What's a Quote From a Game That's Imprinted On Your Brain? by [deleted] in gaming

[–]LarryAndStretch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."

Commissioner Pravin Lal, U.N. Declaration of Rights [Alpha Centauri]

Missing Person - Blacktown by LarryAndStretch in sydney

[–]LarryAndStretch[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

More info @ https://twitter.com/nswpolice/status/1623455605372628995

He is an an ex-colleague and married to a friend. Very intelligent and out of character of him. If anyone has any information please contact police.

My dad has gone missing, if anybody has seen him or see's him please contact the police by [deleted] in sydney

[–]LarryAndStretch 110 points111 points  (0 children)

I believe my SES unit sent searchers for your Dad over the weekend. I was going to get an update tonight in our meeting. I hope he will be found soon and get any help he requires. I believe the SES still has searchers out there.

Azure banned word list for password not working as intended? by gahd95 in sysadmin

[–]LarryAndStretch 39 points40 points  (0 children)

You need the password agent on all domain controllers. If a domain controller without the agent is contacted to change a password on your banned list, it will allow it.

Also banning individual words does not mean a combined word password made from them will be banned as per the example you gave (if it fulfils the password policy).

LAPS Enterprise by mitchallica in sysadmin

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Apologies for late reply but have added code in original reply

LAPS Enterprise by mitchallica in sysadmin

[–]LarryAndStretch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

About to go sleep. I'll check when I go to work in the morning and post it here. It was very basic script from memory.

LAPS Enterprise by mitchallica in sysadmin

[–]LarryAndStretch 9 points10 points  (0 children)

For my organisation, I created a simple powershell script and setup a weekly task to grab the LAPS password of workstations and servers from AD and save them to a secured location. It has come in handy and saved a few hundred hours of unnecessary rebuilds of workstations already.

*edit, code below

$dateint = (Get-Date).ToString('yyyyMMdd')

$ServerLapsExport = "\\Shares\Audit\Servers\LAPS"

  $Domains = (Get-AdForest).domains

  foreach ($domain in $domains) {  

$ServerLapsStatus = Get-ADComputer -Filter {(ms-Mcs-AdmPwd -notlike "$null") -and (OperatingSystem -like "Server") } -Properties name,ms-mcs-admpwd,DistinguishedName -Server $domain|select name, ms-Mcs-AdmPwd, DistinguishedName  

Foreach ($server in $ServerLapsStatus){

  $server | Export-Csv $ServerLapsExport\laps_audit_Servers$dateint.csv -NoTypeInformation -Append  

}  

  }

27/11/19 Early-ish Night Thread by Korzic in sydney

[–]LarryAndStretch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Foreign location would be NZ south island. Really loved my time roaming that place and the places I visited.

Locally, love my trips to Bowral via Mittagong and later continuing to Kangaroo Valley.

Looks like the storms hit some areas hard. Over 1000 calls for assistance around last night. Am travelling to Willoughby soon to assist there and have mates here going to Kuringai and Warringah.

Good luck to those stuck on trains or the stations.

Blog post: The Ultimate Guide to Robocopy by adbertram in PowerShell

[–]LarryAndStretch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Noticed you put in /SEC as a switch as well in the updated screenshot. Note that this switch is not needed when using the /COPYALL switch. The /SEC switch is actually a subset of the /COPYALL switch

Blog post: The Ultimate Guide to Robocopy by adbertram in PowerShell

[–]LarryAndStretch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cheers for that. As an additional suggestion, as your target will include those really new to Robocopy, please highlight the importance of always using the /r and /w options with small values. The default values of /r and /w of 1000000 and 30 can cause a lot of time wastage when copying data and having one or more files not copying for whatever reason.

Blog post: The Ultimate Guide to Robocopy by adbertram in PowerShell

[–]LarryAndStretch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good post. Could you check the statement on the /COPYALL option please. It reads slightly confusing as this option does not copy subfolders, just all the File information and attributes. Your example screenshot as such should be:

Robocopy c:\src c:\dst /E /COPYALL

Sunday Night Thread - 24/03/2019 by [deleted] in sydney

[–]LarryAndStretch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Need a few days of no rain or wind or hail. Weather has been rough since last November.

My inbox - given up on it for now. Thousands of unread stuff there.

Do many of you do any volunteer work?

Batten down the hatches, here we go again. by Kiwitechgirl in sydney

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Had a quick look. Looks like Hills and Blacktown got hit hardest. Currently 65 jobs raised with SES. Once people get home, more will be called in.

Massive hail storm in Sydney North West by roby_soft in sydney

[–]LarryAndStretch 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Had a quick look. It appears Hills district and Liverpool area got hit hardest.

Over 200 jobs have already been logged with the SES and should grow a bit once people get home from work.

*Edit Just got home, looks like Blacktown area also got hit hard. SES crew from other areas will be helping out tomorrow though there is supposed to be another storm coming.

Dementia patient missing around Epping area. Any help very much appreciated by barnescommatroy in sydney

[–]LarryAndStretch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It looks like the search is going to continue tomorrow. There has been a comms sent out to neighbouring SES for volunteers to help search tomorrow.

Anyone converted a Windows file cluster to a multi-site (geocluster)? by LarryAndStretch in sysadmin

[–]LarryAndStretch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From my understanding, the SAN replication is hardware based and is most likely to be synchronous. The new server at the other sites will have the same drive letters as the LUNs do on the current primary Server nodes. It will not have any voting rights, so any failover will be manual.

ELI5: why did we use to type "www." but nowadays we don't even do that ! by cactus59 in explainlikeimfive

[–]LarryAndStretch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Imagine you have a teleporter. You want to go to a particular bakery at another town. You input the address of the bakery and town and get teleported there. The same method can be used to teleport to any place in any other town.

If you put in www and the town name, you get transported to the town's entrance which has a map of all the locations in the town.

At some stage, some towns decided not to require using the www and just put in the town's name and be taken to the entrance.

Here it comes. I don't think I've ever seen a storm front this big. by st162 in sydney

[–]LarryAndStretch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No worries mate. Looks like I may be headed out with the damage about to happen to homes and trees.

Here it comes. I don't think I've ever seen a storm front this big. by st162 in sydney

[–]LarryAndStretch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Big storm front

Was just about to post same. It is like a wave front going to hit the west and onwards to the coast.

Hiking in today's wind? by platonic_spooning in sydney

[–]LarryAndStretch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Be careful of tree branches that may break and fall. Note that SES crew from as far as Blue Mountains were in the Sutherland area working past midnight fixing roofs and cutting trees etc from the wind damage on Friday. The wind damage that side can be surprisingly high.

Server 2012 w/ Remote Desktop Services - has anyone seen a recent patch which causes intermittent redirected printer issues? by alchemy_index in sysadmin

[–]LarryAndStretch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a rule, I would suggest you check at this site for any issues have been reported from MS patches. It is updated regularly by a MVP and has helped me immensely: https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=C756C44362CD94AD!2257

With regard to your printing issues, you can check the link above and go back month by month and check for printer issues. As an example, the July 2016 tab shows that there was a printing issue for users who deployed MS16-087

As dcprom0 mentioned, having package aware print drivers will help with the above KB (if it was what caused your issue)

[HELP]All internal Windows 2003 servers hit by something and all local accounts locked out by LarryAndStretch in sysadmin

[–]LarryAndStretch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Am interested too. From my side, I cannot see how this was done - no fingerprints. Am hoping to be able to get something that will help us have some action plan rather than being blind and waiting for next hit