@dafyre said in Installing Scale Tools on Windows Server Core from Command Line:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Scale Tools on Windows Server Core from Command Line:

@dafyre said in Installing Scale Tools on Windows Server Core from Command Line:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Scale Tools on Windows Server Core from Command Line:

@dafyre said in Installing Scale Tools on Windows Server Core from Command Line:

I'm unfamiliar with the Server Core setup... but can't you install these drivers as part of the Windows installation process?

Storage yes, but I'm unaware of a simple way during a stock install to include other drivers. The storage ones are requested, and necessary, during the install. Otherwise the installation location does not show up (unless you don't use VirtIO block devices.) You can definitely add the tools into an image, and there is probably a way to include Ethernet devices ahead of time, but I'm not used to the installation process to know where it happens.

I just select all 3 of the INF files and go... It's always installed everything for me, lol... Just point it at the folder for the right OS and 32 or 64 bit... (Note: This is the way I did it in Scale v4.3... I've not had a chance to use their newer stuff yet.

At what stage are you selecting them?

During the install process... the same place where you go when you're picking the storage drivers.

I rarely do modifications at that stage. Still, handy to have a simple option because a lot of people will get the install done and find that there is no networking and need to know what to do at that point. 🙂

@scottalanmiller said in Installing VirtualBox inside a virtual machine?:

@thwr said in Installing VirtualBox inside a virtual machine?:

Oh, a spin-off thread. Missed that.

Like I said, Hyper-V can do nested (or V-in-V) virtualization. Even when running on a desktop machine like Windows 8 / 10.

Just did that myself because we had to extract something from a vagrant file. Can also be good for evaluating other (type 1) hypervisors like running Xen on top of Hyper-V.

It's good in some cases but never ever think about production usage (yet).
That's because it is bare metal and never actually runs ON Windows 10, Windows 10 always runs on it.

You are right, I tend to forget that at times 🙂

@scottalanmiller said in Reset Admin Password on FreePBX from the Command Line:

mysql -D asterisk -e "UPDATE ampusers SET password_sha1='e1edd0771b6345f00b5557b98b2bde8fd66744c5' WHERE username='admin'"

Why on earth do you give an instruction with a hash in it?

Why not use the MySQL SHA1() function?

mysql -D asterisk -e "UPDATE ampusers SET password_sha1=SHA1('CHANGEME') WHERE username='admin'"

@dafyre said in Offline Files:

That's not the option I'm thinking about then. There's one that will let you view the cached offline files (assuming you run the NTFS Undelete successfully)...

Yes but to view them the whole database that windows uses must be restored. It's not true files on the system that you are accessing with that.

@IRJ said in Kali vs Cyborg Hawk:

eplacemen

I have used Kali for may stuffs but this name is new to hear in this forum
I will try soon

@larsen161 said in Managing Android mobiles:

Btw, don't buy your phones and voice/data contract together.

This would suit me as I'm not involved in the negotiations with the phone company at all. Which is why we've ended up in the stupid situation where a provider is discussing Android phones with people in our organisation and no-one from IT is in the room. It would be great if I could just purchase phones as needed exactly the same as I currently purchase other IT equipment.

Unfortunately, politics. Whilst I like to keep the IT department as lean as possible, and thus am more than happy to devolve power wherever it makes our lives easier, other department heads like to grow their empires.

We're still handing out new 5s's, which seems like false economy to me. I have a 5 which works fine but is frustratingly slow.

@JaredBusch said in When a client refuses to pay - What do other consultant / MSP do:

@scottalanmiller said in When a client refuses to pay - What do other consultant / MSP do:

Threatening to destroy stuff, I think is bad. Although I think a lot of that comes down to how he approached it, his tone sounds way too much like the mafia: "it would suck if something was to happen to your computers tomorrow."

It doesn't matter and you don't need to bring it up like that. You can make it clear that service will end without payment, that contact will be broken off, etc. Nothing wrong with that. That should be obvious and go without saying. Saying like he does makes it sound like he is going to break things or is keeping some secret from them.

If you are going to "threaten" don't go any farther than making it clear that you are no longer available to them... you can't work for free.

The threat doesn't make any sense as Eli states it, because another MSP can just come in and do the work.

He was not threatening to destroy anything of the clients on site stuff. He clearly stated to simply delete all of the client data in his possession.
Delete all of his documentation on the client infrastructure.
Destroy/throw out CD/DVD backups he had. Now why he had backups is a different issue? Those should never be in the consulting firm's physical control like that.

Oh I agree, he didn't directly say that. But the manner in which he was saying it sounded... odd. The "I hope nothing happens" sounds like the old school mobsters with "it would be a shame if someone set your business on fire". I realize that the only threat is deleting things that, in theory, would not be important to the customer. The whole "threat" angle is odd unless something additional and fishy was going on. I think he just means it to scare them, but it comes across as too much.

@anthonyh said in FreePBX Direct RTP Setup:

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX Direct RTP Setup:

Why the heck does it show the network in KB instead of Kb. How silly.

That shows your average at pretty close to 100Kb/s. Just eyeballing it.

No idea. It's been this way since I've been here.

FreePBX has always used that notation.

@Mike-Davis said in ubnt guest wireless or separate VLAN?:

My understanding of how Ubiquiti handles guest mode is that it drops packets destined for internal networks. What I don't know is like I think some others were getting at - what if the user tries to go to another local subnet outside the subnet their on. I guess I'll just keep the VLAN thing.

My understanding is that it totally drops those packets too. In some ways, that makes it more secure than a VLAN because just hijacking a physical switch is not enough to grab the packets.

Images are better now.

I actually found my original notes on the project at the time. This was the site I referenced and amazingly it is still posted!:
http://svintinner.blogspot.com/2008/09/adding-serial-port-to-vm-on-esxi.html.
My difference was I used a real digi 8 port Terminal adapter but it supported the real port divers

@thwr said in Simple guide to diagnosing Account Lockouts:

Locked AD accounts due to bad passwords
https://mangolassi.it/topic/9709/monitoring-ad-users/12

Thanks. I added the link to the comment section on the article.