@jt1001001 said in ZOOM alternative:

I have our club board meetings on meet.jit.si no cost no time limit no member limit and no client required which is great for the less literate crowd

I use Jitsi for everything. It's great.

So Free/Busy would work on a federated level and you can actually use the schedule assistant from another Office 365 account to see that however that is all you will get. That said the user will need to send an invite regardless. There is a Uservoice on this
https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/273493-office-365-admin/suggestions/36486493-allow-calendar-updates-for-external-users

There are other options like setting up a calendar in Sharepoint and external users can do that.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-team-site-in-sharepoint-ef10c1e7-15f3-42a3-98aa-b5972711777d?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

You can also use this enterprise app in Office 365 as well
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-bookings-blog/you-can-now-do-more-with-microsoft-bookings/ba-p/298461

@JaredBusch said in SMS-Magic or Clickatell?:

I've heard of Clickatell but not SMS-Magic.

I've not researched them at all.

Thanks, we've signed up for Clickatell now so we'll see how it goes.

@Mario-Jakovina said in Vultr Firewall added Cloudflare:

As I said - we do have FQDN.
I was just suprised when @Dashrender said they are free from Cloudflare

I misspoke, I never meant that registered domains themselves were free. What I meant was free was DNS hosting and base level proxying from CF.

@brandon220 said in Fiber Optic LC adaptor:

https://www.fs.com/products/82730.html is all you need.

thank you very much, very helpful post.

And this person has a full guide https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/3775/xen-orchestra-from-source-with-let-s-encrypt-certificates

@EddieJennings said in Do You Look Like a Real Business To Your Customers?:

@DustinB3403 said in Do You Look Like a Real Business To Your Customers?:

@EddieJennings said in Do You Look Like a Real Business To Your Customers?:

@Pete-S said in Do You Look Like a Real Business To Your Customers?:

A real business also have procedures for almost everything.

This cannot be stated enough.

hahahahaahahahaha

Glad I could entertain you.

I needed a laugh, especially before my evening went to shit yesterday.

@Dashrender said in How much RAM for this VM?:

why does the consumed have those dips?

I'd say this was invoked by the apps running on it. This VM is used for analytics and reporting, it's got Visual Studio, Power Bi and SQL server running on it. The vendor must've been doing some shit on it.

@DustinB3403 said in Youtube is down:

Was it HP, I could've sworn it was IBM for a superbowl commerical?

They both have probably pulled the same sort of stunt.

@StorageNinja said in Apple Officially Releases their ARM M1 Powered Lineup:

@scottalanmiller said in Apple Officially Releases their ARM M1 Powered Lineup:

USB4 is TB3 compatible.

Intel removed licensing for TB3 as part of agreement to make part of USB4 spec.

That's great. The two have been way too close.

@DustinB3403 - Got it working!! I appreciate to push in the right direction.

It actually was a lot easier than expected. I had to do two things:

Install SigPlus on both the client and the RDP server Setup 2 GPOs

GPOs:

Configure USB Redirection with RemoteFX

Set the following Group Policy setting on RDS hosts or VDI desktop to "Disabled":

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Device and Resource Redirection\Do not allow supported Plug and Play device redirection

Set the following Group Policy setting on client machines to "Enabled":

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Connection Client\RemoteFX USB Device Redirection\Allow RDP redirection of other supported RemoteFX USB devices from this computer

@StorageNinja said in vSAS - Value Serial Attached SCSI:

100% of the time a SAS drive needs a SAS HBA or RAID Controller

Because the RAID controller is actually a tiny computer with its own built on SAS HBA 🙂

@scottalanmiller said in First Look Ubiquiti Unifi UXG Pro:

The new, unreleased Unifi UXG Pro just arrived here at the NTG Dallas offices. Woot! It's dual power supply, dual WAN, dual LAN, touch screen LCD and up and running!

More details as we get to play with it.

DAMN IT!!!

@Pete-S said in How Many HCI Nodes for the SMB:

But if you run a generic benchmark that is not designed to give inflated numbers, the situation is different.

I don't run generic benchmarks in production for a living thankfully 🙂
The reality is most CPU intensive stuff takes advantage of at least some of the new offload extensions and libraries. Also memory throughput is often the limiting factor for databases and other intensive IO applications.

@DustinB3403 said in Powershell variable help:

@Pete-S That is going to be complete subjective based on the type of spam that might come in.

I follow what you're saying but I'm kind of stuck between having something functional or not (due to this).

Well, you need to decide what you are allowing and not. For instance you have already decided to just use the subject line and not any of the other parts of the email, for instance author.

You need to run the string through regex or something like that to remove characters you are not allowing. It might take more than one string operation to sanitize. I think you can escape any special character you want to allow with backtick `.

Another option would be to allow the user to enter the entire KQL query themselves.

Also if you get an error when trying to apply the search you put out an error "Invalid search input!" and go back to prompt the user for input again. That would be one way so solve problems.

@BrownLuther007 said in Any good self-hosted discord alternatives?:

Hi, I might be a little late but specifically for the self-hosted, telegram is there. And for basic functionalities, there are Element, TeamSpeak 3, Overtone, Steam Chat, & Tox.

Telegram isn't self hosted, though.

@JasGot said in MSDTC issues:

Well, we found how to fix the symptom, be we do not know why it is so.

This network is 10.1.10.0/23

The only users having trouble were on the 10.1.11.0 portion of the network.

There are no configuration mishaps anywhere in the workstation, servers, switches or routers.

It's just weird.

But the MSDTC errors have stopped, and the staff who were suffering are happy.

I'm in a network transition myself, and I've run along a sorta similar issue.. definitely a PITA to troubleshoot and solve...

@scottalanmiller said in Proxmox install for use with a ceph cluster:

Yes, but it blocks SMART so you never want to do it, it undermines the stability of the JBOD. There's always a standard controller on the MOBO for the JBOD connections.

Also blocks TRIM commands (not that I trust the Linux TRIM driver to ATA drives given how many one off exceptions to disable they've had to write).
Operationally it's messy because on a drive failure you have to go in with PERCLI etc, and rebuild the RAID 0s. We used to run this but it was just a royal pain in the ass.

@MrCRuss said in Drobo B800i startup issues:

Had this just happen now. Where you able to save the data by moving the drives over to a new unit?

Another Drobo unit, yes.

Upgrading servers today.