@dbeato said in Protek Support MSP Ransomware Hits Customers in Salt Lake City, Utah:
I think that if it was VPN, still bad practice to have VPN from MSP or any other systems that unprotected. MSPs should not need to have VPN to customers at all.
And vendors wonder why I won’t let them VPN into my network.... ha
Last week was fantastic!
Drove to Greeley, CO - ok that was boring.
Drove to Moab - visited Arches National Park - drove a 4x4 trail - my friend nearly freaked out.. It was awesome!
Drove to Zion National park - walked The Narrows! - man, can't wait to go back.
Drove to Las Vegas - at at Gordan Ramsey's Steak - had the tasting menu - the Beef Wellington was meh at best, the rest was fantastic!!!
Drove to Hoover Dam took some dam pictures
Drove to Grand Canyon Skywalk - paid for the skywalk - was a let down!!! visit other viewing point in that area - SO MUCH BETTER than the over priced, no pictures allowed skywalk...
Drove to AZ south rim Grand Canyon - hiked the 3 mile trail, very scenic!
Visited Bedrock - Fred Flinstone's home town and watched a raptor show - and got to hold the raptor (on a a glove of course).
Drove to Four Corners - it was exactly what I expected - a plaque marking where the four states meet, took a picture and continued on...
Drove back to Greeley, CO -
and lastly,
Drove home.
58 hours in the car, 3200 miles, 5 states, 3 National Parks, a million pictures - great time!
As some might recall, I ran into Wiztree a month ago. I asked the author to look into adding it to Chocolatey.
And he did.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/wiztree/3.17
It's been a good year for Dashrender - down 40 Lbs since January!
Brought my mile time from 8:29 to 6:47.
Only bad thing - good cholesterol is a bit low (but bad cholesterol is in the good range). Doc suggested I drink Red Wine to improve the good Cholesterol.
Just read about this free book on that other site, thought i would share a link to it here.
I was restoring some files from our backups when I ran across this.
These files have been sitting there for a month plus. Unbelievably it appears that non of my other network shares were affected by this.
OMG - I think we some how dodged this bullet.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco speakers in a couch! Not seen that before. My Mum has lights and usb chargers in hers. I thought that was top notch, but speakers go one step further.
Take it one more step - audio plug in! there are times I would love to have headset on while watching tv...
Most TV systems that I've had for the last ten years have the headphone jack either on the remote control or they have bluetooth built in for that. Can't remember a TV that I've had that didn't let me sit on the couch with remote headphones.
Roku, Fire and similar have long had jacks on the remotes. Apple and similar have long used BT.
Yeah I have that in ChromeCast with Google TV and I think I played with it once with Roku or Fire - but never tried with the TV.
To me the TV is just a monitor, nothing more. - ok that's not strictly true anymore, I have a TV in a spare bedroom and I do use the built in speakers, but I don't use it's tuning ability at all - ChromeCast with Google TV is my current preferred solution.
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco speakers in a couch! Not seen that before. My Mum has lights and usb chargers in hers. I thought that was top notch, but speakers go one step further.
Take it one more step - audio plug in! there are times I would love to have headset on while watching tv...
@scottalanmiller said in Local Storage vs SAN ...:
I'm going to make a video just for this thread BUT, watch this video first while I'm making it...
LOL - nice!
@Obsolesce said in User migration to azure:
The alternative to signing into the web browser to sync is so much worse, even in the off chance you chose to use 4 web browsers at the same time, and sign into them all with your work account to sync. Any other method is going to end up costing way more effort in the end anyways.
No real arguement from me there. But it's still 3 (IE is dead and as far as I know never had sync) accounts, one for each browser.
I use three browsers - I personally use FF, I have to use Chrome/Edge for our EMR - it refuses FF, and I use Chrome and Edge because I have need for multiple sessions in the EMR as different users... now I could do profiles in Chrome for that - but that's like making multiple accounts in Chrome.. so - meh.
@Obsolesce said in User migration to azure:
@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:
@Obsolesce said in User migration to azure:
@pmoncho said in User migration to azure:
@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:
@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:
@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:
@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:
@lilyleiden said in User migration to azure:
We just tested migrating a small batch of test users to our new Azure tenant.
While migrating the PC/user account was no problem, the fact that people get a completely blank user profile, certainly was a showstopper!!
Many of our users has had their AD profile for years, even a decade and has a lot of individual settings, ways to work, shortcuts, quick links, favorites/browser cached passwords etc. and they loose all that.
Management has currently halted the process due to the protests.So I am on the lookout for a way to link/migrate the old profile/profile settings, when Azure joining the PC?
I would use this as an opportunity to remove unneeded customizations and old ways of doing things and introduce new ways of working instead.
For instance is it really wise to rely on browser cached passwords? To me that's a signal that you need to look over you password management policy. Maybe your users need a real password manager or setup SSO to apps they're using.
I'm really on board with this! We don't migrate when people get new machines, that said - we have few users that do much customization to their setup...
Yes and it's also question of setting the right expectations. For instance saying: IT allows users to customize their desktops but will not provide support for it. New machines, reimaged desktops etc will be reset to company default.
I do this - I don't support end user shortcuts to their desktop. If you figure out how to get it - or get others around you to do it for you, fine... but IT does not support your shortcuts.
Wondering what others do for users bookmarks? Do you just have them create and use their own Google/Firefox/Microsoft account so they follow the user?
They can sign in and use their corporate email to sync in the web browser.
huh - a PITA making users make three separate accounts (one for each browser) based on their corporate account... but doable.
Three separate accounts for what? I only use one web browser for work, and only one work account, and have all my work bookmarks on that, and synced. Why would someone do all that on multiple browsers?
because = users.
@scottalanmiller said in User migration to azure:
@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:
@Obsolesce said in User migration to azure:
@pmoncho said in User migration to azure:
@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:
@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:
@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:
@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:
@lilyleiden said in User migration to azure:
We just tested migrating a small batch of test users to our new Azure tenant.
While migrating the PC/user account was no problem, the fact that people get a completely blank user profile, certainly was a showstopper!!
Many of our users has had their AD profile for years, even a decade and has a lot of individual settings, ways to work, shortcuts, quick links, favorites/browser cached passwords etc. and they loose all that.
Management has currently halted the process due to the protests.So I am on the lookout for a way to link/migrate the old profile/profile settings, when Azure joining the PC?
I would use this as an opportunity to remove unneeded customizations and old ways of doing things and introduce new ways of working instead.
For instance is it really wise to rely on browser cached passwords? To me that's a signal that you need to look over you password management policy. Maybe your users need a real password manager or setup SSO to apps they're using.
I'm really on board with this! We don't migrate when people get new machines, that said - we have few users that do much customization to their setup...
Yes and it's also question of setting the right expectations. For instance saying: IT allows users to customize their desktops but will not provide support for it. New machines, reimaged desktops etc will be reset to company default.
I do this - I don't support end user shortcuts to their desktop. If you figure out how to get it - or get others around you to do it for you, fine... but IT does not support your shortcuts.
Wondering what others do for users bookmarks? Do you just have them create and use their own Google/Firefox/Microsoft account so they follow the user?
They can sign in and use their corporate email to sync in the web browser.
huh - a PITA making users make three separate accounts (one for each browser) based on their corporate account... but doable.
Or use browser profiles.
what? How does that setup syncing?
Wow - that stinks.
do you have access to the config of the ZTE?
@Obsolesce said in User migration to azure:
@pmoncho said in User migration to azure:
@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:
@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:
@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:
@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:
@lilyleiden said in User migration to azure:
We just tested migrating a small batch of test users to our new Azure tenant.
While migrating the PC/user account was no problem, the fact that people get a completely blank user profile, certainly was a showstopper!!
Many of our users has had their AD profile for years, even a decade and has a lot of individual settings, ways to work, shortcuts, quick links, favorites/browser cached passwords etc. and they loose all that.
Management has currently halted the process due to the protests.So I am on the lookout for a way to link/migrate the old profile/profile settings, when Azure joining the PC?
I would use this as an opportunity to remove unneeded customizations and old ways of doing things and introduce new ways of working instead.
For instance is it really wise to rely on browser cached passwords? To me that's a signal that you need to look over you password management policy. Maybe your users need a real password manager or setup SSO to apps they're using.
I'm really on board with this! We don't migrate when people get new machines, that said - we have few users that do much customization to their setup...
Yes and it's also question of setting the right expectations. For instance saying: IT allows users to customize their desktops but will not provide support for it. New machines, reimaged desktops etc will be reset to company default.
I do this - I don't support end user shortcuts to their desktop. If you figure out how to get it - or get others around you to do it for you, fine... but IT does not support your shortcuts.
Wondering what others do for users bookmarks? Do you just have them create and use their own Google/Firefox/Microsoft account so they follow the user?
They can sign in and use their corporate email to sync in the web browser.
huh - a PITA making users make three separate accounts (one for each browser) based on their corporate account... but doable.
@pmoncho said in User migration to azure:
@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:
@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:
@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:
@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:
@lilyleiden said in User migration to azure:
We just tested migrating a small batch of test users to our new Azure tenant.
While migrating the PC/user account was no problem, the fact that people get a completely blank user profile, certainly was a showstopper!!
Many of our users has had their AD profile for years, even a decade and has a lot of individual settings, ways to work, shortcuts, quick links, favorites/browser cached passwords etc. and they loose all that.
Management has currently halted the process due to the protests.So I am on the lookout for a way to link/migrate the old profile/profile settings, when Azure joining the PC?
I would use this as an opportunity to remove unneeded customizations and old ways of doing things and introduce new ways of working instead.
For instance is it really wise to rely on browser cached passwords? To me that's a signal that you need to look over you password management policy. Maybe your users need a real password manager or setup SSO to apps they're using.
I'm really on board with this! We don't migrate when people get new machines, that said - we have few users that do much customization to their setup...
Yes and it's also question of setting the right expectations. For instance saying: IT allows users to customize their desktops but will not provide support for it. New machines, reimaged desktops etc will be reset to company default.
I do this - I don't support end user shortcuts to their desktop. If you figure out how to get it - or get others around you to do it for you, fine... but IT does not support your shortcuts.
Wondering what others do for users bookmarks? Do you just have them create and use their own Google/Firefox/Microsoft account so they follow the user?
I try to be nice to my users and backup those things - I tell them to move their desktop items somewhere else (I never redirect the desktop - that causes so many issues).
@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:
@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:
@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:
@lilyleiden said in User migration to azure:
We just tested migrating a small batch of test users to our new Azure tenant.
While migrating the PC/user account was no problem, the fact that people get a completely blank user profile, certainly was a showstopper!!
Many of our users has had their AD profile for years, even a decade and has a lot of individual settings, ways to work, shortcuts, quick links, favorites/browser cached passwords etc. and they loose all that.
Management has currently halted the process due to the protests.So I am on the lookout for a way to link/migrate the old profile/profile settings, when Azure joining the PC?
I would use this as an opportunity to remove unneeded customizations and old ways of doing things and introduce new ways of working instead.
For instance is it really wise to rely on browser cached passwords? To me that's a signal that you need to look over you password management policy. Maybe your users need a real password manager or setup SSO to apps they're using.
I'm really on board with this! We don't migrate when people get new machines, that said - we have few users that do much customization to their setup...
Yes and it's also question of setting the right expectations. For instance saying: IT allows users to customize their desktops but will not provide support for it. New machines, reimaged desktops etc will be reset to company default.
I do this - I don't support end user shortcuts to their desktop. If you figure out how to get it - or get others around you to do it for you, fine... but IT does not support your shortcuts.
