@scottalanmiller said in List Windows Printers from PowerShell Command Line CLI:

If you need to remote into a Windows machine and get a list of printers without interrupting the user, this powershell command is quick and easy...

Get-Printer | Format-Table

Make it easier Get-Printer | FT

LOL...absolutely!

SAM...making IT better for humans...have an extra avatar on us....

@Pete-S said in ProxMox: Set VM to AutoStart from Command Line CLI Start:

Nice but it's even easier with pure kvm as you don't have to go the roundabout way of using VMid.

virsh autostart somevm

Personally I find the number quite a bit easier.

Check out WingetUI, which can manage packages for choco, scoop, and winget.

@scottalanmiller said in Send an Email via SMTP from Command Line with cURL:

@Pete-S said in Send an Email via SMTP from Command Line with cURL:

@scottalanmiller said in Send an Email via SMTP from Command Line with cURL:

@Pete-S said in Send an Email via SMTP from Command Line with cURL:

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@Pete-S said in Send an Email via SMTP from Command Line with cURL:

@scottalanmiller said in Send an Email via SMTP from Command Line with cURL:

First the command itself, showing gmail settings here by default but obviously fill in with your own details:

Does it work? I thought gmail required OAuth nowadays and you couldn't use plain username & password for authentication anymore.

gmail still allows the creation of app passwords.

OK, then it works for now I guess.

I always cringe when I see MSPs that set up their clients MFPs and other devices using random gmail accounts.

IMHO it's unprofessional and much better to use a real transactional email service for these kinds of applications.

It depends. If it is going out to customers, then it's weird. If it is for purely internal stuff then transactional email doesn't make too much sense. But if it is internal, normally you can just use whatever internal tool you already have.

Typical scenario with gmail is that someone sets up a MFP to use a random gmail address for sending alerts and scanned documents.

When the user scans the document it's often sent to his own email address [email protected]. So primarily internal.

Well, problem is that gmail saves mail sent over SMTP in the sent folder. Which means that the "printer guy", who if often not even an employee, can read all the scanned document that was ever scanned and emailed by logging in to the gmail account he set up.

And of course sent email coming from outside your domains might be flagged as spam. So people scan documents and it doesn't work. I mean the list of problems is long.

Well when lots and lots of companies still demand to only use Gmail already, it's not so weird.

You'd be amazing how often we get people requiring that they stay on Yahoo and AOL addresses for their businesses. I kid you not.

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@scottalanmiller No example output? 🙂

@scottalanmiller that is edgeos syntax.

Tweaked a bit to provide an output file.

https://gitlab.com/EddieJennings/bash-general/-/blob/master/find_files_sort_by_filename.sh

@scottalanmiller Yep, I just wanted to share the configuration I use as my daily driver because it makes working in the terminal that much more efficient. The OP mentioned wanting something that was a bit slicker and more powerful, and I think in addition to your choice of terminal, your choice of shell and other tools contributes to having a better experience. I prefer FISH for my shell, and tmux is my terminal multiplexor of choice. ZSH is another great alternative shell as well.

@JaredBusch fair enough, I haven't used the product itself as of yet and wasn't aware it had whitelisting inside the product, if this was specific to just fail2ban then that method would be suitable, but in this case I agree with you, my mistake.

@brianwinkelmann said in Microsoft Command Line Tools - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

Very Very Interesting, but the most important, this Command Line Tools are useful specially when you work remotely.

Or to be ready for when you suddenly half to!

Although they make you more efficient all of the time.

@justal said in Create a New User on macOS from the Terminal Command Line:

@scottalanmiller Hi Scott, thanks for the post, unfortunately this works not on Mac OS X Mojave. I'm able to create a user but not able to login with this user account. It stucks after the login prozess. Is there any workaround?
Thanks!

I switched offices for a couple days to one where I'm on Ubuntu rather than my Mac. I'll look into it once I'm back to my Mac.

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2019 Need to Download and Run without AV Deleting Files:

https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2016/07/how-to-disable-and-configure-windows-defender-on-windows-server-2016-using-powershell/

For now, just temporary disable Real-Time Protection via PowerShell
Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true

Download the executable and scan it manually before you install
Start-MpScan -ScanPath C:\datastore\file.exe -ScanType QuickScan

Enable Real-Time Protection after the install
Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $false

Excellent, now THAT did it.

Worth noting that using rsync worked very well, but there were issues with the Outlook profile on the existing user workstation and the end result.

Not a huge issue for us as everything is stored in O365, but worth being mindful of if your email was hosted locally.

Also because of username convention changes, I had to set the ownership of the user profile to match the new shortened name.

@pmoncho said in Get Windows Version from Command Line:

No doubt. Currently working on getting Server 2019 DC, DHCP, and RDS working in a lab. A few challenges so far. Was going to try using PS to do many tasks I normally do in GUI (force myself to learn as I go) but decided to put it on the back burner due to frustration. I will get there with PS but it has to wait.

Unfortunately, no matter how much we want to complain about PS and how Windows has no production-level roadmap at this point and is getting worse by the day, if you are going to run Windows today, PS is how it is done. Issues with PS have only one valid purpose to discuss - to use to explain to management why Windows shouldn't be getting deployed in production workloads, or why risks with it need to be accepted. It's like the licensing issues with Windows, these things all add up to cost and risk and risk is really just cost. It's part of the "decision numbers." Beyond that, it is what it is. If the business actually knows how costly it is and still chooses it, then PS is how you manage it.

If you deploy and start without using PS, it'll be that much harder to switch later. I know the learning curve is absurd and the whole thing is so much harder than it has any purpose being, but I would bite the bullet if at all possible and learn it now. It'll just be harder later.

Topic has been forked, please keep discussions of OS comparisons to a different thread.