@dustinb3403 said in O365: KUDOS:

@gjacobse said in O365: KUDOS:

@stacksofplates

I am not certain, but I think they would like to stay in the O365 realm. Though, I will make note of that...

What ever happened to just sending a company wide "Thanks Karen" emails?

Why does a project like this even exist?

Kudos are a big part of many companies, and it's not hard to imagine why. Many companies will actually pay some bonuses or gift cards for kudos. A $50 visa gift card is an investment well spent when you have someone busting their ass. I have been on the kudos side and when you get a small token of thanks beyond a "Karen" email it means alot.

This is how he should be deploying.

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/taliesins/hyperv/latest/docs/resources/hyperv_machine_instance

@scottalanmiller said in Vagrant/DHCP problem:

@irj said in Vagrant/DHCP problem:

@stacksofplates said in Vagrant/DHCP problem:

Just for understanding, why Vagrant on the remote machine and not Terraform? Vagrant in my experience had been for local dev. Not saying it doesn't work and I thought I saw recently about remote systems with Vagrant, but terraform would most likely work much better.

Yeah exactly. Vagrant is the wrong tool here. It's great for testing locally. I use it to test automated scripting for immutable builds, but even in dev environments I use terraform to deploy resources that I expect to have around longer than a few hours.

Yeah, and the #1 person who should know this and tell you it is wrong is... the DevOps guys!

Exactly even Hashicorp makes it clear that vagrant is for dev environments

https://www.vagrantup.com/intro/vs/terraform

@stacksofplates said in Vagrant/DHCP problem:

Just for understanding, why Vagrant on the remote machine and not Terraform? Vagrant in my experience had been for local dev. Not saying it doesn't work and I thought I saw recently about remote systems with Vagrant, but terraform would most likely work much better.

Yeah exactly. Vagrant is the wrong tool here. It's great for testing locally. I use it to test automated scripting for immutable builds, but even in dev environments I use terraform to deploy resources that I expect to have around longer than a few hours.

@dustinb3403 said in Spreadsheet background image:

@gjacobse So 32 minutes give or take...

I'd say that's probably the average to use a image in a word document so it doesn't look like shit.

That's per image. Imagine adding 5 images and trying to get them to align properly with text

@dafyre said in Spreadsheet background image:

Is Microsoft Word an option?

You still should be able to run powershell via manage engine Desktop Central. https://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/powershell-script-as-a-package.html

It looks like you can run locally leveraging Desktop Central. You aren't doing powershell remoting.

@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@dbeato said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

What are some

You should always have good old WireSHark, nmap included and a great network scanner.

@dbeato what do you use for a network scanner? I use Advanced IP Scanner.

I use nmap, so much faster and easier.

Generally a full subnet scan using nmap is much slower than Advanced IP Scanner.

I'm annoyed that I even know this right now, such is the state of the documentation we have.

You aren't using Nmap properly... It's so configurable and definitely faster than any GUI scanner.

@dustinb3403 said in Server 2003 P2V Issues:

Something not touched on here is back ups, are there any at all? If not then clearly this system wasn't at all important.

If it truly is so important now, what changed to lead up to this cluster fuck of a failed physical server 2003 still being present today?

I know I'm coming off as a dick, deal with it.

Yes you're being a dick... As usual.... but you're actually right this time

I've solved all your problems

@notverypunny said in What to ask for in a Cybersecurity Auditor ...:

@braswelljay Check with the insurance carrier to see if there's any credentials / certifications etc that they require your auditing company to have. It'd suck to go through the audit only to find out that it didn't meet the insurance company's requirements.

I agree. Make sure the audit meets insurance requirements.

@dustinb3403 said in So Windows 11??:

@hobbit666 said in So Windows 11??:

@scottalanmiller said in So Windows 11??:

Not that easy currently, either.

I find it very easy, just don't have it connected to the internet when installing. You then select offline account.

Assuming you're using something other than Windows Home edition (possibly). I would assume Microsoft wouldn't force this on businesses, but I see them trying to lead people down the path of the "Desktop as a Service" route and charging a routine fee.

Microsoft is likely seeing how this pans out and if there is an appetite to spend additional monies on something that has traditionally been a "non-seen cost" of the home PC.

I disagree. Desktop as a service has no money in it. The way they license to OEM is the only way to make money on most users. I don't believe people are willing to pay monthly subscription for an OS. There are so many platforms that are better for users, and they don't/won't pay. Google and Apple would never charge for an OS because the real money is on selling software / apps and getting a cut of every sale. Providing the OS just gives the user an easy path to their store.

Zero Trust is the way

@ambarishrh said in Recommendations to replace existing Surface Pro4:

I've checked the xps 13 and thinking of getting it. The one they have here is 16GB 1TB

But at the same time, since I rarely take the device out, also checking for a powerful mini PC

I actually prefer a 13 inch screen. I've used Dell xps 13 two years ago and it's a good laptop. I had the Ubuntu edition and really liked it. I know @stacksofplates has had a few generations and is a big fan.

@jaredbusch said in Bring order into IT environment in chaos:

@scottalanmiller said in Bring order into IT environment in chaos:

@pete-s said in Bring order into IT environment in chaos:

@eddiejennings said in Bring order into IT environment in chaos:

I've used DokuWiki in the past for documentation.

Yes, me too. But for this customer I will suggest they get something that is cloud based. And a little more specifically made for the purpose.

I can't find a good cloud based wiki. Either they suck or they are crazy expensive.

That has been my experience also

Confluence is quite good. Free for under 10 users, too.

@dustinb3403 said in USB Device Managment:

res

Everything ok?

@mr-jones said in Taking suggestions about x86 Access replacement:

Okay, let me preface this with "I'm not a database guy". Moving on.

We have two users who require 32bit Office suite to open a very old Access database. They are the only two in the entire organization who need 32 bit, and it's getting really old having to do everything for the OTHER database that EVERYONE uses (to include them) in both 64 and 32 so they can still use both.

My first and only idea so far is to swap them over to x64 Office suite, and then using VirtualBox or similar, make them a VM with x86 Office suite so they could run the old database.

This isn't a great solution, imo. These folks are not tech savvy and I feel like throwing a VM at them would make their heads explode.

I'm looking at Microsoft Access alternatives, but my priority would be to ensure the the database would function the same, and have the ability to be replicated or be imported from the old one with minimal issues. I don't know a lot about database stuff, and this just doesn't seem like a thing to me, or at least something where the solution would require me to rebuild everything from the ground up to match the old one, which at this point, I'm unable to do in any timely manner, but I'm open to suggestions and actively trying to learn about it.

Convert the access database to SQL and put it on Azure SQL on a tiny instance that's only spun up when uou need it

@dashrender said in Looking for Security camera options:

You know, not many on this forum have the luxury of working for enterprise customers, not even Scott. Most of our clients are going to those hobby businesses as we call them around here. So that is the context I generally live in. Since you're fortunate to be in that enterprise space, you generally come from that context, so I get it....

Saying I'm fortunate or it's a luxury would imply that it fell into my lap. I worked very hard to get where I'm at today.

Scott runs NTG and certainly makes bank working off SMB and has the ability to expand his income by adding clients and employees. When you're 1 man show there's not much room to grow.

That being said, one man IT guys make great security or enterprise IT people because they have an understanding of nearly everything it takes to run a network. We kept interviewing security employees with degrees and only security experience. They were not good. I recommended that we ask our recruiter to reach out to one man SMB guys. We found a very knowledgeable person that could be trained on how to do various security functions very easily.