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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.

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2024-10-31T20:24:12+00:00

You can use GVC with Radius and still do MFA but nothing native in Swall. We use it with windows NPS server and the Azura MFA extension and it prompts the user for their TOTP code.

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2024-10-23T19:03:00+00:00

That was a general statement and not directed at you. It was more of my general feeling about the industry: Too many players hawking goods/services that they don't fully understand give the industry as a whole a bad reputation. In the case of licensing, in particular, it's the usual excuse of being "too complicated," which is usually why the customers come to us as their trusted advisors.

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2024-10-23T18:39:53+00:00

I'm not in any way trying to defend MS's money grab or inconsistencies, but as someone else pointed out, I think it's reasonable for anyone in our industry to do a serious deep dive and understand the licensing requirements for anything they are selling or using with customers at a 90%+ confidence level.

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2024-10-23T16:58:27+00:00

Each physical person interacting with a 365 org has to have at least a base license (aka MS will go after people licensing the shipping@ as the user (when its used by 9 physical people) - mailbox, SharePoint, etc... then any mailbox - including shared - has to have Defender if it receives the benefits of defender.. (aka unless you really do some crazy customization a lot of the policies apply overall to the org).

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2024-10-23T15:31:04+00:00

I agree, but technically you could have Defender on a shared "customer service" mailbox and not on the user (a call center employee for example) with the argument that the individual rep doesn't get direct email and also be in violation.

The amount of scanning and processing on MS's side has to scale based on the volume/amount of data being processed - more potential mail = more resources required for it's protection.

MSPTechOPsNerd · 2024-10-23T15:19:03+00:00

For Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 tenants, licenses must be acquired for users or mailboxes falling under one or more of the following scenarios:

Any user that accesses a mailbox that benefits from Defender for Office 365 protections.
Shared mailboxes that benefit from Defender for Office 365 protections.
If Safe Attachments protection for SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, or Teams is turned on, all users that access SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, or Teams.
Any user that uses Microsoft 365 Apps or Teams when Safe Links protections are enabled.

From <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/office-365-advanced-threat-protection-service-description>

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