@Oksana

Isn't the short answer to the article that ESXi simply has an extremely limited feature set if using the free edition. I believe the Eval edition is restricted but to a lesser extent and for a specific duration before it shuts down.

Hey all, long time.

Just had a conversation with my purchasing guy, who's been doing this for decades the conversation came up about Server licensing, 1 Socket or 2 (or 400) and the core count.

Can someone refresh my memory on the specifics of this.

• I would eat my hat, but I could've sworn the licensing is every core and socket (using Standard licensing) needs to be licensed with a Core-Pack (16 core minimum) and the Server Standard license.

• He's under the impression that you only need to purchase 1 Server Standard license and the core-pack to cover the spread of those cores.

Microsoft's licensing seems to indicate that its a Per Socket with a Core Rider, as indicated here.

HPE has some tool which indicates the inverse here

Trying to get the touch screen to work on a Microsoft surface with fedora 38, anyone have any pointers? No pun intended.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Morning all. Having the coffee!

Ditto

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Having my mind blown that the CCNA certification doesn't bring up anything about SNMP community strings....

At least according to an employee...

From my latest round of Cisco CCNA Training (circa 2001), it wasn't mentioned then either, lol.

But like... the history of SNMP and networking... and the damn fact that everything and their cousins includes "public" and "private" community strings by default.....

@jt1001001 said in User migration to azure:

We used https://www.forensit.com/domain-migration.html to do profile migrations; it worked OK but the big pain was it would not move Outlook profiles correctly and we had to rebuild Outlook for some of our users

Yea I've used this in the past for migrations and haven't had any issues. Actually have a new customer that is wanting to get setup with some central administration of things and this was on the list to use.

Having my mind blown that the CCNA certification doesn't bring up anything about SNMP community strings....

At least according to an employee...

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

He doesn't even need the mask to prove that point.

@WrCombs said in JAMF - Thoughts?:

@DustinB3403 said in JAMF - Thoughts?:

I've not heard anything good or bad regarding Jamf in a long while.

To ask some probing questions, what type of business are you working in?

Would you be supporting a single site or business or multiple?

it would be multiple and I'm working with restaurants - a lot of them

So you'd be doing this as a managed servi e, I'm not sure if Jamf supports it, I know that Microsoft Intune, or Sophos mdm along with Apple DEP will work for multiple customers. But yo'd still have multiple Apple accounts (for app store purchases).

Yeah I suspect that this has to include some cloud services, but why order direct through Dell with OEM office? I would think you'd have an active 365 tenante for this if you're a windows shop.

I've not heard anything good or bad regarding Jamf in a long while.

To ask some probing questions, what type of business are you working in?

Would you be supporting a single site or business or multiple?

@scottalanmiller said in New Addition to Passwordless Authentication in Windows:

@DustinB3403 said in New Addition to Passwordless Authentication in Windows:

@Oksana Microsoft should really learn that a PIN is not a Password.

Forcing Windows Hello on businesses that opt to not have E3 or higher licenses and then forcibly making people use a PIN is just plain stupid.

There is a registry edit that can be made to disable Window Hello, but it's annoying to do so as it's a piecemeal approach.

It's Microsoft's way of reminding you, heavily, that Ubuntu is free.

While I agree, the focus would be to still have SSO on your azure bound device. I've never tried to bind Ubuntu or other linux distro to Azure.

@Obsolesce Yeah I got that far along, what I need to pull is a specific string from the output.

I have a few other ways that I was manipulating the string, like writing the entire output to a file and then pulling the 23rd line (for example) but that literally gets everything on that line.

When all I want is the InstallDate

@Oksana Microsoft should really learn that a PIN is not a Password.

Forcing Windows Hello on businesses that opt to not have E3 or higher licenses and then forcibly making people use a PIN is just plain stupid.

There is a registry edit that can be made to disable Window Hello, but it's annoying to do so as it's a piecemeal approach.

Get-ChildItem -path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\' | W
here-Object -FilterScript { $_.GetValue("DisplayName") -eq 'Software' }

Gets me the content I want, now I gotta filter out how I can pull just the single string I need...

Hey All, Hoping I can get some help as I'm just not thinking straight.

I want to be able to use reg query $variablePathName /f /InstallDate /s

But I'm being told that $VariablePathName isn't a valid path (no dur) yet it is if I run the prior command which gives me the path.

How can I use reg query to search using a variable?

Contemplating all of my life choices as I swear I'm being gaslit at work continuously.

Not sure if it's time to update the resume or what..

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

When you realize it's for normal people, not computer nerds. People into any genre don't watch reality TV of that genre. People into computers find him annoying, people who find people into computers weird and can't understand them find him annoying because he fills their vision of what a computer nerd would be. Computer people are just offended.

Yup, cant stand the guy, waste of oxygen imo.

@gjacobse said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:

What do you want to do with this bootable Win10 usb?

Install Windows 10...

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

That uptime is rookie numbers.