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I have two sites, A and B - connected by a S2S IPSec VPN on gigabit links. Site A has a Fortigate 400E running latest v7.2. Site B has a Fortigate 120G running latest v7.6. Site B is able to line-rate on iPerf3 to A on TCP/UDP. Site A is able to line-rate on iPerf3 to B on UDP only. TCP is very slow (less than 1% of UDP). I have the same config on both sides. VPN interface(s) have tcp-mss set to 1418 on both sides. No profiles applied to impact performance. DH is 21 w/ AES256GCM-PRFSHA384 if it makes any difference. What am I missing here? Thanks, real head scratcher. submitted by /u/NetAcademic9904 [link] [comments]

Need help with a starting direction to troubleshoot this error. At a new job managing an exchange server I do not have much info on. I just got access to creds/ docs today. The new user I created cannot access inbox via web url. OWA enabled, inbox pointing to DB file, DC1/DC2/Exch appear syncd. submitted by /u/Unlikely-Repair-8733 [link] [comments]

I am a SysAd at my Uni and I need to create a Win11 installation stick that is completely preconfigured. I do not have time to reinstall win11 and all its user configs/programs over and over again and my DAU colleagues need to be able to install win11 like that : Stick into PC, press enter a bunch, select user, everything works again. Every program, option and user password has to be as is atm on the prepared machine. I know I did this years ago for win10 when I was working in another branch of the Uni, but I can not remember how I did it. Something like bootstick + bootstick CMD = profit It has to be as easy as possible to install and maintain for ppl that are art students and profs that are 60+ and type with one finger. Any idea? I found some stuff on the net with Rufus, but I would argue that this is to "complicated" submitted by /u/elfricko [link] [comments]

I have a strange situation, if this is the wrong sub, feel free to remove it. I have a VPN on both my iPad and iPhone that my wife and I use for streaming services. She loves the K-Dramas and J-Dramas, so at night she uses my iPad. My iPad and work phone also both have the Outlook app that I have my work emails coming through w/ notifications. When my wife turns on the VPN on the iPad it triggers a ticket to my company’s IT security that there was an attempt to login to my work account from another country (she always chooses Japan). This does not occur when I turn on the VPN on my iPhone (I watch some of shows also). I have even went into the iPad and cleared Outlook and all MS365 apps from background, but sometimes it stills triggers a ticket to IT. This only started this year, and I have talked with IT about it, they took a look at both my devices and just told me to clear the apps logged into my work accounts from background before turning on the VPN. I don’t need to have Outlook on my iPad, but it is useful. We use a third party for IT services, so my company is charged for support and those tickets are being counted. I believe that I have push notifications enabled for both, but am at a loss as to why it happens on the iPadb, but not the iPhone. Both devices are updated, iPad is on iPadOS 26.6. Any help is much appreciated. submitted by /u/InKognetoh [link] [comments]

It doesn't seem to be possible to add easily modifiable custom text to the lockscreen anymore. We've used Desktop Info for that in the past but it doesn't seem to work with the lockscreen image in Windows 11, at least on current builds. Organizational Messages for Windows Spotlight also doesn't do that as far as we were able to test. Does anyone have any working options for this? Thanks very much in advance! submitted by /u/RightPassage [link] [comments]

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As you may know from previous discussions, I moved my hosting to Asia with Asian companies, and I am always looking for Asian providers offering services in Asia. I was searching for a low-cost dedicated machine from an Asian provider in Asia. To my surprise, I found a legitimate-looking offer from NCXhost.com in India. It is a Tier III data centre in the north-east of India offering direct services. I needed the machine for more than basic computing, such as hosting for AI and ML. Dedicated Machine with GPU listed as GPU GN1 Nano : 8 GB VRAM (GPU) - nvidia 3050 4 Cores - 4 Threads - Core i5-6500 16 GB RAM 1TB NVMe SSD IPv4 & IPv6 Dedicated IP address Unlimited Bandwidth 7999 INR/month or ~84 USD/month I inquired about the provisioning time, and was told that it is 72 hours. Private email hosting is also permitted, as I requested. Some premium options, such as the G2 with an RTX 4090, are available for next-day delivery. [Way out of my budget, though.] There is also a 20% recurring discount: AIRESEARCH Note: I have no affiliation with the provider other than being from the same country and continent, nor do I receive any monetary benefit for sharing this information. I just found out about this Budget Dedicated Machine with GPU option. This is something new for me, especially from an Indian provider. According to my communications with support: This is their way of giving back to the student and research community. Could this system be a good option for beginners in AI/ML research and academia? For this flat price, I get a decent Nvidia dGPU compute system that I can run 24/7. It is neither sliced nor shared with anyone else and there are no other limits whatsoever. The bandwidth is unlimited too. I suppose these are the perks of the services offered by a new data centre. Should I try this? What do you think?

Hello, I’m looking for 2 separate dedicated servers in New York, USA. Each server should have: AMD EPYC CPU preferred Minimum 512 GB RAM CPU benchmark of 100,000+ 10 Gbps port 2 × 2 TB NVMe storage Budget: up to $400/month per server Please share your best available configuration and pricing.

Hi everyone Where can I find entrepreneurs who previously worked as system/network administrators and later started their own businesses in the same field? I would like to hear their experiences, how they made the transition, and any advice they could share... submitted by /u/Important_Bid3319 [link] [comments]

Hello, Any ideas how to implement cis benchmarks across many Linux and windows servers(different distros and versions)? Are you using ansible to do so or any other configuration management tool? submitted by /u/Traditional_Mousse97 [link] [comments]

Hello Folks I'm doing a small case study trying to understand what is it that generally leads to worst bills for different cloud services. Just want you guys to help out with the worst cloud bills you received? What triggered it ? Whose mistake was it? How do you generally handle such cases after that Did you set up anything to make sure this doesn't happen submitted by /u/Notalabel_4566 [link] [comments]

I work in IT and have a understanding of cloud VMs etc, but I do not fully understand a lot of the other services, e.g. cloud apps, App Services, containers, APIs, pipelines etc etc I am ideally looking for video course that explains at a high level all the main components of the cloud and how they work, any ideas? Advice appreciated :) submitted by /u/corpjones [link] [comments]

Looking for a small low cost VPS in both these locations: Central US - Texas/Kansas/... Germany Minimum: 1 core 1 GB Ram 10 GB Disk 1 IPv4

I'm writing this post with extreme frustration. I recently bought some Gemini API key credits using Google cloud billing UPI payment method. The money got deducted from my account but the credits are not loaded. So I reached out to their support, first of all their billing support team had no idea about UPI payment method and now they are saying that they are unable to track the payment. Like who told you to support UPI payment method if you can't track it's payment and how would a customer know all of this? I've submitted the bank account statement too. I never expected a google scale company get this low. submitted by /u/sh_ark [link] [comments]

From conversations with peers, the pattern seems to be: identity as the center of gravity (IdP plus conditional access), EDR as table stakes, and a growing browser security layer to cover the gap between endpoint and cloud that neither EDR nor CASB was really built for. SSPM is filling in around the edges now that SaaS sprawl is unavoidable. The GenAI piece is still unsettled, some add it to DLP, some use a dedicated AI gateway, and ownership varies. What's your org standardized on, and what's still an open question heading into H2? submitted by /u/Illustrious_Bed_3214 [link] [comments]

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So I was previously head of IT of a company that was acquired by a large corporate in 2024. I have spent the last 2 years dealing with various integration projects, and then have been busy implementing Role based access and a new ITSM platform for the larger org. I am not enjoying the slowness and blockers of Corporate life, and generally being a small cog in a big machine - and have an interview next week at a 200 person startup. The recruiter I have been speaking with seems to think I am a good fit for the role - however he says "it's a shame that you've been at such a large Corporate during the AI Boom, as this company is quite far along with AI" He said I should start to think about things I would have wanted to implement if I'd stayed in my previous role and could get things implemented quickly. I'm looking for suggestions really of things folks at smaller startups / scaleups have implemented using AI that have really improved end user experience - We are obviously doing the AI thing too at the corporate level, but we have whole dedicated team for that. So i'm not as directly involved in the decision making process as I would have been otherwise if I'd stayed in Startup land. Any help would be appreciated! submitted by /u/Towelie888 [link] [comments]

Managing Linux, a few Windows boxes and network gear from a Mac meant a terminal, RDP client and a serial app open at once. Noden puts them in one grid — saved connections, ProxyJump, RD Gateway, USB-to-serial with vendor baud presets (Cisco/Sophos/MikroTik/Aruba/Ubiquiti). Creds in Keychain, nothing on our servers. Free tier covers all four protocols. Curious what workflows I'm missing. submitted by /u/Aromatic-Bottle5252 [link] [comments]

Hey everyone I'm new as a sysadmin and my boss just gave me a new task. I'm IT for a small company with only about 30 employees and we want to switch from windows to all Linux. What distro do you recommend for the employees. I was thinking Ubuntu but thats mostly because thats what Im most familiar with. Also what do you recommend for managing the pcs. I was messing around with FreeIPA and ansable for that. Also most of the work they do is in a web browser but they would also like a way to collaborate on documents like in office365. I was thinking about using Nextcloud for this. Is this all a good idea? Are there other programs I should use? Any advice is appreciated. submitted by /u/I-Have-No-Life-146 [link] [comments]

Hi all, I've got a user on my tenant who has an AD (on-premise) account with an email address being : ******@mydomain.com with an smtp pointing to an external address from another tenant , let's say : ******@external.com. He is a mailUser on exchange (doesn't have a mailbox on our tenant, no e3 license, just mail-enabled : his email address is resolved and reaches to his external mailbox whenever someone sends his an email using ******@mydomain.com). Since yesterday, he was communicating with a third-party company (from a whole other tenant then) and the company in question was using the mydomain address to communicate with him. The problem now is that the emails from this company are not getting delivered. I've created a trace on exchange online to track the emails and these are the message events. The failure reason displayed is: Reason: [{LED=550 Administrative prohibition - envelope blocked - https://community.mimecast.com/docs/DOC-1369#550 [nyMds-WOM0Wfq7ynEsvxtQ.uk66]};{MSG=};{FQDN=eu-smtp-o365-outbound-2.mimecast.com};{IP=195.130.217.244};{LRT=7/29/2026 12:10:12 PM}]. OutboundProxyTargetIP: 195.130.217.244. OutboundProxyTargetHostName: eu-smtp-o365-outbound-2.mimecast.com. We do have mimecast in our system as an external layer (it's configured as : user | o365 | mimecast | outside) and mimecast says that this sender is blocked at policy level. The other users from our tenant are communicating fine with this external company and there is no policy preventing them from sending emails to the users in our tenant. My theory is that this comes from the external tenant in which he has his mailbox. I'm a bit confused, any thoughts on that? Many Thanks! submitted by /u/tfen_dep2 [link] [comments]