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@BRRABill said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

@dafyre said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

@BRRABill said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

@dafyre said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

@wirestyle22 said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

@dafyre said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

That is an excellent book. That's how I got started with PS about a year ago.

first or second link?

Second link. The Month of PowerShell lunches. That's pretty good.

How long of a lunch do you get?

However long I need, lol. Usually ~45 mins or an hour.

Yeah, that was kind of a joke, referring to the title of the book.

/facedesk.

I now have two brain cells left for the day.

@BRRABill said in 5Nine Free Hyper-V Manager No Long Available:

@scottalanmiller said in 5Nine Free Hyper-V Manager No Long Available:

@DustinB3403 said in 5Nine Free Hyper-V Manager No Long Available:

Flat out saying it "cost to much to take your money" is literally turning customers away.

It is, but it is also turning away small customers that might not be profitable and what they have to consider is the risk that this poses to bigger customers. I don't agree with the approach, but they have sound logic for why they do what they do. All customers are not good customers.

If I remember the conversation correctly (we went through all of this with @olivier on a ML thread) that was the crux of it, that it cost too much to support the smaller clients, since they don't have that many people.

Combined with the risk of losing the big clients that they currently have.

@scottalanmiller said in Remote Monitoring with Zabbix:

@wirestyle22 said in Remote Monitoring with Zabbix:

@scottalanmiller said in Remote Monitoring with Zabbix:

@wirestyle22 said in Remote Monitoring with Zabbix:

@scottalanmiller said in Remote Monitoring with Zabbix:

@wirestyle22 said in Remote Monitoring with Zabbix:

@scottalanmiller said in Remote Monitoring with Zabbix:

A proxy is better than separate monitoring tools. What is it that you want to monitor?

It would be a proxy at each site though. Hardware and service monitoring with e-mail alerts

Yes. But then you'd have a central console rather than needing to log in to each separately to check in.

At that point why wouldnt I put a Zabbix server at their site and use Teamviewer or something to access it?

Teamviewer? Why not SSH? Or Salt?

Because I'm not going to be here forever and I'm the only person that understands (sort of) the linux command line.If I did this in vultr it wouldnt matter though. TV would be pointless. That was referencing the onsite virtualized Zabbix server though

At some point, you just have to assume that they must hire someone capable or they are screwed anyway. This isn't a case of making something complex that you need to struggle to find support for, it's a case of very basic skill that anyone potential competent can learn in minutes and getting support from anywhere is available. If they have a problem with this, they can't support Windows either - but might look like they are. So it's the opposite of your thought process, you are putting them at the biggest support risk making it LOOK like they are able to support something that they cannot.

You're right. I'll setup SSH.

I had another user using Windows 8.1 in Spiceworks manage Hyperv 2016 and had the same error. I recommended to restart the Hypervisor as he could manage another server in the same version. See post below:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2006439-error-when-connecting-vm

@scottalanmiller said in Getting Salary Screwed in NJ:

Forked this over.

hahahahahahahahaha

@scottalanmiller said in Auditing old files on your File Server:

The find command is all you need on Linux.

Systemd's systemd-tmpfiles-clean service is a good utility too.

@RamblingBiped said in KVM Installation and VM Creation on Fedora 25:

I did an article about a year ago about setting up KVM/QEMU on Ubuntu 16.04, it might be of some use: https://www.ramblingbiped.com/build-a-kvm-qemu-hypervisor-on-ubuntu-16-04-server/

I also wrote a short blurb on automating VM creation using a pre-built VM template, virt-clone, and virt-sysprep: https://www.ramblingbiped.com/build-a-kvm-qemu-hypervisor-on-ubuntu-16-04-server/

That is very helpful. Thank you.

I have hated Barracuda stuff since 2007 when I worked at a place that had it.

I cannot believe there is not a setting for whole word matching only. Well I can believe it because that stuff is junk.

@scottalanmiller said in Judge My House Layout:

@wirestyle22 said in Judge My House Layout:

@JaredBusch said in Judge My House Layout:

@NerdyDad said in Judge My House Layout:

@scottalanmiller said in Judge My House Layout:

I had a hallwayless house once, we loved it.

Its not your current house, is it? If not, could you redraw the layout to give us an idea of what it looked like and why you loved it so much?

as long as the bedroom was not directly against the living room or family room, that is fine.

I have seen a few layouts where there is basically an alcove off the kitchen/dining room with doors going in 3 directions to bedrooms and a bathroom. so not a hallway.

You could achieve this with storage space too. We'll see what the builders offer. It'll be fun to show you guys whenever that ends up happening

For a moment I thought that this was about Storage Spaces. But nope, actually discussing storage space. LOL

@dafyre Yep. "Here's your sign."

@dbeato said in JRNL_WRAP_ERROR (SYSVOL):

@wirestyle22 You can still do the following as well:
http://kpytko.pl/active-directory-domain-services/authoritative-sysvol-restore-frs/
https://blogs.msmvps.com/acefekay/2013/08/28/how-to-recover-a-journal-wrap-error-jrnl_wrap_error-and-a-corrupted-sysvol-from-a-good-dc-what-option-do-i-use-d4-or-d2-whats-the-difference-between-d4-and-d2/

Maybe also move to DFRS instead of FRS, you would only use FRS if it is Server 2003 as part of one of your DCs

Possibly in the future but I have so many other things to focus on

@scottalanmiller said in Cabling Conundrum:

@travisdh1 said in Cabling Conundrum:

@wirestyle22 said in Cabling Conundrum:

@NerdyDad said in Cabling Conundrum:

How about a wireless bridge in between?

How hilarious would it be if I had two of these 7 feet from each other. If Scott ever comes to NJ I wonder how badly I can trigger him, it's like a mental version of Home Alone

While hilarious, I actually doubt they'd work well that close to each other. If you really wanted wireless that close to each other, lasers win., but are even more expensive.

Probably not. Those things need some room to "breath".

The pictures of the signal wave forms are always fun at least. Gotta brush off my rusty math to actually do the calculations.

@jrc said in Linux Permission Assignments:

To me a group is a collection of a certain type of user and is then used to streamline permissions to certain resources. EG Instead of giving read permission to Cathy, Joan and Frank, you can just create a group with them in it, and give that group read permission thereby simplifying your job.

I cannot for the life of me think why you would want a single user group with the same name as the user in it. Are there permissions that can only be assigned to a group rather than directly to the user?

What am I missing here?

Setgid creates group specific permissions for files in the directory with setgid turned on.

Having a group id also lets you do things like have root own a file and be able to modify it but let apache and only apache read it.

Edit: I see Romo beat me to it with the links. I didn't read them until just now.

@brandon220 said in Home Projects for My Server:

Plex (NVR), Nextcloud, Unifi Controller, and NVR.

FTFY

@wirestyle22 said in Renaming all user profiles to *.old:

@Reid-Cooper said in Renaming all user profiles to *.old:

You could... accidentally run a script that would make you required to rebuild everything.

Nah, it's not my job to force them to make the right decisions. Not even my friend

Well then, do whatever bills the most.

@scottalanmiller said in Migrating Logs:

Really, log shipping with local storage is a thing of the past as well. Not what you are looking for with your use case, but long ago people did this. Today if you want to store logs beyond what fits on the local system you look at remote log servers like syslog, rsyslog, Kiwi, Graylog, ELK, loggly, Splunk and so forth. They have more useful platforms for dealing with centralized logs, archiving and backups.

Then we get into why you would use each. What product benefits what situation 😄

@wirestyle22 said in Clarifying Symbolic Links:

@scottalanmiller said in Clarifying Symbolic Links:

@wirestyle22 said in Clarifying Symbolic Links:

I understand what you're saying, I'm speaking totally in regards to the configuration of a piece of software, not accessing a program.

Why pick that one use case?

I'm trying to understand the use case: Windows vs. Linux. It makes more sense to me to use a shortcut in a GUI, but what is the use case for the CLI?

Here is a real world example. The corporate IT guys are using something called Useful. It displays images through a zero client attached to a TV. We mounted a share to the server and made a soft link to the directory in the share. Useful looks at the soft link for images and sees whatever is in the share.

@JaredBusch Going through the logs currently

@Mike-Davis said in Domain Controller and WINS Server Powered Down and Removed without Proper Demotion:

@wirestyle22 said in Domain Controller and WINS Server Powered Down and Removed without Proper Demotion:

We don't use DHCP at all

I would go the other direction then and check for WINS queries and then visit all the NICs that are still using WINS and remove the entry. This article explains it:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/craigf/2010/07/09/decommissioning-wins/

Thanks! This actually answered a few of my other questions too.

@scottalanmiller said in Debian File Server File Recovery:

@coliver said in Debian File Server File Recovery:

@dafyre said in Debian File Server File Recovery:

@travisdh1 said in Debian File Server File Recovery:

@stacksofplates said in Debian File Server File Recovery:

@dafyre said in Debian File Server File Recovery:

@stacksofplates said in Debian File Server File Recovery:

@wirestyle22 said in Debian File Server File Recovery:

We finally found the replication point and recovered the file. One thing I noticed working here is that the VM's are not named the host names. I looked for it for hours across all of our subdomains and could not find it. I had to go through each individual VM and eventually found it.

We still have some old Unix white beards that do this. It annoys the crap out of me. He just set up a server and called it Odin.....

That's all fine and good as long as odin.mydomain.net actually resolves to that actual server, lol.

Ya it just annoys me ha. Everything else is named by purpose.

Our one server... it got names Zues. Of course we knew it was going to be just the 1 server for the foreseeable future.

If you must use Planets, Greek gods, Mythical creatures, et al... Please make sure they are pselled correctly to avoid further confusion.

I don't understand the reason to do that over function. I'd much rather name a server WDS01 then Ptah01.

Potato01
Cauliflower7
Aubergine4

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Reinstallation fixed it but I don't know why.