@scottalanmiller said in Silently take screen shots:

We CAN get these from ScreenConnect. We don't, but we can. It DOES have a tray icon, but it's relatively tame since it is the tray icon for support, not screen caps.

We use ScreenConnect so it isn't crazy that it'd be in their system tray. I know we can do screen shots, but not auto to my knowledge... I'm hoping to let it run every half hour for a few days.

@dbeato said in Silently take screen shots:

I have used ActivTrak
https://activtrak.com/

Looks pretty slick. I will have to check that out. Thanks

@tim_g said in Silently take screen shots:

Try just using psexec to see if that works:

psexec \\computer cmd

psexec \hostname cmd errors saying psexec is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet. Suggestion [3,General] the command psexec was not found, but does exist in the current location.

@tim_g said in Silently take screen shots:

So, your employer knows they are doing this, but is giving it to IT? That doesn't make sense. This is a management issue, supervisors needing to tell them to stop. If they still aren't getting work done, that alone is enough to replace them.

Anyways, NirCmd can do this.

It's one of our clients. Normally I can talk them out of having to waste time on setting anything up. The user now has an office and privacy so they want to catch them in the act, rather than just firing them for not getting their work done. They would already have cause for reprimand or possibly firing for not getting work done, but we've had that conversation a few times. I'm just doing what they ask at this point.

I've got NirCmd installed and psexec but still getting an error that psexec.exe is not a recognized cmdlet. Here's what I have so far for testing

psexec.exe \10.2.23.140 -u "domain\administrator" -i -c nircmd.exe savescreenshot "c:\users\administrator\downloads\screenshots\shot.png" <------- Just testing the tools psexec and nircmd, but errors.

psexec.exe \10.2.23.140 -u "domain\administrator" -p "Slackware2545%" -i -c nircmd.exe loop 20 60000 savescreenshot "scr~$currdate.MM_dd_yyyy$-~$currtime.HH_mm_ss$.png "c:\users\administrators\downloads\screenshots" <-------20 seconds so I get instant feedback if this works. Will use a network resource if it is successful.

I definitely consider them a hat.

I've been able to talk most employers off the ledge so I haven't had to look into this in years. As long as employees get their work done, I don't care if they watch Netflix, stream music, etc (bandwidth permitting). Employer has a couple employees watching movies brought in (thumb drives, etc), and not getting all of their work done. I can't just block the formats, because they have training videos offline that use the same formats (welding safety, forklift training, etc).

Most applications run in the system tray so the tech savvy user would likely find out after a while. I've been looking at some PowerShell. I talked them out of constant video streams because of the space that would be eaten up on network storage.

Anyone using/used anything that runs silently in the background (not shown in the system tray)? Doesn't have to be free necessarily.

@dbeato said in GoDaddy cert pricing - wow:

So what is this SSL for a website or just shopping around?

Just shopping around... but, I tried a different browser. It was showing USD but the currency was not correct, I checked back after looking at Chrome and it was showing Icelandic kr. Lol wtf

@jaredbusch said in GoDaddy cert pricing - wow:

@bbigford said in GoDaddy cert pricing - wow:

@jaredbusch said in GoDaddy cert pricing - wow:

@bbigford said in GoDaddy cert pricing - wow:

It's been about 3 years since I've purchased a GoDaddy cert. I've purchased other ones through Namecheap, (rarely) through DigiCert, and a little through Let's Encrypt.

GoDaddy's prices have become totally outrageous. Simple SSL certs are ~$400, EV SSL is up to ~$800, and wild card certs are ~$1,800... the best part is they are "on sale". lol WTF

More like WTF are you doing looking at EV?

Was looking at a standard SSL cert (new client is already with GoDaddy). I was surprised at the high price so I looked at the other prices to see how high other ones were.

But EV extra costs for high/very high assurance might be required during a PCI scan. Honestly I can't remember if it came up during the last audit.

Edit: Just checked my previous audit. Requires 2048/256 but nothing about assurance.

EV does not mean much. Anyone can EV their cert if they have a real company and pay for it.

Getting a real company is not hard. Then I could get an EV cert for my domain and then start scamming people from a site with an EV cert.

No one would care because no one looks at the certificate in the first place.

The padlock is not always green and is not always inthe same plave and means nothing to the users.

Green bar isn't even green if certain components have http:// src. Honestly though, I have zero clients in eCommerce or anything related to "trust" as a vendor so I could really care less about EV. We've passed all of our PCI compliance audits without an EV cert.

There has been some chatter from some about "PCI compliance should have a minimum of EV!" If that day ever comes, we'll switch. But until then, won't spend the extra money.

@jaredbusch said in GoDaddy cert pricing - wow:

@bbigford said in GoDaddy cert pricing - wow:

It's been about 3 years since I've purchased a GoDaddy cert. I've purchased other ones through Namecheap, (rarely) through DigiCert, and a little through Let's Encrypt.

GoDaddy's prices have become totally outrageous. Simple SSL certs are ~$400, EV SSL is up to ~$800, and wild card certs are ~$1,800... the best part is they are "on sale". lol WTF

More like WTF are you doing looking at EV?

Was looking at a standard SSL cert (new client is already with GoDaddy). I was surprised at the high price so I looked at the other prices to see how high other ones were.

But EV extra costs for high/very high assurance might be required during a PCI scan. Honestly I can't remember if it came up during the last audit.

Edit: Just checked my previous audit. Requires 2048/256 but nothing about assurance.

It's been about 3 years since I've purchased a GoDaddy cert. I've purchased other ones through Namecheap, (rarely) through DigiCert, and a little through Let's Encrypt.

GoDaddy's prices have become totally outrageous. Simple SSL certs are ~$400, EV SSL is up to ~$700, and wild card certs are ~$1,800... the best part is they are "on sale". lol WTF

Edit: Even though it was showing as USD, it was set to another currency after looking in another browser. Dumb.

OJ and pinnacle whipped vodka to shamelessly nurse my whiskey hangover. Tastes like an orange Creamsicle.

Awesome, I may have to check that out. Thanks for the update.

@scottalanmiller said in Security History: Barracuda Gear Is a Security Breach:

@bbigford said in Security History: Barracuda Gear Is a Security Breach:

I also don't appreciate SonicWall's backdoor. I've gone through a few instances of over-the-air updates bricking appliances or causing crazy performance issues with constant CPU spiking.

I dislike all back doors. But is SonicWall's open to the public? Or is it at least just a back door for them? Still not good, but an order of magnitude or a few better.

Of course they'll say it's only open to them, but that's what Barracuda says too...

I also don't appreciate SonicWall's backdoor. I've gone through a few instances of over-the-air updates bricking appliances or causing crazy performance issues with constant CPU spiking.

Not everything is excusable; even with time and potentially gutting the beast. There's certain things that are just a death sentence in my book. I'm fully aware of what Lenovo has done, and I'm all done recommending them. Others may not feel the same about severity.

I'm not totally aware about Barracuda with intentional malicious action, there is some stuff with their VPN side of things that I've been iffy about regarding security (thinking of Java and their weird method for authentication to a browser redirect from the local client). All I've really heard is about negligence. Care to share?

@dustinb3403 said in Installing FS on a DC:

So this makes sense, and it might just be a "me issue". But every workload I have ever seen (IME) has been on different Microsoft Server versions.

IE you need CALs for that version of Windows Server. . . and thus you would need tons of CALs.

Grr time to investigate.

Worth noting... You need the amount of CALs to equal users, for a certain platform. 2012 RDS? Needs CALs. Exchange 2013? Needs CALs. Upgraded from 2012 RDS to 2016 RDS and Exchange 2013 to 2016? All new CALs.

Why not just use VMware Standalone Converter to convert the VHD/X to VMDK?

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2019 Goes Into Preview:

@bbigford said in Windows Server 2019 Goes Into Preview:

Pretty excited to see this. I hope licensing flops back to not focusing on core density.

What do you dislike about core density pricing? It neither adds complexity nor cost, what are the negatives?

2 licenses per core. 6 core CPU is different than 2x 12 core CPUs. We don't really see a licensing hike from the previous Standard at $700 for 2x VMs. But up in quad proc hosts with many cores we do.

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX Reload Failed Retreive_Conf Encountered Error 1:

Shut down Asterisk manually, restarted again with fwconsole start. Seems okay now. Odd that a reboot didn't pick that up.

That is weird... Was the service not running after the reboot?