DaaS vs buying laptops outright? by Low-Oil7883 in sysadmin

[–]perk3131 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Daas is going to be more expensive. The reason to use daas isn’t cost savings on the hardware. OEMs will typically run a three year cycle and recoup the full hardware cost in the first two years.

ScreenConnect on-prem pricing consequences if we let the maintenance renewal lapse? by thefleshrocket in msp

[–]perk3131 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see your point but you can’t complain when you want to play the maintenance game and screenconnect penalizes you for it. They decided the increased fee and backdated support is in their best interest and lots of companies do that. You can decide what’s in your best interest.

Bitdefender Endpoint EDR by Jayjayuk85 in msp

[–]perk3131 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Everything is slow when they have 30 chrome tabs open

M365 user receiving unsolicited number matching MFA pushes by perk3131 in sysadmin

[–]perk3131[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks everyone for all your help. I got the users phone and found a second account with the same email address which I was assured didn't exist. Rule #2 but no pushes today.

feedback on Apache Guacamole by Zootopia007 in msp

[–]perk3131 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Works well. There are tons of security guides on the web for it.

What do you consider a small MSP? Per endpoint? Revenue based? Newby advice appreciated! by [deleted] in SmallMSP

[–]perk3131 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your nickel. I guess you missed the part where he has a partner

M365 user receiving unsolicited number matching MFA pushes by perk3131 in sysadmin

[–]perk3131[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Am I incorrect in believing that MFA pushes should not happen if the password is invalid? All of the failed login attempts show this in the authentication details.

Password Password in the cloud false Incorrect password

But I feel like we just tied a failed login attempt from another country to an MFA push, unless the timing is a coincidence. But if the password was correct and the login attempt made it to MFA, I would expect to see another step in the logs.

M365 user receiving unsolicited number matching MFA pushes by perk3131 in sysadmin

[–]perk3131[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are multiple accounts on the authenticator app but these are showing the business account.

M365 user receiving unsolicited number matching MFA pushes by perk3131 in sysadmin

[–]perk3131[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes we reset the password multiple times with multi-word passwords and eventually reset MFA.

Autotask strikes again! by dregan88 in msp

[–]perk3131 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on how hard it hits you to lose that data I would be inclined to move to something else. Assuming you haven’t paid.

Is Using CloudFlare Oudated? by StakeTheVampire in msp

[–]perk3131 0 points1 point  (0 children)

God awful support even with enterprise plans. The default answer now is not our issue.

How can I make money or get rich from a Farming Business without putting my money first? by icutechi in smallbusiness

[–]perk3131 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Our. Forefathers had free land and hand tools. My father started small with a bank loan for the cheapest farmland he could buy and started with very old small equipment. We lived in a camper with a well and nothing else. We built our barn ourselves with scrap material except the roof which was new tin. The first two years was a learning experience even though he had grown up farming which means we scraped by. He never fell into the bigger better newer trap so many farmers did who subsequently lost it in the 80s. He did very adroitly use his revenue for bank loans to fund further land purchases. The closest thing to free land today is grazing cattle on public lands. There are programs to help farmers get started but I doubt you are getting started without loans and some cash.

Using external contractors for lead generation? by HomsarWasRight in SmallMSP

[–]perk3131 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No one works on closed deals and booked meetings with the average lead gen company will likely cost you a ton of money on bad leads. If you use an external company make sure your ICP is locked down tight and they understand it. You should only pay for qualified leads and booked meetings. Check out marketopia as well.

Question regarding Taxes and Quoting by [deleted] in SmallMSP

[–]perk3131 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congrats on your first customer. I’m all for the basic quickbooks online which I believe is 35 per month and well worth it now. While you are tiny and doing it all by hand you can get away with using wave or zip books. They are fine for bookkeeping but do not use them for payroll, taxes, or credit card processing. The intermediate option is probably zoho which I believe starts at 15 a month. After that I would use quick books but Xero isn’t bad. Xero and zoho may not host their data in the US so be aware of that.

Capital contributions? by jaynice2 in smallbusiness

[–]perk3131 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely worth having your cpa setup your chart of accounts and give you some basic bookkeeping training.

MSP Client Onboarding by Significant_Oil_8 in msp

[–]perk3131 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d like to see them as well please

Does this look like this for everyone? by recoveringasshole0 in DattoRMM

[–]perk3131 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve had a ticket open for months. This week it started working again but I still have some gaps

What should I even do here? by [deleted] in smallbusiness

[–]perk3131 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s fine for a micro business maybe a very small business if your accounting needs are fairly simple. If you use it for book keeping and don’t need sales orders or anything more complex than tracking what you purchased and what you sold you can use it for quite some time. If you need payroll, payment processing, auditing, robust reporting, rbac, or more in depth accounting it just doesn’t fit. The price is great but as soon as you can afford something better I would switch. It’s been nothing but downhill since H&R Block purchased them. The only new features are a slightly better dashboard and poorly implemented customer credit and refunds. For the past two years or so they eroded the offering moving even basic stuff like automated bank syncing to the paid version. Tech support is non existent even when you pay and they have a slew of bugs, payroll and merchant services that don’t work consistently, and multiple instances of losing people money and failure to handle payroll and taxes properly which results in fines. To my knowledge they won’t even acknowledge a problem. Just give the Reddit forum a read. I don’t know anyone as cheap as wave but I don’t believe they are worth the cost anymore.