@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Now that said - I'm wondering how much of that crap comes back when you go from a decrapified 1903 to 1909? or 2004? those two "upgrades" are not really upgrades, more like service packs, and generally take 10 or less to install, unlike past ones that took hours.

I installed the 2004 update 3 times this morning and it all came back.

Yes, Windows itself is bloatware now. And we classify Teams as malware (it meets every definition I've ever seen). The only solution there is moving away from a bloatware/malware platform. Starting with Windows, if you don't like the Windows ecosystem, will never make for a happy result.

Yes, not sure why anyone wants to use Teams.

Yeah I feel the same. I tried it and it works. However, to me, it doesn't work as well as other things and certainly not better. Also i don't like to have several services with one company. When they are tied together it makes it harder to break away and use a better product when one comes along. Discrete services are almost always better.

@mary said in Cloud Models - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

@scottalanmiller so cloud is a buzzword?

Oh yes I used to see commercials with a kid talking about the "Almighty Cloud". This was several years ago but not much has changed in the marketing.

@mary said in Cloud Models - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

I'm a bit confused. He mentioned virtual servers, but what kind of hardware is used to house them?

The best hardware that makes sense for what your trying to do. You will have some type of physical machine, a hypervisor, and then virtual machines made from the hypervisor. These are the virtual servers he is referring to.

I myself like the simplest tool possible to do any job. So with that context RoboCopy/Richcopy are my favorite tools for this sort of thing in Windows. Assuming Windows because you mentioned powershell. Scripts can be scheduled, monitored, and free. Its my preferred way of doing things. Don't need expensive tools to do this.

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Now that said - I'm wondering how much of that crap comes back when you go from a decrapified 1903 to 1909? or 2004? those two "upgrades" are not really upgrades, more like service packs, and generally take 10 or less to install, unlike past ones that took hours.

I installed the 2004 update 3 times this morning and it all came back.

Yeah some things will come back. It takes a lot of work but I use powershell to routinely nuke stuff across departments. My management chooses to use Windows so I do the best I can.

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender I am just tired of all the garbage that gets installed with every update, and every time a new user logs in. If I remove all of the bloatware, and then do a release upgrade - it all comes back. Updates take forever and fail more often than not. I am referring to higher priced workstations too. Still takes way too long. The whole update process is a failure.

I don't need a Phone Plans app, an XBox App, A My Phone App, etc. The list goes on.

Yeah if you have to use Windws for users, then the solution is to make images for your Windows machines. I get 300-500 new machines every year to deploy. They all come with windows Pro. I use imaging software and blow them away as they come in with the Windows that I want on there. I take away most of everything and just have stuff I want on there. Theres very little you can't get rid of.

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore That is my point about purchasing with NO OS. Its almost guaranteed to work. I have loaded different flavors of linux over the years and over a broad range of hardware. I don't recall any issues that would prevent me from trying it again.

Well I see a lot of hardware and get a lot every year that comes dead, even with an OS loaded already. If your luckier than I, then yay lol. My luck may just suck too.

@brandon220 In my experience, take it with grain of salt, but I think Fedora or any mainstream Linux is more likely to work and have fewer issues.

@JaredBusch yeah Im the same, hate buying clothes so wait until I can wait no more. Theres always holes before I buy lol.

@scottalanmiller haha love it!

Just bought wife this laptop for her late anniversary present from Insight. Thankyou Yonah and Scott for getting me set up.

@Dashrender It does look really nice!

@brianwinkelmann said in Storage Devices - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

I am seriously thinking about buy a SSD drive to install on my old computer that is Pentium 4 - 3.0 GHz, 3 GB RAM, with Windows XP and install there the Windows 10 so it can run faster, Do you think that is a crazy idea?

Put opensuse on it instead. Unless you just love windows

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jt1001001 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller Explains why two of our Azure backups failed overnight.

Yup, looks like it was an hour and a half east coast total Azure outage, or nearly so.

Ouch, how does that even happen anymore, to that extent?

Morning Scott

@JaredBusch I love that they built the sidecar in. I've only seen separate ones before. That looks really nice. Be nice to have one to see what kind of build quality it has and of course how reliable it worked.

I know prices are good but this doesn't seem worth the trouble if you were a business.

@scottalanmiller said in Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US:

@scottalanmiller said in Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US:

and NTS (who has dropped their page for the product) again.

After I told Fanvil that NTS had removed their product page, it was "magically" restored prior to our phone conversation, lol.

Oh thats ironic isn't it.

@brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop

I use kvm to manage my windows vm on desktop, so you dont have to use HV unless you just want to

Would setting up ZeroTier and adding their machine to it be a solution?