@jmoore said in Software and Hardware Raid:

For myself there is value in me running a good Raid system at home. Who couldn't use a little better performance and reliability? I will do Raid 10. The most important thing to me is the learning experience and I like knowing best practices if at all possible. However, there are still things to consider. Remember everything I do at home is to help me learn something else in case I ever need it and I just l lots of vm's in a Raid 10 system?

That's actually great for learning at home. Nothing is handed to you on a silver platter ready to go. That said, getting KVM and software RAID running is straight forward (notice I didn't say easy.)

@kyle said in Any reason to avoid /16 in 2017?:

@scottalanmiller said in Any reason to avoid /16 in 2017?:

@kyle said in Any reason to avoid /16 in 2017?:

The employer I just went to work for was convinced to go from a /24 to a /16 because they were told this was necessary to fix the issues with the VLAN's. The turn up of this was on my 3rd day on the job so I had no idea when I signed on as to why they were making the change. The company has 14 locations on an MPLS but the IP addressing schema is all over the board.

LMAO.

I'm telling you. The "MSP" is like dealing with psychopathic monkey with alzheimer's.

lol damn.

Cloudflare here. I recently enabled DNSSEC. Super easy.

@wrx7m said in Forcing Group Policy:

In the future you can also use this command (run as admin) on the affected system to view which GPOs are being applied.

gpresult /h c:\gp.html /f

Once it creates the file, open it and show all content and do a ctrl + f for the GPO name or even the setting specific to the issue to see if it says it is being applied or blocked. You can use this to troubleshoot link order or permissions issues or even if it is showing at all (maybe you have a wmi filter or link disabled)

Group Policy Results in Group Policy Managment Console can provide the same results too.

@storageninja said in HyperV Partitioning:

My point is that things in the IO path go through that VM. They didn't want to write a full IO driver stack for Hyper-V so they have the VM for that. Compute/Memory doesn't go through it (that I know of), but network and disk IO do. (Otherwise Perfmon wouldn't work as a monitoring solution on the host).

I think you have some misconceptions or misunderstandings regarding the Hyper-V architecture and components... or Hyper-V stack...

This is not true at all, as it actually depends on the OS running in a VM.

Operating systems that already have the integration components baked into their kernel (Enlightened VMs) use their own Hypercalls to communicate directly to the hypervisor, then to the physical hardware.

Only for non-supporeted (older) operating systems, does the "parent partition" intercept the VM communication, emulating Hypercalls. In this case, there are performance degradations as the management OS needs to work as a bridge to allow the VM to access the hardware.

To note, this is why it's important for VMs to be running with the latest IC version.

The safest plan is like @marcinozga suggested- Nuke it.

@flaxking said in Salt grain to retrieve users present on minion (Windows):

@scottalanmiller said in Salt grain to retrieve users present on minion (Windows):

@flaxking said in Salt grain to retrieve users present on minion (Windows):

@scottalanmiller said in Salt grain to retrieve users present on minion (Windows):

Salt seems like the obvious tool for desktop administration to me!

And the thing is that automating desktop configuration has been the norm for longer than automating server configuration (at least in the Windows word), just with crappier tools.

Yeah, very weird that people don't see this. @QuixoticJeremy actually presented on using tools like Salt to manage desktops at MangoCon 2017 a few months ago.

No MangoCon 2017 videos up yet?

No, waiting on @Minion-Queen

@gjacobse said in Plantronics Voyager Legend Will Not Charge:

neat little dohicky... now - just how much for that wonderful bit of tech....

$150 - $300 depending on the model. Similar to Plantronics.

@gjacobse said in Category 5 Hurricane DSL Antenna:

@irj said in Category 5 Hurricane DSL Antenna:

@NerdyDad is right. This is an IT Risk Management issue. You need to figure out your Annual Loss Expectancy (ALE).

Thread jack:

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Returning to thread -

How is cost and benefit not important to this thread? Financially it's the only thing that makes sense

@lakshmana said in Browser Issue:

@jackcpickup You are also facing the same issue?

Nono, I'm saying to Scott that mine is working as you are expecting it to.

All I sometimes have to do is remove the .com/.co.uk etc. that FF recommends some times with delete, then search for what I'm after.

@dustinb3403 said in VoIP over Wifi:

You should set traffic shaping on wireless the same as you would on your LAN.

Doesn't work the same. It's a bus, not a switch.

@brandon220 said in Internal-only "mail" solution:

The logic (according to the bosses) for an email-type system is to retain messages and have the normal features. The old system forced you to check the messages as soon as you logged in to the software. Not sure how they expect to get everyone to check a new system daily and actually use it.

How is this different than IM systems? Other than saying it is like email, since it's not using SMTP, it's not like email. From the description, it doesn't sound like email fits the desired bill more or less than other solutions.

Yes. Grubs editor is inside Linux.

@aaronstuder said in Snipe-IT Active Directory Setup:

@dustinb3403 the documentation is good, but it doesn't seem to be connecting....

What are the settings that you have?

On ldap page, select first 3 options; ldap enabled ad and pass sync

Ad domain your ad fqdn

Ldap would be ldap://servername.fqdn

Ldap bind username domain\uername

Bind password the ad user password

Base bind dn is the ou=xx,dc=xx,dc=xx format

Ldap filter: &(cn=*)
Username field : samaccountname
Lastname: sn
Ldap firstname: givenname
Ldap auth query: samaccountname
Ldap email: mail

Try this!

@dustinb3403 said in VM disappearing after closing VMWare workstation:

Do you mean it powers off? Or disappears?

disappears

@ambarishrh @scottalanmiller can do it for you 🙂

Thanx to all .... i will analysis the VMware infra to reduce the vCPU on VMs.

I just had this issue with 2 users. Both were using the Grandstream Wave app softphone. Then they tried to register using the Bria app. Worked instantly. Strange behavior

Welp, as near as I can tell my cluster of a script does exactly what I'm looking for. I've updated the Pastebin link for those who are curious (https://pastebin.com/0JvUrzQU).

It will analyze existing group memberships and remove users if they do not meet all of the following requirements:

The account no longer matches the specified $fileString The account is disabled The account does not reside within the $searchBase

Next, it will pull all accounts from the system, excludes existing members, and adds the remaining users to the group if they meet all of the following requirements:

The account is enabled The account matches the specified $fileString The account resides within the $searchBase The sAMAccountName does not contain a 1 (something we use internally) The Display Name does not contain the string 'test' (we do not have any users who have 'test' in their name yet :-D)

After the above is done, it writes the changes to a log file (which is overwritten each time the script runs) and if emails it off to a specified email address.

MM strange issue, I have had this issue with Buffalo and Synology but haven't found the answer.