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@scottalanmiller said in SSH SCP - Need Pointers for "server" on Windows:

@jaredbusch said in SSH SCP - Need Pointers for "server" on Windows:

@scottalanmiller said in SSH SCP - Need Pointers for "server" on Windows:

@phlipelder said in SSH SCP - Need Pointers for "server" on Windows:

I'm looking for something to serve that file that I can run on a Win10 machine. My search foo is failing probably due to not having the right search terms.

Nothing needed, Windows 10 does that natively.

Really? WTF are you on today?

Mine does. We use it constantly. It's how we use SSH to automate Windows 10 PowerShell.

Suweet! Thanks for that!

@scottalanmiller said in SSH SCP - Need Pointers for "server" on Windows:

@phlipelder said in SSH SCP - Need Pointers for "server" on Windows:

I'm looking for something to serve that file that I can run on a Win10 machine. My search foo is failing probably due to not having the right search terms.

Nothing needed, Windows 10 does that natively.

Scott,

Really? How do I set up a server for the file on Windows 10. This is news to me, but that's not saying much.

@phlipelder said in SSH SCP - Need Pointers for "server" on Windows:

image fetch scp://username:[email protected]/var/www/html/<image_name>

No screenshot just this CLI step:

image fetch scp://username:[email protected]/var/www/html/<image_name>

I'm looking for something to serve that file that I can run on a Win10 machine. My search foo is failing probably due to not having the right search terms.

We're in the process of running some firmware updates on a set of Mellanox switches.

I'm in the process of learning the CLI so hit this:

image fetch scp://username:[email protected]/var/www/html/<image_name>

What do you recommend I use to serve the file?

Thanks!

Veeam to StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with a BackBlaze backend connection to back up all that data.

We're getting ready to pilot this kind of setup. VTL integrates really nicely into a tape based infrastructure with little to no mods needed.

Edit: For on-site storage we set up either a Storage Spaces Direct cluster or a Converged cluster. In this case it would be Converged with close to 1PB of available storage (2x nodes + 1x 102 bay JBOD)

We're using Azure to host our WordPress instance with a MySQL integrated backend. The entire process for this somewhat web coding illiterate is actually quite simple.

We run the site in our Microsoft Partner subscription that comes with a $150/Month (Canada) credit that we have yet to exceed. So, it's essentially "free" at the Compute A level.

I'm in the process of figuring out how to set up Wiki.js on Ubuntu running in Azure with a MongoDB backend and Apache fronting for SSL. Again, very inexpensive as the *NIX VM takes very little in the way of resources while idle. I like the MongoDB setup as it has a dedicated site for all telemetry that I can hit to monitor its performance.

I think it's worth it to at least check Azure out. It's quite flexible and a one stop spot for everything.

We use SharePoint extensively internally and support a number of clients that we put on to it (former SBS MVP here).

The permissions structure is similar to Group Policy or CSS where the shirt closest to your back wins permissions wise. Traverse is not something that we can do in SharePoint unlike other file permissions/shares setups. That's something to keep in mind when it comes to folder permissions structures.

We set up up dedicated subsites for our various needs.

We set up split DNS for the Internet FQDN internally and externally to make things simple for folks in and out of the office. But then, we host our own.

We set up WebDAV and use a shortcut \\sharepoint.domain.com@SSL@PORTID\DavWWWRoot for folks accessing externally. In the case of O365 the simple way to grab that UNC is to open in IE, use the Open in File Explorer option for a library, and pull the icon down from the address bar in File Explorer to Quick Access/Favourites. Right click the shortcut and Properties to get the UNC.

The simplest way to sell SP is to show folks the Check Out/In and Reviewer Approve/Disapprove and the Versions features. We enable mandatory check out/in and draft/final versioning on all libraries.

All users add Check Out/Check In/Server to their Office app's Quick Access Toolbar:

Having those three buttons up there eliminates most support calls as folks get used to checking them for a file's status.

@dustinb3403 It's been a while, but there's a set of files the Mac writes to all folders it touches. .DS_Store or something like that.

We've seen busy graphics houses have their file servers brought to their knees by this "feature".

These guys: https://dea.nbird.com.au/2014/11/19/windows-server-prevent-mac-files-on-shares-ds_store-_-trashes/

In Windows Server:
In Elevated CMD:
wmic.exe computersystem where name="SERVERNAME" set AutomaticManagedPagefile=False
wmic.exe pagefileset where name="c:\\pagefile.sys" set InitialSize=8192,MaximumSize=8192
shutdown -r -t 0

Then in an elevated PowerShell:

Set-ItemProperty –Path HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl –Name CrashDumpEnabled –value 1
Get-ItemProperty –Path HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl –Name CrashDumpEnabled
Set-ItemProperty –Path HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl –Name FilterPages –value 1
Get-ItemProperty –Path HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl –Name FilterPages

From https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/clustering/2015/05/18/windows-server-2016-failover-cluster-troubleshooting-enhancements-active-dump/

We do the above on all servers we deploy since they all have a 128GB or 256GB at the most host OS drive and it's not uncommon to be deploying over a Terabyte of RAM.

@scottalanmiller said in IT female empowerment:

@wrx7m said in IT female empowerment:

@scottalanmiller said in IT female empowerment:

@wrx7m said in IT female empowerment:

... their willingness to do it for the agreed upon wage.

One problem that some people have with this, is there is a belief that men are more aggressive with demanding higher pay and feel that society should regulate this to help women get paid more.

Even if that is true, that is a learned skill.

There are two schools of thought on that. One is that it is not a learned skill and intrinsic to genders. The second is that it is indeed a learned skill and one kept from women throughout their childhoods so that they are being discriminated against from birth and put in a position where, as adults, they are at a major disadvantage.

Catch is, "Gender" is a relatively new term with a rather vague definition. So, no real school of thought there as of yet IMNSHO.

Traditional "Sex" based on XX or XY is plenty studied with some of the longest longitudinal studies in history still ongoing providing a lot of data. Folks are getting fired for citing such.

@obsolesce said in Client Wants To Transition From Windows To Linux:

FTFY

Munich, Germany.

Curiosity question: Are the users already familiar with FOSS to some degree thus the request?

I'd really like to hear about how the transition goes and how long it takes the users to regain their efficiencies.

Windows Desktop OS only allows a very limited number of inbound access points. Maybe that's the limiter? Too many incoming?

Instead of turning the firewall off, leave it on with logging enabled and outbound pop-up enabled. Then, if there's a problem, the log indicates whether the firewall is indeed at fault.

The Windows firewall is never off. It goes into a form of limp mode that in and of itself can cause problems.

Group Policy is the best way to set up the Windows Firewall and its rules IMNSHO.

@scottalanmiller said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

@obsolesce said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

@phlipelder said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

Cosmos Darwin: Storage Spaces Direct: 10,000 Clusters and counting

I'm curious to see how much permanent data loss has occurred as a result of using S2D.

Very little, because no one is using it in production. This helps them hide just how bad the situation is. Only 10K clusters means it's not even being tested heavily.

"No one is using it in production." <-- False.

Making broad brush stroke claims like that is fallacious at best.

There are in-production S2D clusters.

@obsolesce said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

@phlipelder said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

Cosmos Darwin: Storage Spaces Direct: 10,000 Clusters and counting

I'm curious to see how much permanent data loss has occurred as a result of using S2D.

Heh … I've seen many a disaster recovery situation where backups were either non-existent or failed with no indication of things being broken. We've been in them (BUE ugh) and have been called in on many more. If the backups have not been fully restored bare-metal or bare-hypervisor they are not proven thus no-good IMNSHO. Spot restores do not count.

Here's a bad one: Maxta

Slightly different situation but: Dell Stops Swonly Sales of ScaleIO Virtual SAN <-- Folks being left in a lurch.

Data loss responsibility starts with the folks managing the backups. Usually, they are not important and seen as a cumbersome expense until something goes blotto. Then all of a sudden the CxOs are throwing money at a proper disaster recovery setup. But, by then it's too late.

@scottalanmiller said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

@storageninja said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

@phlipelder said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

Why Hyper-V? We don't have to pay anything extra to build-out a virtualization platform for one.
We've done well with Hyper-V and Storage Spaces.

Storage Spaces Direct is Datacenter licensing only. If you have core dense platforms this gets expensive.

And it isn't production ready, and doesn't have production readiness on its roadmap. And that's right from the MVPs. It's a joke that MS released way too early with no way to get working. In the enterprise space, it's essentially non-existent and those that have used it have been burned big time.

Microsoft knows what's happening with their products and how they are being used.

Cosmos Darwin: Storage Spaces Direct: 10,000 Clusters and counting

There are deployed to production S2D clusters out there. And, like everything else out there, there's always first-run jitters and issues.

We've seen issues in all Windows Server versions out of the box since 2008 R2 RTM and even earlier.

VMware has had some spectacular bugs with one of the latest brought to light by Veeam with data loss a very real possibility.

No software product out there is perfect. That does not excuse the early release cycles that we are seeing from many vendors not just Microsoft.

As far as licensing S2D goes, we SPLA the DC license with our SMB deployments starting at 10-15 seats and up. They are also great ReFS repositories for Veeam (something they request to have under their backups).

@irj said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

@phlipelder said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

We've been deploying virtualization solutions on Hyper-V since Longhorn/2008. We built our first cluster on the Intel Modular Server (probably the first to do so with Hyper-V) back in the day with our first IMS cluster deal following that up.

That's impressive because because from what I remember hyper-v was terrible in 2008.

Heh, it took 9 months of life, front-line access to the IMS engineering team, and some handholding by Ben Armstrong and Jose Barreto to get it going. It was a really cool moment to see the VMs Live Migrate between all of the nodes and then start right back up when we started testing failover scenarios.

And yes, it was very painful as we committed to deploying all clusters with Server Core and still do so today. Though, with PowerShell it's a lot less painful.

EDIT: And, thanks!

We've been deploying virtualization solutions on Hyper-V since Longhorn/2008. We built our first cluster on the Intel Modular Server (probably the first to do so with Hyper-V) back in the day with our first IMS cluster deal following that up.

AD is not required for the Hyper-V host in standalone setups. We don't join a standalone Hyper-V host to the guest's domain. That provides a barrier between production and the virtualization stack.

Depending on client requirements, when we build-out a cluster setup we prefer to have a separate management AD for the cluster and the production AD for the guests separate. This is not always possible.

Why Hyper-V? We don't have to pay anything extra to build-out a virtualization platform for one.

We've done well with Hyper-V and Storage Spaces.

@scottalanmiller said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

@bnrstnr said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

My opinion is Hyper-V is only an option when you need vSAN, otherwise I’m just not buying it.

What makes it special in that case? AFAIK there is no production vSAN for Hyper-V that is unique to it. Hyper-V is effectively completely dependent on Starwind for vSAN and they recommend KVM most of the time.

Storage Spaces Direct is Microsoft's equivalent to vSAN.

@jaredbusch No, I didn't realize just how long it was until I posted that. :S