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RE: Migrate to DFS from UNC file shares? Complications..
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RE: Today's Random Discussion Point: Are Wigs Just Hairy Hats?
@scottalanmiller said in Today's Random Discussion Point: Are Wigs Just Hairy Hats?:
@bbigford said in Today's Random Discussion Point: Are Wigs Just Hairy Hats?:
I definitely consider them a hat.
It's the only good conclusion. I don't see how they can be anything else.
I have 1 friend who wears a baseball cap because he's balding very early. He could wear a hair hat, but the man loves baseball.
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RE: Migrate to DFS from UNC file shares? Complications..
@ntoxicator said:
They were prospecting and projecting employee's based upon client acquisition/intake through the years. Employee prospects based upon average number of people to support X number of customers...
Ok, that's what I was hoping. That I merely took what you said out of context.
Honest to God, I've heard employers before talk about growth as more of a want. Hiring lots of employees because they (the employer) thought more staff could draw more customers. That was completely backwards thinking and cost them dearly.
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RE: Kid's GPS watch
@scottalanmiller said in Kid's GPS watch:
I think Samsung has cellular in their latest watch, too. But haven't tried it.
Indeed they do. Doesn't require a phone at all.
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Mac Users...
I have a user who is... Difficult. They refuse to use Outlook and instead use Apple Mail. Not to get into things, but signatures, attachments, rich content, etc, do not process in Exchange very well.
The question is, I know Office in Windows is programmed in C++, I'm guessing Apple Mail is in Objective-C... What about Office for Mac? Is it in Perl, Objective-C, or what? Wondering why Exchange handles it so much better.. Aside from the fact it's Outlook and is designed to talk to Exchange. Just coming with answers for tomorrow of why.
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Local User GPO - change?
Am I missing something? I went to modify a GPO I created a few weeks ago... The password areas are grayed now, whereas they haven't ever been gray before... Changing the actions does nothing. I'm just trying to change the local admin password on all servers.
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RE: Mac Users...
@Jason said:
Sounds like your company has bad management.
I mean I can't bad mouth them on here. They treat us fairly well... There's just some stuff I would rather have done differently so we could get around these type of situations with a little less pain.
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RE: Mac Users...
@scottalanmiller said:
@BBigford said:
@aaron said:
I have no problems with Apple Mail using Gmail domains and Outlook.com (I realize that's not technically Exchange) -- but they are done via IMAP.
Is the user using IMAP instead of Exchange protocol? The Exchange protocol is very weirdly inconsistent to me unless you are only using MS products.
We are all using Exchange.
Exchange does IMAP like all modern email systems. Has too, it is the universal mailbox protocol.
Yeah I didn't really understand the question cause we're using IMAP on Exchange. Maybe I should have asked @aaron to elaborate.
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RE: Mac Users...
@Jason said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@BBigford said:
I did get the comment "Exchange is so stupid. Why do we even use that buggy system?" The hell are we expected to run?
Well, to be fair, Exchange is difficult to use, very expensive and not very practice on premises. They might not know the name of the products, but Zimbra is the big player and MDaemon has been around and @axigen is up and coming. And Apple might even have an offering.
And something is wrong if the contracts say you have to run it on site. That's just dumb. Even our highly secretive stuff, that we get that can only be referred to by code names do not say dumb stuff like that. Clients don't dictate internal IT infrastructure.
They do when they dump in millions of dollars, pulling said contracts could tank the business.
But it isn't that way anymore. We could lose any one big contract and survive. But there are so many contracts that require it, it would be impossible for us to get it approved. They are not as secretive as yours. Couldn't tell you why it's that way. I know part of it is company policy not because of contracts, but because we have a lot of proprietary telco designs/gear/etc. All the designs around my desk all have stuff on them that say what happens if they get leaked.
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RE: Mac Users...
@scottalanmiller said:
@BBigford said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@BBigford said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@BBigford said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@BBigford said:
@scottalanmiller said:
But that doesn't explain how the copiers POINT to the Exchange 2007 instance. How do they send the email to it in the first place? IP address?
Uses the hostname instead of IP... Some of the settings I've saw in the config:
Server FQDN: exchange-server.domain.com (older server with relay configured)
Server Port: 25
From Address: [email protected] (has a resource mailbox in Exchange, with a password to authenticate)I can't think of any other settings off the top of my head...
Right... so what are the questions about how to do this with a Linux relay? You already have a dedicated relay. It's just swapping out the name of the OS and the cost and stability involved. Nothing "changes." You are already doing everything as if you had a Linux relay.
There's no more confusion. You answered it way up the thread already.
I just didn't know how the Linux relay tied to hosted Exchange, but you already said you can define that in the relay by entering credentials for the hosted instance.
They tie through the magic of email
No, you wouldn't really use the credentials, that's pretty silly. You just... relay. Email is WAY simpler than I think you are picturing. None of that is necessary.
ok, so you point the Linux relay at the IP issued to the O365 instance, with a transport rule setup on the O365 instance to accept the traffic from the relay?
No... still way too complex. You do nothing. I literally listed all of the steps.
Email doesn't need any of those things. It doesn't get pointed anywhere.
How would the Linux relay know how to pass on the traffic from the copier to the hosted Exchange instance then...?
How does email ever get to where it is going? It just sends the email. It looks up the server's MX record. It's how every email everywhere gets delivered.
Oh ok, so the relay relies on MX records found in DNS?
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RE: What Can BASH on Windows Do?
Maybe PowerShell will be available on Linux soon....
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RE: What Can BASH on Windows Do?
True BASH on Windows would be like the day we were provided Internet radio. That was a pretty good day.
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RE: What Can BASH on Windows Do?
I wonder if this is just some huge marketing ploy... Appearing to be more flexible, try and poach some developers. Seems like it is all smoke and mirrors though. I was skeptical that it would end up just being a terrible project, I wonder if that is what we're seeing.
Microsoft to disgruntled, mislead person over the phone: "Oh no, you CAN use BASH on Windows... I mean not technically.... Well yeah, it's terrible to use.... No, I understand it's terrible.... Yeah, we lead you on.... No, you can go f*** YOURself.... and good day to you, sir."
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RE: What Can BASH on Windows Do?
@mlnews said:
@BBigford said:
Maybe PowerShell will be available on Linux soon....
Ask and ye shall receive...
Does it work as well as BASH on Windows?
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RE: Local User GPO - change?
@wrx7m said:
@BBigford Laps won't let you set the password. It assigns random ones that you can access the plain text version of via AD.
Well that's disappointing. Sounds like a pretty useless program. You can only do random ones, and one at a time.
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Home security - Attempted break-in
Need some advice...
Short overview: Our neighbor who lives 10 months out of the year in another state had someone break into their garage, then tried to break into their house (unsuccessful), a few weeks ago. Last night, we had someone trying to break into our garage (we heard someone kicking the door). The door is pretty heavy duty, with a heavy duty frame so the integrity didn't diminish at all, probably turning the intruder away. I got my gun from under the bed and called the Sheriff.
Our house:
*We moved to Boise, ID about 6 months ago.
*We live on the outskirts of town in a nice neighborhood.
*Doors are locked at all time, even during the day.
*Slider bars in our 2 sliding glass doors so they can only open 1 inch (1 leads to our bedroom, the other to the kitchen, from the back yard). They are also locked at all times.
*Shades are drawn at night across the whole house, windows and doors, when we are away and when the sun goes down.
*We keep the front of the house lit.
*All windows have stoppers that don't allow more than about 4 inches for the windows to open.
*No access to the roof without risking serious injury.
*Windows that are accessible from the roof are treated the same as the bottom level.Things that we have wanted, but have not purchased.
*German Shepard (we have wanted a dog so bad, and it fits the bill for security, intelligence, and active). We have a very large backyard for a dog, but since we're both in school, we just haven't had enough time to spend with a new puppy. We don't want to be the kind of owners that just buy a dog and leave it out in the yard, bored, all the time.
*Home defense shotgun. I sleep with a Springfield 1911, and my girlfriend sleeps with a Ruger .357. A shotgun is a better home defense firearm for a few reasons. I've wanted to get a Mossberg Special Purpose (pistol grip/18" barrel/etc... not something I'm taking to the range of course since pistol grip shotguns are a pain to shoot. Just a compact, point and click firearm for the house. I want to get something that my girlfriend can use, if it came down to that. Because she probably wouldn't be calm enough to accurately fire one of our handguns).
*Motion activated lights in dimly lit areas around the house.
*Motion activated surveillance. (This is where I'm not sure where to go...) I think we would like to have about 6-10 cameras (4-6 outside, 3-4 inside). I know security equipment can go super cheap, to extremely expensive. I think our budget for this category is going to be about $2500 max. Probably a kit that can do something at 50 feet in complete darkness, has a DVR, and is only activated by motion to save drive space. I know this is going to record a lot when animals go by as there are dogs and cats around the house.
*Clear film for the sliding glass doors that doesn't allow them to be shattered. Someone would have to break the glass, then remove it as a whole piece. I'm not sure where to even start with this one because the sliding glass doors are a big risk. http://www.amazon.com/Security-Window-Film-Wide-Roll/dp/B004LDBPY2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1460319149&sr=8-2&keywords=anti+shatter+glass+film+windowsA little over the top for some, sure. But it freaked the hell out of my girlfriend so it's time to ramp up our security a little more than we already are.
I think my biggest question would be what kind of digital surveillance does anyone recommend? Anything you've personally gotten to test out?
We both work full time, but we're also full time students so we are on a budget. Having said that, we don't want to cheap out on safety at the same time.
Edit: I'm also going to be putting up some signage around the house on windows & doors. Two on the sliding glass doors in the back, 1 on the side garage door, and one in the window next to the front door. That covers all entrances and is very clear. Here's a link... http://www.safetysign.com/products/p88107/nothing-inside-is-worth-your-life-yard-sign
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RE: System Center DPM - Anyone using it?
I'm not very strong with PowerShell yet. I imagine that's what I have to do in this instance though unless someone knows a better way. I would have to write the script, then just drop it in scheduled tasks. I have never saw anything in the GUI even remotely mentioning automated restores.
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RE: Nesting Hypervisors - when would you do this?
Strictly for my own curiosity... Lab obviously it's cool to see what you can do so I would say there it wouldn't matter.
In production, why would you want to run different platforms? Why not go all Xen or all Hyper-V so things are more consistent?
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WDS vs. MDT vs. WAIK
So I know SCCM has everything rolled in, but that's way more work than our smaller environment can justify. We already have SCCM stood up, but there's just so much extra work that goes into it. WDS performs well, but not being able to mess with tasks and specific drivers being applied to packages is a problem for us. I basically need WDS with that kind of control.
I don't fully understand the differences between WDS and MDT. I've found that WAIK is for building unattended files, and is needed in MDT. An article said you use WDS for PXE boot, and build images in MDT. That doesn't make any sense because I'm building images in WDS (capture/boot images/install images/driver repositories/etc). Why would I use MDT/WAIK over WDS? Why do both exist?
If you're wondering why WDS doesn't work for us, I can't explicitly define a driver repository to a certain model. I enter the System Model into the filter, but it doesn't work. I even look up the model in msinfo32 and enter it exactly, still doesn't work. I've tried the option to apply all drivers, and apply only applicable to the hardware. Still seeing certain drivers not installing, or no drivers installed. If I disable all other driver packages except the one the model needs, and don't filter, it works great.
I have the install media built from a VM so as to be very generic, I capture it to WDS, and break out driver packs based on machine models. So I'm not building all different kinds of images. But all images work, if I disable the other driver packages that aren't compatible with that machine currently being imaged.