To add to this- I have an error that started appearing after updating their Fedora 29 and 30 instances. Further testing found that the error appears in different regions using their server type template installers or even a custom iso option that I used with net install. All I have to do is deploy, run dnf update and reboot. The error is present in every boot after the update.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/19903/fedora-29-and-30-edac-skx-can-t-get-tolm-tohm-error-on-vultr

Vultr got back to me last week with an email -

"Hello,

We apologize for the delayed response to this ticket, while we investigated this matter further.

We are continuing to review our OS template and application images, and should be applying comprehensive changes across all available deploy images in the near future.

Your continued patience and understanding is appreciated in the meantime.

If you have any followup questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out."

@jt1001001 Thanks. If you are running from PDQ deploy, you won't see anything. But, if you are doing it from PS/ISE or similar, that would be a great help.

@pmoncho said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

@Dashrender said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

Cool, then you should have it easy.

FYI - Published apps still create a full profile on the RDS box, Just the desktop isn't presented to the user. If the application allows them to browse around, they could typically see the drive letters, the mapped printers, etc... that's why you still need to lock all that stuff down.

Thanks for the info. I will keep that in mind. I was debating about using UPD's like @wrx7m and that was my interest in this post.

Also, still planning out where to put Connection Broker, WebAccess and Licensing but that is another post.

For local profile management, UPDs are a lot cleaner. If we are not putting them on a file server across the network then a second partition/VHDX is set up for that task to keep them separate.

With the inclusion of FSLogix with RDS CALs/SALs now it's a no-brainer, IMNSHO, to set the project up on the FSLogix version.

Storage management is another reason why UPDs on a network or separate partition make sense. Keeping a local profile on the C:\ of the session host is messy and can cause issues down the road with users coming and going.

As far as the Broker/Gateway/Web put those roles on one VM but separate from the Session Host.

@Pete-S said in Wget - Download a Web Dashboard For Local Viewing?:

Here is Firefox headless mode:
Firefox uses the same browser, just run with the headless switch. Works from version 57 and newer.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Headless_mode

Thanks. I won't be able to use this with brightsign, but it might work if I have to run windows for a site that I can't view a public dashboard.

@Pete-S said in Digital Signage - Display HTML5 Page That Requires a Login:

You could probably make a script with curl that will login to smartsheet every 5 minutes or whatever, downloads the html5 dashboard page and save it somewhere. Then your media player can access the saved data.

As @Romo said, login details are not sent in the URL.

Yeah. I was thinking it was a long shot. I have been trying to figure out ways to create a local dashboard or similar to what you were saying that does that, or pulls info via an API and then the signage player connects to that, sans login.

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Office - Licensing Questions For 3 Scenarios:

@flaxking said in Microsoft Office - Licensing Questions For 3 Scenarios:

I think you must be missing what's going on here. This removes the requirement to integrate more directly with MS Office, instead relying on a separate library that is provided standalone from Office and thus allows saving to Excel. We've had zero issues with using this library, which is actually pretty uncommon for us.

The issue is flexibility. Using third party libraries, you can integrate with Excel or with anything else. Using the Office libraries, every user, in ever system, is bound by the limitations of the most problematic. It makes deployments more costly, and more complex.

That's true, it's the kind of self perpetuating lock-in that has served Microsoft so well. People use Excel, and they ask for saving to Excel spreadsheet, so we create the integration specially to allow Excel and not include ODF, then we help keep the industry locked into using Excel because that's all we support unless you want to just save to CSV.

As for the cost and complexity of deployments... that could be true, except that the installation of our main software is already so complex and costly that dealing with potentially installing this library is the easiest part. I think we probably only have one other developer who would be able to figure out how to install it. I've never heard of any client's IT that have been able to figure out how to install it (just calls from those who have tried), client services has to do literally every install.

@JaredBusch said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?:

@scottalanmiller said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?:

@Curtis said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?:

@scottalanmiller said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?:

I was saying bad faith in the other direction, attempting to start a business under the same name as a domain name that was already in use.

He clearly states it's for a brand, not a company.

Same thing, though. Attempting to start a new brand that is already in use.

Purchased and parked is not in use. It is “available for the right price.”

Is no one reading what I wrote? I specified everything that people have said in my original statement.

@IRJ You are passionate about computers, you love to write code. Well, what's more exciting than being able to create your own plugins.

When you know that WordPress is today one of the most used CMS on the web, it would be really interesting to see how a plugin is made and to be able to create it yourself. [Check it here] (http://bit.ly/2KxPChJ)

@IRJ said in Windows Server 2012 R2 - Share Auditing for Changes:

I know you use wazuh..

Check this out

https://documentation.wazuh.com/current/user-manual/capabilities/file-integrity/index.html

Thanks! Checking out setting this up. Hopefully, it will reveal the culprit.

@wrx7m said in Office 365 User Quarantine - How Do You Access After Redesign?:

@dbeato said in Office 365 User Quarantine - How Do You Access After Redesign?:

@wrx7m I have not found a way to do so, you can create a folder in Outlook to manage it from there. Example here
http://www.expta.com/2015/02/how-to-add-access-to-office-365-eop.html

Have you done this? The link that includes admin seems like it would try to access the admin portion, not the specific user's quarantine. If this works as I need, I wonder if there is a policy to set this up, or if it would be a manual, one-by-one endeavor.

I have not but I can test.

@wrx7m said in Video Conferencing Hardware - Suggestions?:

@scottalanmiller said in Video Conferencing Hardware - Suggestions?:

I'm doing video conferencing stuff this week, too!

What are you deploying? I am leaning toward the higher end logitech stuff to integrate with SFB/Teams and Slack. If I do that, I will most likely pull the trigger on the Barco CSE-200+ for wireless presentation- something we haven't had before. We have just had a direct HDMI cable to a large monitor.

Cheap Logitech right now to get started. We are talking to Yealink to find out about their high end stuff. But likely we are going to go with just Logitech gear and maybe soft phones or something like that.

@black3dynamite said in Salt - Can't Connect to Minions After Adding Them to Master:

I sometimes have to add --timeout 60 so I can see a response
salt FP01.domain.local test.ping --timeout 60

Seems to be working. I think that it was the firewall needing the exception AND using the

--timeout 60

Thanks!

I've done both. I tend to like MariaDB / MySQL better because that is what I'm more comfy with.

Circling back to GPP. Thanks to @FiyaFly , who was able to help me out with the syntax for the fields. Do not use quotes in the target or start in paths.
Target Path:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

Arguments:

--incognito --proxy-server=squid1.domain.com:3128 --user-data-dir="%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Squid1\User Data"

Start in:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\

I also used the create option and desktop (standard, not all users desktop).

@JaredBusch Correct, I did not state that. However, my OP shows the version as 4.2. So, the issue is that I can't install the latest version available on Fedora. I will update the OP.

@IRJ #TrueStory

@scottalanmiller said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray:

@wrx7m said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray:

@scottalanmiller said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray:

@wrx7m said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray:

Adding swapping out RAM to the list. Haven't gotten any word back as to whether or not it has fixed it. Just found out that the user will be in China for a week and a half, so I won't really be able to try much.

That'll slow things down.

Swapping RAM or him being out of the country?

Being out of hte country.

OK lol. I thought that is what you meant.

@wrx7m happy to help!