Huh - MS finally made a single ISO solution - FINALLY!!!

I had a similar problem with a Lenovo laptop (again purchased before SuperFish). The user finally agreed to have me send it for service, no issues reported since then. It clearly had a hardware problem as I rebuild the OS at least twice before sending in for service.

Samsung is definitely not the company that it used to be. I don't see it turning around for a long time yet.

@coliver said in EU scheduling legislation for AI laws:

@scottalanmiller said in EU scheduling legislation for AI laws:

@DustinB3403 said in EU scheduling legislation for AI laws:

@Dashrender The pyramid power platform would disappear rather quickly as everything becomes automated.

No further need to have "leaders" etc.

That's not true at all. AI can automate production to an extreme degree, but it isn't likely to have any useful place in automating leadership.

I'm not sure it will replace it but I think it could go a long way to informing it. Using some of the same techniques we use for big data analytics could be a boon for informed leadership.

That's a totally different concept, though, not related to what we are discussing here and is something that they've had for a very, very long time already.

@IRJ said in Take it or Fight It?:

Start looking for a new job immediately. You are 5 months pregnant not 8.5 months. So I wouldn't say that employers wouldn't hire you. I am sure you will probably get discriminated against since you are pregnant, but I don't believe that is going to be the case with every employer. Some may actually feel for your situation (certainly women and probably some men).

And it is illegal for the potential employer to even record that information or pass it along.

Boy I remember when I came to the understanding that MS really wanted you to build completely separate GPs for users vs devices...

@Dashrender said in Microsoft Outage affected Federated Domains:

@DustinB3403 said in Microsoft Outage affected Federated Domains:

So the way ADFS works (here) is that when a client attempts to access say, email, they hit microsoft, which forwards the request to our exchange server to confirm the user details, and then our server redirects the request back to microsoft to access email.

This is a long handshake. Just have autodiscover setup and configured that Microsoft is syncing our details from exchange, and allowing people to authenticate against what microsoft has for email is way "cleaner".

And way less of a headache (like the past 4 days)

I suppose I see what you're saying AD sync can give you this. So what other features of ADFS is @coliver getting that AD sync doesn't provide?

I honestly have no clue what features are included. I haven't done anything (besides the work over these past 4 days) to try and find what was broke.

I'm not an exchange guy.

@scottalanmiller said in O365 and Outlook - Trying to Connect:

@DustinB3403 said in O365 and Outlook - Trying to Connect:

Day 4 and and Autodiscover is still broken. Microsoft should be calling me any minute.

Did they?

Ha.. yes they did and there were additional configuration changes made so that users are authentication against out on premise server, but the cached records that O365 collects.

And there is a new issue that I've been dealing with for a few days (4) were we apparently can't sync users / password / dl changes etc.

Even though the sync says everything is functional.

@scottalanmiller said in Everyone is not a "Security Group":

@DustinB3403 said in Everyone is not a "Security Group":

@scottalanmiller said in Everyone is not a "Security Group":

@DustinB3403 said in Everyone is not a "Security Group":

My argument was in regards to the people I work around and their broken mindset of "everyone needs access" or "just add the everyone group".

My OP I thought was very clear in that I was ranting a bit. But ok...

Well, in those cases, who should be blocked from access, do you feel?

By default I would say "not everyone".

Allow even an existing security group. But the "everyone" security group is not providing any security.

Might as well allow anonymous access.

Everyone does mean anonymous. This might just be a language thing. Someone outside of IT should not be aware of the "everyone" group. If they are saying "everyone" they should not be meaning that group, they probably just mean "Domain Users."

Everyone does not include anonymous. It is just about everything up to that point including guest and service accounts: https://blog.varonis.com/the-difference-between-everyone-and-authenticated-users/.

Server 2012 (maybe R2?) added the ability to have a backup/failover DHCP server in the Windows world.

But this is a waste of time.

Make a backup of your DHCP server config manually if you are worried about the VM hosting the service going south but not being restored.

@DustinB3403 said in Ethernet based teleconference - room speakers - projector etc:

Do you have roaming profiles?

Nope - but I do have redirected folders for My Documents and favorites (IE only).

Roaming profiles have caused me nothing but headaches in the past, I avoid them if at all possible.

One more reason we really need Self Driving cars!!!!

A Network+ could make sense.

Yeah I just tried and am at able to sign into my steam account.

Testing a few games now.

You can try logging as that user in Safe Mode.

@Danp a distro upgrade would likely be the easier approach. I'm performing this now on my system.

(first day back to work in 11-days!)

Stealing from his Julian's psot

xoadmin@xo-test-debian-3:~$ ls -la /run/xo-server/mounts/remote-17/vm_delta_Critical\ VMs_7f24a44e-0810-1041-e531-3670b1b5460c/ ? ls: cannot access ?: No such file or directory /run/xo-server/mounts/remote-17/vm_delta_Critical VMs_7f24a44e-0810-1041-e531-3670b1b5460c/: total 140 drwxrwxrwx 1 1024 users 514 Dec 20 08:50 . drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1294 Dec 5 15:19 .. -rwxrwxrwx 1 1024 users 17202 Dec 14 23:08 20161215T040737Z_Asset-S23.json -rwxrwxrwx 1 1024 users 17202 Dec 15 23:08 20161216T040804Z_Asset-S23.json -rwxrwxrwx 1 1024 users 17202 Dec 16 23:05 20161217T040508Z_Asset-S23.json -rwxrwxrwx 1 1024 users 17202 Dec 17 23:05 20161218T040520Z_Asset-S23.json -rwxrwxrwx 1 1024 users 17202 Dec 18 23:05 20161219T040502Z_Asset-S23.json -rwxrwxrwx 1 1024 users 17202 Dec 19 23:15 20161220T041454Z_Asset-S23.json -rwxrwxrwx 1 1024 users 17202 Dec 20 08:44 20161220T134417Z_Asset-S23.json drwxrwxrwx 1 1024 users 782 Dec 20 08:50 vdi_837e3436-8808-4c54-bb66-8668a1683300

I'm currently running an evaluation against a relatively inactive share to see what we could save.

Only at 17% complete as of now.

Doh!

@Dashrender said in Ways to describe location bandwidth requirements:

@DustinB3403 said in Ways to describe location bandwidth requirements:

@scottalanmiller said in Ways to describe location bandwidth requirements:

@DustinB3403 said in Ways to describe location bandwidth requirements:

@Dashrender said in Ways to describe location bandwidth requirements:

I think you might have failed long before you come to this point.

Why not back this whole thing up.

On your website that talks about your services, have a button that says - test my connection to make sure this service will work for you. have you web team install their own speed test - thing - and you can do a test directly from your own system to make sure they won't have any issues because they even look any further.

The issue with this is that we could potentially loose clients without even knowing about them. And we can still provide our service, just a less bandwidth intense variety of it.

Maybe just detect the speed and adapt accordingly.

Our system does this already, and the result is an unacceptable live product. There are other solutions, but others put the cart before the horse here and bought expensive software and are determined to "make it work".

LOL - sunk cost fallacy

Yes it really is... I had a solid solution, explained why, and for 1 minuscule reason it was veto'd. Yet it offers us the best option, without the need to worry about the clients internet bandwidth....

so... just ask "how fast is your internet?"