@Emad-R said in Download Windows Server 2019: @scottalanmiller https://software-download.microsoft.com/download/sg/17763.253.190108-0006.rs5_release_svc_refresh_SERVER_EVAL_x64FRE_en-us.iso Thanks @Emad-R with this link you don't have to go through all the paperwork.

@DustinB3403 said in Office 365 OWA blocks Microsofts own content: Would you really want MS making exceptions on your behalf and without your knowledge? I don't have a safe senders list. Yet I get attachments and links all the time. More than likely, the DKIM/SPF checks failed to cause that.

@scottalanmiller said in Nadella: Microsoft will sell war tech to democracies to “protect freedoms”: A growing number of employees feel that the military project crosses a line. Speaking to CNN Business, Nadella defended the decision to enter the contract, saying, "We made a principled decision that we're not going to withhold technology from institutions that we have elected in democracies to protect the freedoms we enjoy," adding, "We were very transparent about that decision and we'll continue to have that dialogue [with employees]." I can get behind this statement. Don't we all want the best tech to help us perform our job? Individuals protecting one's homeland deserve no less than the best offered.

@Mike-Davis said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement: @Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement: @IRJ said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement: @Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement: @IRJ said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement: @Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement: @CCWTech said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement: @Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement: No one here knows - we don't run that software. No one here runs Server 2019 Essentials? No - most here run standard Windows Server or some flavor or Linux. Essentials is only for SUPER tiny environments (I think it's limited to 25 connections)... a version that at least with 2012 didn't require User CALs, making it significantly cheaper for super tiny shops that required Windows, but once you hit over 25, you got a HUGE upgrade cost i.e. full server license and 25+ CALs. Yep. It is generally not reliable either. At least earlier version weren't. Throw all MS services on one piece of underpowered hardware and then throw all your apps over it. What could go wrong? I guess i was lucky - when they started calling it Essentials - there weren't that many services left - File/Print/AD/DNS/DHCP and what WSUS? that's all pretty typical single box stuff in my mind. WSUS could be shit for sure, but the rest can work together no issues. Back when it was SBS server and had Exchange and possibly a corporate firewall and SQL server - OMG - yeah, kill me now!. That's just the out of the box stuff that can be simple solved off windows very easily Dont forget that these businesses like to throw quickbooks and other poorly made sofware on their Essentials server including these other services which are already too much to have on one box IMO. It's 2019, virtualize It would be interesting to know if Essentials allows for the install of 3rd party software like that? Probably does.. QuickBooks is the reason I have so many Essentials servers out there. If the environment is large enough where you can't just make one computer "the server" and share QuickBooks from there, Server Essentials goes in along with QuickBooks Database manager and its 25 year old architecture and you call it a day. Same kind of problem here.

@IRJ said in Microsoft culls secret Flash whitelist after Google points out its insecurity: @scottalanmiller said in Microsoft culls secret Flash whitelist after Google points out its insecurity: Others seemed more peculiar; a Spanish hair salon, for example, was listed.* Wtf I wonder if it was always a Spanish hair salon or if someone else owned it.

@RojoLoco said in Microsoft S2D vs StarWind VSAN: See what clients say about true hyperconvergence: @DustinB3403 how would their sales drones bug you if they just put the info here???? They already have my information and they actually don't nag me. What does irk me is that every time I do want to read one of these I have to register or login to see the information.

Too bad it is KVM only right now. Not that KVM is bad, it's just early. The have LXC coming "soon" and that will be really awesome. I want VDI on LXC so that we can do it faster and on top of Scale HC3.

@dave247 said in Most of my Windows 10 1803 computers upgraded to 1809 despite it not being approved in WSUS / Dual Scan is a thing: @scottalanmiller said in Most of my Windows 10 1803 computers upgraded to 1809 despite it not being approved in WSUS / Dual Scan is a thing: @dave247 said in Most of my Windows 10 1803 computers upgraded to 1809 despite it not being approved in WSUS / Dual Scan is a thing: @dbeato said in Most of my Windows 10 1803 computers upgraded to 1809 despite it not being approved in WSUS / Dual Scan is a thing: @dave247 said in Most of my Windows 10 1803 computers upgraded to 1809 despite it not being approved in WSUS / Dual Scan is a thing: e systems was a consumer version of Windows 10 which the previous tech installed - no idea where he got it. Probably came pre-installed on the Dell Computer and not imaged. Actually it had Windows 7 installed on it but then the co-worker put his version of Windows 10 that I think he got from college on it, and a few other systems. So idk. Windows 10 will activate on a Windows 7 license. So should be all set from that perspective. I don't think so.. and it was a fresh install, or at least I know he used the Windows 10 key that he had been provided. That key was also used on about 5 other systems at the time. You can work around it, but should accept the Win 7 key, too.

@DustinB3403 said in O365 SafeLinks Service 503: SafeLinks I was wondering why I wasn't familiar with safe links. I only have Business premium.

@Obsolesce said in Microsoft wants to buy Mellanox – Speculations or reality?: @Reid-Cooper said in Microsoft wants to buy Mellanox – Speculations or reality?: This seems like a really odd pairing. Why would Microsoft want to alienate hardware vendors by getting into the high end switching game? Probably for their Azure stuff. Then they should just purchase the equipment, not the company. .

Troy Hunt uses it for the "I Have been PWned" https://www.troyhunt.com/serverless-to-the-max-doing-big-things-for-small-dollars-with-cloudflare-workers-and-azure-functions/

@dbeato said in Using Windows 10 Public ISO with VLSC MAK: Sot it just activated it right? Yup.

@JaredBusch said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account: @Dashrender said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account: @PhlipElder said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account: Easier is "Set up for an Organization" and choose a username. Ours would be Laptop Admin with the space and no password to avoid the questions. Once logged on, CTRL+ALT+DEL and Change Password to set the new one. Note that the existing would be a blank. Interesting - a blank password has it avoid the recovery questions... huh. Yes. But I believe when I tested it, you still had to fill out recovery once you added a password. Or maybe that was even adding a pssword non admin account. I lost track. well - yeah - you would expect to do the recover IF you give it a password.

The engine may end up being an "Enterprise Mode" like IE I think? Edge as a browser works well but with a few show stoppers that killed any further usage for us: 1: Downloads mysteriously won't start or just plain stop for no reason. 2: Edge ate my favourites way too many times. The containerized Edge, Application Guard I think(?), is a great idea. If Edge was as good as they had hoped it would provide a fantastic sandbox experience to protect users from drive-by attacks and bad GET commands from e-mail clients. At least we are not getting stuck with the legacy ActiveX that keeps rearing its head every once in a while because of IE.

@Dashrender said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?: @JaredBusch said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?: @Dashrender said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?: @scottalanmiller said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?: @Dashrender said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?: @JaredBusch said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?: @scottalanmiller said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?: @JaredBusch said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?: @scottalanmiller said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?: @Obsolesce said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?: This only occurs, that I've seen, during OOBE when you set up the PC as a local, non-domain, non-Microsoft-Account, user. Correct, as a standard local account. The "normal" way. Most people don't use AD, even in business this is dropping off quickly. And lots of people don't want to deal with those ridiculous MS accounts that they try to ram down everyone's throats. And who knows how secure those are, anyway. That is not the normal way to set up windows anymore and has not been for quite a while. The normal way to set up windows is with a Microsoft account. In fact you have to click no to setting up a Microsoft account multiple times in order to set up a PC without a Microsoft account That's what they promote, but I wonder how many people are actually doing that. Probably most that don’t use AD. Of course some will not, but not many. I tend to agree - most home users will use a MS account simply because it's what's presented. IT folks and some programmers might not, but I'm willing to bet it's way over half that do. Have you seen a lot of home users doing this? I have not, of course my cross section is tiny. But of the ones I see that have zero tech skills, they all skip it because it is scary and confusing. The option to skip it's obvious enough for most people I run into - they just do it, even if that means setting up a new account. It is obvious? not really. And even if they see it and click on it, you have to refuse once or twice more. Whoops - I meant - NOT super obvious... normal users will be guilted into using an MS account in most cases. yeah the first two times it took me a moment to notice you could skip.

@Donahue said in Where do I start with replacing the whole MS AD stack: sing reservations. I think your knowledge of FG is not allowing you to do this, just create a new interface with the desired subnet and leave or tick DHCP option. And they you can do it what you want with it. Create an IPv4 policy to give access to internet to the new interface.

Thanks all

Just had our first person report issues this evening.

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft to Launch Linux Version of Sysinternals: @StuartJordan said in Microsoft to Launch Linux Version of Sysinternals: ...it would still probably be less than windows though because you need to elevate privileges on Linux and we all know most people run with admin privileges on windows. That's not related to Linux vs. NTKernel (the Windows Kernel.) They are essentially identical there. You are seeing "common approaches from the userbase" and perceiving that behaviour as being caused by the kernel code, but it is not. Run Windows uses on a Linux-based OS and they will behave the same as they always did. Put Linux-based OS users on Windows and they are secure. It's the userbase, not the product, that has that effect. Windows is just as much "need elevated privileges to run" as any highly secure Linux distro, but Windows end users are way more likely to work around that, and be accepting of third party products that demand it. Port the Windows desktop to Linux, literally nothing will change, because those users will come along with it. I suppose I was meaning the userbase more then the actual kernel in that statement.

@dbeato said in Windows Site Migration Tool: Migrate your IIS websites at a fast clip: The new thing with Microsoft Azure is SiteCore, that is the new trend and people are already on that. Not sure but we might want to discuss that on ML one of this days. @scottalanmiller Overreaching of user information https://www.sitecore.com/products/sitecore-experience-platform

@travisdh1 said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?: @coliver said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?: @travisdh1 said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?: @coliver said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?: @travisdh1 said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?: @coliver said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?: @Dashrender said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?: @coliver said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?: @SanWIN said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?: @Dashrender Direct water cooling looks like more effective, taking into account that you have to burn (generate heat) something to produce an electricity to cool the hardware with the traditional air conditioning. But I do agree that it still could affect the nature. Especially if you can couple this with offshore wind, solar, wave, or current generation systems. This might be crazy thinking - But I wonder how much we are affecting our physical world by tapping energy directly out of it - i.e. taking heat energy from the planet, pulling energy from wind, from wave, etc. In writing that - I'm wondering if there might just be less thermal bleedoff? I know the planet gets a ton of energy from the sun, I'm pretty sure it's what powers most of our weather, so maybe it's a non issue? It's mostly a non-issue. We're affecting it more with CO2 and other gases then we are through wind, solar, and geothermal. CO2 is not the boogieman it's made out to be. There are lots of other reasons to prefer moving things to have less impact on the environment. I think it's that most people aren't capable of understanding those other reasons that a boogieman like CO2 is used, most people think they understand less=good more=bad. There are whole bodies of research on why excessive amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases are bad for the environment and people living in those environments. It's not a new thing and knowledge of it has been around for decades... The key word is excessive. Take a look at the historic CO2 values to get the idea. Huh? Even past concentration didn't really hit the point where we are today. IIRC the highest (and climatically volatile period) was only ever ~300PPM CO2 at least from the measurements of ice cores. We're well into the 400PPM CO2... So I'm not sure what you mean by look historically. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/04/dr-vincent-gray-on-historical-carbon-dioxide-levels/ HAHAHAHAAAHAH In New Zealand, he was the first Director of Building Research and later, Chief Chemist of the Coal Research Association. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_R._Gray

@black3dynamite said in Microsoft Office New ODT Customization Tool: So they retire it but provides us with a preview? Yeah it is counter productive in my opinion.

@oksana 60 MB install you say. Any .net framework past 4.5 is hidden 80 MB install worth of 2 GB of bloat

They aren't in the ML community but special shoutout to Ariel Sanchez and Joe Houghes for this help. Somebody needs to get them into ML. https://twitter.com/TheRealNerdyDad/status/1049365117140447238