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@Pete-S said in Looking at Atom and VS Code:

VS Code and Atom unfortunately isn't versatile enough for my needs I have to look elsewhere.

Nothing wrong with finding the right one for your personal needs. G/l

I went with the lowest tier Spectrum 200/20 for now. Once T-mobile shows support for the address I'll consider that. I hate the 20 upload, that's just weird, but whatever. 200 should work for now, if not upgrading is easy.

@DustinB3403 said in What do you use to manage multiple Linux servers?:

@black3dynamite said in What do you use to manage multiple Linux servers?:

@travisdh1 said in What do you use to manage multiple Linux servers?:

Ansible and salt are my first two choices. Cockpit can work as well, but not as easily centrally managed.

Fedora gets all the love when it comes to having the latest version of Cockpit too.

Technically you could install the latest version of Cockpit on any distro.....

Just because something may be supported, doesn't imply that it is support.

The issue is that the only way to access the Win10 VM in Azure is via RDP. So when you wipe it, you wipe the ability to reconnect to the VM to do anything at all (I assume). This has nothing to do with Intune.

I've been managing Intune a few years and never have I wanted to test on an Azure VM. Do it locally on your device via Hyper-V or whatever you want to use. You can grab the hash of the VM and import it into Intune Autopilot before you even install Win10 on the VM. So by the time install is done, you're ready to rock and roll.

@manny2375 said in Azure VM + Intune Autopilot:

@obsolesce thanks I know this method works unfortunately this specific client doesn’t want anything onpremise other than networking equipment and thin clients. The autopilot feature would have been nice on azure vm though.

Everything you are trying to do Microsoft is telling you not to do.

Read the last part especially:

@dustinb3403 said in ESXi VMware ESXTOP:

@pete-s Yeah I saw that, but this won't output just the specific detail I'm looking for. It will output everything (and essentially bloat the logs).

I saw the same thing.

Thanks though

Make the script a two step process until you can figure it out.

1. Dump it all to CSV.
2. Then have the script remove unneeded data from CSV.

@dashrender said in Resize Linux VM Ext4 File System Proxmox:

@marcinozga said in Resize Linux VM Ext4 File System Proxmox:

@dashrender said in Resize Linux VM Ext4 File System Proxmox:

@marcinozga said in Resize Linux VM Ext4 File System Proxmox:

I see few issues above.

• LVM is not a filesystem.
• You don't need to shutdown VM to extend its disk size.
• You don't need to boot from any installer CD to resize partitions, you can do it from within live system with fdisk, although if you have some unusual partition layout you're probably better off doing it offline.
• You can also extend filesystem on a live system, no need for shutdown.

I thought his approach was over cautious. Windows will allow you to extend any partition except the drive live, and I'm guessing you can likely extend even / live in Linux OSes.

Are you sure about extending c:? I've done it many times, on live systems. Although it was on bare metal desktops after cloning drive to a bigger one.

You did it live with windows tools? OK that would be a new one on me.

Also did it live on Linux as well in both cases.

@dashrender said in Resize Linux VM Ext4 File System Proxmox:

@marcinozga said in Resize Linux VM Ext4 File System Proxmox:

@dashrender said in Resize Linux VM Ext4 File System Proxmox:

@marcinozga said in Resize Linux VM Ext4 File System Proxmox:

I see few issues above.

• LVM is not a filesystem.
• You don't need to shutdown VM to extend its disk size.
• You don't need to boot from any installer CD to resize partitions, you can do it from within live system with fdisk, although if you have some unusual partition layout you're probably better off doing it offline.
• You can also extend filesystem on a live system, no need for shutdown.

I thought his approach was over cautious. Windows will allow you to extend any partition except the drive live, and I'm guessing you can likely extend even / live in Linux OSes.

Are you sure about extending c:? I've done it many times, on live systems. Although it was on bare metal desktops after cloning drive to a bigger one.

You did it live with windows tools? OK that would be a new one on me.

I've done it lots of times on C for physical and virtual using built in tools. That's not a new one.

@jaredbusch said in Office chair suggestions?:

You sit in these things for hours a day, you want something high quality.

This. I went through some serious back issues last year and got a good chair by order of the doctor.

You want lumbar support for sure, and a chair with all the proper adjustments all around.

There's videos on YouTube for properly adjusting your office chair so I won't get into that.

Also, ideally, a sit/stand desk because getting up frequently or at minimum changing your sitting position is important.

These things helped heal my back so I know it works. It's also the way to go to prevent back injury or issues later due to improper office ergonomics.

@pete-s yeah it's been a thing now for like 2 years now. Many have been using it and following it.

No more having to go into control panel...

@travisdh1 said in Audit for Saved Credentials on Windows:

After getting the stored credentials, getting rid of them is easy enough Remove-StoredCredential -Target CredentialName.

Right, there you need to know the exact name of the target to remove it, which you can't obtain with just the module itself. So instead of installing a 3rd party module and having to use the cmdline tool anyways, best to just use the one that does it all.

Unless of course every machine you are searching uses the exact same known target, and they don't differ in any way, which is very unlikely. One target may be \\server\folder1, another might be \\server\folder2 and then it would start missing removals.

Using the cmdline tool, you can get a list of all targets, and match all those that have just \\server and remove them, without the requirement of using a 3rd party module.

There's isn't a good way to manage the Windows Credential Manager via PowerShell with built-in cmdlets, or the CredentialManager module unless you know what you're looking for, so a more reliable way to do it if you don't, is with the command-line utility cmdkey.exe.

I came up with some quick scratch-work to show an example, which gets the job done in my testing, but I have no mapped drives so I couldn't do a proper test.

# $targetMatch = '\\servername'
$targetMatch = 'TESTTEST'

$cmdkeyList = ((cmdkey.exe /list) | Where-Object {$_ -match "Target:"}) -replace "\s\s\s\s"
foreach ($line in $cmdkeyList) {
    $target = ($line -split 'target=')[1]
    if ($target -match $targetMatch) {
        Write-Host "`nRemoving stored credential target: [$target]"
        cmdkey.exe /delete:$target
    }
}

An XPS with Ubuntu is very hard to beat for work. I used to have a setup like that. My needs changed lately and now is most efficient to run Win10/11, however, possibly 2nd quarter next year I'll be back to running Ubuntu mainly after I finish some Windows related projects.

@pete-s said in sudo problems:

And it feels insecure to simply remove the password requirement.

The beauty of cert based auth.

But really, any account that isn't allowed to sudo couldn't do it anyways. That sudo doesn't require a pw doesn't matter. Just like in Windows, if you don't have local admin privileges, UAC doesn't matter... unless you have the credentials of or access to an account that does.

@ccwtech said in Windows Defender Application Control:

Has anyone played with Windows Defender Application Control, specifically Group Policy to turn it on for each workstation?

I have a request from a client to do this, but I am very leery of using group policy for something like this.

Are they all running Win 10 Enterprise?

@dustinb3403 said in Checking multiple Directories to confirm all files are identical:

I know I could use a tool like Create-Synchronicity to force 1 other directory to match the source, but I would prefer to find and list the differences in the directories.
Maybe powershell can help?

Yeah, PowerShell can help with this in the same way closing the front door of a house will fix a fire inside of it.

@callimarie said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:

uhh i keep getting this error "The libvirtd service does not appear to be installed. Install and run the libvirtd service to manage virtualization on this host."

So did you do what it said?

@adamf said in Inexpensive laptop recommendations:

I have a user who just needs to RDP to his powerful desktop machine at the office. He will be offsite a lot and I am looking to get a laptop so he can connect to it from anywhere. I just need something inexpensive that runs Windows. Any recommendations? I was looking at Asus , Dell, etc. Any recommendations on makes/models?

https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/For-Home/ZenBook/ZenBook-14-UM425-UA/

@gjacobse said in Inexpensive laptop recommendations:

@adamf
What is the limiting factor for running Windows?

Likely the user. But who cares. He asked for Windows laptop, which some people prefer to use.