@MDMarra - how the fuck is this meant to work? I point the "Alternate Path" to the fucking ISO file - no luck. To the WIM file - no luck. To the fucking ISO - no luck
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@tombull89 the only reason myself and my assistant network engineer here can survive on 8.1 is because we both personally purchased licences for Start Is Back
I am attempting to install the Network Policy Server role via the Add Roles and Features wizard, which is being run remotely from a management station (i.e. not on the server itself).
It tells me I need to specify an Alternate Source Path for the installation files. I have tried:
WIM:\\ad.lifew...
@RobM I was going to use ClassicShell but when we move to 8.1 over the summer everyone else is gonna be using "new" start, so I have to get used to it.
this is the bit that's bullshit to me. Not the fact that they have this alternate sources thing but the whole "this is what you do, except for when you don't, and good luck figuring out which is which" approach.
@MarkHenderson the .wim file will probably contain images for windows server core and windows server, possibly different images for standard and datacentre too, so you might need to check which source you need and specify that as part of the argument, e.g. install.wim:2 instead of install.wim
I've had gyp like you're getting when adding some features on some boxes and not on some others. We used to do windows core installs as pure core installs but instead now do them as standard gui installs then remove the gui feature precisely because of this problem with windows 2012 (not r2)
Yeah, Microsoft's 2012 stuff is freaking clusterfuck, organizationally/for consistency. Whoever was in charge of that product line needs to somehow die slowly from undocumented software compatibilities and senselessly missing features.
@MarkHenderson That's your problem. NPS isn't available in Core.
I gotta stop ServerFaulting when I can't get to sleep... I'm gonna be rep-capped before work starts, and having nothing to do but work, at work. Eeep! .. and only myself to blame, too.
@JourneymanGeek People already think I'm too much of an ass on here. If I try out SuperUser, one of us won't survive the trial... not sure if it would be me, or SuperUser. Coding's too boring (no SO), and not much else in SE catches my interest.
at my campus I am about to start a work about live migration of virtual machines.
There are so many virtualization softwares (vmware,qemu,virtualbox...) and so I'd like to ask you what is the most mature one on this matter, both about ease of use, interfacing and efficiency.
I'd like to work unde...
I want to know what ISP is running sites like stackoverflow, basecamp, asana, etc. I guess not everyone is running on VPS as an in-house server can have much more horse power for the price than what is offered by VPS providers.
So once you have you in-house server:
Which ISP you go for to ask ...
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I need to export data via SQL to XML. But I need the XML format in Row/column and the output must be a Pivot table. I know that it can be done with AS pivot. But I don't know how to use it in the below script
I've already got a fantastic script with the outcome in Row/Column...
Overall, he isn’t as understanding on why you don’t open AD to the public and in general how disconnected/remote users are meant to be managed and will probably research a bit himself.
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If you are very large and/or have an interesting use case, Microsoft will give you lots of resources and help before during and after the event if you agree to be a test site for a big platform like SQL 2014
I guess that's legit enough, having the resources necessary at a moment's notice makes sense. Must be a pain though to get certain applications to play nice. I've seen lots of stuff where the front end app would say "oh...you want <latest version of SQL>? No...you can't even install us on anything newer than 2 revs back"
Hey @RobM - I saw your interesting O365 question. I haven't messed with them yet, but have you looked into either AppGuru or 365Command? They are both SaaS solutions for administering O365 via a web GUI. I don't see specifics for Sharepoint MySites on them but maybe?
*sigh* he just created a zone on our DNS server so he can change a single record to test a IP change a external provider wants to do. Maybe I should listen to what he says... ffs
Especially as there are commands to delete all the profiles that involve iterating through all of them deleting each one in turn. But trying to get it to iterate through a list of one doesn't seem to work. And makes for more complex stuff than I want to provide as a script for our helpdesk.
Anyone with ESXi experience recommend a ballpark number of VMs one host should have? I know the absolute limit is 512 (which is crazy high) but hardware requirements aside...
For example, our satellite sites have # vCPUs of <= logical processors on hardware, which works out to 3 or 4 multi-core VMs, because that's the bottleneck on those servers. At the home office, we're RAM constrained, and because we're operating on a blade system with the blade servers in a host cluster, we need to maintain "N-1," basically meaning that we have to allow for one host to fail at any time without oversubscribing hardware.
That doesn't correspond to any particular number of VMs, so much as how much the aggregate RAM usage is, and keeping it at 13 blades' worth of RAM, inc ase one of the 14 fail.
I don't know of anyone who planned to use oversuscription in the first place. It was always a "push comes to shove" moment. And they're never happy about the decision. Not saying it doesn't have its place, just my experiences.
@RobM - possibly? jopx.blogspot.com/2013/08/managing-sharepoint-online-with.html -- notice that it says "There is however a workaround for manipulating objects in SharePoint Online at a lower level using the SharePoint Server 2013 Client Components SDK which enables remote development against SharePoint Server 2013"
@ChrisS Useful for making devs go away. "Here's your hideously over-subscribed VM; it'll take 15 minutes to log on. Next time, stay out of my ass for 30 minutes in a row, and maybe you'll get one you can actually use."
Much of System Center will run with 1/10 the RAM "required" by the specs. Some of it will even run well at 1/4... The specs generally assume a rather large deployment.
Fucks sake, things like this make me want to smash windows
So, I have a day on site - i want to get home early (This site is the best part of 2 hours from home) so I rock up at a decent time and hit the ground running. I'm now done, and ready to go
except, because of the customers inaction over the LAST 6 MONTHS (Despite repeated reminders, e-mails and phone calls), I've walked into a problem with licensing (Well, not a problem - a lack of licenses means their Citrix environment has run out of grace) and now I'm expected to hang on on the off chance that this $HugeCorp can push a purchase through procurement and get the licenses today
They're getting another 25 mins and then I'm gone regardless, tough shit
@Tanner and there's a way to directly (sort of...still isn't much more than a redirect with some details included) open a ticket with MS support if needed on an alert.
@ewwhite - is the AD on the public web locked to certain IP sources or just open to the world? I'm guessing the 2nd? If so, I (and anyone) could easily use ldp.exe or similar to query just about anything within the directory. Take a simple example of just getting an internal employee list (usually with titles and email addresses included and phone #s) and going the simple social engineering route.
You can't use a MS article as a citation for an MS app @HopelessN00b. At least that's what I've always read when people say you can't cite the Bible to prove the Bible. :)
@Tanner Reducing the Active Directory Attack Surface 39
Oh, I take that back. I guess it doesn't ever come out and explicitly say that. Then again, my car doesn't have a warning label telling me not to hump the exhaust pipe, either.
"Domain controllers should be treated as critical infrastructure components, secured more stringently and configured more rigidly than file, print, and application servers." is close... still scanning, though.
@HopelessN00b Look at pages 78-79...MS doesn't even want DCs to have access to the internet outbound...I think that's enough to state they don't want it inbound either.
"As previously described in the Misconfiguration section of Initial Breach Targets, browsing the Internet (or an infected intranet) from one of the most powerful computers in a Windows infrastructure using a highly privileged account (which are the only accounts permitted to log on locally to domain controllers by default) presents an extraordinary risk to an organization’s security. "
@TheCleaner Yeah, talking about the use of admin accounts while browsing. It certainly implies what we all know to be true, but I'd think there would be something official, somewhere, that says ~"if you have to allow AD access to the internet, lock down the IPs it accepts connections from."
Well done pointing out a totally big flaw in the question, bascially assuiming it is "in house server OR vps" and ignoring the whole universe of colocation, i.e. putting your own machines into a data center. — TomTom39 mins ago
TIL - Most people around the world are Lactose Intolerant (as are almost all mammals), and it's only in the last few thousand years that somewhere around 15-25% of humans have continued to produce lactase (making them lactose tolerant) into adulthood.
@tombull89 I pointed out the the same thing, and he didn't give me a "good job." I don't think he likes me much... so now I'll never learn how to run an HA Exchange environment on a smartphone. :(
> Make sure that the machines within the DMZ are not joined to the regular production domain. AD isolation is at forest layer, therefore it is highly recommended not to have the production AD in DMZ. Please either use another forest, or deploy AD Lightweight Directory Services.
@tombull89 Former employer. Not for any reason, really, mostly a) the OP isn't going to have any clue who it is b) I like to minimize the personally identifiable information I post for the world to see and c) am not sure if they'd appreciate those operational details being outed in public. I don't think they'd mind, but better safe than sorry.
All...I wonder if @Mdmarra will approve my comment on his blog site? LOL...can't wait to see him come here and wonder who it was...or comment on it in chat here...
I just want to point out that you are wrong according to SANS, and they are cooler than you! http://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/win2k/basic-security-issues-active-directory-191 (page 6) "If your organization has a presence on the Internet, the name of your forest root domain should be registered. An example would be the SANS Institute, which would use sans.com as a DNS namespace for the Internet, and sans.com would be the namespace for their Active Directory forest root domain"
@pauska Worse than that, I thought these were the guys who do everything (code development) local on the remote workers' PCs, and don't have a VPN.. but need AD for... [mind splitting stupidity that escapes me at the moment]
"The patented Absolute persistent technology can survive a factory reset or hard wipe, allowing Absolute's Investigations and Recovery Services Team to locate and retrieve your stolen laptop, smartphone or tablet."
@pauska Heh. Don't feel bad, earlier this morning I thought I was dealing with a question about migration a complicated web stack from a hosted datacenter to a local server... and it turns out the 'tard was asking how to type a local ip address into a browser instead.
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I am attempting to install the Network Policy Server role via the Add Roles and Features wizard, which is being run remotely from a management station (i.e. not on the server itself).
It tells me I need to specify an Alternate Source Path for the installation files. I have tried:
WIM:\\ad.lifew...
I want to know what ISP is running sites like stackoverflow, basecamp, asana, etc. I guess not everyone is running on VPS as an in-house server can have much more horse power for the price than what is offered by VPS providers.
So once you have you in-house server:
Which ISP you go for to ask ...
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