Best posts made by Mike Davis

@art_of_shred said in MangoCon 2016:

We do have a lot of spiders in Rochester, but there seemed to be a lot in and around the hotel.

We like to call them senior web designers.

Last week Scott set up a new Windows Server 2012 R2 server for me so I could test out some WDS stuff. That thing is blazing. The first thing I noticed was that there was no lag even though the datacenter is in California and I'm in NY. I pinged google in <1ms. I wondered if google was across the street or something so I did a tracert and hit it in 8 hops.

When it came to adding the WDS role, it was weird. I'm used to clicking next and having some time to read a few emails while the progress bar chugs across the screen. I hit next and the bar shot across and was done.

@scottalanmiller can you share some of the details about what we're running on?

@dustinb3403 said in I can't even:

There aren't places this horrendous, are there? (ignoring all of SW)

Dilbert, As true today as it was in 1995:

got it working. I did the burflags thing. On the server throwing the 13508, I backed up sysvol, stopped ntfrs and changed the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NtFrs\Parameters\Backup/Restore\Process at Startup\BurFlags to D4 , started ntfrs, and then went to the other two domain controllers.
On them I stopped ntfrs and changed:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NtFrs\Parameters\Backup/Restore\Process at Startup\BurFlags to D2
and started ntfrs.

after a few minutes the logs were clean. I logged in to a workstation and group policy didn't throw any errors.

@nadnerb said in SW rant time:

I feel like this meme should be inserted after every 10 posts on Mango.

I haven't ordered from them in a while, but if you have ordered since August, you will want to watch your credit card...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/09/newegg-hit-by-credit-card-stealing-code-injected-into-shopping-code/

Target shooting is a great stress reliever. Somes plinking with the .22 will do it, and some days you need the 12 gauge and some clay pigeons.

I'm not sure what the problem was, but what I ended up doing was backing up the GPO, deleting the GPO, restoring the GPO, and then linking it back where it should have been linked. I'm not sure why, but that fixed the problem.

@kyle said in Practical jokes on fellow IT colleagues:

The quick and easy one is to put a cut sticky note on the bottom of their mouse.

clear tape is the next level. mouse is erratic and hard to see what the problem is.

@scottalanmiller said:

I wonder if Mike really knows what he is getting into?

Do minions ever know what they are getting in to?

https://consumerist.com/2017/02/08/factory-that-made-samsung-galaxy-note-7-batteries-catches-fire-yes-really/

"minor fire" that called out 19 trucks and 110 firemen.

I built a remote desktop server on Server 2012 R2. Things seem to work really well, except I put an icon on the desktop that takes them to:
https://login.microsoftonline.com
9 times out of 10 it either times out, or loads in about 20 seconds. It doesn't matter if I go to https://outlook.office.com or the other o365 sites. 1 out of 10 times it will load in a reasonable amount of time.

This is using IE or Chrome. Any other site loads in 2 seconds. ping times to outlook.office.com are under 21 ms.

Any ideas on what to try next?

I came across this at a client site today . I was so impressed I had to stop to take a picture. Looks like they were going for water tight flexible conduit.

Maybe some round tables on topics like best and worst practices that we could go back and turn in to documentation or videos for the rest of the community.

@momurda said in Copying Content from other sources:

I agree 100% with this.
The I Cant Even thread has been dumb since day 1. Fairly certain i have 0 posts in that one. If you want to say how wrong someone is go post in the thread they made(you all have user id there) and 'say it to their faces', not on some other site where they have no user id and no way to defend themselves.

I have posted original content to that thread of things I found on site as a consultant. Sometimes we find stuff so bad we need to share. It serves as a reference to anyone new to IT that a garden hose should not be considered conduit.

I've been asked to put together a video surveillance system for a small private (and non profit) school. Any reason not to go with a UBNT NVR, UBNT ToughSwitch PoE, and as many cameras as I need?

Round table: go to hardware for server/NAS/router Hardware to avoid at all costs.

I took over for the kind of MSP that gives MSPs a bad name. He was charging the client $900 / month for unlimited support, proactive patches, security, etc. Stuff hasn't been patched since 2015, he has them all running Security Essentials except for the Windows XP machines, which have nothing, except free versions of Malwarebytes that haven't been updated in years. The "firewall" is a Server 2003 Small Business server running internet connection sharing. Which by the way has no usable backups and is their only file server. -and the list goes on.

At any rate, he wants the owner to tell him why he's not happy. The owner called me in because his office manager didn't have email for 4 days because her .pst got corrupt and he was charging them for a pop mail service.

At some point I'm going to have to deal with the guy because he registered the domain with his email address (admin,billing, and tech contact) and we need to get the domain transferred so I can get them on Office 365.

If you were in the situation, would you tell them how far away from best practices they were?

Here you go:

@echo off
rem tweaked from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9329749/batch-errorlevel-ping-response

setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion


   SET bHOSTUP=0
   ping -n 2 192.168.0.24 |find "TTL=" > NUL && SET bHOSTUP=1
   IF !bHOSTUP! equ 1 (
      CALL :HOSTUP 
   ) else (
      CALL :HOSTDOWN 
   )

GOTO EOF

:HOSTUP
echo Host UP 
GOTO EOF

:HOSTDOWN
echo Host DOWN
GOTO EOF

:EOF
exit /B

No, even with a fast internet connection, I would think you would still want onsite backups for fast restores. I guess the exception would be if you had a 1Gb internet connection and your cloud backup could support those speeds.