What all hypervisors that are not Xen need, is hardware from the CPU to do their virtualization. So what they need from their underlying hypervisor is for the entire CPU, not just part of it, to be virtualized. The problem with most hypervisors is that the "pc appearance" that they create on which an OS is installed is a less capable processor than the real one that the HV is running on. So while the HV is getting virtualization enabled hardware, the OS normally is not. But if the HV passes that through, then the secondary HV will be fully capable as well.

OS Image deployment - I use Clonezilla. Setup a VM with all needed drivers/applications for all devices in fleet, create and answer file, sysprep and go.

remote support - I include the access version of ScreenConnect in all of my images (see instructions on anonymizing the setup pre sysprep.

asset management - I use Excel, but SnipeIT I hear is good.

But of course, the three links you pointed to already say all of this.

@ambarishrh said in Centralized Imaging/OS Deployment:

Some of the features I liked on that is the base image is made from a virtual instance so that this can be deployed to any machine and a single image to maintain, the driver packs for almost every model etc. I am planning to evaluate this in detail next week when I am back in the office.

JB does this almost exclusively with Clonezilla. I've done it as well, so using a VM doesn't matter to the product.

My second choice would be MDT but again if SmartDeploy is taking the pain for spending a lot of time on the initial setup, which we don't have at the moment (lot of internal projects in the pipeline with tight deadlines)

You're trading money for time here. MDT makes you do all the leg work, you have to find and add the drivers yourself. SmartDeploy takes your money and does that work for you.

@eddiejennings said in Domaing Joining Windows Servers:

@tim_g said in Domaing Joining Windows Servers:

Seems odd you'd have the least secure systems on the domain, the client computers... and not have the most secure systems on the domain, the servers. With your DC and hypervisor being on the domain, how many times have those been compromised? Do you not update your servers? Do they all have internet access

To my knowledge they haven't been. No. All servers receive Windows updates. Yes.

And I agree, this is odd. This, and so many other things, are being fixed one bite at a time.

Set your firewall to drop outbound traffic from servers that don't need Internet access. Point those servers to a local WSUS server for updates. Allow the WSUS server to get out to Internet. You can set local policy and point servers to WSUS, if they aren't domain joined. That way, servers can be updated but lower attack vector as they cannot get online.

Really quite as as Ecuador had a major tech company for a while. Major in that they were important at least.

@aaronstuder said in First Look at FreePBX 14:

@dashrender said in First Look at FreePBX 14:

I'm installing this for the first time on Vultr.. damn, that initial install took 20+ mins, just like JB.

Adding more resources doesn't seems to help. I did it with 2 Cores, and 2GB of RAM took the same amount of time.....

Not too many things that it is doing that are likely multithreaded. Mostly just transferring files.

@stacksofplates That's what i loked about it while reading on it.

Oh that's funny and interesting! Might I ask what sort of work so I can see a little bit about what is done?

@scottalanmiller said in Bulk delete in OWA:

@jaredbusch said in Bulk delete in OWA:

@scottalanmiller said in Bulk delete in OWA:

@jaredbusch said in Bulk delete in OWA:

@scottalanmiller said in Bulk delete in OWA:

@jaredbusch said in Bulk delete in OWA:

@gjacobse said in Bulk delete in OWA:

Came upon a different issue using OWA.. User has emails back to 2011, which they are okay to delete.

SHIFT - Select First and Last of 2011 does not select all of those emails. you have to basically list a page at a time to select them, and if you 'miss click' you have to start over again.

Deleting via Outlook was a pretty simple task - OWA - not so much. And what about Archiving? while email from 2011 is not likely to be needed, there are some that do need mail back to the beginning of time. - AH ,yes. I need to look more into the back end, and archiving. Right now, the user would like to be able to send/receive email... she hit the 50GB limit.

OWA sucks big ass donkey balls for anything beyond basic use.

But lessso than Outlook. So it's a tradeoff 🙂

I completely disagree. Outlook works quite well for the tasks I need to perform and OWA does not.

Bulk deletes do work better in Outlook. But it requires much more support. For the tasks I need to do, OWA does it better and requires far less babysitting.

Bulk anything works better in Outlook. So does Search. If all you want is basic read and respond, then OWA is a great solution.

Search on OWA is really good for me. Maybe it has improved more recently?

That would be an incorrect assumption. Search is horrible beyond basic searching. I often perform a search of "last week" or "some date range" in a subset of folders excluding many folders. You cannot do this in OWA.

If you just want to type a word or name and find it, yeah that works great, but is also extremely basic.

OWA is a very good basic email client. nothing more.

Edit: I use it all day. but I also have outlook running in a Windows 10 VM that I use to handle these issues.
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@irj

Hey everyone thanks for the input. It looks like we may just deploy the patch everywhere, wait until a majority of the clients install the patch, then create the registry key on the DCs. Also, since the reg change does not require a reboot you can switch values on the fly with ease.

@jaredbusch said in trying to connect to US sites from Germany getting blocked:

@scottalanmiller said in trying to connect to US sites from Germany getting blocked:

@jaredbusch said in trying to connect to US sites from Germany getting blocked:

@scottalanmiller said in trying to connect to US sites from Germany getting blocked:

@jaredbusch said in trying to connect to US sites from Germany getting blocked:

@scottalanmiller said in trying to connect to US sites from Germany getting blocked:

It does,

It does not. Expand your quote of his post and read it again.

@scottalanmiller said in trying to connect to US sites from Germany getting blocked:

my point was that replacing the device he can see mights till not fix things, since the blocking might be at the other end of the WAN link.

Your point is correct, everyone knows that by replacing the router it could potentially make the problem go away or at verify that the router is not the problem. I am not arguing that. But I am arguing how you think you got to that point.

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I was responding to what I thought. He mentioned that he couldn't replace that device. And I pointed out that because if there is that filtering going on it's possible to be at the other end of the WAN rather than his end. More likely his, but not certain. A lot of smaller carriers in Europe have their own last mile gear and can filter along the path. For example, in Italy, even with a DSL connection, the DSL originated in my house AND terminated there. It connected to a wireless link next door.

But nothing in any of that text implies that "it is even doing it on the device"

You cannot have it both ways. Your tear the fuck out of people for using the wrong words and responding to someone's words in a way other than what has been wrote.

He was talking about replacing the existing device for the purpose of hopefully removing the filtering with the presumption or hope that that was teh location where it was happening.

No you were.

Nope, read from the top. First mention of port blocking was in the OP. First mention of replacing the gear was by the OP in this one:

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@scottalanmiller said in Quickbooks replacement:

@dashrender said in Quickbooks replacement:

@scottalanmiller said in Quickbooks replacement:

@travisdh1 said in Quickbooks replacement:

How Intuit is still in business blows my mind, they should've lost all their customers years ago.

And any accountant or bookkeeper that recommends them should be fired. How could you trust an accountant that thinks using a tool like that is okay for a real business?

Other than the lack of real two sided accounting, what is it about this product you don't like?

https://mangolassi.it/topic/14350/why-quickbooks-is-not-a-business-tool

Other than the support none of those apply to the hosted SaaS version.

@dafyre said in Windows 10 Start Bar change:

@jaredbusch said in Windows 10 Start Bar change:

@dashrender FFS scroll down

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I wish software vendors would leave the freaking scrollbars visible when there's stuff to be scrolled!

Agreed!

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server for your home lab:

The more often you are forced to rebuild, the more you will be encouraged to automate.

Can you sysprep before adding the trial license? That way you could just clone and add the license automatically.

@jaredbusch said in what programming language can I learn now ???:

@roopankumar said in what programming language can I learn now ???:

@scottalanmiller need to experiment myself and thinking of what limit can I able to push myself into this. change of course too alternate techie thing

Start by automating your job with scripting in the appropriate language for your systems (powershell or bash).

Then one you understand the logic flow of scripting, you can choose to get into development and actual programming.

This provides you with the benefit of improving your knowledge and your work environment at the same time.

I definitely agree with this. It actually makes the knowledge that you are gaining applicable to your everyday life to begin with. That's huge. I also agree with Scott that scripting langs are very popular right now. Compiled does have it's place in my opinion but there are arguments to be had there. That being said compiled languages would be the last thing that I would suggest for a sysadmin as it's applicability would be very little for you (if any).

@marcinozga said in I need some ideas how to use spare server:

@jmoore said in I need some ideas how to use spare server:

Host your own blog, bulletin board, Irc, mail client, and I'm running out of ideas.

Wrong direction. All that is more of a hobby. Elk stack was a good suggestion, I'm leaning towards Sensu, Vector, Salt, Consul, perhaps Snipe-It, that kind of stuff.

Sensu looks like it could be interesting. I may give that one ago too.

@scottalanmiller I'll try it the next time I'm in vi.

Take a look at this as well
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/connect-to-remote-aadj-pc