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That's what I've done, the share is only available to a local admin account I created for the purpose of backing up via backupassist. Like you say it's not ideal but it's something at least, I might set up a scheduled task to disable the nic when the machine is idle

How are you doing the backupassist backup ? via shares ? I used to do it with rsync but that's not recommended now (I don't think network shares were a thing back when I started using it)

I do similar with our VMs, there's a drive in each host that backs up each day - I've yet to cold store them though but that's next on my list, I might just go the same way as yourself . I know Backupassist has a vm module but as I understand it Backupassist is more or less a front end to windows backup. Before backup assist I just had my own backup script to a rotation of external usb drives, tbh doing a robocopy script to do this is trivial

In light of everything that's going on in the world what backup software is recommended ? I know everyone is going to say veeam, but I've no idea of the cost of it. We've been using Backupassist for over 5 years, mainly because it's cheap and it works. We have a backup plan to rotating external usb drives (Cold storage) stored in a fireproof safe and a mirror to a NAS. The NAS is in another building, and the plan was at the time if the main building burnt down there would still be a backup. Now recently the NAS failed and backupassist has just been causing me issues (nas copy is sloooow) so I'm thinking of a change, plus I want to start using cloud storage Anyone else have similar to the above?

Me Please!

You know what would be nice? For windows to split off, keep all the legacy for the old hangers on and a complete ground up new OS that comes pre hardened for newer hardware. They should just admit that their old codebase is just a dinosaur, they just seem to pile new code on top of old code like a house of cards, just to allow that backwards compatibility. Events of late should wake them up to a more secure os out of the box, never mind the shiny

We use ours for student identification, same image different colours depending on year

I use gam (gamadv-xtd3) I actually update the photo to a common one to identify students syntax is like gam ou "OU" update photo "path to image"

Yep +1 for those instructions, just set mine up in 5 mins

I did it as a quick fix via GPP before I update the policies, (you only really need feeds.adml and feeds.admx which you can get from a windows 10 client) [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Feeds] "ShellFeedsTaskbarViewMode"=dword:00000002

From fastly https://www.fastly.com/blog/summary-of-june-8-outage

oops https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57413224

Just had my first report of this too

Google Forms too

Look for a SFP Module that is compatible with your switch. Do you have a fibre patch panel ?

One of those series where you thought there was loads of episodes but there were only 13, such fond memories from my childhood

I'm in the same boat but not with Smoothwall Considering a PFSense box for firewall and securly, that or the only other option is Sophos ?

I have a similar logon \ off script, bonus feature is that it allows the students to only log onto one machine at a time

I like it, but like you say pricey. There may be scope to go down and up through the floor but that of course depends what's under...

Yes it does, well for me too - I think it's a step that can be disabled though

I've very similar symptoms to the effects of my first jab just not as intense, just incredibly tired e.g. I can be reading something and I can just feel myself going. This took a week to get better last time.

I'll see how the day goes, just feeling very tired like I did before

Hardly fair comparing USG to watchguard \ fortinet \ Sophos.... You get what you pay for

Had second jab yesterday, hasn't been 24 hours yet but the effects are the same as the first just milder.

Barclays...... List 99 used to too, but that's gone now (phew)