It´s really easy, but not easy to figure it out... I was looking for a solution, so I´ll share with you the solution to find those devices tagged as "None" on Mesh Central:
Hope this helps!
I think that next reports explain themselves... if you are a Avast (or AVG) fan, just leave and don´t read next articles.
"The data doesn't include personal information, but experts fear it could be 'de-anonymized.'"
https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/27/avast-jumpshot-selling-user-data/
"Avast and its subsidiary AVG, caught selling customer data to corporate clients last year, are at it again—this time using its free antivirus programs if you opt in to data collection, a new report said Monday. "
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3516502/report-avast-and-avg-collect-and-sell-your-personal-info-via-their-free-antivirus-programs.html
To solve the issue just follow next simple steps:
• have your PC´s fully updated
• open credential manager on the host PC (which will be connecting to the print server PC)
• install the Windows credentials of the print server PC (user/pw)
• install the shared printer
I have tested this several times and it´s working like a charm. (I don´t know why we didn´t think on this before).
Hope it helps.
@siringo said in W7 to 10 Upgrade. Experiences.:
I work on my own and just need to throw some stuff out there to get some general thoughts.
A client has about 15 W7 PCs, they can't afford to replace the PCs so I'm just going to upgrade them to W10.
Just imagine that the upgrade went fine, the hardware is fine, drivers are OK etc, should programs that are running happily on these Windows 7 PCs still run happily on/in/under Windows 10?
I know we can't give an iron clad guarantees and know how everything will end up, but what have others found that have done this?
Have you found it's been a nightmare or have programs just continued to run properly?
In general Windows 10 really handle very well the upgrade process (even better than Windos 7)... I remember Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrades, mostly need a new fresh installation. Said that, the short answer is yes... it´s easy and relatively fast, but as you said, there are not guarantees, there may appear some issues or delays, and there is an universe of situations: Hardware/Software compatibility, etc. The good news is that with Windows Update Tool may help you to prevent of most of the issues related to HW/SW compatibility. My best suggestion is to order all devices, grouping them based on similirities, such as HW and/or age. Test the upgrade in one of each group, see how it run, and then apply to the rest of the group. After the upgrade, take a moment for a restore point and proceed with last windows updates (for some reason some updates may generate some conflicts with old HW). My final advice, once finished, free space on your HDD deleting temp files... Windows 10 has some easy options to perform that.
During my experience upgrading Windows 10 devices, I found devices which has over 100Gb just on the Windows folder (Windows 7), so, after the upgrade that is a lot of wasted space on your HDD if don´t proceed to clean it. To do that, Windows 10 has a very easy tool: Check Storage, if you want to clean unused files (included temp files), you need to proceed as follows:
In some cases I was allowed to free up to 350Gb... it was a lot of unused files in a Windows folder from Windows 7...
Hope this help you to get more space on your HDD.
Issue: Some times when you want to reinstall or upgrade WZA (Windows Zabiix Agent) on a Server with an old (or even same) version, it may happen that despite uninstall and delete the Zabbix Agent service (on windows services), and even restarting your Server, the installation process finish with "ended prematurely".
Solution: Zabbix Agent windows service it´s blocking a installation process, so even if that service is deleted from regedit (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services), it´s important to use sc command to delete it on the right way, so open cmd with Administrator privileges and then type: sc delete "Zabbix Agent", once you press enter, it should appear [SC] DeleteSErvice SUCCESS
Now you will able to install msi file or install files separately. Don´t forget to check windows firewall to confirm that Zabbix Agent is allowed.
The worst nightmare for a Windows 10 migration (from Windows 7), despite the "non compatilitiy" restrictions on Windows 10 update tool, which help to prevent issues, is to have a "Windows installation failed" after wait by (hours ??) and all stopped at 31% (in other cases may be 35%).
Based on my current experience, let me share 3 actions/tips that helped me a lot:
Check if Windows Security Essentials is installed, if so, please uninstall it before the upgrade.
Run CMD as Administrator and run "sfc /scannow" - this would take even 30 minutes, depending on you HW, once finished proceed to upgrade.
Run CMD as Administrator, and run "DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth" and "DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth". these two commands may take some time to process.
If these three options doesn´t work, maybe need to consideer a HW issue/conflict, but as always, if any of you have suggestions please let us know...
I´m pretty sure many of you have faced issues with network file/printer sharing after an upgrade to Windows 10, a very common issue is to have your network and file sharing restricted or in most cases invisible to other devices on your network, or restricting the acces to previous files/folders/printers shared on it.
To solve this there are a few workarounds on internet, related to but I´ve recently experienced that any of them helped me with a program which share files on network (images). On next I share a simple, but powerful action:
Hope this helps...!
@scottalanmiller Bits & Bytes are still the rule! (+ nostalgia)
@matypro Hi.. to help you on this, I need to clarify two points (maybe you know that, but just in case). To enable Active Agents on Zabbix, there are some things:
Now your Server and Agent are on active mode, you may find a world of options about the data you need to get on active mode, but some such as network, processor or memory are ready out of the box from these templates.
If you need more help just let me know
Definitive solution was updated on the initial discussion.
@dbeato Sadly by now, is the only real secure option so far, I hate that, but I don´t want to put on risk the system only for that. I have found some posts suggesting that changing/nullifying admin authority for printer drivers via regedit solve the issue (RestrictDriverInstallationToAdministrators), to change that you may follow next steps:
After installing updates released October 12, 2021 or later, you can also set RestrictDriverInstallationToAdministrators using a Group Policy, using the following instructions:
Open the group policy editor tool and go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Printers.
Set the Limits print driver installation to Administrators setting to "Disabled". This will set the registry value of RestrictDriverInstallationToAdministrators to 0.
To solve the issue just follow next simple steps:
• have your PC´s fully updated
• open credential manager on the host PC (which will be connecting to the print server PC)
• install the Windows credentials of the print server PC (user/pw)
• install the shared printer
I have tested this several times and it´s working like a charm. (I don´t know why we didn´t think on this before).
Hope it helps.
Since yesterday a main error was reported due to after install the WU KB5005565 several people are getting the error "Connect to printer Windows cannot connect to the printer. Operation failed with error 0x0000011b" and the printer fails to install, even when printers was already installed or working on it.
A workaround was to set RestrictDriverInstallationToAdministrators to 0, but that MAKE DEVICE VULNERABLE. In order of solve the issue I found that this solves uninstalling the WU KB5005565 on shared and remote devices.
You may also use next script to uninstall from CMD:
wusa /uninstall /KB:5005565 /quiet /warnrestart
Other workaround to install the driver is using next script, but you need to find the right driver location to use this, so, to do that, first install the driver of the printer as admin and then use the script, the info that needs to be updated is on capital letters (DriverStore is usually located on your Windows\System32 folder):
powershell.exe -exec bypass -command "Add-PrinterDriver -Name 'NAME OF THE PRINTER TO INSTALL EVEN IF ITS NT SHARED' -InfPath ([System.Environment]::SystemDirectory + '\DriverStore\FileRepository\PRINTERNAME.INF_AMD64_60BCBA213FE1F4D9\PRINTERNAME.INF')"
If there is another workaround, please share.
Some devices using Superfetch feature seems running fine, but on some cases (specially on 6ht and 7th gen intel CPUs), that service uses a lot of resources of HDD, resulting in a poor performance (and in some cases, that is after some specific Windows updates), but I found that disabling it, does not really affect the system (as far I can see) and some recommend to fully disable that one (via Services), my question is if someone have experienced issues disabling SysMain service, or in other case recommend other option to solve this Disk Usage issue (device and windows is fully updated if that info helps). Thanks!
@killmasta93 said in Zabbix Agent alert on active mode?:
The template i have for the agents on windows and linux called OS windows active agent and OS linux active agent. But i implemented proxy i had it directly to the zabbix server only issue there is that my server was getting overloaded
Really odd, my suggestion for the alert you´re working with is based on ping trigger (usually included on the template) instead of Timeout macro (but I´m not plenty sure that´s the reason of the issue), because, as far I can see on your screenshots or the setup its not responding to macro (may happen some times) or macro may not respond on short period of times (see the warning on "Consider to keep it relatively high"), As far I know macros are not useful on short periods of time, that´s why I have not used on my side (unless necessary)
Hi, first of all I need to know if you did the setup to alert when agent is offline, that´s on the template configuration at the zabbix server dashboard. Simply check the active templates and triggers assigned to your agents. If not, you may need to set that first.
If you did the setup, then you may need to check how it was setup (I may assume that you did, due to you received the alert), so, to do that, simply open current trigger and verify how it´s setup, if you want to receive the alert after 5 min, it should be set on the "Expression" as: {"name of your template":agent.ping.nodata(5m)}=1 , note that the (5m) expression is the time you may need to change (probably in your case is set as 30m or 0.5h.
Hope this helps.
@scottalanmiller The procedure using PS could be found here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/recipients/mailbox-import-and-export/export-procedures?view=exchserver-2019, you´ll find some info at the end of that link (Use the Exchange Management Shell to create a mailbox export request).
this is amazingly didactical... really enjoy this.
on of the most didactical videos to learn about IP and network.