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@scottalanmiller said in VMware Community Homelabs: @Pete-S said in VMware Community Homelabs: @Dashrender said in VMware Community Homelabs: @Pete-S said in VMware Community Homelabs: Most IT people I know get their hardware for nothing where they work. So they have stuff like R710's at home. So setting up a home lab isn't a cost thing, more a question of having the space. The cost of power to run that 710 can likely make it more cost effective to run the VMs in a VPS. plus that gets rid of the noise pollution. Depends on how many VMs you have. A R710 can easily handle twenty of those $5 vultr VMs. That's $1200 per year for VMs in a VPS. No way you can rack up that in electricity. Plus the needs of a lab VM are often very different from the needs of a production one. Prod needs fast disks and fast CPU, and "just enough" RAM. Labs need very little CPU and disk performance, but lots of RAM. And just one workload like NextCloud could cost a fortune on even Vultr, but be nearly free on an R710. We have old R510 units that could run 30+ VMs, easily. A good 50% more than @Pete-S is estimating. And adding RAM alone would allow us to up that number significantly. If I need a bunch of VMs to test/lab things, I'll use Hyper-V on my laptop (shouldn't have to mention this, but I"m sure it'll be pointed out- not talking about platform labs here). Lots of RAM in PCs is much more doable now, and can take you pretty far. Some business laptops give you 64 GB of ram.... that's more than enough to set up some labs.

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@scottalanmiller said in Calling MeshCentral Users / Experts: @JaredBusch said in Calling MeshCentral Users / Experts: Can a moderator edit post 3 to wrap all of that is code block tags ``` Done Thanks.

@wrx7m said in Group Policy - HKCU Registry Update (via GPP) For All Users, Only on RDP Server: t only applies the setting when linked to the OU of the user We'll according to that screenshot, it IS a user setting.

So without a time clock, you can't be sure employees are at work or working? I haven't used a timeclock since my teens. I know this doesn't address your issue, but didn't realize time locks were still a thing. I only note time deviations at my current job, such as PTO or sick pay. However, I agree with the others. Fire people who are stealing from the company. Time = money, no difference here. As IRJ pointed out, limiting this from only Onprem may cause unintended limitations and force the bad actors to do it in other ways anyways. I'd only do that if they forced me to after explaining it may not be a real solution.

@StorageNinja said in Reconsidering ProxMox: (Saying CIFS is my pet peeve). /gasp /shock

@wrx7m said in VMware Host Cannot Connect from vSphere Client: Could also be an issue if a vendor-specific ISO was used to initially install ESXi. I ran into a similar problem with Dell; I had to get the Dell ISO from their downloads for the specific server model/service tag. For 6.0 this is fine (you'll use this to get ASNC drivers). You can also add the dell VIB depot to get them this way also. For 6.7 Dell has (thankfully) stopped shipping ASYNC drivers and moved 100% to inbox. It's all for 3rd party management VIBs. Honestly I've seen 3rd party VIBs be a culprit for updates before. I'd make sure you are updating the BIOS/FIrmware also when updating ESXi (People forget this sometimes).

@G-I-Jones said in "Access Denied" RENAME.bat: @JasGot Is this code still supposed to be prompting me the UAC? yes, unless you disable UAC.

@IRJ said in Documenting Firewall Exceptions and Rules: @DustinB3403 said in Documenting Firewall Exceptions and Rules: I had to add some rules to a CentOS 8 server because some things stopped working that were previously working. (Not sure why this worked before, but it did) Adding a few rich rules resolved the issue immediately. None of this makes any sense. It's deny all and permit by exception. Why would you do anything else? That's the default, and that's what was working just fine for a long time. Suddenly it began "not working" and needed the exceptions made.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Drinking: @LilAng said in What Are You Drinking: lemonade With vodka? with no sugar

Also another thing is that XCP-ng it is finally able to support UEFI boot which was nice.

Facebook boss 'happy to pay more tax in Europe' The boss of Facebook says he accepts tech giants may have to pay more tax in Europe in future and recognises people's "frustration" over the issue. Mark Zuckerberg also said he backed plans by think tank the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to find a global solution. Facebook and others have been accused of not paying their fair share of tax in countries where they operate. But some say the OECD is moving too slowly towards its goal of a 2020 deal. In the UK, Facebook paid just £28.5m in corporation tax in 2018 despite generating a record £1.65bn in British sales. At the time tax campaigner and MP Margaret Hodge said such a low bill was "outrageous", but Facebook said it pays what it owes.

Antarctic island hits record temperature of 20.75C Antarctica has exceeded 20C for the first time, after researchers logged a temperature of 20.75C on an island off the coast of the continent. Brazilian scientist Carlos Schaefer told AFP they had "never seen a temperature this high in Antarctica". But he warned the temperature, logged on 9 February, was just one reading and not part of a long-term data set. The continent also hit a record last week, with a temperature reading of 18.3C on the Antarctic Peninsula. This latest reading was taken at a monitoring station on Seymour Island, part of a chain of islands off the same peninsula, at the northernmost point of the continent. Although the temperature is a record high, Mr Schaefer emphasized that the reading was not part of a wider study and so, in itself, could not be used to predict a trend. "We can't use this to anticipate climatic changes in the future. It's a data point," he said. "It's simply a signal that something different is happening in that area."

@dave_c said in Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider: @JasGot I am an indirect CSP but I do not handle any non-profit organization. My customers can see the subscription but they cannot change the licenses assigned to it from the Office 365 Admin portal; they need to request the addition/subtraction to my company or use the portal of my direct CSP. They can request the cancellation of a subscription but we need to authorize it. The client is able to have subscriptions with more than one reseller and directly with Microsoft. Thanks. That clarifies some worries we had about being trapped with a bad CSP.

@JaredBusch said in VoIP Drama Sangoma vs. Clearly IP: Please also recall that the Rob being discussed as the co-owner of the key, is the person that prompted me to start the thread Revisiting ZFS and FreeNAS in 2019 after seeing him post about it on Facebook. I had no idea what kind of a shit show that thread was going to turn in to. Yeah, holy hell, I'd not trust anything that ClearlyIP produces. I'd be pretty worried to depend on them as a service provider!

@JasGot said in Managing Type 1 Hyper Visors: I appreciate all the very informative and valuable input. I have downloaded Ubuntu 19.10 and Proxmox 6.1 I'll give them both some attention today and see which I prefer. I'm running KVM on Ubuntu 19.10... and am migrating from KVM on Linux Mint 18.3 (my home server(s)).

@black3dynamite said in Remote PowerShell from Fedora to Windows: @stacksofplates said in Remote PowerShell from Fedora to Windows: Sssd works with multiple domains. If sssd is installed will I be able to use -Authentication Kerberos without needing to join to a domain or when accessing Windows machines that isn’t joined to a domain? No it only works for domains.

@frodooftheshire said in Windows NLA service on 2016/2019 DCs: @CCWTech Exactly - it's mainly about firewall rules. Like you said I guess I could go into all the firewall rules and make sure its ticked for private as well as domain. It's just annoying because this shouldn't be an issue. I can see a member server getting confused if the DC isn't booted up and it boots up, but for a DC not to know it's in a domain is just a bit crazy.

@wrx7m said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?: @scottalanmiller said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?: @DustinB3403 said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?: @Pete-S said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?: @DustinB3403 said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?: @scottalanmiller said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?: @DustinB3403 said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?: It's super simple to take a closet for example and put a vent near the top of the wall to let heat escape. Not if you don't have that closet, the vent would let in hotter air, or you don't have outside access from a closet. Of course, if you physically don't have any space, then using this example doesn't make sense. The question really is "at what point should a business start looking at different form factors (from the desktop style)?" It ridiculous to even think there is no space for a rack. Unless someone runs a company out of their bedroom. A rack takes what, 5 square feet? Ha. yeah I get it I totally do. And you can get a rack for pennies on the dollar if you are really looking. Cost of the rack isn't the issue. Space to put it that is safe, clean, has power, central to the cabling, can be cooled, etc. So, not here- I see that as a productive use of extra space! You could even hang a 1/4 rack above the toilet to help get things cleaned up and organized.

Generally, for most use cases, just having two servers and good backups is the best option. If you have a greenzone, turn your VMs off, do your updates, turn them back on. Updates essentially never cause issues. Not on hypervisors (at least not on KVM/Xen.) Putting in a lot of complexity, cost, or risk to mitigate a shark attack isn't worth it. You will focus on a false risk.

2nd attempt worked!

@Dashrender Yes, well of our domains ,we have several variants. It was more of a phishing attempt/scare tactic from a Russian script kiddie from what we were able to gather.

@brandon220 said in HP EliteDesk 800 G5/G6 mini - error on windows update: @Dashrender I had it on a new 800 mini a few weeks ago. I clicked through it and it has been running fine since. Several reboots and it never happened again. I just updated the OP. sadly, after rebooting, the system locked up, requiring another hard reboot, another flashing of this HP screen, hit esc to bypass and the user is back up and running.