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  Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times
  windows 10 dashrender sleep power management • • Dashrender  

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  @JaredBusch said in Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times: @wrx7m said in Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times: @RojoLoco said in Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times: @wrx7m said in Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times: @JaredBusch said in Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times: @Dashrender said in Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times: Small update - something else to consider changing - disable Fast Boot. Fast Boot means when you restart the computer, it doesn't do a full shutdown. It's likely that counters that are often reset upon a full reboot, aren't reset on a Fast Boot. Fast boot used to be called hibernation. It is a fucking stupid nasty feature Interesting. But, they also still have hibernation. Easy to fix that - admin CMD window -> powercfg -hibernate off I meant, they still have a separate function for hibernate. Why would they offer both, if they are the same thing? You don't understand fast boot is hibernation. it is 100% the same thing. Just automatic. Nope - not according to MS https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/kernel/distinguishing-fast-startup-from-wake-from-hibernation
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  Do you list your side business on your resume?
  • IRJ  

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  @IRJ said in Do you list your side business on your resume?: As companies never count it towards experience and its impossible for them to know the scale or amount of work you were doing. This is true with full time, too, though. People put down full time experience and then it turns out it was one hour of their week for what they are listing.
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  Arc Mouse losing scrolling ability after sleep in Ubuntu 18.04
  • IRJ  

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  Thanks @black3dynamite I will try these steps and report back
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  Windows Server 2016 RDS - GPO for Disabling Windows Update Notifications for Non-Admins/Users?
  windows windows server windows server 2016 rds gpo windows updates windows update remote desktop server • • wrx7m  

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  Do you have any of these policies set? User -> Policies -> Admin Templates -> Start Menu/Taskbar -> Remove Notifications and Action Center User -> Policies -> Admin Templates -> Start Menu/Taskbar -> Turn off all balloon notifications User -> Policies -> Admin Templates -> Start Menu/Taskbar -> Turn off feature ad balloon notifications User -> Policies -> Admin Templates -> Start Menu/Taskbar -> Turn off notification area cleanup
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  New IT Position UK, any advice/feedback?
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  @Jimmy9008 said in New IT Position UK, any advice/feedback?: @IRJ said in New IT Position UK, any advice/feedback?: You're asking for a cloud expert in competencies, but are saying it's entry level infrastructure. Which one is it? Maybe its terminology? I use the term 'competent' to mean acceptable/satisfactory. Not expert. After 5 years of being a professional in IT with interests in technology, I would like somebody that knows a little bit about most of those items. 'Competent', not 'Expert'. For example, if they have been doing support for 5 years for a range of companies, but does not have any competency at all with Office 365, then they would not be a good match. Maybe like @Obsolesce mentioned, create a few different categories of skills/qualifications. We all understand that the applicant may touch all areas during the course of a month but what is 80% of their daily duties? You mentioned certain %'s in your post but will they do mostly support calls, setup/config O365, Azure AD setup/support and login to a hypervisor host? If they are only going to touch the SAN/NAS, support Oracle and do network security only for 10 hours a month, that could go under a "Limited skills" segment. You stated you are willing to train the individual, so items in the competency category should cover most of their required daily duties. They can learn the rest through training, working in a team and further education.
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  Is It Really Encrypted When the Key Is Public and Automatic?
  encryption software legal • • scottalanmiller  

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  @Obsolesce said in Is It Really Encrypted When the Key Is Public and Automatic?: That's like saying your data is encrypted with BitLocker or FileVault, but anyone with BitLocker or FileVault respectively can will automatically decrypt your data without even trying. FTFY
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  Office 365 NDR for strange email address.
  office 365 email • • Romo  

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  @Obsolesce said in Office 365 NDR for strange email address.: Azure AD > Monitoring > Sign-ins: to track unauthorized access to accounts. There's no telling what all they did, so it may be best to back up the data and recreate the account... and of course enable 2FA/MFA on ALL accounts. This is a good idea. You can also set alerts to be notified if forwarding rules are created like the ones you discovered.
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  Fedora 31 Server Edition filesystem permissions changed to 777
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  Everyone's busy that's why good things take time
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  Kari's Law and Non-PSTN Systems
  voip pbx karis law • • scottalanmiller  

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  Your definition is not relevant. The FCC definition is what will be enforced.
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  Dell R740XD SSD Compatibility
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  The Intel's S4610 that @Jimmy9008 referred to in his original post, is sold by Dell as well. We have a couple of Dell servers on order with those drives (Dell branded). I wouldn't use consumer SSDs in a server at all. They don't have power protection and not as good wear leveling. And the price difference between the better consumer drives and the read intensive enterprise drives is not big. Anyway, the only problem I see with buying the Intel drives from somewhere else and not Dell, is that they will be under Intel warranty and support and not Dell. So if you need 4h mission critical support on those drives, you better have a spare on the shelf instead. Dell has to stock them for warranty and Dell has to make money of them and the price have to be high enough so that Dell can give their large customers a big discount and still have some profit left. That's why the Dell branded drives are much more expensive. Why not buy two S4610 drives in smaller capacity like 240GB or 480GB and put them in a server and see how it works? Looks like two 480 GB drives will be around £300. A lower cost alternative is the S4510 drives. They can't handle as many writes as the S4610 but will still be overkill for most workloads.
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  UNSOLVED Looking for new GPS Fleet Tracking solution
  gps fleet tracking • • JaredBusch  

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  https://www.traccar.org/ The sad part is no Linux client, cause there is a lot of GPS modules USB type that work well in Linux. However you can use an android client on Pi and do some magic, or turn smartphones into GPS. It works but you need to get the right smartphone, the one that gives access to services and disables battery optimizations for apps and large battery.
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  Starwind/Server Limitations
  • Jimmy9008  

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  @Jimmy9008 said in Starwind/Server Limitations: @coliver said in Starwind/Server Limitations: @scottalanmiller said in Starwind/Server Limitations: @Jimmy9008 in your design, your normal Starwind nodes have one point of failure, no dependencies. But on the "other" nodes, without their own storage, they depend on the SAN, the switches, and themselves. Three points of failure, instead of one. Why not put the drives directly in the nodes and avoid that? What's the reason to put their drives remotely? Licensing from the sounds of it. Correct, by adding to the existing vSAN, that storage side is under the Starwind SLA/Support. I see.
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  ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting
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  @G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting: The H330 is like for labs or testing. Shouldn't be found in a production environment. It's a fine card for what it is, just not a production use card Begs the question why when ordering a server for a specific purpose, they would even ship that out. I have thought the same thing for a long time on Dell 4XX's on up. Either no controller at all or start at the H730 and up. Just an opinion though.
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  Active Directory change logging / auditing
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  @Dashrender said in Active Directory change logging / auditing: @Obsolesce said in Active Directory change logging / auditing: @scottalanmiller said in Active Directory change logging / auditing: @notverypunny said in Active Directory change logging / auditing: @JaredBusch said in Active Directory change logging / auditing: Netwrix works well. I know people that have purchased it and love it. The product looks good, but from an IT perspective I don't like the licensing as it's on a per AD user model, (which IT has no control over) whereas ManageEngine is based on a per DC model which is much easier to manage. Is there a reason IT should have control over that? All IT expenses are just business expenses anyway. Just make it a per-seat cost like other per-seat costs. You already have to pay for Windows, Office, CALs, and whatever else "per seat", it's just another line item for whoever is paying for those. So why dig a deeper grave? Why not lay out exactly what you are talking about, what you consider the option to be? Because I'm not an IT buyer and don't just buy the first turn-key product with a pretty web interface I find. I can see the appeal, especially for a smb with no staff, or an MSP with no time. The thing is, for those solutions, you may end up doing and maintaining more in the end anyways. Not always, but depending on the environment and how it changes over time. Yeah, maybe a turn key solution is best, I don't know the environment at all, just one requirement, which is literally no need for third party product and can be completed in an hour, without needing much if any maintenance.
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  Windows 7 End of Life Countdown
  windows 10 windows 7 • • scottalanmiller  

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  @Dashrender said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown: @warren-stanley said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown: @Dashrender so much PC driven medical equipment out there will be affected, not to mention the EHR systems that get, at best, medical compliance patching and are stuck on older non-10 MS OS'es The shit thing is that most have no way of knowing if the device is running Win7 embedded or not. But they SHOULD have a way to know if their vendor is providing HIPAA required updates! If they don't, they can't deploy it.
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  HP print drivers
  hp fail • • travisdh1  

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  @Dashrender said in HP print drivers: @travisdh1 said in HP print drivers: @marcinozga said in HP print drivers: Does that driver come with inf file that you can use to install drivers through add/remove printers wizard? It does, and that hadn't worked for me either. Even went so far as to try adding the driver into the "print server settings" manually. Nothing worked till I got the windows update services fixed. I wonder what the dependancy was? .Net 1? Something that shouldn't be around anymore is all I know. It was .Net 1.3 something
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  SOLVED Apple OSX - Public Desktop
  apple scripting osx automation setup • • DustinB3403  

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  I'm marking this solved as I create a direction from / called scripts and that does what I need. No real need for a public shareable desktop when this works just fine.
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  Firefox Multi-Account Containers
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  @pavvelmorozov said in Firefox Multi-Account Containers: What about antidetect browsers like gologinapp and others? Good alternative? Never heard of those.
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  SOLVED Need to setup O365 shared calendar
  office 365 shared calendar • • JaredBusch  

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  This is crazy, I am working on something similar. @Obsolesce said in Need to setup O365 shared calendar: https://www.boostitco.com/how-to-create-a-shared-calendar-in-outlook-office-365/ This is almost exactly what I was looking for but want it to be able to share out a calendar from Microsoft Teams.
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  Big Patch Tuesday - updating the cryptographic functions in Windows
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  @Nic said in Big Patch Tuesday - updating the cryptographic functions in Windows: @JaredBusch my bet is the NSA was using it, but now some other nation state has found it and is using it. Which is why NSA now wants us all to patch it. Yeah this was my point earlier. This tracks with their behavior with EternalBlue.
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  Gigapixel Images and File Sizes
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  @scottalanmiller said in Gigapixel Images and File Sizes: @dafyre said in Gigapixel Images and File Sizes: Found a site that gives a formula and steps on how they calculate file sizes... https://4nsi.com/faq/how-do-i-calculate-the-file-size-for-a-digital-image It's hard to know if it's accurate, but he math makes sense. Except it is completely wrong so the math making sense doesn't matter, since it's absolutely wrong. That's for calculating a bitmap file type, which no one uses. You are right about nobody using bitmap files any more. I'm not looking for exact measurements -- or even conservative ones. Just an educated guess as to how big a gigapixel file could be. By using raw data, rather than worrying about how good of compression the chosen file type gets, I can simply estimate high on the amount of storage we'd need.
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  UNSOLVED Need to migrate images from iCloud
  nextcloud migration pictures icloud • • JaredBusch  

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  Have you tried the linux Icloud Photo downloader? https://github.com/ndbroadbent/icloud_photos_downloader Or installing Icloud for Linux and then mounting the photo space? sudo snap install icloud-for-linux If I recall, the drive folder is here, photos can't be too terribly different ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/
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  Tutorial Flow
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  @JaredBusch said in Tutorial Flow: @JasGot said in Tutorial Flow: I believe most tutorials are written to get something up and running with as few steps as possible, assuming there will be no variances that create differences from the norm in a lab, and the person who wrote the tutorial expects the person reading the tutorial only wants it to work, rather than understand how and why it works, along with how to configure it for different scenarios; and the the writer must also believe the reader has no issues with run-on sentences. If you ever see one of mine like that, call me the fuck out on it. Didn't read; sentence is too short Oh, and I will, just for you!
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  Break-Glass Access Control For Business Owners
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  Plus you'd get things like single use passwords, SSH CA, encryption as a service, and some more
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  Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness
  linux ubuntu ubuntu 19.10 • • scottalanmiller  

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  @Obsolesce said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness: @scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness: @Obsolesce said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness: @scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness: @CCWTech said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness: @scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness: On Ubuntu 19.10, there is a brightness setting on the power screen in settings. But it doesn't seem to do anything. You can slide it, but nothing happens. Anyone having luck adjusting screen brightness on Ubuntu? We've tested on multiple machines, all seem the same. Both Nvidia and AMD cards same lack of adjustment. Running 19.10 and I don't even have a brightness setting at all. I have it, but it affects nothing. Laptop or desktop monitor? I can't imagine it working on anything but a laptop. Desktop That's why. I know of no OS that controls monitor brightness unless it's a laptop/tablet/phone/etc. Never an external monitor with separate power source. Me either, but @CCWTech was asking for it. I've never looked for it before. No idea what it should do in that situation.
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  Kari's Law and Special SMB Onus on IT Staff
  voip pbx telephony karis law • • scottalanmiller  

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  @DustinB3403 said in Kari's Law and Special SMB Onus on IT Staff: @scottalanmiller You just said that Enterprise customers can be forced to update their information, but smaller orgs get a pass. I must be misreading what you've typed. Yes, the CUSTOMERS get a pass, IT that supports small customers has to provide the information that they don't have control over. Enterprise customers have to provide the information from the company. SMB customers get to not tell anyone when changes are made and blame someone with no power or way to get that information for certain.
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  Kari's Law and other telecom changes
  pbx telecom karis law shaken stir • • JaredBusch  

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  @JaredBusch said in Kari's Law and other telecom changes: @scottalanmiller said in Kari's Law and other telecom changes: law ....... simply .............. written HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA LOL - yeah, pretty much this.
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  Kari's Law and Notification Requirements
  voip pbx telephony karis law • • scottalanmiller  

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  At least the notification requirements are pretty simple and straightforward. For almost everyone, just email out a notification.
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  Kari's Law and Hotdesking
  voip pbx karis law hotdesking • • scottalanmiller  

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  @DustinB3403 said in Kari's Law and Hotdesking: @scottalanmiller I would say, you should disable it if someone can't pick up any phone and call 911. It IS disabled in that situation. So removes it from law coverage.
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  Firefox Zero Day
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  @black3dynamite true, you just have to make sure everyone restarts their FF!