Posts made by AdamF

@scottalanmiller said in Work from Home - Computer setups:

@AdamF said in Work from Home - Computer setups:

For those of you with home offices, do you have a completely separate computer setup for accessing your work things? I'm thinking of setting up another desk, just to use with my work laptop and getting separate Keyboard, monitors, etc for that setup.

I have two full desks, each with two monitors, each with a desktop. All in one room. I have a dedicated office room (I'm WFH full time so this is important). I have a full desk phone as well.

Yeah, That's exactly what I am thinking about doing. Another desk. Need to separate work/home a bit more.

@JaredBusch said in Webcam recommendations for desktop users ...:

C920

Yep, The Logitech 920 is awesome. Not a very wide angle, but for one person at a desk, it is perfect, and crystal clear. I use the Microsoft one as well. I still use this one at my home office. https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-LifeCam-Cinema-Webcam-Business/dp/B004ABQAFO It's old, but does the trick.

I have a custom built stand up desk at home now, but I am thinking about making another station just for my work stuff. I have some extra monitors lying around.

I was thinking about this lately and am wondering what others do. I have a home office. I work from home probably 2 days a week, and drive to the office the other days. I primarily use my personal PC to remote into a PC at the office, and do all of my work from there. I do this because I have 2 monitors for my home pc, have a nice keyboard, etc that I want to use. However, how do other people do this? For those of you with home offices, do you have a completely separate computer setup for accessing your work things? I'm thinking of setting up another desk, just to use with my work laptop and getting separate Keyboard, monitors, etc for that setup.

@black3dynamite said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

@AdamF said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

So I decided to upgrade. :). Weekend project while I’m sick. Vms created, moving all data now. This is MUCH quieter than the r710.

I have an R710 and its pretty quiet.

That's what I thought too. but the R630 is even quieter! now I just have to upgrade my network switch to a fanless one, and I'll be all set.

@Pete-S said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

@AdamF said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

So I decided to upgrade. :). Weekend project while I’m sick. Vms created, moving all data now. This is MUCH quieter than the r710.

So moving to the cloud or upgrading hardware?

Upgrading hardware. I decided that I like having my systems in house, and between my plex server, photo backups, lab VMs, Pi-hole ,etc, it just makes sense for me personally to have it in house.

So I decided to upgrade. :). Weekend project while I’m sick. Vms created, moving all data now. This is MUCH quieter than the r710.

@RojoLoco said in Microsoft store missing:

@AdamF said in Microsoft store missing:

@Obsolesce said in Microsoft store missing:

Or just un-pin it from the task bar and don't use it... that has worked for me with zero issues.

I used your decrappifier script on Github like I have in the past, with zero issues. Not sure if this is related this time, or if the user just somehow screwed things up. No idea.

The decrapifier script will absolutely remove those exact things with one certain switch... Can't remember which one, I think it was -allapps. It says in the instructions that this switch removes the windows store and it's very difficult to get it back. I used to run it like that on everything, then the devs started asking where the calculator was.

Well there you go. It was my fault. I did exactly that, and like an idiot, didn't RTFM.

@JaredBusch said in Microsoft store missing:

One of our software clients (we don't do their IT) has a heavy handed ITSP. They killed the MS store and broke all kinds of shit...

Yeah, lesson learned. Not sure if I did it or not, because this was deployed a month ago with zero reports of anything missing. Now everything is missing. So who knows what happened. Resetting PC now.

@Obsolesce said in Microsoft store missing:

Or just un-pin it from the task bar and don't use it... that has worked for me with zero issues.

I used your decrappifier script on Github like I have in the past, with zero issues. Not sure if this is related this time, or if the user just somehow screwed things up. No idea.

@dbeato said in Microsoft store missing:

This solution looks like it can work
https://akosbakos.ch/reinstall-windows-store-app/

I'm going to bookmark that page. Unfortunately, I saw your reply too late. I am in the process of "resetting" the PC. Lets see if this works.

Has anyone had an issue where the Microsoft store (and other built in apps like Calculator, Photo viewer, etc is just missing from a PC? I have a user who somehow does not have the MS store installed, has no calculator, photo viewer, etc. It seems like everything related to the MS store is just missing. I have tried to reinstall the MS store, but nothing seems to be working. Has anyone run into this before?

@gjacobse said in Drive wiping tools:

Hirens boot CD,
ActiveKill disk.

Also a classic. I used to use that all the time to reset forgotten admin passwords.

@JaredBusch said in Drive wiping tools:

@AdamF said in Drive wiping tools:

What is the go-to drive wiping software these days?

https://dban.org/

I've used that one before. Just making sure it is still a good one. Thanks!

What is the go-to drive wiping software these days?

@JaredBusch said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

@AdamF said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

Who is doing on premise home labs these days in 2020?

I don't home lab. I lab on Vultr most of the time. Make it, test it, delete it.

I have an old computer at home running KVM with a small NAS VM and my Plex server. That is not a lab IMO.

I have a Server in colo that I can use for a lab, but it is getting so slow (it is a 2012 Dell R510) that I simply use Vultr.

Yup slow

Yea, I really only use the current R710 for photo/PC backups and plex. It sits in a closet, makes no noticeable noise to me (in the basement) and uses an amount of power that I don't even notice.

@NashBrydges said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

As a result of 2020's dumpster fire of a year, most of my clients ended-up moving to remote, work-from-home operations, many have chosen to move their gear to colo so I've expanded my 1/4 rack to a full rack at a datacenter where I now also host all my "home lab" gear, including Plex server. The lab gear consists of a Dell R720XD-SFF that runs all of my VMs, a Dell R720XD-LFF that hosts a VM file server and a Dell R720XD-LFF as local Veeam backup target. Also have a Dell R420 running Blue Iris for my security cams as home. I only have a Dell R230 running at home for Pi-Hole and NGINX, plus a 2 Synology NAS as a remote backup targets for my colo gear.

Nice setup. I am weighing the options of either ditching the server completely and getting something super low power instead. I use my r710 currently for mainly Plex and photo backups.

So I'm curious... Who is doing on premise home labs these days in 2020? I have an R710 that I use for Plex, and other projects. But recently acquired and R630. Maybe its time for an upgrade.

nmap worked like a charm. I like to export it to an XML file which works... OK.

@brandon220 said in Port scanning tools:

If I am using a Windows machine I normally use Angry IP scanner. It has always worked well for me.

Sorry, should have specified in the OP. All of the hosts are external facing. So not sure if Angry IP would work.