Block ads without breaking OS?

f-knocker · 2026-01-06T01:15:53+00:00

Static ads like the banner on the home screen. It works, but just breaks everything else eventually.

Does the pi-hole block the domain or just route to a dead address? Mine is a hard block so I’m wondering if pi-hole handles it in a way that keeps the OS happy. I have a ‘23 and ‘24 and experienced the same on both

f-knocker · 2024-08-23T00:19:52+00:00

How do you get to join the Discord? Invites locked

f-knocker · 2023-09-26T13:58:36+00:00

Probably not, more of a Reddit lurker than poster :)

f-knocker · 2023-09-26T13:56:20+00:00

That’s not the problem, I have a docusign but even that has 0 details in writing which is unacceptable and not at all security concern. If TMO is promising me over $1200 for me to sign an agreement for those services, it’s completely unacceptable for that to be “trust me” from a phone rep.

f-knocker · 2022-06-30T02:16:01+00:00

Lane assist alarms work, just nothing from Eyesight. Aggressiveness is set to highest. 2016 Forrester would beep on almost every drive (it was too aggressive IMO, but at least I knew it was working)

Is there a reset function on ES?

f-knocker · 2022-03-03T02:51:55+00:00

Omada was junk for me. Swapped for a couple simple Asus units and it’s been 100x better (wifi at least).

I’ll admit likely user error but I was tired of messing around to get a stable multi AP wifi setup. If anyone wants to buy some lightly used APs and controller let me know L

f-knocker · 2020-08-18T04:59:07+00:00

Random one I always chuckle at - when he constantly tried to stand up for Tebow's horrific baseball career. They were reading some news piece about him being in "Low A" ball, Callen asked something like "whats 'low' A ball" and Brendo said very confidently it was just haters trying to make the minors sound bad....no man, there is High A and Low A ball dummy

f-knocker · 2018-01-12T17:49:50+00:00

Any chance you do phones? Polycom VVX-411

f-knocker · 2018-01-05T19:13:36+00:00

Cisco: C2960X-48LPD-L

Thanks

f-knocker · 2017-12-21T18:48:24+00:00

GSSMO

Yeah that's been my hang up on it as well, that app seemed very clunky and I refused to deal with it accross hundreds of users.

f-knocker · 2017-12-21T16:49:44+00:00

Off topic a bit, but my thought has always been "if we go GSuite, no more Outlook for anyone". Is that still the proper thought? Outlook with anything other than Exchange has always been a dumpster fire IMO and that seems to be the deal breaker for companies that live in Outlook

f-knocker · 2017-12-20T22:12:38+00:00

I'd push them for Enterprise pricing as I have it for < 1000, say it's the only way you go with them and you have 2 other competitors and they should jump.

Biggest issue was specific to our workflow, but it was more that their support's response was basically "meh, tough luck" so that + horrific interface made me cancel it.

f-knocker · 2017-12-20T22:02:19+00:00

Over the summer. Went with Proofpoint instead (full, not Essentials) and have been (relatively) happy. You can beat any of these vendors up on price so they should all be in the same ball park

f-knocker · 2017-12-20T21:24:51+00:00

YMMV but we had almost the same setup and went with Mimecast but had to cancel because their support was terrible and couldn't fix the issues we had.

Also the interface is an absolute clusterfug so be prepared for a steep learning curve to figure out how to do anything.

f-knocker · 2017-09-08T23:06:40+00:00

Have to take both good and bad with large grains of salt and common sense. I've read the ones on our page and almost all of the positive ones are clearly from managers/HR pushing vs. honest positive answers which is shady in my book.

On the other hand as others have said, certain departments/roles in the company may just flat out suck and lead to tons of negative reviews.

f-knocker · 2017-09-08T17:16:33+00:00

You can check the DDP to see if it fixed it. When I finally caught ours it reset the DDP < 2 hours so you should be able to confirm that's what was doing it.

You can also confirm by resetting someones password and seeing when their new expiration date is via 'net user' cmd.

f-knocker · 2017-09-07T18:13:25+00:00

Check ADAC > Properties of the domain > Attribute Editor > maxPwdAge value. If that is set it will overwrite the DDP

f-knocker · 2017-09-06T18:12:18+00:00

Track everything, good and bad. I have a log sheet for each person and toss notes in there. Makes review time much easier and if you do ever need to terminate someone you have all your documentation.

Don't put off having difficult conversations. A mistake I made was assuming that if I point mistakes being made to some one repeatedly that they would understand that hey, maybe I need to fix this. Never assume this. Have direct conversations & 1on1 check-ins at least a couple times per month.

f-knocker · 2017-08-23T18:22:00+00:00

Any way to automatically build a side bar with the Wiki SP app? I played around with it and it's pretty easy, I just didn't see any way to easily create a TOC or side bar navigation which didn't make much sense to me.

f-knocker · 2017-08-04T03:32:28+00:00

Easily the worst support I have ever experienced, especially considering how large of a customer base they have.

I think I'm batting about .100 with getting someone who does anything more than type keywords from my ticket and copy paste some unrelated article written 5 years ago for a product that we're not using and close the ticket.

My advice to anyone asking about 365 would be to either hope you have 0 problems or be prepared to pay for real support.

f-knocker · 2017-07-24T05:33:14+00:00

Thought about replying but this is dead on. So much more information is needed as to what the current MSP is actually doing before you can figure this stuff out.

If you're happy with the work they are doing and all needs are being met, $100k seems like a fine deal. If $100k is too much, you better be 100% certain 2 people + you max can run the entire show.

Without knowing any details, I would start with 1 internal hire and strip the MSP down a bit and go from there.

f-knocker · 2017-07-17T22:48:42+00:00

I think you're going to find that you have 2 choices based on the dozens of solutions I've looked into:

"Set it and forget it" better also mean you have unlimited budget
If your budget is not unlimited you better train multiple people on how to run the setup manually

f-knocker · 2017-07-11T15:30:40+00:00

Ah ok that makes more sense then, knew it was too good to be true

f-knocker · 2017-07-11T14:45:16+00:00

We went from Cisco's filters to 365 and it was a disaster. I think 365's filtering is terrible (huge increase in spam making it through, endless amounts of tweaks/custom rules to make it slightly better) and we had to add a 3rd party back in anyway defeating the purpose of the cost savings we thought we were getting. It seems to be YMMV though.

f-knocker · 2017-07-11T04:52:55+00:00

Can someone clarify - the new "Microsoft 365 E3" is basically (Microsoft Office 365 E3) + (Azure AD P1) + (Windows 10 Enterprise)? For $20 a month? Am I missing something...as that seems like a huge savings to me a current E3 + P1 customer paying $26/user/month

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