@scottalanmiller said in Does a script imply Automation?:

@gjacobse said in Does a script imply Automation?:

Simply thus

Does a script imply automation?

No. Automation means doing a task for you. A script doesn't necessarily do anything for you.

I disagree here, in that a script written to replace the human process is automating the humans work flow. Just because the human kicks that process off doesn't mean that something hasn't been automated.

As @Pete-S said there are different levels of automation to consider...

@dashrender said in script to download and extract MicroSip portable:

@dustinb3403 said in script to download and extract MicroSip portable:

@dashrender why not pick up maintenance of the chocolatey package and save* yourself some effort?

https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/microsip#virus

It's not being maintained for one.

And installing it in an admin PS doesn't install it for the desired user. So it does me no good. A non admin user can't use it - because MicroSIP saves it's data in a protected area when installed from Choco.

I don't think you understood what I was saying, why don't you become the maintenaner of the choco package.

Two birds one stone. As for the installation option are you saying you can't install programs without admin rights?

@dashrender why not pick up maintenance of the chocolatey package and save* yourself some effort?

https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/microsip#virus

Cursing out Verizon for not opening until 10AM... what the crap sort of hours is that..

@gjacobse said in I can't even:

All - Staff
\ This group
\ that group
\ New group
=user 1
=user 2
=*user 3

So - uhm, yea,.. we have this group that is a member of a group, but has disabled users in it....
Yup - seems perfectly normal... OmFG!

Meaning - lets not remove disabled users from groups and just leave them 'laying' around ADUC

/Sarcasm Once they're disabled they can never get reenabled so what's the issue?

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

/rant

IT department from a restaurant I support called in this morning - They are moving everything to their domain - YAY right?
no. It's horrible -
Anyway - we get all terms on the domain and I think everything is working.
except theres a terminal that wont load the POS - it's a known error so I run the fixes that I know - still nothing.
It's been 3 hours that I've been working on this.
Also - the guy at the site I'm working with says and I quote ;
"Im gonna call it a day, it's 3:50 and I get off in 10 minutes. So you can do what ever you want, but call me in the morning and we can try some more stuff."
after that I didn't hear from him again, while I'm still trying different fixes and talking it through with people I work with, right? But the domain is so locked out (good for security not for little guy me over here trying to fix a terminal) I can't do anything at all - they were providing credentials for me to do the things i want.

So these guys just break shit and go home? Love it. then leave me stranded with no credentials - never told us ahead of time so I had to figure a bunch of shit out on the fly today and we're so backed up on calls, I'm still making them after hours - luckily im the on call guy.

Happy 4th monday of the week.

/end rant

Hey, if his boss doesn't allow OT, and the restaurant isn't paying for after hours support - he should leave.

No I get that - but they do pay for after hours support through their maintenance contract.

Likely to the company and not the employee...

System sold with an S100i, but we're using the motherboard to do "hardware raid"... um what...

It's software raid through the motherboard, which is fakeraid.

If the board has any issues, the array is toast....

Taking from a previous post I made about a certain piece of equipment, I've just learned that the equipment must run Windows 7... because of course it does for legacy hardware.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@iroal said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Recovering a file from a Backup of 2014, the backup are in 6 Lto-3 tapes.

Recovering a file from seven years ago? Wow -

This seems completely normal to me, maybe the laws of retainment are more strict in NY, but I want to say that 7 years is the minimum that records need to be kept.

@gjacobse said in I can't even:

Oh for FFS -

An alert has been fired on local host DOMAIN\COMPUTER regarding user myuser. A suspicious powershell script has been found in C:\Users\myuser\Desktop\Teams_ODfB.ps1.
Please let us know if this is legitimate.

This is the script

 Start-Process -File "$($env:USERProfile)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\Update.exe" -ArgumentList '--processStart "Teams.exe"'
 Start-Process -FilePath "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe" -ArgumentList "/background"

Which only starts Teams and ODfB.... Like.. JFC -

Hey we don't know what it does we're just script kiddies out here, tell us if this is kosher, thanks!

@dashrender said in Apple Update and Citrix - issue?:

yep... here it is

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX329443?fr=operanews

Seems like an issue caused by BigSur.

@dashrender said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

@jaredbusch said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

@syko24 said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

@jaredbusch said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

@dashrender said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

I found them on Twitter their service provider is being attacked right now. It appears that they only have one DNS host. Sigh

They posted the IP of the servers for you to change things.
https://twitter.com/voipms/status/1438543881491132424

Some clients the direct IP is working sporadically and others it's a no go.

Zero issues once switched.

We’ll my out calls seem to work but I’m do not

What? "but I’m do not"

Really....

@dbeato yeah which I had none of that information nor do I know if email delivery was setup.

@dashrender said in I can't even:

@dustinb3403 said in I can't even:

@dashrender said in I can't even:

@dustinb3403 said in I can't even:

@voip_n00b said in I can't even:

@dustinb3403 I blocked port 80. Give me 443 or nothing.

And how are you blocking that while you're mobile? I can understand from a location you have control over, but roaming seems to be a challenge and doesn't fix the issue.

Assuming there's a firewall available for your mobile device, you could conceivably do it.

Conceivability verse practicality is what I'm wondering about, could someone setup a firewall to use for their cellphone etc, sure but would you really want to?

Of course not - who wants to manage that?

but the same can be said for boycotting those that don't use HTTPS - if you care enough, you're potentially already doing it - if you don't, well you never will.

I will not be purchasing smithfield products if they can't provide the lowest level of security across their sites, that is a go forward rule for me.

Do you know all of the products/vendors you use and can confirm that their sites are secured and would you do such a thing?

@dashrender said in I can't even:

@dustinb3403 said in I can't even:

@voip_n00b said in I can't even:

@dustinb3403 I blocked port 80. Give me 443 or nothing.

And how are you blocking that while you're mobile? I can understand from a location you have control over, but roaming seems to be a challenge and doesn't fix the issue.

Assuming there's a firewall available for your mobile device, you could conceivably do it.

Conceivability verse practicality is what I'm wondering about, could someone setup a firewall to use for their cellphone etc, sure but would you really want to?

@voip_n00b said in I can't even:

@dustinb3403 I blocked port 80. Give me 443 or nothing.

And how are you blocking that while you're mobile? I can understand from a location you have control over, but roaming seems to be a challenge and doesn't fix the issue.

Actually I may have found the credentials, buried....

God I hate other people who don't use any logic...

Does anyone know of a way to reset the administrative password within SEPM 2018, I've checked for a password reset utility and there is none.

I'd rather not have to perform a complete wipe and reload of AV to just log in and get the license details.

@danp said in Backup Solution for XenServer:

@dave247 said in Backup Solution for XenServer:

Veeam Backup and Replication

I wasn't aware that this product worked with Xenserver / XCP-ng.

It only works within the guests not at the hypervisor.