@wrx7m said in PowerShell - Create New AD User Using Prompts and Variables:

If I get rid of the attempt to combine the 2 existing variables into a 3rd, I get this error.

New-ADUser : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '+'. At \\FP02\it\Scripts\AD\AD-InitialUserCreationVariables.ps1:5 char:1 + New-ADUser -Name "$GivenName $Surname" ` + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [New-ADUser], ParameterBindingException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.NewADUser

Like this I think:

New-ADUser -Name "$($GivenName) $($Surname)"`

From: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/stefan_stranger/2013/09/25/powershell-sub-expressions/

Just had our first person report issues this evening.

Using noop would be useful when you are checking on the status of a machine that you don't necessarily manage.

@obsolesce said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

@scottalanmiller said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

@obsolesce said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

@stuartjordan said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

I believe the forest level with Samba can only be 2008R2 though.

If you're not using Windows AD, what's it matter?

If he's merging in DFS, it might. It's rare to do, but could matter.

Oh I see, so Windows AD and other services were involved at some point.

Depending on what you want to do, sometimes AD has to support it.

@black3dynamite said in Outlook Out of Memory to Open Large Folder:

Email/Mailbox hoarder!

Definitely

@phlipelder said in Get Wildcard SSL Certs for IIS on Windows with LetsEncrypt:

@scottalanmiller said in Get Wildcard SSL Certs for IIS on Windows with LetsEncrypt:

@phlipelder said in Get Wildcard SSL Certs for IIS on Windows with LetsEncrypt:

@scottalanmiller said in Get Wildcard SSL Certs for IIS on Windows with LetsEncrypt:

@phlipelder said in Get Wildcard SSL Certs for IIS on Windows with LetsEncrypt:

@jaredbusch said in Get Wildcard SSL Certs for IIS on Windows with LetsEncrypt:

@scottalanmiller my problem with Certs on Windows, in general, is that you almost always have to copy it around to multiple servers to make everything work well, and that jsut defeats the purpose of LE.

Based on what is on the site, Microsoft has an intrinsic trust with LE's root store. I should be able to set up a RD Session Host with a LE certificate for publishing and there should be no untrusted publisher for RemoteApps or Session Host desktops once the certificate's thumbprint is published via Group Policy?

One would hope that they would. LE is like the standard in SSL Certs. It's from the EFF, way more trustworthy than other cert authorities, IMHO.

Snag: Valid for 90 days. In larger RDS farm settings this would be a bear to manage. That means the need for an automated process.

It is expected to be automated. SSL Cert updates should not be intrusive. All of the tools for LE SSL Certs are designed around the idea that you will automate them and never need to worry about them again. It's about being less of a snag, not more of one.

Got it thanks. Looks like a bit of a learning curve then. 🙂

It's not bad. I find learning the LE pieces easier than learning to do it the old fashioned way 🙂 And with LE it is "learn once and ignore", rather than "learn once, forget, do again in a year or two all over again."

Via the ActiveDir list:

https://github.com/CarlWebster

There are some amazing scripts in there for ADDS but also for XenApp, NetScaler, Citrix, and others.

Site: https://carlwebster.com/downloads/download-info/active-directory-2/

@vhinzsanchez said in Re-Enable BitLocker on Windows 10 Home:

Thanks SAM, we are accepting the fact that the encryption will not be done at this moment.

Regards,

VhinzSanchez

https://www.howtogeek.com/234826/how-to-enable-full-disk-encryption-on-windows-10/

@scottalanmiller said in Network error Windows 7:

@wrcombs said in Network error Windows 7:

@dashrender said in Network error Windows 7:

@wrcombs said in Network error Windows 7:

@scottalanmiller said in Network error Windows 7:

@wrcombs said in Network error Windows 7:

@scottalanmiller said in Network error Windows 7:

@wrcombs said in Network error Windows 7:

Anyone ever see this error before? do you know what it means ? how to get rid of it?
0_1536843443200_netowrk error.PNG

No, because I carefully never do that, lol.

I didnt do this, this is from someone saying " This is how I think it goes" and changing settings.

Also something to avoid 😉

Random people who don't know the basics, making completely crazy configuration changes... that's a disaster waiting to happen. Imagine if they were doing that on a PCI network or something 😉

They did! we use 2 NICs, one for internet, one for the PoS system so they are "seperated" the best they can be. They stacked and added IP's to the PoS NIC, So all of the PoS were accessing the internet...

Sure, but the internal POS network doesn't have a gateway to some place else inside it, right?
So you don't have a gateway on that network interface.

I dont believe there is a gateway, its just communicating within the PoS and the back office.

If that were the case then I shouldn't be getting this message correct?

Shouldn't. The warning seems like it would be genuine - it's warning you that someone messed up the configuration.

When I used to have these type of setups, I would set the gateway to the POS and set the metric to 10 for either that NIC or that subnet. That's assuming that you're talking directly to the one and only POS and nothing else on that network. While you don't have to alter the metric, it helped stop Windows from wigging out seeing two NICs or two IPs and two gateways on one NIC. If you experiment, you can always put it back. Different VASCs and different brands & processors specify what's ok with them. Because PCI.

@scottalanmiller said in Options for Windows Desktop Deployments without Windows Server:

@obsolesce said in Options for Windows Desktop Deployments without Windows Server:

@dustinb3403 said in Options for Windows Desktop Deployments without Windows Server:

@obsolesce said in Options for Windows Desktop Deployments without Windows Server:

Yes, I like it more than FOG (though, I haven't used FOG yet) because I'm under the impression FOG is clone-based imaging only.

How can you say you like it more if you've never tried it?

Are you saying I should I like something that I haven't used yet more?

I think he's saying that "more" can't apply. Because you like MDT "X" amount, but FOG you like "null" amount. In math, you can't compare against a null, because it doesn't exist. No value, of X can ever me more likely to be "more" than a null than it is to be "less" than a null. Using the logic that you've never tried FOG, you can't say that you then like MDT more, any more than you can say that you like it less. There is simply no comparison.

That was his point.

Otherwise we could interpret it at random. You love MDT, hate MDT, find it exactly the same as FOG... are all equally incorrect based on a null comparison.

Because I have read about Fog and seen some of it, it's not null. Therefore I am able to have some like or dislike and form an opinion.

Just like I never drove a Lamborghini, but still like them more than a VW Beetle which I've owned in the past.

@wrcombs said in Site Moved a PC=A MESS:

@scottalanmiller said in Site Moved a PC=A MESS:

@wrcombs said in Site Moved a PC=A MESS:

My boss was pushing the compliance issues, Yes, Because it is his job to make sure compliance is met within every site. You're telling me, If im not mistaken, That following directions coming from the vendor is my boss being Dumb? or Being an Ass?

Straight from PCI Data Security Standard: Build and Maintain a Secure Network:
1. Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect cardholder data.
2. Do no use Vendor- supplied Defaults for system passwords and other security parameters .

I guess reading this more thoroughly so I could continue this conversation: no where does it say It has to be a separate or isolated network, Only that It needs to be behind a firewall as far as Networking is concerned.

Correct, I'm telling you, straight up, that if your boss claims that those words in ANY WAY suggest you can't use a VLAN, he's either insanely stupid, or a ridiculous liar who thinks you easy to push around.

There is NOTHING about a separate network there. Not one thing.

I understand that now, at first I was a little confused, but now having seen and looked into everything more based off of what you are telling me , I find that everything you are saying makes perfect sense

Not that it means you can do something about it. But knowing that the boss is most likely just trying to blow you off, or just trying to make things complicated for some personal reason at the expense of the company makes it far better to be able to at least learn from the scenario.

Your quality take aways here include...

Your boss is not to be trusted (why, we don't know, but a reliable source, he is not.) Look for another job (you know this, but it's a reminder.) You now know PCI far better than before (and better than your boss.) You now have more experience in evaluating someone giving excuses rather than actual logic.

Thank you for the help. By posting the screenshots, I realized I had a typo in the file extension. .png vs .jpg
Once I double checked them all it now works.

@romo said in Remote Connect/Support Tools for Fedora, Windows, OS X:

Seems really interesting with the monitoring and the ability to have custom alerts.

@FATeknollogee How has the testing been going?

Haven't done much more than my OP.
I plan to do some more testing over the weekend.
My main goal is to find a ScreenConnect replacement.

RDP at home is fine.

The batch file I have for one client is this:

powershell Rename-Computer -NewName "COMPUTER_NAME" -DomainCredential DOMAIN\ADMINUser -Restart

Where COMPUTER_NAME to not exceed the 15 character limit

ETA:
I should add that this batch script start with installing Chocolatey package management tools, then the default applications,

@fateknollogee said in SaltStack setup for /etc/hosts:

I remember this has been discussed on the forums sometime back when...

I'd like to have a master host file & push this out to Linux & Windows servers & desktops.

Anyone have a good how to guide?

One more thing, you'll want to use file.managed in a State file.

That way, you keep a master copy on Git and only need to edit that. Saltstack will take care of the rest and make sure all minions have that updated file.

Otherwise, with salt-cp, you have to manually SSH to the salt-master server and run the command. I'd rather just update the file in VSCode, then be done with it...

In your State file, you can do Linux and Windows using an If statement, having it do it one way for each OS.

I use grains, os_family, etc.

@obsolesce said in Windows 10 Always Says Up to Date, But Always Needs Updates:

or just stop ignoring my posts...

@obsolesce said in Windows 10 Always Says Up to Date, But Always Needs Updates:

If you want to do automatic Windows updates in a similar way to DNF-Automatic for example, I'd load this module:

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/2d191bcd-3308-4edd-9de2-88dff796b0bc

And then set up a scheduled task to run a script that loads the module and runs Get-WUInstall.

Too easy 😉