@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Our doctor's office just emailed us to tell us that 2+ years of medical records were lost because they weren't testing backups. They kept getting a "your backup was successful" message, but no one looked to see if that was true.

So not only did they totally lose their medical records system (um, really?) but they don't have working backups.

I'll hold my hands up on this too, we are terrible and testing.

But that's about to change as i'm reviewing our entire backup and testing procedures over the next month or two.

We check all customers backups every week, and the majority get a test restore done at least once a month too, just to be on the safe side - so might be worth doing test restores as well - no good making sure the backup works if you're unable to restore the data if it does die!

@hobbit666 said in Unable to login using domain username and local username:

If it's a domain machine you can add a local user via powershell on another machine.

From the looks of it it's a VM - so can mount an ISO as a CD and boot from that easily enough I was thinking?

@Ghani said in Unable to login using domain username and local username:

@NattNatt

unable to login using local user.

Hence resetting the local password - using a password reset disk//Trinity Rescue Kit//Heirens or any other Live USB/CD environment.

@hobbit666 said in Unable to login using domain username and local username:

Can you login with a local admin user?
If you can see this http://implbits.com/active-directory/2012/04/13/dont-rejoin-to-fix.html

oooooh, that looks useful!!! Saved.

You need to reset the local password using whatever method you prefer, and then remove the machine from the domain and re-add it.

Removing WSUS from an SBS install

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@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Oh Monday. Need caffeine.
I zipped the zip, rather than extract the zip

It must be tiny by now!

Nested zip! Don't think it would help much.

depends if you use two different types of compression or not

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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

back in the office after a week off, been catching up on things all morning, and now I'm back on the desk ready to talk to users.

Yey.

Essentially the same thing here... except I was out due to the flu most of last week.

Not quite as fun I imagine then

Yea, not so much.

Glad you're feeling better now though!

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Machete wielding attacker at the Louvre in Paris. No word on casualties yet, guard killed the assailant.

Note it was the Louvre Mall, not The Louvre museum - attacked one soldier then got taken down by a second one.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

back in the office after a week off, been catching up on things all morning, and now I'm back on the desk ready to talk to users.

Yey.

Essentially the same thing here... except I was out due to the flu most of last week.

Not quite as fun I imagine then

Chicken curry and rice!

Played the Ghost Recon Wildlands Closed beta over the weekend - very good game, highly tempted to buy the collectors edition....

back in the office after a week off, been catching up on things all morning, and now I'm back on the desk ready to talk to users.

Yey.

Working from home today, so on server maintenance currently...

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Slipknot kinda day.

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Mary Tyler Moore

Man... 2017 is really just more of the same.

Yup, even worse than 2016.

One person dies and it's worse?

I think Scott was lumping the election in there with it. That alone is like all the deaths of 2016.

Wasn't the election technically 2016 though? I know the inauguration was in 2017, but the voting/results were in 2016

@maalmeida said in Propuesta para conectar tres máquinas en una misma red local:

@NattNatt I do not exactly about that information... but, let's make a guess about it, If the third host is on the same space and there are not any walls that might affect the signal strength, Is it good idea to put the ethernet cable and connect this into the router, as well as the other two hosts?.

There is a weighing machine next to a desktop and another host 100 meters away from the others two.

If a put a switch instead of a router could this work like in the same way?. It is just for local access in order to get into an application that is gonna be in a virtual machine.

Yes, and if you could put the switch in the midpoint so each cable run is ~ 50 metres, that would be the ideal solution imo.