@scottalanmiller said in Why BitLocker with USB key on a server?:

Nope. Same as not being encrypted - except in the case where they physically steal drives but not the server or the key.

This is what I thought.

I'm tasked with building a new server and I don't see the need for encrypted drives.

@Dashrender said in Why BitLocker with USB key on a server?:

So there was no TPM?

No TPM as far as I can see.

I'm looking at a server where they BitLockered it and stored the password on a USB key. Does it provide any additional security if the USB key is left plugged in to the server?

@Dashrender said in Negotiating for a Job You Are Leaving:

Is it sad if the person wants that experience? I'd see it as an opportunity personally.

I'm sure he was talking about @dafyre

yes.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to get in to management or anything else. You should always be asking "Where do I want to be 3 years from now and what do I need to do today to get there?"

@dafyre said in Negotiating for a Job You Are Leaving:

I am at the point in my career where I want to be, I think. I'm actively doing the work in the trenches. The only step up for me is management, which is the type of role I actively want to avoid. It may still happen, but I don't see that any time in the immediate future.

It's pretty sad that people with tech skills only see their next step as moving to management. There is nothing wrong with doing what you do really well. I have seen companies where someone is great at their job so the company promotes them to management - which requires different skills - and the person fails. (The Peter principle)

@scottalanmiller said in Negotiating for a Job You Are Leaving:

This is a gig that has a change of responsibility. Mostly likely, a promotion.

So the real reason for leaving isn't money, it's the desire for a promotion. Sometimes there are opportunities for promotion within the walls of the company where you are, and sometimes there are not. When I read your first post, I understood that there was an opportunity outside the walls, and things inside the walls were going down hill. Asking for more money to stay sounded like a bad idea.

What it sounds more like is asking for a promotion and being prepared to leave if you don't get it. Money doesn't come in to play.

This goes against the adage that you don't quit your job, you quit your boss. With a bad boss, even if they do offer more money, do you really want to stay?

@Danp Are you running free vs paid? If it's free, check the logs and hope for the best.

Once you start the restore wizard, after you pick the VM, it should show you the restore points:

So are all your old backups useless, or was the issue resolved?

@Dashrender said in Toilets of the World:

Where is it illegal? I have to assume this is a state level law, not federal, but please confirm.

It seems the laws may have changed. I think I looked it up in 2003 when I got back from France. I just read an article that in 2008 NY lifted the ban.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_toilet

In the United States pay toilets became much less common from the 1970s, when they came under attack in the United States, from feminists as well as the plumbing industry. California legislator March Fong Eu argued that they discriminated against women because men could use urinals for free whereas women always had to pay a dime for a toilet stall in places where payment was mandatory.[4] The American Restroom Association was a proponent of an amendment to the National Model Building Code to allow pay toilets only in addition to free toilets.[5] A campaign by the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America (CEPTIA) resulted in laws prohibiting pay toilets in cities and states. In 1973, Chicago became the first American city to enact a ban, at a time when, according to the Wall Street Journal, there were at least 50,000 units in America,[6] mostly made by the Nik-O-Lok Company.[7] CEPTIA was successful over the next few years in obtaining bans in New York, New Jersey, Minnesota, California, Florida and Ohio.[7] Lobbying was successful in other states as well, and by decade's end, pay toilets were greatly reduced in America. However, they are still in use and produced by the Nik-O-Lok company as many of these laws have since been repealed.

@wirestyle22 said in Toilets of the World:

The mechanics of ass wiping: Mangolassi 2017
I bet @Minion-Queen never thought we'd get here

Introductions to the expert panel: "And what countries have you pooped in?" "Can you tell us about a disaster recovery scenario?"

@Dashrender Why are they illegal? or why do I like them?
They are illegal because people were worried that if you charged people to use the rest room, they would go in public.

I like the pay toilet in Paris because it actually cleaned it self after each use.

I like the alternative to the Turkish toilet in Paris, the pay toilet. I actually researched it and found out they are illegal in the US.

@scottalanmiller said in Visio 2016 Installation Error:

Is that really true today? What's the advantage to the lower version?

Compatibility with other applications.

Just because you have 64 bit OS, doesn't mean you need or want 64 bit office. In fact in most cases you want 32 bit.

With that being said, you may have an old version screwing up the install. Microsoft has a removal tool for old versions that might help:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Uninstall-Office-from-a-PC-9dd49b83-264a-477a-8fcc-2fdf5dbf61d8?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

FLTG sold them in blocks of 20, but was limited by what was available in a particular area code. I don't know if that is standard.

@JaredBusch said in Managing Hyper-V:

@Mike-Davis said in Managing Hyper-V:

In part of my strategy to prevent CryptoLocker or a bad actor from taking out my backups if a computer/server gets infected, I'm not domain joining my hosts now. I realized that even with a share on the network that used a service account, if a hacker elevates privileges and gets domain admin, they can reset the password on the backup service account and then wipe out my backups. If the backup target is not domain joined, they can't do that. Same idea with the host.

I'm curious as to what others are thinking. We love disk to disk backups, but it's really hard to air gap them with out physical interaction.

This is just stupid.

There is not any type of realistic risk for this kind of scenario that does not involve a ton of prior failures.

Within a single organization, there is zero reason to not have the hypervisors domain joined.

There will be no possible way to lose anything because there should be no possible way that a privileged account like domain admin can be compromised without ignoring other best practices.

There are zero day exploits out there. Networks get hacked. I'm trying to limit risk.

@scottalanmiller said in Managing Hyper-V:

How does that help, though? We want console access to the VMs, not to the Hyper-V host. What does a connection to the Hyper-V host buy us?

I was thinking about the typical VM tasks like allocating more space or moving vm files around. I forgot we were trying to get console access.

@scottalanmiller

What's your method for installing and configuring the base OS to get to that point?

It's a new physical host, so I'm physically in front of the server or using ilo/DRAC. Attach the hyper-v .iso, install, and then map a drive to a share on my laptop to get screen connect and/or open manage, etc.