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@travisdh1 said in virt-manager for Windows: @scottalanmiller said in virt-manager for Windows: @black3dynamite said in virt-manager for Windows: Assuming virt-manager is installed on the KVM server. It would not be, that would not make sense. LOL That would be different in every way. That's not virt-manager on Windows, that's just remoting into a remote system. If we had a GUI on there, we'd just use MeshCentral. What's preventing you from using a headless GUI? I was doing that **** in the mid 90s on IRIX, what's changed that it wouldn't work now? Other than it's a really poor way to do things? What's wrong with wanting a good solution? We have a good solution on Linux, talking over an API. It is very efficient. Doing remote desktops to many machines is 1) ridiculous 2) insanely inefficient 3) a different result - how would you see all those systems in the same GUI?

@Obsolesce said in Does Anyone Actually Use Conversation View Intentionally for Email: @scottalanmiller said in Does Anyone Actually Use Conversation View Intentionally for Email: @Obsolesce Yeah, that's not bad. Outlook definitely handles it better than many. Don't remember off hand with Gmail. What I do know, is that I never miss emails in conversation view. I've only missed emials with Outlooks dumb "focused inbox" feature. But never with conversation view. I separate emails too after they are processed. But guess I use emial differently than you. If the conversation is ongoing, I don't think I move it anywhere. If I have email tasks to do, I'll simply flag it for follow-up, or right-click on it to add as a task.... all while the conversation can continue to flow as normal. Focused Inbox, Clutter that you can't turn off... so many other issues with MS mailboxes

@Obsolesce yeah, oldest first in that view. The problem with CV is that you get your email list twice, not once. One is newest first, one is oldest first.

Looks like a bug. You can get it to run correctly from the command line... cd /usr/share/cockpit/ovirt/ chmod +x install.sh ./install.sh https://my.ovirt.com/ovirt-engine 443 Running in this way produces good output. And it creates the necessary /etc/cockpit/machines-ovirt.config file.

@wrx7m said in Deepin 15.9 Installation Screens: @travisdh1 said in Deepin 15.9 Installation Screens: Am I the only one that still missed text mode installers? Probably. I do find it funny, that they all have gui installers when everything is cli, out of the box. Deepin is a desktop only, never meant to be a server or command line, though.

@JaredBusch said in Yealink T46S Missing Opus Codec in 66.84.0.15 Firmware: @scottalanmiller said in Yealink T46S Missing Opus Codec in 66.84.0.15 Firmware: In other firmware revisions, Opus is in the codec list. But now it is missing. This is not what you stated in your opening post. You clearly stated several updates. @scottalanmiller said in Yealink T46S Missing Opus Codec in 66.84.0.15 Firmware: Anyone noticed that several firmware updates for Yealink T4xS phones seems to be missing the Opus codec It's been multiple for us, not just this one. Older ones have had the issue, then we update and Opus appears. But now we update and it disappears again. So yes, several just as I said. I never said "several consecutively."

@dbeato said in Reset 120 Day Grace Period for Windows RDS Server with PowerShell: @scottalanmiller I assume you needed to do this while dealing with the RDS CALs on your post about that right? Yeah. They still have not come through, but there is a chance that they might today. We will see.

@Obsolesce said in What Happens When Microsoft Doesn't Issue Licenses: @scottalanmiller said in What Happens When Microsoft Doesn't Issue Licenses: So the reset and query tool that Microsoft provide do not work (they don't claim that they do in 2016, just that they thought that they would.) They report that all is well, and then RDS fails anyway. So there is both the licensing issue, and an issue with a lack of working tooling. Next time do it properly? And not use Microsoft? We did everything we were supposed to do, Microsoft messed it up. Short of not using anything that depends on Windows, what's the solution? Right now Insight and Microsoft are still going back and forth blaming each other. Unfortunately, not using Windows isn't something we control. But without being able to control that, having a reliable product isn't always something IT determines.

It is likely obvious, but as I know that some people are searching for this information, creating administrative users in this way can be done very easily from remote command lines such as ScreenConnect, ConnectWise, MeshCentral, and so forth.

@manxam said in Tip Top, the Biggest Restaurant in Nicaragua Loses Website: @scottalanmiller : Damnit, now I'm craving a fried chicken burger. Thanks Scott.... De nada, mi amigo.

Turns out it is just the disk number in Disk Manager.

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2019 Need to Download and Run without AV Deleting Files: https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2016/07/how-to-disable-and-configure-windows-defender-on-windows-server-2016-using-powershell/ For now, just temporary disable Real-Time Protection via PowerShell Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true Download the executable and scan it manually before you install Start-MpScan -ScanPath C:\datastore\file.exe -ScanType QuickScan Enable Real-Time Protection after the install Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $false Excellent, now THAT did it.

@JaredBusch said in Make Yealink Ring While on the Phone: @scottalanmiller said in Make Yealink Ring While on the Phone: If you have Yealink T46S phone, and you are talking on the phone, instead of making it do a call waiting beep, can you make it ring normally? A bit odd, but there is a reason for it Not to my knowledge. It was supposedly added as a feature request a few years ago, and I have not noticed it in a firmware release note. That would explain why I have never seen it come up. Not that anyone has ever wanted it previously.

@dave247 said in Windows 7 End of Support Countdown: @scottalanmiller said in Windows 7 End of Support Countdown: @dave247 said in Windows 7 End of Support Countdown: Man, I just finished upgrading us to Windows 7 64 bit. Got the last XP machine removed last week... Did you really target Windows 7 as the "go to" target, or was it simply that the last XP was removed finally and now Windows 7 is the "old stuff" left around? nah I was just gaffin. I've upgraded all our stuff to Windows 10 1809 baby Oh, haha. You never know. The number of people out there pushing for Windows is crazy high.

@pmoncho said in Get Windows Version from Command Line: No doubt. Currently working on getting Server 2019 DC, DHCP, and RDS working in a lab. A few challenges so far. Was going to try using PS to do many tasks I normally do in GUI (force myself to learn as I go) but decided to put it on the back burner due to frustration. I will get there with PS but it has to wait. Unfortunately, no matter how much we want to complain about PS and how Windows has no production-level roadmap at this point and is getting worse by the day, if you are going to run Windows today, PS is how it is done. Issues with PS have only one valid purpose to discuss - to use to explain to management why Windows shouldn't be getting deployed in production workloads, or why risks with it need to be accepted. It's like the licensing issues with Windows, these things all add up to cost and risk and risk is really just cost. It's part of the "decision numbers." Beyond that, it is what it is. If the business actually knows how costly it is and still chooses it, then PS is how you manage it. If you deploy and start without using PS, it'll be that much harder to switch later. I know the learning curve is absurd and the whole thing is so much harder than it has any purpose being, but I would bite the bullet if at all possible and learn it now. It'll just be harder later.

@jt1001001 said in Deploying Polycom Phones Properly: So I should just get rid of the TOTE of 20 or so IP650 Polycom phones someone left on my desk? (for those not in the know, my desk often becomes the Junk/Recycle pile collection site for some reason) I would. Or get them to eBay.

@JaredBusch said in Broadvox Outage 15 April 2019: Broadvox is now named Inteliquent as far as where the domain redirects to. Yeah, while passing through on Onvoy page along the way of the redirects.

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation: @dbeato said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation: @Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation: @scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation: @Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation: @scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation: @JaredBusch said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation: The current install method brings Windows Server on parity with the Linux ecosystem really. You install, choose some options and end up at a prompt after reboot. Then you remotely add the features and shit you want. Yeah, very in like with Fedora, Ubuntu, or Deepin. Deepin might still be my favourite installer for normal stuff of the four. Did you have a Deepin install screenshot chain on here? No, but I do it so often, it would be easy to get. That'd be nice to see on here. Last post on it was below https://mangolassi.it/topic/14453/deepin-linux-15-4-1-install The install still looks like that. LOL that's not an installer. That's a push button, get peanuts. Nice though.

@Obsolesce said in Managing Windows Local Groups with Net LocalGroup: net user doesn't work in that version of PowerShell? Could have sworn i used it in PowerShell way back... net user works in everything, PS, CMD, anything, because it's not part of any of them. It's a separate command line that goes way, way back. It's the alternatives to net user that don't exist until much later.

Good find.

@scottalanmiller said in Linux: Mounting an NFS Share: @JaredBusch said in Linux: Mounting an NFS Share: I have always wished that the mount command had to switch to put the damn thing Into fstab. You mean like --perm and it just appended into fstab? That would rock. Yeah pretty much anything like that

@scottalanmiller said in Managing Windows Local Users with Net User: @JasGot said in Managing Windows Local Users with Net User: I'm using backstage more I assume that this is a component of another product? Part of ConnectWiseControl. (or ScreenConnect as we still call it around here.) It's at the bottom of the View tab when attached to a guest. Takes you to a new sessions as a System account with a command prompt and powershell window already open. No limit to what you can accomplish there. many gui apps will run in backstage too.

Topic has been forked, please keep discussions of OS comparisons to a different thread.