@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.

I ran into a language issue the other day when writing a PowerShell script that uses net localgroup and thought it could be useful to others:

Depending on the language your Windows device is set to, the local Administrators group will be different, so the typical net localgroup administrators domain\user /add command will fail.

Implementing the following will grab the actual name of the group by it's SID first, then use that result.
Note that this is written to work in PowerShell, not CMD.exe.

# Gets the name of the local Administrators group in appropriate language $localAdminGroupName = (Get-WmiObject win32_group -filter "LocalAccount = $TRUE And SID = 'S-1-5-32-544'" | Select-Object -Expand name) Write-Output "Local Administrators group detected as: [$localAdminGroupName]" # Sets the users as a local admin using appropriate local Administrators group name net localgroup $localAdminGroupName domain\user /add # Gets local Administrators group members net localgroup $localAdminGroupName

Good find.

@scottalanmiller Sounds solid. The speed difference is dramatic. Thanks.

@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.

@brandon220 said in How to Download and Install Mods for Minecraft:

@JaredBusch Yes, we were going to try to use the Pterodactyl panel to manage a server.

That has nothing to do with the point of this thread. Make a new thread if you want to discuss that.