@thanksaj said:

@Dashrender said:

@sreekumarpg said:

Thanks all for the valid answers..

I planned to redirect the Desktop and my documents to network folder and assign permission as readonly access, so that users cant save any files on desktops. Also Restrict access to c & D drives in my computer, so that they are not able to store files in drive.

Thanks !!

Wow, I've never heard anyone doing this before. I will be surprised if you don't have issues.

If the idea is to ensure that everyone always has access to everything (seems like an overly paranoid request) then you can grant full access (or at least read/write access) to the redirection folder on the server. When setting up the folder redirection in GPO make sure you don't check the box that gives only the user exclusive access.

This is going to cause a mountain of issues, I'm warning you. If the issue is that users are saving them on the local desktop and not on a NAS/network drive, use folder redirection, which is easy with GPO. If it's just users saving documents on the local machines period, you need to look at alternative approaches to how you handle your workstations.

Just to make sure anyone wasn't confused by my post. My intention wasn't to say that the redirection for all users would go to the same folder. Everyone would get a subfolder of the root share just like normal, but everyone would be granted full permissions which is definitely not something that's normal. So there shouldn't be an inherent problems with this, but of course users would mess with each other pretty badly if they wanted.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksaj said:

@scottalanmiller said:

And SO hard to automate. /etc files are dirt simple to script. Try scripting against the Registry. You can, but it is like three times the work for no reason.

Agreed. I've fallen in love with cron!

Do you love it so much that..... you'd give it a ..... "cronjob"?

Bwahahaha. Sorry, could. Not. Resist.

LOL. wags finger

@StrongBad said:

Fail2Ban, that's always my first add on.

Ditto this.

If it's not in their router database on the dd-wrt website, it's not supported. Sorry. They have every exact model they support listed. Trust me.

@StrongBad said:

Doesn't GMail just let you have domain aliases?

Only if you pay for Google Apps. They used to have a free tier along with Outlook/Hotmail. But the only free custom domain one now (that I know of) is Zoho.

Gladinet seems to be pretty good, almost 30 minutes, I was able to plug in gladinet to tier up with our test AD and netapp shared drive, and publish already enabled home folders for users by importing from AD to gladinet. Now testing that with Pertino installed home machine. So far I am happy, need to deep dive into Gladinet and see the features.

On a side note, I think this will work well with desktop clients with Pertino, but not sure how this can be accomplished via Pertino smarphone client? Is there any way I could connect Perino mobile client to the network and use the local browser/gladinet app to identify my remote server?

@thecreativeone91

It was enabled, but wasn't logging. It may have been an issue with SELinux. I've since started over by reimaging the server. Further discussion is occurring here.

Appreciate the input!

Been posting behind the WatchGuard that always gave me trouble for a couple weeks with no issues. definitely resolved something.

I don't think bonding is really going to help you. The problem is that if the connection is established over one of the links it stays on that link and doesn't "split" between the two you have a call on one connection and some extra bandwidth the call will likely establish on the next connection and you will just end up with extra unused bandwidth as the bonding doesn't really bond them into a single line. It can work fine where you have a bunch of small sporadic web page loading but, I don't think it will help in your situation.

Is this is single location IP Phone system or do you have a VPN in multiple locations? First I'd look for a better WAN connection, either Fiber, Cable or a WISP etc. If you can't do that you might go with a PRI, or single analog lines or even a cellular interface for the pbx.

Some simple ones, sure.

I don't like the idea of having a middle man. Also, how the company makes money is unclear to me and I don't like that.

@Dashrender said:

Does anyone know if any of the Linux distros support it? or is it something they can't support because money has to be paid to the UEFI people or the OEMs so that something is embedded? Frankly I'm not exactly sure how it works.

I know for CentOS 7 in Hyper-V generation 2 I have to disable secure boot if I want the system to install.

Read it over. No useful info. It basically says to verify you're using the correct username, which I am. Nothing more I can do without console access.

@coliver said:

It installs Office 2013 and all of the expected components. However when I log into my account it tells me that the correct product isn't installed. Wondering how everyone else has been auto-deploying this version of Office, or if you aren't and just doing the download feature from the portal.

I have not had a deployment of Office 365 yet. The clients that currently have 2013 went the OpenLicense route.

For my own office, it was just the download install for each user (5 of us) in their home office.

I used to be big into work folders when it first came out. But, I've given up on it ever becoming fully implemented. The promised apps for mobile devices never showed up. It took about 8 months for the Windows 7 app to even be made after the Win 2k12 R2 release.

@nadnerB said:

Going by your Experience, I'll look into Exablox when I'm looking for a new backup target 🙂
Granted it won't be for a while but they are "on the list" of potential candidates 🙂

@nadnerB, happy to hear we're on your shortlist! When you're ready just let us know.
www.exablox.com or [email protected]

Here is the UDP

Starting job... [2015-02-24 01:55:39] Stay on this page for results! Starting Nmap 6.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2015-02-24 03:55 EET Initiating UDP Scan at 03:55 Scanning 104.167.111.187 [9 ports] Discovered open port 123/udp on 104.167.111.187 Completed UDP Scan at 03:55, 0.23s elapsed (9 total ports) Nmap scan report for 104.167.111.187 Host is up (0.090s latency). PORT STATE SERVICE 53/udp open|filtered domain 69/udp closed tftp 111/udp open|filtered rpcbind 123/udp open ntp 161/udp open|filtered snmp 500/udp open|filtered isakmp 514/udp open|filtered syslog 4500/udp open|filtered nat-t-ike 5060/udp open|filtered sip Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.58 seconds Raw packets sent: 9 (604B) | Rcvd: 2 (132B) Job finished [2015-02-24 01:55:40]

I rarely have any lockup issues with my MB unless I have recently changed added something that the OS didn't like. If you can disable the AV you will probably be golden. I don't run active AV though I do scan once a week with Clam. I have yet to find anything but BS tracking cookies that I haven't dumped yet.

Try running the built in Encryption and Firewall if you are able.

I've never had good luck with Root Hints, always odd issues would pop up. But if you use forwarders don't use your ISPs either..

@Carnival-Boy said:

Well sure, every environment is different. If you're happy you can run the place with two people @NetworkNerd then that's cool - only you know your environment. I just thought it seemed a little light based on environments I've worked in.

What does your company do, out of interest? I see you have one of those magical green "service provider" tags so does that mean it's an IT company?

I wish that we had "where I work" and company detail options in our profiles. That would be a very nice feature to have added in here.