@syko24 said in Envelopes in Brother Printers:

Is it common that you have to open the back cover on a Brother printer in order to send envelopes through? Is this common on most laser printers? The below video shows and example of what I am talking about. A client called asking me why the envelopes come out all crinkled when they print. I sent them this video. I kind of feel like that is a pain but if that is common in all or most laser printers what can you do right?

Youtube Video

Maybe common for brother printers, but I haven't seen that. Usually, Tray 1 is for one-offs and envelopes, and is located on the front side (usually vertical when closed), above the horizontal tray 2.

@IRJ said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart":

@wrx7m said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart":

@IRJ said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart":

@wrx7m said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart":

A simple restart command doesn't perform the update step, just the restart, so the update doesn't get applied.

This has been an issue for a very long time with windows. I am surprised it hasn't been fixed yet. It's really annoying

Well, at least with Win 7, a standard reboot applies updates. At least, I think it does. The main difference between Win 7 and 10, is that they have switched to the osoclient.exe to manage the updates.

I'm pretty sure server 2008 and onward had the issue. I don't remember dealing with it on workstations

I still have a 2008 R2 box and can test it on the next go 'round. I won't have it much longer, as I am dumping it prior to EOS.

@IRJ said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart":

@wrx7m said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart":

A simple restart command doesn't perform the update step, just the restart, so the update doesn't get applied.

This has been an issue for a very long time with windows. I am surprised it hasn't been fixed yet. It's really annoying

Well, at least with Win 7, a standard reboot applies updates. At least, I think it does. The main difference between Win 7 and 10, is that they have switched to the osoclient.exe to manage the updates.

@siringo said in RDS Users Dont Receive Pwd Notice:

@wrx7m said in RDS Users Dont Receive Pwd Notice:

@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

Thanks @wrx7m for the reply.

Due to a number of reasons i've decided to a PS1 script to assign new passwords.

You should post your script on ML

Looks like this might work.

USOClient.exe RestartDevice

After doing some digging into the UOSClient, it looks like the restartdevice switch only work for rebooting for a feature update. I have one device that I have that is still pending a reboot to update from 1809 to 1903. I will try it out if the user doesn't beat me to it.

@magicmarker said in Turn off old ERP system running on Win2008R2 and view the exported data:

@DustinB3403 The new ERP system is SAP. The SAP consultants are long gone now and technically the archived data on the old ERP isn't necessary to be imported into the new SAP system. You know how it goes, sometimes you need to look back at a old data to help you with something else. We just wanted to turn off the old Windows 2008R2 servers yet still give the users access to the old data if necessary. I will have to see how large the exported CSV files turn out to be. A nice simple solid option rather than going through all the steps to setup a Fedora DB server though.

If they don't need to run reports and whatnot, it seems a CSV could be the best option.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

@RojoLoco Planning on watching Paul Rudd in Living with Yourself on Netflix?

Dont know that one.

Youtube Video

Watched up to episode 5 so far. I like it.

@PhlipElder said in RDS 2019 Setup and RDS License Role:

Archiving is simpler for users that leave the org. Archive the .VHDX file.
Profile choke fix: Rename the .VHDX file to .OLD, log the user on, migrate their data. Done.

Is this specific to Hyper-V or is that even related to the way this works?

@PhlipElder said in RDS 2019 Setup and RDS License Role:

C:\Users%UserName% problem does not exist.

What is this problem? I modify the registry to force new user profiles to be created on a D:\ partition, which is a separate VD.

@Dashrender said in RDS 2019 Setup and RDS License Role:

Why setup UPD if there is literally only one RDS host? yes the OP has two - but for two completely separate things.

That is a good question. I would only have one host, so... if there isn't a benefit to a single server, then I won't be using it.

@Dashrender said in MDT Resources:

I make an image once per major update from MS, so twice a year - roll out that image, install the latest Cumulative Update

I also just do that - I just import the stock WIM from the MS iso and use that. Everything else is GPO, PS and PDQ Deploy.

@NDC said in RDS 2019 Setup and RDS License Role:

@pmoncho said in RDS 2019 Setup and RDS License Role:

From what I read, I can move to UPD down the road if I like, correct?

I believe you can change settings on the collection to use UPD later. The caveat being there is no import of profile so when you do that everyone is starting fresh.

That is good to know. I was toying with using it on my new RDS deployment.

@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.