@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This should be fun, dumping ~60GB of things that are old.

Your having way too much fun with that

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

Veggie lo mein and egg rolls.

bought myself a family meal of lo mein and orange chicken last night, i had the craving!

@black3dynamite yeah some useful things there.

i don't use it either. their rules seem more of a way to not answer tough questions or just questions they don't know about. your question shouldn't even be hard, someone either knows or they don't. you were just looking to see if anyone did, i can't see any problem with that. they have never been helpful from the times i looked at them. anyway, that's why i don't use them.

@dashrender said in Mobile Payments:

@zachary715 said in Mobile Payments:

d Samsung Pay) are more secure methods of payment than a regular credit card transaction at a retailer? Convenience

I don't agree with Samsung pay, assuming they are using the magnetic field solution, because it's not a unique token approach, it just replaces swiping your card. (at least I don't think it uses a unique card number each time).

So either Apple or Android pay then?

@dustinb3403 said in Local Admin PW:

@flaxking said in Local Admin PW:

@scottalanmiller said in Local Admin PW:

@jmoore said in Local Admin PW:

@dafyre My boss told me that microsoft took away the ability to change the passwords via gpo because of some issue where they were being sent in plain text. I have no way to verify but thats what he told me

But he also told you that it was still happening. Can't be both.

Are you sure it can't be? My guess is that whatever update removes this ability might not remove an existing GPO with it already setup. Or maybe his boss just thinks it is still happening, I couldn't really tell you.

There would be an easy way to test.

Change the password locally, reboot, perform a gpupdate and see if the old password works again.

testing that now that i have a few min free time

@flaxking said in Local Admin PW:

@scottalanmiller said in Local Admin PW:

@jmoore said in Local Admin PW:

@dafyre My boss told me that microsoft took away the ability to change the passwords via gpo because of some issue where they were being sent in plain text. I have no way to verify but thats what he told me

But he also told you that it was still happening. Can't be both.

Are you sure it can't be? My guess is that whatever update removes this ability might not remove an existing GPO with it already setup (in which case there probably is a hacky way to change the password). Or maybe his boss just thinks it is still happening, I couldn't really tell you.

Well he definitely said both. So maybe Microsoft took away his ability to change passwords but the gpo itself still remembers the last one and so will change it back if I go and change it ?

@coliver said in Local Admin PW:

@jmoore said in Local Admin PW:

@dafyre My boss told me that microsoft took away the ability to change the passwords via gpo because of some issue where they were being sent in plain text. I have no way to verify but thats what he told me

I don't think it was plain text but it was such a weak cipher it might as well have been.

got it. one and the same to him I am guessing

@dbeato said in Local Admin PW:

If you are in a Windows Environment take a look at LAPS
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/mt227395.aspx

thanks dbeato, i will look at that

@tim_g said in Local Admin PW:

I was thinking some kind of PS script would work... first result of a search lead to this, which looks promising:

http://beta.itprotoday.com/management-mobility/resetting-local-administrator-password-computers

thanks tim, checking that out too

@scottalanmiller said in Local Admin PW:

@jmoore said in Local Admin PW:

@dafyre My boss told me that microsoft took away the ability to change the passwords via gpo because of some issue where they were being sent in plain text. I have no way to verify but thats what he told me

But he also told you that it was still happening. Can't be both.

your exactly right. I see the dichotomy there. I guess i don't understand what he meant.

@dafyre My boss told me that microsoft took away the ability to change the passwords via gpo because of some issue where they were being sent in plain text. I have no way to verify but thats what he told me

@scottalanmiller Ok thanks I will start my research on them

@scottalanmiller I haven't used any of those yet. Are they something like chocolatey but with more features? Do you have a recommendation on which to use with a college that has 700-800 users?

Question to you all: is there a good way to change the local admin pw on several hundred machines?

Context: we recently had someone leave and while neither i or my boss are worried about him I asked what about any future employees? We have a single local admin pw on 3 different campuses with a group policy that enforces that pw. i asked what would happen if i just started changing it and my boss said the group policy would just change it back.

So in the future what is the best way to handle this type of issue?

I haven't started using one of the options yet. I have been curious but I hear mixed reports, so I'm trying to learn more about this too.

I finally took control of the tv last night and watched 1/3 of star trek beyond, first tv ive watched in weeks, but then lost control of tv to the kids and wife. Went back to my cave after that:(

Well now that is interesting. I will try this soon. I find the number of users fascinating too. From the way a lot of people talk, they say c++ is mostly dead even though I know that cant be true. On this site it has the most users by far. This sort of proves it so all that talk I read about is probably just marketing for their own favorite language or platform.

Even as much as I like c++ I still wouldn't have thought that many people would be actively trying to learn it from a single site.

@bbigford that was the way i read it too

@stess My users wouldn't notice if half their menu changed