@Dashrender

Gotta love Bob-

@scottalanmiller said in Free / Cheap Unattended Remote Access Utility for Windows PCs:

@EddieJennings said in Free / Cheap Unattended Remote Access Utility for Windows PCs:

@NetworkNerd

My MeshCentral VM is in Vultr.

Same here. Way better than AWS, Azure, or GCP for standard workloads like this.

Just for home use, it could likely sit in a free AWS Lightsail instance if it is small enough.

@G-I-Jones said in GPO to create scheduled task to run netlogon batch script:

Did you ever figure this out?

No and the person who was working on it has been OOO all day, so its not a priority either.

@Dashrender said in Unifi Controller - Reinstall and adopt APs:

@DustinB3403 said in Unifi Controller - Reinstall and adopt APs:

@travisdh1 Yeah I'm thinking what happened is someone setup a Unifi Controller on windows at some point, then they engaged us and said yeah we don't have access to the AP's but its all still working. So they were sold a physical cloud key, and still the AP's weren't adopted.

Assuming you're at an MSP now, do you host a controller that you could just build a new site for and adopt the APs too?

This is what @Bundy-Associates and @NTG do.

That is the plan, but for now this is just janitorial work.

I just confirmed, this system is only using the Intel controller, and not SS.

@VoIP_n00b said in Changing Installation Location for MicroSIP Installed via Chocolatey:

@Dashrender said in Changing Installation Location for MicroSIP Installed via Chocolatey:

@travisdh1 said in Changing Installation Location for MicroSIP Installed via Chocolatey:

@scottalanmiller said in Changing Installation Location for MicroSIP Installed via Chocolatey:

@travisdh1 said in Changing Installation Location for MicroSIP Installed via Chocolatey:

@syko24 said in Changing Installation Location for MicroSIP Installed via Chocolatey:

@scottalanmiller said in Changing Installation Location for MicroSIP Installed via Chocolatey:

By default, installing MicroSIP using Chocolatey causes the install to go to an inappropriate data folder location and is only available for the admin installing user, rather than for the end users of the Windows system. Does anyone have any experience or ideas in changing the installation location so that system users can actually use MicroSIP when installed and maintained using choco?

Asking for @Dashrender and @romo as well.

I think this might work:
choco install microsip -ia "'/D=C:\SomeDirectory'"

choco install microsip -ia "'/D=C:\temp'"

Did install it to C:\temp for me

Is it working for non-admin users?

Yep, I can run the .exe from my C:\temp. You'll probably have to create a shortcut for a user tho.

yep, I just tried it - I pushed to c:\program files\microsip

and non admins can run it.

and you're right, the shortcut is put on the installing admin's desktop, and nothing in the start menu.

MicroSIP - open source portable SIP softphone based on PJSIP stack for Windows OS.

https://www.microsip.org/

It says right on the website it’s a portable app, why would you expect a desktop icon or anything on the start menu?

There is a portable version, sure. But there is also a non-portable version.
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@Grey said in Windows 8.1 Microphone Gain Changes Automatically:

@scottalanmiller Why are you on 8.1?

Customer I assume.

Sorted this out.
For some reason the install was setting Allow Global IP and Allow Default Route.
Once I unticked these and ticked All Managed IP it all began working.

@EddieJennings said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10:

@Obsolesce said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10:

What special case needs UAC completely off?

I'm curious about this as well.

Installing malware 🙂

@dbeato said in Patch all your Windows DNS servers - CVE-2020-1350 - CVSS score of 10:

@pmoncho said in Patch all your Windows DNS servers - CVE-2020-1350 - CVSS score of 10:

Just wondering - Is anyone seeing a patch for 2019 with a reference to the KB article?
Checked yesterday, last night and this morning. No update that I can see.

Currently performing the workaround.

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https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4558998

Thanks. Forgot about the update catalog.

@Dashrender said in Windows Domain routing question - dual-nic:

Though - if you have a second layer network like this, you'll need to inform your external router on the internal networks and how to route them.

Routing to the internet is mostly just a nice to have.

@Grey said in Issues uninstalling Windows Server 2012 R2 Key:

You mean sfc /scannow? Or DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth?

@op Check your event logs for more information, and try running the commands above.

Ran both, so far nothing, but I will run chkdsk tonight to see if that fixes anything. So far I can't find anything in the logs but I'll keep looking.

That's awesome.

@scottalanmiller said in Engineering vs Administration - That's what makes Windows and FreeNAS so risky:

@stacksofplates said in Engineering vs Administration - That's what makes Windows and FreeNAS so risky:

@scottalanmiller said in Engineering vs Administration - That's what makes Windows and FreeNAS so risky:

@stacksofplates said in Engineering vs Administration - That's what makes Windows and FreeNAS so risky:

@scottalanmiller said in Engineering vs Administration - That's what makes Windows and FreeNAS so risky:

@IRJ said in Engineering vs Administration - That's what makes Windows and FreeNAS so risky:

@scottalanmiller said in Engineering vs Administration - That's what makes Windows and FreeNAS so risky:

@IRJ said in Engineering vs Administration - That's what makes Windows and FreeNAS so risky:

Admin roles are also dying with immutable infrastructure and HA. Designing a system that is immutable and highly available isn't expensive or time consuming on the cloud anymore.

But someone is still designing the initial system and someone (maybe the same person) is managing it.

Yeah so you don't have an admin here as you admit. You have an engineer designing the system and replacing the system if there is issues. It's all design and no maintenance. Maintenance is automated during build.

Not in the real world. That's a nice theory, but applies to effectively no one anywhere. In the real world, engineering almost always is a trivial effort that involves almost no time, skill or planning, and all the effort goes into years of administration that deals with that haphazard system.

That's completely false. Engineering is almost always a trivial effort......

It's completely true and I've given example after example. In the real world, engineering is generally done without planning or resources and it works enough for people to accept it. Then all the effort is hoisted onto administration. You can argue, but you can't deny that this is what 95%+ of the market does.

No you gave an example of FreeNAS and have completely ignored things like SRE where design upfront including architecture, engineering, coffee design, IaC, etc are all roles for the engineer. Immutability is vital and SREs are embedded in specific teams and only supporting that application.

Yes, but the difference is my example represents nearly the entire market. I didn't say that there weren't exceptions. But that's what they are.

Outside of F500 maybe but outside of F500 you don't normally have systems engineers and systems admins.

@dbeato said in Access Changed Files on VSS Copy on Write Disk Image:

@scottalanmiller said in Access Changed Files on VSS Copy on Write Disk Image:

@black3dynamite said in Access Changed Files on VSS Copy on Write Disk Image:

Mount the disk image on Windows Server instance, from the mounted disk drive, go to Properties and then Previous Versions?

That's what I thought. But it just seemed too easy, lol.

Lol, anything that appears with Microsoft as easy should work but emphasis on "should" 🙂

Emphasis with "assume" too. lol