@scottalanmiller said in HPE Acquires Junipeer:

Just got this press release..

On July 2, 2025, Juniper Networks was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). As this integration moves forward, we will continue to steward your data with HPE's help. The personal data we hold about you is being transferred to HPE and will be processed by them in accordance with their privacy statement.

If you currently receive marketing emails from us, you will continue to do so, and your preferences will follow your data to HPE. You can manage your preferences using the Juniper preference center.

Yours sincerely,
Juniper Networks, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company

I wish I thought that means that firmware updates will no longer be held behind a paywall.

@scottalanmiller said in List Windows Printers from PowerShell Command Line CLI:

If you need to remote into a Windows machine and get a list of printers without interrupting the user, this powershell command is quick and easy...

Get-Printer | Format-Table

Make it easier Get-Printer | FT

@Obsolesce said in The Most Effective Meetings:

@MrWright4hire said in The Most Effective Meetings:

Isn't it funny how we may disagree about being there for someone until we're the someone that needs the help

Is calling a meeting to take the time of several people or more really the most effective use of resources if one needs help with something? I can't agree to that.

Allow me to clear my thoughts up for everyone.

Scenario #1:
When you call a meeting and there's really not much to talk about from a business pov. However, you are aware that a team member is having issues and struggling at work. You open the dialog, without pointing fingers, how you have notice the issues. And how you need to address it before it gets out of hand. Like I said, instead of calling someone out, let it be known that anyone with the issues should come and discuss the issues. You not taking up extra resources. You're bringing awareness and depend on what the issue is, educating your team for a better work environment.

AND

Scenario #2:
Co-workers don't get along. That needs to be address and nipped in the bud quick, fast and in a hurry.

There's issues you can address in public and in private without wasting time or resources.

This doesn't have to be trivial, I'm basically just saying that people are important when it comes to a team. Just make sure all is good for a great team results.

That looks like a real pain to have tracked down!

1.24 is out and addresses the issue.

@CCWTech said in Clean a Linux or UNIX Text File to Strip Hidden Characters:

@scottalanmiller Great, but can you explain the syntax of the command?

trim anything accept characters 11, 12, or 40-176. The acceptable character ranges.

@dbeato said in Remove Windows 10 & Windows 11 "No Internet" Message:

@Obsolesce We have seen it on both situations and it is annoying to be honest for end users.

Yeah I can definitely imagine that being annoying. If ya can't find or fix the the network or config issue, no choice other than to disable it on all the clients.

So we did not have social media for a while. The world didn't end is okay to take a break from seen what other people are doing with their lives.

@gjacobse said in Windows 11 Remove PIN and Only Use Password Instructions:

@scottalanmiller

I may have an account I have forgotten about
But I continue to use local only. I believe they call it an “Offline Account”

On my personal Windows laptop, I use my Microsoft account (MFA'd). It makes things all around that way more convenient for me. To avoid passwords, and because I want that separated, I use Windows Hello (fingerprint or PIN). Then BitLocker (TPM 2.0+), and of course the BitLocker Startup PIN.

On my personal Linux laptop, basically the same thing as above, but SW level encryption.
I'm looking forward to trying Ubuntu's TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption soon! I haven't had time yet.

@syko24 said in Move FSMO Roles Using PowerShell | Active Directory Domain Controller AD DC:

I'm a fan of the one liner assuming you are transferring all roles to the same DC.

Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "DC-Server" -OperationMasterRole 0,1,2,3,4 0: PDCEmulator 1: RIDMaster 2: InfrastructureMaster 3: SchemaMaster 4: DomainNamingMaster

Me too. This is what I normally use. SOOOO helpful.

Not sure why powershell made it so complicated to find who has the roles.
netdom query fsmo was so easy.

@DustinB3403 said in QBX, Priorietary Dashcams and Hacked Police Departments:

@scottalanmiller Yea I've had to deal with this in the past, the software is just awful to deal with, and literally makes nothing more secure, for either the prosecution, defendant(s) or the public attempting to view the material.

Simple answer is, that it just proves how vulnerable police departments are with such horrible software requirements.

Not aware of any requirement. They just choose this kind of equipment over other options.

@scottalanmiller update links?

@DustinB3403 said in Is Intel VROC FakeRAID?:

@scottalanmiller

I'm not shocked.

Par for the course for Intel storage.

@Florida_man said in Field Tech, Part Time, Bay Area?:

@Obsolesce

No

@scottalanmiller said in Raspberry Pi 5 Announced Today:

For those who don't want to read all of the details...

Basically everything from CPU to RAM to GPU is 2x - 3x higher performance than the RP4 from 2018.

Support hats will be available directly from RP for both PoE+ power (no need for external power on these!!) and, drumroll, for M.2 NVMe drives. Meaning you can really use this as a real computer like never before. Lack of native M.2 support was the killer of the RP4 generation.

An RP4 with NVMe would have made it a reasonable desktop system. Without it, it was hard to do anything requiring drive performance of any sort. With more than double the performance across the "board" and NVMe support, this is a very, very powerful workstation.

Active cooling is now semi-standard to accommodate all of this, too.

Now if only I could get one - I have a need for two of these right now..