@Dashrender said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

Why would you care about the Windows 10 licenses? If you're going to run Hyper-V, you should run the completely unencumbered free version. Download it from the MS trial website - FYI, it's not a trial.

only because I don't want to lose a valid windows 10 installation unless I do it on purpose.

@coliver said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

Make sure you have enough RAM for the server. Especially if you're doing any mods. Minecraft server just runs better under *nix so I'd move to that as well.

The PC has 32GB of ram. I would plan to run the servers under linux.

I've got a pair of laptops that we are going to be giving to my boys (8 and 7) soon. One reason is to start them working with a full computer. The other reason is so that we can all play minecraft together. So far, I have been playing on a PC and they have their fire tablets, but those are clunky. I am thinking of taking an old desktop that I have and turning it into a little home server running hyper-v or KVM. Then running a minecraft server or two in VM's. The PC already has licensed windows 10, which is why I would consider hyper-v, but part of me wants to try out KVM and play around with it.

that makes sense, especially SQL and ERP

@Donahue said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

I started (again) The Black Prism

I finished that series, at least what is currently published. I started the wheel of time series again, for the third time.

that's not what I meant. I know the end customer always pays the piper in the end. But I feel like if an app relies on a newer version of java, won't it be bundled into the install? Or is this going to show up as an additional line item for the end customer the way CALs do when purchasing windows server?

but who does this actually effect, developers?

a good point that SAM mentioned to me, If you start with redundancy, you are committing the cost up front in the (most likely) unlikely event of a failure. But even if the backup strategy costs the same, you only incur those costs when you actually have that emergency.

@Dashrender said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Donahue said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@travisdh1 said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Dashrender said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@JaredBusch said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@gjacobse said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

The need for an 'online account' is ridiculous.. stupid MS.

There is not a need. but a strong ass push.

For typical home users - it's likely just better for them to use an MS account. In the business world - if we choose domain, all that other shit should go the hell away!

My biggest peeve with it is them asking for the password when setting up an account for someone else.

For domain computers, I always setup the first account for my own use as the admin. End users never use local account. That account is always the same for each computer.

But the same from where? From AD? from Microsoft?

I do the same - the local account is created during setup, but my GPOs neuter it after I join the domain. All other users are are domain users.

As for home users - I don't support any other than myself and my wife.. so meh.

I keep that local admin account. It has come in handy many times. It doesn't come from anywhere, it gets created each time on a new workstation.

@travisdh1 said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Dashrender said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@JaredBusch said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@gjacobse said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

The need for an 'online account' is ridiculous.. stupid MS.

There is not a need. but a strong ass push.

For typical home users - it's likely just better for them to use an MS account. In the business world - if we choose domain, all that other shit should go the hell away!

My biggest peeve with it is them asking for the password when setting up an account for someone else.

For domain computers, I always setup the first account for my own use as the admin. End users never use local account. That account is always the same for each computer.

I agree, and that is a good argument. @scottalanmiller convinced me of a similar idea when we discussed my project before I settled on buying a single new host. Here is something to add. If you have two bridges, it's probably likely that you could make the first bridge more reliable for less than the cost of the second bridge. So one strong bridge may be better than two average bridges. It is probably also a good idea to plan ahead and factor in the cost of a a ferry service that could be used in an emergency while the primary bridge was being repaired or replaced. So far this analogy works and has real work equivalents. This is also the reason I decided against HA, as putting my resources into a great backup solution will get me ahead in the long run.

Looks like a host reboot fixed the issues.

I'm trying to get shared nothing live migrations to work in hyper-v

Yeah, i think i need to learn powershell. I probably rely too much on GUI's

just...wow

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@DustinB3403 said in Crashplan vs Backblaze in 2018:

Can I ask why you are protecting user devices though? Generally these have very little on them and through simple policy can everything be saved on your servers or cloud and thus don't need backup.

I would really like to do this. We have onedrive available for all of our users and I was thinking of coming up with some sort of system that just uses their onedrive as the primary source of their homefolder.

That's how I do it but we are using Nextcloud.

All users root folders under their user profile is linked to the actual folders in C:\Users\john.doe\Nextcloud{Desktop, Documents, etc...}. And the data is synced back to the Nextcloud server and that server is backed up.

How do you go about doing that? Editing the location of Desktop, Documents, etc... ?

Use Junction Points. Its like using symbolic links in Linux.

Oh... Duh, lol. Thanks.

I'm just trying to figure out how that would work if you have to do more than a few client machines at a time.

Something like this. It is not ready for prime time, but was my starting point last week when setting up a new desktop.

$User = Read-Host "Enter UserName"
Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Desktop"
New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Desktop" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Desktop" -Force
Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Documents"
New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Documents" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Documents" -Force
Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Downloads"
New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Downloads" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Downloads" -Force
Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Favorites"
New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Favorites" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Favorites" -Force
Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Music"
New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Music" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Music" -Force
Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Pictures"
New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Pictures" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Pictures" -Force
Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Videos"
New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Videos" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Videos" -Force

where would this be run from, the DC?

@DustinB3403 said in Safe to have a 48TB Windows volume?:

Doesn't ntfs have a limit of 16TB per volume?

it depends on the cluster size. I just created a 30TB volume the other day.

@dyasny said in What would your recommendation be for a Type 1 Hypervisor - including backup and restoration options:

@scottalanmiller I've had the misfortune of doing SMB work for quite a few years, and it's always been "just fix this now" and "we've no budget for that, we're an accounting firm and not an IT shop". So when I see SMB mentioned, I go into power saving mode

both hyper-v and KVM fit the no budget budget.

is there a backup for all this data?

I view length of experience like tenure. I shows very little about the qualities of the candidate. In some places, like where I work, it is simply a measure of being able to not get fired. I could simply claim my few years of experience because I am extremely unlikely to get fired, and so accrue experience from that fact. But that would say nothing about my actual skills or value as a candidate. I feel the same way about college degrees. I know too many people, both with degrees and with lots of time experience, that are poor choices for a lot of tasks, simply because who they are and the other skills they lack. Perhaps experience or a degree can be an ok initial standard for getting a resume past the basic screening, but any competent interviewer should be able to tell when that experience was good or just from time served.

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