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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Donahue said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I just got my new host from xByte.

Specs for all us hardware nerds?

R740XD
Single Gold 6130
384GB Ram
H740P
(5) 3.84TB PM1633a's in Raid 6
(2) Intel X710 10GB cards with 2 SFP+ ports each
plus the normal Dell stuff.

@scottalanmiller for the sake of this thread, the link shows both ERL and ERPro

Someone apparently turned off the breaker to the ONT at one of my locations. No one thought to turn the breaker back on until the batteries died in the ONT and the phones and internet stopped working. It was down 3 hours, and no one seemed to care, even though some people were without power in their office that whole time.

There are only 10k 4 digit pin combo's anyways. It's never been a very secure mechanism, and without some sort of lockout for too many bad guesses, it's trivial to break any pin.

I was experiencing some weird time sync issues. I tracked it down, and apparently we never had any external NTP source setup for the PDCe to use. Hopefully that is now fixed and the issues will go away.

what I know for sure:

1. An encrypted version of the SA password is stored on a .ini file that must be able to be read by client applications, which means that any user can at least see the file and open it, since the client application runs under the windows user account.
2. The SQL instance name is in the same ini file. I dont know if this hurts the situation or is non issue.
3. All the changes that are made within the application record the application user for auditing, but that field remains blank if I edit the database directly. Any malicious activity would have no way of tracing who did it, because it would only show the SA account.
4. There is an application on the database server, but I suspect that it is just the master copy of the client application, and not doing any real work.
5. I've just confirmed that the ODBC connection is not encrypted currently. I would assume this means that the queries and results from queries are sent in plain text over the wire?
6. We don't store any customer related PII other than things like phone numbers and email addresses, but we do have HR records that have some information for employees.

We homeschool a few of our kids. I know that as far as school goes, I am way more interested in developing my children's character than in teaching them facts from a book. In the day of information being literally right at your fingertips with google, the facts become just facts. I spend my effort teaching them to be good people, and also teaching them things like reasoning and logic, and the skills needed to figure something out. Personally, if I want to know some facts, I can just look them up quickly. Knowing how to apply them correctly to life is the real skill that should be focused on.

Well, I got approval today to start with 4 or 5 at one of our locations.

I just started a 6+TB VM move from one of my locations to another across the wan. Oh, and converting from vmware to hyper-v while I was at it. Let's hope it all goes well.

I recently setup my new host and one of my old ones on Hyper-V 2019. The old host got a new (2) 10GB NIC and the new host has (4) 10GB ports. In my efforts to get the hosts working and all my VM's converted over, I neglected to setup teaming on the host. Now that most of my VM's are converted, I attempted to make a team on the old host with (2) ports, but I did not use the method that most of the posts on ML use. I created a new vswitch with both ports as members using WAC, but I am not sure if this is the same as what I see in other posts. In WAC, I am able to set it to dynamic for the load balancing algorithm (the only other choice is Hyper-V port), but there is no place to say if it is switch independent or dependent. Also, if I look under NIC teaming in server management, it shows up as a vEthernet at 20gbps, but does not have any other information about algorithm or mode. I am wondering if I should break this back apart and do it from server management (which does have all the options). Also, I have read @JaredBusch's comments on generally using switch independent mode because of it's ease, but since my switch (edgeswitch XG) does support LACP, it seems like it would be beneficial to set it up to help balance incoming traffic as well.

@scottalanmiller can we make this your avatar?

So basically, this is a solution for the question I had a few days ago? https://mangolassi.it/topic/18436/remote-viewing-software

I’ve been building a bedroom for my boys, converting the back half of my garage. I’m about to start the drywall taping.

I just think of another end point, when I hear you MSP guys talk about jump boxes, something inside the LAN, like any other end point.

Just wrapping it all up. It’s a tradition to wait until the last possible moment and then spend the morning half asleep.

I just got approval to switch to o365

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Another site with way to much space used.
Turns out - its the temp folder in Windows - 412 GB on a 500 Gb hard drive
Holy Shit

Now google said can delete all of it, but is that safe to extra sure

I do this on a regular basis. Anything in that folder that windows still needs, it wont let you delete anyways. Just select all and skip the ones at the end that it can't delete.

There must have been a windows update that changed this behavior a few years ago. When W7 first came out, I don't remember having to do this ever. Now I do it probably once a week or so to somebody's workstation, both W7 and W10. But that folder will completely fill the hard drive if allowed to, and nothing ever seems to clean it out automatically.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/daily-afternoon-randomness-49-photos-25-41.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600

The predecessor to too many tabs open

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Cursing a former MSP. This AD we inherited has no security groups, just user permissions set for everything. It hurts us.

I've regretted every single time I have done that for a user because I was being too lazy to create a group for one person. I've learned my lesson.