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    • wrx7mW

      Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart"

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      @wrx7m said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart":

      @IRJ said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart":

      @wrx7m said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart":

      @IRJ said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart":

      @wrx7m said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart":

      A simple restart command doesn't perform the update step, just the restart, so the update doesn't get applied.

      This has been an issue for a very long time with windows. I am surprised it hasn't been fixed yet. It's really annoying

      Well, at least with Win 7, a standard reboot applies updates. At least, I think it does. The main difference between Win 7 and 10, is that they have switched to the osoclient.exe to manage the updates.

      I'm pretty sure server 2008 and onward had the issue. I don't remember dealing with it on workstations

      I still have a 2008 R2 box and can test it on the next go 'round. I won't have it much longer, as I am dumping it prior to EOS.

      LOL - Didn't make this cutoff. Next week, hopefully.

    • wrx7mW

      Windows Server 2016 RDS - GPO for Disabling Windows Update Notifications for Non-Admins/Users?

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      @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2016 RDS - GPO for Disabling Windows Update Notifications for Non-Admins/Users?:

      @wrx7m said in Windows Server 2016 RDS - GPO for Disabling Windows Update Notifications for Non-Admins/Users?:

      @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2016 RDS - GPO for Disabling Windows Update Notifications for Non-Admins/Users?:

      @wrx7m Is that a computer configuration or user configuration policy? Try applying the rules to only non-admins groups.

      Yeah, it is at the computer level. I would like to do it via user config but I only want them to apply to users on the RD servers. I need to figure out the proper way to structure AD/GPOs to not screw up everything else.

      I am guessing creating another OU as a sub container and move the RD servers into.

      Edit: Since it isn't GPP, there isn't any item level targeting, so I can't do it that way.

      If you can make those changes directly in the registry, maybe can allow you to use GPP and item level targeting.

      Hmmm. That makes sense. Let me mull it over.

    • IRJI

      Arc Mouse losing scrolling ability after sleep in Ubuntu 18.04

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      @black3dynamite said in Arc Mouse losing scrolling ability after sleep in Ubuntu 18.04:

      @IRJ said in Arc Mouse losing scrolling ability after sleep in Ubuntu 18.04:

      Upgrading bluetooth did not work, but restarting bluetooth service worked. I think I should be able to script something here

      Anyway of using Systemd to restart bluetooth service after sleep?

      Yeah, actually. I stumbled across this a few mins ago. The guy in this post uses Systemd to restart Wireguard. The key is WantedBy line is probably the important bits.

      Description=Run restart_wireguard Requires=network.target After=network.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target [Service] User=root Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/restart_bluetooth.sh #or the command if you know it. [Install] WantedBy=suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target
    • scottalanmillerS

      RepairShopR Losing Time

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      @gmilster said in RepairShopR Losing Time:

      Hi Scott,
      My name is Garrett I work on the dev team at Repairshopr, we saw this post and fixed the issue. If you still see it going forward please message support as I'd want to get it fixed up asap.

      Thanks!
      Garrett

      Oh awesome, thanks! We'll keep an eye on it and let you know.

    • J

      New IT Position UK, any advice/feedback?

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      @Jimmy9008 said in New IT Position UK, any advice/feedback?:

      @IRJ said in New IT Position UK, any advice/feedback?:

      You're asking for a cloud expert in competencies, but are saying it's entry level infrastructure. Which one is it?

      Maybe its terminology? I use the term 'competent' to mean acceptable/satisfactory. Not expert. After 5 years of being a professional in IT with interests in technology, I would like somebody that knows a little bit about most of those items. 'Competent', not 'Expert'.

      For example, if they have been doing support for 5 years for a range of companies, but does not have any competency at all with Office 365, then they would not be a good match.

      Maybe like @Obsolesce mentioned, create a few different categories of skills/qualifications.

      We all understand that the applicant may touch all areas during the course of a month but what is 80% of their daily duties? You mentioned certain %'s in your post but will they do mostly support calls, setup/config O365, Azure AD setup/support and login to a hypervisor host?

      If they are only going to touch the SAN/NAS, support Oracle and do network security only for 10 hours a month, that could go under a "Limited skills" segment.

      You stated you are willing to train the individual, so items in the competency category should cover most of their required daily duties. They can learn the rest through training, working in a team and further education.

    • scottalanmillerS

      Is It Really Encrypted When the Key Is Public and Automatic?

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      scottalanmillerS

      @Obsolesce said in Is It Really Encrypted When the Key Is Public and Automatic?:

      That's like saying your data is encrypted with BitLocker or FileVault, but anyone with BitLocker or FileVault respectively can will automatically decrypt your data without even trying.

      FTFY

    • scottalanmillerS

      Kari's Law and Non-PSTN Systems

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      Your definition is not relevant. The FCC definition is what will be enforced.

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    • J

      Dell R740XD SSD Compatibility

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      The Intel's S4610 that @Jimmy9008 referred to in his original post, is sold by Dell as well. We have a couple of Dell servers on order with those drives (Dell branded).

      I wouldn't use consumer SSDs in a server at all. They don't have power protection and not as good wear leveling. And the price difference between the better consumer drives and the read intensive enterprise drives is not big.

      Anyway, the only problem I see with buying the Intel drives from somewhere else and not Dell, is that they will be under Intel warranty and support and not Dell. So if you need 4h mission critical support on those drives, you better have a spare on the shelf instead.

      Dell has to stock them for warranty and Dell has to make money of them and the price have to be high enough so that Dell can give their large customers a big discount and still have some profit left. That's why the Dell branded drives are much more expensive.

      Why not buy two S4610 drives in smaller capacity like 240GB or 480GB and put them in a server and see how it works?
      Looks like two 480 GB drives will be around £300.

      A lower cost alternative is the S4510 drives. They can't handle as many writes as the S4610 but will still be overkill for most workloads.

    • JaredBuschJ

      Looking for new GPS Fleet Tracking solution

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      Emad RE

      https://www.traccar.org/

      The sad part is no Linux client, cause there is a lot of GPS modules USB type that work well in Linux. However
      you can use an android client on Pi and do some magic, or turn smartphones into GPS.

      It works but you need to get the right smartphone, the one that gives access to services and disables battery optimizations for apps and large battery.

    • notverypunnyN

      Active Directory change logging / auditing

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      @Dashrender said in Active Directory change logging / auditing:

      @Obsolesce said in Active Directory change logging / auditing:

      @scottalanmiller said in Active Directory change logging / auditing:

      @notverypunny said in Active Directory change logging / auditing:

      @JaredBusch said in Active Directory change logging / auditing:

      Netwrix works well. I know people that have purchased it and love it.

      The product looks good, but from an IT perspective I don't like the licensing as it's on a per AD user model, (which IT has no control over) whereas ManageEngine is based on a per DC model which is much easier to manage.

      Is there a reason IT should have control over that? All IT expenses are just business expenses anyway. Just make it a per-seat cost like other per-seat costs. You already have to pay for Windows, Office, CALs, and whatever else "per seat", it's just another line item for whoever is paying for those.

      So why dig a deeper grave?

      Why not lay out exactly what you are talking about, what you consider the option to be?

      Because I'm not an IT buyer and don't just buy the first turn-key product with a pretty web interface I find. I can see the appeal, especially for a smb with no staff, or an MSP with no time. The thing is, for those solutions, you may end up doing and maintaining more in the end anyways. Not always, but depending on the environment and how it changes over time. Yeah, maybe a turn key solution is best, I don't know the environment at all, just one requirement, which is literally no need for third party product and can be completed in an hour, without needing much if any maintenance.

    • scottalanmillerS

      Windows 7 End of Life Countdown

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      @Dashrender said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:

      @warren-stanley said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:

      @Dashrender so much PC driven medical equipment out there will be affected, not to mention the EHR systems that get, at best, medical compliance patching and are stuck on older non-10 MS OS'es

      The shit thing is that most have no way of knowing if the device is running Win7 embedded or not.

      But they SHOULD have a way to know if their vendor is providing HIPAA required updates! If they don't, they can't deploy it.

    • travisdh1T

      HP print drivers

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      @Dashrender said in HP print drivers:

      @travisdh1 said in HP print drivers:

      @marcinozga said in HP print drivers:

      Does that driver come with inf file that you can use to install drivers through add/remove printers wizard?

      It does, and that hadn't worked for me either. Even went so far as to try adding the driver into the "print server settings" manually. Nothing worked till I got the windows update services fixed.

      I wonder what the dependancy was? .Net 1?

      Something that shouldn't be around anymore is all I know. It was .Net 1.3 something

    • DustinB3403D

      Apple OSX - Public Desktop

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      I'm marking this solved as I create a direction from / called scripts and that does what I need.

      No real need for a public shareable desktop when this works just fine.

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      Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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      @pavvelmorozov said in Firefox Multi-Account Containers:

      What about antidetect browsers like gologinapp and others? Good alternative?

      Never heard of those.

    • NicN

      Big Patch Tuesday - updating the cryptographic functions in Windows

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      @Nic said in Big Patch Tuesday - updating the cryptographic functions in Windows:

      @JaredBusch my bet is the NSA was using it, but now some other nation state has found it and is using it. Which is why NSA now wants us all to patch it.

      Yeah this was my point earlier. This tracks with their behavior with EternalBlue.

    • dafyreD

      Gigapixel Images and File Sizes

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      @scottalanmiller said in Gigapixel Images and File Sizes:

      @dafyre said in Gigapixel Images and File Sizes:

      Found a site that gives a formula and steps on how they calculate file sizes...

      https://4nsi.com/faq/how-do-i-calculate-the-file-size-for-a-digital-image

      It's hard to know if it's accurate, but he math makes sense.

      Except it is completely wrong so the math making sense doesn't matter, since it's absolutely wrong. That's for calculating a bitmap file type, which no one uses.

      You are right about nobody using bitmap files any more. I'm not looking for exact measurements -- or even conservative ones. Just an educated guess as to how big a gigapixel file could be.

      By using raw data, rather than worrying about how good of compression the chosen file type gets, I can simply estimate high on the amount of storage we'd need.

    • JaredBuschJ

      Need to migrate images from iCloud

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      Have you tried the linux Icloud Photo downloader?

      https://github.com/ndbroadbent/icloud_photos_downloader

      Or installing Icloud for Linux and then mounting the photo space?
      sudo snap install icloud-for-linux

      If I recall, the drive folder is here, photos can't be too terribly different
      ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/

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      Tutorial Flow

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      @JaredBusch said in Tutorial Flow:

      @JasGot said in Tutorial Flow:

      I believe most tutorials are written to get something up and running with as few steps as possible, assuming there will be no variances that create differences from the norm in a lab, and the person who wrote the tutorial expects the person reading the tutorial only wants it to work, rather than understand how and why it works, along with how to configure it for different scenarios; and the the writer must also believe the reader has no issues with run-on sentences.

      If you ever see one of mine like that, call me the fuck out on it.

      Didn't read; sentence is too short 🙂

      Oh, and I will, just for you!

    • NashBrydgesN

      Break-Glass Access Control For Business Owners

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      Plus you'd get things like single use passwords, SSH CA, encryption as a service, and some more

    • scottalanmillerS

      Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness

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      @Obsolesce said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

      @scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

      @Obsolesce said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

      @scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

      @CCWTech said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

      @scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

      On Ubuntu 19.10, there is a brightness setting on the power screen in settings. But it doesn't seem to do anything. You can slide it, but nothing happens. Anyone having luck adjusting screen brightness on Ubuntu?

      We've tested on multiple machines, all seem the same. Both Nvidia and AMD cards same lack of adjustment.

      Running 19.10 and I don't even have a brightness setting at all.

      I have it, but it affects nothing.

      Laptop or desktop monitor? I can't imagine it working on anything but a laptop.

      Desktop

      That's why. I know of no OS that controls monitor brightness unless it's a laptop/tablet/phone/etc. Never an external monitor with separate power source.

      Me either, but @CCWTech was asking for it. I've never looked for it before. No idea what it should do in that situation.

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