It's the last Friday before the New Year. Like myself, many of you will be starting their on-call rotation.

To all my brothers and sisters in arms, I wish you a quiet and relaxing New Year's weekend. May your DNS be accurate, your switches be resilient, and your uptimes be high.

Cheers!

We're about to roll out 365 to all our users. Exchange Online mailboxes, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint.

What solutions for backing up and restoring the data are you experienced with, and would recommend?

We currently use Veeam for VM backup, but their solution is a totally different product, not integrated with VBR. So since a separate product would have to be licensed and installed, we aren't necessarily locked in to using Veeam for that too.

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

TLDR; Approx 2 years ago we manually created Cloud users on our 365 Tenant to start using Teams. Now we're trying to sync our on-prem AD with AAD and experiencing issues due to pre-existing Exchange Online mailboxes. Cannot delete the mailbox without deleting the user. Can't delete the user because we don't want to lose anything in Teams. Looking for help.

During the pandemic we had a lot of staff start working remotely. Our existing messaging platform was not up to the task and we jumped on the Teams bandwagon, shortly after we bought a mix of Business Basic and Business Standard licenses for all our staff. When applying the licenses to the staff we also inadvertently assigned an Exchange Online license. No big deal we thought at the time because our corporate email MX records point to our on-prem Exchange servers.

Fast forward to now and we're in the process of trying to sync all on-prem users to Azure AD so we can ultimately migrate our mailboxes off of our on-prem Exchange 2013 servers and on to Exchange Online. We've run into an issue that Microsoft support is having trouble solving. Because the cloud users were manually created before we setup AAD Connect and configured Hybrid Exchange, the Tenant knows nothing about the on-prem mailboxes. I cannot sync on-prem users to our Tenant because a mailbox exists for the user already. I cannot delete the Exchange Online user mailbox without deleting the user. Deleting the user will cause data and permission loss with Teams.

The sync process works fine if the user doesn't exist on the Tenant first, or if the 365 user doesn't have a pre-existing mailbox.

Hoping to find someone who's been in a similar situation and was able to solve it. Information online is sparse for this scenario and I'm not able to find anything that helpful.

I've registered for the app already. Every day I check Google Play for available app updates. I'll see a notification that there are several apps with updates available... but it's never Boost... such disappointment every time. Haha!

In all honesty, I can't wait for the app to come out. Take your time, do it right. And don't do what Sync did... I'll just leave it at that.

I've always liked Linux Mint. It's been one of my go-to distros for a long time.

Lately though my interest in using it has waned due to the fact it's based on Ubuntu. I'm not a fan of what Canonical is doing with Ubuntu, snap focused, and some of the tracking they've added.

I realize the Linux Mint team does their best to remove this from their fork, but as Ubuntu bakes it in more and more with each release, I'm wondering if it makes sense to drop Ubuntu and focus on LMDE solely instead.

It would also put them closer to the upstream source instead of being a fork of a fork. And at this point I trust distros based on Debian a lot more than distros based on Ubuntu.

What do you think?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2149490

In January I replaced my 5 year old GTX 1080 Ti with an Asus ROG TUF OC 4090. My old 1080 Ti never had an official waterblock made for it by anyone, so I was never able to incorporate it into my loop. I made sure that whatever model of 4090 I got, it had to have waterblock support from more than just one vendor. I'm finally done with my system. For now anyways. After years of tweaking, upgrades, and loop rebuilds, I'm happy with how it looks, and how it performs.

Specs

• Case: Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
• Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus X570 Master
• RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB (4 x 8GB)
• GPU: Asus ROG TUF OC 4090
• NVMe #1 - 1TB Western Digital Black SN850 (OS & Applications)
• NVMe #2 - 2TB Western Digital Black SN850X (Steam Library)
• Corsair Hydro X D5 Pump
• Alphacool Strix/TUF 4090 Block
• Optimus PC Foundation AM4 CPU Block
• 2 x Alphacool NexXxoS XT45 Full Copper 360mm Radiator
• Bitspower fittings

There's a good chance however that next year when the Ryzen 8000 chips come out I'll upgrade my platform to that. But for now I can finally enjoy the months of hard work and waiting for parts.

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!

What the actual hell?

We run a VERY efficient shop where I work. Our VM infrastructure is constantly monitored for services or VM's that are using more resources than they need. We have 100+ VM's running across 4 nodes, each with 2TB of RAM and 32 cores. If we find an application that is abusing CPU usage, or RAM consumption, we will tune it so it's as efficient as can be. However, for vendor solutions where they provide a VM image to deploy, or they install a custom software suite on the VM, the requirements and the performance have been getting absolutely out of hand.

I just received a request to deploy a new VM that is going to be used for managing and provisioning switch ports on some new networking gear. The vendor has provided a document with their minimum requirements for this.

24 vCPU's 84GB of RAM 600GB HDD with a minimum I/O speed of 200MB/s

I've worked as a System Administrator for a long time. One thing I've learned is that a measure of a company's product is not only how well it functions and how well it does what it advertises, but also how well it's built. This includes system resource usage and requirements.

When I see system requirements like the ones I was just given, it really makes me call into question the quality of the development team and the quality of the product. For what it's supposed to do, and what the minimum specs are, it doesn't make sense. It's like they ran into a performance bottleneck somewhere along the line, and instead of diagnosing and fixing the code to be more efficient, they just pulled a Jeremy Clarckson and added "More power!". Because throwing more CPU's and RAM at a performance issue always fixes it. Lets just pass the issue along to our customers and make them use more of their infrastructure resources to fix our problem. Jeez!

Just to be clear, I'm not making a blanket statement about all developers, there are a lot of developers or development teams that do put quite a bit of effort into refining their product and making it quite efficient, however it just seems more common place now that these "basic" applications from very large vendors have absurd system requirements.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Any similar stories to share?

Hello,

Looking for recommendations for Google News alternatives. I'm getting frustrated with the feed getting populated with sources, articles, or subjects I'm not interested in. Spend more time filtering out the crap I don't care about than actually looking at articles.

I don't mind having suggestions on my feed, but Google's algorithm is way off for me. I'm interested in tech, PC hardware, and video games mostly. But I'm getting recommendations for wrestling, a LOT of politics, and weird "reality tv" show news.

Kinda done with it now.

He's a 2yr old Siberian Husky & Staffordshire Terrier Pitbull.

Full of energy, lots of love, cuddles, and loves to argue / talk back when told to do something he doesn't want to.

Siberian Husky & Staffordshire Terrier Pitbull mix. Will be 3 yrs on Aug 30th.

Siberian Husky / Staffordshire Terrier Pitbull