@aidan_walsh @travisdh1 said in LattePanda + Android Limbo PC Emulator:

@scottalanmiller said in LattePanda + Android Limbo PC Emulator:

@aidan_walsh said in LattePanda + Android Limbo PC Emulator:

LattePanda is a neat looking board. Supports Ubuntu 16.04 as well as Windows.

Last gen Intel, though. I'd prefer current gen AMD.

huh, well, doesn't seem so interesting anymore.

there is AMD boards, but support has been removed, they are called gizmos and abit pricy and needs fan:

http://www.gizmosphere.org/products/gizmo-2/

@dbeato said in Blue compression arrows on MS Office 2010 Standard icons - newly installed Windows 10 pc:

@dave247 said in Blue compression arrows on MS Office 2010 Standard icons - newly installed Windows 10 pc:

I ended up finding the "real" location of the programs and made icons from them and now the blue arrows are gone.

I was looking in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Office when I should have been looking in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14

There are no shortcuts on that folder just the Executable and same for the other office versions. You just need to recreate them.

Yeah I got it fixed already..

I've had this happen on multiple occasions. The system was configured to use the internal windows database instead of sql, and there were too many records so the refreshes and etc. would take forever, or you'd get the reset server node issue. After I migrated the database to sql, the problem mostly went away. It still occurs on slow connections.

@dashrender said in Synology DiskStation DS713+ transfer speeds:

OK - you see this points at NAS, you are maxing out it's capability speed wise. If you want more speed, you must replace that. BUT, be aware, there is a domino effect likely here. You see this points at 8 port switch this is likely to be the next cause of issue because reasons. So simply replacing the NAS likely won't solve your issues, you'll also likely need to replace this switch.

yep, you get it. They need to hear it a few times.

Like I said, it was a couple years ago. Make sure to go through their documentation well.

@bnrstnr said in Remote Control Software:

@wrx7m Right, an agent is the SC software installed on each machine, which varies per plan. $300 = 25 Agents, $600 = 100 Agents, etc. I believe you can have unlimited technicians with any of these pay per agent plans. I could totally be wrong though...

You are correct. I was confusing agents with techs.

@scottalanmiller said in Any recommendations for new backup solution? Client wants to take backup copies offsite.:

@wrx7m said in Any recommendations for new backup solution? Client wants to take backup copies offsite.:

Veeam does have tape library integration, but I am not sure how it works with the agent side of things. I am assuming nothing is virtualized in this scenario. It also has integration with Starwind and Amazon S3/Glacier VTL.

Agents work the same as long as you are using the paid console based version.

I have a mix of both VMs and physical (not for much longer). The agents didn't fully integrate with the console until 9.5 U3, which was released last month-ish.

@dustinb3403 said in Cross Post - Restoring Windows 7 Image Without a Repair disk or Installation Media:

@Dashrender

@ezacal said in Cross Post - Restoring Windows 7 Image Without a Repair disk or Installation Media:

@dustinb3403 I appreciate the recommendation of alternate imaging software and i personally would love to use them but my mission is to get the VHDs stored in the windows image to transfer over directly to a blank HDD, no matter the method used the windows image must be the source of the restoration.

This is the issue here. He is stating he must use Windows Recovery to restore the operating system.

Not sure of why or what requirement this is other than

@ezacal said in Cross Post - Restoring Windows 7 Image Without a Repair disk or Installation Media:

@dustinb3403 ah yes i neglected to mention we are able to clone the drive via clonezilla but a lot of the times the users have to continue work while we send out a new drive, so as of now i only have a windows image to work with, with the constraint of not being able to use a repair disk

Where he says the users have to be able to use their systems.

Which the answer to this is an Agent based backup solution (Veeam Endpoint, UrBackup etc) can all write to remote storage and can be written to new drives that then get sent out to the user to physically remove the hard drive from their system to install this "restored image".

There are potential issues with this. Restoring a computer image that's 3 months old could easily find a situation where the restore has a different computer password with the network, etc.

@pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

@dustinb3403 said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

@pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

Unfortunately, sometimes the best answer/decision today becomes a bad decision tomorrow.

Then it clearly wasn't the best decision at the time.

If you are evaluating a system today, and it does everything you could ever need and then some. It cost a nominal amount of money to implement compared to the competition and you go with that solution.

That isn't a bad decision.

In 3 years there could be a way better system that exist and costs even less and offers more. But you needed a system 3 years ago not 3 years in the future.

You picked the best solution for the organization that was available at the time.

"At the time" is the key phrase. A boss could say, "Why didn't you look to the future and only see the present? You wasted my money because you didn't look out far enough" That then makes it a bad decision even though it could have been the best smart logical decision ever.

I'm not saying its right, just that the boss could say it.

I am in agreement that we do our best to make the best decision based on info we have at the time. That still opens the door to a previously best decision becoming a bad decision.

That's just the boss making a different bad decision now 🙂

@wrx7m The WD15 (USB Type-C) has been decent, but there's a huge shift in how it operates compared to the docks of old. First off, I had to change a couple BIOS settings to get it to work at all. Then when you hit the power button, you have to look at the lights on the laptop to even tell if it's on, then like 10 seconds later the monitors turn on and you can finally see Windows loading. I'm assuming that the downtime is because the drivers aren't loaded yet? Then the other weird thing is that the dock installs it's own ethernet adapter, completely separate from the one on the laptop itself, with its own MAC address. I ended up having to set a static IP on that interface because it wouldn't pull and keep a reservation I made for it for some reason, it would intermittently drop connections and then pull from the DHCP pool (we have a messed up process, don't ask lol). Other than those couple of things, it's been good.

@syko24 said in Implement new Active Directory across Azure, on-prem, offsite, and cell-data IoT devices:

@scottalanmiller said in Implement new Active Directory across Azure, on-prem, offsite, and cell-data IoT devices:

@syko24 said in Implement new Active Directory across Azure, on-prem, offsite, and cell-data IoT devices:

@scottalanmiller said in Implement new Active Directory across Azure, on-prem, offsite, and cell-data IoT devices:

@wrx7m said in Implement new Active Directory across Azure, on-prem, offsite, and cell-data IoT devices:

@tim_g said in Implement new Active Directory across Azure, on-prem, offsite, and cell-data IoT devices:

@wrx7m said in Implement new Active Directory across Azure, on-prem, offsite, and cell-data IoT devices:

@scottalanmiller said in Implement new Active Directory across Azure, on-prem, offsite, and cell-data IoT devices:

@dashrender said in Implement new Active Directory across Azure, on-prem, offsite, and cell-data IoT devices:

I'm with the rest - What are you trying to accomplish with AD? Can it be accomplished with other means?

I agree, if it were me, I'd not look at AD here at all. This is where Salt or Ansible seems like a better fit.

Can salt and/or ansible be used for user/device authentication?

Salt/Ansible is not an authentication platform. It's a systems management or state configuration system.

You can use Salt/Ansible to sync accounts across devices... so that you can control what local users and passwords are on which systems.

I didn't think it was, but did not know about the account sync functionality. Thanks for the info.

That's a key feature in SodiumSuite's design. Account management across platforms.

Is that available in SodiumSuite at this time?

Not quite, but VERY soon.

@QuixoticJeremy

Every time I login to my account I always click on the Terminal tab hoping there will be some added functionality. Really looking forward to some of the more advanced features of the platform to be implemented.

LOL, honestly I do that from time to time, too. It was actually there at one point, but wasn't tested enough and we made the devs claw it back. That's why the tab is there, because it's working in testing.

@storageninja said in VMware vSphere Update Manager Client - Is there a version 6.5?:

@wrx7m A 6.5 vCenter can manage a 6.0 host just fine.

Right. That is why I upgraded vCenter server to 6.5 🙂

@travisdh1 said in Cloud-Hosted Linux Desktop:

@bigbear said in Cloud-Hosted Linux Desktop:

@scottalanmiller said in Cloud-Hosted Linux Desktop:

@aaronstuder said in Cloud-Hosted Linux Desktop:

XFCE isn't bad, it just seems dated. Reminds me of the first time I used Linux in the early 2000's.

XFCE only seems that way by default. Look at Korora, they do an amazing job of polishing up XFCE. Feels super modern there.

But it IS dated, that's its charm. It is light and fast, nothing you don't need.

Yeah but can I watch YouTube and netflix through it???

Why wouldn't you be able to? HTML5 (which they both can use now) is implemented in the browser, nothing depends on anything else anymore. Besides, the GUI interface never made a difference with that anyway.

I've tried a few other things, would never be able to watch Youtube through Logmein, VNC, NoDesktop, very laggy compared to RDP 10...

Now as a general recommendation (really never do this), don't install Windows Server onto the bare metal, install your hypervisor to the bare metal. In this case Hyper-V.

Apply your licensing to the 2 VM's that you are allowed to create with Standard (and up licensing) then you'll be allowed to move your VM's around every 90 days or sooner for hardware failures etc.

@dashrender said in Finding hidden files on Windows:

@jackcpickup said in Finding hidden files on Windows:

WizTree will always be more accurate than those 2 due to how it discovers files, I can't remember enough to explain. It's also incredible quick at scanning compared to those 2 so always my preferred.

You can say that again.. I've never heard of it before.. Now to burn it into my memory.

I need to write the author and ask them to post it to Chocolatey.

Good idea.

I think I have it figured out.. when I'm back on that network I'll get a screen shot.

Hope to spend the afternoon testing it, have a few other pieces of gear to setup for it.

I had some confusion because of the age of the old CSR. It doesn't line up with the correct dates. I'll edit my original post when I know more.

@dustinb3403 said in Combine fracture VM folders:

@pmoncho said in Combine fracture VM folders:

@dustinb3403 said in Combine fracture VM folders:

@pmoncho said in Combine fracture VM folders:

@dustinb3403 said in Combine fracture VM folders:

@scottalanmiller said in Combine fracture VM folders:

@pmoncho said in Combine fracture VM folders:

@scottalanmiller said in Combine fracture VM folders:

" via separate VMs

In this instance, it is a single VM doing three tasks.

This server does not get taxed very much. Network Monitor is more of a strain than email or file services.

I would highly recommend splitting these into three different VMs then. No reason not to, right?

Microsoft Licensing is a very likely reason.

Your right on that.

So an offset to this is you can easily setup a linux server to act as your file server. So you can "save" a license here. The other services, Email (I'm assuming exchange) has to be run on Windows as well does SW Network Monitor.

Email is Kerio Connect. Now GFI. They do have a Linux appliance but sometimes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. 🙂

As for fileserver, I setup RBAC in AD and even with Samba 4.4, permissions are an issue. Like I mentioned to Scott, my lack of knowledge could be the issue here.

But you can easily replace SW network monitor with Zabbix or literally anything else, while using less system resources and not have to think about the licensing.

I will look into Zabbix. It's just that SW network monitor does exactly what I need so I stuck with it.

The biggest issue is it's forcing you to spend for Windows licensing which just doesn't make sense.

You are correct. That is why last year I started learning more Linux and create a goal for this year. I am tired of dealing with MS licensing for many little things.

Just Had a "Duh" moment.

Currently have vCenter 5.5 on a standalone W2K8 server license. That will be going away when I move to VCSA 6.5. This is not an OEM version so I can reuse that license. That will then provide me with the extra license to separate file server , email and SW.

The issue I have goes back to my original post in that I want to move the original fileserv1 VM folders to the local datastore. I want the NAS to only hold backup data only.

My current plan is, deal with current pressing issue of fileserv1 folders, my backup provider switches me to Veeam, I move to VCSA, upgrade ESXI Hosts to 6.5, and then begin to separate "roles" to multiple servers.

Ah, I definitely could have been mistaken there

If it's just nix based systems, Prometheus is super easy to set up. Prometheus, node exporter, and alert manager are really easy to automate and get going.

https://gitlab.com/hooksie1/ansible-prometheus

https://gitlab.com/hooksie1/node-exporter

I made these roles so all you should need to do is create a playbook to plug in the variables.