@jaredbusch said in Group Policy - Printer Deployment:

Fuck printers.
Fuck printer servers.
Fuck GPO based printing.

When did you start working with us?????

Hell, its about time to hire a windows print management specialist anymore!.

@pete-s said in Firewall rules for outgoing traffic:

@scottalanmiller said in Firewall rules for outgoing traffic:

@pete-s said in Firewall rules for outgoing traffic:

What is best practice for SMB?

SMB the protocol? Or SMB meaning small business?

Small business. The enterprises I've seen have heavy restrictions on outbound traffic..

I use to limit outbound traffic but like @JaredBusch said, it became hard to manage with all crap issues and small numerous changes constantly. The outbound rules started to add up and after much deliberation, we decided to scrap it.

@dustinb3403 said in VM host: dual CPU vs single CPU - same CPU performance rating:

@pmoncho said in VM host: dual CPU vs single CPU - same CPU performance rating:

@jaredbusch said in VM host: dual CPU vs single CPU - same CPU performance rating:

@scottalanmiller said in VM host: dual CPU vs single CPU - same CPU performance rating:

@pete-s said in VM host: dual CPU vs single CPU - same CPU performance rating:

But for instance in my case 2 x E5-2630V2 (2x6 cores @ 2.5GHz) shows up as having about the same benchmark performance (single thread and multi thread) as 1 x E5-2670V2 (10 cores @ 2.5Ghz).

Comparing typical TDP: 2x6 cores is 2x80W=160W while 1x10 core is 115W.

This is partly why I push companies so hard to move to single proc servers. Often makes far more sense. There is way less overhead.

But in this case tool six scores versus Single Tencor you might as well get the dual processor advantages since you’re going to have to pay for the licensing anyway if he runs any Microsoft products at all

It seems to me, in these situations, software dictates hardware configuration negatively. That is frustrating if one wants to continue to use MS products. Choices, choices, choices!!

I would say the software isn't dictating the hardware, but the licensing terms that comes with the software is.

You are correct. I re-typed that a couple different times and forgot the word "licensing" in the final reiteration.

@jaredbusch said in VM host: dual CPU vs single CPU - same CPU performance rating:

@scottalanmiller said in VM host: dual CPU vs single CPU - same CPU performance rating:

@pete-s said in VM host: dual CPU vs single CPU - same CPU performance rating:

But for instance in my case 2 x E5-2630V2 (2x6 cores @ 2.5GHz) shows up as having about the same benchmark performance (single thread and multi thread) as 1 x E5-2670V2 (10 cores @ 2.5Ghz).

Comparing typical TDP: 2x6 cores is 2x80W=160W while 1x10 core is 115W.

This is partly why I push companies so hard to move to single proc servers. Often makes far more sense. There is way less overhead.

But in this case tool six scores versus Single Tencor you might as well get the dual processor advantages since you’re going to have to pay for the licensing anyway if he runs any Microsoft products at all

It seems to me, in these situations, software dictates hardware configuration negatively. That is frustrating if one wants to continue to use MS products. Choices, choices, choices!!

@momurda said in Who's a good Veeam Cloud Connect Backup Service Provider?:

@dustinb3403 Yea it wasnt like that a few years ago at last job with VmWare and Veeam.
Wtf is the huge list of companies on that page? Cloud storage providers? No Backblaze, no Vultr listed. I even clicked Show More at least ten times.

I believe Vultr and such are not on the list because it needs to talk to Veeam software on the Cloud Repository also. Veeam does have some documentation on using AWS storage in the form of a tape library (read that somewhere, just don't know where).

@obsolesce said in Who's a good Veeam Cloud Connect Backup Service Provider?:

I'm seeing that it's just so expensive.

Tape still seems to be the best way to go when you're talking tens of TBs to get your data off-site. It seems like a tape library is way cheaper.

It can seem that way depending upon how you look at it. Not having to pull off a tape is nice.

I did discover in the past, you can purchase the Veeam software and use a cloud provider for just a repository. The pricing seem ok @ $180-$200 per month per TB. As with all things, it is relative.

@obsolesce

I use Data Harbor Company as they are local and friend of our owner.

You get a V B&R VM and all the tools. Then create backup jobs on local storage and then upload to repository.

They have more services they offer also but I just use them for backup.

@mattspeller said in WSUS Help:

WSUS is a pain in the ass

I agree. Without derailing the off-topic to far, I'm wondering what do others use as an alternative? PDQ Deploy?

@lj said in Windows servers- move files from old to new:

@pmoncho
This is what I have from the MS site.
/copyall Copies all file information
/SEC Copies files with security
/E Copies subdirectories includes empty directories
/R:1 Specifies the number of retries on failed copies (1 in this example)
/W:1 Specifies the wait time between retries, in seconds (1 in this example)
/Z Copies files in restartable mode
/MT:6 Creates multi-threaded copies with N threads (6 in this case)
/NP Specifies that the progress of the copying operation (the number of files or directories copied so far) will not be displayed
/log Writes the status output to the log file (overwrites the existing log file).

Since this is copying and NOT moving or mirroring I can't go wrong. Right? Ha!

I am going to set it up as a scheduled task to run late one night.First I have to read about the share and file permissions.

SET SORC=YourSourceDrive:
SET DEST=YourDestDrive:
SET LOG=SomeDrive:\robo.log
should Source, destination and log all be drive letters and folders? If the share is setup on the destination folder with permissions for all domain users (intially) I guess robocopy doesn't have to know anything about shares? Thanks again.

If at all possible, I am a copy and delete kinda guy (with backups on top of that)

This gives you the ability to make sure all is well before actually moving the data. There is also a /MIR switch which creates a mirror. Check that out too.

I used this script to move data from E to Z and back to E drives but you can use share paths too.

robocopy \\Yoursource\Path \\YourDest\Path

Setup your share permissions and the robocopy script will take care of the NTFS permissions. If you want them the same.

@jaredbusch said in WSUS Help:

@pmoncho said in WSUS Help:

@siringo said in WSUS Help:

Finally setup wsus on a 2016 server. All went well except I told it I wanted updates for Windows 7, which I've decided I don't want.

I told it I want updates for Windows 10 and it's downloading updates for all flavours of Windows 10, we only run Pro. So far it's filled up the 200GBs I set aside for it only 3 days ago.

I can uninstall wsus and start again, that's not a problem, is that the quickest and easiest way to get some of my 200GBs back and start over?

And, how can I tell it I only want updates for W10 Pro?

And, if anyone has a link to a 'I don't want to think too much' guide for setting up wsus, I'd be keen to take a look.

Thanks for any help.

You may want to check out for Clean-WSUS. Excellent script to help clean up WSUS.

Except it is no longer available.

Well Shit! I see that now. UGH!