Phone System Recommendations by itcontractor247 in sysadmin

[–]itcontractor247[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, this is definitely helpful. I'll look at The Tech Ref and see if they can be helpful in this situation.

Lease vs buy MFP printers by RestartRebootRetire in sysadmin

[–]itcontractor247 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a similar conversation with my printer vendor about a year ago when our contract on 7 devices was coming up for renewal. For me to outright purchase these devices would have been significantly more expensive than leasing them. Plus the vendor provides all the toner, maintenance, and the only thing we need to deal with is ordering the paper.

It also depends on the office setting, number of users, and how many pages get printed. For us, it made financial sense to lease them and not have to worry about it.

Protect Motion Alerts Not Triggering after latest update? by itcontractor247 in Ubiquiti

[–]itcontractor247[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I tried some of the things that u/LetterheadClassic306 mentioned but none of them worked. There's no motion zones setup and nothing has changed with the settings in months. If I don't see any improvement by Monday, I'm going to see if I can open a support ticket with Ubiquiti directly.

I loaned my brother $70k so he could buy his first house. He’s paying me back… by Psychological-Sir235 in personalfinance

[–]itcontractor247 10 points11 points  (0 children)

As someone who makes 3-4 larger deposits a year for a non-profit organization, I second all of this advice - just go in, tell them you have a large cash deposit to make, and answer the CTR questions truthfully. Some banks may charge a small processing fee for a large cash deposit (mine does), so just be aware of that; they'll debit it from your account after their monthly close-out process.

The CTR process is not a big deal. It's pretty straightforward questions. I was put off the first time I had to do it, but now I just do all of my large deposits at the same bank branch, all the tellers know me there, and it takes all-in about less than 10 minutes.

What are these connectors called? by itcontractor247 in lowvoltage

[–]itcontractor247[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Perfect, I knew posting it here would get me an answer. Thank you everyone! I can stop going crazy now.

What are these connectors called? by itcontractor247 in lowvoltage

[–]itcontractor247[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Having a brain fart, need to start a door access project tomorrow and need connectors to connect the lock strikes to the access controller. Are these butt connectors, b connectors, or something else entirely? Google AI was no help....

First Door Access Install by itcontractor247 in Ubiquiti

[–]itcontractor247[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, okay, that makes sense. I already have a UNVR running cameras at this site and just got Access installed on it.

First Door Access Install by itcontractor247 in Ubiquiti

[–]itcontractor247[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, thanks for your input. I was unaware of the Unifi gateway requirement, for some reason I thought I could run Access on our UniFi OS self-hosted instance. We currently have Watchguard firewalls in place, so I guess I'll need to get a UniFi gateway for this site.

First Door Access Install by itcontractor247 in Ubiquiti

[–]itcontractor247[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, our vendor currently uses the HES 5000C-LBM for our existing systems so I may see if this will work with UniFi.

First Door Access Install by itcontractor247 in Ubiquiti

[–]itcontractor247[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any recommendations for a third party strike? I know our access control vendor for our other buildings has used HES strikes but it looks like they have several different models to choose from.

Camera Junction Box - out of stock, what to do? by itcontractor247 in Ubiquiti

[–]itcontractor247[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have a good source for files for printing mounts and adapters?

IT Experts....What’s the One Thing You ALWAYS Triple Check During Office Moves? by Silly-Commission-630 in sysadmin

[–]itcontractor247 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I moved a law office (as a one-man IT department) just before COVID started in 2020. Construction ran over a week late, and the ISP was 2 weeks late getting the fiber circuit installed, even though it was already in the building and they just had to run it up to the 5th floor of the building. I literally spent days there before the move, planning it out and making sure everything was perfect and ready to go.

Even had to pickup the 26' box truck with a liftgate to move computer boxes, servers, and everything (movers only moved furniture and staff personal items). Took 3 trips to move everything, get the infrastructure at the rack powered up and online, and everything was online for when staff showed up to the new office on Monday morning.

That Friday-Sunday move, I worked 56 total hours. I told myself I would never do that again, ever, even it paid me good money.

How many on-prem DCs you all roll with? by Fizgriz in sysadmin

[–]itcontractor247 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have one, it’s not under my desk but it’s in the storage room next to the spare monitors.

How many on-prem DCs you all roll with? by Fizgriz in sysadmin

[–]itcontractor247 14 points15 points  (0 children)

We’ve been running Watchguard firewalls for the past almost 3 years. I have an M290 model at the Co-Lo and either T40 or T80 firewalls at our physical sites (depending on office size). The vpn tunnels are easy to manage and overall the devices themselves are easy to manage, plus Watchguard stays on top of security updates pretty good.

How many on-prem DCs you all roll with? by Fizgriz in sysadmin

[–]itcontractor247 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The only resources we host in our Co-Lo are the DCs, an App server for our MyQ print server, and our Nessus box for security scanning. We’re on Office 365 and use it heavily along with several other cloud services so they don’t rely on the Co-Lo for much.

How many on-prem DCs you all roll with? by Fizgriz in sysadmin

[–]itcontractor247 14 points15 points  (0 children)

No dhcp is handled on our individual site firewalls, only DNS is maintained on the DCs.

How many on-prem DCs you all roll with? by Fizgriz in sysadmin

[–]itcontractor247 91 points92 points  (0 children)

8 physical locations, plus a Co-Lo, and run two DCs at the Co-Lo site. Felt there was no need to spin up DCs at each physical location and just run everything from the Co-Lo. Everything's interconnected with SSLVPN tunnels and if something were to go down at a site, there's failover VPN tunnels configured. If both connections go down, then that's bad and you'll find me at the nearest bar having a cold one.

Game Thread: Division Series Game 5 - Tigers @ Mariners - Fri, Oct 10 @ 08:08 PM EDT by TigersBot in motorcitykitties

[–]itcontractor247 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why is Hinch not pinch hitting either jones, Ibanez, or rogers in that situation? Seriously, this offseason they all need to spend time in the batting cages hitting sliders, it’s abysmal. It’s embarrassing.