@scottalanmiller said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:

@Emad-R said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:

Linux is only meant for Server OSes ... not for our workstations, it will only take more of your time.

By that logic, Windows isn't meant for anything, haha.

Linux makes a far smoother, faster, more reliable workstation experience than Windows in my experience. And every new user we introduce to it agrees. We never see someone say Windows works better, or is easier, or has better support. I have absolutely no idea how you are having Linux issues, but for most people, it's so incredibly smooth and well polished that it blows their minds that anyone is using Windows once they see how easy it is.

He's using confirmation bias everywhere. One second it's one thing, the next it's about gaming, then again a $300 system, then Hyper-V, then Win10 Home. He's all over the place here and is obviously on a 48-hour THC binge.

@scottalanmiller said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:

Responding from a machine that Windows doesn't support its hardware

Same :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

@IRJ said in Tighten your tinfoil hat - International Surveillance:

Also which one us is worse to have your data?

Depends on your crimes... But for everyone else, who cares. Every US company (think Facebook, telecoms, hacks, etc) already has more on you than the NSA; they probably just aggregate it all into one DB.

@Pete-S said in Need suggestion for local Windows backup:

Need a backup solution for one Windows workstation where backup target is local USB drive or possibly NAS.
Cloud backup isn't an option as the internet connection is too slow.

Suggestions on what to use?

Built in backup doesn't work or?

I like Veeam free.

@Pete-S said in Need suggestion for local Windows backup:

@scottalanmiller @Obsolesce

Which of Windows built-in backup tools did you have in mind?

This will get you to both methods:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027408/windows-10-backup-and-restore

@scottalanmiller said in Need suggestion for local Windows backup:

But the "older" Windows 7 Backup that takes an image works quite well, too. Depends on your goals really.

Yeah, it tends to work so well that over the long run, you're screwed unless you do some custom upkeep.

@thwr The problem is that your budget doesn't allow for what you require without cutting corners (giving you less than you want/need). I don't know what you NEED, or if it's want vs need, or whatever. But you may be best off buying your own hardware, and stashing it in a colo if that is a better choice than onprem for your needs.

What specs you mentioned on good hardware as a VPS or dedicated host, simply doesn't exist for your budget. It'd likely be 2-3x that on a reliable and useful platform.

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@Pete-S said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

How many tasks are we talking about?

I would probably export them, delete and import just to be certain.

And make sure task history is enabled.

Looks like at least 4 tasks are having this issue (there may be some more, I need to do another pass through the scheduled tasks). I'm going to try an export/delete/import and see what happens...

Don't import the old task. Create it new. Just set the same options, but new start date.

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

Wow, so I just went through all the scheduled tasks on this box.

There are 41 tasks total. Out of the 41, there are 13 that are in this weird "ignored" condition. Bleh. This is going to be fun re-creating these.

Perhaps export them all - then find out how to re-create them using powershell. Then you'll have a backup for them incase you need to migrate this to another server, etc for the future.

Not a bad idea.

You could write a simple function for a script to recreate them all based on the exported XMLs.

@IRJ said in Bash script to manage file directory by size:

@pmoncho said in Bash script to manage file directory by size:

@IRJ said in Bash script to manage file directory by size:

I am housekeeping some directories by running a script to delete everything older than X days.

find /var/backups/app1* -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

That seems to be working ok, but size is varying among servers. I would rather delete oldest files once I threshold is met.

Example: I have a hard limit of 5GB that I cannot exceed. After keeping 30 days worth of files on some servers I am only using 500MB and others 3GB. I would rather keep more days and just not exceed 5GB so I can use all available space.

So I am thinking something like this :

If directory exceeds 4GB, then delete the 5 oldest days of logs

You can use du -h to get directory usage and then eval it.

Edit: I believe du -hs will give you a summarized in human readable form

Yeah I think this is the route I will need to go.

Can you install PowerShell on it? Then it'd be really easy for me to help

@scottalanmiller said in Adding LDAP role to domain controller:

LDAP is not used by an day to day process for AD as intended. It's a fall back for non-AD clients that use generic LDAP.

Like copiers. Don't forget about those. But they should be using AAD instead by now.

@gjacobse said in Is there a thing as to much security:

This is for the state, they have the parent domain and about 20 child domains covering all the different agencies.

And again, I understand the necessity of security but when you hinder the ability to deploy and operate it seems serious overkill.

I have seen 15 cases where a computer that has been set up for two months has to be added to the database or they need to be patched to a different port on the switch to reconnect.

In re-patching The workstation we are also rebooting the voip phone. It seems to be about the only way to resolve the issue unless we put in a request to have the entire stack rebooted.

Perhaps you are confusing security with poorly implemented infrastructure. Then I can see why there are so many issues.

@JaredBusch said in Windows 10 search only gives blank box:

The few power users never even asked for it back.

They probably just hit start and start tying. No need for the search button/option or whatever it's called.

There's also a lot more that can be done, especially with the credentials... storing them as an encrypted file and retrieving them for the function (function just for that, functions using other functions), keeping all the parameter data in an object to retrieve, or from CSV, etc....

It depends on how far down the rabbit hole you want to go, and how much time you want to spend making it.

Honestly, I'd do this kind of thing with a different project, but this can work too. There's a lot you can do.

@DustinB3403 said in Remote PowerShell from Fedora to Windows:

So your saying MS can't even get this right ?

Using -Authentication Negotiate specifically, requires NTLM libraries that aren't in Linux by default.

MS doesn't recommend using NTLM. You should be using SSH with Enter-PSSession. Ideally key based.

MS is doing it right in this case. The wrong doesn't appear to be on their end ^_^

@wrx7m said in Group Policy - HKCU Registry Update (via GPP) For All Users, Only on RDP Server:

t only applies the setting when linked to the OU of the user

We'll according to that screenshot, it IS a user setting.

@scottalanmiller said in VMware Community Homelabs:

@Obsolesce said in VMware Community Homelabs:

Generally, i lab things out for a little and trash it. My costs typically never exceed a few bucks a month in Azure, and on AWS the free tier and costs are even better when buying those $300 credits for $20 or whatever it is. Mix and match. You get the most experience and bang for your buck.

I've found for me, that some of the best lab stuff is not setting up and tearing down, but setting up to keep operating. You get a whole different level of experience when you keep it running, patch it, maintain it, etc.

I do that when it's something I'm using past the testing/labbing experience. But then at that point it's not so much a test lab anymore.

It's hard to keep something going you never really use... typically forget about because patching can be automatic, but when not, even maintaining something you don't use much is kind of.... I don't know, wasteful IMO. Because you can be using those resources towards something you will be actively maintaining and using while learning. (given you are talking about platform test lab, which means that hardware is dedicated to that purpose) Perhaps if it's a platform, like you want to run Openstack or something to get experience as many large companies use that (not sure about SMB).

I do get the other side too. There are many things in SMB you can better lab or experience on your own hardware, because that's where most SMBs are coming from, and many either lack the need to move away from it, or lack the competence and culture to move to cloud.

Either way, it depends on where you want to go with your career and what environments you want to work with.

@scottalanmiller said in VMware Community Homelabs:

@Pete-S said in VMware Community Homelabs:

@Dashrender said in VMware Community Homelabs:

@Pete-S said in VMware Community Homelabs:

Most IT people I know get their hardware for nothing where they work. So they have stuff like R710's at home.
So setting up a home lab isn't a cost thing, more a question of having the space.

The cost of power to run that 710 can likely make it more cost effective to run the VMs in a VPS. plus that gets rid of the noise pollution.

Depends on how many VMs you have. A R710 can easily handle twenty of those $5 vultr VMs. That's $1200 per year for VMs in a VPS.
No way you can rack up that in electricity.

Plus the needs of a lab VM are often very different from the needs of a production one. Prod needs fast disks and fast CPU, and "just enough" RAM. Labs need very little CPU and disk performance, but lots of RAM.

And just one workload like NextCloud could cost a fortune on even Vultr, but be nearly free on an R710.

We have old R510 units that could run 30+ VMs, easily. A good 50% more than @Pete-S is estimating. And adding RAM alone would allow us to up that number significantly.

If I need a bunch of VMs to test/lab things, I'll use Hyper-V on my laptop (shouldn't have to mention this, but I"m sure it'll be pointed out- not talking about platform labs here). Lots of RAM in PCs is much more doable now, and can take you pretty far. Some business laptops give you 64 GB of ram.... that's more than enough to set up some labs.

@Pete-S said in VMware Community Homelabs:

5 billion hits per day is Google type traffic

You are confusing 5 billion hits/searches per day with requests. Not the same thing.