@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Working on some audio editing before teaching a saxophone lesson.

You mean a sexiphone lesson. Anyone who can play an instrument (and is of age) has sex appeal!

@dashrender said in Removing Windows Installed Packages with Powershell:

@dustinb3403

Sure, but to Gene's point - you're not going to be installing crapware with Chocolatey - but the MS Store pre-loads your machine with a shit ton, and really, the only way to get rid of if all is using PowerShell.

I love the first post for info sake itself... I just don't see the need to mention Choco in the same thread - it serves an entirely different purpose - not to mention the fact that it isn't even loaded by default, so if it's there - YOU know it's there.

And again, you know how to install and uninstall applications with Chocolatey.

But you may not know (or want to know how to learn to use Microsoft's App Store) and maybe you prefer to use a shell to remove applications from add and remove.

While you know what you've installed with Choco, doesn't mean you know how to remove programs like in the OP which, again installed during the evening hours without me having installed it.

@gjacobse said in Removing Windows Installed Packages with Powershell:

@dustinb3403 said in Removing Windows Installed Packages with Powershell:

@dashrender Except the two are completely unrelated and you can't uninstall an app that was installed with Chocolatey with the original post.

Hence the second post helping to make that distinction.

Please don't take this the wrong way - I think you walked into this one. From your initial post / statement I would never have put Bloat in with Chocolatey. Chocolatey is completely separate and unrelated to Bloat.

While I'm curious to see what MS Crapware it'll remove, But I install / Uninstall Chocolatey with Chocolatey...

Sorry - I don't intend to 'join' the wagon and begin the hashing out of things... just a thought.

I'm not offended at all, what I don't see is how @Dashrender and @travisdh1 don't see what I'm specifically addressing here, with the original post.

This is different ways to manage different package management tools on Windows. The Windows App Store, the classic Add and Remove (Appwiz.cpl) and then of course Chocolatey.

If you attempt to remove an application that was installed with Chocolatey with the OP's top method, the application won't be removed. Hence me calling it out.

Edit: Or attempt to remove an AppWiz.cpl application with the Top OP method that won't work either.

Each of the two solutions are for different package management systems within the Windows environment.

@dashrender Except the two are completely unrelated and you can't uninstall an app that was installed with Chocolatey with the original post.

Hence the second post helping to make that distinction.

@beta said in RAID 6 in my backup VM host on spinning rust?:

@scottalanmiller said

It's always array size, never drive size, that matters primarily.

Just so I make sure I understand, array size meaning total TB or total number of disks?

Total capacity.

Of course with Chocolatey installation of and removal of applications is much easier, and applications installed through Chocolatey do not apply to the above.

Since it's a customer Package Manager that doesn't tie in with the above processes.

From time to time you'll want to remove an application from your system (say from the Windows App Store) that has appeared on your system without you knowing why, when or how.

You could of course use the Microsoft App store to do this, but who wants to open that nightmare....

Here's how you can find and remove an application (package) from Windows using PowerShell.

$Bloat = Read-Host -Prompt "Supply at least a partial name of the app to remove"
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Where-Object {$_.name -Like "*$Bloat*"} | Select Name, InstallLocation 
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Where-Object {$_.name -Like "*$Bloat*"} | Remove-AppxPackage

In my case I wanted to remove some new HP Application called JumpStarts which installed over the evening hours.

Using the above, you'll be prompted for the App name (title bar) or some portion of it so you can search for it, and then PowerShell will remove the application.

This will remove things that don't appear in Add and Remove Programs (Appwiz.cpl).

If you want to uninstall applications that are in Add and Remove Programs you can use this (I haven't refined it as much yet as I was just getting it sorted out)

$SEARCH = 'Advanced IP Scanner 2.5'
$RESULT =$INSTALLED | ?{ $_.DisplayName -ne $null } | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -match $search } 
$RESULT

if ($RESULT.uninstallstring -like "msiexec*") {
$ARGS=(($RESULT.UninstallString -split ' ')[1] -replace '/I','/X ') + ' /q'
Start-Process msiexec.exe -ArgumentList $ARGS -Wait
} else {
Start-Process $RESULT.UninstallString -Wait
}

@scottalanmiller said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

@jaredbusch said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

And the pile on officially begins.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/09/csam-scan-encrypted-messages/

Now we know how bad it is if the UK is supporting it! The ultimate surveillance state.

China is way worse...

@iroal said in Booking dining room O365.:

@dustinb3403 said in Booking dining room O365.:

@iroal said in Booking dining room O365.:

Due to Covid, we have limited access in the office dining room.

The dining room allows 10 people simultaneously.

My idea is to create a room, or resource, in O365, that allows an occupancy of 10 people, but that can be reserved by 10 different employees. I don't want an employee to be able to reserve all 10 seats in the room.

O365 or Outlook allow this?

Thanks.

That's not really how resource scheduling works, you be better off having 10 individual resources which can be booked simultaneously, rather than 1 large resource.

So, have I to create 10 resources?

I'd like to create just 1 resource with a capacity of 10 people.

I don´t want create 10 resources because in Outlook is not simple to see which resources are free.

But a single entity can book that 10 person resource for themselves then... Leaving 9 vacant spots

@pmoncho said in I can't even:

UGH, so tired of reading posts (on other boards) where multiple people reply with the same answer, sometimes a day or more later, without adding any additional info than previous posters!!

To top it off, there are only a handful of replies, so it is not hard to read the entire damn thread!!

@travisdh1 Yup... I was shocked up much space was chewed up by the logs..

I was especially irked because it was midnight that I was called about this issue and had to fix it (granted 10 seconds but still).

Fixing more FFS items. No one ever setup Exchange IIS Log rotation so a client server backpressure last night causing mail flow to stop.

I addressed the immediate issue with PowerShell, having cleared ~40GB worth of logs....

This morning I finished setting up a scheduled task to manage this on a go-forward basis.

@dbeato said in Sophos SSL VPN Client on Windows:

The old one you have to go where the application install and remove the config file you don't want
\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos SSL VPN Client\config

That's the answer!

Thanks

@pete-s said in Remote control with buttons?:

@dustinb3403 said in Remote control with buttons?:

The end goal is to use it as a mouse? Do the buttons need to be programable?

No, no mouse function needed. The end goal is to use it to trigger macros.

So ideally programmable buttons or if the remote generates keys that can be picked up by another software.

I'd honestly look at a programmable compact mouse for this..

I've not seen any decent devices for this type of use before (that weren't ultimately mice)

The end goal is to use it as a mouse? Do the buttons need to be programable?

So this is an annoyance that I've not been able to figure out. We have a few customers that use Sophos firewalls and the SSL VPN with it.

What I can't figure out is how the heck can I remove a connection from the Windows application if it's no longer required.

Anyone have any input on this?

@beta said in RAID 6 in my backup VM host on spinning rust?:

@pete-s How much are two 3.84TB enterprise SSDs going to cost me again?

Many people likely wouldn't spend on the enterprise SSD drives, unless you needed verified compatibility.

As we don't know what the hardware is, you could likely use generic Datacenter SSDs from Samsung etc and get a ballpark price.

@beta Is it really that close of a margin that you think you need to shift to RAID6 for capacity reasons?

I would think the performance drop might be a larger concern, but being that this isn't your primary backup though I also would consider using RAID6 to have additional room to grow (if required).

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy

Swiss courts compelled it to log and disclose a user's IP and browser fingerprint.
This weekend, news broke that security/privacy-focused anonymous email service ProtonMail turned over a French climate activist's IP address and browser fingerprint to Swiss authorities. This move seemingly ran counter to the well-known service's policies, which as recently as last week stated that "by default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account." After providing the activist's metadata to Swiss authorities, ProtonMail removed the section that had promised no IP logs, replacing it with one saying, "ProtonMail is email that respects privacy and puts people (not advertisers) first."

I guess I can't really blame them as I'm sure they have to keep something for some duration, even a microsecond.... Which is likely how the lawyers forced this..

Just kind of disappointing

And by Overlap I mean "customer A and Customer Y both have Server HL DL 380 Gen9" would be the simple things that would be okay to have presented in a landing page.