Posts made by Rob Dunn

Is DHCP included? My co-worker is running 10, but there's no DHCP manager to be found.

You can also save your own credentials file - which means you can share your connections file with your team, but yet use your own creds with it.

You really can't beat it for the price. Lots of features and they keep it updated and have great support.

@dafyre

Well, yes, but I want to zoom in with Greenshot so I can annotate and obfuscate my higher-res/detailed screenies!

This software is the best. You can encrypt your connections file, create macros, save various credentials for different folders, etc. - - rdp, vnc, putty, ssh support and more. Great stuff. I've been using their software for years.

Not an expert, but can you explain what is going on, what your environment looks like, what you've done so far, etc.?

Only feature I wish it had was a zoom capability - otherwise, this has just about every feature I would want in a simple screenshot utility. That and the price is right for commercial use!

The key...if you're into functional GPO's (vs. monolithic) is having an effective and meaningful OU structure. Otherwise, half of your time will be creating security filters or specific targeting which can get very confusing very quickly.

The performance impact of processing GPO's in general is negligible, but it does depend on what that GPO is doing (i.e. deploying software in general or printers over slow links? Have a seat and grab a cup of coffee). I would be more concerned if you have slow links at your sites - if this is the case, you need to ensure that you have Sites and Services configured appropriately and a RODC at your remote site to facilitate speedy logins.

Being aware of GPO enforcement (which you should try to avoid) and LSDO ordering will help you tons.

There's really no right or wrong way to deploy GPO's as it is more about what you're doing with them, how they are deploying, and what you're deploying them to.

Personally, my preference is to break my GPO's out to functional objects - i.e. this one is for security, this one is for desktop preferences, this one is for drive mappings, etc.

Has anyone suggested MangoEd?

"I got Mango'Ed!"

...I'm not entirely convinced he had line of sight on it the entire time he was flying it.

Yeah, I know about the height restriction. TBH, I would be just as annoyed had it been an RC helicopter, but there aren't any of those in the neighborhood - it's been pretty quiet for the last 12 years we've lived here and I'm not keen on having these things buzzing over my head when I'm looking to relax with a beer.

Honest question here: Legally, what's stopping me from shooting it out of the sky with a high-powered pellet gun (aside from me being a generally nice guy on any given day)?

Yeah...wasn't too happy about that.

My family and I were spending some nice quiet time in our yard, and all of the sudden, we hear a faint buzzing/whirring noise coming from above. We look up, and there was a 3' drone hovering between ours and our neighbor's house at about 200' up or so.

It hovered there for about 5 minutes then drifted down the street at the same height for another 5 minutes. I waited for the unit to head home (the battery has a limited life) and went over to the guy's house who was flying it.

Turns out, he flies them commercially and was honestly confused as to why I would have a problem with it flying over my house.

I told him I didn't like it because:

• I have no idea who is controlling the drone, therefore...
• ...I don't know if there is a camera (usually there are)...if there is...
• ...I don't know if the camera is recording...even if it isn't recording...
• ...I have two small children, I don't like the idea of someone watching them or my wife
• Noise - Hearing a buzz overhead for minutes at a time is not conducive to a relaxing evening in the yard after work
• Safety concern - If the battery dies or there is a mechanical issue, the thing could come crashing down into my yard. If so, is it mine if I decide to be an a-hole?

He was cool with not flying it over my house after I asked him not to - but still...what do you guys think of this? To me, there's a psychological aspect to this that separates a drone from an RC airplane...the fact that it hovers.

Have you had any experiences like this?

You don't have any software restriction policies at play, do you?

I personally love Hyper-V - I started using it on Server 2008, and it was ...ok at that time, but it ran. Now, when Server 2008 R2 came out, Hyper-V introduced High Availability and volume shared clustering, and it worked splendidly for us. Unfortunately, I never got the opportunity to work with this on any automated level, but it was fantastic when we had planned building outages and needed to migrate our servers to our secondary server node.

It's always been easy to set up - my only beef with it is the built-in GUI management tools. You can manage Hyper-V Server 2008 & 2008 R2 from a Windows 7/2008 box, but if you want to manage 2012, you need Windows 8/2012. There are other tools available (5nine Hyper-V Manager works great) - - but, it's annoying.

@nadnerB said:

Have a look at this one by softperfect.
It's portable but... I don't think that there is a report function.
https://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/

I swear by SoftPerfect's Scanner. You can save your scans and it can do a LOT - - to the point where you can load up custom OID's for SNMP scanning, alternate credentials for WMI scanning, configure right-click options on your scan results, etc. I use it all the time.

When we migrate our remote sites to new IP schemes, I use it to inventory the subnet, then I'll come back and scan again (you can import your prior scans and merge them). The SNMP integration is great. I am getting printer serial and model numbers - - otherwise, I would have to connect to each manually.

It's portable in that you can simply copy the folder to a USB drive and it will work, but I don't know if it's 'proper portable.'

Great stuff.

I do!

@Dashrender said:

how many ports on the 2910?

Got some pics...the 2910 (24 port)

2520's (24 ports):

They'd make great VOIP switches...

We have two HP 2520 ProCurve 10/100 PoE and one 2910 10/100/1000 PoE switches that we aren't using any longer. Any interest? Prices are negotiable, everything is in perfect working order. Pulled from one of our plants (our parent company likes Cisco, so...)

10/100/1000 PoE (J9146A)
1 x 2910al used - $400

10/100 PoE (J9138A)
2 x 2520 used - $150 each
1 x 2520 new - $300

The guy in that promo video (http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html) has a punchable face.

@PSX_Defector Yep, that's it!

I want to make sure that it just plain works with someone else's setup. You must have remoting enabled on server - an assumption on my part, but I don't even think about it being enabled any more, but considering the intended audience for the script, I should...!

Basically this is to help troubleshoot WSUS issues - wrong port, etc.

Thanks so much!