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I did a project about 7 years ago at a previous place where we changed the display name, upn, username and alligned the users home folder to the same username. If I can find the script I dig it out.

The theory of the Hyper-V server was OK but I can see a point. I can see having a non-GUI interface on a hypervisor in a way is appealing as you won't have any ability to use it as a download platform and less chance of anyone else downloading some random application to run on it either :-) However it was a complete pain to manage from what I found and if you run MS servers and pay for licenses anyway very little point. It had advantages if you wanted to run linux only but I think if you are doing that you'd prob want to use a unix/linux based hypervisor in the first place KVM, ProxMox, XCP-NG, ZenServer, etc or going VMWare

If you can plug a wired device into the BYOD vlan i.e. configure an untagged port on the BYOD vlan. Then plug a device in and see if it picks up IP address. Jus try and rule issues out step by step. From my experience of Ruckus (and others) the SSID vlans are tagged on the switch ports where the APs are connected. i.e. if BYOD was vlan 50 and the AP management was 20. 20 would be untagged and 50 would be tagged. Different switch vendors use different terminology but the concept is the same. Are the BYOD vlans routed on the Smoothwall i.e. their default gateway is on the smoothwall? Use wireshark or do a packet capture on the Smoothwall and check the dhcp process. Our DHCP server gives detailed logs and you can see the dhcp process maybe you have same facility on Smoothwall in the logs somewhere. Client: discover DHCP Server: Offer Client: Request DHCP Server: Acknowledge

We have had a user test accessing via IP too, no good.

OMG what is the matter with these people, we had one unplug networking equipment to plug a monitor in once. Rushed over there to investigate the problem jus as the contractors were leaving the comms room. Lets jus say we were not pleased either.

I'd be inclined to watch some YouTube videos on the basics before going down the cert route for learning/training but this also depends on existing ability/attitude of the apprentice. Start off with some basics i.e. devices in networking Switches, WiFi Access points, routers, firewall. Then some on IP addresses such as LAN/WAN IP addresses, APIPA, subnet masks, gateway, DHCP and very basics of DNS. Apprentice may well have an understanding of the basics these days anyway (well more than me learning from scratch at 25 and now 50, lol). Real world troubleshooting. Give them something to learn and relate to at your specific organization first then the relating to the CompTIA stuff will be easier in my opinion. I did a CCNA in 2003 but have only really been doing mainly networking for the last 5-7 years, a good bit of what I learnt in the CCNA I have forgotten.

Same here I jus don't bother as they jus change them, however if I get a number on my mobile I do not recognise I never speak first. I run 3cx at home and any numbers not added to a list goes straight to an answer phone.

Is this on prem AD? Don't specify google dns to clients, only specify the DNS related to the Active Directory would be my first thing. Then specify external DNS as forwarders on the DNS servers. Then you could run dcdiag on the domain controller to make sure all is OK that side.

Also had a call about NI number being used fraudulently this morning. Could be arrested, oh no. This is the second in a week so they are ramping up by the looks of it.

Can you ping the default gateway on the DrayTek when you assign a static IP at all on vlan 200? i.e. when the laptop is plugged into a port untagged on vlan 200 Additionally you don't really need to define a ip helper address on vlans which have a dhcp server on them. i.e. if there is a dhcp server on vlan 200 then clients will pick up addresses from it anyway. You only need a helper address if the dhcp server is on a different subnet. Not sure they are relevant unless you are doing layer 3 routing on the switch anyway TBH.

I think Sky make it difficult for you to use any third party routers. Could be wrong but worth checking. If you can use the Sky modem as a Modem only then you could use most things behind it as a firewall. Personally a DrayTek, cheap pfsense/Netgate or a home build openwrt or something. Guess it depends if you want a i.e. WiFi solution too and what extras you want such as client VPN, vLANS etc. Lawrence Systems https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHkYOD-3fZbuGhwsADBd9ZQ has done a few comparisions over the years and maybe worth a look although they don't have much call for DSL over there.

I have no doubt that the scammers know they are scamming though. Mind you I've worked with dev people in the past that when I've asked them to try and connect to a server using telnet they have said it still doesn't work, when pushed for an error they say command not found, lol.

Judging by the scam bait videos I have seen the techs very much know they are scamming. I find it hard to believe that someone goes into services and pick out services which have been disabled, run tree commands then paste in carp or go to netstat and lie about the results unless scamming someone or do not know what you are talking about.

L2 is the most basic level of switch, L3 is where the switch can do routing (i.e. ip routing between vlans, intervlan routing). Some Cisco,Juniper and Aruba can use more sophisticated routing (i.e. Dynamic OSPF, BGP, etc) as well as stacking to give some L3 redundancy and stacking. Unifi have started doing some layer 3 stuff more now but it does not offer the same feature set yet of the more enterprise aimed solutions from Aruba, Cisco or Juniper. It all depends what you need at the end of the day. I had Unifi WiFi and Aruba switching working at home for ages. Yet the switches I wanted more out of them so swapped out the one Unifi switch I had for an Aruba 2530 and now have a stack of 2930f switches, complete overkill for home but I jus wanted it to practice the more advanced stuff on :-) . I still have some MikroTik switches to give the 10Gb port density for various LAB servers, NAS and video editing desktop. I've seen places which have Unifi as L2 edge switches and Aruba core switches which will help bring the price down. Aruba kit is pretty reliable and whilst you can get Cloud based management there are also switches which can be administered either by the CLI or a web interface on the local switch. I installed 120 Aruba 48 port PoE+, 2530 and 2540 models about 4 years ago in 2 new builds and they have been rock solid. We have 15+ year old ProCurves still in production and swapped out by HP when they go faulty.

National Insurance number scam 07495 077957 . I didn't really pay that much attention to it but never pressed number one to speak to a representative. Think this is one of the first I've had on my mobile.

No doubt I will end up getting right into them and binge watching the whole lot in one night then get upset when I realise I have jus watched the last one again, lol.

+1 There is a lot of good about the Synology. I have had 3 different models, always the plus versions. Currently got 2 of them at home for NAS, Backups, and a few small VMs on each. The DSM software makes use a doddle INMO. The CPUs may be behind other manufacturers for the price but the DSM software and the other things it offers such as Office365/Google local backups, Virtual Machines, HyperBackup make it worth it. Not saying they are without their problems but you'll prob find that with nearly all similar NAS units. Just follow security best practice and only allow what you need to allow i.e. if you do not need remote access to the NAS then do not enable it. Read some reviews etc.

Non-standard PSU connections are my bug bear mostly used on desktops where the power for the drives is taken from the motherboard. Like used in some of the Cheap SMB servers and some of the Dells, Fujitsu Lenovo and prob others. I know you can buy the convertors to use a standard PSU but bit unsure about those TBH.

Got my fourth Royal Mail scam yesterday. Text as below From an isolated virtual machine on an isolated network on a 4G dongle I looked up this web address but could not find any info and the page was not viewable The https address pointed to 101.99.93.10 and this domain seemed to be a sub directory on this server. The certificate had subject alternative names such as below (I've enclosed them in quotes so they should not be clickable) "mail-delivery-gb11890.com" "cpanel.mail-delivery-gb11890.com" "cpcalendars.mail-delivery-gb11890.com" "cpcontacts.mail-delivery-gb11890.com" "mail.mail-delivery-gb11890.com" "webdisk.mail-delivery-gb11890.com" "webmail.mail-delivery-gb11890.com" "www.mail-delivery-gb11890.com" The certificate was also only valid for 3 months. Reported to Royal Mail scam service

I think you are jus in for a world of pain if you go down this route in a school setting unless the users are it literate and it is their choice. We used to padlock the wired mice and keyboard by their cables, it does not stop someone ripping the cable out and breaking them but once they do the mice/keyboard are pretty useless anyway.

Are you doing these as a share (from another pc/server) or a direct connection to the printer i.e. tcp-ip specifying the actual printer IP address to the client?

I'm not sure I'd trust them with either TBH

To be honest I'd always make a copy of the Default Domain Policy then change that instead. Or make a copy of it as backup so you know what the original settings were.

I've had great success with the StarTech USB31000S . See if that is compatible with the NUC10. I've used them for PXE booting before and currently run 4 of them on a NUC 6 with ESXi

We setup WVD at beginning of lockdown. Some of our research and study applications that the students use are like 100GB plus so cannot really expect students to download these then the licensing considerations on top. At a previous place I was involved in the Citrix rollout, we had some thin clients on site, virtual apps and desktops accessed by external users but the cost and maintenance was not cheap then the looking after as well (Provisioning servers, Application servers, load balancers, the factored in redundancy then the underlying hypervisors to support the virtual desktops and those servers). I can totally see the benefit of cloud virtual depending on your business requirements. We did not really have any call for any special apps apart from MIS systems access etc on the Citrix virtual desktops, mostly just gave access to remote users and the 50 or so thin clients on site at that time.