@Dragon3303 said in Zoom meeting access::

Sounds good. It seems like a nice, easy, free way to go about conducting meetings that one would maybe otherwise have to use a paid service for and there's always going to be some people who get nervous that they don't know the company, you don't have to have an account with a username/password, etc.

You can require passwords for the individual meetings if you like. Usernames are useful for management, but not security. Don't get me wrong, easy management encourages security. But in a case like this, it actually makes it more secure, not less. If you use u/p then you encourage a system where once hacked, people can record you. Jitsi does a non-repeating double password mechanism that's all but unbreakable unless someone shares it, and that's a risk either way.

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@Dashrender said in Unifi Controller - Reinstall and adopt APs:

@DustinB3403 said in Unifi Controller - Reinstall and adopt APs:

@travisdh1 Yeah I'm thinking what happened is someone setup a Unifi Controller on windows at some point, then they engaged us and said yeah we don't have access to the AP's but its all still working. So they were sold a physical cloud key, and still the AP's weren't adopted.

Assuming you're at an MSP now, do you host a controller that you could just build a new site for and adopt the APs too?

This is what @Bundy-Associates and @NTG do.

That is the plan, but for now this is just janitorial work.

@Pete-S said in Formatting text instructions into html?:

@stacksofplates said in Formatting text instructions into html?:

I prefer asciidoc to markdown. Asciidoc has actual standards for things. Antora will build a pretty nice site with your projects written in Asciidoc as well.

Ifyou just want a single page, Asciidoctor will build a site as well.

I had a look at asciidoc and it looks very nice, especially for larger documentation projects.

I have a couple projects in an Antora site. We had a ton more at work, but I can't show it on here. You can include multiple projects and have them appear at the bottom left, each with versions. We used it so that teams could create documentation for tools (or really whatever they wanted) and then that documentation could be scraped and included in the central site. I just have a few projects included in my site, but Antora makes that pretty easy.

Here's my very bad/basic example.

https://docs.hooks.technology

I just confirmed, this system is only using the Intel controller, and not SS.

@scottalanmiller this is the ONLY way I make any money Scott, WTH calling me out on my BS?!

@Dashrender said in PRI over IP:

no, then it's likely good enough.

This sums it up. That's like "it goes down from time to time, but not enough for people to complain". "Good enough" is a way of saying "noticeably not as good, but not so bad as to not be considered."

In IT, good enough is normally what we say when we know something's wrong - when we know something isn't good, it's just not quite so bad as to be bad. And like IT, in real life, no one truly wants food that only edible, they actually prefer what is good. And a company that only provides "good enough" consistently, starts to be sensed as a failure.

Think about yourself as an employee.... are you proud of where you work and the decisions that they make? If so, do you ever feel that way when you also say that the decisions are "good enough?" Of course not, it's what we say when no one's truly happy with it.

@Pete-S said in Changing Public PGP Key:

Don't know if this helps in your application but if you have old files you can just decrypt them with the old key. If it's important to store them in an encrypted state you can encrypt them again with the new key. After that you can revoke the old key.

Yeah I could do that, it just seems unnecessary when you can sign the new key with the old key and decrypt both. Turns out it actually chooses the right key so there is no problem

@Dashrender said in Defining the Hobby Business vs a True Business:

@Carnival-Boy said in Defining the Hobby Business vs a True Business:

My uncle ran a successful hardware distribution business employing dozens of people for over 30 years. His motivation was to generate work, security, and happiness, for owner and employees. He could have been more profitable, but chose not to.

I'll have to tell him he spent his life devoted to a hobby 🙂

But then he was a socialist. Maybe we just think about business differently in Europe? Scott likes to label things, but I'm not sure it makes any difference.

It does, to the point Scott as trying to make, though the posts were long so perhaps you missed it. IT is a Business Tool, as such when in a "business" as Scott would call it - it's pretty easy to know what to do - IT does what it takes to make the business the money money. When you're running a "something else business" (really hate the hobby term, it's pretty demeaning), IT doesn't actually have a cut a dry clear goal... now it has to fall to the whim of those in charge.

So the real question becomes.... why would anyone find the term "hobby" demeaning? Hobbies are what we love to do. Hobbies are the important things in our lives. Hobby is not demeaning or negative. It's just honest. It's only demeaning if the hobby itself is embarrassing.

LOL - yeah I read it like Laksh wants to knock it off...

NONE STUCK IN THE QUEUE!

Thanks for the help @JaredBusch, @dbeato @Dashrender

@hobbit666 said in Firewall for small Windows network:

@scottalanmiller said in Firewall for small Windows network:

We do too, but for customers who want US to do that for them, we charge. But of course, they are free to do it themselves as well.

It's just that we host the controller for free.

But just above you stated that your customers get Unifi for free?

We do not charge for the use of the Unifi platform since it is a pre-existing cost that is already covered and their portion of it would be less than the cost of the overhead to charge them.

Right, he said they don't charge just to have the equipment in their Unifi Controller. After that the customer has to decide between 3 options, manage themselves, enable auto updates or pay NTG to do updates after testing new firmware.

@Dashrender said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment:

It's the whole ZT/DNS

@Dashrender said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment:

and when I tested ZT in the past,

It is just DNS. You have to have it on EVERYTHING if you go that route.

Or, you make the ZT network the same subnet and not different.

Just take your 10.0.0.0/24 and make it a 10.0.0.0/23 instead.
have the local DHCP server hand out 10.0.0.101-254
have ZT DHCP hand out 10.0.1.101-254

or use ZT Bridging
Lots of ways to skin the cat.

Depends on the Apache version, what version do you have 2.2 or 2.4?

@JaredBusch said in Veeam Replication to Azure:

@Jimmy9008 said in Veeam Replication to Azure:

The replicas would be offline, so I would expect to only pay storage costs and data inbound costs but no other costs until in a DR situation.

That is not how anything works.
You have a replica sitting there. A replica is a full VM sitting there. You have to have the CPU and memory "reserved"... You have to pay for that privilege.

Right, it only works that way when you use storage (aka backups) as we were trying to answer. We assumed that the "don't pay for running capacity" portion meant that we were all on the same page.

If we approach backups / DR in the way that I've been describing, then absolutely you don't pay for that VM capacity while the data is stored there, even when it's ready to fire up.

@Dashrender said in Printer and UniFi AP:

Does that printer have a bunch of unneeded protocols running on it?

Might. I'll take a look at it again and maybe to a packet capture.

Excellent. Thank you guys. I'll pass the information on and hopefully they'll get in touch and get something good for them.

@scottalanmiller said in 75 User Exchange On Prem vs. Office 365 Cost Comparison:

@Dashrender said in 75 User Exchange On Prem vs. Office 365 Cost Comparison:

@JaredBusch said in 75 User Exchange On Prem vs. Office 365 Cost Comparison:

@scottalanmiller said in 75 User Exchange On Prem vs. Office 365 Cost Comparison:

@Carnival-Boy said in 75 User Exchange On Prem vs. Office 365 Cost Comparison:

I've also found Teams getting used more and more by companies compared with Zoom. At the start of the pandemic it was all Zoom.

Zoom was very much the "I don't know what to do but people are talking about this Zoom thing" fallback.

Zoom is flat out easier to get into them teams. That’s the biggest reason it was first. Now because people are going all in with Microsoft teams is becoming dominant.

Teams meetings have gotten significantly easier for non Teams users since the beginning of the Pandemic (that's not to say it's still as easy as Zoom - personally, I think they are about the same), so that's a major help there too.

That's definitely true. At the beginning, even halfway through, I couldn't even join them. Now they mostly work just fine. I still don't like them, but they are much closer to other services than they were. Now they are "nearly as good" instead of "completely didn't work".

What's just so amazing is MS has has Skype for 2 or so decades.. and they still can't seem to get their heads out of their asses.

@scottalanmiller said in Jared - OBS:

@DustinB3403 said in Jared - OBS:

@IRJ I've used and like openshot video editor

This is what I use currently, but plan to move to KDENLive

How are you liking it?