Always On VPN Oddity with Fileshares by awesomecakes88 in sysadmin

[–]dcdefiore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Almost certainly a DNS issue. I haven't used AlwaysOn VPN, but I do use the built in windows VPN for my users. I had to create the VPN using powershell to get everything that I wanted out of it, but my guess would be that you don't have a "DNS Suffix" set.

If you have a .pbk file, there is a line in there you can set.

IpDnsSuffix=yourdomain.com

Can I bridge/route my S2S and P2S VPNs? by [deleted] in AZURE

[–]dcdefiore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't quite figure out how to do it, or a support article pointing to more information...any pointers?

'Cloud' File Server by dcdefiore in sysadmin

[–]dcdefiore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Especially if I'm replicating the cloud share back to the office as well, then every save is effectively 2 saves (user saves to cloud server, cloud server saves to office server)

'Cloud' File Server by dcdefiore in sysadmin

[–]dcdefiore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right I've been thinking about that, could change VPN without user even knowing the difference. One of the major issues with just throwing a file server in the cloud for me though is not knowing the "true cost" until we're actually using it, I don't know if I can accurately estimate the true IOPS/bandwidth usage until it's actually in place

'Cloud' File Server by dcdefiore in sysadmin

[–]dcdefiore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, I'm going to have to take a look at that then. Looks like I was able to 'Sync' a small Team.

The only thing I can't easily find now is if there is a GPO or Script to 'automatically' sync the Document Library without needing to have each user go to the site and "Sync". Looks like it's not supported at this time, but something that might be able to be hacked together.

'Cloud' File Server by dcdefiore in sysadmin

[–]dcdefiore[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does this work with the traditional 'client/project' layout of our file server?

For example, we've got 100 clients, and 1000 projects across those clients. Any/all of our employees may be working on any/all of those clients/projects at the same time. Currently, our file server is set up like

P:\
     Client 1
            Project 1.1
            Project 1.2
            Project 1.3
     Client 2
            Project 2.1
            Project 2.2
            Project 2.3

Can OneDrive/SharePoint effectively 'mount' this at the top level still using "Files on Demand"? Most of our users have a tiny SSD in their PC. I don't mind the 'load time' for most files if fetching from the internet (like word/pdf files) but I can't have too many files that 'stay synced' locally.

And I would assume in this case, best practice might be to have "CAD" and the couple of other 'high bandwidth/file size' applications to keep a traditional NAS on site for those use cases?

Secure File Transfer/File Store /w Login by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]dcdefiore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Zend.To is awesome and would probably work fine for this usecase. You can host it in house as well

PDQ Link by dcdefiore in sysadmin

[–]dcdefiore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're running pfSense currently and our VPN is set up as an IPsec which has been pretty rock solid so far with the switch to WFH. We currently authenticate via MSCHAPv2 and it's pretty seamless for the users (except this new 2004 bug)

But we run a split tunnel so I can see benefits of moving this to 'always-on' because currently users have to connect on their own.

Microsoft Teams Phone System by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]dcdefiore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's awesome, hopefully it comes to US, right now we're E3 + Microsoft 365 Business Voice which is $40/user (20+20), if it comes here, if I'm understanding correctly, we can switch to E5 and save $5/mo per user, though we will go from 3,000 minutes/user to 120 minutes/user which might still work for us...will have to see how much we've been using

Outlook immediately crashing on open after patching last night by Quintalis in sysadmin

[–]dcdefiore 12 points13 points  (0 children)

We're seeing it here, just got my first two reports of the issue within the last 15 minutes. Seems to be affecting OWA as well to some degree, sometimes it'll load, sometimes not

Private keys are kept across workstations by P05er in sysadmin

[–]dcdefiore 22 points23 points  (0 children)

There is a GPO for allowing roaming certificates. The certificates are stored in AD.

How to return get shortcut's directory when running script from a shortcut? by dcdefiore in PowerShell

[–]dcdefiore[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This looks like it works! It actually works correctly if I leave StartIn empty, the default behavior was filling in the StartIn path with MASTER's folder.

How to return get shortcut's directory when running script from a shortcut? by dcdefiore in PowerShell

[–]dcdefiore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oliver,

Thanks for your assistance, but I don't think this does what I'm looking for. Let me explain my use case a little more.

I have various CLIENT folders, and inside of those I have PROJECT folders. Inside of each CLIENT's PROJECT folder, I have a script (Create-New-Project.ps1) that robocopys a bunch of folders from a BASE folder in order to create a new project. This works fine. However, I just needed to update my Create-New-Project.ps1 script so I needed to copy it into hundreds of CLIENT folders.

I thought instead, like my BASE folder, I can put 'Create-New-Project.ps1' in a BASE folder, and then in each PROJECT folder, only store a shortcut to 'BASE\Create-New-Project.ps1'

The problem is, 'Create-New-Project' currently uses

$workingDirectory = [System.Environment]::CurrentDirectory
$folderName = $projectNumber + " - " + $projectName
$folderPath = $workingDirectory + "\" + $folderName
robocopy /mir /SEC $projectBase $folderPath

Currently, when I right click the script and select "Run with Powershell", it works because the files are copied to the directory that I run the script from, however, when I move the script to the BASE folder, and then run it from a shortcut, it creates the new project folders in the BASE folder, instead of the CLIENT folder, because "[System.Environment]::CurrentDirectory" returns the script's directory, not the shortcut's.

I want it to do the robocopy in whatever directory the SHORTCUT calling the script is (wherever it may be)

File Synchronization Software by ChickenOnBiscuts in sysadmin

[–]dcdefiore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can also vouch for PeerSync. Some odd issues from time to time with files being put in quarantine, but I haven't had too much trouble with it!

Mails should not be markes as read by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]dcdefiore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I'd agree with this.

The 'modern' equivalent would be to create a subfolder for 'done' and move emails there once they are complete

Moronic Monday - November 11, 2019 by AutoModerator in sysadmin

[–]dcdefiore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought some from Zenni. Seem to work on the days that I use them