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peak debt posted:That is like the worst advice. Windows 10 is deep in beta state right now, I'd never roll that out in the Enterprise. Either stay on Windows 7 or if you need the new features, roll out Windows 8.1 Microsoft is serious about Win10 support. Most of the initial quirks have been dealt with since release 1511, and they'll go out of their way to help you if you can identify a legitimate issue and open a case. Honestly though, the OS doesn't matter. Getting Win10 running is easy, but basically pointless unless you can also get UEFI running across the board. If you can get Win8.1 working, in most cases you can in-place upgrade and/or swap out the wim in your task sequences with minimal additional effort. But getting firmware settings right across non-consistent hardware, ughh, and non of the Win10 security features are worth a drat without. Calidus posted:Our book keeper quit last week and a the new starts next week. All the various(STUPID) banking and vendor websites require custom internet security settings and cookies. It is possible the change the name and sign in information on a user account and keep all those settings the windows machine? If I rename the account using Active Directory, can just rename the user folder on the windows work station? The cookies may be a hassle, but you can easily migrate most IE settings by exporting HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer HKLM/Software/Policies/Microsoft/Internet Explorer HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer HKCU/Software/Policies/Microsoft/Internet Explorer and re-importing them into a new profile. As others have said though, the correct long-term approach is documenting the settings and getting them into GPO or DCM or something. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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Jeoh posted:ProfWiz That's it, thank you sir. On Windows 10, it's just that not all vendors are there yet.
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Thanks Ants posted:Does this help? This owns! I've been trying to figure out how to tackle this problem.
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BadLock is coming and it looks horrendously bad. Here's the marketing BS site: http://badlock.org/ Here's some other links with impact analysis: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3047227/security/prepare-to-patch-a-critical-flaw-in-windows-and-samba-file-sharing.html https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2016/03/bad-luck-over-the-upcoming-badlock-vulnerability/ Hopefully we get to April 12th without this breaking embargo or someone making an exploit that targets it. Regardless, the next Patch Tuesday is going to be a crazy one.
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Number19 posted:BadLock is coming and it looks horrendously bad. Here's the marketing BS site: I'm so hard for April 12th
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I need to deploy 20 Windows 7 VMs for testing a program and I proceed to download the latest Windows 7 SP1 Pro Image from MSDN. The hell? The latest image is from 2012 and I have over 300 updates. Win 7 might be showing it age but what in the hell? Gucci Loafers fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Mar 25, 2016 |
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Mar 25, 2016 01:16
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Tab8715 posted:I need to deploy 20 Windows 7 VMs for testing a program and I proceed to download the latest Windows 7 SP1 Pro Image from MSDN. I was just thinking last night how an SP2 is long overdue.
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Tab8715 posted:I need to deploy 20 Windows 7 VMs for testing a program and I proceed to download the latest Windows 7 SP1 Pro Image from MSDN. Microsoft only rolls out new ISO's when there is a service pack, and Windows 7 only got one. There are methods to integrate matches, but MS doesn't test this, instead only supporting post install patching. You can either patch the installer yourself, or do an install and let it patch itself, then sysprep and clone it. P.S. the install and let it patch itself will be less frustrating, and not actually any more time consuming.
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Microsoft will never release SP2 unfortunately.
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incoherent posted:This is old thinking. If you're worried about the platform look at LTSB Win10. LTSB is windows 7. If you can't even hit that target I don't know what to say. LTSB is meant for kiosks and poo poo like that and as such, contains a limited set of features. Its upgrade cycle being closer to previous Windows versions (with major upgrades every few years instead of every few months) doesn't make it appropriate to use on regular workstations. With that said, enterprises should be working on Windows 10 if they are in the process of an OS upgrade or planning for one. If you're already working on Windows 8.1 then it really isn't much different and if you're still using Windows 7 then it doesn't make sense to put in the work and not go to the newest available. My company stayed on Windows 7 and we've been working on the upgrade to 10 since December. At this point we're basically waiting for 1511 to be declared business ready (or CBB or deferred channel or whatever the gently caress Microsoft is calling it today) and our new hardware to arrive before we start rolling out to regular users. It's not that hard.
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I'd kill to go full Win10 just so I can decline the 6 million windows 7 updates I have on WSUS 
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Caf posted:LTSB is meant for kiosks and poo poo like that and as such, contains a limited set of features. Its upgrade cycle being closer to previous Windows versions (with major upgrades every few years instead of every few months) doesn't make it appropriate to use on regular workstations. Ehh... LTSB isn't quite that. It's a long term supported build that doesn't introduce new features. It's great for kiosks and poo poo, but it also has a place in highly managed, standardized environments that don't give 2 shits about the newest Windows Features. I liken it to a long term extension of Windows 7 Current Branch and Current Branch for Business both require you to eventually install the new features which some people might not want. For example, we have a couple call centers that need to have a very specific environment to work with our partners tools and programs, We'll be using Win10 LTSB for those computers.
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Caf posted:LTSB is meant for kiosks and poo poo like that and as such, contains a limited set of features. Its upgrade cycle being closer to previous Windows versions (with major upgrades every few years instead of every few months) doesn't make it appropriate to use on regular workstations. CBB doesn't mean quite what you think it does, or at least Microsoft is treating it differently. When a branch becomes CBB, that doesn't mean Microsoft thinks it's Business Ready, they're just acknowledging that it's hard to validate a new feature branch and deploy it end to end every 4 months. So they support the second most recent branch for business customers, but as soon as a new branch (CB) comes out, you need to start validating it and deploying it. This is the deployment schedule Microsoft expects you to be on: 
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Hey guys I have a question and I know you'll be the ones to help me  I'm soon going to start selling and implementing Microsoft EMS. I do however have to lab the hell out of it and study what I can about the solution and product. Is there a book or course you guys know about that covers the basics and then something closer to a deep dive? Thanks a lot.
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Yeah good luck with that Microsoft themselves doesn't even know what the gently caress is going on with EMS. Been dealing with EMS for almost 2 years and never got it rolled out company wide. Even thinking about it gets my blood pressure high edit: Let me clarify, I think it would be fine for a SMB org, but I still don't think it's fully ready for Enterprise prime time. skipdogg fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Mar 26, 2016 |
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orange sky posted:Hey guys I have a question and I know you'll be the ones to help me The problem with Microsoft's cloud stuff is that the courses are all outdated by the time they're released. I followed their MSP EMS training and it was basically the trainer going "well your instrutions would've worked last year but everything changed"
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EMS is a Product line, no?
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Mar 26, 2016 19:12
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Tab8715 posted:EMS is a Product line, no? It's a bundle of products you can bolt onto O365. Enterprise Mobility Suite. Azure AD Premium, Intune, Azure Rights Management and it looks like the Threat Analytic stuff went GA and includes licensing for Identity Manager.
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For azure, meet ups are useful. Other people figure this poo poo out and you can decide if you follow them or wait 6 months.
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skipdogg posted:It's a bundle of products you can bolt onto O365. Enterprise Mobility Suite. Azure AD Premium, Intune, Azure Rights Management and it looks like the Threat Analytic stuff went GA and includes licensing for Identity Manager. Ah hah. I've sort of struggled to find Microsoft-Centric User Groups. The only one that's active is one in Chicago.
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orange sky posted:I do however have to lab the hell out of it and study what I can about the solution and product. Is there a book or course you guys know about that covers the basics and then something closer to a deep dive? Thanks a lot. I didn't touch on this part of your post. In the 2 years I've been dealing with EMS the best resources you can have are 1: A test environment. Try to get a test tenant that you can do whatever the hell you want with. I learn best by doing, and this was invaluable to me. 2: TechNet. I don't think anyone can fault Microsoft's TechNet for not being a great resource. Things get updated pretty quickly there. 3: There's a couple high level O365 consultant blogs out there. Odds are any specific questions you have, they've blogged about it. Half the people at Microsoft I dealt with weren't up to speed, and things change quickly so by the time anything that was actually published it would be out of date.
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Tab8715 posted:Ah hah. The ones I've seen have mostly been PowerShell and SCCM user groups, but they tend to come back to general Microsoft technologies.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Microsoft is serious about Win10 support. Most of the initial quirks have been dealt with since release 1511, and they'll go out of their way to help you if you can identify a legitimate issue and open a case. We opened a case regarding how to roam the Windows 10 start menu buttons with AppSense or UE-V and Microsoft's literal answer was: "We don't know either where the start menu settings are saved" peak debt fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Mar 28, 2016 |
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peak debt posted:We opened a case regarding how to roam the Windows 10 start menu buttons with AppSense or UE-V and Microsoft's literal answer was: "We don't know either where the start menu settings are saved" %localappdata%\TileDataLayer mostly The files will stay in use after you log off, which complicates roaming, but that's where the tiles are stored.
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peak debt posted:We opened a case regarding how to roam the Windows 10 start menu buttons with AppSense or UE-V and Microsoft's literal answer was: "We don't know either where the start menu settings are saved" Get your TAM to escalate up the engineering chain. Unless you get lucky, the front-line guys are useless except for giving you instructions to gather diagnostics.
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skipdogg posted:I didn't touch on this part of your post. In the 2 years I've been dealing with EMS the best resources you can have are What blogs are you reading? On a completely unrelated note it surprised how many companies still host or colo Exchange for a few hundred users. AreWeDrunkYet posted:Get your TAM to escalate up the engineering chain. Unless you get lucky, the front-line guys are useless except for giving you instructions to gather diagnostics. This and fill out the goddamn customer surveys. Microsoft's managements scrutinizes these seriously nearly to a fault.
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We still have own Exchange server for 300 users or so. Works fine.
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Anyone have any recommendations on (preferably free) SFTP server solutions on the windows side? I've played around with the OpenSSH for Windows port that Microsoft has thrown out there, but it's obviously pretty rough around the edges.
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I'm pretty sure FileZilla Server can do SFTP.
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Maneki Neko posted:Anyone have any recommendations on (preferably free) SFTP server solutions on the windows side? Yup, Filezilla server. You could use FTPS on IIS too but you have to sacrifice a live human child to make it work.
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Internet Explorer posted:I'm pretty sure FileZilla Server can do SFTP. CLAM DOWN posted:Yup, Filezilla server. You could use FTPS on IIS too but you have to sacrifice a live human child to make it work. Sadly filezilla server can NOT do SFTP, although the client supports it just fine.
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Maneki Neko posted:Sadly filezilla server can NOT do SFTP, although the client supports it just fine. drat, really? Maybe cygwin or something then?
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CLAM DOWN posted:drat, really? Maybe cygwin or something then? Yeah, I was hoping for more of a "yeah we have this deployed across a bunch of hosts and it works great and is easy to manage" recommendation  I've certainly used cygwin, just wasn't sure if there was anything else good and free out there that I was missing.
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Question about machine account passwords on windows domains: As I understand it, each workstation requests a reset every 30 days by default. If it can't contact the DC on that particular day, does the trust relationship fail at once or is there a grace period? Asking due to issues with a lovely old SBS
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This probably explains (better than I can) Everything you'll need to know about machine account passwords and AD Happy Reading. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2009/02/15/machine-account-password-process-2/
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bitterandtwisted posted:Question about machine account passwords on windows domains:
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Maneki Neko posted:Sadly filezilla server can NOT do SFTP, although the client supports it just fine. My bad! I misremembered using FileZilla Server for FTPS.
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skipdogg posted:This probably explains (better than I can) Everything you'll need to know about machine account passwords and AD Thanks, that's very informative!
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GreenNight posted:We still have own Exchange server for 300 users or so. Works fine. Yes, it works fine but from a cost perspective it's often easier to just move mail into the cloud and pay a monthly fee per user as opposed to having everything On-Premise.
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