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So from this the take aways! There are loads of choices! Pick up which one feels best to you, customise it and it will feel like your own desktop again, something which I can not say about Windows anymore.

I'd say that depends on the level of customisation on the OS itself, BSD is completely different to linux so can't really be compared. I've personally always used Ubuntu for laptops / desktops, and definitely CentOS for servers where stablility is paramount. All I'd say is have a play, see which you like best! There is a lot more choice than on Windows!

re pop OS i've never really tried them, they are ubuntu based so pretty similar either way so don't think you can go wrong really. Ive just updated to a ryzen 3000 series CPU with a b450 mobo, seems to be great so far, cpu speed is insane compared to my original i5. Play most games either native or using steamplay which is brill really

So generally, driver support is fine, especially on desktop systems, power saving on laptops is the only annoyance I ever got and that is much better than it used to be. Intel/AMD are both fine, (infact AMD's new chips are just awesome really full stop) - GFX wise, again nvidia or AMD are both fine, intel iGPU still suck really for proper gaming. Checkout Level1Techs/Level1Linux for some Linux focussed reviews of some of the hardware to see how far its come on.

I wouldn't pay much attention to this, Ubuntu backtracked on the decision so it's not a big deal, I don't believe Steam are dropping support now either, they were suggesting it was instead going to widen to support more distros

If its the latest ubuntu's either 18.04 or 16.04, then check if the services are enabled: systemctl status smb (it may be smbd cant recall) systemctl status apache2 Just enable them and start them with the systemctl enable and start commands and should be good to go, this is assuming you installed from apt packages and didn't compile them yourself

Monitor, monitor monitor!!!! Install Cacti, or CheckMK or similar, can be done in a Linux VM for no cost at all, 1vCPU 1GB RAM is fine especially for small Cacti installations. If you can stretch to CheckMK its a far more complete monitoring solution but the initial user setup is more. I would certainly look to move the CCTV off your normal network, usually separate cabling or switch infrastructure is easiest, something unmanaged will be fine for them if they are just off at the side of the network in a LAN which isn't accessible from the main network. The will save a ton of bandwidth and you will probably find that the rest of the network can survive a multi year upgrade strategy (10G is most likely overkill, multi GB etherchannel is usually sufficient). Work out where your bottlenecks are, I suspect they aren't where you expect. Everyone blames the interconnects, but without proof of where the issue lies you will be randomly replacing components forever. It could even be SAN or just simply design of the components. I've seen crazy things like routed iSCSI or distributed multi switch core's with incorrect spanning tree configuration causing havok. None of that required new hardware, just new thinking. Also ++ for aruba switches, 38xx series are great for Core's if budget doesn't stretch to the chassis switches, plus the 2930s are great for 1G to the edge. There are 10G options if you MUST aggregate at 10G though I would definitely recommend a multi 1G etherchannel (LACP trunk to HP/Aruba nomenclature)

Use the account lockout tool to find which DC did the locking https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=18465 Then find the event which caused the lock and it will guide you towards the server or client station which initiated the request which resulted in the lock.

Just a quick heads up, depending on the distro (i'm not familiar with freepbx) there is often a script which runs which updates the grub config (for example when a kernel is updated via the package manager) That will usually take a set of defaults (rhel/centos this is /etc/sysconfig/grub, and debian usually /etc/default/grub). If these files exist then you normally need to edit the lines within there rather than in the file direct as it will just get blatted during the next update

Anbox is an interesting project if you can go the linux route https://anbox.io/

You can add a application only task in MDT, basically by creating a new task sequence and selecting Custom as the sequence type. Though the usefulness of this, bar testing individual application installs could be questioned as its just as easy to browse to the MDT application share itself and just install the Office binary direct!

The first one would be becuase you haven't installed the PHP apache module sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php Once you have installed it you need to restart apache as well which will be: systemctl restart apache2 As for the second issue, sounds like you have moved where the files for the application were and its now displaying the default pages. Just move the contents back to /var/www/html/ and it should work

Talk about bringing back an old post! Also don't run the commands above especially mkfs.ext4 unless you want to delete the data in the existing partition. This command will forcefully remove the filesystem from the disk partition and replace it with a blank ext4 filesystem! If a known partition isn't appearing in the /dev filesystem, but you know it to be valid, it's likely to be either, LVM or needs the disk adapters rescanning (usually common on VMs). The former LVM, run pvscan It will tell you if it has found any LVM volume groups, at that point you may need to enable the volume group with vgchange -ay VOLGROUPNAME. The same goes with the attached logical volumes, lvdisplay, to find current logical volumes and lvchange -ay LVNAME to enable. They should then be present in the /dev filesystem. Regarding rescanning the SCSI bus run: echo - - - > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan You may have to scan additional 'host' adapters so replace host0 as required Disks and partitions should now be present in the /dev filesystem.

xWiki is the one I usually use XWiki - The Advanced Open Source Enterprise and Application Wiki (Main.WebHome) - XWiki.org

You need to be able to resolve the DNS name for the domain as well as the dc itself. Can you nslookup the domain name itself? Also try setting the DNS server to the same as the DC it may be that the DNS forwarder in VB isn't dealing with the SRV and other records that AD uses

That tar contains an already created Makefile. You should be able to untar and run make skipping the ./configure step ie: tar xfvz debconf_1.5.24.tar.gz cd debconf make sudo make install

Check https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html the create mask is bitwise and'ed to the normal permissions a user would have. It looks as though you already found the one you would want to use here which is the force options you mentioned. The other option is to use extended posix ACLs, checkout the getfacl and setfacl commands, they can setup a default user and group to be applied to a directory or file, and also provide recursive permissions (default permissions in POSIX) if done correctly.

Samba Winbind User Resolution - Server Fault Seems to be what you are looking for, might be worth trying the net cache flush first. Guessing you have no test system to try this on first.... as mentioned ive never needed to run it so far!

Yeah there is a cache, assuming you are using the tdb storage backend. I've never done it myself though but people talk of removing the tdb files completely to let winbind rebuild all the info again. - all I can say is backup stuff before unless you want to be rebuilding this machine after if it doesn't work!! https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2010-May/155521.html Winbind stil uses the UID of the user to map their 'identitiy' I suspect the cached one still has the old username against that ID.

Try these: HWg-STE is an ethernet web temperature sensor with MS Excel reporting software. E-mail temperature monitor, SNMP support, Email alerts, Web thermometer Works with cacti (see forum posts here CACTI | HW group) Cheap and work perfectly. I embed the cacti graphs into a webpage and display on a loop on Xibo

Grab the logs from C:\MININT if the process fails If that folder doesn't exist then check out C:\windows\temp\ I think by memory there is a folder called osdlogs or something like that anyway which contains the logs from the last build. Use cmtrace.exe from the SCCM utilities to read the file and find the errors. It should shed more info into whats going on. Regards James

I see what you mean!!! I'm sure I saw that in Windows 7 though, have you tried using a Windows 7 station? Haven't used Windows 10 in enterprise yet, I find most of the updates since 7 awful...

Just looked it up, official MS steps suggest right clicking on the policy itself and it should allow you to "Reset" the policy back to a default state which basially wipes the policy.

If I recall the IE maintenance policy has a disable function if you right click on the policy node in the GPO editor itself. (That is in the pane on the left not the right)

I'm only familiar with postfix, but the process for that is to cat the contents of the message to a file and replace the To: address to whatever you want and pipe it back into the sendmail command iirc