@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@phlipelder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Small victories in life are often the sweetest! As of about 10 AM today, I paid off my car loan. The taste of freedom being being debt-free is so nice.

Both our vehicles were paid off this summer. We've been eyeing the idea of purchasing a 3500 series diesel for a 5th wheel trailer.

But I ain't gonna pay $85K+ for a truck.

The used vehicle market up here is nuts right now. Any truck for sale doesn't get below 70% of retail unless it's a wreck.

And yes, it is a good feeling.

We're putting the extra cash flow into fun things with the fam.

My next goal is building some general savings. I'm putting a good bit away for retirement, but I need to increase my more liquid savings that's easily accessible in case of hardship.

@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@phlipelder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Small victories in life are often the sweetest! As of about 10 AM today, I paid off my car loan. The taste of freedom being being debt-free is so nice.

Both our vehicles were paid off this summer. We've been eyeing the idea of purchasing a 3500 series diesel for a 5th wheel trailer.

But I ain't gonna pay $85K+ for a truck.

The used vehicle market up here is nuts right now. Any truck for sale doesn't get below 70% of retail unless it's a wreck.

And yes, it is a good feeling.

We're putting the extra cash flow into fun things with the fam.

My next goal is building some general savings. I'm putting a good bit away for retirement, but I need to increase my more liquid savings that's easily accessible in case of hardship.

Make sure you plan appropriately...
Below is best case IMO.
I'd aim to put enough away to have $3M+ minimum by 2053.

@dashrender said in I can't even:

@gjacobse said in I can't even:

Users who can't do a proper shut down or restart of their computer. And then complaining that it's dog in winter slow.

Uptime was 22days (not the worst I've seen). Disk and Memory were at 100% usage before restart.....

This isn't always a user's fault.

F'n MS doesn't always do a full shutdown... in fact by default choosing shutdown does a fast shutdown... choosing reboot supposedly always does a full shutdown memory clear reboot whatever.. and windows resets the clock.

I never, ever shut down anything. I either hibernate or reboot. Mostly hibernate, and reboot when not given the choice (updates). So for me, I don't care what shutdown does.

@pete-s said in Use powershell to create a scheduled task to reboot computers on schedule:

@jaredbusch

For logistics, I would also place scheduled tasks that I created in their own task folder. Just like Microsoft and others have.

That way I know the tasks in there is not generated by something else.

One could also fix the description to say the source of the task. I get the appeal of placing them in their own folder nested somewhere in that mess, but it's so much easier to deal with them in the top level directory.

@jaredbusch said in Unregister-ScheduledTask giving error about non-interactive mode:

@obsolesce said in Unregister-ScheduledTask giving error about non-interactive mode:

-Confirm:$false

Typos.....

This works...

Unregister-ScheduledTask -TaskName "Weekly Reboot" -Confirm:$false

Ohh, didn't notice the typo lol

@jaredbusch said in Unregister-ScheduledTask giving error about non-interactive mode:

Well that let it run and gave me a different error. Let me not pipe it and just use -TaskName and see what happens.

Try like this:

$task = Get-ScheduledTask -TaskName "Weekly Reboot"
$task | Unregister-ScheduledTask -Confirm:$false

That worked for me not so long ago.

@jaredbusch said in Unregister-ScheduledTask giving error about non-interactive mode:

@Obsolesce what is my answer? I do not see anything obvious in the docs for Unregister-ScheduedTask

Try adding -Confirm:$false to it

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

($anActualBooleanValue -eq "True")

"True" is a string.

A boolean value would be $True or $False.

$anActualBooleanValue -eq $True

Technically, you can do if ($anActualBooleanValue) {}

@pete-s said in Home office desk:

@obsolesce How did the desk work out for you?

It worked out very well. I went with the https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/idasen-desk-sit-stand-black-beige-s09280987/.

Having it now for about 6 months, I'd get it again.

@dave247 said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

@obsolesce said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

@dashrender said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

As for the OP's error? No clue - but the person who asked if he actually had AD setup or not - that's a great starting place.

Has the OP looked at all of the prerequisites and ensured they are all in place before trying to install Exchange?

We're beyond that now. I answered his issue with why it happened, what happened, and how to fix it here.

Yeah but if he doesn't have AD set up, then he's gonna have a hard time despite running the setup.exe properly

I was addressing his error in his very first post. How far back do you go regarding prerequisites that has nothing to do with the error posted? I mean, should we verify he has an active network connection as well? The direct cause of the error is obvious, let's get past that first, and see what happens next. I mean, the whole point of the command is to extend the AD schema... if he doesn't have AD, then no guide will help him at this point, as it's also insanely clear in the guide he's following.

@dashrender said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

As for the OP's error? No clue - but the person who asked if he actually had AD setup or not - that's a great starting place.

Has the OP looked at all of the prerequisites and ensured they are all in place before trying to install Exchange?

We're beyond that now. I answered his issue with why it happened, what happened, and how to fix it here.

@jasgot said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

But NOWHERE did he indicate that was his goal.

He mentioned his goal was to learn new things. It's fair to assume the purpose of that is to broaden their skillset, therefore improving their career.

@laksh1999 said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

Hi Team,

I am trying to create a Exchange 2016 in Microsoft 2016 server DataCenter Evaluation version.I am trying to do this from my virtualbox application.Any one have followed this lab setup before ?

Followed Link : https://www.prajwaldesai.com/step-by-step-guide-to-install-exchange-server-2016/

Your whole issue here is that you didn't follow the instructions.

You first need to mount the Exchange Server 2016 installation Media.

Then from the location of where your media is mounted, you run that command.

What you are doing, is blindly running commands from where ever. You aren't running the command from the proper directory, which only you can know where you have mounted or extracted the Exchange Server 2016 media.

@dave247 said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

The majority of people on this forum are arrogant assholes who like to pick apart your posts and criticize and insult what you are doing.

Some may see that way... while others will see it as questioning motives and pointing people in a better direction to improve their career and broaden their skillset to become more useful in the market.

But it is understandable some may not want that who are happy where they are and take offense to a better approach.

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@hugh-jass said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

Why are you trying to learn how out dated technology?

Maybe he's trying to get a government job? They always use the outdated stuff.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I almost wished I had not run that query now - as now I just want to ....

Connected to and ran a query against AD and it looks like,... (dramatic pause while rechecking)

Total Accounts:       1048
Active Accounts:       476
Disabled Accounts:     525

God help me. True that this includes service accounts and some other 'fluff'... but,... god - help - me.

-h-u.. h?

@scottalanmiller it's raining.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

pre stressing about the incoming rain.

basement leaks when there's heavy rain and I've done almost everything I can think of to stop it from coming in .
Hoping that all the work i've done since tuesday pays off. .

Best get that basement pumps handy.

dont have one of those yet.
lol

Oof. Hopefully you're not going to get too much rain. You're not in the path of what's left of Ida, are you?

Ida is pretty much not in the US anymore.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Debugging undesired script behavior.

Heh -
We are trying to use MS AutoPilot. Except that the PS Script Exception is blocking the needed script to onboard a new device. That have a the GPO set to block PS execution, so you can't build the device HWID file.

Thus far, I have not been able to get around the GPO to allow it.

What's the policy set to? Would you be allowed to change it to RemoteSigned and either sign your script or unblock that one specifically?