@joel said in Black Screen of death! Is this a Dell thing?:

Hi Guys has anyone come across an issue where the computer powers on but after the manufacters logo (dell for example) the screen goes black and it stays on that screen?

Note: i can use our RMM remote tools to log onto the computer but it's also stuck on a black screen (so cant control it). I can however do file transfers and navigate via remote background to the 😄 - therefore the computer is online and working but the screen for end user (and us remotely) is blank!

I've looked at new monitors, uninstalling graphics card drivers, running disk and hardware scans, system restores (fails) and a bit lost .... i'm seeing this happen more and more in the last couple weeks.

I dont know if Bitlocker has anything to do with it but have disabled this and rebooted but still have the black screen!

I have attempted to rollback updates and that also doesnt fix it!

Safe mode works fine

Have updated drivers, bios, chipsets all of that good stuff but still no luck getting this working in normal mode and was curious to see if anyone else has had this one! Very odd!

In all cases, it's resulted in a re-format.

I think Dell devices are more affected.

@Joel - When you access via SafeMode does the Event Viewer have anything relevant to the issue?

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@gjacobse said in How To: if exists; unknown filename:

I am using if exist to check for folders, and have done for a specific file name.
Can you search for *.PST

Yes.

Example:
IF EXIST C:\logs*.log (Echo Log file exists)

Looks like upper limit is 100k in those areas then. Cheers folks

@pete-s said in Getting fed up with HP Active Warranty / Support Agreement Requirements:

You could comfort yourself with the fact that it's only small companies that pay the steep markup. Enterprise customers doesn't.

Grumbles well I have been running my entire server stack off of used enterprise equipment via eBay so full circle of life I guess

@pete-s said in HP Switch config question:

The person who set this up would clearly know what he was doing or he wouldn't have been able to make it work.

I'm guessing it was a move in the making. The intention was probably to move over to pfsense, drop the fortigate and perhaps remove routing from the switch. It's possible the fortigate is old and can't handle routing at line speed, hence the L3 routing in the switch.

I'm guessing the fortigate and the switch was setup long before pfsense.

If the fortigate is the actual edge device, maybe this was setup as a simple way to bypass the pfsense for fussy devices or troubleshooting?

I could see setting something like this up so that you can tell a remote user "go plug it into xyz switch and let me know if it starts working"

So the final answer for this question is, yes. Upgrades are normally smooth.

But the 2.5 branch has some issues , so hold off.

We had several suspicious activities happen at once, along with this activity. I can't go into details.

That said, we contacted our vendor agent and they were super cagey about what was happening.

This is what leads me to believe they had an incident they aren't reporting.

Toss in the fact of these red herring like solutions/problems their helpdesk is providing to the stated problem - instead of saying - oh.. interesting - I wonder if their AV is false positiving us.. no, instead they blaming a website redirect, lack of TLS, etc.

If I wanted to stay in the RHEL world, and the 16 systems would be sufficient I'd likely just use RHEL. Otherwise, if I wanted to stay in the RHEL world, and CentOS Stream wasn't viable, I'd like use Oracle Linux.

On the Sales program thing, I've been in the developer program for almost a year. I joined when I learned about it right before my RHCSA exam to get actual RHEL for practice. Other than E-mails into which I opted in, I haven't received a single sales communication from Red Hat.

@scottalanmiller said in Network backbone compatibility question:

You never want fiber until it offers you something you were missing...

I love to use fiber for inter-switch connections. Pretty much every switch on the planet has SFP available. Why waste the ports?

I'm still only using them as 1gigabit ports though.

@fabiorpn Basically you answered the question as to whether you do Maintenance on your hosts which you do. However updating a Host and rebooting it, it will render the VMs offline if not on HA. Assuming you do HA and that you move the VMs to the next host before reboot then you are good on that end. However my questions was geared more to the Security and Application Updates of the Severs (Be it Linux or Windows). When you install the updates and reboot it, essentially the VM is not accessible no matter how great your HA is. So that is where having a downtime/maintenance period is good even if you want to accomplish HA.

@brandon220 I think Proxmox is a great front end for KVM. From what I see in the updates the other day, they are improving their backup server as well. The only type 1 hypervisor I don't like or not a fan of is Hyper-V. I can use it but it needs some tweaks if you don't have it joined to a domain. But there are some good backup products for it. EXI is good but see no point on me paying for it and no point in using the free version as the API's for VM backups are disabled.

@jaredbusch Well that is one way to secure things......

@irj said in Outlook 2016/o365: Sent items issue:

@gjacobse said in Outlook 2016/o365: Sent items issue:

Thus far, nothing has resolved this issue.

As the install was Office 365;
Deleted OST file
Deleted User Mail profile
Online repair
Un-installed Office 365
Cleared application / user folders - rebooted
Installed Office 2016

The only other thing i can think of is;

Backup user data, wipe the drive (2 min max as it is a nvm drive) Image and restore user data.

This is an odd issue to say the least. I am hoping the o365 team can determine a solution rather than having to go that route.

I feel like you're shooting a shotgun in the woods during a new moon and praying to hit a target.

If you don't have permission to make any changes because of GPO and you have no visibility in office 365. Then just escalate the issue. Otherwise it's just a time waste for all involved.

Lol- I did. The O365 team kicked to the IR Team ( incident response), who closed it as I was working ...

Guess I’ll just have to reimage it ,.,.,

@jaredbusch said in Upgrading to Fedora 34:

@stacksofplates said in Upgrading to Fedora 34:

I don't care for the new Windows-esque "installing updates don't power off your computer" screen on a reboot that was introduced in 34.

It was in 33 also if you did a clean install.

Ah I haven't used it in a while. I just saw it mentioned the other day.

@scottalanmiller said in Proxmox in production questions:

@dustinb3403 said in Proxmox in production questions:

@itivan80 said in Proxmox in production questions:

I am using a promox server with the following raid-RAIDZ-3. A variation on RAID-5, triple parity. Requires at least 5 disks. It works awesome for my VMs. It protects me fully if one disk goes down.

Raid 5 does this natively, how is this some amazing feature?

RAID 5 is single parity.
RAID 6 is double parity.
RAID 7 is triple parity.

This is RAID 7.

Sorry, I could've swore this said protects from 1 drive failure....

There's a good bit of dysfunction going on, such as two weeks after starting to look into what's needed for configuration manager there's still no authoritative answer on "talk to this person to see what Microsoft licensing we have." 😛

I'm trying to get an idea of what's needed myself, and most of what I found is in relation to those who already have System Center and having current SA entitles you to Configuration Manager Current Branch.

shutdown the perpetrating computer remotely, and lock the computer account.

@siringo said in Simple comms. What to do?:

I have a site where the two main servers (Windows) are located about 15 'cable' metres from the switch (switch A) they plug into.

Each server has 3 NICs.

I'm wondering what others would do?

Would you run 6 cables from the servers to switch A

or

place a switch (switch B) near the servers and run 1 cable from switch B to switch A?

Thanks for any help.

Introducing new hardware (a switch) may be a stopgap, if the end intent running cables. Don't add a hardware failure point. Less is more as they say

@manny2375 said in Azure VM + Intune Autopilot:

@obsolesce thanks I know this method works unfortunately this specific client doesn’t want anything onpremise other than networking equipment and thin clients. The autopilot feature would have been nice on azure vm though.

Everything you are trying to do Microsoft is telling you not to do.

Read the last part especially:

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