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Microsoft MVP '09-Present. We design & build high availability solutions for on-premises, data centre, & hybrid. We migrate workloads too! Oh, & I'm a Car Guy!
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ALTERNATIVE OPTION: Use Native Tools For Increased Flexibility
The ability to add drivers, especially for newer server, desktop, and workstation deployments, saves time when it comes time to install that .ISO image.
On top of that, we can have all of our utilities, firmware
Stop right there! Do you use the Media Creation Tool? If so, let me show you UUP dump!
- Files directly from Microsoft
- Choose latest OS build (or Beta, Dev, Canary build)
- Choose what Edition & Language you want
- Integrate Windows updates and .NET 3.5 into the ISO
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@daveholtz
@Airbnb
"Hello VISA? I'd like to initiate a charge-back please."
That's the line to drop on AirBnB support.
That's completely and totally inappropriate to present a bathroom as a living space IMNSHO.
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@SamSantala
@Adobe
@Photoshop
We keep our content on-premises within our collaborative environment when it comes to Adobe apps and others. So, if they're going to do this then they're sending content _out_ of our systems.
Since when did software companies become law enforcement companies?
Did an Adobe
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@UK_Daniel_Card
Not old enough to remember the pain of trying to set up a site back then?
The hardware we had to work with?
The interaction of HTML with the Web service?
Historical context. That's important. Always is when it comes to the past.
Today is not yesterday.
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@NerdPyle
@JasonSCampbell
I remember Tie Domi.
Winnipeg fans called him the "Cigarette Machine on Skates".
I also remember the many times watching him level his much bigger opponents. ;0)
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@sashayanshin
The sentence is garbage since the word solely means something very specific while the rest of the sentence totally obliterates that.
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@juiceboxheroic
The soft tube behind the physical connector is there to help prevent crimping.
That basically pushes the crimping behind the soft tube.
That discolouration is from the broken wires within, broken because crimping, heating up due to the breaks.
That's my edumacated guess. ;0)
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@JayTraveller
@SamSantala
@Adobe
@Photoshop
Oh for sure. There have been lots of, "We're doing this for your safety!" type efforts then the, "We're doing this for the children!" yet what have we seen with these efforts?
Has Microsoft OneDrive, G00g Drive, Apple iCloud claimed a single arrest of a child predator or group
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STUNNED. Oh, by the way, Hyper-V is FREE. It's INCLUDED with all versions of the Windows OS.
No extra licensing costs. No extra build costs since we already have our baselines with the existing VMware setups.
What are home labs to do? Hyper-V!
This is a poor decision of
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@primarylupine
@SamSantala
@Adobe
@Photoshop
Heh ... funny that.
I used Photoshop to blow up our first $100 bill we received in our business back in the day.
I was told to make it obnoxiously large so that law enforcement wouldn't get all knobbly on us. ;0)
That was 2003 & the image is still on the wall in the shop. :-D
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OPINION: PowerShell Direct on Hyper-V Has No VMware Equivalent. Hyper-V FTW!
On the Hyper-V host the VM resides on:
Enter-PSSession -VMName MyVM -Credential MyVM\Administrator
We get a remote PowerShell session _in_ the guest OS.
Munged networking? Fixed.
Munged
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I've received the .
@Microsoft
Most Valuable Professional Award (
#MVPBuzz
) again!
It's truly an honour to be in the company of such brilliant & amazing people. Folks much smarter than I & perhaps a lot humbler too! ;0)
It's been quite the journey. My first award was with Small
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@miketheitguy
Big concern: Folks unwittingly allowing CoPilot to be deployed without any concept of what/where/when it has access both on-premises and in the public cloud.
Then, _where_ that crawled data ends up
Yuge thought process needs to go in here.
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@SwiftOnSecurity
Not sure about the claims in the snips but I've had an MRI.
When it was finished I asked the tech if it was unusual for a person to experience something when the magnets were on and they said it was not common but did happen.
I asked her why I and what I was experiencing and
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@jayfallon
@daveholtz
@Airbnb
Merchant agreements are very clear as far as product presented versus product received.
We don't do AMEX up here because their merchant fees are 5% or higher.
The thought of walking into a bathroom is just revolting. Disgusting. I'd rather sleep in a barn.
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My 10 Year
@MVPAward
Disk showed up today.
It is an honour and a privilege for which I am truly grateful. :)
So many absolutely brilliant, kind, and wonderful people in
@Microsoft
and fellow MVPs that I've met over these last ten or so years. :)
Thank you very much!
#MVPBuzz
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@SwiftOnSecurity
So they can harvest even _more_ data from users!
W00t!
Yeah, I'm being really sarcastic here.
It's on one device because I have to. Given recent revelations I'm thinking I'll move it to an older iPhone that's WiFi only with no contacts.
An no, no app on any device has
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@primarylupine
@SamSantala
Creativity was definitely an option the moment a scanner, a computer, and some software in the picture. ;0)
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New Blog Post:
#PowerShell
Paradise: Installing & Configuring
@VisualStudio
Code
#VSCode
and
#Git
#WinServ
#Cluster
#HyperV
#S2D
#WinDesktop
Thanks to
@NZ_BenThomas
! :)
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@catalinmpit
Or did the actual job a contractor would for "free".
Never give away the goods. Ever.
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OPINION: There's Only ONE Viable Alternative to VMware and that's Windows Server with Hyper-V
There is only one viable alternative to .
@VMware
at this time and that is the Hyper-V hypervisor.
There are lots of folks seeing opportunity for open source but that ain’t gonna
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@MrCarFacts
1986 - Mercur XR4Ti
They made a brief visit in the Canadian market.
Heavy and slow despite the turbo setup.
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@SergioRocks
Because transitioning from a 9-5 work mentality to a goal oriented one requires a company to have a very significant cultural shift.
The irony of it is that most goal oriented folks, company cultures, reach their goals and then some so it doesn't matter where they work from.
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@MalwareJake
We had a partner at one of our accounting firms order product with a "UPS" e-mail showing up not long after. Timing. It's everything. They clicked.
We had a CFO click on something at 16:30 just as they were leaving Friday for vacation so distracted. Monday AM the ticket was, "We
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@MrCarFacts
Those extra wide wheels outside the wheel wells are defence mechanisms?
Never saw that coming.
Just watch an F1 open wheel race to see some of the launches.
Defensive Bling
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@SwiftOnSecurity
BTDT for both Outlook and the Recycle Bin on the Windows desktop. :P
For both cases (same user), the question was asked: Would you store your valuables in the blue bin? It never happened again. Data wasn't lost for either.
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@securityweekly
Windows ME.
5 new systems went out the door & 5 new systems came back in the door.
The DOS layer was gone. 5 were destined for ACCPAC. It refused to run.
We took the hit on changing the OS, installing, & configuring for them. Ouch.
Not another ME OS sale made.
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@SwiftOnSecurity
One shouldn't be doing banking from a mobile device in the first place.
And in the second, no banking creds saved right? ... right?
That being said, up here in Canuckistan we have 2FA/MFA on our accounts + security questions.
Perps gotta be on top of it all here! ;0)
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@SwiftOnSecurity
Not long ago oil manufacturers changed their formulation removing certain elements in it.
Without telling anyone.
Engine remanufacturers do a lot of older engines where the lifter floats, & rotates, on a central cam.
That one change caused severe wear on the cam & lifter. :(
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@mikefrobbins
Install Visual Studio Code, Git, and the necessary plug-ins to make it a PowerShell scripting powerhouse:
Also, for those struggling to code because Dyslexia VSCode and the above setup makes coding so much less stressful on the brain.
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@CommanderApaul
All of the IT positions I applied for when laid off from building houses just before Christmas 1999 said, "NO. No paper no job."
All of them.
It was a small IT firm that hired me to start January 4th, 1999 after two interviews one with him and one with his business partner and
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Want to deploy your own
#Immutable
#Hardened
@Veeam
#BackupRepository
?
Start here:
@WorkingHardInIT
has a 3 part series on
@starwindsan
's blog that's second to none.
Protect those
#Backups
.
#DRP
#DisasterRecoveryPlanning
#Winserv
#Windows
#Veeam
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Heard recently: Clients of our client had an "unrecoverable encryption event" thus they're paying the ransom.
#DisasterRecoveryPlanning
#DRP
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@horsepower
Yeah, you may still see a few mid 1990s Cadillacs floating around with a landau style vinyl roof. They were popular with a certain hat wearing type back in the day.
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@SwiftOnSecurity
Group Policy - Software Restriction Policy
1: New GPO: Default Domain SRP
2: Set to ENFORCED
3: Edit
4: Right click root & Properties
5: Disable User Configuration Settings
6: Add date and reason to GPO Comments
7: Computer Config -> Win Settings -> Sec Settings -> SRP
8: Add
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Inaccessible_Boot_Device fix. Uninstall the three updates in that order.
Consultant that figured it out has resurrected quite a few machines!
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@SwiftOnSecurity
The question begging to be answered: Was that infrastructure architected to _protect_ the data?
Or, was the company's entire production/web/dev/infrastructure all one flat layout with little to no segmentation?
Based on the large compromises or offline hits probably flat.
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A
@MS_Ignite
priceless moment! MPECSInc
@TudyDamian
@VirtualPCGuy
@CRachfahl
@CharbelNemnom
@WorkingHardInIT
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Blog Post:
#WinServ
2019 &
#ADDS
:
#FRS
Not Supported – Migrate to
#DFSR
#ADReplication
#ErrorWorkaround
#ERROR
CC:
@windowsserver
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@sysadafterdark
We built a thriving business on Hyper-V from Day 1 (LongHorn).
We built one of the first Hyper-V clusters on the Intel Modular Server anywhere on Server Core when PowerShell was still in its infancy.
Storage Spaces Direct (S2D HCI) at 536K IOPS on two Intel D3 Series SSDs for
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Snips are from a .
@Tesla
video showing various controlled collisions.
Most of us know someone who was severely damaged or killed by accidents like these.
The front impact (pole) with a full stop at the red safety bar is amazing.
Both show no intrusion.
Wow. Just. Wow!
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@MS_Ignite
2019
#AzureStackHCI
to see:
@CosmosDarwin
@EldenCluster
@Adi_Agashe
@Dan2_2023
@JohnMarlin_MSFT
@CarmenCrincoli
@NerdPyle
@vBenArmstrong
Enjoy the event folks! It'sa gonna be a gooder! :D
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Blog Post:
#AzureStackHCI
/
#S2D
: Optimal Network Configuration
#Cluster
#WinServ
#AzSHCI
#ASHCI
#Performance
#SystemBuilderTips
#EPYC
#EPYCRome
CC:
@Mellanox
@AMD
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@SwiftOnSecurity
Cortana was Mensa territory compared to Siri.
Talk about being hobbled when moving from the Windows Phone/Nokia platform to Apple as a result of no app support. :(
Siri is probably middle school now. Still needs punctuation guidance.
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@cyclesixmile
In our jurisdiction the curb stretch in front of a property "belongs" to that property first.
It's a part of the "I pay my taxes so ... " property rights.
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Opinion: File Server Partition Size & Recovery Considerations
When setting up, or migrating, a file server make sure the NTFS cluster size is set to 64KB.
That allows for larger partition sizes down the road but also better aligns with the underlying physical storage for
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@WorkingHardInIT
@vBenArmstrong
@hypervserver
@ManfredHelber
#MVPSummit
in 2016. That was such a wonderful time.
Thanks for that all!
@vBenArmstrong
@hypervserver
@CHARBELNEMNOM
and I don't remember the name of the fellow beside me. :(
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@Mike_M_Klotz
Go back to Saturn's debut and how they were showing shopping carts hitting the doors and no dent!
What they didn't show was the stress crease(s) that appeared a bit later.
Or, if that happened at -40C the hole the card left.
Yeah, it's all in the perception.
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#TotD
#HyperV
CheckPoints or SnapShots are not backups.
#HyperVReplica
is not a backup it's
#DisasterRecovery
&
#BusinessContinuity
#RAID
is _not_ a backup.
#SAN
replication/mirroring is _not_ a backup.
Back up to disk, tape, or cloud. That's a backup!
#Backups
#DRP
#Pearl
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@jasperwillem
@JayTraveller
@SamSantala
@Adobe
@Photoshop
Interesting.
Context is everything.
Maybe A.I. will help to determine if a child is being harmed? That may be an interesting direction to take with the software.
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@Mike_M_Klotz
Rims are the wrong diameter. That messes with the profiles/lines/curves/valleys.
Makes things crooked to the eye.
I can't stand them. Big rims that is. The 'cuda is pretty sweet though.
...
Oh wait, what's with those fender breathers? :P
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This
@malware_traffic
poster needs to go _EVERYWHERE_ we support end users.
Everywhere. Period. Full Stop.
Actions _always_ have consequences!
#Security
#Malware
#Emotet
#TrickBot
#BADWordDOC
#EmailSecurity
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@SwiftOnSecurity
Bottleneck is almost always storage whether it be an actual spindle/rust or SATA SSD or vendor's restrictions in the I/O pipeline to save a few pennies.
Spinning Rust :P
SATA SSD Meh okay
NVMe gets the ball rolling where we need it to.
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@sysadafterdark
Some of us have dealt with Broadcom's constant enabling of Virtual Machine Queues (VMQ) in their Gigabit adapter driver per GbE port every time the driver was installed or received a subsequent update.
Despite the constant pushback nothing changed.
VMQ is for 10GbE+ not GbE.
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So this email showed up while i was driving home from a client today.
#MVPBuzz
Thanks to all that has pushed for this to happen. You all know who you are :) And on the day the company i work for celebrate 20 year birthdsy as well.
@TeamCTGlobal
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@RosemaryMosco
Had one surface beside my canoe and slap the water with it tail. The critter was _massive_ and intimidating.
The tail slap was not unlike a shotgun slug blast.
A wooden paddle? Against a beaver? An _angry_ beaver? With big teeth? Nope.
I paddled off the lake. Pronto! :D
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@___frye
In my mind it's the slippery slope and it's been done. Repeatedly.
Once the code is in there, it's in there.
From there, it matters not for the user but does for the vendor.
Currently, Adobe is _telling_ users of their software that the user's intellectual property is
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@AlyssaM_InfoSec
Been married over 20 years here.
The above sounds like a recipe for success since it sounds like it's mutual.
My wife & I have regular planning sessions, dates, keep-in-touch time because we _have_ to otherwise "life" gets in the way.
No relationship lasts without working it
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@SwiftOnSecurity
She stuck a fork in there while the machine was running and was poking about with it.
Not sure that was the wisest thing to do. :S
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@SwiftOnSecurity
That is righteously kewl!
The amount of work that went into making that project "fly" would be absolutely phenomenal.
I'd drive and live in that! :0)
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@GossiTheDog
It used to be TwC: Trustworthy Computing.
That was the whole paradigm shift with the Windows Vista code change: Security First.
It seems that business decisions are being made that causes one to wonder:
Just what IS Microsoft's primary business? Or, perhaps more relevant: What
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@acjuelich
Nope.
On-Premises VDI only.
At this time there is no business benefit to running VDI in the public cloud that would justify the huge increase in costs.
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@all_ass_no_gas
Because COOOLLLLL!!!
Cummins I'm guessing for the driveline.
Oh, and the "Made ya look" factor too. ;0)
But, with those funds I'd go Dodge Deuce and a 1/2 (6x6).
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Blog Post:
#Cloud
#Hosting
Architecture:
#Tenant
Isolation
#Cluster
#WinServ
#MultiTenant
#NetworkSecurity
#UserSecurity
#DRP
#DisasterRecoveryPlanning
#DisasterRecovery
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Folks contemplating bailing on .
@VMware
please consider .
@WindowsServer
since you've already got the licensing & Hyper-V is built-in.
So is Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI).
Need hybrid? Azure Stack HCI (AzSHCI).
Bonus: .
@Veeam
is good to go.
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@RickyMargolis
@daveholtz
@Airbnb
The appeal is to VISA not AirBnB post AirBnB denying anything including a refund.
The charge back would credit the credit card used for the purchase with AirBnB having to work it out with VISA and the person that listed the "room".
It's bad for the vendor (AirBnB).
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Absolutely no one is exempt from backing up all data whether in the
#cloud
or on-premises.
No. One. Period. Full. Stop.
Data Loss is always possible via hardware or software failure. It's not an "If" but "When".
Back. That. Data. Up!
#Windows10
#WinServ
#DataSafety
#Backups
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DNS 101 (Windows or BIND):
Clients/Servers static or DHCP delivered:
DNS0: Local DC IP
DNS1: Local DC IP
DNS2: The G00g or other Internet DNS server
This mode of thinking is so wrong: "If the local DNS server goes offline at least the endpoints can still get to the Internet."
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@sysadafterdark
We are still here & our primary business has always been on-premises.
The firms we service just shake their heads when other firm's clouds are down while they keep working because their software is all local & in Remote Desktop Farms including RemoteApps.
Oh, and backed up!
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@Jun34u_sec
And edits them then replies on various forums/channels with an explanation that everything from the "?" onwards = Bad.
Tracking beacons are bad. Period.
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@WilliamOdegard
#3
the Dodge Omni when released actually had a VW 1.8L L4 in it with a standard 4spd. Front wheel drive the thing was bulletproof though the typical interior stuff would fall apart.
I did a rebuild on one at about 200K KMs for my sister's boyfriend at the time. Easy peasy.
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New Blog Post: WARNING:
@MicrosoftEdge
(Sync) Ate All Favourites - Favourites Gone!
#DataLoss
#Windows10
#Error
#ErrorWorkaround
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@UK_Daniel_Card
Not really.
I think Musk has proven his intelligence levels over and over again.
So, where did the pot shot come from?
My guess was a young age.
Why?
Because anyone old enough to have lived through that pain would have refrained from the shot.
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#MDOP
is no longer a
#SoftwareAssurance
Add-on SKU for
@Windows
Desktop OS. It is now _included_ with Enterprise Upgrade with SA!
@MSFT_VL
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@teroalhonen
What? Why only Windows 11 and up?
Does that mean that CoPilot+ Recall won't be installed and running on Windows 10?
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As much as the public cloud marketing peeps would like you to believe that on-premises networks no longer exist, or shouldn't exist, they still do.
Using buzz words like "Modern" or "Agile" to trigger some sort of "we're not good enough unless _____ " response begs the question:
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@SwiftOnSecurity
We had a company ask us to take over their IT years ago.
It was bad. Virtually nothing in the office was licensed properly.
We worked to get them legit. Eventually they dug in saying NO.
A/V? Fun. :(
We walked away.
Not legit? Not wanting to get legit? Cya.
Goes for IT too.
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@wdormann
Not a deal breaker but a SOP step.
In an elevated PoSh on the host or cluster nodes:
# Remove .ISOs from all VMs
Set-VMDvdDrive -VMName * -Path ""
That should be done after setting up a standalone host, cluster nodes, and their guests.
Adding a guest? Same.
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@stephanebudo
@NZ_BenThomas
@KennyLowe
@kristopherj
@rcTibi
@daniel_apps
@Dino_Bordonaro
@eponisdumb
@jantorep
@JanakaRangama
@CIT_Bronson
@Gr8TechTalk
@IsidoraKatanic
@CosmosDarwin
My accident in November 2016.
It forced a re-evaluation of absolutely everything!
With my health coming back, those "new" values have stuck with me.
#1
: Family & Friends
#2
: Quality Time (I'm impatient with fluff)
#3
: Being Thankful
#4
: Affirming others
#5
: Sucking it up. ;)
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Blog Post:
#PowerShell
Guide Series:
#StorageSpacesDirect
#S2D
PowerShell Node Published
#Cluster
#Setup
#WinServ
#HyperV
#HyperConverged
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@MalwareJake
It's tough to say what's going to happen.
But, keep in mind this: LSI/Avago.
When purchased by Broadcom a large ripple went through the industry since many OEMs plug LSI into their boards and/or cards or in some cases rebrand.
The products have stayed the course.
Broadcom
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@MalwareJake
Image is borrowed because mine is buried in the garage somewhere.
I made two of these though the top deck is longer. We always have them when towing tandem or tridem because we don't have to mess around with jacking a floating axle.
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#PoSh
$host.UI.RawUI.WindowTitle = ‘Kepler-47B Node 1 Setup Shell’
Simultaneous
#Kepler47B
#S2D
#Cluster
node set up with shell ID.
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VMware and Hyper-V Challenge: Is there a single SMB/SME/Ent _private_ business out there without a single Microsoft product on-premises or in the cloud?
Why? Because of the claim that .
@VMware
cannot be replaced by .
@WindowsServer
Hyper-V for "free".
Most SMB/SME that are cloud
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@SwiftOnSecurity
Some of us have long memories despite the grey hairs & loss of them up top.
Alaska Department of Revenue: Tech deletes Permanent Fund Dividend database & the backups were toast. Year: 2007
Ended up being rebuilt by hand so who knows if it was ever brought back to prior state.
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#Excellent
@MSFTExchange
2010 to 2013 Migration Guide by
@MSExchangeGuru
here:
http://t.co/lgf55Rv6X0
#FTW
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@horsepower
I bought an '84 with a 13B, Holley 650 or 750 four barrel, custom header work and intake setup for ...
$100
Guy had an ad in the local paper for a mechanic's special.
In the end he was fishing for the fix but after he started it and oil was pissing everywhere I indicated it
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@NZ_BenThomas
@daniel_apps
@KennyLowe
@kristopherj
@CosmosDarwin
@EkrenSteven
@EldenCluster
@rcTibi
@DarrylvdPeijl
@vNiklas
@stephanebudo
@Dino_Bordonaro
@hypervserver
@crachfahl
@JanKappen
It was great to meet you as well! :)
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