I believe this was the setting I had to change to get the RDS links to work with these (I have a few different things I had to test for this customer).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/gg607271(v=ws.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

Speaking of Youtube, does anyone recall the IBM advertisement for the server they shot with a rifle (I think) and it just kept working?

nmap is something of a standard for this and would be my recommendation.

@VoIP_n00b said in Topics of Systems Administration:

@scottalanmiller just post your resume.

And SSN, Birthdate and mothers maiden name.

Zabbix is quite possible the best "cheatsheet" you could ask for

Training, I can't say for certain but you can learn a lot about zabbix from their community.

Apple OSX is notorious for pre-emptive locking all files on a share, even if a client has only 1 file open.

Any apple users?

@scottalanmiller said in Trouble with open files/folders on Windows file server?:

@Pete-S said in Trouble with open files/folders on Windows file server?:

@dave247 said in Trouble with open files/folders on Windows file server?:

There are no other network issues and this problem just seems to occur every so often. Sometimes its multiple times a day for a few days, then its all good for a week. I just wanted to know if there is some good solution I'm not aware of.

Reboot the server every night. Or force a restart of the file server service on it (aka server). It will release all locks. And people can still save their work if they have something open.

Kind of a good idea anyway

No it's really not, that's like rebooting a server because VSS Writers are getting hung daily, find and fix the problem rather than covering up the symptoms.

@CCWTech said in Tools to de-crapify Windows 10?:

Tronscript has some of this, I'm not exactly sure what it will/will not remove.

It annoys me so much that Candy Crush is actually part of Windows on a default install. Then add in Teams, etc...

But how else would you know you're on a business ready operating system if you didn't have Candy Crush out of the box?

I think you need to be in Congress to get Mark Zuckerberg's attention to any sort of issue.

At the moment, I use a personal keyboard and mouse, with a company provided laptop. I'm thinking im going to purchase a monitor though as looking at the laptop screen has been causing some eye strain and me to lean forward to see the screen.

Plus I'd like to just have my monitor more eye level.

Just bought a 31.5" HP monitor for the home office, will be picking it up in a bit. With tax it was only $205.19!

With my new monitor.

@WrCombs said in Powershell to unhide all files and copy to nextcloud folder:

@Grey said in Powershell to unhide all files and copy to nextcloud folder:

@JaredBusch said in Powershell to unhide all files and copy to nextcloud folder:

@Grey said in Powershell to unhide all files and copy to nextcloud folder:

@JaredBusch But why robocopy?

Because it does at least skip the ones with no changes.

Why get convoluted with Powershell to do the same?

Not every system may have Robocopy.

it became part of theOS with Windows Vista. So anything running Windows Vista or Higher will have robocopy as a part of the Operating system (as everyone should be using higher than vista at this point.. I mean.. windows 7 is obsolete now.. sooo..)

Windows 10 1709 is obsolete too, so really anything not with a support mechanism shouldn't be used. But @JaredBusch might be getting paid stupid amounts of money to support Windows XP / Server 2000

@RojoLoco I think your monitor is vibrating a lot!

@hobbit666 Generally we monitor for alerts only, things that cause issues, no one is going through each log looking for specific issues. We generate alerts based on known issue events.

From those we then investigate further.

Logging everything would be very space consuming for us.

@hobbit666 said in Log & Alerts Management:

@DustinB3403 said in Log & Alerts Management:

@hobbit666 Generally we monitor for alerts only, things that cause issues, no one is going through each log looking for specific issues. We generate alerts based on known issue events.

From those we then investigate further.

Logging everything would be very space consuming for us.

Are you using any particular solution for this or is it all windows alerting?

With my newer job working for an MSP we have a toolset that does all of this for us. We just install the agent on the client systems and they send the logs to the portal.

@hobbit666 Zabbix is something of a go-to solution. Very simple to get started with and it does a ton right out of the box.

@JaredBusch https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ZFS_on_Linux

@JaredBusch said in Fiber Optic patch panel:

@Pete-S said in Fiber Optic patch panel:

@JaredBusch said in Fiber Optic patch panel:

@FATeknollogee said in Fiber Optic patch panel:

Just in case anyone needs this info.
I buy all my fiber related stuff from fs.com

I buy from distribution channels.

It's nice of you to support the middle man. Good when you need support.

I like to buy from FS because they are the manufacturer.

When I need something, I send two emails. One to CCB and one to Insight.
I am not going to deal with making accounts at 500 vendors for random shit I need to buy for random client.

But it's more fun managing those relationships yourself!

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