@brianwinkelmann said in Windows in the Enterprise - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

Very Interesting, but I would like to check comments from other users about this features mentioned on the video, I mean all of them work properly and are useful at all? or there are another alternative like application or devices that can challenge with the features mentioned on the video? Well I just wonder.

Which features or apps do you mean?

Very Interesting, I like Windows 10 xD

@brianwinkelmann said in An Overview of Windows 8 and 8.1 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

Interesting, I didn't know Windows 8 has many features, but I don't think I can consider install Windows 8 in a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz with 3 GB RAM.

You should not consider ANY old OS, really ever. Outside of learning what support used to look like, which is effectively worthless, conceptually using an old OS is a bad idea. Windows 8, especially, is only one generation newer than Windows 7 which is already crazy old. Windows 8 is something like eleven versions old already!

@brianwinkelmann said in An Overview of Windows 7 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

@scottalanmiller Ohh I see it is a good Idea to try LINUX!

Yes, very good time. Something light. Because there are so few resources.

Try this..

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-10.5.0-i386-netinst.iso

@manxam so much longer, though. I had checked that out, but find the other to be better.

However if you are writing a script to fill out a form, I can see this being handier.

Obviously the paths would change based on where they actually live and since I want this to live outside of an individual user, pointing to the user paths would make no sense in a production case.

Also on WSL, if you go into /mnt you can get a list of all of the disks that are mounted on your Workstation/Server.
In the case of my workstation I only have the 1 disk, so only c is listed. Severs would likely have other drives.

This thread is like a honey trap, lol. Works really well.

@callimarie said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:

uhh i keep getting this error "The libvirtd service does not appear to be installed. Install and run the libvirtd service to manage virtualization on this host."

So did you do what it said?

@Francesco-Provino said in virt-manager for Windows:

@scottalanmiller you don’t want a GUI on the virtualization host, ever. Just spin a VM with virt-manager and launch it on your local machine with xming or one of the other solutions in the other comments.

Right, bypassing Windows can be an option, but it's a crappy one. But I got it working directly on Windows, so no need for a heavy VM for one app.

A simple scheduled task to run a simple PoSh script would be easiest IMO.

@ilyas said in Reset 120 Day Grace Period for Windows RDS Server with PowerShell:

@scottalanmiller

Hi, Thanks for wonderful script that save my time.
Could You please guide me how we can run this script on multiple servers?

I tried foreach PowerShell method but it does not work.

From the ISE, load the script and then enter-pssession for each system. Once connected, run the script from the ise. Sorted.

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2019 Need to Download and Run without AV Deleting Files:

https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2016/07/how-to-disable-and-configure-windows-defender-on-windows-server-2016-using-powershell/

For now, just temporary disable Real-Time Protection via PowerShell
Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true

Download the executable and scan it manually before you install
Start-MpScan -ScanPath C:\datastore\file.exe -ScanType QuickScan

Enable Real-Time Protection after the install
Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $false

Excellent, now THAT did it.

Ah, the old reboot/reinstall/redo.

@dave247 said in Windows 7 End of Support Countdown:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 7 End of Support Countdown:

@dave247 said in Windows 7 End of Support Countdown:

Man, I just finished upgrading us to Windows 7 64 bit. Got the last XP machine removed last week...

Did you really target Windows 7 as the "go to" target, or was it simply that the last XP was removed finally and now Windows 7 is the "old stuff" left around?

nah I was just gaffin. I've upgraded all our stuff to Windows 10 1809 baby

Oh, haha. You never know. The number of people out there pushing for Windows is crazy high.

@pmoncho said in Get Windows Version from Command Line:

No doubt. Currently working on getting Server 2019 DC, DHCP, and RDS working in a lab. A few challenges so far. Was going to try using PS to do many tasks I normally do in GUI (force myself to learn as I go) but decided to put it on the back burner due to frustration. I will get there with PS but it has to wait.

Unfortunately, no matter how much we want to complain about PS and how Windows has no production-level roadmap at this point and is getting worse by the day, if you are going to run Windows today, PS is how it is done. Issues with PS have only one valid purpose to discuss - to use to explain to management why Windows shouldn't be getting deployed in production workloads, or why risks with it need to be accepted. It's like the licensing issues with Windows, these things all add up to cost and risk and risk is really just cost. It's part of the "decision numbers." Beyond that, it is what it is. If the business actually knows how costly it is and still chooses it, then PS is how you manage it.

If you deploy and start without using PS, it'll be that much harder to switch later. I know the learning curve is absurd and the whole thing is so much harder than it has any purpose being, but I would bite the bullet if at all possible and learn it now. It'll just be harder later.

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation:

@dbeato said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation:

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation:

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation:

@JaredBusch said in Windows Server 2019 Basic Installation:

The current install method brings Windows Server on parity with the Linux ecosystem really. You install, choose some options and end up at a prompt after reboot. Then you remotely add the features and shit you want.

Yeah, very in like with Fedora, Ubuntu, or Deepin. Deepin might still be my favourite installer for normal stuff of the four.

Did you have a Deepin install screenshot chain on here?

No, but I do it so often, it would be easy to get.

That'd be nice to see on here.

Last post on it was below
https://mangolassi.it/topic/14453/deepin-linux-15-4-1-install

The install still looks like that.

LOL that's not an installer. That's a push button, get peanuts.

Nice though.

I ran into a language issue the other day when writing a PowerShell script that uses net localgroup and thought it could be useful to others:

Depending on the language your Windows device is set to, the local Administrators group will be different, so the typical net localgroup administrators domain\user /add command will fail.

Implementing the following will grab the actual name of the group by it's SID first, then use that result.
Note that this is written to work in PowerShell, not CMD.exe.

# Gets the name of the local Administrators group in appropriate language $localAdminGroupName = (Get-WmiObject win32_group -filter "LocalAccount = $TRUE And SID = 'S-1-5-32-544'" | Select-Object -Expand name) Write-Output "Local Administrators group detected as: [$localAdminGroupName]" # Sets the users as a local admin using appropriate local Administrators group name net localgroup $localAdminGroupName domain\user /add # Gets local Administrators group members net localgroup $localAdminGroupName