cardholder Information
The ex-employee accessed names, Social Security numbers, card numbers, and more in an attempt to commit fraud.

Data breaches don't always involve cracked passwords and criminal outsiders. American Express is proving this with its notice to certain cardholders that an employee accessed personal information in an attempt to commit fraud.

@pattonb said in spf include option:

is it prudent to use cidr notation for an include record in a SPF record, or is a fqdn acceptable ? or both ?

I don't think using both is necessary.

@notverypunny said in Itarian/Comodo One No Longer Free:

We've been using it for remote patching. Looking at the paid options for PDQ and the licensed versions of Chocolatey as potential replacements.

Been using PDQ Deploy with PDQ Inventory. I have been using PDQ Deploy for several years now (a couple on free and a few on Enterprise) and it saves me so much time. I have over 100 custom packages now.

@Nic said in ANU hacked by phishing email through the preview pane:

https://10daily.com.au/news/australia/a191002eazpk/state-of-the-art-cyber-attack-on-australian-uni-shocks-experts-20191002

No clicking on links or downloading attachments required - they payload got executed just by being previewed. No mention of what email client they were using yet.

Probably Outlook. I am pretty sure that vulnerabilities like this have surfaced and been patched several times over in various versions of Outlook.

Vultr got back to me last week with an email -

"Hello,

We apologize for the delayed response to this ticket, while we investigated this matter further.

We are continuing to review our OS template and application images, and should be applying comprehensive changes across all available deploy images in the near future.

Your continued patience and understanding is appreciated in the meantime.

If you have any followup questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out."

I use rules to limit traffic to HTTP and some others in an ipsec tunnel that connects some handheld scanners and a thermal label printer at a remote warehouse to our ERP system.

Yeah. Probably. I guess it just depends on if they need both accessible at the same time or just one or the other.

@DustinB3403 said in Joining 2 Windows 10 Machines:

@wrx7m said in Joining 2 Windows 10 Machines:

@DustinB3403 said in Joining 2 Windows 10 Machines:

Also we don't know if this is Windows 10 Professional (or home) or some other version, so setting up Hyper-V on one installation may not be an option while keeping the system intact .

Could go virtual box too

Still would have issues legally with it, but yeah. . . .

Yeah. He would definitely need a license for both.

@DustinB3403 said in Joining 2 Windows 10 Machines:

Also we don't know if this is Windows 10 Professional (or home) or some other version, so setting up Hyper-V on one installation may not be an option while keeping the system intact .

Could go virtual box too

Iranian Government Hackers Target US Veterans

https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/iranian-government-hackers-target-us-veterans/d/d-id/1335897?_mc=rss_x_drr_edt_aud_dr_x_x-rss-simple

'Tortoiseshell' discovered hosting a phony military-hiring website that drops a Trojan backdoor on visitors.

A nation-state hacking group recently found attacking IT provider networks in Saudi Arabia as a stepping stone to its ultimate targets has been spotted hosting a fake website, called "Hire Military Heroes," that drops spying tools and other malicious code onto victims' systems.

@DustinB3403 said in Joining 2 Windows 10 Machines:

How would he even license this?

But a simple question, why not just install the other computers hdd into this system and select the boot device?

That or run it as a VM.