@JaredBusch said in remove all pre-installed Windows 10 stuff:

@dashrender is again dealing with an HR issue with technology.

who cares what is on there? f***ing fire them if they play around.

Yeah - good times, good times JB.

@bigbear said in Vultr Sold Out Instances:

Today at 12:05 EST one of my new NJ Server 2016 instances was booted. The server sees it as if the power was unplugged.

I opened a ticket and I am trying to find some insight. Haven't had a server reboot in Chicago data center before, but haven't run Windows Server yet.

I have this particular instance firewalled with an allowed connection from my WAN IP. So I don't know if it could still be an outside attach like I was getting before. Thought about turning on DDoS attack protection but hate to be wasteful if that's not the issue.

I have had a server kicked in Chicago before, but never without an email explaining something happened (not caused by my instance).

@jrc said in Quickest way to wipe 200+ Macbooks:

So i put the DBAN CD into a usb optical drive, and it does boot on these macbooks, and I can unplug it when it starts and move over to the next one. So it's working kind of like a thumb drive. So I guess that'll have to do.

Takes about 3 minutes of tech time to setup for each of them. Not too sure I could do any better with a different approach.

Burn a whole spindle of DBAN + the world's sketchiest power bar tree of death

@frodooftheshire said in Actionpack/Azure:

Took 20 mins on the phone with Microsoft but the licenses includes with MAPS does not qualify.

That sucks.

Radius
https://blog.ubnt.com/2016/11/04/managing-radius-authentication-unifi/
http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000685
http://thesolving.com/server-room/configure-radius-server-windows-authenticate-cisco-vpn-users/

For LDAPS see below:
http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000962
https://www.petri.com/enable-secure-ldap-windows-server-2008-2012-dc

@Dashrender said in IPP Printing to Konica Minolta C224e over the internet(Citrix/RDSH Deployment):

ies logging onto your RDSH server, access to your IPP Printer is the least of your concerns. 🙂

Correct!

Just saw this...

If you have a PSOD you generally want to take picture of it, and pull the crash dumps and open a ticket with Vmware GSS.

The other useful thing to do is check the syslog (LogInisght is part of vROPS).

I would recommend a shared mailbox which can be used by licensed users.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/315271/how-to-use-dumpchk.exe-to-check-a-memory-dump-file
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463009.aspx

@RojoLoco said in CloudAtCost:

@dafyre The towel is $19.99, they throw in the creepy guy as a bonus! Just pay the $9/month maintenance fee...

Shit to maintain a human man for only $9 a month I may just buy the towel. . .

CloudAtCost has completely revoked their "free for life" products that people have already paid for in full and is now simply charging for them - even ones that customers already own. Customers are now being extorted to pay annually for something they were sold specifically so that they would not have to pay for in this way. The service is no longer a scam on the technical level, it is now a full scam on the billing and marketing level as well.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/14009/cloudatcost-turning-to-extortion

CloudAtCost has completely revoked their "free for life" products that people have already paid for in full and is now simply charging for them - even ones that customers already own. Customers are now being extorted to pay annually for something they were sold specifically so that they would not have to pay for in this way. The service is no longer a scam on the technical level, it is now a full scam on the billing and marketing level as well.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/14009/cloudatcost-turning-to-extortion

CloudAtCost has completely revoked their "free for life" products that people have already paid for in full and is now simply charging for them - even ones that customers already own. Customers are now being extorted to pay annually for something they were sold specifically so that they would not have to pay for in this way. The service is no longer a scam on the technical level, it is now a full scam on the billing and marketing level as well.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/14009/cloudatcost-turning-to-extortion

CloudAtCost has completely revoked their "free for life" products that people have already paid for in full and is now simply charging for them - even ones that customers already own. Customers are now being extorted to pay annually for something they were sold specifically so that they would not have to pay for in this way. The service is no longer a scam on the technical level, it is now a full scam on the billing and marketing level as well.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/14009/cloudatcost-turning-to-extortion

CloudAtCost has completely revoked their "free for life" products that people have already paid for in full and is now simply charging for them - even ones that customers already own. Customers are now being extorted to pay annually for something they were sold specifically so that they would not have to pay for in this way. The service is no longer a scam on the technical level, it is now a full scam on the billing and marketing level as well.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/14009/cloudatcost-turning-to-extortion

I also made some adjustments to RAM usage.

HOST1 only has 24 GB of RAM.
VM1 uses 12 GB, non-dynamic, as it houses the MS SQL database and also runs SCDPM. I'm sure I can cut this in half to 6 GB as it's barely being used, but I'm not going to at this time. I'm also trying to push limits and have things break in this test environment before moving to production. So I'm also trying to cut things close.

Anyways, Dedup daily optimization is set to use 50% RAM... because VM1 is using the other half, when dedup optimization occurs, the server gets really slow. Nothing else is happening on the server during this time, so it shouldn't matter. But I am doing stuff on it for testing purposes and I just can't do anything during the hour or two it takes to run Dedup.

So I edited the amount of RAM dedup uses just for the daily optimization schedule:

Set-DedupSchedule -Name DailyOptimization -Memory 35

For my test environment, I found 35% to be good. Now I have some memory to work with during the time it's running dedup optimization (6am)... which is also the best time for me to work on things.

@Mike-Davis I have the previous generation of this model, without the LCD panel:
https://www.tripplite.com/OmniSmart-LCD-120V-1500VA-810W-Line-Interactive-UPS-Tower-LCD-display-USB-port-Energy-Star~OMNI1500LCDT
Keeps the wife's desktop, monitor and IP phone (as well as our router) up for a good hour before the battery runs low. Tripp Lite's PowerAware software is OK, it does shut the desktop down when it reaches a threshold (I think I have it set at 50%) and does show all cool status of the power incoming to the UPS itself including spikes and sags.

@bigbear said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):

For all the trouble I have gone through to get RDSH working, Next Cloud still makes me wonder...

And does Anyone use Libre Office as a full replacement for Office 2016?

We do. Yes. Unless you are collaborating on document writing with other companies, little use for MS Office.

@scottalanmiller is right. The bottleneck is always the customer router. And not so much bandwidth as much as packets per second. Your dropbox sync is killing your phone calls 50 to 1 over bandwidth 99% of the time. Your $50 linksys router can't handle a million pps.

Most ISP's are little more than Broadsoft resellers with no interconnects in their local market. Even on the WISP side speeds are so good now that bundling voice isn't relevant.