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Found it -- test-compliance.

Although I've written a script to get-compliance on all my guests, is there a command to push the 'check status' button for me on all my guests, or maybe a better way than going folder by folder? I've noticed that, in v7, there's a disparity between the two; a system can be updated but not confirmed as being in compliance until the 'check' has been run.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

What I want is a case like that, that can fit an M2 drive inside the case.

3D print one. That's how I was looking to solve mounting one on the back of my TV. The library here prints any STL file that you bring in and it's free.

@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Dominica just made chocolate chip cookies.

You have my address. Why is there a delay in sending?

@ilyas said in Reset 120 Day Grace Period for Windows RDS Server with PowerShell:

@scottalanmiller

Hi, Thanks for wonderful script that save my time.
Could You please guide me how we can run this script on multiple servers?

I tried foreach PowerShell method but it does not work.

From the ISE, load the script and then enter-pssession for each system. Once connected, run the script from the ise. Sorted.

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response

A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and triggers an immune response.
Trials involving 1,077 people showed the injection led to them making antibodies and T-cells that can fight coronavirus. The findings are hugely promising, but it is still too soon to know if this is enough to offer protection and larger trials are under way. The UK has already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine. The vaccine - called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 - is being developed at unprecedented speed. It is made from a genetically engineered virus that causes the common cold in chimpanzees. It has been heavily modified, first so it cannot cause infections in people and also to make it "look" more like coronavirus.

Maybe if I would end up dead from COVID-19, then I'd give it a try.

Exactly - that's the problem with any vaccine they will come out with in the next two years, maybe even four. They are rushing it so much - no way in hell I'm taking it until something like 1 million people have, and has less than a .01% bad effect.

How did we get past the 1918 flu? @Grey ?

How much has science advanced and technology changed in a hundred years? How much money is being funneled to allow scientists to focus on the problem? How many of those people are working on it now vs. working on the 1918 flu? Yes, the older flu took 90 years to get a vaccine, and how many were working on that for the entire span? How many anti-vaxxers will it take to fill up a graveyard when they deny science and valid research?

Don't get me wrong - there is definitely valid research out there - but finding it is practically impossible today.
Just look at the hospitals, etc reporting huge number of Covid cases over things that are almost certainly not covid related.
It's a bloody money game, with your life in the balance.

The vaccines of yester-year seem infinitely safer than the drugs they continue to pump out today. The FDA is nothing more than a shill of the pharmaceutical companies showing a faint vein of care for the public good.

If a lifeguard tells you, "Don't go swimming, there's a shark," would you ignore them just because you don't see a fin? Because you're doing exactly that. Ignoring the valid experts in their field because you saw a Karen post on facebook and now you won't wear a mask, or you wear it under your chin in the false belief that you can't breathe.

I bet you love hearing your IT users ignore your advice.

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response

A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and triggers an immune response.
Trials involving 1,077 people showed the injection led to them making antibodies and T-cells that can fight coronavirus. The findings are hugely promising, but it is still too soon to know if this is enough to offer protection and larger trials are under way. The UK has already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine. The vaccine - called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 - is being developed at unprecedented speed. It is made from a genetically engineered virus that causes the common cold in chimpanzees. It has been heavily modified, first so it cannot cause infections in people and also to make it "look" more like coronavirus.

Maybe if I would end up dead from COVID-19, then I'd give it a try.

Exactly - that's the problem with any vaccine they will come out with in the next two years, maybe even four. They are rushing it so much - no way in hell I'm taking it until something like 1 million people have, and has less than a .01% bad effect.

How did we get past the 1918 flu? @Grey ?

How much has science advanced and technology changed in a hundred years? How much money is being funneled to allow scientists to focus on the problem? How many of those people are working on it now vs. working on the 1918 flu? Yes, the older flu took 90 years to get a vaccine, and how many were working on that for the entire span? How many anti-vaxxers will it take to fill up a graveyard when they deny science and valid research?

@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response

A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and triggers an immune response.
Trials involving 1,077 people showed the injection led to them making antibodies and T-cells that can fight coronavirus. The findings are hugely promising, but it is still too soon to know if this is enough to offer protection and larger trials are under way. The UK has already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine. The vaccine - called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 - is being developed at unprecedented speed. It is made from a genetically engineered virus that causes the common cold in chimpanzees. It has been heavily modified, first so it cannot cause infections in people and also to make it "look" more like coronavirus.

Maybe if I would end up dead from COVID-19, then I'd give it a try.

If zombies were attacking, you'd be the guy rushing out to get bitten and claiming that zombies weren't real even as they were avoiding you as part of their new plan to eat only healthy brains.

I think freedns.afraid.org is being affected.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Patching all the things!

Also, disappointed that my solar installation failed inspection.

Awww... so now you take the blame for setting the house on fire?

You have a serious interest in fire, it seems.

https://cyber.dhs.gov/ed/20-03/

Gov't panics about DNS.

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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

New South Wales erosion: Huge swells leave homes at risk of collapse

Huge waves have pummelled the Australian state of New South Wales, eroding some coastal areas and putting homes at risk of collapse.
In beach suburbs to the north of Sydney, residents lost decks and fences as the surf lapped at the edge of properties. Authorities say they have recorded waves as high as 11m (36ft) this week off the city's coastline. The wild surf has been caused by a strong low pressure system. On Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology (Bom) re-issued a "hazardous" surf warning for the state's entire 2,100km (1,300-mile) coastline.

Sounds like some builders ignored their erosions studies, or didn't do them.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bdea/c9b712369815bab02152f8cc79f2531ffa1d.pdf

Erosion deniers. LOL

Nope. Gotta be Trumps fault somehow.

Patching all the things!

Also, disappointed that my solar installation failed inspection.

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

New South Wales erosion: Huge swells leave homes at risk of collapse

Huge waves have pummelled the Australian state of New South Wales, eroding some coastal areas and putting homes at risk of collapse.
In beach suburbs to the north of Sydney, residents lost decks and fences as the surf lapped at the edge of properties. Authorities say they have recorded waves as high as 11m (36ft) this week off the city's coastline. The wild surf has been caused by a strong low pressure system. On Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology (Bom) re-issued a "hazardous" surf warning for the state's entire 2,100km (1,300-mile) coastline.

Sounds like some builders ignored their erosions studies, or didn't do them.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bdea/c9b712369815bab02152f8cc79f2531ffa1d.pdf

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

SR-IOV issue got me again. Built a new VM a couple weeks ago and for the past 2 days it has been losing network connectivity. I totally forgot to check it. Host is running 2012 R2. I thought MS fixed this a long time ago, but I still had to disable it.

Don't use E1000 if it's vmware.

https://i.imgur.com/mDNRcn0.mp4

@Pete-S said in Powershell countdown on servers?:

@Grey

If you wanted to show the progress % you could do something like this as well:

$quantity = $systems.count
$i = 0

foreach ($server in $systems){
   //stuff
   $i = $i + 1
   $progress = 100 * $i / $quantity
}

Another trick is to not count it at all, just print a dot (".") for each iteration.
.........

Tested and this needs a try/catch for a divide by zero. The math is also off.

@dafyre said in Powershell countdown on servers?:

@Grey said in Powershell countdown on servers?:

@dafyre said in Powershell countdown on servers?:

Are you doing this so you can have a progress bar or what?

Positive feedback on a script that's iterating actions on a group of servers, so... kind of a progress bar.

if ($newquantity -eq 0) {
 write-host "We're done, everybody go home!"
}

Oh, fun! I hadn't considered the end. I'm more of a Tron guy so ... End of Line.