@coliver said in Sysprep won't run if a drive has Bitlocker enabled:

@Dashrender said in Sysprep won't run if a drive has Bitlocker enabled:

@coliver said in Sysprep won't run if a drive has Bitlocker enabled:

@dbeato said in Sysprep won't run if a drive has Bitlocker enabled:

@coliver Did you setup a Microsoft account on them?

No domain joined machines.

Are you sure Bitlocker isn't on, just not activated?

I'm not sure what you mean? Bitlocker is a part of the operating system... you need to turn it on to enable encryption. So if you're asking if it is installed the answer is yes. If you're asking if it is enabled the answer is no.

Bitlocker has three states, as far as I can tell

Bitlocker Off Bitlocker On, but not activated - not encrypting drive Bitlocker activated

In my experience, a BIOS based machine puts Windows 10 into option 1 above.
My recent experience has shown that machines with UEFI and Secure Boot enabled that Windows 10 puts the system in option 2 or 3 depending on setup.
If you add a Microsoft Account while going through OOBE, the Windows will create a recovery key for Bitlocker, save it to your OneDrive account, and use option 3.
If you add a local account during OOBE, Windows will put the system into option 2.

@scottalanmiller said in South Korean Firm Pays Massive Ransom:

@IRJ said in South Korean Firm Pays Massive Ransom:

@scottalanmiller said in South Korean Firm Pays Massive Ransom:

Which Linux distros are you using in the example? Just CentOS / RHEL? Are you looking at several? That RHEL and Suse are super secure I have little doubt. Get much beyond that and anything might happen.

Mostly CentOS / RHEL, but I have quite a few Ubuntu severs as well.

Any noticeable difference between those two?

CentOS / RHEL are more solid as you may have guessed. Ubuntu is still much better than Windows.

@guyinpv said in Asus has really gone down hill:

I've been choosing MSI more and more.

My MSI
FM2-A85XA-G43
has lasted for quite some time now, I reckon I got this at 2013-2014, and constant daily use, and it is pretty neat, no sign of issues and even if I sell this PC I still think it will last a few more years without any issues.

The thing with MSI though, is that I wish there audio component in the motherboard were better.

@JaredBusch I also didn't mind about zerto at the time because my resellers (asked a couple) offered really high prices - but don't remember the specific amount.

@JaredBusch said in Anyone put Korora/Fedora on an Inspiron 2 in 1:

Well I had to buy the Inspiron, because it was in stock and available now. My MBP officially has no reliable wifi.

That sucks, on two counts!

The recommendation I see for this are:

The backup target should be accessible from only very specific accounts. Those accounts should be used for nothing other than the backup software itself or administration of the backup targets. i.e. no one should ever log in as them, etc.

So as long as the hack/virus isn't able to compromise your backup software or authentication mechanism, the backup target should be safe.

@Tim_G said in Fedora 26: connect to Windows File share:

@FATeknollogee said in Fedora 26: connect to Windows File share:

@Tim_G said in Fedora 26: connect to Windows File share:

Try this:

mount -t cifs -o username=administrator,password=urPassword,domain=domain.local //fileserver/share /mountLocation

No workie, says "Host is down"

Makes me think that your Linux box is trying to connect via an unsupported method.

For example, do you have SMB 1.0 turned off on your Windows file server... and your Linux box is trying to connect via SMB 1.0?

I tried calling out "SMB3.0", but, I get the error "For more deatils see mount (8)"

Simplistically speaking, when it doesn't work.
If it works, then it's a backup.
If it does not work, then it's a waste of time and disk space.

@NDC @Dashrender I would recommend this tool then
https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microsoft/67-microsoft-windows-and-office-iso-download-tool

It works well for version 7 to 10 amd office downloads.

@bigbear said in VULTR rebooting my VM, 3 times in a week:

Anyway had this happen before?

Several times among various instances in Chicago. But, never at the same time. So I assumed staged updates or something. Never contacted them on it.

Just wanted to add @bj to this thread that I think a $100-ish Cloud Router from Mikrotik would blow most hardware away, including Ubiquiti, on pure performance. With the $50 and under models you are still getting 1 million PPS. The new cloud router series really has a crazy amount of power.

This still coming from a pure PPS (packets per second) point of view.

I think the cheapest cloud router has 12 to 16 cores That would only count for the core routers I am more familiar with (12 to 24 now) in the $500 range.

Very poor marketing in the states but very popular with western country WISPS.

@EddieJennings I don't know about the third, but if you start a hosting trial at freepbxhosting.com you get the first two free. Even if you then mode your install to Vultr it seems the licenses follow you for free.

Even three years ago, top three holiday sellers of ALL Amazon computer categories were Chromebooks...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2863936/amazons-three-top-selling-computers-for-the-holidays-were-chromebooks.html

I'm planning on deploying 24 SFF machines for a school computer lab. The limited space they have is a big factor. Plan on mounting them on the back of the monitors. Plenty of horsepower for their workload.

Rebooted - profile created.

@JaredBusch It might not be a breach (as in someone getting the data) but a breach in the sense that personal information was left in the open through the Internet from a confidential database.

@scottalanmiller That was our local ISP here to a T; Literally 1 T1 and a 3Com Total Control so they could offer 56K speeds

@travisdh1

Nmap with ZanMap Gui is great.