@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Researchers Easily Trick Cylance's AI-Based Antivirus Into Thinking Malware Is 'Goodware'
By taking strings from an online gaming program and appending them to malicious files, researchers were able to trick Cylance’s AI-based antivirus engine into thinking programs like WannaCry and other malware are benign.
Oh no.
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Slack isn’t worried about Microsoft’s big Teams push
Slack’s CEO compares Microsoft’s Teams bundling to Google+
Microsoft revealed last week that it now has more than 13 million people using its Microsoft Teams chat software, a milestone that means the app has overtaken Slack.It's hard not to agree. Actual engagement is the only thing that matters.
Actually, it's businesses being willing to pay for the service is all that matters.
It’s not something you pay extra for since it’s bundled with O365.
You are.
If you want Slack, it's not because you also want Google Sheets or Zimbra email with XYZ. It's because you want Slack because of what business needs it covers.
Slack is $6-$12 per user per month.
If you just want MS Teams (which is a legit need by the way), too bad, you also have to pay for other stuff you may or may not need or use.
MS Teams will cost you $5, which is cheaper than Slack, which does NOT include Office or Office Suite, but does include Exchange... whether or not you need it. To get Office, it's a minimum of $12.50 for Business Premium (< 300 users). Otherwise, you're buying enterprise O365 licenses which just goes up.
We switched from SFB/Teams to slack plus. Waste of money IMO. I didn't like either of them because I don't like chat for work.
I like it because chatting via email is dumb. Email is really abused and extremely inefficient for most of what it's typically used for within most organisations.
True. However, if you are the only person doing all of IT for 100 users and don't have a ticketing system, chat is an interruption and the presumption is that it is an instant response. No way can I instantly respond based on my workload.
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
OneWeb’s low-Earth satellites hit 400Mbps and 32ms latency in new test
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/onewebs-low-earth-satellites-hit-400mbps-and-32ms-latency-in-new-test/Hi, welcome to earlier today
Hi. I didn't see that posted in this thread.
OneWeb’s low-Earth satellites hit 400Mbps and 32ms latency in new test
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/onewebs-low-earth-satellites-hit-400mbps-and-32ms-latency-in-new-test/
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Slack isn’t worried about Microsoft’s big Teams push
Slack’s CEO compares Microsoft’s Teams bundling to Google+
Microsoft revealed last week that it now has more than 13 million people using its Microsoft Teams chat software, a milestone that means the app has overtaken Slack.It's hard not to agree. Actual engagement is the only thing that matters.
Actually, it's businesses being willing to pay for the service is all that matters.
It’s not something you pay extra for since it’s bundled with O365.
You are.
If you want Slack, it's not because you also want Google Sheets or Zimbra email with XYZ. It's because you want Slack because of what business needs it covers.
Slack is $6-$12 per user per month.
If you just want MS Teams (which is a legit need by the way), too bad, you also have to pay for other stuff you may or may not need or use.
MS Teams will cost you $5, which is cheaper than Slack, which does NOT include Office or Office Suite, but does include Exchange... whether or not you need it. To get Office, it's a minimum of $12.50 for Business Premium (< 300 users). Otherwise, you're buying enterprise O365 licenses which just goes up.
We switched from SFB/Teams to slack plus. Waste of money IMO. I didn't like either of them because I don't like chat for work.
@Dashrender said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:
@pmoncho said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:
Did you end up going the UPD route? If so, what are your thoughts so far?
I am debating myself. We have a couple 2008R2 RDS hosts ourselves and will be migrating to 2019. We have a pretty simple setup with one LOB app.
If you don't need dedicated profiles that save information - why not just use a mandatory profile instead?
I had to pause last week. I am picking up this project again and am going to try testing UPD with a couple test users. I will update this thread with my thoughts.
@David_CSG Do you work in the education sector?
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller and @dafyre take it with a grain of salt, they forced all of the smaller customers onto Teams. So a lot of people really had no choice as one day they were SfB users the next it was Teams only.
Yeah... SFB users basically had Teams installed by default in preparation for them killing SFB
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Third parties confirm AMD’s outstanding Ryzen 3000 numbers
AMD debuted its new Ryzen 3000 desktop CPU line a few weeks ago at E3, and it looked fantastic. For the first time in 20 years, it looked like AMD could go head to head with Intel's desktop CPU line-up across the board. The question: would independent, third-party testing back up AMD's assertions?
Interesting.
@Obsolesce said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:
@DustinB3403 said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:
@Obsolesce said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:
@DustinB3403 said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:
@David_CSG said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:
My need is for one mgmt tool that is: Viable for Windows and Mac OS endpoint management, and for simple basic (check for and) application of system updates, both fit the bill.
This is exactly why I am heavily testing out Ansible with @stacksofplates and @IRJ slapping me in the back of my head continuously.
If it's mostly Windows, I find SaltStack much easier to use with Windows. Lots more functionality, at least the last time I was deep into it. If it was mac/Linux clients only, then I'd choose Ansible likely, of course depending on things.
We're mostly mac.
Sorry to hear that.
This^^^
@JasGot said in Freelance IT and VoIP techs?:
I'm just looking to see who might be jobbing in their underwear!
I do that, but it is because I have to do maintenance outside of normal business hours.
@bnrstnr said in Server 2012R2 DHCP reservations problem with my VOIP equipment?:
@wrx7m said in Server 2012R2 DHCP reservations problem with my VOIP equipment?:
@bnrstnr said in Server 2012R2 DHCP reservations problem with my VOIP equipment?:
Do you guys even use reservations for phones? I rarely even touch them, so I guess it wouldn't be that big of a pain in the ass to just let them get a random address from the pool.
I do not. I don't know why you would need to.
idk I guess I just thought it would be easier to manage them. When we first got the phones I set them all up manually from the web interface and there was a lot of experimenting going on, I always knew extension 103 would be x.x.x.103, etc. if somebody had an issue, I knew their extension and automatically knew the IP of the phone.
I haven't dealt with anything other than shoretel for 9 years, now. I don't need to know the ip of any phone. The MAC is what is the most important. Everything is cross referenced so you can find pretty much everything if you only know one attribute. That's why I wouldn't care about the IP. Obviously, I haven't used freepbx, so I don't know how useful it is to know the IP there.
@bnrstnr said in Server 2012R2 DHCP reservations problem with my VOIP equipment?:
Do you guys even use reservations for phones? I rarely even touch them, so I guess it wouldn't be that big of a pain in the ass to just let them get a random address from the pool.
I do not. I don't know why you would need to.
@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Was this ever true?
Sure. They don't ever say what it is that they are comparing it to.
Does more than the piece of fruit it is named for.
Costs less than putting a man on the moon.
It's that simple.
@dbeato said in Server 2016 - Force Default Update Server to WSUS Server Via GPO:
This would have happened on Server 2012 R2 as well, dual scan has been around and causes a lot of problems as you noted.
It is strange that I didn't have these issues in 2012 R2. I essentially copied the same GPO for 2012 R2 and made some minor changes to it to convert it for 2016. My 2012 R2 show the correct default service.
I recently ran into an issue after starting to use PSWindowsupdate (https://mangolassi.it/topic/19897/pswindowsupdate-use-powershell-and-other-tools-to-automate-windows-updates) where Server 2016 had GPOs set to point the servers to a local WSUS server. The problem was that the server was actually going to Microsoft's public internet update server. When running the following in PowerShell -
$MUSM = New-Object -ComObject "Microsoft.Update.ServiceManager"
$MUSM.Services | select Name, IsDefaultAUService
I found that the IsDefaultService for Windows Server Update Service was set to False and Windows Update was set to true.
Name IsDefaultAUService
---- ------------------
Windows Store (DCat Prod) False
Windows Server Update Service False
Windows Update True
I found that these GPO settings, as outlined by, alexander.polomodov, at serverfault.com (https://serverfault.com/questions/857607/windows-server-2016-not-updating-through-wsus/868356), fixed the issue. There may be settings that aren't really required, but I do know that this fixed my issue. Now IsDefaultAUService shows true for Windows Server Update Service.
Here is his post-
"The problem is with Dual Scan trying to connect to Windows Update (online) and failing. When it fails the system just stops trying and refuses to connect to WSUS.
The added problem is the server install media has a bug in it which prevents the Dual Scan from changing. It just ignores the policy and keeps the default update source Windows Update.
Here is what you have to do to fix it: Run the following commands in Powershell on the offending server
$MUSM = New-Object -ComObject "Microsoft.Update.ServiceManager"
$MUSM.Services | select Name, IsDefaultAUService
You will get something back like this:
Windows Update Standalone Installer - False
Windows Server Update Service - False
Windows Update - True
If it says "Windows Update - True" Then that is your default source, no matter what your GPO says...
The first thing you have to do is make sure the following patches are installed on your server.
kb4103720 and kb4462928
You need them BOTH. They are both huge, they both take forever and a day to install and they both require a server reboot.
These KBs fix the dual scan issue so the server will respond to the GPO telling it which default source to use.
Now you need to configure Group Policy to tell the server to only use the WSUS server. Per Microsoft these are the required settings (I am dubious on some of them, but I haven't tested each one... I am just happy the thing is finally working)
**Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > System > Device Installation
Specify the search server for device driver source locations**
Set to "Enabled"
Select search order: "Do not search Windows Update"
Specify the search server for device driver updates
Set to "Enabled"
Select Update Server: "Search Managed Server"
Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > System > Internet Communication Management > Internet Communication Settings
Turn off access to all Windows Update features (In Microsoftspeak that means their online server, not 'make so it can't get updates')
Set to "Enabled"
Turn off access to the Store
Set to "Enabled"
Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update
Do not allow update deferral policies to cause scans against Windows Update
Set to "Enabled"
No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations
Set to "Enabled"
Specify intranet Microsoft update service location
Set to "Enabled"
Set the intranet update service for detecting updates: "http://[YOUR SERVER]:8530"
Set the intranet statistics server:"http://[YOUR SERVER]:8530"
Set the alternate download server: "http://[YOUR SERVER]:8530"
Uncheck the box Download files with no Url in the metadata if alternate download server is set
Move your servers into an OU with this GPO enabled. I created a separate OU in my Servers OU just for 2016 server and linked this GPO to it.
Run the above powershell commands again.
It should now say
Name IsDefaultAUService
------- --------------------------
Windows Server Update Service True
Windows Update False
If you get "Windows Server Update Service" True, then it should work!"
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft Now Supports Office 365 ProPlus on Windows Server 2019
Microsoft has reversed an earlier position and now plans to support the use of Office 365 ProPlus on Windows Server 2019
Even for organizations using it in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) scenarios.This is very interesting. I have been trying to figure out which way to go in my replacement of a 2008 R2 RDS where I will need Excel.
Edit: Looks like it is still only the ProPlus option. (As indicated by the title)
The lack of shared activation support for non-ProPlus licensing still leaves me where I was. Oh well.