Managing Servers, Desktops and Hyper-V via PowerShell.

@Dashrender said in Netgear woes:

@dbeato said in Netgear woes:

@Carnival-Boy said in Netgear woes:

@scottalanmiller said in Netgear woes:

@Carnival-Boy said in Netgear woes:

Had a drive failure on an 11 month old ReadyNAS. Trying to arrange a replacement and Netgear say they need "credit card details for collateral". As an IT department, we don't generally have, or use, credit cards, so this is going to be a pain.

Is this normal?

Yes, this is the standard process for this category of products. This is what is called "SMB equipment", not enterprise. Support is a key difference and SMB world stuff expects credit cards, more often than not. Same from every vendor in this category.

Fine, I guess you've changed your opinion from this thread though?

@scottalanmiller said in Buffalo NAS Return Policy Review:

Right, but in IT we never seen this. This just indicates that Buffalo is consumer gear, not business gear. A business might not even have a credit card. What a weird thing to request! Even businesses that have CCs, rarely do they have a workflow that would allow IT to use it for this. Business and IT just don't work this way. No valid vendor could.

How do you know what is enterprise and what is SMB? In future I'll try and stick with HP & HPE. The only other vendor I've started buying from is Ubiquiti. Is this how they work to?

Ubiquiti does not work that way but they take a while to send you a replacement at times.

This price is so low on Ubiquiti stuff, if I have a failure, I expect to get faster response with next day delivery from Amazon.

Right, under $100 when needed and you get next day or in Texas, same day!

@scottalanmiller said in Dell T20 with Intel Intel Rapid Storage Controller RAID is FakeRAID:

@matteo-nunziati said in Dell T20 with Intel Intel Rapid Storage Controller RAID is FakeRAID:

@stacksofplates said in Dell T20 with Intel Intel Rapid Storage Controller RAID is FakeRAID:

I didn't realize people still bought tower "servers"

There are some tower servers which really quakify as great imho. Noticeably from Dell

Any that I've seen that are any good are convertibles (tower OR rack.)

Ya we have 20 z440s that are racked. But those are higher end workstations.

@Dashrender said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@wirestyle22 said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@Dashrender said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@Dashrender said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@NerdyDad said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@Romo @aaronstuder @dafyre

This PDQ Deploy you guys have been mentioning, does it require an agent on the other Windows clients ?
or it just relies on Active Directory to work.

No agent required. You can deploy based on AD, computer name, or IP address. AD is not required as long as you have local admin credentials.

Same as with PowerShell.

Does PowerShell require some sort of remote access to be enabled?

Yes, but it is enabled by default. Just don't turn it off.

And is the firewall ports open by default too? I'm guessing not.. but I'm willing to open those for this purpose..

Why would they enable it and not have the firewall ready to work?

Why have a firewall if you're opening a thousand ports anyway 😄

PS doesn't need them. That's for other tools, like PDQDeploy.

PS needs at least one.

Only one, though, and it is one that is set up by default.

Thanks to @NerdyDad for this presentation at Mango Meetup DFW

@IRJ said in List Comparison Tool:

I have two very large lists of IPs and I would like to compare the differences between the list. I usually use Notepad ++ Compare for this type of thing, but I believe it only compares line to line.

I also tried using conditional format in excel, but I am not sure if the results are accurate.

Just one command:
diff <(sort list1 | uniq) <(sort list2 | uniq).

For 95% of tasks involving text manipulation (from the easiest like this to mid-complexity), the standard unix tools can do everything in a very quick and concise way.
The other 4.95% (very complex, special stuff) can be handled by Python (but also ruby or perl).
The last 0,05% is HPC/realtime/weird (C, Ada, erlang?).

But please, don't use a giant piece of bloatware just to compare strings 😭.

@scottalanmiller said in HTML5 management interface for KVM:

Calligra was always okay. Not great, but certainly not bad.

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That is atrocious

@Dashrender said in Domain/Server Upgrade Options:

@travisdh1 said in Domain/Server Upgrade Options:

@Dashrender said in Domain/Server Upgrade Options:

NextCloud requires either the use of a local sync client (not tenable for huge network shares) or web based file sharing. I think WebDav might work - but I'm not sure anyone here has gotten it to work.

I got it working without to much fuss. Maybe I'll redo that and do another how-to post on it.

But even if you do get it to work, this is still a horrible solution - because it's really no different than old SMB shares, whatever infects your machine can still encrypt all the data the user has write access to.

You have a damned complex about this. Get over it.

The best solution technically is almost never the best solution for usability.

Yourjob is to balance those for the business need.

I have hated Barracuda stuff since 2007 when I worked at a place that had it.

I cannot believe there is not a setting for whole word matching only. Well I can believe it because that stuff is junk.

@JaredBusch said in ZeroTier client 1.2.2 is out:

@syko24 said in ZeroTier client 1.2.2 is out:

@JaredBusch - Would be similar to the way ScreenConnect updates.

ScreenConnect only updates when I tell it to.

Correct, I just meant that the update does not require the user to have admin permissions to push that update. Would be nice if Zerotier offered a similar feature.

@FATeknollogee said in Need a Projector:

@JaredBusch said in Need a Projector:

@FATeknollogee said in Need a Projector:

What is your form of connectivity? HDMI, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort

Not really relevant as I have every adapter for my laptop. But if you make a person pick, HDMI is always safe.

Trust me, very relevant. Some projectors & video devices do not "play nice" with the Apple mini Display Port adapters
(mini DP to VGA or HDMI or DVI)

What is your max resolution?

Want better than 800x600, I think that makes for a horrible presentation.

What's the res of the monitor on your MBP?

Only 1280 x 800, but it drives much higher resolutions when an external monitor is connected.

@scottalanmiller said in Drive Mapping: IP or FQDN:

@Tim_G said in Drive Mapping: IP or FQDN:

@NerdyDad said in Drive Mapping: IP or FQDN:

@gjacobse said in Drive Mapping: IP or FQDN:

Which is 'better'

Mapping by IP or FQDN?

What if DNS fails? Then FQDN fails. But what if you move the server or shares to another server and the IP address changes?

Why are your DNS server(s) so unreliable?

You can always do three or more if you need to.

geezzz.. if you really need to go there, you have real problems.

This sounds like a built in webdav thing.
https://www.pcloud.com/download-free-online-cloud-file-storage.html

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@JaredBusch said in Disable Game Bar in Windows 10:

@dbeato said in Disable Game Bar in Windows 10:

@Dashrender Lol, I am not one to know here as I am pretty new to this but I would think it will be okay if you say so.

Yeah, @Dashrender is not the harsh one.

LOL

pointing out that you should properly look for the way to administratively shut this off Because Registry keys are a legacy hack.

I did search for non registry options before posting, just didn't find any in the 5 mins of looking.

I had a user complain about this... I figured it was an update that did it, just hadn't bothered to look into it closer.

@olivier said in XenServer 7.1 is out...:

7.2 is here guys 😉

https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xenserver-7-2/

Calm down, it's not a big step from 7.1. In fact, it's the start of a more "rolling releasing" thing for 7.2 to 7.x+1 (where x > 1 obviously 😉 )

Next time XS will be upgraded (every 6 months approx) it will be available via simple patches.

7.1 is "frozen" (more or less patches) because it's an LTS.

Thanks for the info.

I'm debating doing that to see if it fixes my little issue I have from patches to 7.0

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in KVM Virtual Machine Manager: no keyboard:

@FATeknollogee

I mean password-less SSH login between the Virtt-Manager and the KVM host, but maybe you are using both on the same machine i guess, right ?

If that is the case this disregard passwordless SSH stuff

Yes, for now, same machine

Here is the option:

Thx, I will take a look at "Display Spice".

@s.hackleman said in New Work Lab:

Also need to Mention this is a Microsoft Windows Environment.

Doesn't matter to those tools 🙂 I had guessed that it was Windows.

@JaredBusch said in The power of Chat in IT Support:

@scottalanmiller said in The power of Chat in IT Support:

@JaredBusch said in The power of Chat in IT Support:

@scottalanmiller said in The power of Chat in IT Support:

@bogdan.moldovan said in The power of Chat in IT Support:

@Tim_G OK, got your point and see its validity. But what about when you are servicing multiple, remote SMB customers with a team of 3+ support guys?

We use Rocket.Chat. It's awesome.

For internal communicaiton. What about external with the clients.

That, I think, is the point of this thread. How useful is IM for the public facing side?

Rocket is great for that. It's external exposure for clients is quite powerful.

I did not realize it had this function. I will be looking into it now.

It's very nice. We build it into WordPress sites for example.