@dyasny said in Testing oVirt...:
Local storage "where appropriate" usually means extremely datapath latency sensitive workloads, and if those require local storage, they probably also require baremetal, and should not be virtualized. FC latencies compared to local SAS are negligible, and you will lose more by virtualizing such workloads than by placing their data on a fast SAN.
Enterprise storage I've seen, is SAS. Where do you see San in enterprise everywhere?
@FakeNoMore said in Backup strategy for personal data (non-business):
I'm curious how you backup your personal data at home.
Everything is on OneDrive, GitHub, GitLab, or multiple. Very fast restores. Everything is basically stateless as much as it can be, in that my personal devices are basically on site caches, except for game installs, but even those a easy to reinstall, and game data is cloud based anyways.
@hobbit666 said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:
@Obsolesce personally I don't think I would ever need one.
But as Scott said in another post whole traveling out means keeping his phone save and hands free.
But the BIG item for me is safety. I'm traveling all summer and I NEED access to information all the time. Like ALL the time. And part of staying safe is keeping my $900 phone safely in a zipped pocket, invisible, and keeping my hands free. Less distracted, info closer at hand, phone protected. As a big time traveler, a smart watch is one of the best things you can do.
I did not see that. That makes sense I guess if you are paranoid about something happening to your phone. If you travel frequently and to many diverse places, I suppose the odds are higher something could happen.
@JaredBusch said in Hats off cmder:
@Obsolesce said in Hats off cmder:
@JaredBusch said in Hats off cmder:
Windows 10 has natively had support for SSH since umm 1803 i think.
Yes, but not on by default until 1809 i think.
Thought it was 1803 by default and 1709 added. But yeah.
That could be. Honestly it's hard to keep track of that mess.
@justin867 said in Best Backup Solution for 2019:
@JaredBusch said in Best Backup Solution for 2019:
@justin867 said in Best Backup Solution for 2019:
@PhlipElder said in Best Backup Solution for 2019:
Veeam set up to back up to a Synology RAID 1 NAS with enough storage to meet your recovery point objectives.
Backup file destination should be password protected with read-only access for all accounts but admin and Veeam user.
A pair of NAS devices set up identically could be used to provide an air-gap for the backups.
A small single drive NAS/external enclosure could provide a similar setup.
StarWind Virtual Tape Library set up as a backup destination that can then trickle the backups up to BackBlaze would be one of the least expensive off-site/cloud solutions.
well said! thank you very much.
And doens't mean a damned thing because you never gave any actual detail.
That's your opinion, if Phlipelder is selling me a product. I already start discussing with him the details while the other sellers still asking for questions and doesn't seem to have an idea. I feel most of you guys have an idea but choose to do the "play hard to get" approach. Lol.
If this was anyone working for me, they'd be fired after they perform a full audit of everything they've done to date.
@wrx7m said in Microsoft Office - Licensing Questions For 3 Scenarios:
Scenario 1
You need to install O365 on that machine using the shared option. Forget the name atm, not at a PC.
What happens is when they log on to the computer, office asks them to log in.
They'll need to have their own login for that computer.
Technically, doing it this way is the only allowed way to do it. You must specifically install the shared version of office.
Edit: found the link
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/overview-of-shared-computer-activation-for-office-365-proplus
@dave_c said in Another VPS Kid on the block upcloud.com:
Interesting benchmarks:
https://community.centminmod.com/threads/13-way-vps-server-benchmark-comparison-tests-upcloud-vs-digitalocean-vs-linode-vs-vultr-vs-hetzner.17742/(edit) Warning: It is a long analysis. You can go to the summary at the end if you like.
Great for Vultr if you don't mind having your data in the U.S.
@JaredBusch said in Microsoft Office - Licensing Questions For 3 Scenarios:
@NDC said in Microsoft Office - Licensing Questions For 3 Scenarios:
@wrx7m said in Microsoft Office - Licensing Questions For 3 Scenarios:
@Obsolesce said in Microsoft Office - Licensing Questions For 3 Scenarios:
@wrx7m said in Microsoft Office - Licensing Questions For 3 Scenarios:
Scenario 1
You need to install O365 on that machine using the shared option. Forget the name atm, not at a PC.
What happens is when they log on to the computer, office asks them to log in.
They'll need to have their own login for that computer.
Technically, doing it this way is the only allowed way to do it. You must specifically install the shared version of office.
Edit: found the link
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/overview-of-shared-computer-activation-for-office-365-proplusI have read that, and the shared activation is for proplus. We have business premium. So, we would have to assign users with proplus licensing. However, a chat with MS last night yielded no solution. Sure, you can use proplus to do this, but what about if you have those same users that have office 365 mailboxes/exchange online with business premium? They couldn't answer that.
I read that MS has expanded the selections that can do shared activation somewhere. I want to say that happened in April? Here we go MS blog about the change.
Boom, win.
Which links right to the article I posted 3 days ago...
@scottalanmiller said in UPS Radiation:
@wirestyle22 said in UPS Radiation:
Is the consensus that this is an insane question to ask and I shouldn't worry about it? I'm not exactly worried but I realized how little I know about it
Yes, 100%. If you have ANY concern about this, you can't live in a house that has AC in the walls, because that alone is giving off more! Everything in your life, from your cell phone to your TV to that hair dryer to the walls themselves are a bigger concern. The power lines by the road and in the ground are bigger issues. The UPS is the last thing you'd worry about, like literally. It's the same as the batteries in all of your other devices.
You'd have to move to a cave on an island to get away from the level of radiation from a UPS.
And all of that is before we deal with the question not of how much, but who cares? That kind of radiation is similar to extremely dim light. So imagine sitting in a dark room with a candle across the room at night. Then imagine being worried about the dangers of radiation from being in that amount of light. The UPS is way less than that.
This reminds me of Chuck McGill in Better Call Saul lol
@JaredBusch said in Email server options:
So the client is sticking with Microsoft, because their other systems are also Microsoft.
Here are the final numbers, unless someone freaks, they will be going with Office 365 Exchange Online Plan 1.
WTF do they want both O365 and onprem exchange? Just glanced quick, but seems they could cut the cost by 80%.
@StuartJordan said in Email server options:
@Obsolesce it's a cost comparison, he isn't having both, from what I can see?
Yah I realized that later and wrote it in the telegram group.
@JaredBusch said in Need a good example of getting powershell arguments:
I'll hit the google later, because I am on other things, but I found that something I touched today could very easily be improved if I can add parameter handling to the powershell script.
Now, the basics are easy as it is all in the
$ARGSvariable/object.But I want to have some safety checking. because it is easier to do things right the first time.
Example: I want a parameter to note if I should make the thing being done the default.
I can pass a 1 like
dothing.ps1 1and I can simply code something to check $ARG[0] eq "1" but that is not very explanatory to the person using the script.This is more explanatory
dothing.ps1 -defaultfor a command.So has anyone seen a good example of parameter handling that I can put into my
dothing.ps1script?
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you mean.
Taking a guess here, but how I understand is that you'd want to add this at the top of your script:
[cmdletbinding()]
param (
[Parameter()]
[Switch]$Default
)
if ($Default) {
Write-Host "The -Default parameter was specified."
} else {
Write-Host "The -Default parameter was NOT specified."
}
Doing that will give you the following output:
PS > .\JBTest.ps1 -Default
The -Default parameter was specified.
PS > .\JBTest.ps1
The -Default parameter was NOT specified.
If you want to accept input from a pipeline to work with, let me know.
@Pete-S said in How long does it take for clients to resolve new IP from DNS on LAN?:
We have changed an local DNS entry to another ip address. Or actually the customers internal IT has done this.
How long does it take for users to start using the new ip address?
- DNS points to a webserver
- Clients are running Win10 and some Win7
- Clients are using Chrome
- Customer is a Windows shop (mostly) so I think DNS comes from AD?
I thought they default to one day hour. Just check the DNS server quick to see.
Edit: one hour, not one day.
@Dashrender said in Why Let’s Encrypt is a really, really, really bad idea…:
@DustinB3403 said in Why Let’s Encrypt is a really, really, really bad idea…:
@Dashrender said in Why Let’s Encrypt is a really, really, really bad idea…:
@DustinB3403 said in Why Let’s Encrypt is a really, really, really bad idea…:
@Dashrender said in Why Let’s Encrypt is a really, really, really bad idea…:
Even if someone somehow got the private key for the cert, that doesn't let them breach the server, that only allows them to breach the communications between that server and a client.
right??Yes, this doesn't get the person onto said server, it just allows someone to play MiM, which in practice could get the MiM onto the target server as the originating user.
eh? what originating user? you mean that being an MiM could allow them to get the admin creds and then log in as the admin? Ok I guess I could see that.
but again, and expired cert is not the same as having the public
No I'm saying if as a user you went to bankofamerica.com and tried to login as your user account, a MiM could capture that information and login themselves.
Stolen creds at that point.
@DustinB3403 said in Why Let’s Encrypt is a really, really, really bad idea…:
@Dashrender said in Why Let’s Encrypt is a really, really, really bad idea…:
@DustinB3403 said in Why Let’s Encrypt is a really, really, really bad idea…:
@Dashrender said in Why Let’s Encrypt is a really, really, really bad idea…:
Even if someone somehow got the private key for the cert, that doesn't let them breach the server, that only allows them to breach the communications between that server and a client.
right??Yes, this doesn't get the person onto said server, it just allows someone to play MiM, which in practice could get the MiM onto the target server as the originating user.
eh? what originating user? you mean that being an MiM could allow them to get the admin creds and then log in as the admin? Ok I guess I could see that.
but again, and expired cert is not the same as having the public
No I'm saying if as a user you went to bankofamerica.com and tried to login as your user account, a MiM could capture that information and login themselves.
Stolen creds at that point.
This assumes that the Cert is the only encryption happening
Your https connection to a web server, the cert is the what is used to encrypt your connection. It has nothing to do with server security in any other sense.
Looked at spiceworks once, never looking again.
@magicmarker said in How do I replace one Domain Controller server with another and keep IP address?:
Well, I'm glad I have this forum to bounce ideas off. I will plan to take everyone's advice and just promote a new Windows 2016 DC with a new name and new IP and demote the Windows 2008R2 DC1. I should be able find all the devices that have the DC1 IP address hard coded.
Once you get the devices with static IP settings taken care of, you can change the IP of the new DC without issue. It's supported and I have done it multiple times on 2012 — 2019 without issue.
The biggest surprises in my experience were network switches that had static settings, so check those too. Also make sure your dhcp server settings reflect what you want the dhcp clients to have. Your other DC, check that. Your client devices should be dynamic, but you never know.
@travisdh1 said in How to authenticate via AD to non-domain server:
@zachary715 said in How to authenticate via AD to non-domain server:
Ubuntu 18.04 on VMware. Would consider joining to domain if it's the easier option. Just didn't know if it was something basic I was missing.
I know that joining CentOS and Fedora to a domain is quick and easy, but I've not attempted it with Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is easy too in basically the same way.
@stacksofplates said in Using Ansible to Manage install and update Apple OSX DHCP clients:
Maybe tone it down a tad since you apparently don't understand what's happening. We are recommending using keys for authentication.
Yeah, I didn't read all the way down before I wrote that. I don't always have time to read past the first few, and it wasn't mentioned in what I did read. My bad there.
@DustinB3403 said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:
@David_CSG said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:
My need is for one mgmt tool that is: Viable for Windows and Mac OS endpoint management, and for simple basic (check for and) application of system updates, both fit the bill.
This is exactly why I am heavily testing out Ansible with @stacksofplates and @IRJ slapping me in the back of my head continuously.
If it's mostly Windows, I find SaltStack much easier to use with Windows. Lots more functionality, at least the last time I was deep into it. If it was mac/Linux clients only, then I'd choose Ansible likely, of course depending on things.
@DustinB3403 said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:
@Obsolesce said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:
@DustinB3403 said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:
@David_CSG said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:
My need is for one mgmt tool that is: Viable for Windows and Mac OS endpoint management, and for simple basic (check for and) application of system updates, both fit the bill.
This is exactly why I am heavily testing out Ansible with @stacksofplates and @IRJ slapping me in the back of my head continuously.
If it's mostly Windows, I find SaltStack much easier to use with Windows. Lots more functionality, at least the last time I was deep into it. If it was mac/Linux clients only, then I'd choose Ansible likely, of course depending on things.
We're mostly mac.
Sorry to hear that.