@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller and @Minion-Queen
Did you guys start this out on a fresh install situation, or to preexisting computers?

For example, thoughts on best way to deploy this to 100 workstations, then remove all of the apps currently not installed through Chocolatey?

Preexisting for about 20 machines and then the rest were fresh installs

@MattSpeller said:

@thecreativeone91 💩

haha.

Probably my most frivolous purchase in years.

Backplate for the GTX. Seems to add a certain je ne sais quoi.

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@scottalanmiller said:

Lots in fact. My dad actually has that DVD service from them still.

Annoying as f***[moderated] too

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender you have to have Dynamic Disks to do this in Windows using MS tools.

Sure, but you don't when using third party tools. Again, I haven't done it in 4+ years, so I don't know what Acronis can currently do.

Managed to use com0com and get it to work by looping it to COM5. Odd, but it was enough for it to discover it and ignore it. Thanks for the help!

@thecreativeone91 said:

It seems to happen with most expensive laptops. They just aren't worth it.better to keep desktops for performance and laptops for mobility.

I owe you an I told you so. Ditching the ASUS too and back on my workstation. Ordered a new motherboard and GTX 980. Going to pick up a weaker laptop.

Turns out that even on the highest end gaming laptops money can buy ( that aren't $4,000+ w/ SLI and 3 minutes battery life ) you can't develop for Oculus, which is my next little adventure.

Sidenote: God it's good to be back on a desktop
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@KOOLER said:

@creayt said:

Have a new laptop coming and I'd like to run something like Time Machine for OS X where I can just restall the whole system from it if possible. Any suggestions?

Veeam or wrong! (c) ...

https://www.veeam.com/endpoint-backup-free.html?ad=menu-products

🙂

Yeah, do this to a local NAS or USB attached storage.

@Dashrender said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Just talked to MS guys. We don't even need the VDA since they are for testing we can just use the MSDN Keys and not worry about licensing.

Assuming you already have a KMS server, you shouldn't need to do anything. The Windows 2008 R2 Server (maybe original 2008 as well) KMS key will authorize Windows 7.

Yeah the MDSN and MSVLSC are seperate. The Volume licensing is for production and the MSDN is for testing purposes only. Granted I don't think it matters too much what key is installed. We have both accounts.

Found it. It was on a random SQL server.

I love ninite for personal use. Nuke/pave times drop dramatically.

So yeah I ran the Disk Cleanup tool on some of them. We have approx 14 servers with less than 10GB left on the C Drive (which is only the windows install, nothing else all 40GB).

Anyway the tool sometimes caused them to have less disk space free after it ran. for example an application server went from having 1.8GB free to having 215mb free after running disk cleanup and the superseded cleanup stated here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2011/02/15/how-to-reclaim-space-after-applying-service-pack-1.aspx

@Martin9700 said:

@g.jacobse said:

0x01d0b26dc6a4a844

That value isn't a .NET date/time value so Get-Date won't be able to process it properly (hence the year 0415). So I tried this: http://superuser.com/questions/398983/how-do-i-decode-the-faulting-application-start-time-in-a-windows-event-log-ent

(get-date "01/01/1601").AddSeconds(0x01d0b26dc6a4a844 / 10E+6)

And got:

Monday, June 29, 2015 1:16:14 PM

Seems much better!

Interesting - same link I used. I didn't notice that the read through.

@scottalanmiller said:

Fixed it for you. The indent can't be the first line.

Really? Wow that seems odd. I will remember that in the future.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Sigh, and I thought consumer wise at least Samnsung was as good as HP and Dell.

First rule of buying computers, avoid consumer.

Sure, I guess I was giving them to much credit because there are no business class phones or TVs, two places they make a pretty decent product in.