@dbeato said in Protek Support MSP Ransomware Hits Customers in Salt Lake City, Utah:
I think that if it was VPN, still bad practice to have VPN from MSP or any other systems that unprotected. MSPs should not need to have VPN to customers at all.
And vendors wonder why I won’t let them VPN into my network.... ha
Last week was fantastic!
Drove to Greeley, CO - ok that was boring.
Drove to Moab - visited Arches National Park - drove a 4x4 trail - my friend nearly freaked out.. It was awesome!
Drove to Zion National park - walked The Narrows! - man, can't wait to go back.
Drove to Las Vegas - at at Gordan Ramsey's Steak - had the tasting menu - the Beef Wellington was meh at best, the rest was fantastic!!!
Drove to Hoover Dam took some dam pictures
Drove to Grand Canyon Skywalk - paid for the skywalk - was a let down!!! visit other viewing point in that area - SO MUCH BETTER than the over priced, no pictures allowed skywalk...
Drove to AZ south rim Grand Canyon - hiked the 3 mile trail, very scenic!
Visited Bedrock - Fred Flinstone's home town and watched a raptor show - and got to hold the raptor (on a a glove of course).
Drove to Four Corners - it was exactly what I expected - a plaque marking where the four states meet, took a picture and continued on...
Drove back to Greeley, CO -
and lastly,
Drove home.
58 hours in the car, 3200 miles, 5 states, 3 National Parks, a million pictures - great time!
As some might recall, I ran into Wiztree a month ago. I asked the author to look into adding it to Chocolatey.
And he did.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/wiztree/3.17
It's been a good year for Dashrender - down 40 Lbs since January!
Brought my mile time from 8:29 to 6:47.
Only bad thing - good cholesterol is a bit low (but bad cholesterol is in the good range). Doc suggested I drink Red Wine to improve the good Cholesterol.
Just read about this free book on that other site, thought i would share a link to it here.
I was restoring some files from our backups when I ran across this.
These files have been sitting there for a month plus. Unbelievably it appears that non of my other network shares were affected by this.
OMG - I think we some how dodged this bullet.
@scottalanmiller said in Raspberry Pi 5 Announced Today:
For those who don't want to read all of the details...
Basically everything from CPU to RAM to GPU is 2x - 3x higher performance than the RP4 from 2018.
Support hats will be available directly from RP for both PoE+ power (no need for external power on these!!) and, drumroll, for M.2 NVMe drives. Meaning you can really use this as a real computer like never before. Lack of native M.2 support was the killer of the RP4 generation.
An RP4 with NVMe would have made it a reasonable desktop system. Without it, it was hard to do anything requiring drive performance of any sort. With more than double the performance across the "board" and NVMe support, this is a very, very powerful workstation.
Active cooling is now semi-standard to accommodate all of this, too.
Now if only I could get one - I have a need for two of these right now..
@JaredBusch said in Can you run a Windows desktop OS as a server to run AVImark Veterinary Software?:
@PhlipElder said in Can you run a Windows desktop OS as a server to run AVImark Veterinary Software?:
We've gone through plenty of audits where QuickBooks has a company file on one PC while there are two or more other PCs accessing that company file. No issues there.
Historically, QuickBooks has only used file sharing for this. The remote users are opening the QuickBooks data file over the network. This matches the restrictions last I knew.
AVImark is connecting to a database server running on the host computer to my understanding. This is not file services, print services, IIS, or ICS.
historically this was true - but at some point QB expanded this to using ports other than file sharing to get the job done
Once QB did that - QB no longer qualified under the fileshare exception.
Here's a pretty easy way to test for this.
If you install a firewall between the instance hosting the AviMark software and the client and block all but 139 and 445, as well as 80 and 443 - and AviMark stops working - then you're 99% sure that it's not a legal use of Windows non-server edition.
of course this isn't 100% because software could attempt to use these ports as a bypass to the licensing..
What I assume is the same issue I ran into years ago - where a computer going to sleep, a user would wake it up, and when they stopped using it - it would go back to sleep in a super short amount of time (I believe it was 2 mins).
After years I found out this was the System unattended sleep timeout setting, which is a hidden setting by default. This setting can be unhidden so you can change it in the GUI via
powercfg -attributes SUB_SLEEP 7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0 +ATTRIB_HIDE
Or you can change the registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20\7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0
The Attributes DWORD controls how long before the system goes back to sleep.
0 - disables it
OK - onto today's issue.
User's computer went to sleep sometime yesterday - woke it up - between the amount of time the user stared at the screen, them typing in their password and pressing enter to start the login process - the timeout timer expired - putting the computer back into sleep mode.
The user would then wake the computer to find a - can't log in error message (Don't recall exact message).
Rebooting the computer instantly solved this issue - which they claimed they did - hmm.. now that I'm writing this - I need to look at the logs and see if they actually did reboot - I'm guessing not.
Of course when the user reported this issue - they reported - I try to log in - the spinny thing spins - then the computer just powers off. Of course once I arrived and watched the process happen - I noticed the slow flashing power light - indicating sleep mode, which instantly lead me to the situation I mention at the start of this post.
I rebooted the computer and was able to log in instantly. I logged out, had the user log in and it worked fine!
I went in search of the registry key (during which I updated my ancient post here) to change the system to not use System unattended sleep timeout.
Let's see how long until this user has their next issue.
Necro-post
found the issue for this problem.
There is a registry setting that puts the computer back to sleep if not used after woken from sleep after a VERY short amount of time.
i.e. the computer is sleeping - the mouse is bumped - wakes - but is otherwise not used - this timer goes back to sleep fast.
The problem is sometimes a computer gets stuck with this time and keeps it active even if the computer is used.
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20\7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0
REG_DWORD Attributes 2
This will disable this feature.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got a parrot today. It's a rescue, very old and needed a new home very quickly. So now we have a parrot.
pictures!!
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I spent the last week cutting down/apart a tree that broke in half due to wind last week.
Hope it didn’t hit anything or anything important if it did. We’ve had quite a bit of systems come through here also..
Storm came through about 2:30-3:00am and was very active in lightning…
luckily not. the top half of the tree broke, but not completely - fell over slightly into the street. The break was about 20 feet up - made cutting it down a bit challenging - luckily my latter was talk enough.
haul away, etc was so expensive - it was worth it to buy a slightly used chipper shredder and just deal with it myself. I now have a small pile of logs to give away as firewood.
I spent the last week cutting down/apart a tree that broke in half due to wind last week.
@JaredBusch said in Zerotier installs but no conectivity on Fedora 38:
@syko24 said in Zerotier installs but no conectivity on Fedora 38:
@JaredBusch - I know their site says Windows, but maybe something related with the firewall rules getting messed up.
I temporarily shutdown firewalld on both systems as well as disabled selinux.
While I doubt it's the issue - ZT has it's own firewall rules, any possible issue there?
We regularly email xlsx files to people outside our company.
On Monday one of my users received a note back from their counterpart telling them that they couldn't open the attachment.
After digging into it - MS is now applying Digital Rights Management (DRM) to attachments where it can.
Even worse - the external users so far in testing can't open the file unless they have an account in our M365 tenant.
It seems that MS has been rolling this change out for years - I've found posts about this in reddit from 5 years ago, and more recent posts about all the DRM changes they have been making lately.
The current listed solution is to disable encrypting the attachments tenant wide with this powershell command
Connect-ExchangeOnline Set-IRMConfiguration -DecryptAttachmentForEncryptOnly $true
I'm in the process of testing it.
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
well the bootcamped mac has finally been replaced with a dell inspiron 1650. not a bad machine. build quality isn't bad, not up to the mac standard, but neither is the price.
so far so good. only gripe i have is that when doing not a lot and listening to streaming music i get that buffering/staggering sound occassionally. i got the i5 with 16gb. maybe i should have got the i7. too late now.
could be a wireless issue, not a processor one - or the HDD, etc..
