Output after a fresh install...
[zmagee@fedoratest ~]$ sudo dnf install fwupdate-efi microcode_ctl
Last metadata expiration check: 0:10:54 ago on Fri 19 Jan 2018 04:17:13 PM CST.
Package fwupdate-efi-10-1.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package microcode_ctl-2:2.1-20.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
[zmagee@fedoratest ~]$
@jaredbusch said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:
@zachary715 said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:
@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:
@jaredbusch said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:
My Fedora 27 system does not have that installed.
But as usual, I did not click any extra packages on the right side menu during setup when I chose the Cinnamon desktop experience on the left hand menu.I never install extra packages either... I just select Fedora Workstation on the left, and that's it. Defaults.
I'm looking through my
historyto see if anything could have installed that fwupdate-efi thing...Nothing.
The only thing I've run relating to all of this is:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker/master/spectre-meltdown-checker.shand then...
sh spectre-meltdown-checker.shSo I just checked my VM of Fedora Workstation and
fwupdate-efiis installed by default it seems. I've installed nothing on this VM except gnome-tweak-tool as I was playing with Gnome configuration to see if I might like it more than Cinnamon. I use the Cinnamon desktop on my laptop at home. So apparently if you select the Workstation install option this gets installed automatically. Whether this is where your problem is or not I don't knowI can assure you that it is not part of a default install if you select the Workstation Cinnamon Desktop option from the NetInstall disk.
It is not on either my deskop or my laptop.
Yeah when I said Workstation, I was referring to the default Workstation installation option being Gnome. That's how it's labeled is Workstation vs Cinnamon Desktop on the installation options.
Currently installing a new VM with default Fedora Workstation as @Tim_G has done and going to see what all packages are included. Fedora 27 netinstall image.
@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:
@jaredbusch said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:
My Fedora 27 system does not have that installed.
But as usual, I did not click any extra packages on the right side menu during setup when I chose the Cinnamon desktop experience on the left hand menu.I never install extra packages either... I just select Fedora Workstation on the left, and that's it. Defaults.
I'm looking through my
historyto see if anything could have installed that fwupdate-efi thing...Nothing.
The only thing I've run relating to all of this is:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker/master/spectre-meltdown-checker.shand then...
sh spectre-meltdown-checker.sh
So I just checked my VM of Fedora Workstation and fwupdate-efi is installed by default it seems. I've installed nothing on this VM except gnome-tweak-tool as I was playing with Gnome configuration to see if I might like it more than Cinnamon. I use the Cinnamon desktop on my laptop at home. So apparently if you select the Workstation install option this gets installed automatically. Whether this is where your problem is or not I don't know
@black3dynamite said in Intranet suggestions....:
@scottalanmiller said in Intranet suggestions....:
@stacksofplates said in Intranet suggestions....:
@jaredbusch said in Intranet suggestions....:
@zachary715 said in Intranet suggestions....:
@fuznutz04 said in Intranet suggestions....:
I'm still evaluating https://wiki.js.org/. I have it installed and setup, and I love the interface, but have not had a lot of time to really test it out in a production environment yet.
Wordpress is definitely a solid choice, especially with the right plugins.
I've been playing with https://wiki.js.org/ as well and I'm really loving it. It's still fairly young it seems but looks promising. Been spending a lot of time migrating notepad and word file documentation to it over the last week or two.
I also use Wordpress for a personal website, and would recommend it if you're needing additional functionality that a wiki may not offer.
ok, damnit. now I really need to set this up.
Ya it's pretty cool. It's awesome that it auto commits to a Git repo.
Yeah, we have been using it a little bit. It is what we are replacing Sharepoint with.
Easy to setup? What OS are you using?
I actually did it on Ubuntu 16.04 just because it's what their documentation claimed they had tested it with. Very straight forward installation process, although I didn't do the git setup nor add any web servers or reverse proxy to it since it will be internal only. I plan to go back and add the git repo here before long though.
@fuznutz04 said in Intranet suggestions....:
I'm still evaluating https://wiki.js.org/. I have it installed and setup, and I love the interface, but have not had a lot of time to really test it out in a production environment yet.
Wordpress is definitely a solid choice, especially with the right plugins.
I've been playing with https://wiki.js.org/ as well and I'm really loving it. It's still fairly young it seems but looks promising. Been spending a lot of time migrating notepad and word file documentation to it over the last week or two.
I also use Wordpress for a personal website, and would recommend it if you're needing additional functionality that a wiki may not offer.
@bnrstnr said in Vultr Bare Metal Instance - 60% OFF:
@bigbear That's the only size I've ever seen on there. I think the $120 is before the promo pricing.
Twitter account states that $120 IS their promo price
@dave247 said in question about setting up a new domain controller:
Hi guys I have kind of a noob question..
I have two 2008 R2 domain controllers: DC1 and DC2 (one physical one virtual), and an on-prem Exchange 2010 (SP3) server in my environment. I think I've learned enough now where I'm comfortable setting up a new domain controller and replacing an old one but I still technically haven't done it yet.
I would like to set up a 2012 R2 domain controller to replace the physical 2008 R2 domain controller, DC1. DC1 is the primary DNS server that everything in the environment looks to, and so I want to make sure everything gets replaced with the new IP address.
Note: I am going 2012 R2 DC right now because it's the highest I can go with having Exchange 2010 SP3 running. I will eventually be going to Exchange 2016 and then at that point I can make a 2016 DC.
The main thing I'm wondering about is if I can simply set up the new 2012 R2 server, promote it to domain controller, and then one by one point my servers and all the other statically mapped systems to it, without experiencing any disruptions. And right now DHCP is being controlled by the physical DC but of course that would be trivial to replace once I get the new 2012 R2 DC up and running. I really just want to be able to make the transition without disruption.
Is this pretty much the way to do it?
I just went through a DC upgrade myself over the holidays. We already used hosted Exchange so I wasn't worried about any issues there.
I have two DCs .10 and .15, with .10 holding FSMO roles and being DHCP server. I first transferred FSMO roles to the .15 server and gave it a day or two. I downloaded the AD Replication Status Tool and verified replication was working as intended.
On a weekend/holiday, I then demoted .10 as DC and changed its IP Address to .11 (this was also our file server so it was staying online a while longer until we migrate it to 2016). I then went into DNS and ensured that all the records were properly updated/removed before proceeding.
I then changed the IP Address of the new DC to .10 and promoted it as DC, DNS, DHCP. Again, I ensured that replication was working properly and that DNS records all got properly updated. Then I backed up my DHCP scope and migrated it to the new DC, and removed DHCP and DNS roles from old DC.
I think I've read in a recent post here that setting up with same IP as old DC isn't recommended, however, I've done it twice now over the years without issue. I would say if you are going the route you mentioned which is to give DC new IP and update this manually across your devices, take the time to make these DHCP reservations so that in the future, all you have to do is update your DHCP scope with the new config and when it renews the leases all the devices will get the updated info automatically.
@dashrender said in question about setting up a new domain controller:
@zachary715 said in question about setting up a new domain controller:
@tim_g said in question about setting up a new domain controller:
Yeah we're not paying that, all I can say is that the price was lower than Microsoft direct... significantly enough that we bothered to make the switch. It REALLY adds up over hundreds of users.
As @Dashrender mentioned, MS pricing on these packages tend to jump around. I would just make sure that AppRiver's pricing is moving around with it, especially with a price drop.
Other than the Business Premium price (which has been $12.50 for a while) I haven't seen the MS list prices changing on these much at all.
The first few years it was rolling out, I would check prices time to time and it seemed to jump around as they were adding and removing features. Maybe it has stabilized now that they have all their packages configured how they want them.
@tim_g said in question about setting up a new domain controller:
Yeah we're not paying that, all I can say is that the price was lower than Microsoft direct... significantly enough that we bothered to make the switch. It REALLY adds up over hundreds of users.
As @Dashrender mentioned, MS pricing on these packages tend to jump around. I would just make sure that AppRiver's pricing is moving around with it, especially with a price drop.
Looks like AppRiver wants $21.95/u/mo. for Enterprise E3.
@dashrender said in question about setting up a new domain controller:
@tim_g said in question about setting up a new domain controller:
@dashrender said in question about setting up a new domain controller:
If Appriver stopped paying their bill (ok not likely, unless they go bankrupt) MS will cut off all of Appriver's customers from access.
The thing about this, is that you can easily switch back your licensing to MS... it doesn't interrupt anything. It's the same license. What changes is who you are paying.
Are you sure? From those complaining about GoDaddy, the switch is not easy.
We are with GoDaddy currently because we were using a different hosted exchange provider years prior who apparently couldn't compete once Office365 came out. They partnered with GoDaddy for a seamless transition so we took that route assuming we could always just change out and go straight through Microsoft later.... WRONG.
My understanding is that we'd have to backup everyone's mailboxes, recreate users, restore mailboxes, etc. Not as simple as just handing the "contract" over to someone else.
@tim_g said in question about setting up a new domain controller:
Through Microsoft:
Through AppRiver:
Those aren't the same products. They share a lot of similarities, but are slightly different. Article from 2016 describing some of the differences... http://www.bi101.com/blog/microsoft-office-365/office-365-business-premium-vs-e3-decide/
From my reading, they were disclosing to the big boys at Amazon, Microsoft, Google, but not to these other guys. So now they're scrambling.
I guess in reality you can't really reach out to EVERYONE affected immediately. You have to draw the line somewhere of who knows ahead of time and who doesn't. I just would have thought some of these providers were large enough to justify disclosure
Good article about how the likes of Vultr, Digital Ocean, Linode, and others are working together to try and solve the issues this creates. Sounds like they learned same time we did.
@stacksofplates said in 10 year old - Windows or Ubuntu?:
I think GNOME 3 looks really nice and can look nicer with some tweaking.
That looks nice. Just updated my home laptop from Korora to Fedora and initially tried Gnome. I played with tweaking it a bit but really got annoyed with it and was taking more effort that I would have liked. I ended up resorting back to Cinnamon desktop as I like how it is setup default. May have to give it another shot though seeing how this desktop looks.
Never specified whether he was wanting to watch college or NFL. Not many NFL game come on ESPN these days do they? I'm thinking maybe he's interested in watching college bowl games or something.
I think your best options are going to be a streaming service like SlingTV or similar if you have access. I don't know what all is available if you're outside the US though.
@wirestyle22 Share your resolution if you will. I was trying to install nginx on a server with wiki.js the other day and was running into the same error.
@jaredbusch said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
@zachary715 said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
Just chiming in that I'm with @dbeato on Google Music. Uploaded my personal collection to it years ago. I also purchase most of my music through there now as well with money I earn from Google Surveys. Easy to cache songs for offline listening as well when you're going somewhere without internet access.
Well, prior to Amazon dumping it, I would have easily chosen them because I use Prime and listen to Amazon Music already.
With Google's history of dumping products, I am extra wary of them doing the same now that Amazon has done it.
Yeah I do a lot of streaming through Amazon Music as well for songs I don't own.
I understand your lack of trust in Google to keep the product going, but I really don't know how much more assurance you can get from other providers that are lesser known that they'll be around for 5-10 years. You just gotta pick the best one at the time that looks solid and if it gets bumped, move on. That or do as @dbeato mentioned in his first post and put it into NextCloud that you can control yourself.
Just chiming in that I'm with @dbeato on Google Music. Uploaded my personal collection to it years ago. I also purchase most of my music through there now as well with money I earn from Google Surveys. Easy to cache songs for offline listening as well when you're going somewhere without internet access.
@travisdh1 said in Securing NextCloud:
I forgot before: You can also login to the admin interface and looking at the settings page. It'll give you a list of performance and security optimizations with links to instructions on how to make the changes.
Yeah that's where this all started. It only states that I need to...
From that though, I got to the hardening and security guide and started to go even deeper down the rabbit hole.
