@Emad-R said in HyperVisor: for me it is centos, cause of the logic : If you want only one role to function in a server and it will not change, and you want it to do it good, and it does not require new features go with old stable or centos The problem here is associating "old" with "stable." CentOS isn't really any more stable than Fedora. It's just a code base that doesn't change. That's a totally different concept that exists for legacy application support. It really has no place here where the entire stack is updated and maintained together. The other problem is that in a hypervisor, those "new features" include things like speed and stability. So there is no such thing as a situation where you don't want them. Sounds good, until you look into what it actually means in this situation, then it's clear it doesn't make sense. And the huge risks that it adds that people like to ignore can be just huge.

@Dashrender said in Better computer for brownfield situation: @IRJ said in Better computer for brownfield situation: confluence Damn, they have 15 users, to large for free. I know Scott has talked about using SharePoint for something like this in the past. Or using a Wiki... All of those things are wikis.

Don't know if it was said, but a reverse proxy is also a front end that handles your SSL in many cases.

@JaredBusch said in Apparently the 2.0 line of EdgeOS now supports ZeroTier: @dafyre Thanks. Not sure how ( b0rked that.

@Pete-S within the same model, you can simply backup/restore. but not across models.

@WrCombs said in How did you learn?: How did you learn Power-shell scripting? any books worth looking at? Looking at expanding some more, and I know Automation makes jobs way easier. This (https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3/01) combined with doing tasks in PowerShell. In my opinion, as others have states, it's easier to learn via doing tasks. Added bonus is you complete a task with PowerShell or script it, then see if / how you can improve your script.

@JaredBusch said in Writing a Job Posting: @Obsolesce said in Writing a Job Posting: @JaredBusch said in Writing a Job Posting: @Obsolesce said in Writing a Job Posting: @JaredBusch said in Writing a Job Posting: That doesn't mean I can't get work done. Working on vacation is totally an American concept. Visiting the in-laws is not exactly a vacation either. Heh, yeah I was going to add unless you are in Japan but not on vacation when you are working. Similar to how I did before, had a couple of weeks of true vacation, and worked remotely otherwise,while overseas. That's the benefit to this type of workstyle. The "need" for a true vacation is so much less. Because I already do pretty much what I want. Yeah, we talk about that at NTG a lot.... the "work as a lifestyle" type work. A career and job and company that let's your work and your life integrate. The idea of a vacation starts to not mean much. Vacations are conceptually for people who want to escape work and life. But we approach it as... you shouldn't want to escape your job. We try to make working here something people enjoy, not just "good enough for the paycheck."

@JaredBusch said in Need to setup O365 shared calendar: @Dashrender said in Need to setup O365 shared calendar: @JaredBusch said in Need to setup O365 shared calendar: @Dashrender said in Need to setup O365 shared calendar: If it's a fully shared (controlled by all) calendar, I would choose Can edit. That does not answer the question It is a normal user, the admin account. That went to their calendar and clicked new calendar. They then shared it as shown. Then I don't understand the question - I said - choose "Can edit" that's one of the choices you showed as an option. WTF does "Can Edit" mean? Is it actually the most open access? I have no idea. It's all hidden from the GUI now as far as I know but higher access levels still exist. The only thing I've actually run into people trying to use that requires it is messing with categories. You have to be a Publishing Editor or Owner to work with them. I usually end up assigning those for users using PowerShell when the need arises. get/set/add-mailboxfolderpermission

@Dashrender said in Do you list your side business on your resume?: @scottalanmiller said in Do you list your side business on your resume?: I can only imagine that part of the issue is having side jobs that are like "helped with my buddies computer repair business" or "consult with local doctors to set up their networks" on the side. My side jobs are things like "Ran the largest Windows migration even done for Dell with 65 sites across seven states. Worked as part of a joint Microsoft, Veritas, and Dell team working for all three companies. Ran the POC, the engineering setup, and then ran the project over the course of 15 months." How in the world do you consider those side jobs? Because it's not my main job. If I described my main job, you'd be like "oh clearly that's the main job." It was a job that I did on the side, a secondary job apart from my full time primary one. There is a big difference between a "side job" and "doing something for someone one time". A side job is often a real, full job. Sometimes even a second full time job (although that's rare.) But I'm working two full time jobs right now, either one of which would sound like a pretty intensive full time job on its own.

@scottalanmiller said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish: it has problems is great for us, it pays the bills. We only recommend it when a customer really needs it. And they only really of course -

@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting: @StorageNinja said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting: @pmoncho said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting: I have not seen any M.2 on dell servers yet All 14G servers AFAIK support adding in a "BOSS" card that has 2 M.2 slots. https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-PowerEdge-Boot-Optimized-Storage-Solution.pdf by making it a card - it just seems like a way to charge more money, but yeah.. that's what I'm talking about.. Nice to see it's an option. Some SBCs do that, too. Like the Pine64 upper end card.

@Dashrender said in Veeam Company Announcement: @scottalanmiller said in Veeam Company Announcement: @StorageNinja said in Veeam Company Announcement: Smart watch leaders are apple and samsung. Samsung isn't in the big three. Xiami is number one, Apple number two. Xiami is the largest wearables maker in the world. So big that they don't just make their own processors with their own fab, but they use their own architecture! And they are sold everywhere but the US (or at least I've never seen that brand at any retail location I've been to) They are definitely sold in the US. We buy them here (they are cheap and resilient.) I don't see them in stores too often, but like on Amazon and stuff they are just a normal item, not imported specially or anything. They are widely available. I like them for travelers because they are cheaper than average, but work well and have the best battery lives (often 1.5 months on a charge!) So you aren't likely to get it stolen, or have charging issues, and if they break just buy another.

@wrx7m said in Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times: @scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times: @wrx7m said in Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times: For the record, at home, I use the actual hibernation on 3 desktops ALL THE TIME. I never actually use shutdown. I can wake them up using my phone from anywhere. When I am done, I hibernate. That isn't to say that I don't reboot them from time to time. While I generally hate it, I can make somewhat obvious cases for why actual hibernate would exist. I don't want it in any business because Windows seems unstable with it. It creates all kinds of support issues. But there is a reason for it to exist. But this weird half assed hibernation where the apps are shut down? That's useless. Exactly. I disable hibernation at work. Sleep also creates all sorts of issues that a reboot will fix. All desktops have any type of sleep/hibernate disabled because there is no need and it potentially introduces all sorts of issues. So you're a totally anti-green type guy.. no desire to save any electrical power

Started watching Jedi Fallen Order Game Play yesterday to see if I'll even like the game before buying, and so far the game is pretty awesome.. 10/10 Would Recommend if you're a star wars fan

Dad builds Nintendo video game controller for disabled girl A man has hand-built a custom controller for his disabled daughter so she is able to play video games. Rory Steel said the Nintendo Switch controller was built for nine-year-old Ava with a Microsoft device and components from eBay for about £110. A video on Twitter of Ava, who is from Jersey, using the device has had more than 800,000 views. Mr Steel said she had given the device a "big thumbs-up" and the attention had been "a little bit surreal". He said Ava, who has hereditary spastic paraplegia which affects her motor controls and speech, made the suggestion after seeing videos online. Teacher Mr Steel, head of the Digital Jersey Academy, built the device with two joysticks and arcade game-style flashing buttons hooked up to a Microsoft Xbox adaptive controller.

New China virus: Cases triple as infection spreads to Beijing and Shanghai The number of people infected with a new virus in China tripled over the weekend, with the outbreak spreading from Wuhan to other major cities. There are now more than 200 cases, mostly in Wuhan, though the respiratory illness has also been detected in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Three people have died. Japan, Thailand and South Korea have reported cases. The sharp rise comes as millions of Chinese prepare to travel for the Lunar New Year holidays. Health officials have identified the infection, which first appeared in Wuhan in December, as a strain of coronavirus. They say it has led to an outbreak of viral pneumonia, but much about it remains unknown.

Wildcard/regex whitelist and per-client blocking is my favorite.

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@dmacf10 glad you find it useful. It is not quite the right solution for me yet. But it is close. The proper place to post a feature request is on their github: https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral/issues That said @Ylian does pop in here every so often. @mods: thread needs tags.

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@pattonb said in Win 10 + older HP laserjet printers: Having trouble getting an older HP laserjet (4300 series) to work on a recently upgraded win 10 workstation. I have in the recent past, used older drivers ( pcl5) and was worked well. printer connect with centronics to usb cable, and Win 10 does recognize the printer. Check manufacturers website for Windows 10 drivers. Install drivers. If none, too bad, get a new printer or use Linux.

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@wrx7m said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD: @black3dynamite said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD: @wrx7m said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD: @dafyre said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD: @dafyre said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD: @pmoncho said in RDS - Suggestions for Migrating User Profiles from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 UPD: @wrx7m Just curious, when you chose UPD, did you choose to store all settings or just certain folders? Some applications don't play nicely with roaming profiles. UPDs mount at the usual C:\Users\user.name and the applications can't tell a difference. Right. But, only when the user is logged in. After they logout, that path doesn't exist. I am trying to figure out how to work around that for adding the custom (for each user) erp shortcut on their desktop in their session. Add the shortcut to C:\Users\Public\Desktop. That way it will always show up on each user Desktop. This would be nice and easy, but each user has a custom shortcut- It has a workstation ID in the target path. https://www.pdq.com/blog/pdq-deploy-and-powershell/ Create a script that creates the shortcut each user Desktop and append the workstation id in the target path.

@wrx7m said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart": @IRJ said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart": @wrx7m said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart": @IRJ said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart": @wrx7m said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart": A simple restart command doesn't perform the update step, just the restart, so the update doesn't get applied. This has been an issue for a very long time with windows. I am surprised it hasn't been fixed yet. It's really annoying Well, at least with Win 7, a standard reboot applies updates. At least, I think it does. The main difference between Win 7 and 10, is that they have switched to the osoclient.exe to manage the updates. I'm pretty sure server 2008 and onward had the issue. I don't remember dealing with it on workstations I still have a 2008 R2 box and can test it on the next go 'round. I won't have it much longer, as I am dumping it prior to EOS. LOL - Didn't make this cutoff. Next week, hopefully.

@JasGot said in Nextcloud Hub Launches To Compete Directly With Google Docs And Office 365: That's cool. Too bad they can't pick a name other than Groupware, it sounds too much like Groupwise, which I despised. My previous employer, I was there from 2006-2009, is still running GroupWise 6 right now. It was installed in like 2000.

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2016 RDS - GPO for Disabling Windows Update Notifications for Non-Admins/Users?: @wrx7m said in Windows Server 2016 RDS - GPO for Disabling Windows Update Notifications for Non-Admins/Users?: @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2016 RDS - GPO for Disabling Windows Update Notifications for Non-Admins/Users?: @wrx7m Is that a computer configuration or user configuration policy? Try applying the rules to only non-admins groups. Yeah, it is at the computer level. I would like to do it via user config but I only want them to apply to users on the RD servers. I need to figure out the proper way to structure AD/GPOs to not screw up everything else. I am guessing creating another OU as a sub container and move the RD servers into. Edit: Since it isn't GPP, there isn't any item level targeting, so I can't do it that way. If you can make those changes directly in the registry, maybe can allow you to use GPP and item level targeting. Hmmm. That makes sense. Let me mull it over.

@black3dynamite said in Arc Mouse losing scrolling ability after sleep in Ubuntu 18.04: @IRJ said in Arc Mouse losing scrolling ability after sleep in Ubuntu 18.04: Upgrading bluetooth did not work, but restarting bluetooth service worked. I think I should be able to script something here Anyway of using Systemd to restart bluetooth service after sleep? Yeah, actually. I stumbled across this a few mins ago. The guy in this post uses Systemd to restart Wireguard. The key is WantedBy line is probably the important bits. Description=Run restart_wireguard Requires=network.target After=network.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target [Service] User=root Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/restart_bluetooth.sh #or the command if you know it. [Install] WantedBy=suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target