@dbeato said in Protek Support MSP Ransomware Hits Customers in Salt Lake City, Utah:
I think that if it was VPN, still bad practice to have VPN from MSP or any other systems that unprotected. MSPs should not need to have VPN to customers at all.
And vendors wonder why I won’t let them VPN into my network.... ha
Last week was fantastic!
Drove to Greeley, CO - ok that was boring.
Drove to Moab - visited Arches National Park - drove a 4x4 trail - my friend nearly freaked out.. It was awesome!
Drove to Zion National park - walked The Narrows! - man, can't wait to go back.
Drove to Las Vegas - at at Gordan Ramsey's Steak - had the tasting menu - the Beef Wellington was meh at best, the rest was fantastic!!!
Drove to Hoover Dam took some dam pictures
Drove to Grand Canyon Skywalk - paid for the skywalk - was a let down!!! visit other viewing point in that area - SO MUCH BETTER than the over priced, no pictures allowed skywalk...
Drove to AZ south rim Grand Canyon - hiked the 3 mile trail, very scenic!
Visited Bedrock - Fred Flinstone's home town and watched a raptor show - and got to hold the raptor (on a a glove of course).
Drove to Four Corners - it was exactly what I expected - a plaque marking where the four states meet, took a picture and continued on...
Drove back to Greeley, CO -
and lastly,
Drove home.
58 hours in the car, 3200 miles, 5 states, 3 National Parks, a million pictures - great time!
As some might recall, I ran into Wiztree a month ago. I asked the author to look into adding it to Chocolatey.
And he did.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/wiztree/3.17
It's been a good year for Dashrender - down 40 Lbs since January!
Brought my mile time from 8:29 to 6:47.
Only bad thing - good cholesterol is a bit low (but bad cholesterol is in the good range). Doc suggested I drink Red Wine to improve the good Cholesterol.
Just read about this free book on that other site, thought i would share a link to it here.
I was restoring some files from our backups when I ran across this.
These files have been sitting there for a month plus. Unbelievably it appears that non of my other network shares were affected by this.
OMG - I think we some how dodged this bullet.
@Pete-S said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:
@Dashrender said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:
It's not just a list of all extensions, it's broken out into areas and departments, etc.
Yes, I imagine that would be the case for most companies.
The thing is that it would be helpful to have a system to manage it. Different companies, departments, persons or function will have different needs but a good system should be able to accommodate most of those needs with a minimal amount of work.
Integration between different system is what is need to avoid doing the same work in multiple places. The whole point of having things in a system instead of manually doing it, is to save time and provide organization and when possible automation.
I don't see a problem replacing files with better system on the technical level. But actually finding system that can get the job done without going with bespoke solutions can be tough. And bespoke software isn't cost effective in a lot of cases.
I think a paper copy only works until you're more than a page. We're still at a single page.
@Pete-S said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:
@Dashrender said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:
@Pete-S said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:
Basically what @scottalanmiller said above. Avoid "files". Let application handle the information in an organized way where the user are not going to be working with files. Only systems and sysadmins would have to think about "files".
I love the thought process here - but getting users to give up files is like pulling teeth.
Policies and Proceedures - docx/PDF - could be replaced with Wiki
Phone lists - docx/PDF - could be replaced with wiki - but people demand to print it out for faster access.
reports pulled from ERP - xlsx - what? to a custom app?
new employee paperwork - docx/pdf - HR systemYeah, that is the problem. It's hard to find applications that can replace manual work. And most importantly, make it easier than it is to do it manually.
For example, phone numbers and lists should be pulled from databases, not wikis. I mean basically everybody today have their smartphones filled with contacts that they use to call someone. And they can't recall a single phone number because they never need to. They're all in a database.
But to automatically get the phone numbers people need into the phones they use (cell, voip, etc) isn't always so easy.
So you'd want a system that contains a database with all contacts in the company and has web access. It can integrate with whatever PBX you use and sync to whatever else phone you need contact info on. Also being able to set up "favorites" and use that info to automatically program shortcuts/BLFs on phones and sidecars for 1-button access. And also print lists of phone numbers if you need it on paper.
Does this system exist? I don't know. I've seen systems that can do bits and pieces of it but lack the overall vision.
But a lot of companies with more than a handful of employees needs something like it.
the cost of adding sidecars to everyphone is beyond the value. that leaves people having to go through the phonebook on the screen - and that takes about 20 clicks - no way in hell they would do that.. they will demand their paper list on the desk.
now, that said - having a process that pulls the extensions and drops them in a printable format - that might be worthwhile, as long as the maintenance when extensions change isn't that challenging.
It's not just a list of all extensions, it's broken out into areas and departments, etc.
@scottalanmiller said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:
@Mario-Jakovina said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:
@scottalanmiller Problem with "your approach" is that you can do that with business data, but we still have problem where to keep business documents (e.g. scans of paper documents or original electronic documents like signed electronic invoices...).
That is where "object storage" takes its place as a better solution then keeping business documents as files in file system.Yeah, if digital is being used to store images of documents instead of data in documents, the challenge changes. In theory you can still handle those things in that way. We do this for the veterinary industry for example. If we use PDF specifically for that (and many do) we actually get a half-way solution where there is a file, but it's kept in a database and presented through an app. Which one could argue that I just described a file system. So it's a middle ground. But in that case it's not data, only a document so approaching it like image storage can make sense.
This is what our EMR does with faxed documents - I'm assuming many ERP and accounting systems do the same.
@Pete-S said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:
Basically what @scottalanmiller said above. Avoid "files". Let application handle the information in an organized way where the user are not going to be working with files. Only systems and sysadmins would have to think about "files".
I love the thought process here - but getting users to give up files is like pulling teeth.
Policies and Proceedures - docx/PDF - could be replaced with Wiki
Phone lists - docx/PDF - could be replaced with wiki - but people demand to print it out for faster access.
reports pulled from ERP - xlsx - what? to a custom app?
new employee paperwork - docx/pdf - HR system
@gjacobse said in VNC Replacement solution:
Controlling Windows 10 system.
you're local - isn't there an RDP client for iPad? or is the machine a windows home edition?
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Went and got tacos this morning.
Morning tacos? Are they breakfast tacos? What do you put in them?
Yeah, breakfast tacos are the standard breakfast here in Texas. Typically eggs, cheese, potatoes and then either beans for people like me or sausage or bacon for others.
What about those Texan staple, Sausage Kolaches? My brother and nephews have those at least 3-4 times a week.
I'm vegetarian and I've never found a place willing to make a vegetarian kolache. My in laws get the sausage ones all of the time, though.
really? The place here does.
@Pete-S said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:
This would work well in a project organization where you'd only be given access to the projects you're working on. Those folders will appear under the "Shared with Me".
yeah, all that's definitely true - but the rub there is people access the files differently - so when people are talking to each other, they will often become confused because the locations are different.
@gjacobse said in VNC Replacement solution:
The issue with VNC is that on iPhone it works fine, iPad it doesn’t.
PC; Linux and windows works fine.
controlling an ipad or managing others from an iPad?
@jt1001001 said in SIP Extension for Maintenance Staff in Noisy Environment:
@BraswellJay I normally do not promote however good friend of mine (and former co-worker) demo's some headphones for Ingram and he liked the Jabra Evolve 2 85 for dual ear protection. I tried them and found they worked well but may be a bit heavy for all day wear.
Here is his video demo of a few different headsets.
Yep, just one of the issue with these types of headsets.
I used corded over the ear headphones when I worked in a datacenter ages ago. they worked really well in the noisy environment.
