@EddieJennings said in Managing Hyper-V VMs:
That's what I thought. For that initial install of the OS, you have to have some manager program.
That's how it works with every hypervisor. To "go into" the VM, you need to use a manager.
Like with KVM, you can use qemu/virt-manager.
Hyper-V, you use Hyepr-V Manager.
VMWare, vsphere.
@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
What the heck is this thread about?
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2084444-nas-security-for-cloud-access
I took a quick look and
@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I think this is a frightening decision in allowing employees to seek punitive damages when an employee intentionally discloses PII in response to a phishing attempt: https://blog.knowbe4.com/heads-up-employees-sue-company-for-w-2-phishing-scam.-federal-court-decides-triple-damages.
I think it's the right decision.
Ticketing systems seem to work best for everyone in a high-user SMB with a small IT department... everyone wins. Issues get seen by the entire IT department, can be distributed appropriately, and users can track them.
A stop in the hallway only results in one IT tech being exposed to the issue, most likely interrupting them on their way to do something else, and most likely being forgotten.
I can see that chat could get just as distracting as door-knocks, walk-ins, and phone-calls.
@francesco-provino said in Bonus: when SAM was against KVM:
Just an old thread in which I was arguing of KVM being the best thing since sliced bread…
Luckly, I remain of the same idea and continue to experience with KVM till today.I just want to give credit to @scottalanmiller for have brought me to know the VMware and Xen world, at that time :).
Thank you Scott, your claims have significantly boost my IT career, even if we did not agree at all!
Technology changes fast. I wouldn't go back further than a year or two with most info-gathering.
OpenSSH Comes Out of Beta in Windows April 2018 Update
https://www.petri.com/openssh-client-comes-out-of-beta-in-windows-april-2018-update
Active Directory is just a centralized authentication and object database... it isn't much more than that.
The good stuff (in this aspect), is Group Policy. The main part of Group Policy, administrative templates, is (basically) just an easy categorized and searchable GUI way of centrally controlling the registry of multiple Windows clients.
There are a ton of other Group Policy extensions as well, like all those included in Group Policy Preferences for example. So for fine-tuning and centrally controlling all settings and such of Windows machines (clients and servers), and other objects, Group Policy is really a very convenient way of doing it.
I would think Salt compares to SCCM (it is just a configuration manager after all).
I'd use Salt in place of Group Policy and other configuration managers. But if you already have AD/Group Policy and System Center, there's really no need, unless you also have a lot of Linux (or other) based OSs.
@rojoloco said in YouTube TV:
@reid-cooper said in YouTube TV:
@jmoore said in YouTube TV:
i got Netflix, Amazon, and Crunchyroll. Ill never be done
Hulu is okay, too. But not on par.
Hulu can suck it. They refuse to let you watch anything if you use an ad blocker.
<whole row of middle finger emojis>
I blacklist any website that does that, I don't care what it is.
Most stuff comes pre-loaded... so the list is pretty small. I mostly stick to the defaults.
I like to install (in addition to what's already pre-installed):
Nothing more at the moment, but I'll add later if others come up.
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@rojoloco That's illegal.
Kodi clearly has a bad rap like Napster did. Napster could be used for legal things, definitely, the reality is that it rarely was use for legal means.
Just about everything illegally done electronically is done on Windows and Linux... should we all stop using those too?
@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
But, perhaps I'm being overly sensitive and am reading too much into things.
Probably this IMO.
Valid points were made, additional considerations were brought to light, more understanding and concepts came from it... that's how things progress.
If only a single aspect of something is talked about, and all else is not considered, well I think that's dangerous and how misconceptions and misinformation can form.
@NerdyDad said in Drive Mapping: IP or FQDN:
@gjacobse said in Drive Mapping: IP or FQDN:
Which is 'better'
Mapping by IP or FQDN?
What if DNS fails? Then FQDN fails. But what if you move the server or shares to another server and the IP address changes?
Why are your DNS server(s) so unreliable?
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Maybe I'm just bitter from UGA's meltdown, but it seems like the vultures have landed on this thread.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2085471-the-best-low-cost-cloud-based-phone-system
Guy hasn't had a chance to even tell us requirements, and [insert vendor here] already has the best possible solution for the requirements that haven't been named.
Yeah that's why I don't even bother reading Vendor comments. The only exception is Kooler from StarWimd he seems to be the only Vendor who actually knows things and not just trying to blindly sell software .
So... Keeping in mind you can use free Hyper-V server and free StarWind virtual SAN to build a two-node shared nothing SMB3 clustered file server free of charge... I think it's time to retire DFS-R See Step-by-Step guide:
Hyper-V: Free “Shared Nothing” SMB3 Failover File Server
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/part-2-smb-3-0-file-server-on-free-microsoft-hyper-v-server-20...
Except this violates the Hyper-V Server 20xx license and is illegal. Do it on Windows Server and all is well. You'll need two Windows Server licenses, but StarWind vSAN is free. Or use Linux with StarWind vSAN.
I'm not too sure about SMB 3.x on Linux, but there may be ways.
@scottalanmiller said in Sage 50 Quantum in Hyper-V VM:
@EddieJennings said in Sage 50 Quantum in Hyper-V VM:
As for official support for Hyper-V, I wouldn't say it would never happen, but considering how long virtualization has been out, I'd say it will be unlikely to ever have official support--
Read: We don't take our product seriously and it cannot be considered business class software. It's a joke, we know it's a joke and we don't care because it's not our intention that real businesses use this joke.
Exactly my thoughts when reading it, too.
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If I have live data on a server (let's assume non changing) and you make a copy that's wholly separate from the source data - that's a backup. It's also a copy.
Now we'll see where Scott tears me apart on that.No, that's correct. A stale backup is still a backup.
Just not a backup of updated data
Agreed - and most backups are of stale data because few systems only have static data. But I made the caveat in case anyone wanted to shred me over it.
Post / reply shredders are Care Bears at heart.
Don't try to dress @JaredBusch up in a pretty pink dress.
I think that would go well with one of his fedoras ^_^
