@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Listening to the godfathers of surf music... The Ventures. You're probably not even aware that you've heard them many times before.
I tried to find this post after clicking on something else. Finally! Anyway. Thanks. I do know a lot of their songs, but didn't know it was they who played them.
@siringo said in RDS Users Dont Receive Pwd Notice:
Hoping someone can help?
Have a problem with password expiration and Remote Desktop Services/Terminal Server users and their passwords.
RDS/TS users don't receive password expiring notifications when they log in. This is a hassle as obviously, they won't change their password before it expires and also, it's impossible for them to change is once it expires unless they have access to a domain joined PC, which several of them don't as they are 3rd party contractors.
There are a powershell scripts and free tools around to service this need, but powershell scripts can become railroaded and free tools don't always offer enough functions.
Wondering what others have done to solve this problem?
Thanks.
If you have to expire passwords, I have good success with Netwrix's password expiration notifier. They have a free and paid version. Obviously, the paid version offers more features, but I used the free one for a few years until I ditched password expiration policies.
https://www.netwrix.com/netwrix_password_expiration_notifier.html
The paid version is actually part of another product:
https://www.netwrix.com/active_directory_auditing.html
@notverypunny said in MDT Resources:
-- MDT to install certain free software and (VLC, foxit reader, citrix plugins)
For this you could use something like Chocolatey, Ninite or PDQ Deploy. Again, after the fact.
@Dashrender said in MDT Resources:
I'm curious - if you're using FOG to deploy it - why are you bothering with MDT at all?
Also curious about this.
Related to the Windows updates, I just do that after the MDT deployment, using GPO to specify the WSUS group and server and then use PSWindowsUpdate powershell module to check for updates.
@scottalanmiller said in Taking over IT for a small business:
End of day reboots are the best. Machine is up for work, but nothing is logged in and the machines don't stay booted up indefinitely.
Exactly. Freshen everything up, scans, updates, no open files on the server shares.
Fedora 31 Release Held Up By Installer + DNF Bugs
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-31-Release-Delayed
*Fedora developers had been trying to ship Fedora 31 for their original release target of next Tuesday, 22 October, but that isn't going to happen due to remaining blocker bugs.
At today's meeting they decided F31 is a "No-Go" due to open issues.
Among the blocker bugs at this point are upgrade issues over libgit2.so.28()(64bit) not being found, a DNF exception around armv7hcnl, a dnf-yum upgrade issue from Fedora 30, dnfdragora having complaints about a locked process after updates, and a Fedora 31 KDE Live graphics issue when booting in BIOS mode, among other proposed blockers.*
@JaredBusch said in Can I use the first IP in a subnet, for instance 192.168.0.0?:
@dafyre said in Can I use the first IP in a subnet, for instance 192.168.0.0?:
@Pete-S said in Can I use the first IP in a subnet, for instance 192.168.0.0?:
Is it possible / bad practice to use the first address in the network, for instance 192.168.0.0 (netmask 255.255.255.0) ?
If I remember correctly a long time ago it wasn't possible but nowadays it is. I never use it but when you have small subnets like /29 it could be nice.
@Pete-S : The short answer is No. The longer answer is that it depends on the math.
In 192.168.0.0/24, 192.168.0.0 is the network address... 192.168.0.255 is the broadcast address.
In a 192.168.0.0/23, 192.168.0.0 is the network address, and 192.168.1.255 is the broadcast address.... 192.168.1.0 is a usable IP address in that network.
No that’s not how that works. The first address and a subnet is never usable. The last address and a subnet is never usable. There is no in between. Every single subject has exactly one first address and exactly one last address.
That is what he is saying. The network is 192.168.0.0, so 192.168.1.0 is usable.
@JaredBusch said in Taking over IT for a small business:
@Dashrender said in Taking over IT for a small business:
How are you dealing with machines that people turn off at night?
By having a company policy put in place that they are to be left powered on. Logged off, or locked, yes. But not powered off.
This is my policy. Reboot when you leave. Login when you come back in. Let's just say that only about half of the people do this. For the other half, I have a PDQ deploy schedule for every night at 8 PM, that works with PDQ inventory to reboot client systems that have an uptime of greater than 5 days.
@JaredBusch said in Can I use the first IP in a subnet, for instance 192.168.0.0?:
@scottalanmiller said in Can I use the first IP in a subnet, for instance 192.168.0.0?:
@wrx7m said in Can I use the first IP in a subnet, for instance 192.168.0.0?:
@scottalanmiller said in Can I use the first IP in a subnet, for instance 192.168.0.0?:
@wrx7m said in Can I use the first IP in a subnet, for instance 192.168.0.0?:
@scottalanmiller said in Can I use the first IP in a subnet, for instance 192.168.0.0?:
1990s there were still garbage services
I do remember that I was not able to change the SNM on an old HP jetdirect print server that we had connected to some dot matrix printers via centronics connectors. It was 10base-T and also had a BNC connector on it.
Yeah, 10Base-T and BNC was early 1990s. By 1997 we were already way, way past that stuff even in small, cheap deployments.
I finally got to retire that thing last year.
What? WTF was it hooked to?
They make BNC to RJ 45 adapters
This one actually had both connectors. I just used the RJ45.
Edit: It was similar to this one, but mine had 3 parallel ports.
@scottalanmiller said in Can I use the first IP in a subnet, for instance 192.168.0.0?:
@wrx7m said in Can I use the first IP in a subnet, for instance 192.168.0.0?:
@scottalanmiller said in Can I use the first IP in a subnet, for instance 192.168.0.0?:
@wrx7m said in Can I use the first IP in a subnet, for instance 192.168.0.0?:
@scottalanmiller said in Can I use the first IP in a subnet, for instance 192.168.0.0?:
1990s there were still garbage services
I do remember that I was not able to change the SNM on an old HP jetdirect print server that we had connected to some dot matrix printers via centronics connectors. It was 10base-T and also had a BNC connector on it.
Yeah, 10Base-T and BNC was early 1990s. By 1997 we were already way, way past that stuff even in small, cheap deployments.
I finally got to retire that thing last year.
What? WTF was it hooked to?
A dot matrix printer that printed checks from our ERP system. I got a brand new identical replacement printer (when the original one was dying) that had an ethernet port and the VAR couldn't get it to work properly. So, I had to end up connecting it back to the ancient directjet via centronics. My new switches didn't support 10Base-T, so I had to setup a 5-port switch and connect it to that. PITA.