@dashrender said in IT Environment update questions:

@scottalanmiller said in IT Environment update questions:

@msff-amman-itofficer said in IT Environment update questions:

@dashrender said in Greenfield (OK not really) setup questions:

Additional options: use something like Salt to create network mappings for the computers.

I am interested to hear about:

"Salt to create network mappings for the computers."

Since salt works only when minions connected, and for reason my NAS and windows clients loses the connections every 2-3 days and requires the user to re-input username/password (maybe related to Windows limtiation)

how will you effectively use salt for that purpose ? just put script to run at user login ? any other neat ways to do this ?

Salt is meant to run continuously. For example, mine run every 10 minutes or so to verify the environment. So if a mapped drive failed, it would be fixed again in a few minutes.

The same goes for GPO. It refreshes every 15 min I think by default.

Every 90 minutes with a 30 minute flux. So every 60-120 minutes for GPO.

@coliver said in Azure AD Open Source Alternative:

@StrongBad said in Azure AD Open Source Alternative:

Samba 4 does what AD does, for free. But I'm not aware of anything that does what Azure AD does using open source software that you can host yourself. Does anyone know if something exists?

I guess what are you looking for? Azure AD is basically hosted AD with some limitations as to client management.

It's a totally different technology. Azure AD is a competitor with hosted AD. It's not AD in any way. Very different technologies. One is a LAN design and one is LANless as well.

I solved this by removing all but one profile on the machine, then running
sysprep /oobe /generalize /reboot

Then during the mini setup I joined to Azure AD.

@njbair Thanks for joining the community to share your appreciation. I'm glad I posted the steps I took to resolve the issue because if you would have asked me today how I fixed it I'm not sure I could have remembered.

@Jstear said in Azure AD Authentication with NextCloud:

@travisdh1 possibly, but I would like to attach it to an existing on premise server.
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/backblaze-b2-sync/1323

Well, sure. I guess I should keep reminding people about my location. Online services like storage don't work because of the price we'd have to pay for a connection. Making the server and storage both online (preferably in the same data center) is just so much easier.

@Mike-Davis said in Azure AD Connect and populating a new AD Forest:

With powershell you can rename a UPN suffix. Pretty easy with powershell:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/canitpro/2015/07/07/step-by-step-changing-the-upn-suffix-for-an-entire-domain-via-powershell/

Thanks @Mike-Davis, this is one of the pieces to the puzzle that I was missing.

@jospoortvliet said:

with regards to the VHDX, we decided to remove the VHDX for now, we can't built it due to a server problem... It'll be back but that can take a while. Sorry! Hope the other formats suffice.

Thanks for your feedback !

I think that that was for the other thread.