@Obsolesce All amazing pictures!

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403
Uh - I am sure that is suppose to be a joke. But it's just a trash can that I didn't mount. Mainly due to just setting one up as a test to see how it will work, and if the battery will last.

It is literally a rolling cart with a 500w inverter, battery charger and 40Ah battery with battery gauge. I question if the battery as is will last an 8 hour shift...

Yes it was a joke, I called it a watercooler because of the clingwrap over the top of it (as if it was to keep items/liquid in).

@gjacobse said in Cloud Based Auto-Attendant:

I'm ONLY suggesting this as we are moving all of our sites to it. Scalable, handling routing, extension to Paging adapter and more.

RingCentral

May be an option.

How would I setup an IVR or Auto-Attendant on it? I don't need to it to do anything other than to route calls from the "office number" to a cell phone and maybe have VM to Email (but this is TBD).

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I can’t believe the cost of this cart minus the PC and monitor:

And it’s something I think I could build better…

The trashcan water cooler has to be the most expensive item on there!

Tagging a few people that I used to know who did this sort of work.

@JaredBusch @scottalanmiller

Hey All I'm looking for a cloud based Auto-Attendant that I can port an office number too, and then setup simple call routing.

For Sales Press 1 ---> forward to a cell phone
For Service Press 2 ---> Forward to a cell phone

etc..

It seems like everyone offers this, yet only as a part of other bundles... and standing up freepbx for something like this seems like overkill...

Voicemail to Email to be a nice to have, since the issue today is that no one is actually checking the voicemail (actually the last time anyone checked their office voicemail was in 2020 from what I can see in the PBX).

Any recommendations? Looking for low cost (lower than the sunk-cost system that is in place at the moment anyways, likely no more than 5 or 6 auto-routes.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Oh, and merry Christmas to us, kid was a passenger in a single vehicle car wreck.

Driver lost control on wet roads. Shaken and stirred but other wise oka.

I'm glad they're okay!

Fighting a cold.... and nothing seems to be really helping...

@scottalanmiller thanks!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Working on cleaning up a new gigs XCP-ng backups, getting drivers installed and documenting everything..

Merry Christmas and long time!

Nice, where are you working now?

A company out of Buffalo, I'm basically fully remote.

@scottalanmiller

I'm not shocked.

@scottalanmiller Yea I've had to deal with this in the past, the software is just awful to deal with, and literally makes nothing more secure, for either the prosecution, defendant(s) or the public attempting to view the material.

Simple answer is, that it just proves how vulnerable police departments are with such horrible software requirements.

Working on cleaning up a new gigs XCP-ng backups, getting drivers installed and documenting everything..

Merry Christmas and long time!

@Oksana

Isn't the short answer to the article that ESXi simply has an extremely limited feature set if using the free edition. I believe the Eval edition is restricted but to a lesser extent and for a specific duration before it shuts down.

Hey all, long time.

Just had a conversation with my purchasing guy, who's been doing this for decades the conversation came up about Server licensing, 1 Socket or 2 (or 400) and the core count.

Can someone refresh my memory on the specifics of this.

• I would eat my hat, but I could've sworn the licensing is every core and socket (using Standard licensing) needs to be licensed with a Core-Pack (16 core minimum) and the Server Standard license.

• He's under the impression that you only need to purchase 1 Server Standard license and the core-pack to cover the spread of those cores.

Microsoft's licensing seems to indicate that its a Per Socket with a Core Rider, as indicated here.

HPE has some tool which indicates the inverse here

Trying to get the touch screen to work on a Microsoft surface with fedora 38, anyone have any pointers? No pun intended.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Morning all. Having the coffee!

Ditto

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Having my mind blown that the CCNA certification doesn't bring up anything about SNMP community strings....

At least according to an employee...

From my latest round of Cisco CCNA Training (circa 2001), it wasn't mentioned then either, lol.

But like... the history of SNMP and networking... and the damn fact that everything and their cousins includes "public" and "private" community strings by default.....

@jt1001001 said in User migration to azure:

We used https://www.forensit.com/domain-migration.html to do profile migrations; it worked OK but the big pain was it would not move Outlook profiles correctly and we had to rebuild Outlook for some of our users

Yea I've used this in the past for migrations and haven't had any issues. Actually have a new customer that is wanting to get setup with some central administration of things and this was on the list to use.

Having my mind blown that the CCNA certification doesn't bring up anything about SNMP community strings....

At least according to an employee...