Generally, for most use cases, just having two servers and good backups is the best option. If you have a greenzone, turn your VMs off, do your updates, turn them back on.

Updates essentially never cause issues. Not on hypervisors (at least not on KVM/Xen.) Putting in a lot of complexity, cost, or risk to mitigate a shark attack isn't worth it. You will focus on a false risk.

2nd attempt worked!

@Dashrender Yes, well of our domains ,we have several variants. It was more of a phishing attempt/scare tactic from a Russian script kiddie from what we were able to gather.

@brandon220 said in HP EliteDesk 800 G5/G6 mini - error on windows update:

@Dashrender I had it on a new 800 mini a few weeks ago. I clicked through it and it has been running fine since. Several reboots and it never happened again.

I just updated the OP. sadly, after rebooting, the system locked up, requiring another hard reboot, another flashing of this HP screen, hit esc to bypass and the user is back up and running.

@Romo said in Polycom VVX450 Parking BLF key:

Any of you guys with more polycom experience have been able to configure the parking lots from a (freepbx/vitalpbx) asterisk server In a single key BLF key?
Testing this
I have the key setup like this
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But it doesn't appear to do anything when pressing it. I did find this document https://community.polycom.com/t5/VoIP-SIP-Phones/FAQ-Setting-up-a-Call-Park-Feature-using-an-Asterisk-Server/td-p/73565 which it appears to show that it can only be done by transfering to the call parking extension and not directly to the slots but not sure if this still applies as the document is from 2015.

anyone have an idea?

From the phone point of view, parking a call is nothing more than a blind transfer to an extension.

So, you need to look if you can have a BLF do a blind transfer on press during a connected call.

This HIPAA compliance service directly recommends never storing your PHI/PCI data in Excel specifically because it is so easy to have it accidentally be the cause of a breach.

https://pcihipaa.com/how-to-protect-your-practice-from-common-hipaa-violations-and-fines/

"A Credit Card Data Breach: Every practice handles patient credit card information. A Payment Card Industry (PCI) violation can also end up being a reportable breach under HIPAA. Securing and properly handling credit card data is imperative. Don’t store any credit card information in QuickBooks, Excel or any other software. Also make sure you are PCI certified and using EMV devices to limit chargeback liabilities." They only mention the PCI piece, because it is so much less of a concern, storing health data in there would be so much worse.

@pattonb said in SEO primer:

@scottalanmiller Is Matomo,Open Web Analytics,AWStats of any value. I suspect am I asking as to whether tying into the Google World provide any advantage. or will the other software provide me with the data I need. as for as data , I only really need traffic, visits, pages, how long they stay, or pages they view. Basic ( in my mind) , to see whether traffic is increasing/decreasing , and which pages draw the most interest. The audience is local, services provided don't extend beyond the local area , pop, ~1.4 million

Matamo provides all this. It is what I use.

@benhooperastrix said in Adding LDAP role to domain controller:

@dbeato Thanks for the referral. 😊

Didn't know I referred you and now I notice you wrote it. It was well done.

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for content filter recommendations for a church:

@JaredBusch said in Looking for content filter recommendations for a church:

@dave247 said in Looking for content filter recommendations for a church:

@scottalanmiller looks like I need to install it on something though. I was hoping to not have to purchase any additional hardware. Still an option though.

A full kit Raspberry Pi on amazon is $60-$80

The 1GB board is plenty.

I was thinking about the 3 where htere was not really choice like the 4. Not used to having to specify on a RPi.

@Woti said in Fedora 31 Server Edition filesystem permissions changed to 777:

I see. I am just scared about all those entries. I need to get more knowledge about those stuff.
Need to harden Fedora server 🙂 Found this one here but no response at all 😄
https://mangolassi.it/topic/19719/what-hardening-standards-are-you-using-for-fedora

It's not really Fedora that you are hardening in this case. It's Apache. It's an application that you are looking to limit. What OS it is running on won't matter. Jared's Fail2Ban item is probably your best bet.

I've already used this guide again. LOL, boy this is handy.

@Romo yeah, we want that. The MC Router is Windows only, so not very useful as there isn't any Windows involved 😉

@krisleslie said in Using XCP-NG latest release, Windows 2019 Server VM file copies are pegged at 10 MB/s:

The data is from one of my Ubiquiti UniFi Video (NVR) server. So the files are not really big. So are you proposing like maybe zipping the files into one file then transferring?

If they are pre-compressed, then just tar them, don't zip them.

@Net-Runner said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

There was an issue with US NTP servers multiple users reported during this week. Not sure if it might be the case here but still.

That's why anyone who relies on proper time sync should never use pool.ntp.org servers. They even spell it out on their website but nobody seems to read it.

I just double checked and my phone hasn't received a patch since 2/1/19. I need to get a new phone...

@Obsolesce said in New VM keeps turning off:

Is the OS licensed properly? I thought it shuts down if it's not, not sure if that still happens.

Yea, it's Activated and all that.

Modern laptop batteries are anything but dumb devices. Most of them got an SMBus interface, a bus derived from (and very similar to) I²C.

My guess is that either the firmware on this specific battery is bad, your host driver doesn't like the battery or you just had some dirty contacts and the host just couldn't talk to the battery.

@stacksofplates said in Scripted visudo updates:

@DustinB3403 said in Scripted visudo updates:

Well I managed to get the file created, I had to use visudo to create a custom file with my edits.

I'm testing it now to see if everything works.

Really? It doesn't let you just sudo a file in the dump directory? I wonder how they are enforcing that?

Yeah, not sure why it was having a hissy fit over it, but I've got a good working custom sudoer.d/god file now that can be used for what I have, and I can simply cp that into the appropriate folder and reset the perms on it (if required) to get everything working.

Thanks for the help guys!

I have postponed the laptop/desktop updates in WSUS for a week or so until this stuff is fixed. I don't want to mess with colleagues that complain they are not able to search and find something anymore 🙂

We are a mixed shop, having Mac, Windows and different Linux flavors including some weird ones. IP is the only way for us to get everything working.

But even in a pure Windows environment, I would stick to IP. WSD is crappy. WSD + some HP Devices is a noitmare.