Thanks for adding more technical content!

I've used both MEmu and Bluestacks. MEmu was a bit faster and was less pushy about advertising. Bluestacks is more widely recognized and supported though. I didn't play much with keymaps and other features when I was using MEmu more heavily, but Bluestacks seems to have more of that.

Update: Sorry about it being so late. Meraki/Cisco does and will not support this format in client VPN. Which translates to, ended up being a little over 9000 in sales revenue for them. Oh well..... Big fish feed on the little fish. Disgustipated.

Thanks for all the input. Helped a bunch.

If the above is your problem, then you should look at a different solution. @scottalanmiller's current favorite is MeshCentral.

It is not as good as ConnectWise Control yet, IMO, but close.

@JasGot said in Need help for argument with Comcast:

Comcast says they will provide a one time credit for the charge IF the customer does a full reset of their VoIP setup from Comcast, and the end Customer's IT must do it.

How do they do this, given that they didn't even offer this previously?

Yes, email providers will send you reports when they get emails from your domain.

You do not necessarily have to ever go from quarantine to reject, some mail providers, like O365, treat them the same. But you would want to wait for reports to come in to see if there might be stuff that might be failing the the business would want to go through.

@biggen said in Add 2.5" U.2 (NVMe) SSDs to custom build?:

@Pete-S said in Add 2.5" U.2 (NVMe) SSDs to custom build?:

Intel P4510

Yup that would work. Wish I could figure out a way to at least mount the U.2 drives in the 3.5" external drive bay since I don't need a 3.5" bay for anything else. ICY DOCK makes a twin 2.5" SATA drive bay that fits in a 3.5" bay, but they don't make a twin 2.5" U.2 NVMe drive bay that fits in the 3.5". I'm guessing the 2.5" U.2 needs either more spacing or better cooling than a standard 2.5" SATA SSD.

You don't want them in an external bay. Remember that these are PCIe bus connections so it makes sense to have short cables. The cables in the adapter above are probably 1.5 feet at the most.

U.2 drives are thicker than standard SSDs, usually 15mm (a little more than 1/2 inch). They get hotter than normal SSDs but nothing extreme. P4510 for instance is rated at 16W power consumption. Which is about twice as much as a 3.5" spinner. In a high powered rack server the drives stays cool but they're usually designed to have a generous amount of airflow through the case and over the drives.

PS. If it wasn't clear - U.2 drives have the same mechanical mount as 2.5" drives. So you can mount them in a 2.5" internal drive bay or in a 3.5" internal drive bay with adapters. You just can't put them in a hotswap drive bay or any drive bay that has an SATA or SAS backplane because it's electrically not the same.

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Or Jabra PanaCast + Speak 710

@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:

@IRJ Did you choose a normal or minimal installation?

Normal because I'm lazy

@scottalanmiller said in Need to Install SQL Server Management Studio:

@Pete-S said in Need to Install SQL Server Management Studio:

I'm pretty sure you can install the management studio on any computer. Doesn't have to be on the computer that actually has the SQL server installed.

That's correct. SQL Studio requires Windows, but SQL Server does not. So we sometimes do that, as well.

Yes or a 64-bit Windows 10 with a new version of Management Studio, managing an older 32-bit Windows 7 SQL Server install 🙂

@black3dynamite said in Is it possibe to remove local admin on Windows Server?:

@dbeato said in Is it possibe to remove local admin on Windows Server?:

@Grey said in Is it possibe to remove local admin on Windows Server?:

@dbeato said in Is it possibe to remove local admin on Windows Server?:

@Grey said in Is it possibe to remove local admin on Windows Server?:

@pmoncho said in Is it possibe to remove local admin on Windows Server?:

@dbeato said in Is it possibe to remove local admin on Windows Server?:

@Pete-S said in Is it possibe to remove local admin on Windows Server?:

ve the local admin account on Windows Server that belongs to a domain? Or prevent logins.
Or is always possible to login as local admin (if you know the name/passwd)?

I wouldn't disable the local admin of a server, it would come handy if you need to restore stuff or remove and add from the domain. LAPS works but beware 🙂

I agree with @dbeato. When sh$% hits the fan with the server, no networking or no cached credentials, you will long for a local admin account.

I do disable the Administrator account after creating my own local admin with 20+ char strong password. Less worries on both the security and DR front.

Yes, but if you have physical or kvm access, even virtual, you can use linux ntpass to turn on the admin account and reset the password. This would be the last resort if you really lost the admin access, which is rare.

Not since UEFI... At least it doesn't work with Windows 10 and subsequent kernels.

I can imagine you had problems because of bitlocker or something similar, but not UEFI, unless the system was locked out to only boot a certain way through config. Maybe you could test a UEFI boot with a Hiren's USB boot just for fun?

I have tried with the latest Hiren's Boot drive and still doesn't work for Windows 10 for some reason in UEFI... Even if it was bitlocker I could always decrypt and then use it if worked properly. At least the old ntpasswd didn't work (this one https://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/) With WIndows 10. Just for giggles I will try it on a VM today with this https://www.hirensbootcd.org/howtos/

You just use Ubuntu, enable the repo that provides chntpw package to make changes to Windows accounts?

Yeah, I have used that.

@FATeknollogee said in Setup a Cloudflare Origin Certificate for use on a backend server:

@scottalanmiller said in Setup a Cloudflare Origin Certificate for use on a backend server:

@FATeknollogee said in Setup a Cloudflare Origin Certificate for use on a backend server:

noob question here:
If you're hosting on Cloudflare, this should be used instead of LE?

Not about "should", it's about which makes more sense for you in a given situation.

"could" would probably have been a better word choice.

Yup, you definitely can 🙂

@JaredBusch said in ipv6 @ home:

@Obsolesce said in ipv6 @ home:

@notverypunny said in ipv6 @ home:

Thoughts on using IPv6 at home? Pros and cons? I'm not running it at present and was wondering if anyone has any recommendations either way.

Chances are that your router already has a public IPv6 address and block from your ISP and your computers are already using them.

WTF? Using the ISP router? Because that is the only way for that to happen by "chance"

Huh? No idea what router he is using. Mine wasn't from the ISP. I bought it off of Amazon many years ago and ipv6 was g2g by default.

@scottalanmiller said in What's the status on DMARC?:

@JaredBusch said in What's the status on DMARC?:

That image is a stander O365 box that only takes a few clicks to setup. How have you not seen that?

Very few customers using O365 and none using that feature, I'd imagine. How does it display to people not on O365?

We see something else from all kinds of users all different systems all over.

A lot of SPam Filtering systems do have that option as well. A lot of medical and financial businesses enable this.

We are using this, by the way. Just deployed one this past week or so.