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Deploying out settings for Wake on Lan (Dell)

April 29, 2019, 12:19 pm
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Hey I'm an IT consultant and my company manages 2500 computers (mostly Dell) we use connectwise to remote into our workstations. Which is why I want to configure wake on lan, however there are a few settings that I'm not sure how to script so that I can successfully deploy them out to all workstations. For Deployment we use PDQ Deploy.

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I'm able to use dell command configure to deploy out bios settings to turn on the necessary settings.

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The settings I need help setting is on the NIC (they're pretty much all Intel NIC)

I need to disable EEE, and make sure 'wake on magic packet' is enabled

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I also need to adjust in the power settings 'turn on fast startup'

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If anyone has any suggestions on what to try I would appreciate that.

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Thank you

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Office issues after upgrade

April 29, 2019, 11:35 am
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We're using an upgrade task sequence to upgrade windows 10 1607 to 1803. After the upgrade, when launching Microsoft office as a standard user a prompt appears that office failed to start and offers a repair button. clicking the repair button and then restarting outlook appears to resolve the issue. I haven't been able to find a cause or resolution.

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on some other systems, we get the error message that the user's ost file is not a valid ost, and when browsing to the directory the file size is 0. deleting the outlook profile and creating a new one resolves this issue, but again ... no identified cause.

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All of the standard options have been tried ... outlook in safe mode, outlook with /resetnavpane. Any other suggestions?

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HKCU during OSD

April 29, 2019, 11:37 am
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Currently using the below to try and set screen saver on off-domain laptop. For whatever reason it's not running, I've used the same script for other items during an SCCM TS. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. 

# Get each user profile SID and Path to the profile $UserProfiles = Get-ItemProperty "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\*" | Where-Object { $_.PSChildName -match "S-1-5-21-(\d+-?){4}$" } | Select-Object @{ Name = "SID"; Expression = { $_.PSChildName } }, @{ Name = "UserHive"; Expression = { "$($_.ProfileImagePath)\NTuser.dat" } } # Add in the .DEFAULT User Profile $DefaultProfile = "" | Select-Object SID, UserHive $DefaultProfile.SID = ".DEFAULT" $DefaultProfile.Userhive = "C:\Users\Default\NTuser.dat" $UserProfiles += $DefaultProfile # Loop through each profile on the machine</p> Foreach ($UserProfile in $UserProfiles) { # Load User ntuser.dat if it's not already loaded If (($ProfileWasLoaded = Test-Path Registry::HKEY_USERS\$($UserProfile.SID)) -eq $false) { Start-Process -FilePath "CMD.EXE" -ArgumentList "/C REG.EXE LOAD HKU\$($UserProfile.SID) $($UserProfile.UserHive)" -Wait -WindowStyle Hidden } } # Manipulate the registry foreach ($User in $UserProfiles) { Write-Output $($UserProfile.SID) >> c:\temp\ScreenSaverConfig.log reg add "HKEY_USERS\$($UserProfile.SID)\control panel\desktop" /v screensavetimeout /t REG_SZ /d 900 /f >> c:\temp\ScreenSaverConfig.log reg add "HKEY_USERS\$($UserProfile.SID)\control panel\desktop" /v screensaveactive /t REG_SZ /d 1 /f /f >> c:\temp\ScreenSaverConfig.log reg add "HKEY_USERS\$($UserProfile.SID)\control panel\desktop" /v screensaverIssecure /t REG_SZ /d 1 /f >> c:\temp\ScreenSaverConfig.log } # Unload NTuser.dat If ($ProfileWasLoaded -eq $false) { [gc]::Collect() Start-Sleep 1 Start-Process -FilePath "CMD.EXE" -ArgumentList "/C REG.EXE UNLOAD HKU\$($UserProfile.SID)" -Wait -WindowStyle Hidden | Out-Null }
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network shares cant map after windows upgrade

April 29, 2019, 11:45 am
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using an upgrade task sequence going from windows 10 1607 to windows 10 1803, some computers can no longer map network drives. they give an error about the share requiring smb1. smb1 is disabled on all workstation, servers and file shares across the environment. these systems were able to map the drives while running 1607. this is only occurring on one lan location. moving the same systems to a wireless or vpn connection, or a lan at a different location and the drives map fine. the drives map fine from the 1803 systems at all other locations.

all of the other groups that might be involved with the network configuration and firewalls say its not their problem .... but it clearly is since leaving that network location takes away the problem.

any suggestions on what to check?

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Microsoft Always-On-VPN. Anyone running it?

April 29, 2019, 11:29 am
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I am looking at VPN options, and it seems pretty high on the list. Anyone running it here?

What kind of infrastructure do you have dedicated to it? From the guides I am looking at they want 4 or 5 Windows Server instances dedicated. Seems a little over the top?

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Got my first "please do the needful" ticket

April 29, 2019, 10:10 am
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Python Learning for Network Admins Updated Videos with realtime demos.

April 29, 2019, 11:27 am
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Hello Everyone,

I have update my free video series Python Learning for Network Engineers(Explanation of Python from Network Admin's context), with lot more videos. Below are the latest updates. A big thanks to everyone for the support. To stay updated with my latest videos please subscribe to my channel by clicking below.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcA2nhdC0wzqyv9x1lk5NnA?sub_confirmation=1

Playlist URL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyLGnvAUDkw&list=PLOocymQm7YWakdZkBfCRIC06fv7xQE85N&index=26

Python learning | Part 26 | Schedule Automatic backup of Cisco device configuration Netmiko

Python Schedule Automatic backup of Cisco device configuration Paramiko | Part 27 Python learning

How to Parse Cisco Device configuration in Python 3 using TEXTFSM example | Part 28 | Using NETMIKO

Python How to list Cisco Interfaces based on Status:TEXTFSM example | Part 29 | Using NETMIKO

Python Parse Cisco configure based on if else conditions |Part 30|:TEXTFSM example with NETMIKO

Python learning for Network Engineers | Part 14 | Cisco device config backup to file using Python 3

Python learning for Network Engineers | Part 15 | Cisco Configuration backup script to FTP TFTP SCP

Python learning for Network Engineers | Part 16 |Cisco backup script string formatting add timestamp

Python learning for Network Engineers | Part 17 |Netmiko introduction for Cisco SSH configuration

Python learning for Network Engineers | Part 18 |Netmiko SSH to multiple Cisco devices and configure

Python learning for Network Engineers Part 19 | Netmiko ssh and configure Cisco using text file

Python learning for Network Engineers Part 20 | Netmiko cisco use send_config_from_file for config

Python learning for Network Engineers | Part 21 |Handle device not reachable exceptions in Netmiko

Python learning | Part 22 |Netmiko configure multiple Cisco device types with same script

Python learning | Part 23 |Netmiko Cisco configuration backup to file with time stamp in filename

Python learning | Part 24 |Netmiko Cisco SSH using RSA keypair for automation | without password

Python learning | Part 25 | Schedule tasks in python3 sample code | script to run daily hourly etc

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"Anyone who says they understand Windows Server licensing doesn't."

April 29, 2019, 10:25 am
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My manager makes a pretty good point. haha. The base server licensing I feel okay about, but CALs are just ridiculously convoluted.

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If anyone DOES understand how CALs work, I would love to hear a breakdown.

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Advice on how to proceed...

April 29, 2019, 8:21 am
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I have a manager that wants to get his hands in the IT department (no prior background) because he is helping his partner start a business. He flat out told me he wants to copy our existing infrastructure at our employment for this new venture to the T. What advice do you have on how I should proceed? Keep in mind I already didn’t trust the guy.

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Moving unmovable files on an SSD without defraging

April 29, 2019, 2:26 pm
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So I need to take a 500 GB ssd and shrink the c:\ volume as much as possible to atleast less than 220GB. Problem is there are some unmovable files. Normally these are Page/Hibernation/Recovery files but all of these are disabled. Event log says the file thats stuck is %localappdata%\packages\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy\TempState\Traces\CortanaTrace1.etl::$DATA. I would love to just delete this file but even an administrative command prompt cant see the NTFS permissions let alone try and delete it.

Pretty much everywhere else I look I need to defrag this but unfortunately it is an SSD and that is a near last resort. Also due to policy I would prefer this is accomplished without the use of 3rd party tools. Anyone got any advice?

EDIT: A 3rd restart managed to do the trick, weird considering no changes were made in the last two sessions but it works now. Sorry I cant provide info for others with this issue.

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.bat -> .msi ?

April 29, 2019, 3:55 pm
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Good day fellow sys admins,

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I am in the middle of a 5000+ computer rollout of our AV solution and I am experimenting in my lab environment how to roll this out via group policy. The impasse I am at currently is how to take the fully-functioning .bat file we typically use for deploying AV and converting this into a .msi file for Group Policy to call within the Computer Configuration - Policies - Software Settings - Software Installation module.

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Has anyone done this before? If so, have you been successful doing this without using any third-party tools that might introduce unncessary security risk? (I.E. AutoIT, etc)

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Thanks for any insight! Much appreciated.

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Can one create a forest from a child domain?

April 29, 2019, 2:05 pm
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Company I work for has an on-prem forest from an old acquisition we'll call parent.local. AD is running at Server 2008 R2.

They have a child domain called child.local which is where they put everything. The parent domain is ignored for the most part because the company changed names.

I was told today it's possible to ditch the parent domain and create a new forest from the child (as opposed to migrating into a new, empty domain using ADMT). Never heard of anything like that, is it possible?

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Just put in my 2 weeks... I'm hysterical.

April 29, 2019, 3:01 pm
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As the title says, I just put in my 2 weeks. While this is a huge jump forward for my career, I honestly am devastated about having to break the news to my boss. This has honestly been the most difficult thing I've had to do. Thankfully my boss is one of the best and was nothing but understanding and kind during our conversation.

Despite all this, I'm a mess.

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You can (finally) run VMware workloads on Azure

April 29, 2019, 12:23 pm
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Untrained sys admin

April 29, 2019, 8:27 am
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Hello r/sysadmin,

I come to this sub seeking advice on how to become a better admin.

I started working at my small healthcare company as an IT support specialist and our previous sys admin left about 2 months ago. The company interviewed a few candidates to fill the role but ultimately decided not to fill it. Since then, I just kind of got tossed in the fire.

My title is still ITSS, but I am technically the admin right now. I’m not 100% comfortable around servers, but I want to be. So I come seeking books, videos, or classes that I could enroll in.

Sorry if the formatting is weird (mobile user).

Thanks in advance!

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Enforcing Workstation Lock Policy with Chrome

April 29, 2019, 4:45 pm
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We have an Idle Workstation Lock Policy which we administer via the following Group Policy settings:

User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Control Panel/Personalization

  • Enable screen saver
  • Password protect the screen saver
  • Screen saver timeout, defined

Our workstations are Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.

We've noticed that Chrome seems to keep workstations unlocked if users have video playing. Some of our employees have legitimate reasons to be watching video (they need access to news streams and it's much more practical than having cable television in their offices) but they do not reliably lock their computers when they leave. Having something like CNN or even YouTube playing in a Chrome tab defeats the Workstation Lock because the computer looks like it is not idle. Makes sense at home if you're watching Netflix, but a user is walking away with the news playing and the computer isn't locking after 10-minutes, the policy is not being enforced.

See https://superuser.com/questions/1161596/how-to-prevent-google-chrome-from-keeping-computer-awake

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Does anybody have a solution for this? The ones mentioned in the SuperUser post above don't seem appropriate for a corporate environment.

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Viewing Office license status for all machines in a domain?

April 29, 2019, 6:08 pm
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I'm trying to figure out how I can use CMD or PS to pull a report of each machine in a domain and their current Office 2010/13/16 license status, whether activated or not activated. Is this possible? I've done it individually per machine but what about bulk? Any help would be appreciated.

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PSA: iDRAC6 default SSL cert expires 9/15/2019

April 29, 2019, 2:44 pm
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For those of you with legacy hardware, it's probably not an issue for clicking "proceed anyway" in Chrome, but Java might start throwing a fit about the expired certificate for Virtual Console.

By default Let's Encrypt won't accept the CSR because it's 1024 bit. You can reconfigure to generate a 2048 bit CSR as follows if you are using an external CA and not an internal or self-signed cert:

racadm.exe -r [iDRAC IP] -u [user] -p [password] config -g cfgRacSecurity -o cfgRacSecCsrKeySize 2048
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What kind of job Environment usually have High and Low Turnover rates?

April 29, 2019, 8:26 pm
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For IT Specifically.

For example

I would believe most start ups have a culture of hiring and firing and have high turnover rate.

What job environments would have high and low turnover rate in your experience?

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Disk Size Quandry

April 29, 2019, 9:09 pm
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I'm trying to setup a HP Proliant M110 G7 but it doesn't have UEFI bios available. I have a 8TB raid 5 I'd like to take advantage of but MBR disk can only take advantage of the first 2.2 TB. Any way around this?

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