Fear not. Just grab mbr2gpt.exe from the \windows\system32 folder on a windows 10 machine and drop it anywhere you want on the new server, then run:
mbr2gpt /convert /disk:X /allowfullos
and you will be ready to restart and set your bios to UEFI support and finishing booting to your new uefi partition!
We finished. It took forever to get the motion sensor working. We ended up using a Microwave Radar Sensor. Here is this finished product. He loves it!
My boy is building a Magic Mirror from a RP3 and a shadow box; and some other items. He is learning a wee bit about Linux and Python. It's fun! I'll post pics when he is done.
I will say, however, the Magic Mirror has taken a back burner to the new puppies......
@JasGot said in Script to Clean up Windows 10 Start Menu:
Only if you want to play, else I'll do that this weekend. I was just hoping someone would say they have already experimented with it.
I'll report back with my findings.....
I'm reporting back. I spent the day upgrading from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro, testing with Win10crAPPRemover.ps1 in a variety of ways. Rinse, Repeat, many times with many different variations of approach.
I can say definitively that the Start Menu items and Tiles come with the first Windows 10 login even if you have an already existing profile. Meaning, I can now reliably achieve my goal of a clean Windows 10 interface with an existing profile.
Here are my reproducible steps to achieve my goal:
Log in as another existing (but not yet logged in under windows 10) account and you will see your DeCrapped GUI.
This means I can do an in-place upgrade from Win7 Pro to Win10 Pro and de appify the existing user accounts as long as I de appify the computer before those already existing accounts log in to the Window 10 Pro install.
I did not test with any version other than Pro. I don't care about Home and Enterprise is de-appified from the OOBE.
If you feel the need to argue about what I have done, please ask for clarification before doing so, I'm sure I have left room in my words for misunderstanding.
This experiment is a success and it allows me to achieve my goal with great reliability.
Tell us a little more about yourself, and who your company is.
Your first, post, 8 days after you signed up, resembles a Cold Call we might receive at the office. In order to not dump your question into the round file, we (I, anyway) would need to be a little more comfortable with the person asking the questions..... :)
We like BackupAssist.
Backs up to Local, NAS, RSYNC, FTP, RDX, USB Drives, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, iSCSI, Tape, etc....
All with Central Management.
Been using them for 10 years or more. Have it installed on over a hundred servers right now. We also VERY much prefer the way it detects Ransomware over other providers (like Unitrends).
We use it mostly for RDX and iSCSI, but have jobs for every destination available if you look at all the installs.
@manxam said in 12 yo is learning a bit about Linux and Python.:
That looks fantastic. Do you have a build log or instructions that you followed?
P.S. Why is that deer looking at me?!
We looked at some examples and then followed our noses. https://magicmirror.builders/
Got an $89 24" LED from Walmart, https://www.walmart.com/ip/onn-24-1920x1080-VGA-HDMI-60hz-14ms-LED-Slim-Design-Monitor/144551706
an 18"x24"x2.5" rear load shadow box from Michael's https://www.michaels.com/black-shadow-box-by-studio-decor/10360333.html
A Raspberyy Pi 2 ( the 3 and 4 have built-in WiFi that play havvoc with the motion sensing.) https://smile.amazon.com/Raspberry-Pi-Model-Desktop-Linux/dp/B00T2U7R7I/ref=sr_1_9?dchild=1&keywords=raspberry+pi+2&qid=1593385167&s=electronics&sr=1-9
and case: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MQLB1N6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Radar Motion Sensor https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MTWZDQZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
and a two way mirror: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G4MQ966/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Any IT professionals in the Detroit Area available for short term projects?
Mostly Windows AD, Windows Server and Windows Workstation stuff. Some Unifi setup and management.
Speak up if this is you :)
Just wanted to report back say this little switch was the perfect item for my need. It has been installed for over a month now and I have been very pleased with it. Not that it is doing anything special, it just does its job!
We are using it indoor and we mounted its own little bracket to a single gang wall plate, then installed the wall plate, then attached the switch to its bracket. It makes for a clean install where there once was an ethernet wall jack.
Everything about it is Unifi, so if you are familiar with the Unifi System, this runs like any other Unifi switch.
This has turned out to be a great conversation. :)
Thanks to everyone!
I have ATAs setup with other providers behind Sonicwall Firewalls without issue, so this has me stumped about how to make it work.
I was on the phone with Skyetel support for a couple of hours, and they were not much help. They said the Sonicwall is not configured right, which I already new was a possibility.
The ATA will not register to Skyetel when behind the Sonicwall.
I think it comes down to this:
The ATA's outgoing port is something in the 13k+ range and it goes to port 5060 at Skyetel. It appears Skyetel answers back to the ATA on 5060, even though it sees the traffic coming in on the high port. Of course, there's no path back to the ATA on 5060, it's on the higher port.
Since Skyetel only answers on 5060, I think I need to force my ATA to send the registration request out on 5060, but I can see how to do that.
I think my options are ATA goes out on 5060, or the Sonicwall NATs it to be so.
The same ATA and same (unchanged) Sonicwall work just fine to other sip providers.
Any thoughts or ideas for me to try?
Thanks.
attn: @JaredBusch
@obsolesce said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
He mentioned his goal was to learn new things. It's fair to assume the purpose of that is to broaden their skillset, therefore improving their career.
Yes. I see that now. It's still so sad this conversation went south before he stated that (or at all).
@travisdh1 said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
If you want to host email, why would you use the worst platform possible to find? Why not Zimbra for example?
NOWHERE did he state what his reasons were for wanting to do this.
Why would you suggest he move to Zimbra (or others) when you have no idea what he is trying to accomplish?
Too many people jump to conclusions, and they are wrong most of the time.
@obsolesce said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
while others will see it as questioning motives and pointing people in a better direction to improve their career and broaden their skillset to become more useful in the market.
But NOWHERE did he indicate that was his goal.
There's rarely a day that goes by that I don't write a batch script, cmd script or powershell script. All of it is possible from having learned the basic structure of command scripting.
If I have to do anything to more than two computers that can be scripted, I script it.
I would much rather have my techs learn how to install MSExchange with a version that has been around long enough to be able to find the answer to the issue online; than have them spinning their wheels trying to solve a problem caused by a recent windows patch that no one has encountered before.
@irj said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
No that's terrible practice and not a modern or efficient way to do anything. Powershell or Bash (neither of which is new) would actually. Ake sense. If you're using batch in 2021, you might as well use a sun dial or high noon to tell time.
This is like saying you don't need to learn long division because you have a cellphone with a calculator.
You need to know long division.
@irj said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
@jasgot said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
If someone were asking how to write dos batch files, which is decades old, it is still a good basis for understanding and developing scripts; that will help with future learning.
No that's terrible practice and not a modern or efficient way to do anything. Powershell or Bash (neither of which is new) would actually. Ake sense. If you're using bash in 2021, you might as well use a sun dial or high noon to tell time.
Well, you'll never convince me that dismissing the basis and history of any type of knowledge is wise.
it was said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
Why are you trying to learn how out dated technology?
I'm curious, why is this the de-facto "go to" question when people don't feel like helping, but still want to hear themselves talk?
Maybe... this is what he has laying around his lab, AND he wants to learn?
Why is it usually a problem that one person is learning something years after someone else has?
I just don't get it.
If someone were asking how to write dos batch files, which is decades old, it is still a good basis for understanding and developing scripts; that will help with future learning.
@dashrender said in Routing from LAN/Sonicwall to Comcast DHCP Client:
If those are the only people with access - why not just put it on that LAN?
Other equipment it talks to on another network; and we do not have access to that other equipment.
Does anyone know of a hosting provider that hosts/manages VitalPBX for very small groups?
A friend of mine is volunteering at a non profit and asked me about VoIP phone service. They only need three phones.
I am familiar with VitalPBX, this is why I am asking about VitalPBX specifically.
@dashrender said in Routing from LAN/Sonicwall to Comcast DHCP Client:
But since it's not, try adding a virtual adapter on the WAN interface of the SonicWall and assigning it IP 10.x.x.x in the same range as the web server. Now the web server won't know how to get back, so you'll need a route entry on the webserver as well.
This was the closest to the way we went.
I used an available physical port on the Sonicwall, assigned it a static IP (10.1.10.253) on the Comcast Cable Modem internal LAN subnet.
I then added a static route on the Sonicwall to find the Comcast LAN and I added a route on the Cable modem to find the Sonicwall LAN.
It works just as we want.
Thanks for all the comments, it helped lead us to a solution to handle this non standard configuration.