If I wanted to stay in the RHEL world, and the 16 systems would be sufficient I'd likely just use RHEL. Otherwise, if I wanted to stay in the RHEL world, and CentOS Stream wasn't viable, I'd like use Oracle Linux.

On the Sales program thing, I've been in the developer program for almost a year. I joined when I learned about it right before my RHCSA exam to get actual RHEL for practice. Other than E-mails into which I opted in, I haven't received a single sales communication from Red Hat.

@scottalanmiller said in Network backbone compatibility question:

You never want fiber until it offers you something you were missing...

I love to use fiber for inter-switch connections. Pretty much every switch on the planet has SFP available. Why waste the ports?

I'm still only using them as 1gigabit ports though.

@fabiorpn Basically you answered the question as to whether you do Maintenance on your hosts which you do. However updating a Host and rebooting it, it will render the VMs offline if not on HA. Assuming you do HA and that you move the VMs to the next host before reboot then you are good on that end. However my questions was geared more to the Security and Application Updates of the Severs (Be it Linux or Windows). When you install the updates and reboot it, essentially the VM is not accessible no matter how great your HA is. So that is where having a downtime/maintenance period is good even if you want to accomplish HA.

@brandon220 I think Proxmox is a great front end for KVM. From what I see in the updates the other day, they are improving their backup server as well. The only type 1 hypervisor I don't like or not a fan of is Hyper-V. I can use it but it needs some tweaks if you don't have it joined to a domain. But there are some good backup products for it. EXI is good but see no point on me paying for it and no point in using the free version as the API's for VM backups are disabled.

@jaredbusch Well that is one way to secure things......

@irj said in Outlook 2016/o365: Sent items issue:

@gjacobse said in Outlook 2016/o365: Sent items issue:

Thus far, nothing has resolved this issue.

As the install was Office 365;
Deleted OST file
Deleted User Mail profile
Online repair
Un-installed Office 365
Cleared application / user folders - rebooted
Installed Office 2016

The only other thing i can think of is;

Backup user data, wipe the drive (2 min max as it is a nvm drive) Image and restore user data.

This is an odd issue to say the least. I am hoping the o365 team can determine a solution rather than having to go that route.

I feel like you're shooting a shotgun in the woods during a new moon and praying to hit a target.

If you don't have permission to make any changes because of GPO and you have no visibility in office 365. Then just escalate the issue. Otherwise it's just a time waste for all involved.

Lol- I did. The O365 team kicked to the IR Team ( incident response), who closed it as I was working ...

Guess I’ll just have to reimage it ,.,.,

@jaredbusch said in Upgrading to Fedora 34:

@stacksofplates said in Upgrading to Fedora 34:

I don't care for the new Windows-esque "installing updates don't power off your computer" screen on a reboot that was introduced in 34.

It was in 33 also if you did a clean install.

Ah I haven't used it in a while. I just saw it mentioned the other day.

@scottalanmiller said in Proxmox in production questions:

@dustinb3403 said in Proxmox in production questions:

@itivan80 said in Proxmox in production questions:

I am using a promox server with the following raid-RAIDZ-3. A variation on RAID-5, triple parity. Requires at least 5 disks. It works awesome for my VMs. It protects me fully if one disk goes down.

Raid 5 does this natively, how is this some amazing feature?

RAID 5 is single parity.
RAID 6 is double parity.
RAID 7 is triple parity.

This is RAID 7.

Sorry, I could've swore this said protects from 1 drive failure....

There's a good bit of dysfunction going on, such as two weeks after starting to look into what's needed for configuration manager there's still no authoritative answer on "talk to this person to see what Microsoft licensing we have." 😛

I'm trying to get an idea of what's needed myself, and most of what I found is in relation to those who already have System Center and having current SA entitles you to Configuration Manager Current Branch.

shutdown the perpetrating computer remotely, and lock the computer account.

@siringo said in Simple comms. What to do?:

I have a site where the two main servers (Windows) are located about 15 'cable' metres from the switch (switch A) they plug into.

Each server has 3 NICs.

I'm wondering what others would do?

Would you run 6 cables from the servers to switch A

or

place a switch (switch B) near the servers and run 1 cable from switch B to switch A?

Thanks for any help.

Introducing new hardware (a switch) may be a stopgap, if the end intent running cables. Don't add a hardware failure point. Less is more as they say

@manny2375 said in Azure VM + Intune Autopilot:

@obsolesce thanks I know this method works unfortunately this specific client doesn’t want anything onpremise other than networking equipment and thin clients. The autopilot feature would have been nice on azure vm though.

Everything you are trying to do Microsoft is telling you not to do.

Read the last part especially:

Screenshot_20210423-164402_Edge.jpg

@dashrender said in Exchange 2019 Remove server name and internal IP from email headers:

@dustinb3403 said in Exchange 2019 Remove server name and internal IP from email headers:

@dashrender said in Exchange 2019 Remove server name and internal IP from email headers:

The instructions seem pretty straight forward. Did you give the send connector enough time to sync, or force it manually?

Yeah so, sorry for not following up. The instructions do work, but spam filters (sophos at least) puts this information back...... some great security there.

Anyways... yeah...

I was able to reduce the hop count printer in message analyzer from 5 to 3, which would remove the information. But the damn spam filter....

So it may be a wash to even consider this.

Spam filter can't be made to drop everything before it? We assume the spam filter is at the edge of your network, so the outside world shouldn't NEED to know about anything behind it.

Can it be, maybe does this use case say to do anything with it, no. Security Scan is what called this out. So remediating the item mentioned is the goal, not "fixing" the issue.

@strongbad
What I found and read -though short- implied the person is making things up out of total misunderstanding.

I’d have them provide examples

@notverypunny said in Discovery of the week:

@coliver said in Discovery of the week:

@notverypunny said in Discovery of the week:

If anyone else needs something for IPAM / network documentation I've just fallen in love with phpipam (https://phpipam.net/)

I'd tried netbox in the past but this just seems to work better for me. You can also set up polling / discovery of the configured ranges (on a per-range basis) either from the central server or from remote agents.

Anyways, it's rare that I'll advocate for something out of the blue, but I'm almost enjoying moving our horrible excel spreadsheet documentation over to this.

Happy Friday all 🙂

Yeah, we've been using it for a year or more. It has a nice API that @stacksofplates helped me dig into to automate DHCP reservations.

That sounds sexy.... windows server DHCP or something else?

dhcpd. The developers are working on built in Kea integration, although that's been on the table for a while.

@jt1001001 said in cursur change in chrome:

@dashrender Had this happen with a Logitech moue where center wheel can be "moved" left-right. Wheel got stuck in clicked/down position. Did not find a way to turn off other than replace the mouse and have user reboot.

Fantastic.. After WrCombs post, I was thinking that might have been the issue. The user rebooted and the problem went away - I haven't had any time to visit the computer in question...

@jim9500 said in New IT update 60TB / 60 mil files / 20 people - HP Equipment:

D3700

I'd add one thing that sometimes gets overlooked with all-flash storage. A lot of software or hardware-based storage solutions offer inline dedupe and compression that helps save even more storage with SSD.

Had the user install the outlook app.

“Oh this is much better”

Problem solved.

@scottalanmiller
That makes sense.

Seems to still be having issues here.