To come back around to the initial question, I'll throw GLPI + FusionInventory into the mix as a decent replacement for SpiceWorks. You keep the ability to have your whole IT environment managed and documented in a single system (Equipment, users, ticketing, contracts, contacts etc etc....)

So the laptop is my main driver and runs the 3 displays + it's own.

The lower display to the right is for a workstation that's used for building / maintaining our windows 10 deployment images as well as a GNS3 install that I need to find the time to use to mock-up our WAN / VPN topology.

The fireplace on the arm is a drastically underpowered 20" inspiron all in one touchscreen that had been doing nothing for years so I've taken it, put linux on it and it's just a toy / conversation piece.

EDIT: fireplace has now become an ASCII aquarium

I searched really quickly and didn't find a section or category where folks have been posting useful how-to guides or articles for the community. There are a couple of things that I've worked through lately that could probably be useful to others, just don't know exactly where to stash it on here. As an example, how to make a uefi bootable USB to automatically apply BIOS settings for Dell. In all honesty, my motivation here is as much to share with the community as have stuff like this publicly documented so I can find it if I need to re-do or update it for my own needs.

@valentina said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

I ate 2 boneless bbq wings

Isn't that just marketing chicken fingers to adults? :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:

@mr-jones knowbe4. They provide training modules for users as well as allow you to run simulated phishing exercises. There are other companies out there that provide the same service(s) but we're using these guys for now.

On a related subject, not looking forward to the eventual request(s) to have he/him, she/her etc added to AD and our automatically generated email signatures

Good afternoon from Eastern Canada! I'm part of the IT team for a manufacturing company with offices throughout Canada and the Eastern US. Cheers!

It feels like the OP thinks that this is a seller's forum as opposed to a group of IT professionals looking to help each other out. Or just trolling to waste time. Or a college kid who was given an assignment and is looking for us to provide the answer.

Trying out Fedora on my personal laptop and watching season 3 of the grand tour

@DustinB3403 said in Bad one: SonicWALL Remote Management Vulnerability:

@wrx7m said in Bad one: SonicWALL Remote Management Vulnerability:

WTF? People NAT their iDracs?

Some people...

Probably the same people that put ketchup on a perfectly good steak..... psychopaths the whole lot of them

@pete-s said in Bring order into IT environment in chaos:

Faced with an working IT environment in chaos (undocumented, unpatched, where's the backups, what licenses are there, what warranties, vendors, what servers are in use, what apps etc, etc).

What steps would you take to get things in order as quickly as possible?

And in what order would you do it?

1- Figure out what your current state is

• Automated inventory / scan (glpi / lansweeper / openaudit etc...)
• Physical inventory to ensure that nothing in the automated inventory was missed

2- Establish priorities with the stakeholders, depending on what your inventory / audit finds.

• Prioritize what's needed to ensure that the business can continue, this doesn't always line up with what we as IT might want to have updated at first glance. (business can continue on W7, missing backups of an accounting suite could kill some small businesses)

Just got jab#1.

So I've been testing TacticalRMM in our environment and after reviewing with some colleagues, we need to tighten control to the admin interface. I've followed the instructions here https://wh1te909.github.io/tacticalrmm/securing_nginx/ and it works to block the public IP addresses, but as soon as there's ..... *** googling and a few more grey hairs*****

So the syntax in the documentation might work with escaped chars and other foolishness, but I found that using

SecRule REMOTE_ADDR "!@ipMatch xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

instead of

SecRule REMOTE_ADDR "!@eq IP1"

allows for use of simple formatting as well as CIDR Ranges

Now we all know!

Disruptive updates at our US sites since nobody's supposed to be there for the great turkey day

Happy Thanksgiving to all the 'Mericans

Used HP procurve from ebay... if it dies they have a lifetime warranty

You can usually pick up something like a 2530 24G for not too much.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/193536665656?hash=item2d0faf2838:g:8GoAAOSwAnZgdhzU

Depends on your use-case and budget though.

@WrCombs said in Task Schedule Failed:

SO Iknow whats causing the issue, I'm just not sure how to fix it.

Windows 11 device, Task is scheduled to start a program

c:\program files (x86)\Parent Director\Subdirectory\program /switch1 /switch2 /switch3 

It shows Last Run results 0x4 Which I find out means "System can't access path/file"

I Changed user, and tried running it again (different admin user) no change, same status.

I go to CMD to see if I can path to it - Can't find path specified - tried writing it a different way (with spaces, without spaces)

Having a hard time understanding why it can't run this program - it's needed to import sales into a different system every day.

The owner of the software suggested making sure DotNetFramework 4.5 or higher was installed and repair it. which it is, 4.8 is installed currently.

Any ideas how I can resolve this?

Ideas:
1- try using single or double quotes around the path, simple way to get the "proper" path is sometimes to use tab-completion

2- if the above doesn't work, maybe try having your scheduled task call a batch or .cmd file (or powershell) which invokes the executable

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

And the issue I have most with this is the way this is stated.

interest free 12 month loan for a new laptop

So if he fails to pay this back in 12 months is there a fee or rate hike?

Probably automatic payroll deductions. One of my old places would offer this to employees, honestly just to help them keep up to date with tech and let them take advantage of our business pricing as opposed to paying retail.

Would a Raspberry Pi have enough power for your needs?

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Doing a test install of XS 7.1CU2 at one of our sites on the West Coast. Thank %whatever% for time zones

Did you purchase licensing for XS or are you using the free version?

We're licensed, VDI and related products so it just makes sense to bundle the hypervisor in there too (I assume, I don't deal with the $$$ side of things too much)

Yeah so long as you're licensed using XS makes sense, but if you were using the free edition it would be past time to evaluate moving to XCP-ng.

Oh for sure, if I ever get the HW for a home lab it would probably be XCP-ng just to keep to something known (*ducks, waiting for eventual comments on KVM )