Nope words you never say to your boss, but you let your face express em..

_ ____ ___ so.

@mlnews said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Imagine how much of a pain in the ass it is to get all of those mirrors clean...

Kill me now..

So I had a conversation today about a network share, and was told "just give everyone access to it".

Um no.... everyone is not a security group that you use. Period. Its the reason for creating dedicated network shares that you have custom security groups.

Get a grip people.... allowing "everyone" is not secure!

@NerdyDad Oh no, we're well past the bottom of the barrel at this point, we're digging to china..

The 3-2-1 rule is really a simple solution.

3 copies of your data.
2 backup mediums
1 of the backup mediums is offsite.

So the 3 copies include your production data on your servers, and then 2 backup copies. Say one copy pushed to an Onsite NAS, and the other pushed out to say Amazon S3 or BackBlaze B2. (really any off-site data storage provider)

So you have 3 copies of data, in 3 locations, and your actual backups are on different storage medium, and separated by geographic distance.

Morning everyone, first full week at the new job, making some plans on things to document and understand the process as it is in place.

@stus would you be able to comment on the apparent spamming that people are receiving?

I'm looking at scale hardware, trying to come up with some plans to refresh the current infrastructure.

@msff-amman-Itofficer Now don't get me wrong, I understand not wanting to have to purchase new CALs because those can be expensive, but then I guess the question is; Why are you using Windows at all if you can't afford to keep current on a regularl refresh window?

DBAN'ing a laptop and installing Kubuntu to a laptop that we're going to donate.

@NDC said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:

Have you checked to see if the antenna wires are properly attached to the wireless card? Fairly likely to have been pulled during a motherboard swap out and I swear those little bastards are never the same after you disconnect them once.

I haven't because I have warranty on the device, so I'm not touching this thing besides to confirm its usability.

Normally I would, and that is what I'm assuming as well...

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller It's something I've wanted to bring up for a while.

Specifically I have a user with something that Windows Defender apparently cannot remove. Since I don't have any other removal tools to try (and this person is in another state, so nuke and start over isn't an option right now), I'm having to go through process monitor to try to see what's writing to the directory that Windows Defender doesn't like in order to try to figure out what the offending program is -- and try to remove it.

Install the trial version of MBAM and see if it can get rid of it?

That's my last resort. I don't like the idea of (assuming the EULA of the trial prohibits use for production work) using a trial as a free one-off tool, as this problem will occur again and with other users.

Good point. Guess I should read the EULA next time I need it, lol. What bug is it that Windows Defender won't get rid of?

Windows. . . . which is a pretty big bug. . .

@jeffepops said in Create isolated (wired) LAN for Guest Room?:

@JaredBusch Thanks. I don't want to assume, so do you think an intelligent person can configure the Ubiquiti using its on line tutorial/manual? AS I mentioned earlier, I could pay someone, but would like the challenge of figuring it out.

Yeah the equipment is easy to configure, plus you have Mangolassi, where you ask for guidance for free.

@wirestyle22 "lost" and had sucked out with a vacuum are two different things. . .

@aidan_walsh There are a bunch of DFS's in existence, but are you really capable of deploying them to your working fleet of windows PC's?

One of the key things with AetherStore is you're supported, and the cost is negligible compared to the weeks or months of setting up your own implementation.

This is how you should die.

Import-Module ActiveDirectory 
$userInput = $null 
Do 
{ 
	$prompt = Read-Host -Prompt "New employee" 
	$proxy = Read-host -Prompt "full proxy address as SMTP:[email protected]"
	$user = Get-ADUser $prompt -Properties mail, ProxyAddresses
	$userInput = "$($user.samaccountname)" 
} While($user -eq $null)

Set-ADUser $user -Add @{ProxyAddresses="$proxy"}

What I'd like to remove is the need to fill in the full proxy address.

I had tried Set-ADUser $user -Add @{ProxyAddresses=("SMTP:"+"$user"+"@domain.com")}

That didn't work at least not how I'd expected... What I have now, adds the proxy address, but it leaves room for a lot of error. Any pointers on how I can concatenate that last entry?

@Danp said in Non-profit infrastructure upgrades:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-profit infrastructure upgrades:

Core packs for Standard or Datacenter?

2016 Standard

For 2016 Standard in order to be able to move the VM's between the hosts (at will), both host have to be equally licensed. So if you only need 16 licenses for a single server, you have to double it for a 2 server setup.

Each license pack is dedicated to the hardware, to operate the VM's on that rack or tower.

Someone's chocolate factory is getting a tour alright. . . .