@scottalanmiller said in PowerShell AD Properties:

Are you sure AD stores that centrally? Looks like there is no option but to loop through the machines to do it.

$Computers =  Get-ADComputer  -Filter {(enabled -eq "true") -and (OperatingSystem -Like "*XP*")} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name
$output=@()
ForEach($PSItem in $Computers) {
    $User = Get-CimInstance Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName $PSItem | Select-Object -ExpandProperty UserName
    $Obj = New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{
        "Computer" = $PSItem
        "User" = $User
    }
$output+=$Obj    
}

$output

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/d69d41c4-a3df-4472-ade0-f51ec2e2a2e0/powershell-find-computers-that-a-specific-us-is-logged-on?forum=winservergen

Yeah, I saw that, too. I was hoping to avoid crawling each workstation. I've seen where some people are using a logon script to dump the user detail and timestamp to a globally accessible file. That's ... less than ideal.

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller I recently discovered that Trader Joe's carries Nitro Stout. Unfortunately, it's like $12 for a 6 pack.

That is a cheap 6pack here in $CDN

We get fancy ones from Oregon for $25/6pack

I recall that! I went to Calgary to teach a class and was blown away by the price of beer. Your government must be making all their money on vice taxes. It makes a good case for giving up all of your vices!

Liquor and smokes bud - ohhhh damn.

Good pack of smokes is near $14 now

Smokes bud? I thought you said Canada, not Colorado?

@travisdh1 said in PowerShell AD Properties:

@Grey Don't you have to turn on extra logging to get that centrally? I'd hate to have to hit each endpoint to grab that bit of information like @scottalanmiller already pointed out.

Yes, it's in GPO, and it's turned on. The logs go to the event manager for each workstation, though. There's a separate log in the DC for a user authentication event.

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller I recently discovered that Trader Joe's carries Nitro Stout. Unfortunately, it's like $12 for a 6 pack.

That is a cheap 6pack here in $CDN

We get fancy ones from Oregon for $25/6pack

I recall that! I went to Calgary to teach a class and was blown away by the price of beer. Your government must be making all their money on vice taxes. It makes a good case for giving up all of your vices!

Liquor and smokes bud - ohhhh damn.

Good pack of smokes is near $14 now

Smokes bud? I thought you said Canada, not Colorado?

You should come visit Canada again soon haha

https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=list+of+marijuana+dispensaries+bc&rflfq=1&rlha=0&rllag=48434959,-123377037,1001&tbm=lcl&tbs=ls:-1,lf_msr:-1,lf_od:-1,lf_oh:-1,lf_pqs:EAE,lf:1,lf_ui:2&rlfi=hd:;si:;mv:!1m3!1d1350246.180853318!2d-122.2688000515625!3d49.07942441383104!3m2!1i1260!2i775!4f13.1

I will be driving through in August of 2018 as part of my motorcycle ride to all four US corners (San Diego, Seattle, Maine, and Key West).

@scottalanmiller said in Right Ubiquiti Gear for Traveling:

@NerdyDad said in Right Ubiquiti Gear for Traveling:

Customs might have a problem with it? Tell them its your Mifi hotspot and they shouldn't have a problem with it. Business people travel with them all of the time.

They look like commercial gear, though. They don't look homemade. How it looks is all that matters to border control.

Not just border patrol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident
http://www.securitypronews.com/after-airport-stop-kevin-mitnick-shares-travel-tips-2008-10

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller I recently discovered that Trader Joe's carries Nitro Stout. Unfortunately, it's like $12 for a 6 pack.

That is a cheap 6pack here in $CDN

We get fancy ones from Oregon for $25/6pack

I recall that! I went to Calgary to teach a class and was blown away by the price of beer. Your government must be making all their money on vice taxes. It makes a good case for giving up all of your vices!

Liquor and smokes bud - ohhhh damn.

Good pack of smokes is near $14 now

Smokes bud? I thought you said Canada, not Colorado?

You should come visit Canada again soon haha

https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=list+of+marijuana+dispensaries+bc&rflfq=1&rlha=0&rllag=48434959,-123377037,1001&tbm=lcl&tbs=ls:-1,lf_msr:-1,lf_od:-1,lf_oh:-1,lf_pqs:EAE,lf:1,lf_ui:2&rlfi=hd:;si:;mv:!1m3!1d1350246.180853318!2d-122.2688000515625!3d49.07942441383104!3m2!1i1260!2i775!4f13.1

I will be driving through in August of 2018 as part of my motorcycle ride to all four US corners (San Diego, Seattle, Maine, and Key West).

I have an open invite to any ML denizen who visits Vancouver Island - first pint is on me

Thanks! I'll be posting here to plan and do ride progress as the time nears to leave. Any lodging help is greatly appreciated, even if it's just a suggestion for a good campground.

Have you converted a pair of 2012 file servers to a DFS even though they had shares on them? Can it migrate the data/shares in to the DFS, combining the servers? I'm considering doing this and wondering if it's even possible before I spend time on it.

@MattSpeller http://www.ebay.com/motors/blog/early-bird-gull-wing-bradley-gt-electric-car/

@Sparkum said in Allow non administrator users to install printers:

Hey all.

So for the drivers for GPO I assume I'm going...

User configuration>Policies>Software Settings>Published Applications> then add my printer driver.

Then for permissions I would go

Computer configuration>Policies>Window Settings>Security Settings>Local Policies>Devices>>Devices:Prevent user from installing printer drivers: Disabled

And

Computer configuration>Policies>Administrative Template>Printers>>

Users can only point and print to these servers: Disabled
Enter fully qualified server names separated by semicolons
Users can only point and print to machines in their forest Disabled

Security Prompts:
When installing drivers for a new connection: Do not show warning or elevation prompt
When updating drivers for an existing connection: Do not show warning or elevation prompt
This setting only applies to:
Windows Vista and later

Is there anything else that would need to be added?
Or something I should remove?

And some of you are suggesting a printer server, so would you esentially do one server that has upwards of 50+ printers on it?

Thanks

No, use the print management tool. Through that, add the printer(s) to the server, then add them to the directory, then add the GPO. All of this is through the print management tool.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753109(v=ws.10).aspx

@Breffni-Potter said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

Can you do it?

https://medium.com/@Breffni/a-break-from-facebook-55e97c1c0b3d#.82vwc4id3

This is too easy. I never created a Facebook profile and I don't use it.

@Sparkum said in Allow non administrator users to install printers:

@Dashrender

Hmm very interesting and awesome!

Thanks guys, looks like I have my project for tomorrow.

Honestly, if you use the print management tool, you'll be done before lunch.

Here's a challenge: stop using Spiceworks for 30 days.

@DustinB3403 said in Why are local drives better:

@Grey said in Why are local drives better:

@DustinB3403 said in Why are local drives better:

@Grey said in Why are local drives better:

@DustinB3403 said in Why are local drives better:

@Grey While I agree, I agree for different reasoning.

The array protection, isn't something that I think needs to be thought of in the traditional sense. I do agree that the local drive needs to be excluded from anything but secure services. So ransomware etc couldn't mess it up.

Maybe we're thinking on different levels. Are you only talking about DAS or is there something else here?

Yea.... haha

sorry for being so vague, just trying to get some ideas. Ignore raid. Its not an item to consider.

So, this is a workstation?

It could be workstation, it could also be a server. Just looking for possible use cases of a locally attached disk.

The only reason is for speed, in my world. You could do an SSD DAS (array or not) and it will be faster than any NAS, until you get up to the level of a fiber network SAN that has more transfer speed than the SAS or SATA drives in question, which may max at 3, 6 or 3.2 16 Gbit/s (1969 MB/s). Ergo, a 10GB FCoE SAN that's running OBR10 or Raid6 with a large SSD/RAM cache could transfer larger files faster than DAS using SATA 3 which maxes out at 6GBit. The problem, obviously, is contention so you might never see those max speeds on the SAN in the real world production environment.

I guess it all depends on how you're going to use your DAS, and if it's just a machine with a single drive, that screams workstation (that you don't care about the data or uptime is implied by the lack of an array). If you want to make a faster workstation, get a pair of SSDs and run them in RAID0.

@RojoLoco said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@Grey said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@RojoLoco said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@wirestyle22 said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@RojoLoco said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@Grey said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

Here's a challenge: stop using Spiceworks for 30 days.

Done, many times over. Which is easy when a heavy handed mod gets a boner from ousting you from the community. Plus, after attending Spiceworld for the first time, I realize I never need to waste $$$ on that again.

Be flattered someone still gets a boner for you. I'm devolving into a chicken mcnugget

Pretty sure I'd be happier if I could slap the smirk off him.

If it's the mod that I think you're thinking of, who's name rhymes with ass, then we have something in common. However, I would also posit that, due to the haste he displayed in sending me on my way, they no longer value the people that put time in to the community in the first place and only want quantity (as opposed to quality) in IT. That makes sense given that page views are their revenue generation.

^^^ Truth.

In the meantime, my challenge stands: stop using Spiceworks' community for 30 days, if you're currently using it.

Does lurking for information count? I still read stuff over there to learn, but zero posting.

I think lurking would be fine, especially if you have ublock activated.

Neat!

@scottalanmiller I was wondering where Denver was shipping them.

Ref: http://www.ktvb.com/news/city-of-denver-giving-homeless-people-one-way-bus-tickets-out-of-town/388318805

@Dashrender said in Why are local drives better:

@Grey said in Why are local drives better:

ay max at 3, 6 or 3.2 16 Gbit/s (1969 MB/s). Ergo, a 10GB FCoE SAN that's running OBR10 or Raid6 with a large SSD/RAM c

You can literally use local disk for any thing you can use remote disk. So I'm not really sure what you're digging for.

Transfer rates. A local bus will max at 6, while a SAN on a 10 GB link (or dual 10s, whatever) can go higher as the node can cache in RAM and then write back to the drives that are local to the SAN at the slower, local rate.

I only use my surface when I go to meetings or at home (it's my personal device, but I like the pen input for note taking and I can check out stuff online in boring meetings). The laptop connects to the 3 monitors, and I use the tall one (sideways) for MangoLassi and the ticket system, or whenever I need to as a result of a long article like SMB IT journal. It's generally handy to have. I really, really like it for SSH sessions.

@scottalanmiller said in Why are local drives better:

@Grey said in Why are local drives better:

@scottalanmiller said in Why are local drives better:

@travisdh1 said in Why are local drives better:

@Grey said in Why are local drives better:

@travisdh1 said in Why are local drives better:

@Grey said in Why are local drives better:

@Dashrender said in Why are local drives better:

@Grey said in Why are local drives better:

ay max at 3, 6 or 3.2 16 Gbit/s (1969 MB/s). Ergo, a 10GB FCoE SAN that's running OBR10 or Raid6 with a large SSD/RAM c

You can literally use local disk for any thing you can use remote disk. So I'm not really sure what you're digging for.

Transfer rates. A local bus will max at 6, while a SAN on a 10 GB link (or dual 10s, whatever) can go higher as the node can cache in RAM and then write back to the drives that are local to the SAN at the slower, local rate.

So, just like the cache on a local controller?

Does your local controller have a 256gb cache?

If I've got that much ram assigned to it, sure, why not?

I've worked on local storage systems that have that much cache just recently, in fact.

Cool. Many of the systems I've seen deployed and worked with are so old that a 1gb cache is considered exotic.

That's only on commodity hardware with hardware RAID. That's generally what SAN and NAS skip to get around those limitations.

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

UGH I HATE OWA!! So limited in what I can see on a page have to open 3 separate pages to get anything done (well actually it's 9 separate pages, for 3 email accounts). Today is going to be one VERY LONG DAY!

I am having Office issues I can't activate anything. So I also can't use my office aps either on my desktop or online today. DRIVING ME NUTS!

I set up KMS in November and just recently fixed/eliminated the last of the false KMS hosts from the network. The previous admin has used the KMS activation server key on VDI guests instead of setting up a single KMS host server and using the keys from appendix A on the guests. Our DNS literally had over a hundred KMS server listed and no one was getting software activations properly.

I wish you the best of luck in your quest to achieve license compliance if you're not using a KMS box.