@scottalanmiller

It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.

@scottalanmiller said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:

This looks like a great tablet alternative. We've been wanting to move the kids off of iPads. This might make sense.

I converted two Lenovo X Yogas to run CloudReady for the girls as their schools both use Google for EDU. Saved me $500. Now I have parents asking if I have anymore of the Yogas.

Guess I'll be changing my iPhone to not use my fingerprint.

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Facebook:

@wls-itguy said in Alternatives to Facebook:

I mostly use Facebook to keep in contact with Family and Friends who don't live close. Although lately I have been on it less and less with all the political BS from both sides of the aisle. I closed my other accounts.

Yup, most people I know have moved to Telegram mostly. Does everything FB does well, better. And doesn't do the things you didn't want FB to do anyway.

That looks like a chat client only unless I'm missing something.

I mostly use Facebook to keep in contact with Family and Friends who don't live close. Although lately I have been on it less and less with all the political BS from both sides of the aisle. I closed my other accounts.

@scottalanmiller said in Tesla and SpaceX Abandon Facebook:

Especially millenials who often don't even know what email is.

Or think that it is the only source of news.

@bbigford said in Installing FS on a DC:

@dustinb3403 said in Installing FS on a DC:

So this makes sense, and it might just be a "me issue". But every workload I have ever seen (IME) has been on different Microsoft Server versions.

IE you need CALs for that version of Windows Server. . . and thus you would need tons of CALs.

Grr time to investigate.

Worth noting... You need the amount of CALs to equal users, for a certain platform. 2012 RDS? Needs CALs. Exchange 2013? Needs CALs. Upgraded from 2012 RDS to 2016 RDS and Exchange 2013 to 2016? All new CALs.

That was awesome to find out. The only saving grace for us was 501c3 status. Pennies on the dollar.

@jaredbusch said in Tech conference in Wisconsin:

@wls-itguy said in Tech conference in Wisconsin:

EDIT: Although that could be because of how much crap I have on my plate and not open minded right now.

Then take a day off and chill the fuck out. it helps all kinds of things.

How come I can only upvote this one time?

@nerdydad said in Installing FS on a DC:

...I could probably do it during a weekend, but just have to do it.

Who works weekends anymore? Oh Wait, I forgot what we do here.

@scottalanmiller said in Installing FS on a DC:

@wls-itguy said in Installing FS on a DC:

Not to beat a dead horse however, the naming of CAL is a bit misleading. Client Access Licensing on it's face would lead one to believe that for every server that a client accesses a license is needed. And in reality it is exactly the opposite in that the client needs a single license to access anything on the domain.

Does it? Nothing in the name implies server. It's a license for Clients to Access, the only "per" thing mentioned is the client.

True. But do I need a CAL on my home network? No. Why? because I don't have a multitude of servers that I need access to.

Not to beat a dead horse however, the naming of CAL is a bit misleading. Client Access Licensing on it's face would lead one to believe that for every server that a client accesses a license is needed. And in reality it is exactly the opposite in that the client needs a single license to access anything on the domain.

The agenda has been posted. Not sure I see anything that says "DUDE! I GOTTA GO SEE THAT!"

EDIT: Although that could be because of how much crap I have on my plate and not open minded right now.

@scottalanmiller said in MAC HD monitoring:

@dustinb3403 said in MAC HD monitoring:

SodiumSuite would likely be a great candidate here.

It's silent (besides your installation) and it's free.

Other option could be Nagios or Zabbix

SS doesn't do email alerts (yet)

If I wasn't aware of the trouble that Macs are giving you I'd downvote this response

@scottalanmiller said in Sodium Agent Support Matrix:

Added MacOS 10.11

Should the Mac machines be checking in or is something still wonky?

@scottalanmiller said in Installing the agent:

Try installing now, Windows installer now "should" deal with this scenario.

All good.

Here is the latest issue:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>choco uninstall salt-minion
Chocolatey v0.10.8
Uninstalling the following packages:
salt-minion
salt-minion is not installed. Cannot uninstall a non-existent package.

Chocolatey uninstalled 0/1 packages. 1 packages failed.
 See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).

Failures
 - salt-minion - salt-minion is not installed. Cannot uninstall a non-existent package.

If a package uninstall is failing and/or you've already uninstalled the
 software outside of Chocolatey, you can attempt to run the command
 with `-n` to skip running a chocolateyUninstall script, additionally
 adding `--skip-autouninstaller` to skip an attempt to automatically
 remove system-installed software. This will only remove the packaging
 files and not things like software installed to Programs and Features.

If a package is failing because it is a dependency of another package
 or packages, then you may first need to consider if it needs removed
 as it is typically installed as a dependency for a reason. If you
 decide that you still want to remove it, head into
 `$env:ChocolateyInstall\lib` and find the package folder you want
 removed. Then delete the folder for the package. This option should
 only be used as a last resort.


C:\WINDOWS\system32>choco uninstall salt-minion -n
Chocolatey v0.10.8
Uninstalling the following packages:
salt-minion
salt-minion is not installed. Cannot uninstall a non-existent package.

Chocolatey uninstalled 0/1 packages. 1 packages failed.
 See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).

Failures
 - salt-minion - salt-minion is not installed. Cannot uninstall a non-existent package.

If a package uninstall is failing and/or you've already uninstalled the
 software outside of Chocolatey, you can attempt to run the command
 with `-n` to skip running a chocolateyUninstall script, additionally
 adding `--skip-autouninstaller` to skip an attempt to automatically
 remove system-installed software. This will only remove the packaging
 files and not things like software installed to Programs and Features.

If a package is failing because it is a dependency of another package
 or packages, then you may first need to consider if it needs removed
 as it is typically installed as a dependency for a reason. If you
 decide that you still want to remove it, head into
 `$env:ChocolateyInstall\lib` and find the package folder you want
 removed. Then delete the folder for the package. This option should
 only be used as a last resort.


C:\WINDOWS\system32>@powershell Invoke-Webrequest https://gitlab.com/dutchcolonial/sodiumsuiteinstallers/raw/master/windows.cmd -UseBasicParsing -OutFile windowsinstall.cmd ; cmd /c .\windowsinstall.cmd 79bcd200ab29ef4fac4adc5a34ff0a9b7d065146

C:\WINDOWS\system32>set companyID=79bcd200ab29ef4fac4adc5a34ff0a9b7d065146

C:\WINDOWS\system32>set masterURL="na1.waxquixotic.com"
Getting latest version of the Chocolatey package for download.
Getting Chocolatey from https://chocolatey.org/api/v2/package/chocolatey/0.10.8.
Extracting C:\Users\HARTWI~1.SEM\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\chocInstall\chocolatey.zip to C:\Users\HARTWI~1.SEM\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\chocInstall...
Installing chocolatey on this machine
Creating ChocolateyInstall as an environment variable (targeting 'Machine')
  Setting ChocolateyInstall to 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey'
WARNING: It's very likely you will need to close and reopen your shell
  before you can use choco.
Restricting write permissions to Administrators
We are setting up the Chocolatey package repository.
The packages themselves go to 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib'
  (i.e. C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\yourPackageName).
A shim file for the command line goes to 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin'
  and points to an executable in 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\yourPackageName'.

Creating Chocolatey folders if they do not already exist.

WARNING: You can safely ignore errors related to missing log files when
  upgrading from a version of Chocolatey less than 0.9.9.
  'Batch file could not be found' is also safe to ignore.
  'The system cannot find the file specified' - also safe.
WARNING: Not setting tab completion: Profile file does not exist at
'C:\Users\hartwigj.SEMINARY\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1'.
Chocolatey (choco.exe) is now ready.
You can call choco from anywhere, command line or powershell by typing choco.
Run choco /? for a list of functions.
You may need to shut down and restart powershell and/or consoles
 first prior to using choco.
Ensuring chocolatey commands are on the path
Ensuring chocolatey.nupkg is in the lib folder

C:\WINDOWS\system32>choco install saltminion -y --ignore-checksums
Chocolatey v0.10.8
Installing the following packages:
saltminion
By installing you accept licenses for the packages.
saltminion v2017.7.2 already installed.
 Use --force to reinstall, specify a version to install, or try upgrade.

Chocolatey installed 0/1 packages.
 See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).

Warnings:
 - saltminion - saltminion v2017.7.2 already installed.
 Use --force to reinstall, specify a version to install, or try upgrade.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>icacls "c:\salt\bin\Lib\site-packages\salt\" /grant "Authenticated Users":(OI)(CI)R
Invalid parameter "Users:(OI)(CI)R   "

C:\WINDOWS\system32>echo 79bcd200ab29ef4fac4adc5a34ff0a9b7d065146   1>c:\salt\bin\lib\site-packages\salt\companyName.txt
The system cannot find the path specified.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>echo master: "na1.waxquixotic.com"   1>c:\salt\conf\minion.d\mast.conf

C:\WINDOWS\system32>net stop salt-minion   && net start salt-minion
The service name is invalid.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2185.

Half hour for me. This will be the 2nd year I'll attend. I usually just go for the food

I did get some really good info and help from Veeam and SonicWall last year. Everyone else was kind of sales oriented.

@dbeato

Don’t have the machine in front of me anymore. I’ll try and disable the AV tomorrow and if that doesn’t work I’ll look at the logs again.

@dbeato said in Windows 10 updates fail again:

@wls-itguy said in Windows 10 updates fail again:

Trying to get an update on a single machine KB4088776 has been problematic for too long. I went the route of manually downloading and it still fails. I shutdown the WU service, renamed the softwaredistribution file, purged Windows update and still nothing gets this update installed. Machine currently sits at 16299.192 which up until today was actually at 16299.125. So I made progress but now can't get .309's update to go.

Any thoughts? BTW, HP Probook 650 G1. BIOS is up to date and all other drivers are as well.

At this point I would do a refresh of WIndows 10 and then reinstall all the apps. Backup first.

Not with this user too many files and programs configured the way he wants. Besides he’s up for a new machine in July.

@black3dynamite said in Windows 10 updates fail again:

@wls-itguy said in Windows 10 updates fail again:

Trying to get an update on a single machine KB4088776 has been problematic for too long. I went the route of manually downloading and it still fails. I shutdown the WU service, renamed the softwaredistribution file, purged Windows update and still nothing gets this update installed. Machine currently sits at 16299.192 which up until today was actually at 16299.125. So I made progress but now can't get .309's update to go.

Any thoughts? BTW, HP Probook 650 G1. BIOS is up to date and all other drivers are as well.

Do you have any third party antivirus installed?

Yes. I thought about that and thought, nah, that’s too easy.