@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

Disney sets record for highest-grossing with $7.67 billion so far
https://www.wfmz.com/news/disney-sets-record-for-highestgrossing-year/1100840768

This makes me so sad.

Because its Disney?

Well, sure. But because Disney has totally given up on quality across the board.... going from making quality stuff to making the worst popular garbage ever (opinion I know, but it's so bad I'll no longer watch movies Disney is involved in, they've become a brand name of crap), they've taken their parks from ground breaking and oriented on customer service to just being overpriced six flags with gobs of stupid promotional stuff. They were a great company, and now the world would be a better place if they didn't exist.

That in doing so has made them more money than by creating good content or being ground breaking or whatever is sad because it shows what a horrific state society is in.

All you can do is....

"Let it go, Let it Go
Turn away and slam the door"

:winking_face:

@obsolesce said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

@kelly said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

just challenging the "most commonly correct approach" statement

It seems you are mistaking the "most common approach" with the "most common correct approach". I haven't been around the SMB as much as JB, but I'm assuming the most common approach to SMB DC implementations are incorrect. Meaning, 2+ DCs are being used when 1 should be used. Perhaps two DCs are used because so many other things are done incorrectly, it's thought 1 should't be used due to so many other things not properly in place, but that's besides the point in my reply here.

IMHO, SMB's use 2 DC's (me included) because it is drilled over and over in our heads by outside forces, including the application developers and the OS companies themselves. On top of that, we are completely stupid if we don't have a second DC if the hardware is available. So to follow "Best Practices," SMB's just do it. It doesn't necessarily mean that things are done incorrectly though. It mostly means, we (aka I) have an extra DC there sitting, waiting, getting monthly updates and then gather more dust for years on end all in the name of protection and risk reduction.

That is why coming here and having extensive discussions about general topics has helped me changed my own thoughts about system/network design in SMB's.

@dashrender

Grilling is fast with medium to high temps (10 minutes at 375-700) while BBQ is slow and low temps (many hours at 200-225)

IMHO, you cannot really BBQ a steak (Strip/Ribeye), hotdog or hamburger but you can BBQ or Grill a chicken.

@coliver said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@nerdydad said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@nerdydad said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Here's a question for ya'll.

What do you call cooking steaks or hotdogs or burgers on a grill?

Grilling

OK, and what's the difference between grilling and BBQ?

Grilling is just applying the meat to the grill to cook. BBQ requires a sauce.

BBQ is a specific cooking style that may or may not use a sauce (don't talk about sauce in some states in the south)

I'm in the north but I am a no sauce BBQ/steak person. My motto is, "If it needs sauce you didn't do it right." :)

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Packed lunches not a right in Italian schools, court rules

Parents have reacted angrily to a decision by Italy's top court which states that the right to eat packed lunches in schools is not "unconditional."
Italy's Supreme Court said schools should have the autonomy to decide if children are allowed to eat packed lunches on school grounds.
A lower court previously ruled in favour of a group of Turin parents who wanted to opt out of school meals.
Parents say school meals are costly.
They also argue that food provided by schools can be unhealthy.
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that bringing a packed lunch was "a possible violation of the principles of equality and non-discrimination based on economic circumstances".

I'm trying to figure out how far one has to stretch a logical argument to even equate Packed Lunch's = inequality????

That is way the f*%& out there.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

She doesn't have her own because it would be wasted money at this point, but she will as soon as she has the capability to speak.

Mine got their own super young. Otherwise they'd be using battery, storage, access on ours .... and the last thing that we wanted was them dropping our critical devices. By giving them their own we got them more age appropriate devices, that weren't critical to adults functioning, that could be in child-protective cases.

Oh how many non-IT parents don't understand this. I cannot tell you how many parents here at work come to me for help with virus's and such on their own device (with saved banking logins and all the goodies). I ask what they clicked on or what they were doing and 90% of the time the answer begins with "Well, my child..."

@Joel said in HyperV Server - Raid Best Practices:

This got a little heated :face_screaming_in_fear:
-So can we clarify, back to the OP - Consensus out of the options I have, Option 2 is the best way to go?

6x 2TB 12GB/s Drives in OBR10 for everything and then creating two partitions (1 for the HyperVisor OS) and then (1 for data - to store all my Virtual Machines and Data).

My VMs would be in D:\Hyper-V\VM's
My Virtual Hard Disks (daily data) would be in D:\Hyper-V\Data

Don't forget to do the cost comparisons of SAS in OBR10 vs SSD in RAID5. You may be surprised to find out that SSD in RAID 5 is cheaper (Stick with SSD 6Gb/s vs 12Gb/s) depending upon your server manufacturer.

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@pmoncho said in I can't even:

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@tim_g said in I can't even:

Actually I give up on that thread. We don't even know what he means by cluster.
We don't know what version of Windows/Hyper-V is being implemented.

The OP has only responded 4 times and never clarified anything.

So much is being assumed. I have a lot of questions to the OP that have never been answered, and it doesn't look like he intends on answering them. So I'm done.

That's a common problem. OPs that won't respond leave everyone wanting to discuss and nothing to work with. So it just spirals into a world of guessing and loads of discussion based on the guessing.

I have given up on many posts where the OP does not respond to questions. I give OP's about 3 hours to respond after the first response with questions. If they cannot bother to check back, why waste the time answer with assumptions.

The platform really encourages that behaviour. It doesn't show updates and encourages you to leave and await an email or something. That pattern is good for tiny, slow sites that no one is looking at. But when people are responding in real time and you aren't sticking around to watch, it doesn't go over well.

Absolutely. Just an huge UGH!

So now I mainly just hang out here. :)

@dbeato said in What would your recommendation be for a Type 1 Hypervisor - including backup and restoration options:

@DustinB3403 said in What would your recommendation be for a Type 1 Hypervisor - including backup and restoration options:

Most of my clients have an on-site data server
All have an AD server
All have a webserver of some type.
A few have terminal services

The fact that
Most of my clients have an on-site data server
A few have terminal services

Terminal Server is also something really annoying and cumbersome to manage without AD.

Microsoft keeps intertwining RDS and AD. Trying to manage RDS without AD is as bad as Hyper-V without AD.

@WrCombs said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

@WrCombs said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

@JaredBusch said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

@WrCombs said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

I did Find This but Im not exactly sure that's what im looking for.

This points you in more or less the right direction.

You will need to create objects for the devices and then make rules like this allowing communication from network Z to it.

Okay, So I need the Camera IP's and the Door Camera/Controller Ip to create objects, and then follow the guide?

@JaredBusch Cant I make one Object with Multiple IPs ?

Do as @travisdh1 stated. You can then create a Group from the Objects.

@jaredbusch said in Indentation Style:

@pmoncho tab indentation needs to die in nuclear fire.

Thankfully, modern IDE systems like Visual Studio Code and others all auto swap a tab for 4 spaces by default.

Personally, I prefer a 2 space indentation, but 4 seems to be the most common.

I didn't think Tab's were that big of a deal as I never had an issue between Vi, Nano, Notepad or Notepad++. I guess it is mostly a habit from using text editors.

Hmm... I always hated having press the space bar more than twice (only after "." mostly). Maybe I will try using two spaces in the next script to see how that pans out.

@dashrender said in Indentation Style:

@pmoncho said in Indentation Style:

Just wondering what many of the scripters and developers here like to use as their Indentation Style?

I was looking at my pretty messed up .PS1 scripts and trying to figure out which of the styles from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style
would make my scripts look more organized.

I find I am partial to Allman style. It seems that code blocks are more noticeable and finding a missing bracket seems easier.

wow - that's a lot of options.

I think I like whitesmith personally.

I didn't know till I looked also.

Whitesmith is nice too. Hmmm... decisions...decisions...

I am partial to using Tab's instead of space bar four times. Apparently this is a full-on debate about using Tab's that I did not know about either.

@phlipelder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So sad but true!

Why do so many companies have to hear it from an outsider before they believe it?

Prophet is never known as such in their own home land.

This is good. I have to remember this.

Just wondering what many of the scripters and developers here like to use as their Indentation Style?

I was looking at my pretty messed up .PS1 scripts and trying to figure out which of the styles from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style
would make my scripts look more organized.

I find I am partial to Allman style. It seems that code blocks are more noticeable and finding a missing bracket seems easier.

@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So sad but true!

Why do so many companies have to hear it from an outsider before they believe it?

We will have your answer when we figure out why kids will listen to their friends and friends parents vs their own parents. :-)

@dashrender said in CAL Counting:

@pmoncho said in CAL Counting:

@dashrender said in CAL Counting:

@pmoncho said in CAL Counting:

@dashrender said in CAL Counting:

@scottalanmiller said in CAL Counting:

@eleceng said in CAL Counting:

We will be using terminal services in a redundant setup so at least 10 RDS cals

Terminal SERVICES doesn't require more CALs when redundancy. But if you mean your TERMINALS (the thin clients) will be redundant, then it will.

One CAL gives you access to unlimited RDS servers.

RDS CALs are also concurrent, aren't they? Or did they change that?

Had this discussion a few years ago. From my understanding, RDS has a "pool" that grabs a license from the pool for each logged in user. It will re-up every 90 days each time the user logs in. So if you have multiple users that only log in once every 89 days, that can waste a ton of licenses, thus having to purchase more than actually is required.

Yeah, all that sounds familar - but don't new (users who haven't tried in the last 89 days) get a 90 temp license? So I would think/hope you wouldn't run afoul of the single off man off once in a while.

Found this:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/rds-client-access-license

It looks like the temp license is only available in Device mode.

From the site you linked:

There is a licensing grace period of 120 Days during which no license server is required.

in combination with

Temporary RDS CALs are not available.

tells me each user likely gets a single 120 day grace, after which they will have to have a license.

this also seems newer than I recall.

RDS CALs are assigned to a user in Active Directory.

Does this mean it's not longer concurrent users? Once an RDS license is assigned, it's there for life? what happens when that user leaves the company?

And then we toss this on top of the pile.

I am unable to find anything specific from M$ but only the talk of others in forums stating that the license will go back into the pool after 90 days of no use.

So basically, we don't know. I have yet to run into this issue so I don't have first hand experience.

@dashrender said in CAL Counting:

@pmoncho said in CAL Counting:

@dashrender said in CAL Counting:

@scottalanmiller said in CAL Counting:

@eleceng said in CAL Counting:

We will be using terminal services in a redundant setup so at least 10 RDS cals

Terminal SERVICES doesn't require more CALs when redundancy. But if you mean your TERMINALS (the thin clients) will be redundant, then it will.

One CAL gives you access to unlimited RDS servers.

RDS CALs are also concurrent, aren't they? Or did they change that?

Had this discussion a few years ago. From my understanding, RDS has a "pool" that grabs a license from the pool for each logged in user. It will re-up every 90 days each time the user logs in. So if you have multiple users that only log in once every 89 days, that can waste a ton of licenses, thus having to purchase more than actually is required.

Yeah, all that sounds familar - but don't new (users who haven't tried in the last 89 days) get a 90 temp license? So I would think/hope you wouldn't run afoul of the single off man off once in a while.

Found this:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/rds-client-access-license

It looks like the temp license is only available in Device mode.

@dashrender said in CAL Counting:

@scottalanmiller said in CAL Counting:

@eleceng said in CAL Counting:

We will be using terminal services in a redundant setup so at least 10 RDS cals

Terminal SERVICES doesn't require more CALs when redundancy. But if you mean your TERMINALS (the thin clients) will be redundant, then it will.

One CAL gives you access to unlimited RDS servers.

RDS CALs are also concurrent, aren't they? Or did they change that?

Had this discussion a few years ago. From my understanding, RDS has a "pool" that grabs a license from the pool for each logged in user. It will re-up every 90 days each time the user logs in. So if you have multiple users that only log in once every 89 days, that can waste a ton of licenses, thus having to purchase more than actually is required.

@eleceng said in CAL Counting:

@dashrender the organization already has user CAL's because all employees have email and can log in to the local computers, etc.

Do need user CAL's for every employee on every system or does 1 user CAL cover an employee on any and all systems corporation-wide?

One Windows Server User CAL covers one employee company wide.
You will also need a one Windows RDS User CAL for each user connecting to all RDS servers company wide.

@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Turned down a job offer with a finance company. Better pay and benefits but I just did not feel excited for the position. Couldn't bring my self to sign the employment contract.

If your in the finance area, have you check out Upstart. They are hiring in multiple states and they also offer remote work.