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@lilyleiden
There are some imaging options that have built-in profile migration capabilities as well, such as SmartDeploy. Starting fresh while preserving their data could be a workable compromise, perhaps.

@pmoncho said in User migration to azure:

@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:

@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:

@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:

@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:

@lilyleiden said in User migration to azure:

We just tested migrating a small batch of test users to our new Azure tenant.

While migrating the PC/user account was no problem, the fact that people get a completely blank user profile, certainly was a showstopper!!

Many of our users has had their AD profile for years, even a decade and has a lot of individual settings, ways to work, shortcuts, quick links, favorites/browser cached passwords etc. and they loose all that.
Management has currently halted the process due to the protests.

So I am on the lookout for a way to link/migrate the old profile/profile settings, when Azure joining the PC?

I would use this as an opportunity to remove unneeded customizations and old ways of doing things and introduce new ways of working instead.

For instance is it really wise to rely on browser cached passwords? To me that's a signal that you need to look over you password management policy. Maybe your users need a real password manager or setup SSO to apps they're using.

I'm really on board with this! We don't migrate when people get new machines, that said - we have few users that do much customization to their setup...

Yes and it's also question of setting the right expectations. For instance saying: IT allows users to customize their desktops but will not provide support for it. New machines, reimaged desktops etc will be reset to company default.

I do this - I don't support end user shortcuts to their desktop. If you figure out how to get it - or get others around you to do it for you, fine... but IT does not support your shortcuts.

Wondering what others do for users bookmarks? Do you just have them create and use their own Google/Firefox/Microsoft account so they follow the user?

They can sign in and use their corporate email to sync in the web browser.

@Dashrender said in PS to download latest microsip version:

I just installed it on a test machine with chocolatey - it installed it into the local admin profile - so any normal non admin user can't use it.

You can use chocolatey to get the current version and download url. I don't install apps from chocolatey corporately, but I use it to obtain current versions of software and/or download links.

I use the same popup blocker in every web browser, even Edge, and it blocks everything. I've not come across any weird issues like that otherwise.

Have you tried this one?
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/ublock-origin/odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak

@Obsolesce said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

Originally, I was looking at proposing a 20 - 30 TB NAS populated with SSDs in the local office, with 10 Gbps NIC. This would provide high speed local access over the LAN to 6 marketing users.

If their PCs accessing a NAS at 1-10Gbps isn't good enough because their primary concern is speed, why would they push for way slower cloud storage, assuming no on-prem cache?

I archive my video in the cloud, but I would not want to work from it without a local cache.

@scottalanmiller said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:

I don't know any platform like that that has built in editors to modify the files that are in the storage

OneDrive does let you edit files directly, in the storage.

@Pete-S said in Allow Binaries on Linux to Run on Well Known Privileged Ports:

If you search for net_bind you would assume it would find both these post but it finds nothing.

It seems to only search "words", and that isn't a word or part of a word.

@openit At most, I can see using it as a starting point, then going through it personally to refine/fix/improve the output before using it. Anyone using the output word for word without combing through it and making it their own would be an idiot.

That's why tools like these exist:

https://aiwritingcheck.org/
https://openai-openai-detector.hf.space/

@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to open HEIC files?:

If they are videos, that means HEVC which is just h.265 and everything (except Windows native) reads that

I know for sure that immediately right after a fresh install of Windows 11 22H2 both Pro and Enterprise, h.265 videos do play using the default Media Player.

I do not think that's the case for Windows 10 22H2, though. Your options there are to use another player such as VLC, or upgrade to Windows 11.

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server Licensing:

Hey all, long time.

Just had a conversation with my purchasing guy, who's been doing this for decades the conversation came up about Server licensing, 1 Socket or 2 (or 400) and the core count.

Can someone refresh my memory on the specifics of this.

• I would eat my hat, but I could've sworn the licensing is every core and socket (using Standard licensing) needs to be licensed with a Core-Pack (16 core minimum) and the Server Standard license.

• He's under the impression that you only need to purchase 1 Server Standard license and the core-pack to cover the spread of those cores.

Microsoft's licensing seems to indicate that its a Per Socket with a Core Rider, as indicated here.

HPE has some tool which indicates the inverse here

You need to license 16x cores as a minimum, regardless.

If you have 1x socket @ 16x cores, or 2x sockets @ 8x cores each. You are covered via minumum.

If you have 2x sockets @ 10x cores, you need to license 20 cores total. (16x minimum, + 4x more cores) No more, no less.

If you hae 4x sockets @ 4x cores for example, you still need to purchase twice the minimum, which is licensing 32x cores.

@EddieJennings said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

I haven't used Amazon CloudFront, but have you confirmed that configuration is correct? Do you have any way to verify if there was any kind of burst of traffic that may have triggered some kind of policy that would cause traffic to be dropped?

Amazon CloudFront isn't blocked in Nicaragua, or any country for that matter. It's a service a website is using to service traffic. The Amazon CloudFront customer is using CloudFront to block access to their site geographically.

We don't know which website CCWTech is trying to go to. He never mentioned that. So this continues to be meaningless discussion because nobody can really go anywhere with it, except to point out that 99.9999999999% of the time, geographic blocks are not racially motivated.

Which "race" is being blocked by restricting access to Nicaragua? Mestizo? Mixed indigenous and European (primarily Spanish) ancestry? Is spain blocked as well? Is France? Is costa rica? Is the entire central america blocked? Is Mexico? South America? Kinda short-sighted to think it's racially motivated when there are so many other, more likely, reasons for geographic blocks.

@scottalanmiller said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

@Obsolesce said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

@CCWTech said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

Living outside the USA has shown me how many supposed 'IT Security Policies' are in my opinion, racist.

I got this today:

403 ERROR
The request could not be satisfied.
The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner.
If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation.
Generated by cloudfront (CloudFront)
Request ID: zomv8JAx_0HrRCvqqrBVKdUVY0WYlrp6F0BhpVut-NLG060J2fKC-w==

1. I happen to be in Nicaragua right now, and I think it would be hard to argue that there are a lot of Nicaraguan hackers (In other words we aren't talking originating from China or Russia here).
2. Do IT staff really think that the hackers they should worry about aren't familiar with VPN's or other ways of spoofing their IP or location?

This happens from time to time and today it I guess annoyed me more than it normally does.

Thoughts?

Not sure what race has to do with geographic restrictions. I'd say it more-so has to do with laws, regulatory, and other such things:

• legal and regulatory compliance
• export controls
• licensing
• infrastructure / performance concerns
• economic considerations
• fraud/security concerns
• content sensitivities
• strategic business decisions
• taxation and financial regulations
• local partnerships or agreements
• network abuse (sure there's one single aspect of your hacking point)
• language and support concerns
• etc.

Well, when you block by large racial regions, and all of those other things don't apply, it's pretty strongly definitely about race.

None of those other things can be used in conjunction with geo-ip blocking. I'd say the opposite... I don't understand how you can mention those other things given that it doesn't work for that. Other than race and/or nationality (which are deeply tied) there's no other effective reason for geo blocking.

@scottalanmiller said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

@Obsolesce said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

What's your evidence to support the site blocking is racially motivated, and not, lets say, regulatory or otherwise motivated?

Because no regulation anywhere, ever is supported by geo blocking. That never qualifies for any regulation.

It's not racially motivated, really, ever.

Example: Hulu... that's not really available anywhere outside the US. Why? Certainly not racially motivated... but licensing I'm guessing? (regulatory)

Netflix has different content available in different countries. Why? Certainly not racially motivated. Definitely about licensing agreements. (regulatory)
Likely aren't available at all in some countries. Why? Certainly not racially motivated. It's all about licensing/legal/regulatory reasons. Race has nothing at all to do with it.

@scottalanmiller said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

That it isn't about racism or geo blocking and the example has nothing whatsoever to do with the discussion?

It 100% has to do with the discussion.

Hulu is blocked in Canada just as it is in Nicaragua. Not because of racial reasons. Hulu is blocked in Canada, specifically, due to licensing rights and agreements. That is not racially motivated at all. It's legal.

@scottalanmiller said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

However, if you are telling me that race can never include "American" then you are getting into a quagmire.

Personally, I think American is a dumb term the way it's used. This whole side of the world is "American". North, central, and south.

To me, American is in no way a race.

I understand "American" to mean a nationality, not a race.

@scottalanmiller said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

I identify as Swiss/Dutch/Scottish and always have.

That refers to your ancestry or ethnicity, which is more about cultural and geographical origins than race.

@CCWTech said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

@Mario-Jakovina said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

@CCWTech said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

https://gephardtdaily.com/

There is one example.

It is geo blocked in my country.
But I do not find it racist

Should we call it unnecessarily discriminatory (Instead of racist?)

Let me put it this way.

If you would have said something more like:

"The website I'm trying to go to is only geo-blocking every spanish-speaking country. Is it just me or do they have a prejudice against spanish-speaking people?"

Or,

"This website is blocking every country in the world except the U.S., and their phone support also said it's due to the owners of the service having a huge prejudice against all non-U.S. countries."

That'd make WAY more sense, and something I could even get on board with, providing there aren't any technical reasons that make much more sense such as those I listed initially.

@scottalanmiller said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

@Obsolesce said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

Or,

"This website is blocking every country in the world except the U.S., and their phone support also said it's due to the owners of the service having a huge prejudice against all non-U.S. countries."

So you are okay with saying it is racism, as long as we couch the verbage so to make it feel more palatable to sensitive people who are racist, and we say that they are racist, but we avoid the word to not hurt their feelings?

When do we care about hurting the feelings of people being racist? That seems crazy.

No, because not all prejudice is racism. And what you've been explaining in your experience isn't racism.

@scottalanmiller said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

Or more specifically a Croatian one. Oh, you are a Croat? You can't shop here. You say "But I'm not a Croat, I just moved there and live there". Oh, well, too bad, we don't serve people who associate with Croats either.

Does that not feel racist?

No. Croatian is not a race. "Croatian" refers to the people of Croatia or their descendants, and it primarily denotes a nationality or an ethnic identity. Race is a broader concept that typically refers to groups of people with common physical attributes and genetic traits, although the definition and significance of race vary across cultures and is widely debated. Croatians, like other nationalities, can be of various races. It's important to differentiate between ethnicity, nationality, and race.

@JasGot

You can have M365 without email migration. If you don't want to move email to Microsoft 365, you can simply purchase licenses for SharePoint Online (standalone) or Microsoft Teams (which includes SharePoint features) for those who need it. You don’t have to utilize the Exchange Online portion of the license. Your on-premises Exchange can continue to operate as is.

OneDrive for Business is also an option. OneDrive for Business can be licensed separately from the full Microsoft 365 suite. It offers co-authoring functionalities when used with Office desktop applications. By doing this, users can collaborate on documents in real-time while keeping email on your on-premises Exchange.

Office for the web I think is free, that could be an option (not sure of it, haven't looked into it and it's been awhile).

@CCWTech gotcha.

Yeah I've been on Mac the last few months. Still trying to learn to like it, there's a lot of minor annoyances or quirks and quality of life differences that make it harder to get used to. I still prefer Ubuntu over MacOS for work, and Win11 strictly for personal use.

@Jimmy9008 said in How to manage remote work with little to no resources, and venting?:

I feel its time to move on.

This was my thought even before I read the post, and still is afterwards.