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@dbeato First I've heard of this service (speaking of Second Chance, not KnowBe4). Definitely going to check it out.

Finally setting up a password manager. Settled on Bitwarden. We'll see how it goes.

@scottalanmiller said in AMD chip flaw:

Very glad to see CTS not going by the 90 day "cover up" window so many so-called research firms do. That part is good, for sure.

Not sure why you see it this way. If an exploit or vulnerability is discovered, yet is probably getting little to zero traffic at the time, why disclose it publicly immediately before allowing the vendor/manufacturer to research the issue and patch. Otherwise, you run the risk of a lot more people trying to exploit this in the meantime. And I'm not specifically referring to this issue because I don't know much about the risks involved, I'm just speaking generally here.

But yes this does all look suspicious. Some short-selling firms involved trying to make a buck it looks like. Paid for by Intel??

@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

A potentially deadly weather pattern is setting up across the central US

Extreme temperatures coupled with high humidity flowing from the Gulf of Mexico have set the stage for life-threatening heat in parts of the central and southern US.
Texas and Oklahoma are no strangers to excessive heat in the heart of summer and, a little over 10 days into the season, the region is bracing for stifling heat through the upcoming holiday weekend.
Temperatures are set to feel hotter in Dallas,Texas, than in Death Valley, California. Earlier in the week, parts of Texas registered the ultimate mark of oppressive warmth. Some cities including San Antonio, Lufkin and Victoria set records for hot low temperatures, with some failing to dip below 80 degrees even in the overnight hours.

goddamnit, 2020. So help me, if the elections go badly in Nov, I'm signing up for a Mars 1-way ticket.

There's no option other than going badly, so go ahead and get that pre-registration going lol.

We are currently due for an upgrade to our camera systems. We currenlty have two separate systems, a cheap 8-camera system for the front office area and then a pretty high dollar industrial Pelco system for our manufacturing area with about 13 cameras currently.

The 8 front office cameras definitely need replacing and I've been looking at the Unifi system.

The Pelco cameras in the plant are fine, but the NVR that was purchased was done so poorly as it's not equipped to handle the throughput of even the 8 IP cameras we have on it.

Pelco offers their NVR (VMS?) software freely available, with one-time licensing per camera after 4 cameras. This is appealing since I can control the hardware and it would be cheaper than their own offerings. It needs a Windows OS to be installed on.

What I'm curious about is whether or not it would be a good idea to run a virtualized Unifi system and this Pelco system on the same server. Something like an older Dell R420 I can get for around $1,000 and put SSD in RAID 1 for the OS's and then some SATA disks for storage. They'll both be doing effectively the same thing (recording video) so I don't see why this would be an issue but don't have much experience in the camera realm.

Just out of curiousity, would you consider putting a camera software system like Unifi or Pelco onto a virtualized system already running things like your file server, domain controllers, WSUS, etc if you had the available IOPS? I'm leaning towards no but wanted to see what others thoughts were.

@black3dynamite said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

In the /etc/postfix/main.cf file, the following would need to be changed:
inet_interfaces needs to be changed from localhost to all
mynetworks should include the networks or hosts that will be accessing your postfix server.

Made these changes along with ensuring that SMTP ports were open and I am now receiving email from the UPS device via Postfix.

Settings on UPS:

From: [email protected]
SMTP Server: Postfix server IP Address (192.168.1.x)
Port: 25
No authentication

If this works on the rest of my devices, then I believe we'll be in business and I won't have to involve Office365 at all.

@jaredbusch said in Migrate database from Hyper-V to VMware:

@dustinb3403 said in Migrate database from Hyper-V to VMware:

@jaredbusch said in Migrate database from Hyper-V to VMware:

@dustinb3403 said in Migrate database from Hyper-V to VMware:

@jaredbusch said in Migrate database from Hyper-V to VMware:

@dustinb3403 said in Migrate database from Hyper-V to VMware:

Instead, standing up a new installation with a fresh MS SQL waiting for a database and attaching the backup to the database means you don't have to worry about any wonkiness that might occur due to the conversion from Hyper-V to VMWare.

This has issues of its own to deal with. Because there are a lot of ancillary bits to most MS SQL (or any SQL really) deployments that are not part of a database backup.

Yeah while true, anyone who is setting up this database system should be able to account for these issues as they are a part of the "installation process".

Actually, no. Because these types of things are usually, setup once 5 years ago with vendor support, type scenarios.

Rather than some random bug or crash due to a registry entry that decided to go haywire in the middle of a production day.

It is a V2V, nothing is happening in production.

I like to lean on the "you have support for your production systems, right?!" argument. . . .

And it would be production if it was powered on and running for a while with entries being written etc that are no longer on the hyper-v installation.

I've seen weirdness (Hyper-v 2008 specifically) that VM's migrated had a lot of remanent hyper-v drivers and registry entries that have caused issues.

Are you saying you've not seen these?

Hyper-V 2008 was a horrible platform. Everyone knows it.

LOL I read this line in my favorite Donald Trump voice.

How much storage will this backup server require? Only 4-6 drive slots could be limiting.

The R710 and R510 look identical in specs, therefore I might would opt for the R510 with the more drive slots.

The R320 will be a slightly newer generation, but still two generations old now. I guess it depends too on how much you'll need the improved processor performance and core count. For just Veeam, I should think any of these would be fine. If you're talking about adding other VMs potentially, then the extra core count could be beneficial, but again where's your storage capacity with only 4 slots?

Edit: I second @NashBrydges

@justin867 said in How to reinstall Windows on Dell Latitude e5450?:

Can I use the image of other Dell Laptop? I assume I will update the drivers as needed since its different laptop model.

Don't bother. Do a clean vanilla install and then just go get the drivers you need specific to your device.

If you had Windows 10 on here before, the install should validate automatically.

@showtax said in Windows 10 1803 and SAP Client:

@scottalanmiller

Graphics Driver aren't the issue, I've tested it on my GTX 970 card which has the latest drivers.
Since this post is 18 days ago, did you successfully resolve the issue yet?
We are close to updating to W10 1803 and since our first test users experience this issue and you can't rollback 1803, we are looking for answers.

Thanks in advance.

Your sincerely,
Frederick

Lol then I would recommend you hold off on that 1803 rollout if I were you. Unless you just enjoy jumping into fires.

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@JaredBusch So I just installed a fresh Vultr instance and followed your guide to a T. I did download the 13.0.2 file to see if it would install correctly and then if it did, I wanted to see if it would update without issues or require the json module.

When I got to the part about going to the web GUI to setup the admin password, I kept getting an "Internal Server Error" page. Tried rebooting the server but same result. I installed php-json and then systemctl restart httpd and the page came up fine. So it appears for whatever reason Fedora 28 wants php-json module to work properly. Which is odd because my instance has been working fine on Fedora 28 until last night when I did a dnf upgrade, so maybe something else got installed that created this dependency.

This is how I did it the last time we migrated our file server a few years back. If I'm not mistaken, we did this the first time and let everything copy over while live, and then we ran it again later after we shut down the shares to ensure any changes that were made or new files, attributes, etc got copied over. The second time, it recognizes if the file is already there and just skips over it so it's much simpler. Then you just recreate the shares on the destination and you're done.

robopy source destination /E /COPYALL /DCOPY:T /R:3 /W:10 >C:\Robocopy.log

/E = copy subdirectories, including empty ones

/COPYALL = copies Data, Attributes, Timestamps, Security, Owner info, and Auditing Info

/DCOPY:T = copies directory timestamps (COPYALL only does file timestamps)

/R:3 = retry 3 times (default is 1 million)

/W:10 = wait 10 seconds before trying again (default is 30 seconds)

/MT:n = enables multi-threaded option which is supposed to speed up process. Default is 8. Can be between 1-128.

https://techjourney.net/robocopy-syntax-command-line-switches-and-examples/

Just disable the share or turn off the old server. Take a full backup of it to keep and move on.

@g-i-jones said in Remote Desktop Connection Prerequisites:

@pete-s Services>Remote Desktop Services>Properties>Startup Type was set to Manual on all the servers. ::man_facepalming_medium_skin_tone:

Haven't tested it yet, but if I had to guess, that'd be the issue. Thanks!

Hmmm I'm pretty sure my Services are setup that way as well by default (Manual start), and I don't have this issue. If I restart a VM and then RDP into it from my desktop, it connects right away without requiring local logon first. I'm waiting on one of my servers to finish updates so that I can verify for sure though. Be back in a few hours...

I have not gone through it, but KnowBe4 has a "Home Course" I assume designed for what you're looking for.

https://home.knowbe4.com/home

Yeah we see this whenever we publish Excel sheets as webpages to our Intranet.

We do this with OneDrive/Sharepoint and Office 365. We upload the document to OneDrive and then create a unique link and send that to whoever needs to access the file. Then I have email notifications setup whenever someone accesses the link, downloads the file, and what IP address it was accessed from.

This would not accomplish the payment capture portion. I would think this would need to be tied to whatever payment system you're using.

@scottalanmiller said in How do you explain emails like this:

@zachary715 said in How do you explain emails like this:

@DustinB3403 said in How do you explain emails like this:

@zachary715 said in How do you explain emails like this:

@DustinB3403 said in How do you explain emails like this:

While I would agree, for private transactions a simple G.T.F.U.a.V. should/maybe is already required.

You're going to have to break down that acronym for me...

Get The F*** Up and Verify.

I'm not quite 30 yet, but I swear I'm like an old person which all these abbreviations/acronyms. I don't understand any of them and they drive me crazy.

GOOMLYDWS

Now you're just being a pain in the @$$

Wow that is a large batch. It seems like there haven't been many updates at all for last month or two though. Surprising to drop that many at once.