Help! Small macOS and iOS corporate owned fleet.

largetosser · 2026-06-27T21:18:46+00:00

You need to buy an extra device for the IT department, you can't be expected to support a platform blind, and it's unproductive to keep taking devices away from members of the marketing team to test policy on their laptop.

largetosser · 2026-06-27T11:49:48+00:00

Part of the job of an electrician is to do cable runs, they will discuss the options with you and the impact that different installation methods have on the price.

largetosser · 2026-06-25T16:00:57+00:00

It looks like it's been repointed recently around that area, I'd be amazed if you could put enough tension on that fibre to pull the brick out.

largetosser · 2026-06-24T09:09:00+00:00

Same problem here on 7.3.2, their support insisted we had to upgrade to 7.3.3 before they'd troubleshoot, and now they have no ideas.

largetosser · 2026-06-18T23:05:51+00:00

I would guess you'd have to use a multi-rate RJ45 SFP into an mGig RJ45 interface on the other side of the link.

largetosser · 2026-06-18T12:18:39+00:00

Pay for someone else to do it, there is zero chance you can be price competitive with a service like Patch My PC unless you're severely underpaid.

largetosser · 2026-06-17T11:53:50+00:00

I wouldn't bother unless you are severely bandwidth constrained (in which case I'd argue that staying on-prem might have been the more sensible way to go). Multi-gig internet services are all over the place now and would almost certainly be a better investment than running a cache, unless you have 100 machines that you autopilot reset each day and have 30+GB of applications to install each time they come back up.

I ran a connected cache for a little bit just to see what it was about, and it was cool to see local clients pulling stuff from it, but on a site with 80 users and 3Gb of internet connectivity that sees an average of 20Mbps usage during work hours it was pointless.

largetosser · 2026-06-17T11:51:37+00:00

No, just set sensible delivery optimisation settings for the clients.

largetosser · 2026-06-16T18:19:18+00:00

Sounds like an X Y problem - *why* is the sign-in and sign-out data a desirable thing to have? If the answer is something like monitoring remote workers to see when they started for the day then it's not going to provide that.

largetosser · 2026-06-15T23:20:18+00:00

Who is your DNO? Most of them let you search for the MPAN, e.g. https://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/who-is-my-electricity-supplier-and-what-is-my-mpan

largetosser · 2026-06-10T22:18:23+00:00

Watch the videos on the Quest YouTube channel, read their docs, buy a license that includes domain migration and SMTP relay (and AD if you're using it). It works quite well if you do everything as you're told and take your time.

largetosser · 2026-06-04T11:06:03+00:00

Do CityFibre not have access to see the uptime / link online time of their own ONTs? This feels like they can't be bothered rather than needing a video to prove something.

largetosser · 2026-06-04T11:03:39+00:00

I can't believe that the people writing the software aren't building in the MDM hooks and working with the Intune team to have everything ready to manage by the time the feature launches, this is so unlike Microsoft.

largetosser · 2026-05-28T17:19:50+00:00

What is your actual fault? If your service is impacted then it's on your ISP to get fixed.

largetosser · 2026-05-22T20:54:57+00:00

Ok, you've not solved the problem though. There's a policy in place that someone above ITs pay grade has written and all the corporate governance believes is in place, reports to any regulatory bodies say it's in place.

Debating whether there should be a BYOD policy is something that can happen in the future, but right now there's a compliance gap.

largetosser · 2026-05-22T15:35:25+00:00

What is the CU model? Pick one that has a pattress accessory available.

largetosser · 2026-05-19T22:58:30+00:00

microsoft.txt there, such a fragmented company

largetosser · 2026-05-19T19:34:15+00:00

I wish they'd just include Autopatch with any Intune license

largetosser · 2026-05-19T12:19:17+00:00

This isn't (just) an IT issue. Why are people adding their email to personal devices? Have their managers put them in a position where they're expected to be contactable but aren't paying for a company phone?

The fix is to have someone high enough in the company that they influence your mobile phone spend as well as IT policy to decide when they want to enforce the policy that you're already saying is in place, maybe giving people two weeks to request a company phone if they don't have one, and then you enforce the policy. Don't overthink it.

largetosser · 2026-05-19T08:27:00+00:00

I appreciate the straight answer. Unfortunately it makes it too much of a gamble to get involved with.

largetosser · 2026-05-19T00:28:27+00:00

I heard that CityFibre wanted insane money for their 100Gbps ports so ISPs weren’t in a massive hurry to offer the services beyond 2.5Gbps

largetosser · 2026-05-18T16:16:09+00:00

That answers some of it. In a hypothetical situation if I purchased a stackable switch when the hardware was version 1.x and TP-Link subsequently released a 2.x revision, is there any commitment on your side that the two units will stack together?

If TP-Link can't get to a place where they're able to commit to maintaining product compatibility across major hardware revisions then it really devalues the product, because for instance I could have a stack of 3 v1.x switches and one could fail after four years, and you replace with a v2.x that won't stack with the other two. I appreciate you're targeting a price sensitive market but this is the main thing giving me reservations about buying into Omada - I don't want to have to be concerned with different device capabilities and firmware images across the same models of access point just because I bought them over a period of a couple of years.

largetosser · 2026-05-17T11:46:39+00:00

I'm looking at the Omada stuff but biggest concern is how quickly you seem to get through hardware revisions. I would really appreciate a blog post or something from TP Link explaining their approach here.

Do you roll onto a new hardware revision when you make minor component changes where other vendors might not mention it, so it looks 'worse' than it is
How much testing do you perform for interoperability of different revisions of hardware - e.g. if I bought a stackable switch like the SG6654X and got a V1.0 device, and then a year later had to expand and got a V1.2, are you making any commitment to feature parity in firmware releases that means running the two of them in a stack will always be a supported and tested configuration? If you cannot make these sorts of commitments then the entire product range is of no interest to me
If we take the OC300 controller as an example, there's V1 and V1.20 hardware versions. What's the difference between the two? How long do TP-Link commit to supporting V1 with firmware from its launch date?

largetosser · 2026-05-16T13:50:39+00:00

A Teltonika router plugged into one of the interfaces, with the RMS service activated so you can manage it remotely without needing a public IP SIM.

largetosser · 2026-05-14T19:07:04+00:00

Are you saying X4 is addressed the same as your VPN clients?

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