@dafyre said in Fitness and Weightloss:

@Dashrender said in Fitness and Weightloss:

Most important thing - finding something that motivates you and you enjoy doing.

In my mind, this is absolutely goal number 1. The weight loss and improved health are just positive side effects.

Yes, yes, yes. I was going to the Gym alone and lifting with headphones in. I was the youngest person in the gym and only a few people were actually trying. It was a group of local pastors and retired guys standing around with Fox News blaring. Not to knock on anyone, it just wasn't my crowd, and I was miserable and didn't even realize it. I was just going in half assing a work out and going home. Joining a place with people around to encourage and motivate was a complete game changer. It is weird how much I look forward to waking up and hitting the gym. Even when I have to travel, I will still go in and get a workout in before I have to get on a plane. Now I just need to find the same support and motivation to stick to a Nutrition program and lay off the high proof beer.

Just dropping in for an update. So about 4 months ago, I joined a CrossFit box and I absolutely love it. Please skip the CrossFit is stupid, or a risk of injury, or etc. etc. etc. I get it, but I have found a gym and a community that pushes me to work out and try like I never have before in my life. I'm up to going 4 days a week at 5:30am. It is tough getting up that early, but it is the one time of the day that nothing conflicts. I haven't lost weight, but I have held near the same body fat and put on about 10lbs of muscle. I need to keep that in better check with diet, but I digress. I am lifting heavier than I ever have, and I can run a mile without stopping to catch my breath, and slowly getting in the best shape of my life. If anyone out there is thinking about trying it out, go for it. It isn't like the stereotypes, and you don't have to be an athlete to get started, everything scales.

Let's say someone knew they probably don't need AD, but they have never heard that only 1 server is fine. Hypothetically, where would they look to read more into this idea?

@scottalanmiller said in Help with IIS Security:

Sorry that we could not narrow it down more.

It is an obscure issue that is hard to troubleshoot with out seeing it. The application is probably the better fix, I just wanted a easier workaround and was hoping someone had seen it before.

For anyone who stumbles across this in the future, I could never get this to work more granular than the entire site security IIS. I have edited my web application to grab the local user account from the browser and preform an Active Directly lookup manually. It works, so moving on. Thanks for the advice either way.

@kimberlin said in Help with IIS Security:

I believe the syntax in the system.webserver namespace is a bit different and as follows:

<system.webServer>
<security>
<authorization>
<add accessType="Allow" roles="WHATEVER" />
<add accessType="Deny" users="WHATEVER" />
</authorization>
</security>
</system.webServer>

Where do I put the localization to a single action or file?

The full directory is C:\folder\site\views\admin\Index.cshtml and the webpath is http://hostComputer:8080/Admin/Index. From what I have read the system.web was deprecated in IIS 6, and it is now system.webserver. I have tried this, but it isn't working.

 <location path="Admin">
     <system.webServer>
         <security>
            <authorization>
                <allow roles="GRP_Admins" />
		<deny roles="*" />
             </authorization>
         </security>
     </system.webServer>
 </location>

@scottalanmiller View is referring to a Web page. So the Application Pool is running as a service account, that account has access to the database. The user does not have access to the database. I just need to be able to say users in X group are denied access to X.html or http://test.com/Action/Index.html

@scottalanmiller said in Help with IIS Security:

@s-hackleman said in Help with IIS Security:

@scottalanmiller said in Help with IIS Security:

@s-hackleman said in Help with IIS Security:

I have a website that is running as a Service Account in IIS. It is then connecting on to a SQL server on a remote server. Is there a way to control access to a specific view based on the Active Directory Group membership of the user visiting the site?

Yes, but this would be a part of the application and not related to IIS or SQL Server.

I know IIS can filter by AD user in some instances, and I was hoping for a quick fix for an obscure problem.

Yes, IIS can, but IIS would be filtering to the application, not to SQL Server. Remember IIS is just a container for the application. IIS doesn't talk to SQL Server, the app does.

I only need it to filter to the application.

@scottalanmiller said in Help with IIS Security:

@s-hackleman said in Help with IIS Security:

I have a website that is running as a Service Account in IIS. It is then connecting on to a SQL server on a remote server. Is there a way to control access to a specific view based on the Active Directory Group membership of the user visiting the site?

Yes, but this would be a part of the application and not related to IIS or SQL Server.

I know IIS can filter by AD user in some instances, and I was hoping for a quick fix for an obscure problem.

@momurda said in Help with IIS Security:

You certainly can do this. SSRS/CRM/NAV all do this. I dont really have any specific answers other than yes.
Your post is still a bit vague.
What authentication is the IIS using? What view are they presented with when logging in?
What permissions do users have by default to the sql server? What is the view currently?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8971128/restrict-access-to-a-wpf-view-based-on-ad-group-membership

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/49a5eafc-9ee2-47da-8c04-efc1bb8cd4dc/how-do-i-host-wpf-browser-application-in-iis?forum=wpf

I know I am being a bit vague, but my company has a somewhat strict policy about seeking help online. I am using Windows Authentication on the site. What I am looking for is a setting in IIS that I can say this AD group can get to X page, and this group can get to Y page but not X page. I know I can do it in my application, I was just hoping I could do it in IIS. It works if I use passthrough security and edit file security permissions, but I need the Application Pool to run as a specific user, so this doesn't work because to the OS all users read the files as the same user.

@momurda Ineternet Browser viewing custom IIS hosted website.

I have a website that is running as a Service Account in IIS. It is then connecting on to a SQL server on a remote server. Is there a way to control access to a specific view based on the Active Directory Group membership of the user visiting the site?

It was a bar conversation, we are just throwing around ideas. In our organization, our data will exist in internal MS SQL servers. Our task will be to write web applications to contextualize and work with this data (CRUD) and report for upper management and execs all internal information, nothing web facing. We have always just done everything Microsoft, because it is here and everything else in the environment is, however, I don' see many other people talking about or recommending it. I just wanted to see if there was a clear favorite, or a go to web dev environment that everyone agreed on. I kind of figured it depends would be the answer.

Just a quick question , if you could start fresh for an enterprise web app, with a sql backend what would you use. Currently we use C# in a visual studio MVC project, then razor forms. If we could start all over how should we do it?

@penguinwrangler said in Chromebooks and Facebook:

@scottalanmiller Well, I am buying it for him so it will be the cheapest 4GB RAM model I can find. Probably a refurb from Newegg.

Facebook in general on a 4GB model is a little clunky. I wouldn't go super cheap, shoot more middle of the road model.

@ccwtech said in Raid Drive recovery:

Have you downloaded R-Studio?

I was going to before I found a backup of the Website I needed to restore. I ended up spending my limited time bring the old code up to date instead of testing the software. Thanks for suggestion.

I called G-RAID, and you guys are dead on. The new devices have a different hardware RAID controller, so I would have to find an old enclosure on ebay, or pay out for data recovery. I was lucky enough to find a copy of the 1 important piece of development that wasn't super out of date, so I have given up on the drive and the data. I will just move on from here. Thanks for the advice and lesson learned.

I have a little G-Raid Studio Thunderbolt 2 6TB external hard drive with two drives mirrored to each other. The chassis seems to have failed and will not spin up the drives. I removed the drives and plugged them in to my laptop individually in both Mac and Windows and it seems to see the drive but not mount them due to an unknown format. I just want to recover the data and move it to real business hardware, any advice?

@penguinwrangler As far as weight-loss goes you will typically get better results with weight-loss with strength training than cardio. When you do cardio, you burn more calories than sitting. When you lift weights you burn more calories, then your body will spend more calories rebuilding muscle the next day, then that new muscle now takes more calories to move, so you burn more in your day to day life. I am not saying you don't need cardio, but if your goal is weight loss at least consider doing a mix. I lift 3 days a week and ride my bike 6 miles round trip to and from work for my cardio. I started about where you were and I have slowly worked from 300lbs about 8 years ago down to 185, then back up to 200, and on a cut now to get to the 170's. Weight training is what took me from 220 to 185 and made a huge difference for me.

Also, you can not exercise off a bad diet. an 30min on the treadmill barely breaks even for a single bottle of soda.