@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.
@Dashrender said in PS to download latest microsip version:
Any thoughts on how I can fix these?
Chocolatey
@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@Obsolesce said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
based on the word voxel is the world completely buildable and detroyable?
Not in the same way Teardown is, (another awesome game by the way), but you can build/destroy.
@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
based on the word tycoon is it a sim?
Yes, along the lines of a Sim City type game, but more fun.
I had time later and looked at the steam store. looks interesting.
I actually had it in my Steam wishlist for like a year or something. I had constantly ignored it because the name doesn't do it justice, and never really bothered to look much. I had added it back when I was playing more Teardown and searched for other voxel based games out of curiosity. I wish I would have looked at it closer a long time ago.
@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
based on the word voxel is the world completely buildable and detroyable?
Not in the same way Teardown is, (another awesome game by the way), but you can build/destroy.
@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
based on the word tycoon is it a sim?
Yes, along the lines of a Sim City type game, but more fun.
Voxel Tycoon, I highly recommend checking it out. It's tons of fun! Be warned, huge time waster.
@Pete-S said in DISM /Remove-ProvisionedAppxpackage vs Remove-AppxPackage?:
@Obsolesce said in DISM /Remove-ProvisionedAppxpackage vs Remove-AppxPackage?:
@Pete-S said in DISM /Remove-ProvisionedAppxpackage vs Remove-AppxPackage?:
I'm trying to clean up some unneeded Windows 10 apps. But I'm not sure about what method to use.
Does anyone know the difference between using:
DISM /Online /Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage /PackageName:Microsoft.WindowsCamera_2018.826.98.0...versus using:
Get-AppxPackage *camera* | Remove-AppxPackageDism is an exe, the other is a PowerShell cmdlet.
I don't recall which one, but I think the verb-appxprovisionedpackage is more similar to dism?
I don't remember anymore, it's been like 6 years now since I dove I to it when I wrote the Win10 crApp Remover.
But here's the docs
Awesome thanks!
Links are great, it looks like there is all the information I need.
I can see that you've put in an impressive amount of work making your Win10 crApp remover. I'll take a closer look at how you disable and uninstall things in your code.
To save you some time looking through that crAppy code, it basically comes down to two lines, 626 and 640.
@Pete-S said in DISM /Remove-ProvisionedAppxpackage vs Remove-AppxPackage?:
I'm trying to clean up some unneeded Windows 10 apps. But I'm not sure about what method to use.
Does anyone know the difference between using:
DISM /Online /Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage /PackageName:Microsoft.WindowsCamera_2018.826.98.0...versus using:
Get-AppxPackage *camera* | Remove-AppxPackage
Dism is an exe, the other is a PowerShell cmdlet.
I don't recall which one, but I think the verb-appxprovisionedpackage is more similar to dism?
I don't remember anymore, it's been like 6 years now since I dove I to it when I wrote the Win10 crApp Remover.
But here's the docs
@pmoncho said in User migration to azure:
@Obsolesce said in User migration to azure:
@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:
@Obsolesce said in User migration to azure:
@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.
huh - a PITA making users make three separate accounts (one for each browser) based on their corporate account... but doable.
Three separate accounts for what? I only use one web browser for work, and only one work account, and have all my work bookmarks on that, and synced. Why would someone do all that on multiple browsers?
Government Healthcare websites. That is why. Medicaid (per state), Medicare (per jurisdiction), Insurance websites, different EMR websites, etc... etc... etc... etc...
Yes, it is a BIG PITA. Heck, up until last year, Eclinical EMR (version based) still wanted IE and refused to use Chrome/FireFox/Edge. It can now be used on Chrome/Edge but doesn't like FF, yet for Medicaid, they like FF better than Chrome/Edge. UGH
(Just a little bitter....)
Even in those cases, if I had a need to visit those websites on my work device with my work account, that would be the exception to the rule. I would continue to ONLY use Edge, with only my work account set up for sync. And in the weird cases I ever had to visit one of those sites that only support IE, I'd just copy/paste the password in there from the saved passwords through Edge or LastPass (whichever you'd use).
There's no way I'd set up a profile in IE for any reason, unless forced to.
The alternative to signing into the web browser to sync is so much worse, even in the off chance you chose to use 4 web browsers at the same time, and sign into them all with your work account to sync. Any other method is going to end up costing way more effort in the end anyways.
@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:
@Obsolesce said in User migration to azure:
@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.
huh - a PITA making users make three separate accounts (one for each browser) based on their corporate account... but doable.
Three separate accounts for what? I only use one web browser for work, and only one work account, and have all my work bookmarks on that, and synced. Why would someone do all that on multiple browsers?
@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.
@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.
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So last week I rolled out DUO 2-factor authentication. Happy to say that I only had 1 user with any issues, and that only required a simple delete / recreate account. I feel safer already.
Duo. My place has been on it for 2-3 years now.
Hmmm... good to know. I might have to pick your brain if I run into any other problems.
Duo works well here too for past couple years.
@Pete-S said in How to use different accounts on the same website/service with profiles:
Profiles in Chrome
In Chrome you can add a new profile (aka user) by clicking on the person icon (You) on the top right and select + Add.
Here you can also switch profiles. When you add a profile Chrome asks if you want to create a shortcut on the desktop (Windows).
The target will look like this:
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 1"
For those who don't use Firefox or Chrome:
Similar to Chrome...
Target will be like this, e.g.:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 1"
@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft script recreates shortcuts deleted by bad Defender ASR rule:
The question is, why are you trying to vilify the entire concept of code review and openness, especially when none of that was involved in the issue, let alone was the issue an... issue.
He must think it's not possible or less likely for closed source to contain bugs, bad code, or malicious actors, and that if it does they would catch and disclose it more openly and better? Unsure of the logic there.
@Pete-S said in Proxmox hates security:
@Obsolesce said in Proxmox hates security:
@Pete-S said in Proxmox hates security:
KVM by default for instance is managed by libvirt and by default doesn't open any tcp ports at all. That gives the administrator the option to decide what level of security versus convenience they want.
Remotely using Virt-manager for example, via remote SSH connection.
Yes, that's one option.
The more minimal approach is to just use
virshas you don't need a desktop environment for that.
Huh? Who doesn't use a desktop environment on their PC?
@Pete-S said in Proxmox hates security:
KVM by default for instance is managed by libvirt and by default doesn't open any tcp ports at all. That gives the administrator the option to decide what level of security versus convenience they want.
Remotely using Virt-manager for example, via remote SSH connection.
Full Moon
2023.01.06 @ 21:32
Alt: 55°
First night out in a few cloudy/rainy weeks, next week or two the same
I did a little bit of everything of what I could. Dew point reached, everything got wet that wasn't in a heated dew shield, which thankfully the telescope was.
Setup:
5" SCT + Fujifilm X-T4 @ ~1250mm f/10 - 3840x2160
iOptron mount, tracking: mount-only
Fujifilm Camera Remote
FPS: 29.97 / Shutter 1/250 (4ms) / ISO 320 / Histogram 50-75%
Dynamic Range: 200%
70% / 450 light frames
PIPP + AS!3 + RegiStax6 + Lightroom
Same shot, different processing:
