Posts made by Reid Cooper

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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

A little over 12 hours until I take the LPI Linux Essentials exam.

Good luck.

As an "extender", you'd definitely need a parent of some sort.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

OMG, this is so sad. And so dedicated. Not only is this terrible news but also, now I really want to hire this guy.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2226171-dying-so-should-i-leave-a-legacy-behind-for-the-new-admin

This is the saddest thread I've ever seen

Holy crap, that's awful.

Might be the right time to add in this thought, too:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/13/tumblr-once-sold-billion-owner-wordpress-just-bought-site-fraction-that/

In this post about SW's viability: Jay mentioned hiring the new community managers as examples of how the platform was viable. Does laying them off imply something? They've delinked both accounts at this point.

@Nic said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:

Confirmed layoffs being listed here:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2226718-with-the-changes-in-the-community-would-like-to-say-thanks-to

Damn

Well this is all going to be very interesting.

@kamidon said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

I had Walmart take n bake pizza, it's shockingly good now

I've had it, it is quite good.

@JaredBusch said in Database held for ransom, anyone experience this before?:

@donaldlandru someone is screwed.

Assuming no backups and that it has sensitive data. Might just be Wordpress posts and public already.

@Obsolesce said in Revisiting ZFS and FreeNAS in 2019:

Guys what if, just follow me here for a second, @scottalanmiller and @xrobau are actually the same person?

Must be, who else has time for this!

@black3dynamite said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

If you are using Pi-Hole in-house and your router (edgerouter) name servers is set to cloudflare, should Pi-Hole upstream be pointing to the router IP?

Probably not, you want to limit your caches.

@scotth said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

US jobless rate at lowest since 1969

The US unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level for more than 49 years in April, according to official figures.

The jobless rate fell from 3.8% to 3.6%, the US Labor Department said, the lowest rate since December 1969.

Does this report count those who are "unemployed" the same way in both time frames?

Not likely.

It's similar to how Word will save your progress, but didn't used to. With disks being so much faster now, especially compared to floppies, writing changes automatically isn't a big problem for most things.

Loads of new people, this is great. Greetings everyone.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Coffee after having worked till almost 4am!!

You are going to need a bigger cup.

That's what she said.

@Pete-S said in ISP Failover with Cisco ASA:

All ASA 5500 series are EOL though so I don't think you can (or should) upgrade the license on them..

Very good point. I'd love if this was the excuse to replace them.

I have an older Cisco ASA at a site that is interested in possibly getting a second ISP after some downtime with the main line and we are wondering if the Cisco ASA can handle a failover line like that. I am pretty sure that it cannot do load balancing. But just failover seems like it would. Has anyone does this? Does it work? If so, does it work well?

@Obsolesce said in General Guidance on Windows Admin Center WAC:

Yes you do need to either add other devices manually or by importing a list... but it's a one-time thing so it's a non-issue IMHO.

Not bad for tiny environments. But at any scale, how does that handle machines being added in the future? You have to manually add every new machine after every change to WAC?

Trying to roll out WAC to a small office. Mostly just want to play around with it. I have two Windows servers here, both are Windows Server 2019. One is an Active Directory domain controller, one is an application or LOB server. Pretty basic setup, small office.

I know that WAC does not support installation to an AD DC. So that decision is simple, it goes on the application server. No other web services, so no port conflict issues. Seems easy.

I'm not using the beta or preview version, just the stable release. The one that MS recommends.

Getting it installed is no issue. Self signed certificate, port 80 redirection, those work immediately. Beyond that, WAC seems to have a lot of issues.

First, it only shows the one local server, not the domain controller or anything else in the domain. I understand that you can add other machines, but there seems to be no way to add automatically or search a domain, every single one has to be added by hand?

Adding by hand would be doable, the environment is tiny, but adding by hand seems to fail at least half of the time. And it constantly asks for the admin credentials, often multiple times for the same task, and then fails anyway. If I log in, it seems to randomly treat the machine as a local device and sometimes as a domain one.

If I reboot and log back in, the machines that I have added to WAC are gone. I have to add them each by hand, every time I go to use WAC. That doesn't work.

Sometimes the page can't load at all. It seems to struggle heavily just with displaying the page.

I assume that all of this is from some basic setup that is wrong, but the install is so simple and straightforward, it is hard to imagine what I might have done wrong that makes the resulting system so unusable. Anyone have any guidance on where to start?

I assume I'll be making many posts with new issues as I figure out what they are. Thx. RC