To come back around to the initial question, I'll throw GLPI + FusionInventory into the mix as a decent replacement for SpiceWorks. You keep the ability to have your whole IT environment managed and documented in a single system (Equipment, users, ticketing, contracts, contacts etc etc....)

So the laptop is my main driver and runs the 3 displays + it's own.

The lower display to the right is for a workstation that's used for building / maintaining our windows 10 deployment images as well as a GNS3 install that I need to find the time to use to mock-up our WAN / VPN topology.

The fireplace on the arm is a drastically underpowered 20" inspiron all in one touchscreen that had been doing nothing for years so I've taken it, put linux on it and it's just a toy / conversation piece.

EDIT: fireplace has now become an ASCII aquarium

I searched really quickly and didn't find a section or category where folks have been posting useful how-to guides or articles for the community. There are a couple of things that I've worked through lately that could probably be useful to others, just don't know exactly where to stash it on here. As an example, how to make a uefi bootable USB to automatically apply BIOS settings for Dell. In all honesty, my motivation here is as much to share with the community as have stuff like this publicly documented so I can find it if I need to re-do or update it for my own needs.

@valentina said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

I ate 2 boneless bbq wings

Isn't that just marketing chicken fingers to adults? :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:

@mr-jones knowbe4. They provide training modules for users as well as allow you to run simulated phishing exercises. There are other companies out there that provide the same service(s) but we're using these guys for now.

On a related subject, not looking forward to the eventual request(s) to have he/him, she/her etc added to AD and our automatically generated email signatures

Good afternoon from Eastern Canada! I'm part of the IT team for a manufacturing company with offices throughout Canada and the Eastern US. Cheers!

It feels like the OP thinks that this is a seller's forum as opposed to a group of IT professionals looking to help each other out. Or just trolling to waste time. Or a college kid who was given an assignment and is looking for us to provide the answer.

Trying out Fedora on my personal laptop and watching season 3 of the grand tour

@DustinB3403 said in Bad one: SonicWALL Remote Management Vulnerability:

@wrx7m said in Bad one: SonicWALL Remote Management Vulnerability:

WTF? People NAT their iDracs?

Some people...

Probably the same people that put ketchup on a perfectly good steak..... psychopaths the whole lot of them

https://www.helpwire.app/
https://www.eltima.com/

Has anyone ever heard of these guys or their parent company Eltima / Electronic Team? It all seems too good to be true but I also recognize that I'm quite cynical after all this time.

Thoughts?

Making sure that I don't break anything before the holidays start in a few hours. Out from this afternoon until the kiddos are back in school on Jan 8.

Manjaro has some built-in options for open vs proprietary drivers. It's what's running on the desktop that my kid uses for browsing / homework etc and it's just an older optiplex refurb with a basic NVIDIA card. You can even have the live version boot either with open or proprietary drivers from the GRUB menu.

Read-Only Friday so checking our Exchange (Online) environment for CVE-2023-23397

https://microsoft.github.io/CSS-Exchange/Security/CVE-2023-23397/

ReadOnlyFriday before March Break with the SO and kiddos

I setup a self-hosted librespeed instance at my prev employer to deal with all the WFH internet foolishness. Then you know that you're testing a known quantity. I'd also managed to script something with their client-side cli and TRMM that would allow the team to remotely speed test without user knowledge or intervention.

Yeah, saw this go by the other day. Good for Yilan, bummer for MC (and TRMM by extension?)

Making sure that nobody breaks anything before the holidays

Don't know if anyone is still looking for other options, but I had looked at these guys before and it seemed like a decent product:

https://horizondatasys.com/rollback-rx-time-machine/rollback-rx-home/

They've got a pro version as well as a deepfreeze-like product that automatically reverts to a saved state when the machine is rebooted.

Am I imagining things or did Windows licensing at one point allow for use of a virtual environment on top of the physical install? If this is (still?) the case, would a W10 install in vbox do the trick?