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Key based Auth will fix the problem of asking you for your password 500 times.

For the ISOs, I usually make a separate folder and add it as a Storage Repo... Then just SCP the ISO's into the folder and you're good to go.

@NerdyDad said in Non-IT News Thread:

@StrongBad said in Non-IT News Thread:

This is hilarious...

http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/17/15331674/netflix-adam-sandler-movies-half-a-billion-hours

I have to admit, I'm one of them.

I'm not sure if this is sad on my part because of bad taste, but I actually like some of Adam Sandler's newer stuff. Yeah, some of his earlier works were stupid, like Little Nicky and Zohan, but others were actually funny.

Happy Gilmore and Mr. Deeds are among two of my favorites of his.

@manheraz said in Seeking how to improve:

@dashrender said in Seeking how to improve:

How about starting by sharing a list of your to dos, etc.

Well, that's one of my problems, trying to bite more than I can reallistically chew.

I have hundreds of items in my to do list, 90% "self imposed". As I keep learning, I keep adding ideas to improve the current infrastructure.

Then, I have a tought time trying to prioritize my work (too much items to process leads to something like analysis paralysis)

Also, trying to learn new technologies requires time, and that makes me question: should I improve my knowledge in the technologies in use at the moment or should I focus in learning more useful things for a near future?

Example: Should I improve my VMware skills (currently in production) or should I invest learning Hyper-V, PowerShell, PowerShell DSC, Puppet to be able to use that in a few months?

Our biggest project at this time is a total technology "refresh":

• Migrate from VMware vSphere Essentials to Hyper-V Server 2016
• Prepare to pass out the SAN (we have two ESXi diskless servers connected to an EMC array, going to Hyper-V with local storage)
• New network configuration (adding VLANs for a DMZ, a testlab, management interfaces... nothing fancy)
• New Active Directory domain/forest (we have a very old inherited domain that doesn't follow best practices)
• Upgrade from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2016
• Deploy standarized Windows (client and server) images using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit + WDS
• Manage software in client computers with Chocolatey
• Document everything (going with Dokuwiki)
• Try to automate everything as much as possible with Puppet (using The Foreman) and PowerShell/PowerShell DSC

So, I will be really busy for months...

Instead of analyzing all of the other things you have on your todo list, what you have here is a realistic starting point.

Take all of these things and start at the top and work your way down. I like the list in the order you have it

Forgot to mention my kiddo got an award at school last week!

Dia is another good tool for this. I haven't used it in eons though.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dia-installer/

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

The more I read the more sense Linux makes and the less sense Windows makes. Symbolic links are fantastic.

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@texkonc said in Import New-PublicFolder -Name in bulk:

Long story short, the previous guy left no documentation. I did find his template file however. Now I just the EMC shell syntax.
We have public folder data to add.
For example I have 95 lines of this just for this one year in a CSV.
New-PublicFolder -Name 910002 -Path \Projects\1991
New-PublicFolder -Name 910007 -Path \Projects\1991
New-PublicFolder -Name 910008 -Path \Projects\1991
New-PublicFolder -Name 910009 -Path \Projects\1991
New-PublicFolder -Name 910010 -Path \Projects\1991
New-PublicFolder -Name 910011 -Path \Projects\1991
New-PublicFolder -Name 910012 -Path \Projects\1991
New-PublicFolder -Name 910013 -Path \Projects\1991
New-PublicFolder -Name 910014 -Path \Projects\1991

Looking at this, it doesn't show how I could use a CSV instead of manually typing it in.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691104(v=exchg.150).aspx

I have 8 years to add like this. So I know he did it, I just have no idea what syntax he used to have Exchange shell grab from the CSV.

$myData=import-csv -Path "C:\Path\to\my\file.csv"

foreach ($line in $myData) {
 New-PublicFolder -Name $line.NewFolderName -Path "\Projects\$($line.projectYear)"
}

In the above examplethe CSV file would have a column named "NewFolderName" and another column named Project Year

(It can have other info, it only gets used if you need it)

@EddieJennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Today it seems the neural pathways used for determining the correct direction of a slash for a directory path between my Linux and Windows instances are clogged. My default is starting to become forward slashes.

This means you are spending enough time in Linux. Carry on!

Note, in the process below, <diskname> could be vda, sda, or hda.
The first command tells you which to use.

virsh domblklist plex
virsh blockcommit plex <disk name> --verbose --pivot --active

Once the blockcommit command finishes, shutdown plex, and rename the plex_snap disk image.

Start Plex back up and make sure your updates and such are still installed. If all is well, then delete the plex_snap disk image.

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

You can do a supplemental one that is added on after the main one is finished in case people need additional information.

This is known as the PSPSPPP

I think you're stuck in an infinite loop. Press CTRL+C when you have a chance to get out of it.

Or you can /smack the record player.

@dbeato said in RDS 2016 Remote App issue:

@dafyre said in RDS 2016 Remote App issue:

@dbeato said in RDS 2016 Remote App issue:

Hello All,

I have hit a wall (or it seems like it) with an RDS 2016 server that was deployed for a client. All servers are setup with Windows Server 2016 and are VMs.

The setup is as follows:
1- Server has RDGateway, RD Licensing and Remote Web Apps.
2- Server has The Connection Broker role
3- Server has the Remote Session Host role.

The problem I am seeing is that Remote Apps do not work or open from Web Interface or RDP file. I can connect to any remote server via RDP externally or Internally through the RDGateway also Remote Apps RDP files previously deployed work.

The error I get is "Your computer was unable to connect to the remote computer" but there are no errors in either the RDGateway, RD Connection Broker or Session Host.

Any advice or recommendation is appreciated. I also would like to note that I have removed and recreated the collection to not avail.

Check the RDP files that you get from your Web site and see if it has the RD Gateway setting in there?

It doesn’t, that’s what I found out. I added it manually to the RDP file in the registry and still doesn’t work

https://gitlab.com/dafyre/powershell-utils/raw/master/RAPPConfiguration.ps1

Here's a Powershell script I use to do it. (must be run as admin). From what I gather, this has to be done per collection...

./RAPPConfiguration.ps1 -collection "My collection" -gateway "rdgateway.mydomain.com"

Should get you going. I recommend running this from your connection broker.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The responses here are great. I can't believe that CompTIA themselves opened this can of worms: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1990752-what-did-a-do-for-you

"I will say that it opened my eyes when other people I worked with really struggled to pass the test. Some people had to cross train because they failed it 3 times. I even tried helping them study and they still couldn't pass the A+ exam. "

I had to be A+ certified for CARF Accredidation and I took both tests within two hours of each other and passed. I'm not the brightest crayon in the box either so that goes to show you how worthless the exams really are.

@wirestyle22 -- See? Even crayons have their uses!

@ccwtech said in Fedora 28 - Repo 'rommon-telegram' error:

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 28 - Repo 'rommon-telegram' error:

@ccwtech said in Fedora 28 - Repo 'rommon-telegram' error:

rommon-telegram

If you are going to install Telegram via RPM, you need to install telegram-desktop to make sure that you get the current one and not the discontinued COPR repo one with a similar name.

I have, but I still get that error every time I update.

Check and see if the repo is in /etc/yum.repos.d -- remove it if it is.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller can you post some SAM-SD info links fancy some "light" reading today

I was up till 4am with the SAM-SD guys. Man am I exhausted. I've not had a full night's sleep in nearly a week.

Can't work when you're dead.

@scottalanmiller will upload his consciousness into a computer and then obsess over his own backups of himself. Then ultimately they will try to cluster Scott together with other Scotts and they will argue with each other, causing the entire system to crash.

@scottalanmiller will be come the beginning of Skynet!

He'll probably turn into SAMnet...

SAM-1: It's happening the same way it did last time.
SAM-2: Yes. Exactly.

@romo said in Configuring QoS on a Edge Switch 48 Lite:

@dustinb3403 No yet, haven't had access to the switches yet. They do report internal call issues, so thinking maybe setting QoS on the switches might also help.

I would suggest using Cacti or Zabbix or something to monitor the switches... Especially on the Uplink ports.

My bosses are pretty flexible. When I was interviewed for this position, I told them, "I'm not your typical 8 to 5 worker. I understand stuff happens after hours and sometimes crap breaks at odd times. I'm totally okay with that. But that means you have you be okay with me being a few minutes late getting to work or getting back from lunch every now and again too."

So far, they've been pretty understanding when stuff happens. But I don't abuse it either.

ZT Can bet setup as a site-to-site VPN, but it takes more work and makes things more complex than they need to be.

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@jaredbusch said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

What really needs to be laid out here is a list of what needs done on both sides, both proactively and reactively after a failure. At that point relative costs can be estimated.

I certainly what @JaredBusch mentions would be a good grounding point for this point of discussion... Let's first describe the business scenario.

Company Details for Scenario 1
Acme, Inc.
24 Employees
1 x Virtualization Host
1 x AD Server (AD, DNS, DHCP) VM
Y x other VMs
Email is hosted on O365.
(we don't care about other VMs for sake of this discussion, do we?)
1 x Network Router

Assumptions:

• All devices use the AD DC for DNS 1 and the router for DNS 2
• Router points to AD Server for DNS 1, and CloudFlare for DNS 2
• Company already owns a working backup product

Scenario 1:
Problem: AD Server VM Blows up, Blue Screens, Gets Deleted or just won't boot.
Impact: Services Requiring AD for authentication will not work. Devices that were working when the AD Server died continue working until DHCP lease time runs out. Internet is up since the router can use CloudFlare for DNS.
Solution: Restore VM from most recent backup into new VM on the Virtualization host.
Cost Formula: Hours Downtime * Lost Productivity (if Any) = Total Cost
Cost: 2 hrs * $5000/hr = $10,000

Does that oversimplify the discussion or provide enough details?

Edit: Updated Assumptions to correct a DNS issue. Thanks @JaredBusch .

@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 huh. Did you try turning it off and turning it back on?

Or better yet, in the case of Reddit... just... off?

*ducks*