@scottalanmiller said in Complete Idiots Guide to Linux:

@CCWTech said in Complete Idiots Guide to Linux:

@scottalanmiller said in Complete Idiots Guide to Linux:

OMG, I am doing some cleaning and I just stumbled on the original CD from "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Linux" which is the first copy of Linux that I ever used. It's the disc that contains the original copy of Caldera Linux from the mid to late 1990s that Andy West and I picked up at a Borders in Rochester, New York and was used to run our first server and client farm for MUD gaming!

I need this!!

I'm pretty sure that you don't want this, lol.

LOL, I just need to get more comfortable with Linux. Learning more every day but just enough to be dangerous...

@JaredBusch said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@CCWTech said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@CCWTech said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller How about deployment?

What aspect?

The agent - approx 1,500 PC's.

You can silent install the agent via whatever means you want to push the exe out with.

MeshAgent.exe -fullinstall

What do you like to push it out with?

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@CCWTech said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller How about deployment?

What aspect?

The agent - approx 1,500 PC's.

@scottalanmiller How about deployment?

Is this going to be open source once out of beta?

Also, is there a way to mass deploy it? I understand there isn't an MSI for a group policy deployment.

@scottalanmiller said in Complete Idiots Guide to Linux:

OMG, I am doing some cleaning and I just stumbled on the original CD from "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Linux" which is the first copy of Linux that I ever used. It's the disc that contains the original copy of Caldera Linux from the mid to late 1990s that Andy West and I picked up at a Borders in Rochester, New York and was used to run our first server and client farm for MUD gaming!

I need this!!

@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@CCWTech said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

No one here knows - we don't run that software.

No one here runs Server 2019 Essentials?

No - most here run standard Windows Server or some flavor or Linux. Essentials is only for SUPER tiny environments (I think it's limited to 25 connections)... a version that at least with 2012 didn't require User CALs, making it significantly cheaper for super tiny shops that required Windows, but once you hit over 25, you got a HUGE upgrade cost i.e. full server license and 25+ CALs.

I understand most prefer linux, but I doubt that no one here runs Windows Server 2019.

@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

No one here knows - we don't run that software.

No one here runs Server 2019 Essentials?

@DustinB3403 said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

You could also download the essentials trial from microsoft, deploy it and confirm that everything will work as expected before having the client buy Essentials (and have worries about needing a domain).

We purchased Essentials and have loaded it. We had the expectation that we would need to setup a domain and just not use it. When it didn't force us into creating a domain this question came up.

@DustinB3403 said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@CCWTech said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@IRJ said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@CCWTech said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@IRJ said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@CCWTech said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@IRJ said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

Why not just use Linux at this point? If you aren't using AD and don't want any additional overheard. Then just use Linux

They have a Windows based application that runs on the server. Linux isn't an option.

Why not segregate duties virtually then? Have file shares on Linux and have your app run on Windows?

That wouldn't work for this program. Windows is a requirement for this case.

I hear companies say that alot, but they dont always have a valid reason. SMB is SMB.

Fine but the question is about Windows 2019 as to if you have to promote it to a DC

From what I can find here and in the Work Remotely section there is no requirement for a domain.

That's what I was thinking but wanted to verify in case I was missing something.