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@VoIP_n00b said in Excel freezing:

Excel is a bitch

Especially, here. They are running all their forecasts through it. Excel using something like 16GB of RAM for one sheet.

As the title indicates, I have a new RDS Server (2016) where I need to migrate the user profiles from the old Server 2008 R2 server to the new one. I decided to go with UPD (user profile disks) and am not sure if there is an easy way to migrate the user profiles.

Has anyone done this?

@JaredBusch said in Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times:

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times:

Small update - something else to consider changing - disable Fast Boot.

Fast Boot means when you restart the computer, it doesn't do a full shutdown. It's likely that counters that are often reset upon a full reboot, aren't reset on a Fast Boot.

Fast boot used to be called hibernation. It is a fucking stupid nasty feature

Interesting. But, they also still have hibernation.

With the above setting enabled, not even admins can run checks for updates.

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times:

@wrx7m said in Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times:

@wrx7m said in Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times:

For the record, at home, I use the actual hibernation on 3 desktops ALL THE TIME. I never actually use shutdown. I can wake them up using my phone from anywhere. When I am done, I hibernate. That isn't to say that I don't reboot them from time to time.

While I generally hate it, I can make somewhat obvious cases for why actual hibernate would exist. I don't want it in any business because Windows seems unstable with it. It creates all kinds of support issues. But there is a reason for it to exist. But this weird half assed hibernation where the apps are shut down? That's useless.

Exactly. I disable hibernation at work. Sleep also creates all sorts of issues that a reboot will fix. All desktops have any type of sleep/hibernate disabled because there is no need and it potentially introduces all sorts of issues.

So you're a totally anti-green type guy.. no desire to save any electrical power

I am for efficiency. If sleep didn't cause problems and wake over wlan worked, I would do that.

@dave247 said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

@wrx7m said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

What type of Windows licensing do you have? Replication can be affected by that.

We have Microsoft Volume Licensing and I haven't looked into weather or not we'd have to purchase "double" or not.. I'm not sure but I thought a backup environment doesn't quite count as production.

I would say "Hot"=Active.

@dave247 BTW, thanks for the downvote lol

@dave247 said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

We have Datacenter for the vmware environment

You should be good with datacenter if you have it for every server involved in the scenario.

@scottalanmiller said in VMware Host Cannot Connect from vSphere Client:

Writing this up for @Osvaldo ... working on trying to update a vSphere client machine (ESXi host) that needs a patch for version 6.0.0. Want to go to 6.7, but it won't even try that until we apply this patch. Patch keeps updating to 47% complete and then crashing on us. So we get nowhere.

Could also be an issue if a vendor-specific ISO was used to initially install ESXi. I ran into a similar problem with Dell; I had to get the Dell ISO from their downloads for the specific server model/service tag.

Another thing to consider is the HCL. The server or other hardware might have been dropped from the HCL after a certain version and that could be causing an issue.

@scottalanmiller said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?:

@DustinB3403 said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?:

@Pete-S said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?:

@DustinB3403 said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?:

@scottalanmiller said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?:

@DustinB3403 said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?:

It's super simple to take a closet for example and put a vent near the top of the wall to let heat escape.

Not if you don't have that closet, the vent would let in hotter air, or you don't have outside access from a closet.

Of course, if you physically don't have any space, then using this example doesn't make sense. The question really is "at what point should a business start looking at different form factors (from the desktop style)?"

It ridiculous to even think there is no space for a rack. Unless someone runs a company out of their bedroom. A rack takes what, 5 square feet?

Ha. yeah I get it I totally do. And you can get a rack for pennies on the dollar if you are really looking.

Cost of the rack isn't the issue. Space to put it that is safe, clean, has power, central to the cabling, can be cooled, etc.

So, not here-

Have all zebras here. The newer ones work fine. The older ones (LP2844) are a pain sometimes. We use all direct thermal here.

I am trying to create a script that will allow me to delete an SMTP proxy address on an AD user object, after prompting for some info. I have this, but it doesn't want to create the smtp address using the variables-

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
$SamAccountName = Read-Host -Prompt "SamAccountName"
$Domain = Read-Host -Prompt "Type the domain of the address you wish to DELETE"
$GivenName = Get-ADUser -Identity "$SamAccountName" -Properties GivenName | Select-Object GivenName
$Surname = Get-ADUser -Identity "$SamAccountName" -Properties Surname | Select-Object Surname

Set-ADUser -Identity $SamAccountName `
           -Remove @{proxyAddresses="smtp:$GivenName.$Surname@$Domain"} `
           -Replace @{telephonenumber="8"}

If I Write-Host on Set-ADUser, I get -

Set-ADUser -Identity jacks -Remove System.Collections.DictionaryEntry -Replace System.Collections.DictionaryEntry

Obviously, it isn't getting the correct attributes to build out the address.

If I run the Get-ADUser commands by themselves, it outputs the correct info.

Get-ADUser -Identity "$SamAccountName" -Properties GivenName | Select-Object GivenName

GivenName
---------
Jack  

Where am I screwing up?

@marcinozga said in Running Plex in Multiple Vehicles:

@Dashrender said in Running Plex in Multiple Vehicles:

@wirestyle22 said in Running Plex in Multiple Vehicles:

@Dashrender said in Running Plex in Multiple Vehicles:

@wirestyle22 said in Running Plex in Multiple Vehicles:

We have cellular in the bus. He wants syncing to occur when they are connected to Wifi which I have to figure out

Is cellular for the guests use via wifi?

Yes. Quoted comment was in relation to the bus being parked when not in use. Once it connects to the HQ wireless network it can sync. This would actually be a great ansible project I'd think

Wow - the cellular bill must be huge..

In such case you just buy unlimited data plan, making sure there's no bullshit fine print saying unlimited for first 2 or 3GB then fallback to 2G or similar crap.

Who offers these plans?

@JaredBusch said in Large File Sharing:

Correct moving to online editing is the only solution. Get away from legacy sharing concepts is what is required.

Piggy-backing. What if these files are larger media files like, psd, ai, jpg, raw and even video? Do you know of something that works well (for at least the still image media)?

I run DMARC (SPF and DKIM). I would recommend setting it up. DMARC, itself, is easy to setup. Just make sure that any services that you use to send out email are factored in when planning. For instance, some CRM SaaS products support SPF, but don't support DKIM. Obviously, DMARC allows you to handle SPF and DKIM separately, but I would recommend auditing the capabilities of all the systems/services that send email prior to deciding if/how you configure DMARC.

@dbeato Good thing to have. I just recently migrated to RDS with UPD. Have you checked out Sidder?
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Sidder-Quickly-see-which-fa6360b3