Wyze April Newsletter in my email today.

RSTP
https://support.wyzecam.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026245231-Wyze-Cam-RTSP

Two-Factor Authentication
https://support.wyzecam.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026994652-Two-Factor-Authentication

I'm scheduling an appointment for my wife and daughter to have a relaxing pedicure and a mini facial treatment on Valentine's Day.

Using Enable-PSRemoting command by itself only works on Private and Domain Networks. You will have to use -SkipNetworkProfileCheck for it to work a Public Network.

Enable-PSRemoting -SkipNetworkProfileCheck -Force

Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired
https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/03/firefox-extension-add-on-cert/

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@StorageNinja I can totally agree with you that powershell ain't pretty compared to say Xen Orchestra. But you have to agree that in terms of functionality everything is "there" with Hyper-V.

Nothing is restricted behind a pay-per-feature license etc. as like with ESXi or even Citrix XenServer.

Quite a few things require Windows Server Datacenter licensing... not necessarily all Hyper-V functionality like VM Shielding , but also things that pair with it such as S2D, storage replica, etc.

@StorageNinja and I were discussing the functionality differences between Hyper-V and other hypervisors. His big complaint at the time is the lack of an HTML5 command center for Hyper-V where ESXi, Xen Server (through XOA) and KVM all have this.

Project Honolulu from Microsoft allows you to manage Hyper-V and other roles too from a web browser.

@dashrender said in Port - What server OS to use:

@black3dynamite said in Port - What server OS to use:

Since you are starting from the ground up, I would keep it simple.

What does this really mean? What does simple fully look like to you?

Setup Nextcloud and good backups and be done with it.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-nextcry-ransomware-encrypts-data-on-nextcloud-linux-servers/

My wife and kid enjoyed their Valentine’s Day facial and pedicure.

@dashrender said in Port - What server OS to use:

@black3dynamite said in Port - What server OS to use:

@dashrender said in Port - What server OS to use:

@black3dynamite said in Port - What server OS to use:

Since you are starting from the ground up, I would keep it simple.

What does this really mean? What does simple fully look like to you?

Setup Nextcloud and good backups and be done with it.

How do you manage the desktops? make sure they are updated, deploy software, etc?

PDQ Deploy Pro or PDQ Deploy Free (For deploying software)
Set Windows 10 updates to restart on the weekends or after-hours
Chocolatey
PowerShell
SaltStack/Ansible

Stable release of Wiki.js 2.0
https://docs.requarks.io/releases

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Verifying group memberships in AD and being very careful to always click Cancel as I exit dialog boxes.

Esc key is your friend.

@nerdydad said in Windows 10 Reset password:

Okay, I know that I am going to get totally ridiculed for this but I need the information off of this drive.

My laptop fell off the domain the other day and I don't have any recent backups because Veeam flaked on me long ago. I tried to take it off of the domain and add it back, but when I rebooted to a workgroup, I was able to login. When I rebooted again, can't login. I have used the same password and every password that I typically use, but no luck. I don't have a password reset disk (and they can't be created in Windows 10 anymore). I've tried pulling the hard drive out and reading the contents, but keep getting an IO error. The drive has the latest of Windows 10 1703 on it and it is bitlockered.

Anybody have any tried and true solutions?

I was going to say use chntpw reset or enable administrator account but I'm not sure about getting passed bitlocker.

I don't have any problems using Bing but I do use DuckDuckGo has my default search engine because of features like !Bang Search shortcuts.
https://duckduckgo.com/bang

:grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

#virt-builder
sudo virt-builder fedora-27 \
    --root-password password:Password1 \
    --output /var/lib/libvirt/images/test.img \
    --hostname sl-lnx-test.slcmurray.local \
    --timezone America/Denver \
    --update \
    --install cockpit \
    --install salt-minion \
    --selinux-relabel \
    --firstboot-command 'systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket' \
    --firstboot-command 'firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=cockpit; firewall-cmd --reload' \
    --firstboot-command 'echo master: 192.168.1.100 > /etc/salt/minion.d/master.conf' \
    --firstboot-command 'systemctl enable --now salt-minion' 

#virt-install
sudo virt-install \
    --name test \
    --ram 2048 \
    --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/test.img,format=raw \
    --nographics \
    --import \
    --os-variant fedora26 \
    --network type=direct,source=enp3s0,source_mode=bridge

@nerdydad said in Hyper-V Host - Member of the domain or not:

@jaredbusch said in Hyper-V Host - Member of the domain or not:

@tim_g said in Hyper-V Host - Member of the domain or not:

@jaredbusch said in Hyper-V Host - Member of the domain or not:

@jmoore said in Hyper-V Host - Member of the domain or not:

I enable the local admin and set a secure password for everything here as sometimes machines quit responding to the Windows domain controller and I have to have a way to reset things.

By stating that you enable local admin, I want to know how it was disabled in the first place.

I don't know what the issue is here.

When you install Hyper-V Server, you can't log in any way other than local admin. Maybe after you join it to the domain you can disable the local admin account, which is weird to do...

That is entirely my point.

This was supposed to be more of a "Best Practices" question. I really don't have a problem situation in front of me, but wanted to better understand best practices when setting up a Hyper-V host.

I have setup a number of Windows 10 client devices and noticed that the local admin is disabled. I assumed (though never experienced) that the situation would be the same for a Hyper-V host.

Local Administrator account in Windows Servers and Hyper-V is enabled by default. Windows desktops has the local administrator account disabled by default.

I’m excited for having the opportunity to use .net core and powershell core 7 on my Windows and Linux systems

@bnrstnr said in HDMI wall Plate and Jack issue.:

Put a $130 Ubiquiti camera pointed right at the HDMI port, whoever breaks it can now be held responsible. You'll probably never have to fix it again with a camera on it.

Just make sure it's out of their reach. Or it is going to another issue to deal with.

@travisdh1 said in HyperV Partitioning:

@storageninja said in HyperV Partitioning:

@tim_g said in HyperV Partitioning:

Windows Server runs on top, and every VM runs beside it. The only thing Windows Server can do, is manage the VMs using various components.
The Hyper-V Hypervisor is only 20 MB. It runs in memory. Not sure what you mean by "god awful footprint"?

If that VM is a pure control plane, then I can reboot or patch it without impacting network or storage IO on the other VMs in the same way I can restart management agents on ESXi or KVM right? If Hyper-V is handling the network and storage traffic 100% then surely it must have its own driver stack, and not be dependent on the management VM for these functions, right?
Unless this has changed, you lost every VM on a host from a simple reboot of the management VM previously.

You expect Microsoft to do things rationally, or correctly? That'd be a nice change of pace.

XenServer does the same thing too.

https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2020/03/31/xcp-ng-8-1/

The Tick Season 1 on Amazon Prime Video.