@scottalanmiller said in Using Pertino with Active Directory:

Originally posted on my Windows Administration blog in 2013 here: http://web.archive.org/web/20130929034913/http://www.scottalanmiller.com/windows/2013/04/05/using-pertino-with-active-directory/

This information is very out of date concerning Pertino itself. But the theory on how this works remains relevant.

IMO, you should put the 'old post' notice at the top of these.

@Jstear said in Comodo ONE Service Desk:

Came across this today.

PCMag Top Help Desk for 2016

Turns out the ones they are saying are free, aren't free.

Just realized that this topic actually was missing the tags! Ugh, no wonder if rarely comes up in searches. Fixed, finally.

@echo off setlocal :REQUEST set /p REQUEST="Logoff, Shutdown, Reboot or Abort? L/S/R/A " if /i %request%==l goto logoff if /i %request%==s goto timer if /i %request%==r goto timer if /i %request%==a goto abort goto REQUEST :logoff shutdown -f -l goto exit :abort shutdown -a goto exit :timer set /p TIMER="Wait how many seconds? " if /i %request%==s shutdown -f -s -t %timer% if /i %request%==r shutdown -f -r -t %timer% :exit

Pretty much the idea is partially to address rapid rebuilds to disparate hardware like @BRRABill was looking for (but it is BYODrivers so you have to have that prepped) and partially leveraging the simple market pressure that has caused traditional workstations to be about the same cost as thin clients and when you remove the local drive on a traditional PC you can acquire and maintain them much more cost effectively (or whitebox your own easily) than a thin client while getting all of that extra CPU and memory that you can leverage.

Totally coincidence that I posted this same topic for PowerShell yesterday and today I started moving over my Windows Admin blog content and the first post over there was the same topic, but without PowerShell!

@momurda said in Building a Basic DRBD Cluster on OpenSuse 12.2:

What is the purpose of 'zypper -remove patterns-openSUSE-minimal_base'
I know what it does, but is it necessary? Does this minimal_base package prevent you from installing certain packages at a later date? Or you just making things nice n neat?

It's been quite some time, but if I remember correctly it interfered with some packages that we needed as the "minimal" blocked adding a bunch of stuff.

Nice deal!

Very good read. I'm sharing your philosophy and like I said yesterday, I'm a console fetishist. You just need to use what you have when you are in a recovery console or when your server just does not have access to that NFS export or SMB share where all your fancy tools and scripts are.

I think it's way more important to understand how things actually work. This will also help a lot when it comes to tracking down errors.

PS: This is not about necro'ing an old thread, but the topic just came up once more.