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Elizabeth Ross

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Azure Active directory, office 365,,ADFS

We are setting up hybrid configuration wizard for on premise exchange 2016 users migration to office 365. Do we need to set up ADFS with relying party trusts as well as we are setting up azure AD connect formerly

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Exchange

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Rodney Barnhardt

EXPERT

It depends on which auth method you are going to use.

ADFS is one of 3 options you have (there are variations within the options - so some will argue there is more than 3 options - but there is 3 core options).

which one you go for depends on your organizational needs, security requirements etc

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David Barman

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Azure Active directory, office 365,,ADFS

Have a domain controller that has not been replicating with the other DC for some time. It appears that it is past the 180 requirement for replication. Therefore, I need to remove the DC role from this server in order to resolve this issue. Once removed, I would...

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Networking

Hardware

Windows OS

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Arnold

EXPERT

These are inbound errors to FILE. the question is why it is having an RPC.note the error from showrepl deals with the CN=CONFIGURATION as the only instance that seemed to have the issue.

SERVER, FILE and EXCH are all DCs?Does FIle provide any other services besides DC/DNS such that removing it from the network will not have any other impact...

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Sam15

11/7/22

Troubleshooting

AWS VMware Cloud Questions

1) With VMC, can you create multiple hosts that are physically separate or hard partitioned from each other?

2) If VMC service is based off one physical machine with large specs...

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VMware

Cloud Computing

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Andrew Hancock

11/7/22

EXPERT

1.) I'm afraid not, the hosts supplied are 2 CPU x 18 Cores and 512GB RAM.

2.) Not supported you cannot install ESXi, there was only one Cloud provided which allowed this unfortunately there were acquired by Oracle, and it's since been discontinued.The other option is VMware Cloud, where you pay VMware and they manage and host your environment, on premise!

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Mike

5/3/22

Troubleshooting

Mariadb blew up... why? What is causing this?

We've been chasing a mariadb problem for months and eliminated all we could to the point of staring blankly when everything would stop dead and loads on clients would go up to 100.I have been monitoring using pmm for a week or two now and nothing really...

Databases

Linux

MySQL Server

211

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John Tsioumpris

11/7/22

EXPERT

From the error description it seems that is a networking issue .Since you have issues for months the best strategy would be a divide and conquer methodology1st check your network....start with the pretty basic, swapping cables, pings that are always <1ms , file transfers that don't have great fluctuations....and it goes to more elaborate situations like a bad NIC that looses packages, a switch that misbehaves...etc...

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Leo

12/30/22

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Shell script, code error can someone please help?

I a new to and totally lost with shell scripting, I am being told that this script used to work with CentOS to install a client, however when I am executing the script I get an error in line 88. /opt/install_tanium_centos.sh: line 88: syntax error near unexpected token...

Shell Scripting

Linux

Scripting Languages

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Simon3270

1/4/2023

EXPERT

Just spotted - lines 19 and 20 are the wrong way round - the "fi" should come first, and the "TAG=endoint" second (so the "TAG=endpoint" is not part of the "if PKGTY" section).

And yes, line 123 (echoing endpoint to the file) can go. That's just old code which is superseded by the "echo $TAG" line. In the same vein, delete line 23 (the old "usage" line, without the -t option)...

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marrowyung

5/25/2022

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Setup ASUS RT-AX88U so that I can remote back to home PC

I am using ASUS RT-AX88U at home and I want to know any step by steps procedure to connect back to my home PC from office using mstsc command, MS remote desktop.is it possible ? I am not sure how can I retrieve DDNS from the ASUS router...

Desktops

Internet Protocol Security

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Kimputer

5/25/2022

EXPERT

For multimonitor setup, yes RDP is better than Teamviewer/AnyDesk.

Wireguard: https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/Install on both PC's, then open the chosen Wireguard port the the "server" PC.Install both as a service, and it means you never have to "dial up". The VPN is always on.If you chose 2 fictional IP nrs like 192.168.200.1 for the server and 192.168.200.2 for the client, the client connects the RDP to 192.168.200.1.

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sfletcher1959

1/4/2022

Advice

Veeam immutable backup to AWS

I am attempting to create an immutable backup for my server. I have a VMware virtual server (Linux). I have a direct-attached external drive that I use as the immutable backup repository.I have created an AWS repository and was hoping to mirror the immutable...

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AWS

VMware

Virtualization

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Andrew Hancock

1/5/2022

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