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@obsolesce said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 28 Cinnamon Desktop:

@irj said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:

@obsolesce said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:

@irj said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:

Do I need virtio drivers if I have already installed spice tools? I am a little confused about the difference between the two. Because when I installed Spice Tools, it installed drivers for various components...

Spice Tools seems to work better.

Maybe update the OP to say it is best to install Spice Tools, but if you need to manually install virtio drivers, here are the steps....

Oh just realized this was my thread. Will do.

Edit: Yeah this is a little outdated. I'll fix it up. It's hard to keep all of my posts up to date... rather impossible.

If it is a significant change, i liek to make a new one referring back to the original.

Had an issue when a colleague and his whole dept had made a signature which includes an image. However, a forward or reply, makes the email visible. Had traced down that that image caused the blank mail so I re-created the image (by print screen) then inserting it back.

We were using Zimbra, BTW.

@KOOLER said in StarWind Virtual Tape License Error:

OK, there are good news and bad news.

Bad news: VTL is NOT included in the free version.

Good news: we'll add some LIMITED availability of it soon, just didn't;t decide on a restriction set.

Excellent news: I can give away to Tim_G an unlimited VTL license free of charge "just because" 🙂 So he's welcomed to drop me a line to

anton AT starwind DOT com

...and I'll engage him with the responsible persons here to move on.

P.S. Just a link to VTL thing:

StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL)

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/virtual-tape-library-feature

Sounds great, email sent!

This should get my project testing going once the license is ready.

Thanks Scott for the nod. The Gartner peer reviews is a tough and well moderated reviews site which asks companies on each service how they perform in different areas. https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/secure-email-gateways .
I'd recommend picking a couple of services and contacting them for a trial. As you already have your list of requirements it shouldn't take long to narrow down who is relevant to you.

@matteo-nunziati said in PowerShell Code Cleanup:

@Tim_G never used PS seriousltùy, but as acoder I would you suggest to make your FW rules instances of a class and put them into an array. then for-looping them
this will fix the growing number of rules.

Thanks, I will look into this.

I believe it has to do with 'polling' known sites on the internet - such as MS DNS servers or other.

@Tim_G said in Mangolassi Website semi-frequent "Internal Error":

I think I've figured out the main issue...

When clicking on a notification, the notification links to, for example: https://mangolassi.it/post/296273

After that, the browser is supposed to automatically redirect to: https://mangolassi.it/topic/13654/for-the-love-of-ipod/11, which it does in all other browsers and Edge pre-1703 update.

In MS Edge now (post 1703), after you left click a notification, it takes you to the first link, and gives you my original error. When I middle click to open it in a new tab, it works as normal, and redirects to the second link.

Dunno about Edge 1703, but IE 1703 is a pile of poo. Even though it is still IE 11, a ton of B2B sites that had specific settings no longer work.

Of course the real issue is crappy web design but still.

@NashBrydges Oh this is awesome! Gonna be giving that a go on Monday or Tuesday.

@JaredBusch said in Win10 native SSH with BASH for Windows:

@Tim_G https://mangolassi.it/topic/7433/getting-a-handle-on-mangolassis-markdown-markup

Thanks, bookmarked!

I got my USB monitor today in preparation of the remote work, and got my wired/wireless Bluetooth mouse a couple days ago:
(mouse stock photo, didn't take my own) Razer Orochi
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(my pic)
Running an hour long 1080p video test on it to make sure it'll do it's job...
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I also made some adjustments to RAM usage.

HOST1 only has 24 GB of RAM.
VM1 uses 12 GB, non-dynamic, as it houses the MS SQL database and also runs SCDPM. I'm sure I can cut this in half to 6 GB as it's barely being used, but I'm not going to at this time. I'm also trying to push limits and have things break in this test environment before moving to production. So I'm also trying to cut things close.

Anyways, Dedup daily optimization is set to use 50% RAM... because VM1 is using the other half, when dedup optimization occurs, the server gets really slow. Nothing else is happening on the server during this time, so it shouldn't matter. But I am doing stuff on it for testing purposes and I just can't do anything during the hour or two it takes to run Dedup.

So I edited the amount of RAM dedup uses just for the daily optimization schedule:

Set-DedupSchedule -Name DailyOptimization -Memory 35

For my test environment, I found 35% to be good. Now I have some memory to work with during the time it's running dedup optimization (6am)... which is also the best time for me to work on things.

@fuznutz04 said in Visual Studio Code (free and open source):

Any particular reason?

Lighter, does what I want without lots of extra stuff.

@Tim_G Oops guess that was a lame joke :D.. on my part that is.

The scheduled task survives and runs at first login as planned.

But Win10 and TV have a known issue with silent installation. Hopefully it gets fixed.

@JaredBusch said in I finally made it to MCSE:

@Tim_G said in I finally made it to MCSE:

Windows Server 2016 technologies including HA, storage, Hyper-V, and working with System Center 2016

Half of that has no place in the SMB market though. So you need to think about where you want to work if you want to use those.

Working for a single SMB won't make me six-figures. I'm shifting my focus to where it makes sense for my purposes.

@Tim_G said in Opinions on MD1000 for backup location:

@travisdh1 said in Opinions on MD1000 for backup location:

@Tim_G said in Opinions on MD1000 for backup location:

@scottalanmiller said in Opinions on MD1000 for backup location:

@Tim_G said in Opinions on MD1000 for backup location:

Oh, we need block level access. So it has to be DAS. Well, iSCSI could work, but I don't want to go that route for this specific setup.

Synology definitely does block. So does SAM-SD. And SAM-SD can obviously do FC. Any reason you are ruling out iSCSI but not ruling out "running on laughable hardware"?

I'm wanting to test something like this (except not clustered):

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn891438(v=sc.12).aspx#Overview

Do you not have a VM host you could just add local storage to test?

You need the full version of Windows Server to install the Data Deduplicaiton feature. I was wanting to test everything on a test server running Hyper-V Server 2016.

I do have a Datacenter host that I am working on a schedule to upgrade from Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter to Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. It's a big move, so it won't happen reasonably soon.

You know you can install anything you want for 6 months as a trial.
Microsoft has offered this for pretty much ever.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2016

@Tim_G said in Anyone try SIS (Dedup) on Storage Server 2008 R2 with SCDPM 2016?:

@DustinB3403 said in Anyone try SIS (Dedup) on Storage Server 2008 R2 with SCDPM 2016?:

We attempted dedup (straight dedup) on a share, and it caused corruption to the share.

Not sure if I'd trust windows dedup any more because of that..

That's a good point.

I've been using it in production on 2016, after testing it for a while first. It seemed fine later in 2012 R2. I have not used it in this way in 2008 R2, let alone Storage Server 2008 R2.

I may just leave it alone on there and weigh some other options.

I think I'll still test it for sake of thoroughness.

The Win10 VM I'm running on KVM in Fedora shows up in WSUS like this:

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That one update needed is the 1703 upgrade. I didn't push that yet.

All seems well so far!

*stands close to @scottalanmiller , ready to pounce on him with an epipen, just in case*