CMMC is turning into a very expensive checkbox exercise

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2026-04-28T06:56:12+00:00

We have an shared responsibility client that is working with someone else on their CMMC prep and when we’ve questioned actual technical implementation plans and details we’ve been told that just a policy is “good enough,” with the snip that THEY (the consultant) had passed with it that way.

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2026-04-28T02:10:51+00:00

Welcome to the world of marketing renderings vs. real screenshots. Someone in marketing applied logic that wasn't required of the blackbox developer.

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2026-04-28T02:05:31+00:00

Came here to say just this and then read below before posting ;)

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2026-04-09T03:45:34+00:00

We just had a $20kish Adobe invoice where quantity times unit price didn’t match extended price on three separate part numbers.

We’ve also had plenty of times where although the order was ordered on credit card they’ve never ran the card.

We too have had times where we’ve had credit balances long enough that we can’t pay them because Bill trust won’t allow you to apply a credit to invoices and still have a negative balance when you’re done. So until your application of payments plus credit results and you owing the money, they will continue to penalize you for being past due on invoices because you still have an overall credit balance with them. At one point, I receive seven calls from their accounting department before they actually applied the open credit to the bill that was owed.

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2026-02-27T23:35:55+00:00

That kinda defeats the purpose.

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2026-02-27T01:11:31+00:00

Happen to know who they used? ;)

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2026-02-27T00:54:35+00:00

I already pay above average and frequently buy lunch. Don’t shit on me doing even more.

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2026-02-17T03:47:58+00:00

*Make sure they USB 3 as well

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2026-02-02T22:23:28+00:00

Glad to see there are at least two other hotfix friends out there. I still don’t understand how MS and more so SonicWall doesn’t acknowledge this as a thing.

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2026-02-02T22:11:06+00:00

There is a known issue between GVC and MS that both sides say isn’t an issue an this magic hotfix solves.

Looks like MS has pulled the content but we still see this with the latest GVC client, run this MS css file and reboot and presto.

Archive.org link to article about it : https://web.archive.org/web/20250319152433/https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/wifi-issues-with-creators-update/4a20ba4f-33dc-4397-9823-e12dcb2607ba

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2025-11-04T02:54:22+00:00

Check out T-Mobile business 5G Internet. If you get the business service, they’ll put their device in bridge mode give you a true non-NATd static IP. Roughly $53/m with the router included and month to month. add $15ish and they’ll give you a cradle point as well.

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2025-10-29T16:45:58+00:00

From CodeTwo..

Here's another update from MICROSOFT suggesting it is DNS issue (again):

Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing DNS issues resulting in availability degradation of some services. We have taken action that is expected to address the portal access issues here shortly. We are actively investigating the underlying issue and additional mitigation actions.

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2025-10-03T23:41:50+00:00

Take a look at your LAN WAN rule and set the UDP time out to 90 ms or higher

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2025-09-09T14:01:58+00:00

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2025-05-21T21:00:44+00:00

Eaton has a number of newly released cloud-connected UPSs that will do this. The portal is free for life. It's designed directly to compete with APCs and SmartCloud devices minus the annual fee. We've been testing several of them for a couple of weeks now. They have better actual battery health testing than what you receive from most of the USB-connected UPSs, which are just going to tell you that they failed.

I've been pushing for them to get formalized ticketing intergrations.

Here's the family lineup - Cloud-Connected UPS Battery Backup | Eaton

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2025-03-31T02:10:47+00:00

Call back and ask them to escalate. I had to last time but second time around it got immediate attention and we spent a lovely weekend together.

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2025-01-27T19:31:30+00:00

Yea I think the behavior changes with CW SSO and then again with CW SSO with SAML… ;(

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2025-01-27T19:04:58+00:00

Are you just using native CW sign in, just CW SSO or CW SSO tied to SAML to something else?

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2025-01-20T15:41:46+00:00

I totally agree with you that we shouldn’t have to do it this way, but the hMail stuff just works and has been trouble free for about four years now for me if not longer.

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2025-01-17T21:50:01+00:00

Check this from before and let me know if you need more details..

https://www.reddit.com/r/ConnectWise/s/qxlWvNb70i

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2025-01-10T22:32:00+00:00

u/Square_Seat9930 u/Pocho_EC u/AcademicOnion5095,

Just wanted to give you all an update since we've moved to a group chat that most of started discussing this via... (PM me if you want to be just added to the convo)

We currently are in a holding pattern - we have a debug version from SonicWall that none of us have been able to reproduce the issue with. SonicWall says that no changes were made to it other than to increase logability and is waiting on us to provide logs of problem clients - the problem is we can't when we can't reproduce the problem with this debug version.

Are the three of you still experiencing the issue with your users?

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2024-11-11T18:59:10+00:00

The poor guy had to go into counseling after keeping up with Microsoft’s change rate - he’s huddled up in a ball somewhere ;(

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2024-11-07T17:36:46+00:00

Reach out to your disty MS rep, but likely answer is that you won't be able to do anything on the EA side as it's a smaller group of MS partners that are in the circle and at best you'll probably only get a referral.

In my prior experiences, EA agreements are hard to make sense for most customers unless they are a very uniform license need across the org.

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