@dashrender said in Building collapse:

EVERYONE, GO STAND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BUILDING! JUMP ON 3, WE'LL LEVEL IT BACK OUT!

@dave247 said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:

@dave247 said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:

For static internal pages, very little will compete with Wordpress.

Oh yeah I forgot about WP.. but all this stuff would need to be local and not online at all. ... I'm looking it up now and it looks like we can just download WordPress and use to generate local content.. awesome. This may do perfectly..

ooh looks like I'm going to get to set up a Linux server with LAMP... fun

@scottalanmiller has you covered!

https://mangolassi.it/topic/13112/using-saltstack-to-install-high-performance-lamp-on-fedora-25

https://mangolassi.it/topic/13115/installing-wp-cli-the-wordpress-command-line-with-saltstack

https://mangolassi.it/topic/13177/deploying-an-nginx-reverse-proxy-with-ssl-on-a-lamp-server-with-saltstack

Just... I can't even.

I'm not so focused on replication with KVM. It's not really needed. It's only hardware redundancy, and there is guaranteed data loss if you need to spin up a replica.

With Hyper-V, you can do replication of a VM every 30 seconds to 15 minutes. You could potentially lose 15 minutes of data.

If a server part went bad and the server died, I'd rather let the VMs on it be down for a few minutes to replace the part, and then bring everything back up again... rather than failover every VM to the replica and lose all that data.

With KVM, it's like Scott said... you can do replication but it's meant to be a network RAID1. That's HA. It's better to go that route instead. With Linux, it's free (if you exclude hardware costs because you may re-use something you already have).

I'm actually reading this post over WiFi right now.

No time to go to the gym? Do it before work if it's mathematically possible.

Go to bed an hour earlier.

Find out when your gym opens... mine opens at 5:30, so I have time for a 45-60 minute workout and then a shower before going to work.

So long as you don't start work too early or your commute isn't too long, try it! It's a nice way to start the day.

That's just so weird, these problems you are having.

If I list a group policy setting, would you be able to apply it to HV01 and your desktop?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@phil-commquotes said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

"He watches."

It's true, but not as creepy as it sounds. Thanks for the mention Jared and Scott. @hobbit666 yes I can probably help you. We have partnerships with hundreds of ISP's and thousands of data centers worldwide. Easy for us to quickly scope the scene and talk through the available solutions. Where are you located?

Jared listed my contact info already so shoot me a note and we can sync up.

But who watches the watcher?

I don't think the problem is HV01.

If you have just done a fresh install, joined it to the domain, and enabled remote management... you're good on that end.

Now on your Win10 computer, if you are logged in as a Domain Admin, you shouldn't have any trouble accessing it via Hyper-V Managaer.

You can try running Enable-PSRemoting on your Win10 computer, I think #4 on the Hyper-V host does the same thing, which looks like it's already done.

@danp said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I don't think BMWs have turn signals. I have never seen a BMW driver use it.

@guyinpv said in Looking for some neat Server Build Projects:

Ya, well, 10 years ago they also bought Office 2007 (single license) and installed it on as many computers as it would go. And kept installing it on new computers when purchased.

Since the O365 user can be installed on 5 computers and 5 mobiles or whatever, they are going to do just that.

A single user can have it on 5 of thier devices... their desktop, laptop, phone, home computer, etc. But only THAT USER can use it. Not their coworker, not their wife, not their children.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@magicmarker The same thing that is happening to all people that aren't there to simply buy into the marketing, is forcing them out so only gullible people are left there or those that refuse to step on vendor toes.

Yeah is like a county fair. Vendor after vendor lining up to sell you junk you don't need. It's not an IT community, it's just a big marketing platform, pulling the old bait n switch maneuver... sucking you in by promising to solve your IT issues, then turning you into a client to marketers and vendors. It's really a disgusting platform when you think about it. ML is the way to go.

@dashrender said in Looking for some neat Server Build Projects:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for some neat Server Build Projects:

@dashrender said in Looking for some neat Server Build Projects:

@jaredbusch said in Looking for some neat Server Build Projects:

@guyinpv said in Looking for some neat Server Build Projects:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for some neat Server Build Projects:

@guyinpv said in Looking for some neat Server Build Projects:

Well I guess I'll just have to buy O365 to get Word and Excel. Then buy Google Apps to get Drive. Then buy some other suite just to get a decent intranet. Then another suite to get some notes. Then another suite just to get the wiki. ffs

Why do you need Word and Excel? I mean lots of people need them but why do you?

Because all the non-techy people are used to Office. I only recently finally got them to stop using old copies of Office 2007. At least now they can use 2016 on O365. They will not use anything else, and threw a hissy fit when MS started pushing Office as a subscription model. They were THIS close to forcing us to keep using 2007 just because we happened to have those licenses and the software still runs fine.

MS's licensing model is such a pain. All I want is updated software, and all the boss wants is to not spend thousands of dollars upgrading when the old stuff "still works". And nothing compares to Word/Excel right now. Don't even bother telling me to try doing spreadsheets in the cloud in a web browser on Google. No chance of ever getting anybody around here to do that.

I use LibreOffice on Windows and it runs perfectly. Most users do not know the difference. Power user of course would.

I call BS - most if not ALL users would know the difference, but would they care - assuming formatting it identical, they would probably wouldn't care.

In tests that I've seen, users actually couldn't tell it wasn't MS Office. That users feel they need MS Office is something that they repeat, but rarely based on something real.

I agree with you on the point of people repeating that they need something they likely don't. But as already mentioned, the last time I looked at converting, the layouts changed drastically between MS Office and anything else, that made it a no go.

Plus, as just mentioned, we still get many quotes in doc or docx format for whatever crazy reason...
Perhaps I should just start changing pricing and submit the signed quote back to them (which is a PDF because I print and sign it.) lol

Yeah I hear ya. Just going to a different versions of MS Office can create weeks of work reformatting large spreadsheets for some people. I can imaging going to a completely different software.

Starting out with nothing, I'd definitely go with LO.

My wife actually took this picture! (Uppsala, Sweden)

Now that auditing is set up, your security event logs will fill up faster.

What I like to do is increase the size the security log can get to, 1 GB, and then to archive them once they grow large enough, and to make a new one.

This is also done via a group policy.

From here you can do with them what you like.

I have them automatically compressed (they compress super well) and then moved somewhere else for escrow reasons.

Hearts Get 'Younger,' Even At Middle Age, With Exercise
(Start now before it's too late. If you're under 70 years old, it will help a lot!)
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There appears to be lots of backup solutions for KVM. And these solutions are the best ones. They are simple BASH scripts that do exactly what they are supposed to do, and some PERL scripts.

The best kinds of backups are these, and that you can configure, and forget about, with the exception of testing restores occasionally.

These backup solutions are the least likely to fail.

When you get into vendor-specific and GUI-based backups, that's when thing start to get weird and lose potential reliability.

I prefer the CLI-based backups for production. They are the most reliable.

I've NEVER had a powershell / BASH scripted backup fail. I cannot say the same for any GUI-based backup (Veeam, WSB, etc.). In fact, I use PowerShell / BASH to "clean-up or fix" GUI-based backup failures.

@wrcombs said in Windows Firewall:

Im just wondering why , if anybody knows, Windows Firewall would stop the program from communicating?

Windows Firewall wasn't set to allow that program/port communication.

Windows Firewall SHOULD be enabled, always. It's up to the IT there to make sure Windows Firewall policies allow needed programs and ports to communicate properly through the firewall.

Your path is incorrect. You need to specify a real location to put it. \\nameOfServer\shareName

Or D:\path\to\storage

Or you can use the admin share on your hyper-v server: \\serverName\d$\Hyper-V