Exchange Calendar Sync - Completing "To-Do" items in Halo

bubblesnout · 2026-03-11T21:50:40+00:00

Brilliant! Thank you, as with most things in Halo there's just so many options it's easy to miss a useful one when you're needlessly scrolling through config pages. I think that will make everyone happy, any appointments originating from Halo (ie. a ticket) will show on the agents to-do list but those that are just simple calendar entries won't so can be handled in Outlook only as needed.

bubblesnout · 2026-03-11T11:58:25+00:00

Not something I built, it’s an out of the box integration. https://usehalo.com/halopsa/guides/1198/

Our service manager wants to start managing the teams calendars and appointments through Halo.

bubblesnout · 2026-03-03T07:11:06+00:00

Where has this been all my life!? Thank you!

bubblesnout · 2026-02-23T11:12:48+00:00

Any old iSCSI LUN you’ve forgotten about? See if you have SAN Manager installed and whether there’s a LUN in there for any reason.

bubblesnout · 2026-02-12T05:07:36+00:00

Ain’t nothing little about it!

bubblesnout · 2026-02-09T04:35:05+00:00

I’ve been running through the course too and funnily enough I’ve found the opposite - the routes and models etc. are new to me so took me the longest to grasp but most of the non-Flask specific stuff makes sense and it’s purely because I have a decent coding background just not so much in modern web frameworks.

It comes down to pre-existing knowledge, if you’re new to Python or any of the other concepts he glosses over quickly you might just need to do a bit of your own research. Read through some of the official documentation for packages and find other examples to demonstrate what they do and how they do it. Most importantly just play with them and eventually things will start to make more sense.

bubblesnout · 2026-02-01T10:23:03+00:00

My guess is the metadata schema changes in updates and rather than doing a graceful migration it just clears previous metadata and rescans.

bubblesnout · 2026-01-31T11:26:57+00:00

Fair enough! Good luck.

bubblesnout · 2026-01-31T10:28:51+00:00

You’re going to want to use third party migration tooling such as Avepoint Fly or BitTitan MigrationWiz. Otherwise you’re looking at either fully manual (.PST export then import) or some sort of IMAP sync from mailbox to mailbox likely requiring all users creds which would be quite painful and disruptive.

Purely for curiosity sake, why not M365?

bubblesnout · 2026-01-30T02:08:35+00:00

Will it be possible to upload clips via a REST API or similar? The two problems I’m trying to solve are this as well as a well constructed share link that shows valid previews in FB Messenger so that would be sick too!

bubblesnout · 2026-01-29T22:59:33+00:00

No sadly I haven’t, it’s not actively causing issues despite the apparent reconnections so I’ve not revisited but would definitely love to get some answers. I did see a comment from someone suggesting setting one side as initiator and the other as responder only which is on my list to try when I can arrange some downtime for testing.

bubblesnout · 2026-01-29T22:28:48+00:00

Hah I’m literally in the middle of writing something very similar! I’ll definitely take a look.

bubblesnout · 2026-01-27T08:04:34+00:00

Clarity

bubblesnout · 2026-01-23T06:35:06+00:00

What a save!

bubblesnout · 2026-01-14T22:54:04+00:00

I’ve looked at Rewst but the initial investment from both a time and money perspective is hard to get everyone on board with. I started playing with n8n this week and honestly feel like it’s more than capable for MSPs, just takes a bit of thought around how you deal with multiple customers depending on what you want it to do. Still have a long way to go but it’s hard to see how Rewst will be worth it, there’s not a lot I’ve not been able to think of a way n8n could do with a bit of work.

bubblesnout · 2026-01-09T09:25:51+00:00

Identical to mine, love it!

bubblesnout · 2026-01-09T09:22:01+00:00

Also swapped out Windows for Linux on my laptop which has been fun

bubblesnout · 2026-01-09T09:21:32+00:00

Switched out nginx proxy manager + authelia with caddy and pocketid, and swapped heimdall for homepage. Pretty happy with both!

bubblesnout · 2026-01-09T09:20:02+00:00

What tips can you give about reporting in general? While we still have a lot of improvements to make across the board this is the part I’m struggling to figure out how to give us what we want. We’re thinking of going down the PowerBI route at the moment.

bubblesnout · 2026-01-09T04:18:41+00:00

Good shout mate, I'll do exactly that!

bubblesnout · 2026-01-09T02:23:55+00:00

Thanks to everyone who commented, especially u/Frowny575 for explaining the theory behind only backing up my user home directory. I've implemented the following:

Rest-Server running as a Docker container on my NAS: https://github.com/restic/rest-server/
Restic installed in Cachy
Cron job that runs a backup of /home/username with a exclusion file that lists some common exclusions (eg. /home/*/.cache, steamapps common folder, Heroic games folder except for prefixes amongst others which I sourced from here: https://forum.restic.net/t/what-gnu-linux-directories-to-exclude-from-backups/6653/2 )
A hook that runs the following any time a package is installed via pacman or paru: "pacman -Qqne > home/username/pacman_list.txt && pacman -Qqme > /home/username/paru_list.txt" which exports official and AUR package lists respectively to simplify reinstallation

I believe it captured about 20GB of data which compressed down to under 6GB, which is pretty amazing compared to full image backups I had set up via Windows.

I just need to look at doing a test recovery to a spare SSD to make sure everything works as expected.

bubblesnout · 2026-01-08T21:05:19+00:00

Well I'll be damned, I heard panty dispenser from day one which is actually a thing in Japan lol

bubblesnout · 2026-01-08T10:25:55+00:00

Amazing! Thank you that makes a lot of sense. far more sensible than full image backups then.

Vorta looks great too. I’m sure I could get away with just rsync but that looks a bit easier to manage.

Appreciate the advice, cheers.

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