@Mr-Jones - Just my 2 cents but if you use a hdmi converter over ethernet make sure you use Cat6 cable and make sure you buy a quality converter. Anytime we've used one and there is Cat5 cable or the client buys cheap converters the image usually works for a short period of time and then starts to fail.
Posts made by syko24
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RE: HDMI 200ft+
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RE: Business number texting services
Voip.ms??? Seems pretty basic but not sure what features you are looking for.
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RE: Vultr performance issues in Chicago
@scottalanmiller said in Vultr performance issues in Chicago:
@dashrender said in Vultr performance issues in Chicago:
what's also weird - I didn't get any vultr emails about the issue.
I always get NJ emails. Time to dig into that I guess.
Are you running systems in the Chicago datacenter?
Yes. And I know the phones being down for 30 mins is not a huge deal. Just wanted to see if you guys had a way to failover the phones if something like this happens.
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RE: Vultr performance issues in Chicago
@jaredbusch said in Vultr performance issues in Chicago:
@syko24 said in Vultr performance issues in Chicago:
I have 2 customers that don't have access to their systems at this point. I am hopeful Vultr will get their sh*t together soon and get the issue resolved. Just curious are there any good suggestions for failover in this kind of situation or an option to move your instance to a different data center? Or would you just spin up a temporary instance and restore from a backup?
There are no simple choices for this.
If your systems are so critical that a short outage is a huge deal, then you need to look into using a platform with capabilities to handle it. Vultr is not that platform.
It's for a medical office so to them it is critical. I was about to forward their calls via voip.ms to their call service but then their instance came up as I was logging into voip.ms.
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RE: Vultr performance issues in Chicago
The 2 customer instances just came back online!!
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RE: Vultr performance issues in Chicago
I have 2 customers that don't have access to their systems at this point. I am hopeful Vultr will get their sh*t together soon and get the issue resolved. Just curious are there any good suggestions for failover in this kind of situation or an option to move your instance to a different data center? Or would you just spin up a temporary instance and restore from a backup?
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RE: Black Screen of death! Is this a Dell thing?
@joel said in Black Screen of death! Is this a Dell thing?:
Hi Guys has anyone come across an issue where the computer powers on but after the manufacters logo (dell for example) the screen goes black and it stays on that screen?
Note: i can use our RMM remote tools to log onto the computer but it's also stuck on a black screen (so cant control it). I can however do file transfers and navigate via remote background to the - therefore the computer is online and working but the screen for end user (and us remotely) is blank!
I've looked at new monitors, uninstalling graphics card drivers, running disk and hardware scans, system restores (fails) and a bit lost .... i'm seeing this happen more and more in the last couple weeks.
I dont know if Bitlocker has anything to do with it but have disabled this and rebooted but still have the black screen!
I have attempted to rollback updates and that also doesnt fix it!
Safe mode works fine
Have updated drivers, bios, chipsets all of that good stuff but still no luck getting this working in normal mode and was curious to see if anyone else has had this one! Very odd!
In all cases, it's resulted in a re-format.
I think Dell devices are more affected.
@Joel - When you access via SafeMode does the Event Viewer have anything relevant to the issue?
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RE: Who's sharing that printer?
@mr-jones said in Who's sharing that printer?:
I'm wondering if anyone knows a solid way to track down who is sharing a network printer in a Windows environment?
I have all network printers deployed via GP, and per OU as appropriate, but I'm seeing someone else has shared one, and renamed it something outside of my naming convention. I'm trying to track down which client has done so. I'm currently digging around, but I'm not finding anything.
Any ideas?
Not sure if this is what you are looking for but you can use Advanced IP Scanner and run a network scan. If a system has any shares it will list them below system name/ip address.
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RE: Samsung (android) device not syncing the calendar with O365
@dashrender said in Samsung (android) device not syncing the calendar with O365:
I wonder if the security requirements changed on their account and an Application password needs to be used now - or an app that supports modern authentication?
@Dashrender - I was going to say the same thing though it is strange the email portion seems to be working.
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RE: Samsung (android) device not syncing the calendar with O365
@jaredbusch - Just confirming are you using the Outlook app on Android or are you using the Android Calendar app?
If I run into issues with the calendar on Android I usually just remove the account and re-add it. I know that is not really a fix but hopefully gets things syncing again.
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RE: Samsung (android) device not syncing the calendar with O365
@jaredbusch said in Samsung (android) device not syncing the calendar with O365:
Site is O365 SMB $12.50 plan Email + apps. Has been for a couple years now.
Most employees have company iPhones.
But a few high level users use personal devices. One has a Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus. Email works fine, but the calendar app does not.
The Exchange account is the only calendar active. the rest are unselected. New events created on the phone are not showing up in Outlook's calendar (using Outlook via the web GUI not Outlook desktop app).
I created an event for this afternoon on her device and it does not show up.
I check the sync status (and hit sync now) in both the Calendar app and in the settings app.
Nothing.
Any hints on how to troubleshoot?
Nothings seems to update.
I doubt this is it, but I had a client that had about 8 ActiveSync devices (old phones and tablets) still registered under their account. Email and calendar stopped syncing until we removed some of the old devices.
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RE: Once off or short term remote access solution
@jaredbusch - DualMon is not a bad option if you are trying to remote connect to a Windows PC or Mac. The free version can be used for commercial use. I could be mistaken but there might be a time limitation per month. I have one client that uses it to connect to QuickBooks desktop on a remote site on a daily basis and they never receive the time limit warning.
Another option is if you have MeshCentral setup, you can provide a guest pass. Similar with ScreenConnect if you are using it for this client. Not sure how much time the software vendor needs.
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RE: Nextcloud desktop client 3.2 with status feature and Virtual Files available now
@black3dynamite said in Nextcloud desktop client 3.2 with status feature and Virtual Files available now:
Not on by default for Mac and Linux users
@jospoortvliet - posted at the bottom of their blog.
For people looking to test and play with this on Linux and Mac OS X:
You can set the configuration option in nextcloud.cfg: enableExperimentalOptions=true
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RE: Nextcloud desktop client 3.2 with status feature and Virtual Files available now
@dafyre said in Nextcloud desktop client 3.2 with status feature and Virtual Files available now:
I remember the alpha alpha early early probably shouldn't have been announced version of that, lol. It ate some files on my system! Backups FTW!
Yeah the virtual drive version they had a while back was unstable. Someone on their forums mentioned that they borrowed some code from the OwnCloud client. OwnCloud has had this feature for a couple years I think.
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Nextcloud desktop client 3.2 with status feature and Virtual Files available now
I am pretty excited about this new feature. Allows you to sync files on demand similar to OneDrive and Dropbox. The files only take up space on your device if you open them or choose to keep them on your device always.
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RE: Exchange 2016 Environment DNS entries help
@Mr-Jones said in Exchange 2016 Environment DNS entries help:
@syko24 said in Exchange 2016 Environment DNS entries help:
@Mr-Jones - on mxtoolbox just type in the search line:
tcp:mail.mydomain.com:25
Press enter and see if it says the port is open.
Thanks. It throws an "unable to connect" and then lists the GoDaddy IPv4 address that's associated with the A record of mail.mydoamin.com
So either a firewall issue or your isp may be blocking port 25. Is this business internet with a static ip?
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RE: Exchange 2016 Environment DNS entries help
@Mr-Jones - on mxtoolbox just type in the search line:
tcp:mail.mydomain.com:25
Press enter and see if it says the port is open.
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RE: Exchange 2016 Environment DNS entries help
@Mr-Jones - check your firewall and make sure port 25 is forwarding to your Exchange server.
Try https://canyouseeme.org/ and check port 25
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RE: FreePBX RingGroup Ring Time issue
Apparently I've asked a similar question in the past. Guess the answer is to lower the ring time to 27 or 28 seconds.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/18468/ring-time-for-find-me-follow-me-w-call-confirmation/6
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FreePBX RingGroup Ring Time issue
I am trying to setup a RingGroup that forwards to a cell phone. I set the Ring Time to 40 seconds but the call hits a busy signal after about 28 seconds. Is there somewhere else I need to extend the ring time? I am using Confirm Calls so that the calls do not go to the user's cell voicemail. Not sure if that is part of the issue.
Thanks