Yikes maintenance was done yesterday. But glad is resolved now.

Done

@tim_g said in Hyper-V Network card setup?:

@dave247 said in Hyper-V Network card setup?:

Thanks. And this isn't for testing. I actually want to use this server for some production servers.

Sorry, didn't know. I mistakenly assumed testing and lab because of the time frame.

But you can't go wrong with doing it that way.

If you have no need for an extra NIC you could do a 3-NIC team. If you are fine with no management NIC, do a 4-port team and share it with your management OS if for some reason you need that many NICs in a team. Though you probably don't.

Yeah well it is for some low-risk servers, so, kinda almost testing, but not really, if that makes sense. lol

@darek-hamann said in BSOD on virtual server 2016:

Have you tried removing any faulty drivers from safe mode?

I don't know what the faulty drivers are. I removed the printer drivers I don't need through print management and haven't had a blue screen yet, but only time will tell.

Unexpected token 's' in expression or statement.
+ CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnexpectedToken

The new ER4 will have an UBNT made rack mount. No idea if is is compatible with the ERL physically.

Oh gosh, I don't even remember.

@dave247 said in Suggestions on replacing UTM device (SonicWall) and rebuilding security systems?:

@scottalanmiller said in Suggestions on replacing UTM device (SonicWall) and rebuilding security systems?:

@dave247 said in Suggestions on replacing UTM device (SonicWall) and rebuilding security systems?:

Well, I looked at prices on ebay (which I know is not the best place to do a comparison) but people tend to price things relative to how expensive they were or currently are worth.

I don't know if that's true. Pricing on eBay are often insane. People asking $1,000 for a device worth $20 just because they hope that someone is confused.

hahahaha you're so right. I guess really, it was just a comparison starting point. Probably not a good idea, but it's the only way I could quickly get a $ figure.

Yeah, I don't know who has MSRP on those.

Ah, Nice, I didn't realize AmpliFi could be added to a Google account for management!

Also, it looks like Unifi support for UNMS isn't slated until Q4 2018, boo...

@dashrender said in Ninja RMM - Really good tool:

@fateknollogee said in Ninja RMM - Really good tool:

Just re-read this thread again...why is the pricing so "top secret"??

Because they don't really want your business.

They won't get mine.

I wonder how these really compare to the Sennheiser ones?

Thanks - I re-installed webroot and was able to update.

@eddiejennings said in Who needs an MSDN subscription?:

@bigbear said in Who needs an MSDN subscription?:

@tim_g said in Who needs an MSDN subscription?:

@eddiejennings said in Who needs an MSDN subscription?:

This thread is inspired by the never-ending thread about licensing and replication in I Can't Even.

I know that developers who use Visual Studio probably get their Visual Studio license through an MSDN subscription. One benefit of the subscription is that you're allowed to spin up Windows servers, SQL servers, etc., for development and testing.

For organizations who have full-on lab environments or IT staff who need to spin up a VM Windows Server VM here and there to try something out, how do they stay in compliance? Do they also buy a MSDN subscription (perhaps MSDN platforms) for the IT staff member? Do they have their IT staff continually use Windows server 180-day evaluation licenses? Do they turn a blind eye as they give their IT staff activation keys from a dev's MSDN subscription and hope their organization is never audited?

MSDN subscriptions are user-specific. To stay in compliance, every person who wants to take advantage of an MSDN benefit, will need to have their own MSDN subscription. They cannot be shared. Any VM spun up under the MSDN subscription cannot be used in any way by another person.

Ah, didnt read the full OP post and assumed it was for him.

However Bizspark MSDN does provide startup organizations with multiple user accounts all for internal use and testing. It is not for production or internal use.

Yeah. It's not for me. I was just musing about the test VMs and such we need to spin up as IT, and I was curious how larger businesses or businesses with test labs license those test Windows VMs. I figured MSDN platforms wasn't used because of [see the above responses], but perhaps truth was going to be stranger than fiction.

Larger is different. Once you are of any size you have enterprise agreements and your labs are just covered.

Also, I would highly recommend watching this session from VMworld 2017 about monster VMs that could help anyone needing to virtualize a DB server - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXbOoRo_Wn4. You can get the slide deck here.

@lakshmana said in Powershell Help Needed Part2:

Okay forget everything.I need only powershell commands which needes fo open the browser automatically and need to go to another page by searching keyword in that website(consider open facebook.com and click on forgot password without human intervention that click option sgojld be through Powershell).Once the keyword is searched there will be a excel is downloaded from the website then that content needs to be copied in automatically to the outlook and that mail should also send automatically without human intervention

Check out the Invoke-WebRequest command and the send-mailmessage command. Work on everything else in between.

It's kind of hard to help without seeing the playbook/role you created.

For the Dell X Series look at it below:
https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/how10377/how-to-enable-rapid-spanning-tree--rstp--on-d...

@tim_g said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM:

@dustinb3403 said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM:

@tim_g said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM:

@dustinb3403 said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM:

@tim_g said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM:

@dustinb3403 said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM:

@jaredbusch said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM:

@DustinB3403

I use my user in the libvirt group so I do not have to bother with the root user.

gpasswd -a jbusch libvirt

Then this works.
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Holy fuck it took way to long to get to this point.

So here is the stupid approach. ssh-keygen -t rsa generating. . . . . . . . . The key fingerprint is . . . ssh-copy-id -i /home/user/.ssh/d_rsa.pub user@kvm-server-ip

Login with user@kvm-server-ip password

Test the login

Disconnect from the remote server and run this next bit on your management system.

gpasswd -a username libvirt

Done, and it works.

@JaredBusch thanks for cutting through the bullshit and helping out here.

Wyd you talking about. JARED mentioned that step like 3 posts down from your OP, and it was mentioned several other times as well.

Huh?

Nothing was as simple as what I just did, Jared was getting to the point at the top of the topic, but there were additional steps I was missing (failed to do entirely). So I dumped all of the rsa keys, and started fresh.

The whole thing is taht simple.

generate your ssh keys copy the ssh keys add to libvirt group (mentioned in beginning of thread and every other KVM related thread)

Done. You can break that up into as many sub steps as you want, but that's what you do.

nevermind. . .

That's the entire point i tried to make in my 5-steps before it getting ripped apart for me wanting to use 4096 instead of 2048, and not using ssh-copy-id.

Because you were a twit about it.

Oh and I rarely if ever had to do anything with SpendMap. Their support was absolutely fantastic! We had it for a few years and I think I only touched the servers to update them here or there. The support did all app updates themselves and I just had to be available for support if something went awry.

Here is a script I made to set up a scheduled task to either launch a PowerShell script, or a batch file.

Comment out the $action line that you do NOT want to use. The below script will create a scheduled task that launches a PowerShell script called psScript.ps1.

Note that you must execute these lines in an elevated PowerShell window.

#Requires -RunAsAdministrator $action = New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute 'C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe' -Argument "-ExecutionPolicy bypass -NonInteractive -NoLogo -NoProfile -File '\\server\path\to\psScript.ps1'" # $action = New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute '\\server\path\to\batchFile.bat' $trigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -AtLogon $principal = New-ScheduledTaskPrincipal -GroupId "BUILTIN\Administrators" -RunLevel Highest $settings = New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet $task = New-ScheduledTask -Action $action -Trigger $trigger -Principal $principal -Settings $settings Register-ScheduledTask -TaskName "kickoff" -InputObject $task

If you choose to launch the PowerShell script via a batch file, here's what you need to have in your .bat file:

Powershell.exe -executionpolicy bypass -File "\\server\path\to\psScript.ps1"