Working on Windows DNS management PowerShell scripts.

First troubleshooting step for autodiscovery is make 100% sure DNS records are correct.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Looking up past ML posts for config examples

of LVM?

No. Some firewall configs. Redid my home network today.

Sounds like a thread topic to me...

Plan on making a YouTube video about it

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Looking up past ML posts for config examples

of LVM?

No. Some firewall configs. Redid my home network today.

Looking up past ML posts for config examples

Reading about DNSSEC while waiting for my girlfriend to get her second COVID shot.

@gjacobse said in AD/AAD: Display Name for Professionals:

Might be more of a survey then anything.

But would it be proper to add the DR. to the display name in AD / AAD for a user?

Unless requested, I wouldn't.

Let's say you script the creation of your AD users, and you create displayname from combining givenname and surname. Would you make their first name "Dr. Foo" or the like? Not necessarily a problem to do that, but just something to think through.

Thinking through some home lab stuff I want to do and trying to organize the tasks.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Oh the joy of re-installing software... by copying over the directory. Mainly because the Installer / Updater is janky a F. But,.. 'Just copy to desktop, then copy to c:\program files \ program.

Like dude... Ever heard of RoboCopy?? Jeez.. Oh - and if you would allow certain scripts to run then I could run the damn script on my desktop and it would dump it to the specified computer. (But is that the RIGHT way?)

Ugh -

You somehow end up supporting the worst of all applications.

Reading about DNSSEC

@voip_n00b said in DNS Filtering Service:

Anyone have a recommendation? Been looking at a bunch of them - looking for some first hand experience. Im looking for a hosted service not a pihole, or something like that.

What services have you been looking at?

Only one I’ve touched has been Cisco Umbrella.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just doing some really simple math on the cost savings of switching to the paid version of LibreOffice compared to Microsoft 365 Apps for Business (literally just the office suite).

$2,720 vs $15,840 annually.

Or simply put for just an office suite $13,120 a year in savings for an office of 160 people.

Mind blown.

There is a paid version?

There is. Its the recommended solution for businesses, specifically to keep the development of LibreOffice going.

And my numbers are actually a bit off, it's ~$19/U/Y for anyone checking my math.

But since the software is FOSS, many organizations are likely using it without support, the LibreOffice team is really urging businesses to get a paid version though.

Is this what you're talking about? https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/

Editing resume.

Editing video.

Some Saturday evening reading:
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-81-2.pdf

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Seeing how long my UPS devices will last during my apaetment’s power outage.

Generally - about 5-10minutes less then really needed....

Hope you have power restored.

Power was back on in 30 minutes, and the UPSes survived to my surprise.

Seeing how long my UPS devices will last during my apaetment’s power outage.

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

That's how you start. You go take something that exists and then tear it apart and understand it.

100% correct

@WrCombs

Shameless plug: How I Learned PowerShell Scripting

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Horrible day at the office- my manager and I have so little to do , that we have sat here and talked about how little we have to do - after I asked him if there was anything that needed to be worked on and if there was anyway I could get extra hours cause I'm not making very much on a straight 80 pay period.. needless to say I'm extremely bored.

There's always something that needs to be turned into a script.

Doing some resume edits