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My review of SmartBear (AlertSite)

June 1, 2017, 3:34 pm
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After being a customer of AlertSite (now SmartBear) for over 10 years, I am completely appalled at the problems I have experienced over the last 2 years.

We have used their website vulnerability scanning (with site seal) for probably 10 years+, but in the last 2 years there have been a large number of failures on their part that prevented the scans from running. Of course, it is excuse after excuse.Usually it is fixed within a couple weeks.

But hey, this is IT, things happen. Right?

Our last scan took place mid March. Yes, Mid March. Since then their scanning “service” powered by Nessus has been down hard. I have received repeated emails that yes we have escalated this and yes they are working on it. But again, down hard since mid March.

But the worst part about this?

They are saying that they cannot (will not) comp/credit/refund us...

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Business Case for Full Disk Encryption

June 1, 2017, 3:38 pm
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I am trying to put together a business case for full disk encryption for our staff with Laptops.

They are often out of the office and left in cars etc. and contain a lot of information.

Can anyone help me with some business reasons aside from the reduced risk and liability?

Thanks

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StarWind Cluster Node Maintenance

June 1, 2017, 3:43 pm
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We have a StarWind v8 2 node HyperConverged cluster. We need to expand the storage and unfortunately cannot do online RAID 10 expansion so I need to remove a node, expand the array, replicate back rinse and repeat for the other node. 

I've never done this for StarWind and was hoping to get some advice on how to pause a node. Do I need to remove the node from the replication partner? My problem with that is usually you need to restart services to get it to release the lock. I need to keep one node online at all times. 

Any advice?

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SQL - how to select maximum value of a column, but also select other columns?

June 1, 2017, 3:43 pm
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My SQL code is below. I have a table 'Document Instance' joined to various other tables. In my system, a new document instance is created every time a new version of the document is released or someone makes a changes to settings. As a result, there will be multiple instances of the same document version.

I have my code working fine for displaying everything, but I only want to display the Min instance for each document version. So as an example, I will have DocumentId 1 which will have multiple versions 1. 1.1 1.2 etc and each version may have multiple instances. I only want the minimum instance for each version of each document.

I am not too experienced with joins and can't get my head round what I have researched in context to my query.

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SELECTDocument.Name,DocumentInstance.IdDocumentInstanceId,DocumentInstance.Version,...
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SQL Licensing: Physical vs VM

June 1, 2017, 3:45 pm
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I need to setup a new SQL server, and typically we are fine with SQL Express but the software for this new deployment needs a full version of SQL. I'm getting a bit confused between SQL licensing and also best practices. I'll be needing Microsoft SQL 2014 Standard Edition.

I've read a few articles that warn against setting up SQL as a VM. If this really is a bad idea I do have a physical server I can repurpose as a SQL database server, but it is a dual 8-core processor so licensing all 16 cores would be pretty expensive! (Not to mention probably way way overkill for what we actually need). If my estimates are correct licensing this box would almost run $30k, ouch!!

Initially I was just going to setup a 4-core VM to run SQL on which seems cost effective, but I'm not a SQL expert so I don't want to start something that will run like...

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What are possible causes for a SQL Server 2000 instance to abruptly slow down?

June 1, 2017, 4:01 pm
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Hey Everyone,

The company I work for currently runs, due to application limitations, a SQL 2000 server. Between the nights of 5/12/2017 and 5/13/2017, we picked up a rather large loss of performance in our metrics logs. No tickets, updates, maintenance, etc occurred on or even near those date. We have tried the obvious things which include:

  1. Restarting SQL.
  2. Restarting the server (Windows Server 2000).
  3. Archiving data that was no longer needed.
  4. Rebuilding Indexes and Statistics.
  5. Ran performance monitors on disk io, cpu, lazy reads and writes, etc.
  6. Checked physical fragmentation on the database drives. (although its my understanding this doesn't really matter in a SAN environment).

None of this has been successful to this point. The only thing we turned up is that the Disk IO monitor we ran shows large timely spikes in Disk Read/sec and Disk...

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Folder redirection over VPN

June 1, 2017, 4:25 pm
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We're in the middle of migrating our domain and in the process we're getting rid of scriptlogic as we'll be simplifying things using GPO's. In the meantime I wrote a script for mapping drives and folder redirection that runs at logon. Current setup is Windows 2008r2 domain Windows 7 workstations using sonic wall as VPN.

Script works great when on the network but when you connect via VPN drive mapping works but folder redirection does not. Only re-directing My Documents to users home drive.

I've done a bunch of research over the last day or so on this and they focus on slow links and folder redirection not being applied via GPO's when in this state. I'm not seeing any messages in the log about slow links, and just to be safe I set local policies to disable the slow connection check, and the redirect is being applied by a script not GPO....

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Adding local accounts to GPO "logon as a service right"

June 1, 2017, 4:43 pm
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Hi

We have a number of domain based AD service accounts that are configured in the default domain policy, logon as a service right setting. This works well, the account push to the servers and services run as the specified domain account - this is great for anything that uses a domain account.

The Issue
We have a server, that has a local account setup on it as part of the software installed, it is the Microsoft Azure AD sync tool, which deploys a local service account to the server called AAD_79157.....

The service ADSync must use this account to run, at present, it wont start "due to a logon failure"

In the past i would add this account to the default domain policy GPO "logon as a service right" in which i have done a a test for the above account and the service then works again as expected, however it appears that if i do that, the policy...

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Migrate from DPM to Azure Backup Server (MABS)

June 1, 2017, 4:55 pm
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We have been using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) for a number of years, with a few years of backup data. We would like to migrate to Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) and have used this free version of DPM at a number of our sites over the last 12 months.

We would like to keep our existing backups at the sites running DPM and migrate these to MABS. Are there any methods of moving our on-site and Azure cloud-based DPM backups to MABS?

We have tried using the methods Microsoft recommended for migrating DPM to DPM, eg. a new server, or software version upgrade, however, the database is not compatible.


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XTM2 series disappearing

June 1, 2017, 4:56 pm
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Been humming along nicely for a couple years then I moved the device to a new rack, plugged it back in and cannot find it through the manager. I can plug directly into the unit and access the manager, check all the settings, then put it back into the network and manager can no longer locate it once again.

Entire school network is off line, could the box somehow have bought the farm?

Thanks in advance.

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Create Scheduled task with Run as highest level, Whether user is logged or not

June 1, 2017, 6:04 pm
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For some reason this task wont run I want to set a credential by choice 

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$STPrincipal = New-ScheduledTaskPrincipal -UserID "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" -LogonType ServiceAccount -RunLevel Highest
Register-ScheduledTask $STName -Action $Action -Trigger $Trigger -Principal $STPrincipal -Settings $Settings

Tried 
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Register-ScheduledTask $STName -user $user -password $password
even -credential no luck yet anyone has gone through?

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Samsung MFP C2670 Series can receive Faxes but cannot send them out...

June 1, 2017, 6:16 pm
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We have a new Samsung C2670 MFP installed, the IPv4 is configured accordingly so I am able to see the interface via a Web browser. I was able to check all of the settings, and the only thing I saw that was off is that the phone number for the fax was not entered. I entered the number and I was able to successfully fax TO the device, but when my colleague attempts to send the faxes OUT from the machine, it just shows that the faxes are on hold and the queue just builds up and no faxes ever go out. The phone line is in the right jack and I have restarted the MFP to no avail. I looked through the functions and I did not see any reason as to why the outgoing jobs are stuck. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. All settings are enabled...

Thank you!

ECM Mode:    is set to Enable, I am not sure what that is.
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How can you setup individual 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Servers (not in a farm, etc)

June 1, 2017, 6:54 pm
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Hi Everyone,

I've run into an issue with a client on one area I haven't dealt with much. They have been running an 2012 R2 RDS server with the standard services running (session host connection broker, etc..) They are wanting to bring a second 2012 R2 RDS server online that can use the license manager off server #1, but they don't want there to be a server farm, load balancing, etc.. They want both servers to work independently. When I brought the second server with the session host service and pointed to server #1 for licensing, it was taking connections fine but we noticed it was doing the normal farm behavior for some users who were connecting to server #1, they were getting routed to server #2. All connections are done by direct ip (no server name or dns entry).

So is there any easy way in 2012 to keep the RDS servers and individual...

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VNC issue. Remote machine's screen turns black/dim when accesses via VNC.

June 1, 2017, 7:02 pm
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Anyone having issue with VNC?

The screen of a remote machine turns black/dim when accessed via VNC.

I noticed that this only happens on machines with single monitor. We have no issue so far on machines with multiple monitors.

We fixed this by disabling VNC Mirror Driver in Computer Management.

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Worrying report about TR-069 remote management of modem/routers

June 1, 2017, 7:04 pm
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I only discovered this a few days ago, while liaising with my home ISP, to help a friend with one of their (ISP provided) low-power routers. They asked if I could check if their TR-069 remote URL was present after the latest firmware update.

I checked on what TR-069 functionality/protocol was (as I am NOT a comms/security specialist, just a SysAdmin), and got even more concerned when I read the CheckPoint PDF report.

https://www.rsaconference.com/writable/presentations/file_upload/hta-r04-the-internet-of-tr-069-thin...

Also see:
http://mis.fortunecook.ie/

Now a lot of that may be "old news", but the last few slides (from 49 onwards) from the CheckPoint report stood out for me, in that there are over 45 million vulnerable modem/routers in the wild, that was 80% of the installed base at 2015 figures.

I know that corporate users with good IT...

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1 PC using how long in ur company?

June 1, 2017, 7:12 pm
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Hi all, 1 PC using how long in yours company?

My company still have 30% window XP (8-12years PC) , 35% Vista (at least 7 years). @@

Any policy in ur company to write off the old PC? Other else, keep using the PC until hardware spoil.

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Vmware Esxi restore for DR

June 1, 2017, 7:27 pm
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Hey All,

Currently in the process of setting up a DR site using Veeam to replicate backups to a DR site so we can restore to the servers there if needed.
The current site is running VMware Esxi 5.5 standard
Backup site is VMWare Esxi 6.5 Essentials
Will this cause any issues restoring to the DR site that is a different version?
Cheers
 
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UPSs, surge protectors, no generator thoughts.

June 1, 2017, 7:36 pm
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Our campus has 2 main buildings (1 building is actually more like 3 buildings joined together) and 3 small separate buildings.

Our issue is that building 1 is currently the only one with a generator. We have plans to put a generator in building 7 also in the next year or so. The issue is that the generator is placed to cover building#1, maybe building#2. However, building#3 we think is too far away to run proper generator wire to. Buildings 4,5 could share a generator, but we have no plans to put one there, building#6 would probably have to have a generator too.

At one time all (or most of) the IDFs had a UPS of some form. They failed, etc. and were replaced with surge protectors, or the switches just ended up plugged into the wall directly. We have tried to put in at least a surge strip everywhere we can. Buildings 3,5,7 do have...

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How to create redundant DC using Server 2012R2 & Hyper-v while securing backups?

June 1, 2017, 7:46 pm
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Current setup is one outdated Server running 2012R2 with (4) Hyper-v servers (setup by previous admin) hosting their business applications (Medisoft/Ez-notes/Quickbooks/? can't remember the 4th one)! They are currently manually backing up their data files (against my instructions). I have very little experience with Hyper-v but I'm wondering if there isn't a better way to set this up. I just don't feel comfortable having everything on (1) server in case of hardware failure, virus infection, ransomware, etc.

I am thinking of standing up another server, creating it identical to existing so it can be a "rollover" server in case of hardware failure. I'd like to send copies of the VM's to the new one several times throughout the day and then send them to a 3rd physical server to be backed up to a physical medium that they can take...

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Zimbra external account trouble

June 1, 2017, 9:00 pm
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Hello,

This question is with regards to the Zimbra mail server. My version is Zimbra 8.7.7_GA_1787 (build 20170410133400) and couple of users have their external accounts located on a different email hosting servers like Gmail, A2hosting and Liquidweb.

We have added their emails as the external account in the Zimbra online webmail as POP. Also we put below command to POP emails in every 60 seconds,

zmprov mds user@domain.com ExternalIM zimbraDataSourcePolling Interval 60

However all users are complaining that they are receiving the email very late and sometime they do not receive.

So we remove the external account and then add again. But when lot of users complain the same then we restart the zmcontrol services.

Is there any permanent solution for this because it is happening very frequently and I can not restart the services every time....

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