New-PSSession -ComputerName Host1 New-PSSession -ComputerName Host2 Get-PSSession will show all sessions you created. Use Enter-PSSession to enter one of your opened session

Nice! I was thinking about doing this soon.

@travisdh1 said in Cross platform automated patch management: @wrx7m said in Cross platform automated patch management: @marcinozga said in Cross platform automated patch management: Ansible is the correct solution, and I guess you could save output to log file with log_plays plugin. Perhaps AWX or Tower have reporting capability, I haven't used Tower and I briefly looked and AWX. Other configuration management solutions might do what you need too. Tower is pricey, depending on your needs. AWX lacks "support", as it is free. Also, AWX is treated as a toy and has constant issues with the current release software. You can see all the issues I had when experimenting with it: https://mangolassi.it/topic/19300/install-awx-on-centos-7-with-docker That is a complaint that I saw, as well.

@Fredtx This has usually worked for me in the past.

@Oksana That's really awesome!

I went to MicroCenter tonight and was looking at laptops. I had a salesperson ask what I was looking for. I got a strange look when I said I wanted W10 Home cause it would get wiped anyway. I don't think she thought I was serious.

@wrx7m said in Server 2016 - Force Default Update Server to WSUS Server Via GPO: @dbeato said in Server 2016 - Force Default Update Server to WSUS Server Via GPO: This would have happened on Server 2012 R2 as well, dual scan has been around and causes a lot of problems as you noted. It is strange that I didn't have these issues in 2012 R2. I essentially copied the same GPO for 2012 R2 and made some minor changes to it to convert it for 2016. My 2012 R2 show the correct default service. Weird, I have various Server 2016and now 2019 with WSUS and while dual scan was an issue for me on Server 2012/ 2012 R2 not anymore.

@pmoncho said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?: @Dashrender said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?: Cool, then you should have it easy. FYI - Published apps still create a full profile on the RDS box, Just the desktop isn't presented to the user. If the application allows them to browse around, they could typically see the drive letters, the mapped printers, etc... that's why you still need to lock all that stuff down. Thanks for the info. I will keep that in mind. I was debating about using UPD's like @wrx7m and that was my interest in this post. Also, still planning out where to put Connection Broker, WebAccess and Licensing but that is another post. For local profile management, UPDs are a lot cleaner. If we are not putting them on a file server across the network then a second partition/VHDX is set up for that task to keep them separate. With the inclusion of FSLogix with RDS CALs/SALs now it's a no-brainer, IMNSHO, to set the project up on the FSLogix version. Storage management is another reason why UPDs on a network or separate partition make sense. Keeping a local profile on the C:\ of the session host is messy and can cause issues down the road with users coming and going. As far as the Broker/Gateway/Web put those roles on one VM but separate from the Session Host.

@IRJ said in Windows Server 2012 R2 - Share Auditing for Changes: I know you use wazuh.. Check this out https://documentation.wazuh.com/current/user-manual/capabilities/file-integrity/index.html Thanks! Checking out setting this up. Hopefully, it will reveal the culprit.

@black3dynamite said in Hats off cmder: @Emad-R said in Hats off cmder: notepad= notepad++ I preferred to use Visual Studio Code instead. It's just a steam and video machine. The one-liner quick installs with chocolatey as he likely does is best in that case. No need to get fancy.

I have not dealt with this much, however I have seen sharing groups get their members removed completely.

Okay so figured it out with this guide. From Windows administrative Powershell ssh-keygen type C:\Users\<username>\.ssh\id_rsa.pub | ssh [email protected] 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys' Exit administrative Powershell Open Powershell ssh [email protected] Logged in.

@mary said in Windows HomeGroups, WorkGroups, and Domains - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: Is there any alternative to home group now that it isn't available on Windows 10? Also why would you use workgroup instead of Windows Domain? Is it a cost issue? "Home Group" was just a fancy name for network sharing without AD on Windows computers.

@mary said in Windows Control Panel - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: This may be basic but, can cookies damage your system in anyway? It's one of those things that a lot of sites require you to accept, and an average user just accepts them. So the cookie itself is just a text file. A tiny one. That's it. So the cookie itself does nothing. The issues are if the cookie has something in the text and a browser reads it and does something it shouldn't because of it. But realistically, that's not going to happen. The main concerns around cookies are that they help people to track you, but you need to be tracked. We've been conditioned to thinking that being tracked is a bad thing, but cookies are what lets us track you from post to post here in RoIT for example.

Pretty useful stuff. I played around with some of the commands on my laptop.

@mary said in Windows Task Manager - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: Do any of you use task manager to troubleshoot what if there is an issue with a PC? I'm trying to get a sense of the steps people go through. Constantly. If working on Windows, it's the "go to" starting point to "see what is going on." It's not a once in a while tool, it's the "might as well just always start there" tool. It gives you a quick glance to see what the system itself is doing. If CPU or RAM is maxed out, or a process list looks crazy, that's almost always what is wrong no matter what it is that you came to look at! I mean if I'm looking for a missing folder of cat pictures, I don't open the task manager first. Nor if I'm installing a new printer. But if I am troubleshooting anything going on with the system, that's the first place to look. The Resource Monitor is also pretty fantastic.

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: @JaredBusch well it's good to be explicit that Windows Defender and Windows Defender Firewall are two different products. But also Windows Firewall isn't a real name, either. Windows Defender Firewall is the name of the Windows firewall. So using "Windows Firewall" or "firewall by Windows Defender" are essentially the same - lose descriptions of the brand name. All make sense. Good to remember that the pieces are discrete. The best full statement is "the Windows firewall is Windows Defender Firewall." True, but until Windows 10, it was simply called Windows Firewall. So that is a correct legacy term. Vista introduced the longer term Windows Firewall with Advanced Security in the MMC snap in. It stayed those two terms until Windows 10.

@mary said in Windows Administrative Tools - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: Is there a list anywhere of the Windows command prompts, or do you usually look at the help to look at options? I realize the more seasoned IT person would have a lot of these committed to memory, but just starting out this is a bit overwhelming. There seem to be a lot of them to keep track of. Kind of. There are some built in tools to the shell itself, and some standard Windows tools that you can call. but keep in mind that you can add an unlimited number of additional ones, because all you are doing is calling installed applications. So while there are lists of the ones built in, most people have loads and loads of ones that are not.

@mary said in Microsoft Command Line Tools - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: Can you remote in to restart a PC if it is frozen or are you stuck looking at what the user is? Depends on the tools at your disposal and where "you" are. You can remote in using tools like RDP, but if the user is frozen, likely that won't help. You can remote in using PsExec, PowerShell Remoting or SSH and those will often work if the OS isn't completely frozen. You can use tools like ScreenConnect or MeshCentral, they will allow for remote command execution through local agents. And DevOps tools like SaltStack will issue remote commands similarly. But it all depends on your level of remote access, what has been set up ahead of time, and how frozen things are.

@scottalanmiller said in Installing and Upgrading Windows - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: ot crippled from having been upgraded rather than being a fresh install. So at least they appear to have fixed something in their I would agree with Jared and Scott when it comes from a Windows 10 to Windows 10 newer version upgrade... not so much when coming from Windows 7, 8, 8.1. Personally I'd still wipe and reload after an upgrade from any of those OSes... who know what old crap was still around from those installs. But like JB and Scott - Win 10 to Win 10 - generally OK once you get it there.

@mary said in Windows in the Enterprise - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: I found the most annoying thing about being able to log into any computer you like is the fact that windows took its sweet time loading up your desktop if you never logged in to that PC before. Where I worked it just gave you a blank desktop and didn't bring what you had from another desktop with it so I would have to get all my shortcuts and set them up myself. Something tells me it isn't supposed to work that way. That's how Windows is "supposed to work" actually. They design it that way to get fast metrics on other parts of the process. It doesn't have to be that way, even with Windows. This is caused mostly by having users handled by Active Directory and having non-local profiles. This can be handy, but it has to set up a new user on the machine at the time that they log in for the first time and it needs to figure out what to do and often bring settings or files from somewhere remotely. There are plenty of ways to speed it up, but since it only happens under those conditions, most places ignore it.

@Dashrender said in An Overview of Windows 10 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: @mary said in An Overview of Windows 10 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: First thing I did was get back to the old school desktop. Not sure what you mean? As for changing the start menu - I used to do that to.. but as a consultant, going around all over the place, that just become a waste of time. I learned to use the new defaults that MS provides. it's one thing to setup the machine you use on a daily basis for max efficiency, but the rest, just use them as the default. Especially in IT, we aren't end users. End users customize because they have one system and its purpose is to make them efficient. IT has to constantly work on a variety of systems and we need to be able to use them as they are. One of the best lessons I got from my first IT "teacher" (at uni) was as a system admin to never customize anything because when you need to get work done, those customizations won't be there.

@Dashrender said in An Overview of Windows 8 and 8.1 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: @scottalanmiller said in An Overview of Windows 8 and 8.1 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: @Dashrender said in An Overview of Windows 8 and 8.1 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: Pretty sure 512 megs of RAM was not the common thing when Windows 8 came out. Perhaps 2 GB, Though my shops have been running 4 GB since Windows 7. It's true, 2GB was the super low end for Windows 7, and 4GB was more the norm. I had 6GB during the Win 7 era and it wasn't considered to be much, 8GB was a good amount but not crazy. Agreed - I personally had 8+ GB of RAM - virtual machines baby... pffft - 16GB, now 32GB... all the things.

@mary said in An Overview of Windows 7 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: I watched it. I used that OS, seems outdated material. Windows 7 is the desktop version of Server 2008 R2 which came out in 2010. So just about a full decade old now!