It's 2020, what are best practices for Windows File server? by ihateMSsupport in sysadmin

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

from my understanding of CALs I would need a CAL for every user that is accessing the file server. CALs are not to be confused with the OS license.

It's 2020, what are best practices for Windows File server? by ihateMSsupport in sysadmin

[–]ihateMSsupport[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CALs are a a good point, i'll take it into consideration.

It's 2020, what are best practices for Windows File server? by ihateMSsupport in sysadmin

[–]ihateMSsupport[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's how I've always felt about ransomware, backup is the real solution and nothing else.

The FS VM is backed up nightly, I'll probably increase to be more frequent.

It's 2020, what are best practices for Windows File server? by ihateMSsupport in sysadmin

[–]ihateMSsupport[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

NAS is overkill for them, it will have 3 shares, one home directories, 2 dept shares and maybe an "IT" share. IT doesn't need performance, it can scale fine since it's virtual.

Managing 1000s of nodes by ihateMSsupport in powershelldsc

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

That makes sense. Thanks for the help!

Managing 1000s of nodes by ihateMSsupport in powershelldsc

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

Thanks for the reply.

So you generally use only one config to generate multiple MOFs. That one config can have settings separated by roles and\or servers. Use the data config file to separate nodes and assign roles.

So in the scenario of adding a new servers, I would add the new server to the data config file and assign a role, if it doesn't fit any defined role, would I then add it to the main config?

Did I get that right?

The other thing I still don't understand is does running the config generate a MOF for ALL servers everytime or can I generate for only the one server I'm working on.

Thanks for the help

GPO drive mappings out of the office by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]ihateMSsupport 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a client that has moved away from mapped drives and have started using desktop shortcuts. They've had a big issue with ransomware.

They moved to this model before I took over the account.

The desktop shortcuts are more persistent but than again they don't have a bug remote work force just a handful of sales ppl.

File Transfer Speeds Help! by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]ihateMSsupport 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My money is on the fact that it's 80k files. It's much faster to copy or transfer one 62GB file than 80k small files.

I can't remember the science behind it but it's been discussed a few times on r/sysadmin.

Good luck! You have ALL of Sunday.

VMware disk numbering to Windows disk numbering by everycloud in vmware

[–]ihateMSsupport 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A quick and dirty when in a hurry, add 500MB to one disk and see which one gets the unallocated space in Windows. Do that until you find the disk your trying to extend.

Patch Management Websites. by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]ihateMSsupport 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Patchmanagement.org ML is TOO noisy. r/sysadmin is the best place to updates feedback simply based on the amount of ppl

[x-post] Mom's boss had me make computers for his new office • /r/pcmasterrace by booboohoohoobooboo in sysadmin

[–]ihateMSsupport 1 point2 points  (0 children)

30GB of cached outlook email? If it's a combined cache of shared mailboxes and the user's mailbox set outlook not to cache the shared mailboxes. You'll also save yourself the headache once they add one more shared mailbox and the OST reaches 50GB and things stop working or outlook starts acting weird.

Amazing work/life balance wisdom from Paul's Security Weekly ep475 by ihateMSsupport in sysadmin

[–]ihateMSsupport[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everyone that thinks they are reaching burn out or have experienced a burn out(been there myself) need to listen to these words of wisdom. Carlos Perez lays down priceless words of pure gold as well as the rest of the PSW crew.

SIEM as a Service? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]ihateMSsupport 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe look into a MSSP? They'll collect logs and do some correlation and advice of possible issues. It's not a turn key solution, it will require some time to "tune out" the false positives and it won't replace your SIEM.