@scottalanmiller said in Milestone VMS Hardware:

@garak0410 said in Milestone VMS Hardware:

I'm following this as I almost feel like the only Milestone user in the world sometimes...

So for you this thread is a ....

wait for it....

milestone?

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@dashrender said in CAL Counting:

@pmoncho said in CAL Counting:

@dashrender said in CAL Counting:

@pmoncho said in CAL Counting:

@dashrender said in CAL Counting:

@scottalanmiller said in CAL Counting:

@eleceng said in CAL Counting:

We will be using terminal services in a redundant setup so at least 10 RDS cals

Terminal SERVICES doesn't require more CALs when redundancy. But if you mean your TERMINALS (the thin clients) will be redundant, then it will.

One CAL gives you access to unlimited RDS servers.

RDS CALs are also concurrent, aren't they? Or did they change that?

Had this discussion a few years ago. From my understanding, RDS has a "pool" that grabs a license from the pool for each logged in user. It will re-up every 90 days each time the user logs in. So if you have multiple users that only log in once every 89 days, that can waste a ton of licenses, thus having to purchase more than actually is required.

Yeah, all that sounds familar - but don't new (users who haven't tried in the last 89 days) get a 90 temp license? So I would think/hope you wouldn't run afoul of the single off man off once in a while.

Found this:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/rds-client-access-license

It looks like the temp license is only available in Device mode.

From the site you linked:

There is a licensing grace period of 120 Days during which no license server is required.

in combination with

Temporary RDS CALs are not available.

tells me each user likely gets a single 120 day grace, after which they will have to have a license.

this also seems newer than I recall.

RDS CALs are assigned to a user in Active Directory.

Does this mean it's not longer concurrent users? Once an RDS license is assigned, it's there for life? what happens when that user leaves the company?

And then we toss this on top of the pile.

When you use the Per User model, licensing is not enforced and each user is granted a license to connect to an RD Session Host from any number of devices. The license server issues licenses from the available RDS CAL pool or the Over-Used RDS CAL pool. It's your responsibility to ensure that all of your users have a valid license and zero Over-Used CALs—otherwise, you're in violation of the Remote Desktop Services license terms.

So it's basically back on you to track your licenses.

It was never concurrent. MS has always been really clear that concurrent isn't a concept. It's "all users that use the service" within a sliding 90 day period.

@dashrender said in script to download and extract MicroSip portable:

Why do you (and Peter) think the source page is better than the downloads page?

Because one officially states what the latest version is. The other you are just hoping that the latest version is listed in a certain, likely, but non-determinant way.

Colin Powell, 84, dies of COVID complications.

@obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:

I thought about paying for DuoLingo because I can't stand the ads all the time and lack of freedom.

But lately I have been doing a lot on Anki. There's some really great decks in there. I also paired it with Mango which has been great as well. Another one that is great is Beelingual when you want to start doing more reading.

TL;DR

Anki
Mango
Beelingual

My DuoLingo stopped showing ads a while ago. No idea why.

If it does not work then yes just deal with clonezilla. It is not too hard to make ELI5 instructions.

@jaredbusch said in Indentation Style:

@pmoncho tab indentation needs to die in nuclear fire.

Thankfully, modern IDE systems like Visual Studio Code and others all auto swap a tab for 4 spaces by default.

Personally, I prefer a 2 space indentation, but 4 seems to be the most common.

I didn't think Tab's were that big of a deal as I never had an issue between Vi, Nano, Notepad or Notepad++. I guess it is mostly a habit from using text editors.

Hmm... I always hated having press the space bar more than twice (only after "." mostly). Maybe I will try using two spaces in the next script to see how that pans out.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Facebook to hire 10,000 in EU to work on metaverse

Facebook is planning to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to develop a so-called metaverse.
A metaverse is an online world where people can game, work and communicate in a virtual environment, often using VR headsets. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been a leading voice on the concept. The announcement comes as Facebook deals with the fallout of a damaging scandal and faces increased calls for regulation to curb its influence. "The metaverse has the potential to help unlock access to new creative, social, and economic opportunities. And Europeans will be shaping it right from the start," Facebook said in a blog post. The new jobs being created over the next five years will include "highly specialised engineers".

their remaking 2nd life?
yeah - it's totally going to work this time.

@eleceng said in GPO's for System Hardening:

@jaredbusch That is the correct way and the way it's done in most manufacturing plants in the U.S. and International. That has been best practice for the last 25-30 years. I am in 8-10 different manufacturing plants [per week as a consultant and that's how it done.

That's awesome that the plants you work for do it that way - but I agree with JB - it's likely not that common in reality.

Hell - the sure number of SCADA systems on the internet in mind boggling.

@scottalanmiller said in ESXI VM Backup:

This is the solution that my customer went in blindly with and got burned because it didn't have an agent to talk to their applications and their systems were corrupted in a totally predictable way. It's an amazing product, but no product can bypass the system admin's need to know their workloads.

So what your saying is even though they had something backing up blindly on the Hypervisor level (i.e backs up the whole VM), and no agent. Their application kind of corrupted it, so when the VM restored the application just crapped out 😁

As already mentioned this is why you need to test and restore 😁.

We're bad at this at the moment, but in the process of planning a DR exercise.

@viki said in angularjs:

also angularjs login code anyone can help me please

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/angularjs/angularjs_login_application.htm

Last night we finished "Nancy Drew and the Haunting of Castle Malloy"

@obsolesce

That is pretty cool. I will give that a try this morning.