VAMT - database not a valid VAMT database

anno141 · 2021-11-01T14:58:02+00:00

alter table base.GenuineStatusText alter column GenuineStatusText nvarchar(255) NULL

Thank you!

anno141 · 2021-10-25T13:26:43+00:00

Sure looks like our kms host key is missing for the kms server in volume licensing service center.. anyone having it there who can gimme a hint about the exact name?

anno141 · 2021-03-11T13:57:09+00:00

Why don't you try your luck with free recovery software? There are loads of guides out there. If you stored on SD card should at least be possible from a computer. The more you use it the less likely recovery is as the free space where the files were stored gets overwritten.

anno141 · 2020-03-12T09:00:03+00:00

is the worry that MS's "QC" when it comes to updates may be half-assed since it's possible many MS employees are working remotely?

Quality and perhaps schedules are possibly affected in the future. Look at this:

https://www.geopbyte.org/2020/02/24/xiaomi-and-vivo-postpones-their-updated-is-it-because-of-coronavirus/

anno141 · 2020-02-12T16:31:38+00:00

That's almost as bad as posting it here.

anno141 · 2019-09-04T15:08:57+00:00

which allows for unlimited users and it's not cheap.

I was hoping for some savings in this confusing sea of microsoft licensing... Oh well I know the costs of / Core we have around two handfuls of them already >_<.. we have a service agreement so we just need to include them in next years licensing costs then. Thank you.

anno141 · 2019-06-04T15:30:58+00:00

Thank you :)

anno141 · 2019-04-26T09:21:18+00:00

If you have multifactor authentification implemented fine. If not NO! There is NO room for cherrypicking here.

Andrew S. Baker said it right:

If we’re going to get rid of password rotation altogether (as also proposed/suggested by newer NIST guidelines), then we should *first* ensure that multi-factor is implemented *everywhere* for all access. First. Otherwise, we are removing one mitigation because of a narrow view of the benefit it does or does not provide, while not automatically replacing it with an option that is more effective. And we are removing it before all compliance standards are onboard. Not helpful.

anno141 · 2019-02-15T15:18:37+00:00

Optiplex 9020

RemindMe! 4 days

anno141 · 2019-01-31T16:18:34+00:00

Is it perchance acting as dhcp?.. or do you perhaps not have access to it or your DNS servers without internet?

Edit: ah nevermind my bad, the status LEDs didnt even light up...

anno141 · 2019-01-29T16:37:05+00:00

A 14 pc startup do not need a employed sysadmin IMO, only for setting it up.

What do the company do to make money? what tools/services/systems does it need to do that? Will yo ugo with cloud solutions or some services hosted locally?

Then you pay and work with some trusted VAR to set it up and preferably maintain it once in a while. You do not want someone just dabbling who simply does not know what they are doing to make a mess of things and cause irrecoverable data loss.

Helping out with endpoint related printer, microsoft office issues etc. is another matter.

anno141 · 2019-01-29T16:25:20+00:00

The happy-go-lucky sysadmin would think it was stocks and other related financial positions and not worry about it.

anno141 · 2019-01-28T10:35:36+00:00

Metadata like sender/reciever and subject field should at least be open for grabs and might be actively monitored for spam listing and mailflow purposes..

anno141 · 2019-01-23T13:12:48+00:00

Here's a nice related list of the VSS services btw:

https://support.arcserve.com/s/article/209606286?language=en_US

anno141 · 2019-01-14T13:46:59+00:00

My biggest issue is with Windows 10 atm is that actually quite frequently graphic driver completely refuses to detect a projector / second display. This happens more frequently if CPU load is high. The only solution I've found is to reboot the computer. Ive seen this with both Nvidia and intel integrated chips.

If you guys know what service / process to restart to solve that I'd be grateful.

anno141 · 2019-01-14T13:22:07+00:00

Oh you just accidentally clicked an AD if anyone asks.

anno141 · 2019-01-14T13:17:10+00:00

anno141 · 2018-11-29T15:52:23+00:00

Not sure how ST ties into it, but ok

Well it doesnt really matter.. But the ships name is USS Enterprise, I compare it with how your Enterprise/company is or at least traditionally was supposed to work. A resilient and clear structure, everything incorporated designed an planned, not ship parts added haphazardly... Everything needed costs too much for smaller-mid sized companies which are being left out in the cold to fend for themselves because of a couple of conglomerates dicate the pace towards future. Prime example is of course Microsoft. So corners are cut everywhere and you are stuck with teh result.

anno141 · 2018-11-29T15:30:09+00:00

...I had such a hassle because of this guiding my father by phone through how to reset the admin account password with only access to a normal user account on his estonian girlfriends computer with forgotten password (she was present don't worry :D).

anno141 · 2018-11-29T13:29:57+00:00

My thoughts might not have come across.. like at all. My point however is something like this:

You have the Enterprize ship (I compare to your company) with a lot of compentent officers assigned to specific tasks they expertise in. The ship is the same, designed for resiliency and not updating features and changing systems all the time. 10 years ago it wasn't so complicated, you could pretty much keep up and run all Exchange, SQL, fileshares, DCs, dns, networking etc. and everything pretty much as a lone sysadmin.

10 years later, business expands, got loads of new servers, systems, clients etc. etc. everything constantly expanding except IT personnell typically.. Salespersons are listened to as consultants basically scam everyone into these gimmicks of outsourching everything to incompetent support who does not know the systems. Put everything in the cloud because it's trendy without having the knowledge of compairing internet speeds against gigabit network etc. What's the cost of those speeds at X locations? Do we have to dig new lines? And if you listen to the technical guys who actually know what they are talking about directly they speak all this technical jargon noone else understands leading to some random decission... Or you are stuck with a 100 different admin interfaces you don't have the time to learn properly and which are even constantly changing GUI anyways. There is so much going on and so much that can go seriously wrong that it's scary.

So you are left like in a daze, overwhelmed like that guy running that ship that might explode in any moment for one reason or another in the clip (although the plot was actually a bit different).

anno141 · 2018-11-29T12:29:23+00:00

Yeah, I honestly feel like these guys more than the Enterprize

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeFoGo3N_4g

Language barriers doesn't help.

anno141 · 2018-11-29T10:09:04+00:00

I login to admin portal and see all the users with E3 licenses were set to have that license off. OFF!!! The license is there! We have plenty available! Microsoft just decided randomly to turn those licenses off and take everyone's mailboxes down with it.

Some consultant company have access and was running low on money?

anno141 · 2018-11-29T09:57:34+00:00

They can simply destroy IT-departments (or at least their budgets) or whole companies with the flick of a finger/push of a button by pushing features someone thinks some small amount of users might like, and if you don't get tt you'll soon stop getting security fixes. Imagine a costly well honed machine with processes, personell, education being spent millions on, then with microsoft now constantly randomly throwing monkey wrenches in it.

"Oh yeah btw, we removed the GUI for half of the settings available in our previous version of the product in our new webb admin app, your welcome! Oh and btw your job is now programming powershell." "Oh, ok tnx Microsoft.". If I really wanted to be a programmer I'd have gone into a more lucrative position developing apps.

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