Thanks just sent him a PM

@IRJ said in Microsoft Linux Administrator?:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Linux Administrator?:

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@Kelly said in Microsoft Linux Administrator?:

Justification: "This course prepares the user for the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) exam, which is also a required component of the MCSA: Linux on Azure Certification."

I saw that, but this is still unusual because what they are teaching you in this course directly conflicts with roles and services that are generally provided by Windows Server

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Would you feel weird if VMware, KVM or Xen taught this material?

I would find it weird if VMware showed you how to build a vm environment using Xen. Because they are direct competitors.

Define competitor? Hyper-V and Azure are both products, for which a primary purpose is to host Linux. So yes, Linux might seem to you like a competitor to Windows. But Linux is not a competitor with Hyper-V or Azure and is actually a part of Azure.

So this isn't about VMware and Xen, it's about Vmware and Linux. Or Amazon and Linux. Or IBM and Linux. Microsoft has more roles that just making Windows, and most analysts agree that Azure is far more important for them than Windows is.

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Thanks. Looks like I'm ok to give it a miss then.

Moving on, how about LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution)?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46899

I have to confess my attitude towards local admin accounts has been lax at best, and I need to change. I don't know whether to implement LAPS or just store local admin account passwords in Keepass or similar (or even Excel).

We set-up all computers with the same local admin account and secure password e.g. LOCADMIN - ImSecure!12
Only the IT Team know this and it isn't written down anywhere.

Virginia State agency goes beyond the 'LOCADMIN - ImSecure!12' in that they change ALL Admin creds every 30 days.... what a pain

:-S -- I hope they have a way to automate that!

Like a printer that prints PostIt Notes with the new password and a robot that goes around sticking them to everyone's monitors?

Well crap... You just stole my idea.

If it wasn't for wanting to learn enterprise hardware, an Intel NUC is great, too. But there is big value to knowing server hardware. I've blown minds in an interview when I had the same enterprise gear at home that a Wall St. firm was deploying every day. I was literally the only person they had, in interviews OR on staff, that had ever even touched the gear before... and it was sitting in my basement. Having hands on with enterprise gear at home really is important, even if it seems like a silly thing.

Using NETHServer as a DHCP server works well. It is easy to manage and add static reservations to my systems.

@scottalanmiller sorry typo mistake bulk accounts...

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Jared is correct, that is how we do it for our computers.

DB is offline without issue so far.

@Markferron said in Installing fiber to switch for the first time:

@dafyre Yup you're right, we do have a few open modules with nothing in them. Yeah $1600 for something like this amazon.
You think if I donate something like that to the college I can get it engraved? "Graciously donated by Mark Ferron" -You're welcome.

@xByteSean How would you like for me to be eternally grateful?

May have to settle for 1Gbit, lol.

@smartkid808 I know this is a old thread, but I thought I'd mention that there is forticlient. It's free for the endpoint program, the management server is what you have to pay for. http://forticlient.com/

Also, thank you for the followup. You never know when someone else will run into the same thing.

@Mike-Davis said in GPO - Install software based on User - Without user involvement:

@Dashrender said in GPO - Install software based on User - Without user involvement:

Many policies can't be applied to users and have to be applied to the computer. that said you might be able to set the Item level targeting to limit it to specific users.

This is your problem.

If you want to deploy the software based on user, you need to deploy it under User Configuration -> Policies -> Software Settings -> Software installation.

You tried to deploy it under Computer Configuration, and filtered by User, so it gets totally ignored.

This is only a problem if your computer is not part of this GPO pool - or you're trying to run things from both computer and user without loopback enabled.

I'm looking at the Dell XPS 15 (the 2017 model) as an alternative to our current MBPs. They are on the pricier side for Windows, but they are nice.

@wirestyle22 said in What Windows events are you monitoring in Zabbix?:

@dafyre said in What Windows events are you monitoring in Zabbix?:

@wirestyle22 said in What Windows events are you monitoring in Zabbix?:

I'm slowly adding helpful triggers into Zabbix to monitor windows event logs. What are you guys monitoring currently and why? I only use it to monitor my servers and am trying to compile a list of things to add. Thanks

I mainly use it to monitor the standard stuff... Free Drive Space (trigger for < 10%), CPU usage (trigger is set for 10 minutes at > 75% CPU utilization), RAM (default trigger), and Network Utilization (no trigger)

This is essentially what I do as well.

It can do more, like automatically restart services and such, but I've never had a need for it to do that.

This is great one! Hope more Hyper-V related stuff is coming 🙂

How about Openscad?

http://www.openscad.org/