Posts made by Brains

Well if you've seen my previous questions, you should expect something obscure and weird and I'm happy to provide another instance in Billy's Wacky House of IT Wonders. I finally solved this issue and wanted to share it.

So on my main PC, using my domain admin credentials, I am no longer able to access 2 out of 3 network shares (3rd share I created) or the administrative share on our backup server. However, I can access those shares when logged into a different computer. Also when logged into my main PC with a Test Domain Admin account, I can access the shares.

So the problem seems to be limited to my user account on my PC only. I have recreated my profile with no dice. I verified nothing was mapped via "net use". Even mapping and deleting JIC.

So it being limited to 1 account on 1 machine really narrowed down the problem. I checked the Credential Manager in Win10 and apparently it decided to save the connection information for the 1 share I created (restricted permissions utilizing a specific account for our Voicemail automated backups). Once I deleted the 2 entries in Credential Manager, I was able to access the share.

Hope this helps someone. I'm still not sure how/why Windows 10 decided to save those credentials like that for the machine itself instead of the network share specifically, but its all fixed now!

leaving work soon after a long day. Picked up some new Saucony Running Shoes to help with my shin splints. Might give them a try out tonight

@nadnerB said in Does anyone here administer Windows 10 Touchscreen Public Facing Kiosks?:

You might have to disable gestures entirely (as in multi touch)... still checking some stuff

EDIT: Not looking good. You could disable the double tap gesture but that might make administering the kiosk a pain (if using the touchscreen).
A lot of people reckon the registry option is a go, but this article says:

According to my testing this only seems to disable pinch-zoom for my kiosk application (which uses the Internet Explorer WebBrowser Control) but does not disable pinch-zoom in the native Internet Explorer web browser

Apparently, Chrome can do it (disable pinch zoom)... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22999829/disable-chrome-pinch-zoom-for-use-in-kiosk

awesome thanks! I was planning on researching Chrome as an option tomorrow!

@Breffni-Potter said in I Would Fire Someone For....:

Stealing.
Lying.
No commitment, zero energy, just slothful.
No desire/drive to improve on weak areas.

These for me are the big 4, I'm not really into the "He wasted $$$ fire him" because I've done it in business and regretted it, mistakes do happen but you do learn from him but point 4, if there is no desire to improve after the mistake, then that's when we have problems.

yep as long as they can learn and improve, its not fireable. But once they DGAF, you're out the door

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Making plans to attend calling hours for a friend this week. He died Saturday. He was possibly as young as 25, but was probably 26. He had a heart attack and died. My girl and I both knew him pretty well and were both friends with him but for totally independent reasons...it's been a rough weekend...

Oh wow, that really sucks Sorry for your loss.

http://obits.syracuse.com/obituaries/syracuse/obituary.aspx?n=adam-c-irish&pid=181147096&fhid=22220
https://www.gofundme.com/2ksvx9g

Done

@Dashrender said in Dcdiag /TEST:DNS - Different results depending on which computer runs the command (same server):

I don't know if it's the same problem or not, but I have an old AD infrastructure here. It started with Windows 200 and has been upgraded over the years. Newer versions of AD have wanted new subfolders in DNS that the upgrade (AD Forest Prep/AD Domain Prep) never took care of automatically.

I suggest looking for a MS document on what entries are suppose to be in DNS and look for what you are missing. I was missing an entire branch. Once I created it by hand, my issues went away.

interesting. Did you also have the discrepancy where it produces 2 different results depending on which machine runs the command?

@scottalanmiller unfortunately even running IE in Kiosk mode does not stop the ability to pinch zoom. Keyboard and mouse zoom were already disabled

@scottalanmiller ive tried that and it didnt work. Hrmm - I see something that may have been missed. Im not sure we are opening IE in Kiosk mode. Ill check

@scottalanmiller said in Does anyone here administer Windows 10 Touchscreen Public Facing Kiosks?:

@Brains said in Does anyone here administer Windows 10 Touchscreen Public Facing Kiosks?:

just doing a simple bump to see if anyone can help me disable pinch zoom in IE on a touch screen

That's one that I've never done, I'm afraid!

darn. Its just so easy for a patient to accidentally zoom in on a big touchscreen. DARN YOU MICROSOFT!!! Why do you remove these features and sabotage me?!?!?!

just doing a simple bump to see if anyone can help me disable pinch zoom in IE on a touch screen

@thanksajdotcom That really sucks. Im sorry for your loss

Haha I took my A+ when we still had to memorize the IRQ Assignments. Kids these days have now idea how much easier that test is now. Still worthless, but at least it taught me all my IRQs when I was 17.

so this is a weird one and I was hoping someone with more experience troubleshooting these issues could fill me in on whats going on.

If I run "dcdiag /s:<domaincontroller>.pridedallas.com /TEST:DNS from my machine, I get a FAIL for RReg (errors below). If I run the same command or the simpler version "dcdiag /TEST:DNS" on the domain controller, I get a PASS for RReg. I have lots of ideas as to the cause, but can someone give me some concrete information?

FYI everything seems to be working fine on the surface, just following up on some errors logs we saw.

Errors

                 Network Adapter [00000010] NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller:
                 Warning:
                 Missing CNAME record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 d2da22e1-2b40-46c5-807c-76fe02ff7519._msdcs.domanname.com

                 Warning:
                 Missing A record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 DOMAINCONTROLLER.domanname.com

                 Error:
                 Missing SRV record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 _ldap._tcp.domanname.com

                 Error:
                 Missing SRV record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 _ldap._tcp.908f7fb4-0d70-4fce-a693-af582671bcf3.domains._msdcs.domanname.com

                 Error:
                 Missing SRV record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 _kerberos._tcp.dc._msdcs.domanname.com

                 Error:
                 Missing SRV record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.domanname.com

                 Error:
                 Missing SRV record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 _kerberos._tcp.domanname.com

                 Error:
                 Missing SRV record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 _kerberos._udp.domanname.com

                 Error:
                 Missing SRV record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 _kpasswd._tcp.domanname.com

                 Error:
                 Missing SRV record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 _ldap._tcp.Dallas._sites.domanname.com

                 Error:
                 Missing SRV record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 _kerberos._tcp.Dallas._sites.dc._msdcs.domanname.com

                 Error:
                 Missing SRV record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 _ldap._tcp.Dallas._sites.dc._msdcs.domanname.com

                 Error:
                 Missing SRV record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 _kerberos._tcp.Dallas._sites.domanname.com

                 Error:
                 Missing SRV record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 _ldap._tcp.gc._msdcs.domanname.com

                 Warning:
                 Missing A record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 gc._msdcs.domanname.com

                 Error:
                 Missing SRV record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 _gc._tcp.Dallas._sites.domanname.com

                 Error:
                 Missing SRV record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 _ldap._tcp.Dallas._sites.gc._msdcs.domanname.com

                 Error:
                 Missing SRV record at DNS server DC_IP:
                 _ldap._tcp.pdc._msdcs.domanname.com

           Error: Record registrations cannot be found for all the network adapters

we keep our own internal blacklist for pushy or harassing vendors. I had to actually cut one off the other day. I think a public one would be too easily abused / require too much verification and maintenance

I ended up using WinAero Skip Metro Suite to disable most of the side swipes.
http://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.103

I am still having an issue disabling Touchscreen Pinch To Zoom in IE. Anyone have any ideas? All of my previous solutions for Win7 dont work (darn windows 10!!!)
I am thinking about making a code change since this is an internal page (ms-touch-action is deprecated for touch-action, I reviewed the documentation and it seems to be functionally similar)

• {
  -ms-touch-action: none;
  -ms-content-zooming: none;
  }

What i've tried:

• HKCU & HKLM>Software>Microsoft>Internet Explorer>Zoom>ZoomDisabled =1
• User/Computer Configuration>Administrative Templates>Windows Components>Internet Explorer>Turn off page zooming functionality>Enabled

All of the solutions I have found online are in reference to a touchpad. Currently, I am going through the registry attempting to identify the key that holds the touchscreen driver information, JIC that has something useful in it.

Any ideas?

@Mike-Davis said in end user computer backups:

I agree with everything said. It basically comes down to one manager. His machine got infected, so we nuked it by reimaging it. 40 minutes later he had his new computer, but it took another 2 hours for Windows updates to catch up to current since the image was so old. Then he had to tweak all his apps. So then he asked for the computer backup.

I almost think firing off the user state migration tool every so often might solve his problem, but I have to put the numbers together to show it's going to be expensive to store and expensive to manage for something that would get used very rarely.

ahh! Maybe have 1 replacement machine ready to deploy at all times? Or loaner machines for temporary deployment? If a user's computer goes down, we have it replaced within 5 minutes. All common software is installed on the replacement machine when it is built and most of our users do not use alot of specialized software

we use Jitsi and Telegram. Telegram has different chat groups that you could use for specific feature conversations. its all encrypted AFAIK

Monday morning granola bar. Still resting from seeing Kristian Nairn Live Saturday Night. Evaluating Webroot for replacing Kaspersky is my primary focus, we will see how much time I actually get to spend on it today

@scottalanmiller said in RingCentral Spamming My Users:

@Brains said in RingCentral Spamming My Users:

@Reid-Cooper said in RingCentral Spamming My Users:

That sounds like someone acting like RingCentral to me. Seems very fishy for it to be RC themselves.

Very fishy, but they have confirmed it is a vendor they contract out to and will be ensuring the SPAM is stopped

Maybe a lot of their problems are third party vendors doing things in their name.

Unless their tech support is all third party vendors, I respectfully disagree to the cause. I would say both of them are symptoms of bad management decisions and not focusing on the customer though.

@Reid-Cooper said in RingCentral Spamming My Users:

That sounds like someone acting like RingCentral to me. Seems very fishy for it to be RC themselves.

Very fishy, but they have confirmed it is a vendor they contract out to and will be ensuring the SPAM is stopped