After over 6 straight years of actual larger-Enterprise (heavy Windows/Linux infrastructure) experience and 3 intense years of practice and self-study, I finally made MCSE: Server Infrastructure (2012 R2).

http://www.mycertprofile.com/Profile/1943383021

My real (relevant) experience hadn't started in a business environment until closer to 2004, but it has been a goal of mine since then.

It just feels good to have finally reached that goal in a good way.

My wife is becoming a U.S. citizen today. As well as everyone else on the bottom floor. People still coming in.

Some entertainment on the stage while everyone waits for the Oath Ceremony to begin.

Happy holidays all!

Jupiter
Christmas night, 2022-12-25.
Alt: 38°

Less than ideal seeing conditions and lots of light pollution, but was still able to bring out some detail!
Jupiter was 456,134,146 miles from earth when I took the photo. It took almost 41 minutes for light to travel from Jupiter to my camera. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun, has 80 moons, and is large enough to fit about 1,300 Earths inside.

Setup:
5" SCT + 2x Barlow, ASI224MC @ ~2500mm f/20
iOptron mount, tracking: mount-only
FireCapture, shutter 13ms / gain 221 / histogram ~64%
20% best of 4k light frames
AS!3 + RegiStax6

I posted a guide on my blog about setting up a Fedora 26 KVM / QEMU hypervisor that uses the Kimchi-project for remote virtualization management, which includes a working web-based VM console.

Here's the link: https://www.timothygruber.com/linux/fedora-26-kvm-html5-remote-access-with-web-console-via-kimchi-part-1/

I hope it helps anyone who needs it as much as it would have helped me had I came across it a long time ago.

It's easy to create on my blog because I can copy/paste images into the editor... it's like working inside of MS Word.

I was thinking of recreating it on here for ML, but not sure if it's worth it or not, as well as the chance of hurting SEO.

Should I take the time to do it and just change the wording a bit?

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I know y'all are concerned... Snapchat just went down.

Nope, the whole Snapchat company could disband and I'd never even know it (until you post about it).

@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Ordered 2 ssd from newegg. They show up in 2 8"x4"x3" boxes which are packaged inside a 24"x18"x4" box. And lots of those airbag things.
Literally could have fit hundreds of ssd in this packaging.

Now if one doesn't work, you need to ship it back inside of a refrigerator box...

@dustinb3403 said in Recommendations for Cameras:

He wants something "more serious looking" what does that even mean?

I have had great experience with these:

@pmoncho said in User migration to azure:

@Obsolesce said in User migration to azure:

@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:

@Obsolesce said in User migration to azure:

@pmoncho said in User migration to azure:

@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:

@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:

@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:

@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:

@lilyleiden said in User migration to azure:

We just tested migrating a small batch of test users to our new Azure tenant.

While migrating the PC/user account was no problem, the fact that people get a completely blank user profile, certainly was a showstopper!!

Many of our users has had their AD profile for years, even a decade and has a lot of individual settings, ways to work, shortcuts, quick links, favorites/browser cached passwords etc. and they loose all that.
Management has currently halted the process due to the protests.

So I am on the lookout for a way to link/migrate the old profile/profile settings, when Azure joining the PC?

I would use this as an opportunity to remove unneeded customizations and old ways of doing things and introduce new ways of working instead.

For instance is it really wise to rely on browser cached passwords? To me that's a signal that you need to look over you password management policy. Maybe your users need a real password manager or setup SSO to apps they're using.

I'm really on board with this! We don't migrate when people get new machines, that said - we have few users that do much customization to their setup...

Yes and it's also question of setting the right expectations. For instance saying: IT allows users to customize their desktops but will not provide support for it. New machines, reimaged desktops etc will be reset to company default.

I do this - I don't support end user shortcuts to their desktop. If you figure out how to get it - or get others around you to do it for you, fine... but IT does not support your shortcuts.

Wondering what others do for users bookmarks? Do you just have them create and use their own Google/Firefox/Microsoft account so they follow the user?

They can sign in and use their corporate email to sync in the web browser.

huh - a PITA making users make three separate accounts (one for each browser) based on their corporate account... but doable.

Three separate accounts for what? I only use one web browser for work, and only one work account, and have all my work bookmarks on that, and synced. Why would someone do all that on multiple browsers?

Government Healthcare websites. That is why. Medicaid (per state), Medicare (per jurisdiction), Insurance websites, different EMR websites, etc... etc... etc... etc...

Yes, it is a BIG PITA. Heck, up until last year, Eclinical EMR (version based) still wanted IE and refused to use Chrome/FireFox/Edge. It can now be used on Chrome/Edge but doesn't like FF, yet for Medicaid, they like FF better than Chrome/Edge. UGH

(Just a little bitter....)

Even in those cases, if I had a need to visit those websites on my work device with my work account, that would be the exception to the rule. I would continue to ONLY use Edge, with only my work account set up for sync. And in the weird cases I ever had to visit one of those sites that only support IE, I'd just copy/paste the password in there from the saved passwords through Edge or LastPass (whichever you'd use).

There's no way I'd set up a profile in IE for any reason, unless forced to.

The alternative to signing into the web browser to sync is so much worse, even in the off chance you chose to use 4 web browsers at the same time, and sign into them all with your work account to sync. Any other method is going to end up costing way more effort in the end anyways.

@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:

@Obsolesce said in User migration to azure:

@pmoncho said in User migration to azure:

@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:

@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:

@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:

@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:

@lilyleiden said in User migration to azure:

We just tested migrating a small batch of test users to our new Azure tenant.

While migrating the PC/user account was no problem, the fact that people get a completely blank user profile, certainly was a showstopper!!

Many of our users has had their AD profile for years, even a decade and has a lot of individual settings, ways to work, shortcuts, quick links, favorites/browser cached passwords etc. and they loose all that.
Management has currently halted the process due to the protests.

So I am on the lookout for a way to link/migrate the old profile/profile settings, when Azure joining the PC?

I would use this as an opportunity to remove unneeded customizations and old ways of doing things and introduce new ways of working instead.

For instance is it really wise to rely on browser cached passwords? To me that's a signal that you need to look over you password management policy. Maybe your users need a real password manager or setup SSO to apps they're using.

I'm really on board with this! We don't migrate when people get new machines, that said - we have few users that do much customization to their setup...

Yes and it's also question of setting the right expectations. For instance saying: IT allows users to customize their desktops but will not provide support for it. New machines, reimaged desktops etc will be reset to company default.

I do this - I don't support end user shortcuts to their desktop. If you figure out how to get it - or get others around you to do it for you, fine... but IT does not support your shortcuts.

Wondering what others do for users bookmarks? Do you just have them create and use their own Google/Firefox/Microsoft account so they follow the user?

They can sign in and use their corporate email to sync in the web browser.

huh - a PITA making users make three separate accounts (one for each browser) based on their corporate account... but doable.

Three separate accounts for what? I only use one web browser for work, and only one work account, and have all my work bookmarks on that, and synced. Why would someone do all that on multiple browsers?

@pmoncho said in User migration to azure:

@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:

@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:

@Dashrender said in User migration to azure:

@Pete-S said in User migration to azure:

@lilyleiden said in User migration to azure:

We just tested migrating a small batch of test users to our new Azure tenant.

While migrating the PC/user account was no problem, the fact that people get a completely blank user profile, certainly was a showstopper!!

Many of our users has had their AD profile for years, even a decade and has a lot of individual settings, ways to work, shortcuts, quick links, favorites/browser cached passwords etc. and they loose all that.
Management has currently halted the process due to the protests.

So I am on the lookout for a way to link/migrate the old profile/profile settings, when Azure joining the PC?

I would use this as an opportunity to remove unneeded customizations and old ways of doing things and introduce new ways of working instead.

For instance is it really wise to rely on browser cached passwords? To me that's a signal that you need to look over you password management policy. Maybe your users need a real password manager or setup SSO to apps they're using.

I'm really on board with this! We don't migrate when people get new machines, that said - we have few users that do much customization to their setup...

Yes and it's also question of setting the right expectations. For instance saying: IT allows users to customize their desktops but will not provide support for it. New machines, reimaged desktops etc will be reset to company default.

I do this - I don't support end user shortcuts to their desktop. If you figure out how to get it - or get others around you to do it for you, fine... but IT does not support your shortcuts.

Wondering what others do for users bookmarks? Do you just have them create and use their own Google/Firefox/Microsoft account so they follow the user?

They can sign in and use their corporate email to sync in the web browser.

@lilyleiden
There are some imaging options that have built-in profile migration capabilities as well, such as SmartDeploy. Starting fresh while preserving their data could be a workable compromise, perhaps.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

So last week I rolled out DUO 2-factor authentication. Happy to say that I only had 1 user with any issues, and that only required a simple delete / recreate account. I feel safer already.

Duo. My place has been on it for 2-3 years now.

Hmmm... good to know. I might have to pick your brain if I run into any other problems.

Duo works well here too for past couple years.

@Pete-S said in How to use different accounts on the same website/service with profiles:

Profiles in Chrome
In Chrome you can add a new profile (aka user) by clicking on the person icon (You) on the top right and select + Add.
Here you can also switch profiles. When you add a profile Chrome asks if you want to create a shortcut on the desktop (Windows).
The target will look like this:
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 1"

For those who don't use Firefox or Chrome:

Similar to Chrome...

Microsoft Edge

Target will be like this, e.g.:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 1"

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft script recreates shortcuts deleted by bad Defender ASR rule:

The question is, why are you trying to vilify the entire concept of code review and openness, especially when none of that was involved in the issue, let alone was the issue an... issue.

He must think it's not possible or less likely for closed source to contain bugs, bad code, or malicious actors, and that if it does they would catch and disclose it more openly and better? Unsure of the logic there.

@Pete-S said in Proxmox hates security:

@Obsolesce said in Proxmox hates security:

@Pete-S said in Proxmox hates security:

KVM by default for instance is managed by libvirt and by default doesn't open any tcp ports at all. That gives the administrator the option to decide what level of security versus convenience they want.

Remotely using Virt-manager for example, via remote SSH connection.

Yes, that's one option.

The more minimal approach is to just use virsh as you don't need a desktop environment for that.

Huh? Who doesn't use a desktop environment on their PC?

@Pete-S said in Proxmox hates security:

KVM by default for instance is managed by libvirt and by default doesn't open any tcp ports at all. That gives the administrator the option to decide what level of security versus convenience they want.

Remotely using Virt-manager for example, via remote SSH connection.

Created my first prod C# program.