@scottalanmiller

Never finished B5,.. I should go back for it...

I've been trying to finish Airwolf, Streethawk and a few others...

Good luck. I didn't know that USMT was even still a thing used... Maybe some places disable / block it.

One Drive maybe? IDK.. If the vendor has the devices, profiles are difficult to move without the initial sign on. Now, I could be wrong on that... Maybe there is a way to do that without compromising the users password... because IT will never ask for your password. And if they do, it was a test,.. ONLY A TEST!...

@scottalanmiller said in Color Printer: new set up best practices:

Probably depends on printing patterns. We print VERY little, and only a few people, so for us a single printer and the end user is trusted to print what makes sense in the printer setup is what makes sense. If you have a huge office and only some people should print in color and you print a lot, then two printers would make sense.

Looking at it from that aspect - good plan. As much as I would love to rid myself of the printers it is a heavy need. They print all of the pick or pack slips for products to be shipped and they the commercial invoices - which have to use color.

I am only getting these three printers and they ruined five HP Color printers by buying and using sub-standard paper. Paper was such crap, I spent about eighteen hours tearing one printer down to the transfer belt and finding nothing. Of course, canned air on nearly every part of the disassembly could have help.

These three new printers will be on a service contract - so someone local can service them,.. or replace them. and I won't have to keep dropping upwards of two grand a printer every sixteen months.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Traveled for work three out of the last seven weeks.. tad worn out.

Anywhere fun?

Well,.. let me think..

Yes and no.

Spent a week in Lansing, Michigan - our home office. Got to see the new building and the new manufacturing line and a number of my fellow team that I generally don't see often.

Following week was four days in Cincinnati, Ohio to support the regional conference and see other people I have worked with...

This past week was Oakdale, Minnesota at the lab and Beaver Dam, Wisconsin at the manufacturing site there..

All in all,. not really fun but got to catch up with people and take care of any IT needs they had.. resolved a few and postponed a few others.

We all hate printers,.. I'm not a fan either. I just realized with adding three printers this week or next I'll have to update two or three print servers and then the users.

But - For a color printer, is it still best practice to create two printers? One Mono and one Color?

Or just let the user deal with it and only create one?

Sitting here I've nearly given myself whiplash three times now. Start to doze off and head drops waking me up..

I'm really trying to see how I want to set three new color printers up.

Traveled for work three out of the last seven weeks.. tad worn out.

@JaredBusch
the UniFi Express 7 looks pretty decent in capacity and features - and likely a contendor replacement for the UniFi Lite Router I have since my NTG days. Has that really been ten years ago now?

I will say I sort of feel that they seriously missed the mark in the design. Seems that USB-C has to be shoved into everything - but seriously - why!!??

They could have easily put the PSU into the unit and only had the AC power cable. True, the unit shouldn't need to be moved once in place. But,.. really? Get real - Just because USB--C can do so much, doesn't mean that you need to use it everywhere - especially when all you are suppling is 5v. Incorporate the whole thing and it'll be a better format.

That said,.. I'm still likely to move to something like it or this in the future.

I used this for polling printers on specific print server for printers like:

#Printer - Get devices like

$remoteComputer = "PrintServer01"
# Get printer information
$printers = $printers = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Printer -ComputerName $remoteComputer |
Where-Object { $_.Name -match '^SITE[-_]' }

foreach ($printer in $printers) {
    $port = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_TCPIPPrinterPort -ComputerName $remoteComputer |
        Where-Object { $_.Name -eq $printer.PortName }

    [PSCustomObject]@{
        Name       = $printer.Name
        IPAddress  = $port.HostAddress
        #Model      = $printer.DriverName
        #PrintServer= $printer.ServerName
    }
}

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Hey guys, in Houston for the week just hanging out. Last scheduled trip to the US. Not sure when I'll be back. Updated my driver's license, did some work in my storage unit. Back to paradise in the morning.

Hope you had a good visit - Hope things are going well for you and all your endeavors...

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Doing some platform updates today.

That explains why things look different..

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Working on a script to delete old profiles in Windows based on this tool
https://rsn.home.blog/2023/02/09/ad-profile-cleanup/

I've recently noticed some 'trash' user profiles on some computers. Sadly I don't have one to reference - but generally acts like it is the first signon, and creates multiples of the same profile incrementing in number. I'll see if I can't find a machine tomorrow with one - sure it won't be difficult to find one.

Here some some results that may help:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/disk-drive-stuck-in-read-only-state-despite/33aaaad5-75ee-4e6c-b5bc-3b5f816d99ba

One suggestion is the Samsung tool: "Please check your drive using Samsung Magician too"

SSD 970 EVO PLUS in read-only and shop wants me to send it - what would you recommend

Suggests saving what you can and move on.

M.2 NVMe Boot SSD locked in Read-Only

If you can read it, you can recover data and move on,.. Check warranty of the drive, but depending on what is on it,.. do you (risk)warranty replacing it? I generally always get a new drive and retain the old drives, make copies and pull the drive apart (platters and magnets) and anything solid state gets the hammer fire treatment. My bench is a black hole to drives or any type of storage.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse Purchased a Protectli device. I'll have Fedora running on it acting as a router.

That is pretty cool - (Link text show vp2420 model)

Be interested in a write up should you get the time; installed options, performance, OS and such.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Sketching out nftables for home router project.

What kind of router? I ask as I should likely replace the old UB Lite I have that has served me well..

What make and model of m.2? this might be useful -

Planning ahead for the inevitable day when the computer crashes on me when out in the field and I have to rebuild it.

Found how to export drivers on Windows, using [cmd] or [powershell].

So that is half of the battle.. but sometimes I will need to do the same for Linux. Yes,.. many drivers are already built into the native Linux system,.. but there are some odd cases where it is likely they are not the 'right one needed'.

And while I am looking, this is so I can come back later and find what I did to solve the matter.

@travisdh1 said in Getting Domain Information / Owner:

@gjacobse Try the source, ICANN.

https://lookup.icann.org/en

Site seems to use Domains By Proxy, part of GoDaddy,.... maybe,..

Getting the owner and other information about a domain

Looks like I need to gather information on a domain - who owns it,. registered through, and expiry date.

It's been a while since I have had to do anything like this. Tried whois and didn't seem to be getting any real information about it. I think the register is GoDaddy.. but would like to confirm so I can take the information to the club board. They have 'had enough' of the lack of response and such from the 'current' admin (pfft,.. if that is what you'd call his total dis-interest and lack of doing anything).

While nothing wrong perse with how its done,.. he 'pays' his yearly dues with the registration costs.. and then uses Google Sites (sigh) for the hosting. ;

No one can figure it out, I tried and gave up. just want to move it to a true host, using a true CMS that is understandable.

tnx

@travisdh1 said in WINGET: Not available on Win10.:

I found that the name has changed to UniGetUI recently. I've been using it recently since it does all the Windows repositories I know about.

I seem to remember WingetUI,.. But This is a case of a fresh install of Win10 not having the 'updated MS Store' that even has the native Microsoft Winget.

I will however take a look at UniGetUI.. My goal maybe was simply just staying out of the MS Store,.. and using CLI like chocolatey, apt-get and the similar...

Rude... Should have written down the steps...

sigh.. I know Win10 is dead,.. but sometimes it is still needed...