Cisco network assistant does stuff like this for smaller setups. Not sure if it works with the fake cisco/SMB SG Line though.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/network-assistant/index.html

@Dashrender said in OneGet - anyone using it?:

@scottalanmiller said in OneGet - anyone using it?:

@Dashrender said in OneGet - anyone using it?:

uhhh I don't know - I guess... Can nuget manage packages or only make them? Can Chocolatey only manage them and not make them?

Well Chocolatey just automates NuGet. What functionality is OneGet adding is the big question.

OneGet is automating Chocolatey and any other package managers you install. From the above linked post - the idea is that you can use anything you want for a package creator/manager.. and then manage them all through OneGet.

I have a better question - why isn't MS doing this through through the MS store instead? Even on Server?

meaning... why isn' tthe Store sciptable? I think the answer is because the Store is a totally useless piece of crap and this is how actual Windows package management has to be.

Well it worked for a while. It was running for 15-16 days and it was at 33% finished. Then I logged in again and I got the error. Not sure when it broke in the timeline.

@Jason said in WDS vs. MDT vs. WAIK:

We use WDS approx 30,000 users. The number of users wouldn't really affect how you image if you plan it right. It's not like every user has their own image.

SCCM isn't worth the trouble. You really don't gain much when you count all the time you have to put into it.

Dell KACE is probally one of the best/most flexible options out there. Not cheap though..

Guessing you also use MDT/WAIK for building. Just using WDS to deploy?

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 Replacement for Movie Maker:

@brianlittlejohn said in Windows 10 Replacement for Movie Maker:

@gjacobse said in Windows 10 Replacement for Movie Maker:

What I have called Firewire, they call i.Link.

You can thank Apple for that... Apple trademarked "FireWire" so everyone else had to come up with their own name for IEEE1394

Well, you can thank people using Apple's term for IEEE1394. The real name is just IEEE1394. Calling it FireWire or i.Link is the issue. Just call it by its real name and it gets much clearer 🙂

True!

OK so the powershell method does work remotely, when you kill the quicktime process.

Updated PS1.

Stop-Process -name QuickTimePlayer $quicktime = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-object { $_.name -match 'Quicktime 7'} $quicktime.Uninstall()

@DustinB3403 said in Server 2012 R2 VM RDP Access Logging in Super Slow:

@BRRABill That is the same prompt I've received, I often just click cancel as I don't need any thing pushed to the server or back.

I wonder if you unchecked CLIPBOARD and hit CONNECT if that would make a difference.

Seems like CANCEL does the same thing anyway.

@Dashrender said in SATA vs NL-SAS vs SAS For New Array:

This whole thing stemmed from my comment that even though the drives are already paid for, they should still be included the actual cost column of the project.

But for discussion with management, they could be left off.

Only in a post mortem sort of way, not for a planning sort of way. Their cost isn't useful information for any purpose that I can think of except determining if the decision to buy them in the first place was a good one.

yeah, bunch of crap in that title. After reading your post, I will not even click through.

@coliver said:

@Breffni-Potter said in Evolutions in software - how do you handle it?:

@scottalanmiller said:

What other apps are you thinking of that you feel have no good alternatives?

I'm going to define the needs rather than products.

Photo Editing (Gimp)
Video Editing (Premier)
Audio Editing (Audition)
Graphic Design (Inkscape)
Print/document design (indesign)
Bulk video/audio encoding (media encoder)
Certain PDF features (Acrobat)

Have you looked at Audacity or Ardour for Audio editing? I have a musician friend who uses Ardour.

I've been using Audacity for forever. Using it a lot since 2005, or so.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Ambarishrh said:

Wanted to setup Let's Encrypt for my blog which is now hosted on ASO but as per their tech agent, this is not possible! 😞

Is that because SSL is not offered at all?

As per them, its only on dedicated servers and not shared. But using https://gethttpsforfree.com/ i was able to generate certs and install 🙂

I've noticed odd behavior like this before - or what I considered odd behavior - the Outlook shortcut for example. If you pin it before Outlook fully launches the screen, but instead do it while in the Outlook profile setup, you get weird results.

Assuming that the icon on the taskbar is the embodiment of the EXE, I'm not surprised that that is what is pined instead of your PS script. I'm guessing you're going to have to manually create a Pinned object to the launcher, not after it has executed and quits, leaving the actual exe running.

Petya ransomware victims can now unlock infected computers without paying.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36014810

@DustinB3403 said:

@Jason said:

@Dashrender said:

But users are idiots..

That's a horrible attitude. No wonder you don't train your users. No we aren't a tech company.

It's actually an honest answer. People in general are about as smart as a bag of doorknobs.

In a Jeopardy style contest between a sack of users and a sack of doorknobs.... my money is on the doorknobs, all day long. Users are simply "average" people. The "average" person is stupider than f@ck (that's a fact), ergo users are idiots.

@JaredBusch said:

@Dashrender said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

Correct. OEM lives and dies on the machine it was first installed on. It's not transferable. I think what Jared was saying is that it doesn't matter whether it activates or not - that's irrelevant as to whether it is legal or not. Just because it activates doesn't mean it is legal.

Exactly.

More specifically - MS doesn't specifically go out of its way to deactivate. If it deactivation happens, it happens, if not - that's fine too. But licensing has mostly always been on the honor system.

All correct, but specifically, I meant that he can just P2V the server on to the new hardware and simply buy another OEM license from eBay or whatever and still be legal. Assuming, of course, that the eBay seller was legit and the license they sold was legal in the first place.

Hey - what do you know.. we're on the same page - (using most happiest tone possible - really I am)

@Carnival-Boy said:

What do you do about any machines that aren't on the network - either at the time of the audit, or generally?

I went through one a year or so ago. Agree, you install the software and then let it analyze the network, then upload the results. I have one or two machines off the network and provided that information via the support portal. One was an off-site employee and the other was using the home-use rights allowed under the license.

We passed with flying colors. I thing we got tagged because I'm not using network licensing and had a few machines go belly up and didn't get a chance to upload the license to their cloud servers, so probably hit one too many activations. Plus I was doing a ton of machine swaps at the time during our upgrade.

If you are licensed properly, no fear. Just go through the motions and you'll be fine.

Maybe try assigning the output to a variable/series of variables that can be used in a separate function? Or try piping the output of your current script into another script that processes it and builds an HTML based table?

@Jason said:

If you mean the SAN (as in Storage Area Network, not the SAN Devices) was all static, that is completly normal. You don't normally put DHCP in SANs

Nope the entire 200-300 device network

According to this post --> https://community.office365.com/en-us/f/166/p/428896/1102268#1102268, there is no global setting. 😞