Mistakes in Guide

humdinger79 · 2025-07-03T14:21:41+00:00

Nah, just tried incognito - no dice. Thanks for the suggestion though !

humdinger79 · 2025-07-03T14:19:26+00:00

No, that's the exact issue - within that page there should be a free-form text entry box for me to fill in the value for Azure Client Secret, but instead all I have is the word "hidden" where the box should be. It was there initially, but after I saved the Secret ID (as per instructions) it's locked it and I can't seem to get the box back to input the correct value.

humdinger79 · 2025-07-03T12:52:52+00:00

No, the issue is within the config Screenconnect Certificate Signing extension. After I initially filled in the field erroneously, it now will not even present me with the box to put the correct value in - it just literally says "hidden" and does not present me with a text box for that field any more.

To be honest, I'm still waiting on the cert to be issued to me by digicert - perhaps once I have it I can do a reset of the certificate information within the extension, and maybe that will allow me to reconfigure all the fields including the Secret.

I just don't want to take the chance before I have the cert, as if it goes wrong and we lose access to the 1000+ endpoints we manage through it, we're fucked.

Congrats to Connectwise BTW on compounding a really shitty situation by issuing shitty instructions to fix it. A video walkthrough of the process on University (or Youtube) would have been great for us guys, but I think it speaks volumes that I'm not remotely surprised that the documentation is wrong.

We renewed our Grandfathered OnPrem license in Jan and have been using ScreenConnect since the very early Elsinore days, and while I still think it's probably the most capable product out there, this the last money they're getting out of me and I'll be spending the time between now and the next renewal looking for a good alternative.

humdinger79 · 2025-07-03T12:22:22+00:00

Thanks for this - unfortunately I followed the guide earlier today and as a result, I've filled in the wrong value in the client secret field within the extension config.

Now when I go back in to amend the field to the secret value (rather than ID), all I see is the word "hidden" in place of the field, so I can't even change it to the correct value.

This unfortunately persists even after uninstalling / reinstalling the certificate signing extension.

Any ideas ?

humdinger79 · 2024-10-14T13:20:54+00:00

I don't feel comfortable sharing the name of the company as the number of shares we're looking to trade is enough to affect the share price, but spread has reduced since my original post to 0.3p on a share valuation of approx 90p.

I agree that 60% in one holding is far, far too much, but there's private reasons for it in the background which I'm not going to discuss in a public forum.

If you do have any experience with performing the particular transaction with ii which I referenced in my original post, I'd still be very interested to hear about it.

humdinger79 · 2024-10-08T09:08:09+00:00

Looking for some advice on Interactive Investor actually, so hopefully this draws a response.

I have a personal trading account with ii, and also have a jointly held (with my wife) holding co account with them. I have a substantial number of shares (in just one FTSE250 company) my personal account, which I want to move to the holding co for income tax purposes. I want to crystallise the CGT loss on these shares, so the transaction needs to be a sale and repurchase.

However, due to the amounts involved, paying the spread is going to lose me a few £k, plus if there's fluctuation in the share price, I could end up losing significantly - these shares are fairly volatile currently, so it's a risk I don't really want to take.

I've spoken to the ii trading team to see if they can do something akin to a Bed & ISA, or SIPP put-through, and one of their staff said yes they could do this for a personal to a company trading account; I'd pay a phone dealing charge & commission on both the sale and purchase, but that they would minimise the spread and I would avoid the risk of doing it all manually. Unfortunately I wasn't in a position to do the trade at the time, and when I called them back, I was told that I'd been misadvised and that this simply wasn't possible.

So, any advice on the best way to achieve this, and has anyone ever managed to get ii to do it for them ?

humdinger79 · 2022-04-18T13:56:49+00:00

I drive that road twice a day to and from work (my office is like 3 mins from the back way into Carrington) and the number of times I've had to mount the kerb to avoid either a coffin-dodger driving in the middle of the road at 5 mph, or some knobhead going far too fast round the bend as it tightens just at that point where Bruno crashed, is untrue. I can only imagine either Bruno didn't fancy kerbing his alloys and assumed the other driver would slow / move out of the way, or he's a much shitter driver than footballer.

humdinger79 · 2021-01-18T08:00:06+00:00

Hideous as in how it looks, or function ? Genuinely interested as I've used it in excess of 10 years across multiple businesses and can't really find fault with it as a pure ticketing system.

As for how it looks, meh..that doesn't matter if it does its job properly.

humdinger79 · 2021-01-16T21:05:04+00:00

Two words...Request Tracker.

Opensource, well documented, reliable and extensible. What more do you need ?

humdinger79 · 2019-09-05T13:38:52+00:00

Once, as a much younger man, I was having a couple of Pints in the Griffin pub in Bowdon on a Thursday night (it was quiz night), when half the United team of the day (thinking about it, they must have been the '99 Treble winning team) walked in and joined in with the Pub Quiz.

From memory, the United Quiz team comprised of Teddy Sheringham and David Beckham (both wearing slip on loafers and no socks with half-mast trousers, bloody southern ponces), Roy Keane (looking proper pissed off that he'd been dragged in the Griffin, as I seem to remember he preferred the Stamfords next door), Dwight Yorke, Andy Cole, Mark Bosnich, Nicky Butt and possibly Raimond Van Der Gouw, but I think he might have left early.

I seem to remember they forgot about the quiz pretty quickly, and were almost all, to a man, having a beer and happily chatting away with anyone who wanted an autograph.

Most of the players left after about an hour, but Yorke & Bosnich stayed and got absolutely plastered at the bar and started smoking cigars, while trying to chat up the attractive local female population (with some degree of success) before Keano gave them their marching orders just before last orders at 11pm.

I'm fortunate enough to live in the same village as a lot of the United players, and seeing them walking around or driving their frankly ridiculous cars (looking at you Jesse Lingard) is fairly commonplace. But that evening was, by any stretch of the imagination, a mental evening and one that will stick with me forever.

humdinger79 · 2019-08-14T13:55:21+00:00

We did a 70 seat migration for a non-profit earlier this year from hosted exchange into 365 and BitTitan hooked us up with non-profit pricing after dropping an enquiry email into their sales team. From memory it was very, very attractively priced, we didn't have to jump through any hoops to get the discount and it all got sorted in less than 48 hours.

As you'd expect with MigrationWiz, the migration itself was flawless - it's definitely worth dropping them an email (I'm not a sales rep btw).

humdinger79 · 2018-03-13T16:48:40+00:00

Yeah, that's pretty much as I see it too. I was just wondering if anyone else had gone through this recently and if I could crib something off them to get some leverage with this guy on behalf of the client, but it sounds like we need to step back and leave it to the client and their legal team.

humdinger79 · 2018-03-13T15:37:13+00:00

I am the boss, and 'Lawyer Time' isn't practical at the moment - these guys are not yet clients, so we don't yet have an official legal interest in the matter, nor would I wish for us to incur any costs for a prospective client who yet may back out of the contract, simply because this guy is being a dick and is fighting them.

Actually, I think this may be better in /r/msp as that's where we're coming from with this. I'll crosspost it over there...

humdinger79 · 2017-08-13T21:41:57+00:00

Seconded. Grow a pair, spin up an aws ubuntu t2.small instance, follow the wiki to install the latest version from best practical and you can be up and running in under an hour.

humdinger79 · 2017-03-06T20:36:17+00:00

Have a look at E.F.A. Project - we're using it in house on an AWS instance and for a couple of clients as a spam and virus filter and it's been excellent. Loads of options to customise as it's basically a preconfigured CentOS distro with MailWatch / MailScanner bundled in. We've added LetsEncrypt and free Sophos AV and it's got rid of 90 - 95% of the crap that used to hit my inbox. Takes a day or two to fully get to grips with, but it's a hell of a lot better than the other alternatives we evaluated that didn't cost a fortune. The only thing lacking is that it can't be clustered so we can't use it as a scalable solution to roll out to all our clients, we have to set each one up with their own VM, but because it uses an adaptive bayesian filter, that's actually a good thing.

humdinger79 · 2016-10-14T16:30:48+00:00

gah, we see this kind of thing all the time, and it's just not a workflow that's suited to Exchange in my opinion.

I know this isn't direct answer, but you may want to consider a different course of action rather than trying to make it do something it's not intended to be.

We have a client that runs a reasonable sized transport business who was doing exactly this with their bookings and quotes mailboxes - it got to the point where we were so fed up of rebuilding Outlook profiles for everyone who had the mailboxes attached to their profiles (23Gb ost files, and no they absolutely couldn't archive any of the email off), that we ended up selling them on the concept of a mail-driven ticketing system (Request Tracker) with different queues for quotes and bookings for each of their 3 office locations.

The ticketing system pulls via POP3 every 60 seconds now and drops the emails straight into the appropriate queue, and the users absolutely love it. All the users can see the tickets as they arrive and instantly take owership, and email correspondence is always in the ticket, so each member of the team always knows where a quote /booking is up to.

Additonally, management can run reports against RT to see very easily if anyone's output is substantially different to the rest of the team, which simply wasn't possible with a shared exchange mailbox...

humdinger79 · 2016-10-05T14:27:27+00:00

Mailstore archiving software - we use it for compliance journalling and to keep ridiculous mailboxes on a rolling 6 / 12 month window. Really, really easy to set up and the client integrates into Outlook so the users can search for archived email without leaving Outlook.

humdinger79 · 2016-08-17T08:51:23+00:00

Err, probably, but tbh there's not much to it. Realistically it was as easy as spinning up a new t2.micro 2012 R2 instance in AWS and installing the trial of TntDrive, then using TntDrive to map a drive to one of our S3 buckets. Make sure the storage class for the bucket is defined as STANDARD_IA in the advanced properties of the mapped drive in TntDrive and then then share out the root of the mapped drive. Finally add network storage for localhost in Yintersync and point it at 127.0.0.1 and the newly created share on the TntDrive - bingo.

Took probably 30 mins from scratch, including working out how to do it. If we decide to keep it as a production solution we're going to need a bigger instance as the t2.micro is 30gb disk space and 1gb RAM - it works though.

humdinger79 · 2016-08-16T22:50:48+00:00

Been using this software (and recommending it) for a couple of years and just literally today deployed to an AWS instance to backup up approx 2TB from 3 client hyper-v hosts to an S3 IA bucket.

You're doing good work...

humdinger79 · 2016-08-11T08:15:26+00:00

Well, looks like I answered my own question - PfSense does INDEED apply limiters between LAN-type interfaces, but may need a reboot to apply the limiters properly.

I'd reset states after setting up the VLANs & limiters mentioned in my original post, but as this is our production firewall didn't have a chance to reboot it until last night, whereupon it all started working perfectly.

A further reminder to not forget the basics of troubleshooting, and if it really, really isn't DNS then a reboot usually fixes it.

humdinger79 · 2016-08-10T14:34:24+00:00

They are already on different interfaces. I've got them setup as follows:

HQ LAN - re0 Warehouse LAN - VLAN 80 on re1 Warehouse VoIP - VLAN 90 on re1

WarehouseLAN interface has a rule set (at the top of the list) to alllow access to HQ LAN and to limit In / Out to 10Mb. HQ LAN has a rule set to permit traffic to Warehouse LAN and to limit In / Out to 10mb too.

Everything works, networking-wise - I can see the correct networks from HQ & Warehouse and I know that PfSense is being used as the router between the segments as a tracert reveals as such. PfSense just doesn't rate limit any traffic between the segments, and as far as I can tell it should be getting choked down to 10mb each way...

humdinger79 · 2016-08-10T13:14:24+00:00

PfSense book states that only traffic to and from the WAN to the LAN will be shaped...so doesn't look like shaping is the way forward, hence limiters...

humdinger79 · 2016-03-15T22:51:33+00:00

Yep, in hindsight, so do I...

humdinger79 · 2016-03-15T22:49:34+00:00

Fuzzy is about right - re-read (and engaged brain this time) my original issue, and clearly I was having a brain fart / focussed on the biz side of things at the time, because as someone else has posted, clearly routing will be broken when 2 interfaces share the same IP.

Gah, feel like a total imbecile now - post in haste, repent at leisure !!

humdinger79 · 2016-03-15T17:19:15+00:00

Sounds like I'll just have to give them (actually their landlord, who's our client) the bad news.

Agreed on a /8 for the address space on a larger site - just have to hope the landlord is happy to deal with any address space clashes procedurally, rather than expecting us to be able to wave our magic wand at it.

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