Worth noting that using rsync worked very well, but there were issues with the Outlook profile on the existing user workstation and the end result.

Not a huge issue for us as everything is stored in O365, but worth being mindful of if your email was hosted locally.

Also because of username convention changes, I had to set the ownership of the user profile to match the new shortened name.

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2019 Need to Download and Run without AV Deleting Files:

https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2016/07/how-to-disable-and-configure-windows-defender-on-windows-server-2016-using-powershell/

For now, just temporary disable Real-Time Protection via PowerShell
Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true

Download the executable and scan it manually before you install
Start-MpScan -ScanPath C:\datastore\file.exe -ScanType QuickScan

Enable Real-Time Protection after the install
Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $false

Excellent, now THAT did it.

@pmoncho said in The Hidden Cost of Licensing Windows Server - Activation:

@scottalanmiller said in The Hidden Cost of Licensing Windows Server - Activation:

Just looking at this with a customer that just put in a new Windows 2019 server. The machine was purchased with a volume license agreement for Server 2019 Standard. Everything should be super easy, in theory. Problem is, license key from the volume license center doesn't work. We spend a bit of time trying to get this to apply, but no luck.

I have run into a similar situation this morning and not being able activate the VLSC liscense.

Before I decided to call MS and getting frustrated, I was able to activate from an elevated command line.
cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk <product key>

Throwing this out here in case someone comes along this post at a later time.

I've heard that that often works. We had tried that in our case and it had failed.

Turns out it is just the disk number in Disk Manager.

@Jimmy9008 said in VLAN on Dell N4064 Stacked:

Im guessing 'U' is fine. As I want vLAN2 to pass traffic where the device has already set vlan2 in its NIC. If the LAG is set to 'T', all traffic will be set to vlan2, right? Even when from vLan1/default...

I think it's better to tag every vlan in both ends. Then you can be certain traffic ends up on the same vlan on the other switch stack.

@RojoLoco said in Adobe After Effects - Preview is not real time:

@scottalanmiller mid to late 90s. absolutely. I graduated with my audio degree end of '96, literally EVERY VENDOR had Apple's ball juice conspicuously on their chin. According to "the industry" at that time, nobody could record multitrack audio, use photoshop/after effects / premiere etc, or do any kind of multimedia production without a Mac. My personal mission since then has been to shit all over that mindset.

I know what you're talking about. At the end of the nineties I worked with a company that was running Protools on Windows NT and not Mac. It was rather unusual. System could do 64 tracks of 24 bit @ 48kHz on a Pentium II full of effects, but that was in large part because audio processing was offloaded to DSP cards. That's Digital Signal Processors for those who don't know. Audio tracks where recorded to SCSI disks. I remember it was a very stable and good system but it was extremely picky on hardware.

@jt1001001 said in Deploying Polycom Phones Properly:

So I should just get rid of the TOTE of 20 or so IP650 Polycom phones someone left on my desk?
(for those not in the know, my desk often becomes the Junk/Recycle pile collection site for some reason)

I would. Or get them to eBay.

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation:

@dbeato said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation:

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation:

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation:

@JaredBusch said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation:

The current install method brings Windows Server on parity with the Linux ecosystem really. You install, choose some options and end up at a prompt after reboot. Then you remotely add the features and shit you want.

Yeah, very in like with Fedora, Ubuntu, or Deepin. Deepin might still be my favourite installer for normal stuff of the four.

Did you have a Deepin install screenshot chain on here?

No, but I do it so often, it would be easy to get.

That'd be nice to see on here.

Last post on it was below
https://mangolassi.it/topic/14453/deepin-linux-15-4-1-install

The install still looks like that.

LOL that's not an installer. That's a push button, get peanuts.

Nice though.

@JaredBusch said in Setup: EdgeRouter 4 + co-lo + infrastructure:

@scottalanmiller said in Setup: EdgeRouter 4 + co-lo + infrastructure:

@JaredBusch said in Setup: EdgeRouter 4 + co-lo + infrastructure:

@scottalanmiller said in Setup: EdgeRouter 4 + co-lo + infrastructure:

@Pete-S said in Setup: EdgeRouter 4 + co-lo + infrastructure:

@scottalanmiller said in Setup: EdgeRouter 4 + co-lo + infrastructure:

@Pete-S said in Setup: EdgeRouter 4 + co-lo + infrastructure:

Can't edgerouter do
failover?

As in a live/live cluster? That uses VRRP and yes, they can.

https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/204962174-EdgeMAX-Virtual-Router-Redundancy-Protocol-VRRP-

Then that is the way to go.

I would agree.

It is the best thing to do. Sadly I have never had the leisure to actually test it. I have a pair of ERL in colo but they were put in place long before this feature was added.

Yeah, but I have been authorized to make some upgrades that will free up an ERL for us, and we have an ERL in our colo. So maybe I'll ship one out there to do this soon. That would be an awesome project.

Don't think I would try and live test in colo.

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@JaredBusch said in Make Yealink Ring While on the Phone:

@scottalanmiller said in Make Yealink Ring While on the Phone:

If you have Yealink T46S phone, and you are talking on the phone, instead of making it do a call waiting beep, can you make it ring normally? A bit odd, but there is a reason for it 🙂

Not to my knowledge.

It was supposedly added as a feature request a few years ago, and I have not noticed it in a firmware release note.

That would explain why I have never seen it come up. Not that anyone has ever wanted it previously.

So to answer my own question:
"Which hosts belong in what pool when running local storage?"

The answer is none - at least with xenserver. Don't use pools when using local storage.

@dave247 said in Windows 7 End of Support Countdown:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 7 End of Support Countdown:

@dave247 said in Windows 7 End of Support Countdown:

Man, I just finished upgrading us to Windows 7 64 bit. Got the last XP machine removed last week...

Did you really target Windows 7 as the "go to" target, or was it simply that the last XP was removed finally and now Windows 7 is the "old stuff" left around?

nah I was just gaffin. I've upgraded all our stuff to Windows 10 1809 baby

Oh, haha. You never know. The number of people out there pushing for Windows is crazy high.

@JaredBusch I don't know if you ever finished up with this client, but for $1236 you can get a decent server that would work well.

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Add $99 if you wanted the 3 year warranty

@DarienA said in Alternatives to Sharepoint:

Anyone familiar with Mango Intranet? Want to look at a few different options...

Seriously... $4 per user, per month. Ouch.

Looks like you could do something similar on WordPress for way less.

Thread: https://twitter.com/theek/status/1117895531563372544

Now that's disaster recovery planning long term!

Thanks for the example. It makes so much sense now.

Have never looked at that.

@JaredBusch said in Conatainers (Docker) vs VMs - When and Why?:

@Obsolesce said in Conatainers (Docker) vs VMs - When and Why?:

Are there many use cases in the SMB outside of Dev?

Not even in dev really for the SMB. Just use a single VM to do the work. SMB rarely needs to scale.

Other than as you stated, the solution is presented that way. Like UNMS.

Even enterprise rarely need to scale that way. It's more for hosting companies than anything.