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If I create a VM role, I can assign it’s networking to a VLAN, however I can’t do the same to a file server role. Does anyone know if it’s somehow possible?

I plan to move an external DNS server to a hosted VPS in the near future. I would appreciate advice on VPS specs for this purpose, or an other helpful feedback from others who have done this before. I’ve used a lot of low end boxes to host web services, and would like to do that with this project as well but don’t want to...

Recently I had the pleasure of troubleshooting why all of the computers in the office had broken secure tunnels. It turns out that Microsoft pushed out an update that breaks Samba AD....

Simply put, what the title says....

The email: Hi this is Scammy McScamface and I’d like to scam you please click the scam link below.

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2956502...

Time for a new beginning!!!

They hired a new hotshot engineering manager (the kind that makes physical things). He hates the engineering software we run. I don’t blame him, it’s crap software. He constantly complains about how slow it its. He’s right again. Crap Software Vendor says it’s my platform that makes their software slow and buggy. I’m...

Is it just me or is the learning curve a lot greater with Zabbix? The error messages seem extremely vague or completely useless. The web GUI fields don’t have proper validation. They moved a lot of things around in the 6.4 version and now googling a solution gives me out of date info. The template network sensors are picking...

Is it just me or are system requirements by vendor applications getting out of hand? In the past 5 years I’ve watched the minimum specs go from 2vCPU or 4vCPU with 8GB or 16GB RAM now up to a minimum of 24vCPU’s and 84GB of RAM!...

I am setting up a new RMM solution and my first thought was to create a VPN with active directory. It turned out to be harder than I expected so I’m looking for cost effective solutions....

I have inherited some cloud hosted vms, with several services hosted in docker containers on these. Think we server and then DB, both hosted in separate containers. Several (overpriced) vms are involved. Would really like some pointers as to how I can get into these / edit them. Would really like to consolidate. I use proxmox at...

We recently had a meeting with our new (as in 4th in a year) rep. They let us know ROBO licensing is moving away from the VM Pack method it is now to per socket licensing. Minimum of 16 core per socket purchase, and you can’t stretch a license across multiple cores....

Working on a medium sized office network which only has a single PoE switch for WAPs. About 200 users. No copper to the desk… It made sense to buy a second PoE switch to give a bit of redundancy, even if it’s for manually swapping cables in case switch A dies....

Good news, everyone!! Microsoft outage this morning in the UK. The tickets are streaming in…

My organization just lost a entire email account full of emails needed for a law suite....

Hello c/sysadmin, and welcome to the Patch Megathread! I’m editing this post and leaving it up as a single catch-all sticky post for patch days for the time being, since we’re not seeing enough activity to warrant new threads IMO. If someone wants to help moderate / curate content and actively create new patch day posts,...

Got any useful blogs/guides to share? Videos, tips and tricks, other useful resources.

Does anyone want to see sysadmin blogs/guides posted here? I used to check sysadminblogs but the quality of content used to vary a lot. Would this be helpful or just clutter the feed?

I have seen the documentation saying to build an empty VM with slightly more space for each volume than was on the physical server, then use clonezilla to create an image of the server, then import it. That seems ok, but I’m hoping someone out there has more real-world experience in doing this and can share if they did it...

There are apparently known problems (GitHub Issues #5807) in both Edge and Firefox with this newly released browser extension update (2023.7.0), which should hopefully be fixed soon.

I’m fearful of people going redditZero and deleting their years-old accounts, as reddit has become a vast trove of information for a vast number of systems. If I go dark and delete, it won’t be everything. Memes and regular conversations may go, but I’ll be sure to leave every technical response I’ve ever given (or even...

Will this community doing the monthly patch Tuesday thread that was on Reddit? Was sometimes pretty useful

“Good” as in something that looks just as good as an RH cert on my CV. I was considering LFCS, but I haven’t come across any job listings mention LFCS (at least, not where I live).