@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

That's what stuff like Remarkable is for. That in between limbo stage. Not quite paper, not quite not paper.

Have you used one? do you like it?

I too prefer note taking on paper... and then have lots of tablets of paper in my office.

I see now that you haven't.

I have a Rocketbook notebook that I take notes in and then am able to digitize quickly. Works well for me at least. They do like their marketing buzwords. https://getrocketbook.com/pages/how-rocketbook-works

@hobbit666 said in Air Gap Backups:

How would people define this?
Just send a backup to the cloud, or only achevied by backing up to tape (or other media) and store somewhere?

We're looking to backup 4-5 VM's on a vmware host. 1TB max.

Any major online storage provider offers some sort of immutable storage, which to me, is the easiest way to go. Even if you do get hit and they try to take out your backups, they can't mess with the backup files.

Tape works as well. Just a little more effort.

I've never liked a NAS to protect against ransomware, good for most backups otherwise. Too hard to air gap properly unless they also offer immutable storage.

@gjacobse said in HTML Editing:

@travisdh1 said in HTML Editing:

@gjacobse said in HTML Editing:

As I search threads on HTML and specifically HTML editing, why not add one to the mix.

It's been a good while since I've done much HTML editing - most of the time when I was doing HTML editing I at least was editing existing code, or searching code to change one or two things.

I'm trying to clean up some SharePoint HTML that has gotten a bit messing with change of font and formatting. What I would like to be able to do - is strip all of the HTML code, leaving the text and URL for the text (clickable link).

Is there any suggested applications that would do such a thing, or is it likely that I'll need to go link by link?

I've not found any better way than using the search and replace with whitespace like @dave247 already mentioned. Also, the last time I did any actual coding instead of scripting was ~8 years ago now, and I used Dreamweaver to do it shudders

Dreamweaver was better than FrontPage....

Oh, this gets even better. The project I came in and completed was doing a lot of work with media, so they chose Flash for the programming language to use, which made sense at the time. However, this was for a program that would be locally installed on a computer, so we also had another proprietary application that would compile flash into an .exe.

@gjacobse said in HTML Editing:

As I search threads on HTML and specifically HTML editing, why not add one to the mix.

It's been a good while since I've done much HTML editing - most of the time when I was doing HTML editing I at least was editing existing code, or searching code to change one or two things.

I'm trying to clean up some SharePoint HTML that has gotten a bit messing with change of font and formatting. What I would like to be able to do - is strip all of the HTML code, leaving the text and URL for the text (clickable link).

Is there any suggested applications that would do such a thing, or is it likely that I'll need to go link by link?

I've not found any better way than using the search and replace with whitespace like @dave247 already mentioned. Also, the last time I did any actual coding instead of scripting was ~8 years ago now, and I used Dreamweaver to do it shudders

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

frantic call that just came through ..
"hey our computers upgraded to Windows11 and now I can't access anything"

you upgraded your system to windows 11 without talking to anyone?

"no, it did it by itself. we would never do that"

*connects in - um. it's still windows10 like it should be.. but it's in the wrong user. hold on a second.

There try that

"oh I'm at the bank. I can't do anything right now. "

Happy Friday !

Thank you #users, at least you keep the rest of us entertained!

@jasgot said in Understanding STUN???:

@travisdh1 said in Understanding STUN???:

@jasgot said in Understanding STUN???:

@travisdh1 said in Understanding STUN???:

You'll need to open network ports to the UniFi controller on the firewall it sits behind.

Except I'm not certain I even want STUN. If it does not provide a required component for these APS to work (they are working without it now) , I'll likely to leave those ports closed on the controller side.

That's the thing, they'll work in the current configuration, but you can't update any settings.

How so? I can make all kinds of changes and even open a debug terminal to it without STUN working.

Then that makes no sense to me. If the setup is as you describe in your initial post, then there has to be some way they are communicating through both firewalls.

@jasgot said in Understanding STUN???:

@travisdh1 said in Understanding STUN???:

You'll need to open network ports to the UniFi controller on the firewall it sits behind.

Except I'm not certain I even want STUN. If it does not provide a required component for these APS to work (they are working without it now) , I'll likely to leave those ports closed on the controller side.

That's the thing, they'll work in the current configuration, but you can't update any settings.

@jasgot said in Understanding STUN???:

I am trying to understand what STUN does. I have some UniFi APs out in the wild behind a NAT device, and I have a Network Controller in an office behind a NAT device.

I am getting STUN errors on the APs, but I'm not sure if I need to worry about it.

when I look at this statement in the UI documentation:

In simple terms, STUN provides a way for devices to securely communicate with
 other devices when they're located behind a router.

It's unclear if they are discussion my scenario, where the APs and the Controller are not behind the same NAT device. Also, is STUN so APs behind NAT can talk to other APs behind the SAME NAT?

If they're behind the same NAT, nothing additional is needed for the APs to communicate between each other.

The problem is I have a configuration they do not specifically address, and I don't know if their statements apply to my secenario.

Thanks.

STUN allows a device to reach outside of it's local network. It does not allow devices behind two disparate networks to communicate.

You'll need to open network ports to the UniFi controller on the firewall it sits behind. See https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/218506997-UniFi-Ports-Used

I think you only need 8080/3478 if you are only managing devices remotely, been a while so I'm not 100% sure on that.

@eddiejennings said in KVM or VMWare:

@travisdh1 said in KVM or VMWare:

@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

@travisdh1 said in KVM or VMWare:

@irj said in KVM or VMWare:

@francesco-provino said in KVM or VMWare:

@WLS-ITGuy I haven’t been in this forum for years, and after years I still see similar questions and the same arguing…

Do yourself a favor and learn something useful like Terraform to automate VMware or similar stuff, the real deal today is not wasting your time reinventing the wheel and doing manual operations, not saving a few bucks on hypervisor’s license.

I agree here. Many on here don't understand the benefits of IaC and proper SDLC because they haven't been exposed to it yet. Penny wise and pound foolish.

Granted many of these one man shops don't have the resources (IT employees) to do it. If you're fixing printers you don't have the bandwidth to do this kind of stuff. Either way there is still pain in the long run for not doing automation, but for them it's just not feasible.

I'm all in favor of automation.

What I question is why you NEED VMWare to automate things? I've done it with XenServer/XCP-NG, and I don't see why anyone couldn't also automate KVM based things as well.

Can you give examples of this automation? I have a feeling the terms aren't exactly the same here.

What I'm thinking of in this case is using Ansible to provision and build and manage VMs and/or the host server.

I’ve been working with this in my home lab, and the virt module seems pretty limited in what it can do. For making a new VM, I’m basically creating and executing a script that runs virt-install to make the VM, which is similar to what the Fedora Project does for VM creation.

This is an example I've used before for XenServer/XCP-NG. https://jrisch.medium.com/using-ansible-to-automate-vm-creation-on-xenserver-d092aa484a06

@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

@travisdh1 said in KVM or VMWare:

@irj said in KVM or VMWare:

@francesco-provino said in KVM or VMWare:

@WLS-ITGuy I haven’t been in this forum for years, and after years I still see similar questions and the same arguing…

Do yourself a favor and learn something useful like Terraform to automate VMware or similar stuff, the real deal today is not wasting your time reinventing the wheel and doing manual operations, not saving a few bucks on hypervisor’s license.

I agree here. Many on here don't understand the benefits of IaC and proper SDLC because they haven't been exposed to it yet. Penny wise and pound foolish.

Granted many of these one man shops don't have the resources (IT employees) to do it. If you're fixing printers you don't have the bandwidth to do this kind of stuff. Either way there is still pain in the long run for not doing automation, but for them it's just not feasible.

I'm all in favor of automation.

What I question is why you NEED VMWare to automate things? I've done it with XenServer/XCP-NG, and I don't see why anyone couldn't also automate KVM based things as well.

Can you give examples of this automation? I have a feeling the terms aren't exactly the same here.

What I'm thinking of in this case is using Ansible to provision and build and manage VMs and/or the host server.

@irj said in KVM or VMWare:

@francesco-provino said in KVM or VMWare:

@WLS-ITGuy I haven’t been in this forum for years, and after years I still see similar questions and the same arguing…

Do yourself a favor and learn something useful like Terraform to automate VMware or similar stuff, the real deal today is not wasting your time reinventing the wheel and doing manual operations, not saving a few bucks on hypervisor’s license.

I agree here. Many on here don't understand the benefits of IaC and proper SDLC because they haven't been exposed to it yet. Penny wise and pound foolish.

Granted many of these one man shops don't have the resources (IT employees) to do it. If you're fixing printers you don't have the bandwidth to do this kind of stuff. Either way there is still pain in the long run for not doing automation, but for them it's just not feasible.

I'm all in favor of automation.

What I question is why you NEED VMWare to automate things? I've done it with XenServer/XCP-NG, and I don't see why anyone couldn't also automate KVM based things as well.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to work out where the "10 day delivery" option has gone from Aliexpress

Ha! More like 10 months if it is travelling by cargo container right now.

@gjacobse said in Windows Terminal: Runas:

I'm pretty certain that I was able to run Windows Terminal last week as Admin, however now I am unable to do so. This is the error encountered:

Found a site that mentions how to set up WT to run as Admin but then I run into this:

But it is there -

It seems that it should be a rather simple thing to address - but maybe I am working with more of a Monday than normal and I'm over looking it.

Any suggestions?

Is your username the same account that you get admin privileges with? If not, that path will be wrong.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

That ultimately sucks. @scottalanmiller , is there anyway to do that a head of time to save you time in the future?

OMG, the details of the timing on COVID tests for some countries are insane. So here are the basics....

The COVID test has to be taken NO MORE than 72 hours before you LAND and get to the customs agent in the country you are entering (not all countries, but many and definitely this one.) You have to allow for potential delays in the flight, especially with the US having lots of weather delays this week. An average flight this week has to be at least 20 minutes late or more and a few hours isn't crazy. So for safety add at least three hours to protect against normal delay possibilities.

So if our flight is supposed to land at 5:30PM we have to assume 8:30PM is realistic (and given that customs can easily take 45 minutes, you have to add that in there, too.)

So 72 hours before that is 8:30PM last night (for us.) You can't control test timing that closely. At best you typically have about eight hours of control. For us, the test is SCHEDULED to come back to us at 6:30PM... no way for us to fine grain the control closer than that. But this only gives us the flexibility of traveling for about 20 hours of delay, not enough time to make another flight (flights are ever OTHER day in this case.)

Now the second requirement is that you have to upload your test to both the country AND the airline no LESS THAN 36 HOURS before the flight takes off. Not lands, takes off. So this is a much smaller window of time than it sounds like. Our flight is scheduled to take off at 3PM on Sunday (already delayed once by two hours making this all so much harder.)

That means that while we are getting our test back at 6:30PM, it HAS to be uploaded by 3AM tonight. Essentially no test center will give you tests at night, only during the day. So more or less, we got the only plausible time slot. In theory we could have done the test yesterday, but if we did that ANY delay in our flight would mean we got invalidated during the flight!! We could have done earlier today, but the tests all come back about the same time in the evening. The system is insane.

This process makes me want to just drive . . . god the hours to drive,.. and the fueling,.. and ugh... just put a fork in me. Or - just by a boat and well ,.. you are still going to have to deal with fuel and (erp) things... sigh.

Only problem with that is, no road goes all the way from North America to South America. I think it's the mountains of Panama that has no roads. It's been driven, but there are way more cars abandoned along the trail than ever made it.

@srsmith said in Dynamics 365 issue - no idea how to fix:

Finally have a temporary solution for this issue. The MSP has put a temporary workflow in place that can be manually run on one or more work orders to generate the documents and attach them as notes to the record. Not ideal, but it works for now and surely beats having to manually create the documents by copying / pasting the data.

@travisdh1 said in Dynamics 365 issue - no idea how to fix:

have them open a ticket with Microsoft

Thanks again for the suggestion - since the MSP has determined that this issue isn't caused by our environment, user permissions, or templates, they did precisely that. Now we wait to see if this is a issue with an update or from something else going on...

Good luck! Microsoft "support" is always a pain with a go-between stuck in the process.

@stuartjordan said in KVM or VMWare:

@obsolesce I should of imagined it had something to do with Azure.

Probably has a little something to do with the $10 per core/month fee as well.

@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:

Taking a clone is fine, but now you either have to maintain that template or it gets old and you have an ancient template sitting somewhere that is just as out of date as the initial OS install, or nearly (sure it'll have SOME updates.)

This is one place where KVM shines, but only libvirt/QEMU. You can update templates without spinning them up through libguestfs and the next time the template is cloned, the clone has all of the updates.

KVM has a lot of features like this, but it needs automated, is limited to libvirt (which cuts down the number of places KVM is deployed), and needs separate tools installed which are only cli based.

If KVM had APIs (not just REST APIs) like VMware, the whole landscape would change, but they don't. The APIs are hard to use and don't have all of the features you would expect. You can't even clone a system with virsh. You need a separate tool to do a lot of manual work behind the scenes.

What does the method of automation matter to making decisions on what to use? One uses an API, the other standard UNIX based tools, both accomplish the same thing.

@scottalanmiller said in Laptops versus desktops and roaming users:

@travisdh1 said in Laptops versus desktops and roaming users:

@dashrender said in Laptops versus desktops and roaming users:

@scottalanmiller said in Laptops versus desktops and roaming users:

@jaredbusch said in Laptops versus desktops and roaming users:

@dashrender said in Laptops versus desktops and roaming users:

The question would be - why?

Because it is not more expensive unless you make it more expensive. It is typically cost neutral and adds flexibility. Pre-COVID I was already nearing 50% laptop vs desktop for new desks.

Post-COVID, I am close to 95% laptop for new desks.

These days we are getting great (and I really mean that) laptops under $700. Sometimes way under.

I'd like a source on those - Any laptop I've touched under $800 in the past 2 years have been A9 shit machines!

Where are you still even finding anything with an A9 CPU?

At least they're better than Intel's Atom J series, talk about useless silicon!

We found an A8 in use yesterday.

That wasn't real clear. That they are in use is not surprising, that they are still being sold is.

@srsmith Every time I see Dynamics mentined, I cringe. It's such a mishmash of this, that, another thing, why don't we go ahead and throw in the kitchen sink as well? It's worse to attempt to support than even Quickbooks with all of it's known issues.

If nobody is available at the MSP to support it, have them open a ticket with Microsoft. It sucks not being able to interact with Microsoft directly, but with nobody left at the MSP that knows your particular instance of Dynamics there is probably nobody that knows what might have happened where.

@dashrender said in Laptops versus desktops and roaming users:

@scottalanmiller said in Laptops versus desktops and roaming users:

@jaredbusch said in Laptops versus desktops and roaming users:

@dashrender said in Laptops versus desktops and roaming users:

The question would be - why?

Because it is not more expensive unless you make it more expensive. It is typically cost neutral and adds flexibility. Pre-COVID I was already nearing 50% laptop vs desktop for new desks.

Post-COVID, I am close to 95% laptop for new desks.

These days we are getting great (and I really mean that) laptops under $700. Sometimes way under.

I'd like a source on those - Any laptop I've touched under $800 in the past 2 years have been A9 shit machines!

Where are you still even finding anything with an A9 CPU?

At least they're better than Intel's Atom J series, talk about useless silicon!