@wrx7m said in PowerShell - Off-boarding Script:

@dafyre said in PowerShell - Off-boarding Script:

@wrx7m said in PowerShell - Off-boarding Script:

@dafyre I think I found where you got it - https://www.powershelladmin.com/wiki/Powershell_prompt_for_password_convert_securestring_to_plain_text

Anyway, I am not sure where, in my script, I should place that function.

You'd put the actual function at the top of your script, and then just

$myPassword=convertFrom-SecureToPlain -securepassword $MySecurePassword

Wherever you need the password in plain text form.

Thanks. It mostly works. The only problem is that it isn't actually using the password I specify at the top. It is somehow generating its own and then writing it at the end. I put in

write-host "Plain Text Says: $plainText"

and it shows the password that I typed in for the secure variable at the beginning, followed by the one that it generated.

Plain Text Says: $#@%4#@177 Jof91348

Works fine for me here.... Check and make sure you don't have an extra write-host or anything somewhere.

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@scottalanmiller said in Cyber Security queries:

@pmoncho said in Cyber Security queries:

@IRJ said in Cyber Security queries:

@scottalanmiller said in Cyber Security queries:

@maximus said in Cyber Security queries:

Someone told me that his friend's kid got USD 130K job out of college as Cyber Security. Is that true?

Sure. $130K is good, but not crazy. And right now, a lot of security jobs are nonsensical. It's reasonable.

But someone dedicated might make even more, without going to school, sooner. So think of it in the broad scope.

Even in states like NY and CT I was seeing salaries around $150k for security engineer level positions. Down in FL, I was seeing mostly $110-130k, but again these are engineer level. I really only looked at the east coast during my search. Not sure about the rest of US.

What do the weekly hours look like for those kinds of salaries? I don't know anyone in that type of situation.

Normal. Standard professional days. Security positions are the same as engineering positions - just standard office hours.

Unless it's a SOC position then it becomes a 24x7 filled position. You may handle it in house or outsource for SOC.

Then there is GRC which is kind of mix between security and compliance. That is also standard working hours

@GodfatherX64 said in How to install the RocketChat server on Fedora 28:

thanks so much guys, its up and running

Awesome

@scottalanmiller said in Is Windows 10 Enterprise included in Office 365 E3?:

"Is Windows 10 Enterprise included in Office 365 E3?"

No, it is not.

"Is Windows 10 Enterprise included in Microsoft 365 E3?"

Yes, it is.

Well, that's not intentionally confusing at all.

Problem solve.

In Cisco Switch you cannot add an Access port to a Trunk port, instead you need to create a native Vlan and add the Vlan to the Trunk configuration.

This is the correct way:

interface GigabitEthernet2/0/38
switchport trunk allowed vlan 3,99
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk native vlan 3
switchport mode trunk
end

Regards

Nevermind, I was being dumb. They have Enterprise licensing here.

So @JaredBusch doesn't have to. FFS Travis, stop with the stupid.

@travisdh1 said in Moving Hyper-V VMs from C to D?:

@siringo Right-click the VM, select Move, fill out the wizard. It's quick, easy, and can be done live.

@travisdh1 thanks so much for the help, sounds like I'll be going ahead with this.

Thanks again.

@krisleslie said in Weird thought for XenServer / XCP-NG for Disk Performance Speed.:

Dangit

How can I get a better copy added to the post?

Use Greenshot, Jing, ShareX or something and paste it from Clipboard here.

@JaredBusch said in Where Does a 66 Block Get Its Name:

@Dashrender said in Where Does a 66 Block Get Its Name:

OK because of comments I looked more closely at the picture - I've never seen anyone do loops like that before - I guess it works though.

Looks like they had a pretty common for pots but the way they were made ive never seen that done

Agreed - hell, this could be in someone's home - just an odd one is all.

@Emad-R said in Linux NFS SSD caching:

AID 10 on Linux File Server machine, how can I speed up this NFS storage by an intelligent
cache, for example I wish to add another 250 GB SSD to act as cache, how will tha

Yeah the RAID 10 is on HDD, due to cost effectiveness. Will check LVM since its baked in.

@JasGot said in ZentriOS??? What could it be?:

@travisdh1 said in ZentriOS??? What could it be?:

@JasGot said in ZentriOS??? What could it be?:

Well, that was easy! I received an e-mail a minute later from my JuiceBox, saying it was offline. JusiceBox is the Class 2 Charging Station for our car.

Great, IOT plugged directly into our vehicles. Talk about upping the anti for security!

Indeed. It'll all work without it. But the app is too cool to resist!

Yeah, that'd be important in the morning. We have a guy that has to stop at the local quick charger for ~10 minutes in the morning. There are ~10 of them within a couple miles of our office.

@dbeato said in E-mail Language Settings Change Mid-conversation:

@wirestyle22 said in E-mail Language Settings Change Mid-conversation:

@scottalanmiller No, all e-mails are in english. It's only the from, sent and to fields that changed. I thought it might have just been a bug with the automatic language detection possibly.

It might be that the other person is from another country but still can write in English. I deal with that when I work with France and other countries for communication.

No it was reported as an anomaly. This is someone that my CEO speaks with regularly. It's really weird.

@JasGot said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:

@dbeato said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:

@JasGot said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:

@dbeato said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:

@JasGot said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:

@dbeato said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:

@JasGot said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:

We've been a Cloudberry Provider for many years. We have some customers on Unitrends.

We are in the process of moving all our customers to Datto. It's partner channel only, so you'll have to find someone to work through.

We are putting an appliance onsite; with forever cloud copy.

I hate Unitrends for a plethora of reasons, and I just don't have a high level of confidence in Cloudberry anymore.

Also, I do like the idea of the onsite appliance for quick recovery rather than downloading fro the cloud (current Cloudberry setup).

Datto's backups are all stored P2V, you can spin up a VM of someone's PC or your server in about 40 seconds. I like this part.

Datto restore aren't that fast as far as I have tried and we have many appliances.

In what way? The VMs sitting on our local Datto appliance are up and running in about 40 seconds.
Same for those we spin up in the cloud.

Now bringing a full system restore down from cloud storage can only be as fast as your ISP connection.

What are your resources on the VM? Like are you running a VM with 80 GB of Data or TB of Data?

Most are 150GBish

Yeah, That I can spin up fast. But we have some clients with VMs that have about 2 to 4 TB so 40 seconds is not that realistic for that size but still fast.

Have you considered splitting their OS from that much data?

That is how they are, OS is about 150 GB to 200 GB tops. Other VHD/VHDX are for Data.

@Emad-R said in Ubuntu: history -c doesn't clear:

@gjacobse

you can disable history all together if you want,

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/disable-bash-shell-history-linux/

Thank you, I have seen that. But I use history as a track of what I have installed and how I did it. I clear it periodically once I have exported it to a text file.

I do this also to share with my brother - as he's asked me how I've done something a number of times.

@Emad-R said in Installing MS SQL Server Express on CentOS:

Et me guess it is much faster on Linux than on Windows server

No idea, but it is one less Windows Server license needed.

Also MS SQL Server Express works well for many tasks.

@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral never updates the display name:

I would prefer hostname as a separate "detected" field that is always there, and the display name as one that doesn't change on us.

I don't care what the default setting is, as long as it is a setting that I can choose, because I will hate having to update crap all the time.

@siringo said in Fibre question:

switches had gone err-disabled so I just sorted that and we're off and running once more.
Thanks for the help.

Fun fun, we deal with this in NY City with Cogent a lot...

@openit said in Needs suggestion on email server/ control panel for Ubuntu to run erp, web n emails.:

Odoo

That has been the worst install of a CRM I have ever done even in Ubuntu. Heavily do not recommend it.

@Pete-S Good to know. Thanks for the link.

@JaredBusch That's nuts!