We are talking about this in our weekly meeting right now. Basically printing is broken, GPO and .bat printer installs no longer work in a secured environment.

References:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5005652-manage-new-point-and-print-default-driver-installation-behavior-cve-2021-34481-873642bf-2634-49c5-a23b-6d8e9a302872

https://candid.technology/printnighmare-patch-windows-issue/

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@stuartjordan said in Non-IT News Thread:

Just managed to put some fuel in the car, the petrol stations are all run out. Last garage in my town has only an hour left of fuel. Idiot panic buyers causing carnage in the uk.

Damn. Toilet paper out in the EEUU / USA I hear. No issues here.

If we're having another shortage of **** paper, it hasn't hit my area yet.

@gjacobse said in Powershell Start-Process Differences:

@irj said in Powershell Start-Process Differences:

How big is the organization? Have you talked to others in IT about what's acceptable and what isn't?

It sounds like you need the ability to write powershell scripts. Why not bring it up to your manager and other teams if need be?

It's been a (sore) subject since I started... Having worked with @EddieJennings and @Dashrender on some scripts and the goal of moving to PS over MS Batch.. I wanted to do more..

But between Execution Policy and such, it's pretty much trying to pour water through a wall... just not going to happen due to security (reasons). We are a clinic - so security is of course important. But the State dealt with PHI and such as well and the Policy was permitted.... sigh

I don't suppose being cheeky and calling powershell commands from a batch file works differently? I'd assume not, but might be worth a try.

Someone at state has things a little backwards if they're allowing cmd bat files but not powershell ps1 scripts!

Just because I don't like powershell, doesn't mean it's not more useful than cmd.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fighting SMTP settings for a MFP to scan to email. Several things were changed since the last one I had to setup...

Good luck. Way to many times I've had to setup a local forwarding "server" to get that working since printer firmware updates never seem to update available SMTP settings.

@jaredbusch said in iPad 2 - are they still considered secure?:

@dashrender said in iPad 2 - are they still considered secure?:

OK Hive mind - I'm looking for opinions.

An iPad 2 - released in 2011, and not updated since iOS 9.3.5 in August 25, 2016.

Would you consider this a secure device today?

iPad 2 is no longer updatable, so no. It is not a secure device.

This

@gjacobse said in I can't even:

@notverypunny said in I can't even:

@gjacobse said in I can't even:

Users who can't do a proper shut down or restart of their computer. And then complaining that it's dog in winter slow.

Uptime was 22days (not the worst I've seen). Disk and Memory were at 100% usage before restart.....

With the W10 fast-boot / hybrid shutdown I've seen last boot times upwards of 9 months and a year on some machines.

Jeez - It's been several years,... but a friend had me check the uptime of the Linux server after him.... just to 'prove a point'... maybe.. Uptime was on the order of 960 days... Insanity.

You need to reboot to verify hardware hasn't failed at least once a month, sheesh.

@pete-s said in Experience with Supermicro Microcloud servers?:

@travisdh1 said in Experience with Supermicro Microcloud servers?:

@pete-s said in Experience with Supermicro Microcloud servers?:

@travisdh1 said in Experience with Supermicro Microcloud servers?:

@notverypunny said in Experience with Supermicro Microcloud servers?:

Based on experience with what appears to be re-branded SuperMicro stuff I'lm not a fan. I can't speak to your option specifically but they've been nowhere near as reliable as anything we've gotten from Dell.

We've had bad experience with a certain model SATADOM that Thinkmate sales had recommended for a while.

Sadly I don't think my boss has learned about trusting sales/vendors yet.

A Supermicro SATADOM? Do you know which one?

I don't remember, I used the hammer and concrete method of assured data removal on them. They looked like usb flash drives with a sata connector rather than a usb connector on the side.

Doesn't sound like Supermicro's own then. They look like this (they don't have a case, just a bare PCB):

They used a similar layout to that picture, but they had very few components on the circuit board. Found my old pictures tho, they were branded Innodisk, SATADOM-ML 3ME3.

@stuartjordan said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

@travisdh1 said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

@stuartjordan said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

I can see what others are saying, onsite exchange not really no point, but a lot of MSP's still host their own copy of exchange normally in a datacenter and you could sell your own hosted exchange to customers. This only would be advantageous with lots of users. But you just cannot beat the costs of 365 with normal Businesses.

If you want to host email, why would you use the worst platform possible to find? Why not Zimbra for example?

I'm not on about me, I personally use mailcow. But I'm stating big MSP'S and hosting companies still use hosted exchange in a datacenter enviroment.

I guess that requires the discussion about management not caring about the company and treating it like a hobby business yet again.

@pete-s said in Experience with Supermicro Microcloud servers?:

@travisdh1 said in Experience with Supermicro Microcloud servers?:

@notverypunny said in Experience with Supermicro Microcloud servers?:

Based on experience with what appears to be re-branded SuperMicro stuff I'lm not a fan. I can't speak to your option specifically but they've been nowhere near as reliable as anything we've gotten from Dell.

We've had bad experience with a certain model SATADOM that Thinkmate sales had recommended for a while.

Sadly I don't think my boss has learned about trusting sales/vendors yet.

A Supermicro SATADOM? Do you know which one?

I don't remember, I used the hammer and concrete method of assured data removal on them. They looked like usb flash drives with a sata connector rather than a usb connector on the side.

@notverypunny said in Experience with Supermicro Microcloud servers?:

Based on experience with what appears to be re-branded SuperMicro stuff I'lm not a fan. I can't speak to your option specifically but they've been nowhere near as reliable as anything we've gotten from Dell.

We've had bad experience with a certain model SATADOM that Thinkmate sales had recommended for a while.

Sadly I don't think my boss has learned about trusting sales/vendors yet.

@stuartjordan said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

I can see what others are saying, onsite exchange not really no point, but a lot of MSP's still host their own copy of exchange normally in a datacenter and you could sell your own hosted exchange to customers. This only would be advantageous with lots of users. But you just cannot beat the costs of 365 with normal Businesses.

If you want to host email, why would you use the worst platform possible to find? Why not Zimbra for example?

@braswelljay said in What is this Win 10 Taskbar Icon ?:

I have a new windows 10 machine that once I joined to our domain started reacting sluggish and slow. There is an icon on the taskbar that I don't recognize. When I hover over it a popup from the taskbar comes up and I get some moving dots as if it is searching for something but nothing ever displays. I can't find anything in the taskbar settings that seems to control enable/disable and if I right click I just get the regular taskbar settings options.

It is the icon on the left in this snippet :

That may be a placeholder for their new "news and weather" thing on the taskbar.... because they haven't taken up the ENTIRE task bar with fluff nobody wants yet, they've made that a goal of theirs of late.

@laksh1999 said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

@syko24 said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

@laksh1999 - From the looks of it, you are trying to run setup.exe from C:\Windows\System32. Fix the path to wherever you installation media is located.

ex: D:\setup.exe

Tried from D drive got this error

That is telling you that it doesn't know about the /PrepareSchema option. Try running setup without that option.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

County fair week. Wife had to work a shift at her company booth tonight.

Does that garner free admission to the fair for you also?

Sadly no, but the Wayne County Ohio fair is so cheap compared to most. Admission price went all the way up to $4 this year.

County fair week. Wife had to work a shift at her company booth tonight.

@gjacobse said in Savi 8210/8220 Office - Poly: Pair to new base:

We have a number of the mono and duo Savi 8210 / 8220 headsets. I need to swap a nonworking headset with one that is working, but am not finding information on how to do that. I can find how to pair to a mobile device or computer via Bluetooth, but not to a replacement base.

You can't just move the base?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@obsolesce said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller it's raining.

Oh, I didn't even notice. That's what you get for setting up the camera and just letting it run

That's a down pour - how could you not notice?

#sarcasm

#we'renotusedtothatfromScott

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fixing more FFS items. No one ever setup Exchange IIS Log rotation so a client server backpressure last night causing mail flow to stop.

I addressed the immediate issue with PowerShell, having cleared ~40GB worth of logs....

This morning I finished setting up a scheduled task to manage this on a go-forward basis.

@beta said in RAID 6 in my backup VM host on spinning rust?:

@pete-s How much are two 3.84TB enterprise SSDs going to cost me again?

Looks like $725.00 for a decent drive to me. https://www.serversupply.com/SSD/SATA-6GBPS/3.8TB/SAMSUNG/MZ7LH3T8HMLT_315446.htm?gclid=CjwKCAjwvuGJBhB1EiwACU1AiWcjFlCLGhxapMZf0wY3H-uXjzH65a1XOGuDj-i7Lm9muZiR77rxUBoCAt8QAvD_BwE

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Dealing with "Internet" issues. Anyone else seeing some general "slowdown?"

Started about 45 minutes ago.

Yeah, my cat chewed my internet cable over the weekend.

So you no longer have a cat, right?

Naw, the cat stays. He was only able to chew on the cable because they never did a proper install, due to covid restrictions.