@Obsolesce said in Is It Really Encrypted When the Key Is Public and Automatic?: That's like saying your data is encrypted with BitLocker or FileVault, but anyone with BitLocker or FileVault respectively can will automatically decrypt your data without even trying. FTFY

@Dashrender said in SuiteCRM - Followup impressions: Did anyone use it at all during the 'trial' period? or did end users just at it and walk away? I love the fact that the company at least was willing to try something - then move to something else.. instead of just being stuck.. it might be costly to do so.. but at least they are working toward a solution they will hopefully like and works well for them. Yes. It was used by a trial group. But then afterwards, it was never a) forced or b) even pushed on the main users.

@Emad-R said in Researching Mailing List Email Server Options: So you dont want the SMTP server part, just the sending to many and if a user opt to be removed that will auto reflect ... Either way. If we handle the SMTP that's fine. If we don't, that's fine.

@scottalanmiller That's one hell of a run on sentence! Do you actually speak without pausing or breathing?

@coliver said in Software Catalog: @Kelly said in Software Catalog: @coliver said in Software Catalog: For the opensource side. https://www.opsi.org may have something of what you're looking at. I tested it out in the past but SCCM fit with what the management was looking to do. Just to be clear, I'm not as concerned about the deployment side of things (yet). Do how much is opsi and SCCM: Software Center oriented around end users and how much around administration? I know it should be part of the fabric. I'm just trying to modernize some processes that have been enshrined in the halls of familiarity, and this is the first step for us. Software Center is almost 100% end user oriented. If you are looking to automate this without hands you wouldn't even expose the interface. I think Opsi is the opposite. I don't think, if I recall, it has any real means for the end users to request applications outside of a really bad web interface... even then I may be mistaken. That's good to know. I had only done some surface digging into Software Center, and then when I hit the opsi website it looked as you describe it now, so I wanted to be sure that I was communicating clearly. Thanks.

@scottalanmiller said in Researching OpenDental Software: So in the above directions, where the heck are we supposed to get the "blank" database from? WTF From what that page I looked sounded like when you install the trial it stuff up the schema.

@JasGot said in A question for the SMB owners and operators here: In-house software. We developed it in 2002 and maintain it to keep up with our needs. I think that for MSPs that that tends to make the most sense. Our needs tend to be highly unique, and not that difficult to fill.

Been using Xero for a while. No issues. It works better than QB Online. I tried it.

Dragging and dropping todos between notebooks - I really like that

@pmoncho said in The Hidden Cost of Licensing Windows Server - Activation: @scottalanmiller said in The Hidden Cost of Licensing Windows Server - Activation: Just looking at this with a customer that just put in a new Windows 2019 server. The machine was purchased with a volume license agreement for Server 2019 Standard. Everything should be super easy, in theory. Problem is, license key from the volume license center doesn't work. We spend a bit of time trying to get this to apply, but no luck. I have run into a similar situation this morning and not being able activate the VLSC liscense. Before I decided to call MS and getting frustrated, I was able to activate from an elevated command line. cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk <product key> Throwing this out here in case someone comes along this post at a later time. I've heard that that often works. We had tried that in our case and it had failed.

@Obsolesce said in Generating a list of Software to Reinstall on Windows 10: @dbeato said in Generating a list of Software to Reinstall on Windows 10: @Obsolesce said in Generating a list of Software to Reinstall on Windows 10: @scottalanmiller said in Generating a list of Software to Reinstall on Windows 10: @Obsolesce said in Generating a list of Software to Reinstall on Windows 10: @scottalanmiller said in Generating a list of Software to Reinstall on Windows 10: @Dashrender said in Generating a list of Software to Reinstall on Windows 10: @gjacobse said in Generating a list of Software to Reinstall on Windows 10: @Obsolesce said in Generating a list of Software to Reinstall on Windows 10: I usually just copy/paste a Chocolatey install command that does it all at once. Everything else is on separate media that requires no install. Example, copy over games, import them in... such as into Steam. I was going to mention... with Chocolatey tool choco list -lo just pipe it to a text file. But that only gives you things installed through Chocolatey. Dustin's OP gives you everything installed through the normal Windows installer process (and registers the install). I recall when chocolatey didn't use the windows installer process for everything - things are much better now. It is package by package. Lots of things, through Chocolatey or not, don't use the Windows installer process. I've not seen Chocolatey not register software installs in Windows, ever. I have. Many times. Most of the time I think that it does, but it is not Chocolatey that does it when it does. With what software specifically? Try installing Sysinternal tools, it will not register at all, that is one example. You can do so with Chocolatey. I never installed that stuff anyways. That Chocolatey doesn't is nothing new. I thought you wanted to know which applications would do that, but I guess I read wrong.

@gjacobse said in Activating Windows 10 with Windows 7 Keys Today: @scottalanmiller said in Activating Windows 10 with Windows 7 Keys Today: @gjacobse said in Activating Windows 10 with Windows 7 Keys Today: @DustinB3403 said in Activating Windows 10 with Windows 7 Keys Today: @gjacobse said in Activating Windows 10 with Windows 7 Keys Today: @aaronstuder said in Activating Windows 10 with Windows 7 Keys Today: https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/142616/yes-can-still-clean-install-windows-10-windows-78-x-key Article coverd up by their stupid box saying your AdBlocker is showing... Not with pihole. I'm running one.... You sure it is working? I'm no genius... but it shows it's working the Pi-Hole is running, you sure that that is what you are using for your DNS? Check with nslookup

@dustinb3403 said in ResourceSpace - DAM: Does anyone here use ResourceSpace Just curious, nothing else. Never heard of it, But was definitely worth looking into!

@dafyre said in Wireless presentation solutions for business: I could see something like a wireless VGA / HDMI transmitter and receiver set up. That way, at least any device with a VGA or HDMI connection could wire in and present with few issues. Tried a few of those (good ones) in some conference rooms. They are great on paper, but works poorly in practice. We boxed ours up and moved on.

Congrats.

Crestron makes home automation stuff. Super expensive home automation stuff, been around before IoT was a T.

Also XenServer (and soon to be XCP-ng) have a vSAN type of approach as well. I'd ask @olivier to explain how it all works though.

Nowadays they wouldn't get away on this. Maybe Troy Hunt will say something

The hw and sw engineers here use Jira for project and issue tracking, completion.

Now that I'm setting up an LLC I should probably start looking into this kind of thing.

@scottalanmiller said in Best Small Business Accounting Systems: I'm surprised that we've not heard from any FreshBooks users as they seem to be pretty popular. I used it. But only for invoicing, literally nothing more.

@john-nicholson said in Open Source Hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?: @msff-amman-itofficer said in Open Source Hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?: my take on this: ESXi free is limited, 8 vcpu per VM and that limit can be easily reached limit. It's easily reached if you starve a VM of IOPS or RAM and it's spinning cycles waiting on IO. In reality VERY few things need 8 vCPU. I've seen The ONLY exchange server for 5000 users not need that many resources. Given modern Skylake hardware, and 4Ghz Intel Xeon Cores's if your hitting the 8vCPU limit I'm REALLY curious why your not willing to spend the one time ~$200 per host that is the Essentials bundle to get some more features is a rounding error in your budget (it's like less than a $1 a day per host). Keep in mind it is not per hosts, but ~$600 per three hosts, so for much of the SMB that's either $300 or $600 per host and makes things like future upgrades potentially a problem. And $600 per host is enormous for the SMB market. Absolutely staggering. Given that 90% of the market can't even cost justify a server, let alone a server with that much additional licensing. On a single host, how much value is that $600 getting an SMB versus getting free, unlimited use virtualization with $600 of faster hardware? When we are talking a $3,000 server, an extra $600 is anything but trivial. The "only $200 per host" is really "holy crap, $200 per host with a minimum of three!!" That's not at all a small number, not in the SMB market. And especially not in an SMB market outside of the US.

@Mike-Davis said in GPO - Install software based on User - Without user involvement: @Dashrender said in GPO - Install software based on User - Without user involvement: Many policies can't be applied to users and have to be applied to the computer. that said you might be able to set the Item level targeting to limit it to specific users. This is your problem. If you want to deploy the software based on user, you need to deploy it under User Configuration -> Policies -> Software Settings -> Software installation. You tried to deploy it under Computer Configuration, and filtered by User, so it gets totally ignored. This is only a problem if your computer is not part of this GPO pool - or you're trying to run things from both computer and user without loopback enabled.