@Dashrender said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@PhlipElder said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@Deleted74295 We don't do facebook and have no plans to.

A fellow Microsoft MVP once put it, "Being on Facebook is like allowing a pornographer to take up residence in your bedroom."

I totally concur with that.

That seems more than a little over the top.

Uh no. Given the reveals over the last few years of what Z is doing with the data it's not. My opinion of the man and the company are not for polite company to say the least but that at least gives an idea of where I stand.

@dafyre said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@Dashrender said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@scottalanmiller said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@WLS-ITGuy said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

I use Facebook as a way to keep in touch with family and friends who don’t live close to me. I use FB Messenger to talk to my wife throughout the work day. If I wasn’t in IT I doubt I’d have a phone with internet. I’d prefer to be disconnected from the world. I’d rather be on my boat fishing all day.

I was doing that (family and stuff), but honestly, it seems like if people don't move to something else to talk to, not a big deal.

15 years ago, before Facebook - what did you use to keep in contact with your family? I don't know about you - buy my answer was - oh yeah - nothing. We didn't stay in contact and we didn't feel like we were missing anything - otherwise we would have found a way to stay in contact.

15 Years ago? Ha... We were using Skype and IRC.

Edit: The old man still runs his own IRC server for like 5 friends.

ICU? MSN Messenger? AIM?

Heh, there are some vague memories in there of those in the latter part of the 1990s early 2000s.

@scottalanmiller said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@Dashrender said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@scottalanmiller said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@WLS-ITGuy said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

I use Facebook as a way to keep in touch with family and friends who don’t live close to me. I use FB Messenger to talk to my wife throughout the work day. If I wasn’t in IT I doubt I’d have a phone with internet. I’d prefer to be disconnected from the world. I’d rather be on my boat fishing all day.

I was doing that (family and stuff), but honestly, it seems like if people don't move to something else to talk to, not a big deal.

15 years ago, before Facebook - what did you use to keep in contact with your family? I don't know about you - buy my answer was - oh yeah - nothing. We didn't stay in contact and we didn't feel like we were missing anything - otherwise we would have found a way to stay in contact.

yeah, that's what I was thinking... we just... didn't.

Blunt: Pretty sad that.

We have/had telephones and mail. We used them extensively because keeping family together is important.

Anything worthwhile takes effort.

@Deleted74295 We don't do facebook and have no plans to.

A fellow Microsoft MVP once put it, "Being on Facebook is like allowing a pornographer to take up residence in your bedroom."

I totally concur with that.

Plus, Z never did anything to earn our trust. The time and time again dealing with folks who had their "security" settings opened up to the world pretty much cemented it for us.

@DustinB3403 said in Bad one: SonicWALL Remote Management Vulnerability:

@PhlipElder Is the blog post 3 steps?

1. unplug sonicwall
2. open window
3. throw sonicwall out open window

?

I don't subscribe to that religion.

@PhlipElder said in Bad one: SonicWALL Remote Management Vulnerability:

Their site was offline most of this morning. It seems to be back now.

Rule #1: Never, ever, have a device connected to the Internet in an unrestricted manner for any kind of management. Never.
Rule #2: Update it. Always. Pay the fee if need-be, but make sure it's up to date.

The number of iDRAC/iLO/RMM horror stories heard around here as a result of being plugged directly into the Internet are sadly more numerous than they should be.

Did a blog post with a How-To for disabling: https://blog.mpecsinc.com/2019/07/19/important-sonicwall-vulnerability-patch-for-remote-management/

Their site was offline most of this morning. It seems to be back now.

Rule #1: Never, ever, have a device connected to the Internet in an unrestricted manner for any kind of management. Never.
Rule #2: Update it. Always. Pay the fee if need-be, but make sure it's up to date.

The number of iDRAC/iLO/RMM horror stories heard around here as a result of being plugged directly into the Internet are sadly more numerous than they should be.

@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Just found this in the garden

My favourite insect critter. Takes them two years to full maturity. They have a voracious appetite. When they show up in numbers on our acreage in mid-august the mosquito population takes a noticeable dive. They like to float on the updrafts above the house (black shingles) so we see clouds of them for at least a month.

I'm pretty sure Igor Sikorsky took his inspiration from them to get to a workable helicopter model.

@pmoncho said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

@Dashrender said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

Cool, then you should have it easy.

FYI - Published apps still create a full profile on the RDS box, Just the desktop isn't presented to the user. If the application allows them to browse around, they could typically see the drive letters, the mapped printers, etc... that's why you still need to lock all that stuff down.

Thanks for the info. I will keep that in mind. I was debating about using UPD's like @wrx7m and that was my interest in this post.

Also, still planning out where to put Connection Broker, WebAccess and Licensing but that is another post.

For local profile management, UPDs are a lot cleaner. If we are not putting them on a file server across the network then a second partition/VHDX is set up for that task to keep them separate.

With the inclusion of FSLogix with RDS CALs/SALs now it's a no-brainer, IMNSHO, to set the project up on the FSLogix version.

Storage management is another reason why UPDs on a network or separate partition make sense. Keeping a local profile on the C:\ of the session host is messy and can cause issues down the road with users coming and going.

As far as the Broker/Gateway/Web put those roles on one VM but separate from the Session Host.

@Kris_K said in 16TB spinning rust is here:

@Obsolesce said in 16TB spinning rust is here:

@PhlipElder said in 16TB spinning rust is here:

JBODs

Totally fine is its some kind of RAIN. Actually i'm looking at building a CEPH cluster, Dell&RedHat recommend using single-drive RAID0s

Our Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) hyper-converged clusters use IT Mode SAS HBAs for the SAS/SATA disk setup. NVMe are straight-through by default.

@scottalanmiller said in 16TB spinning rust is here:

@G-I-Jones said in 16TB spinning rust is here:

@scottalanmiller what's the general consensus here? Do we not buy Seagate because they fail more? Genuinely curious.

Generally avoid them, yes. Big usage shops like BB have had issues with them, and repair shops have advised that they see the failure rates on them in the wild being very high.

In 3.5" SAS we have plenty of 60-bay JBODs out there filled with Seagate NearLine drives. Our failure rates over the five year solution life across the board are virtually nil.

We had one drive fail in a Dell MD3060e but who the chicken knows what drive was installed in there in the first place.

We avoid Seagate SAS SSDs due to firmware problems that we've seen in the same settings.

We've been running with HGST now Western Digital drives and JBODs and have seen similar virtually nil fail rates.

As far as 2.5" 10K SAS goes, we have lots of Seagate and HGST out there with, again, very little in the way of fail rates.

Hard Drives have become quite reliable as a whole in the settings we deploy them in.

We've not deployed spinning rust in a workstation/desktop/laptop for years now. So, that negates the consumer side of things. We just don't.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

There is definitely some truth to that.

I put in a rose garden for my wife's birthday this last weekend. This is me sitting by the fire after the kids are in bed relaxing with our little Momma, Pretty Kitty, who has a 3-week old kitten and was looking for some respite herself.

That was it. Just the fire, the cat, and the fresh air. No drinks though. Was too tired.

@gjacobse said in Barcode scanner:

@PhlipElder said in Barcode scanner:

WASP Bluetooth unit.

https://www.waspbarcode.com/barcode-scanners/wws550i-freedom-barcode-scanner

Works like a charm. We've had it for close to ten years now.

It's set up to space after each scan and CAPS so that all serials are identical across the board.

I suggest setting up a single sheet print-out of 0-1 and A-Z (if needed) along with the bar codes for setup. Then, when it comes time to pair you're not frustrated by the default ENTER (we remove this) during pairing. We enable SPACE post pairing.

For complex builds nothing beats it.

Wasp units are nice.. but since I'm paying for this out of MY pocket,.. that is about 3x more then I want to spend.

We bought ours through distribution here in Canada. The discount was good.

If this is a long term project then it is worth it.

As I said, we've had ours for ten years or so now and it's paid for itself over and over with time saved.

EDIT: FleaBay: $18 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/WASP-WWS-800-Wireless-Bluetooth-Barcode-Scanner-4so/372633345409

WASP Bluetooth unit.

https://www.waspbarcode.com/barcode-scanners/wws550i-freedom-barcode-scanner

Works like a charm. We've had it for close to ten years now.

It's set up to space after each scan and CAPS so that all serials are identical across the board.

I suggest setting up a single sheet print-out of 0-1 and A-Z (if needed) along with the bar codes for setup. Then, when it comes time to pair you're not frustrated by the default ENTER (we remove this) during pairing. We enable SPACE post pairing.

For complex builds nothing beats it.

@wrx7m Correct.

Putting them elsewhere offers true user portability. In my experience the only extra step we take from there is redirecting Desktop and the My Documents folder. We do that by default for all of our clients.

There are some additional management and features available in FSLogix. It's been a while since I've looked at it though.

@wrx7m We have not deployed anything RDS related without User Profile Disks in close to a decade now. I can think of maybe one exception and that was because it was a very small setup with no need for anything else plus it was temporary.

User Profile Disks whether native or FSLogix, which is now included with RDS CALs by default, is the way to go.

They make adding Session Hosts or additional collections to the farm so much easier to do when located on a file server.

If someone blows-up their profile or it gets corrupted then SIDFinder to figure out their UPD, log them off, rename the UPD, log them on, configure their profile, mount the old UPD, and copy the needed data in if this is needed at all. Note that I am speaking specifically of something within the local profile getting corrupted here.

We would not deploy an all-in-one or farm RDS configuration at all without a UPD setup. Period.

@dafyre Concur. It's on our To Do List to get done soon as we have some farm building coming up that we'd like to deploy FSLogix UPDs on.

@dafyre Usually just one though the Surprised Removed message could be quite frequent with no impact to users. They were Event Log pollution.

We had one client we set up a pair of clusters for that decided to go with FSLogix because of the issues they were experiencing with native UPDs. That was on Server 2016.

@dafyre It's been a very long time, so I'm going to say 2012 R2.

@NDC Our main pain with them was "Disk was surprised removed" messages in the Event Logs and the occasional Session Host that refused to let the UPD go after the user had logged out that brought about a support call.