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Produkey parameters

March 10, 2020, 8:06 am
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I'm trying to find out if there are any parameters that will let you run Produkey.exe and only get the Windows Version Key.

As it stands, the script I'm aware of creates two lines in my file, one for the Windows Installation Key that includes the machine name, the other is the BIOS key.

ProduKey.exe /IEKeys 0 /OfficeKeys 0 /WindowsKeys 1 /scomma >> export.txt

The only other thing I can think of is to sort by a column I know the bios key doesn't normally fill, then I can ignore the rest of the data.

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Consolidating Microsoft accounts

March 10, 2020, 8:14 am
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We appear to have 16 logins for various Microsoft accounts all under different domains (live.com, microsoft.com, microsoftonline.com, skype.com) but all which seem to share passwords! and are a nightmare to manage which we are trying to tidy up.

We are an MSP specialising in Linux so technical but not Microsoft users at all and for some reason we are really struggling with this.

We only use these logins for Azure, Skype, SNDS and Teams.

We're happy to just create new accounts but even that is throwing up errors as "domains are registered elsewhere".

Are there any good tools for getting a handle on this?

Thank you in advance
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Have you had to adjust your VPN usage due to Coronavirus fears?

March 10, 2020, 8:22 am
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Back in February, there was a topic out in the Community about “Coronavirus and IT”, and I was left fascinated with all your predictions.

Since there has been an obvious change in the spread of the Coronavirus since that topic was started, I’ve also been seeing a boost of articles on “remote working”, “how to stay productive while working from home”, etc.

With more remote workers, comes the bigger need for VPN tools to keep things running. In fact, it seems to have been giving the VPN industry new life! I’m curious on whether you’ve had to make adjustments to your VPN usage to host more remote workers on your network.

Have you had to adjust your VPN usage due to Coronavirus fears?

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Not able to view free/busy after Migration to Exchange 2016 from 2010

March 10, 2020, 8:33 am
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Hi all. I'm at wit's end here and desperately hoping somebody can help. I am in the midst of a migration to Exchange 2016 from 2010. This is a small customer...about 18 users. I have all the mailboxes moved to the new server. That went off without a hitch. The only thing on the 2010 server are the public folders, which is another "fun" portion of the project I am dealing with (but that's a different topic). So mail delivery is good, I have no Outlook autodiscover issues internally or externally. I'm in a good place mostly EXCEPT for calendar issues. None of the users can view free/busy for the other users. This information CAN be viewed using OWA, but cannot be viewed in Outlook either by internal or external users. When I try to view this information or open up another calendar it shows as "no connection" next to the user's name.

My...

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Suggestions Malware Removal Tools for Enterprise Computers.

March 10, 2020, 8:35 am
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Hello,

 We currently use the Barracuda Malware Removal Tool, we're looking to replace it. I need some help in identifying a good Malware removal tool for mid size business. 

Thanks in advance.

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Spark! Pro Series - March 10 2020

March 10, 2020, 8:35 am
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Today in History:1945

American B-29 bombers attack Tokyo, killing 100,000.

The Funnies:

On the Menu: Chicken and Waffle Sandwiches

Hi All! Just got in from a quick road trip this AM (Little 190 mile jaunt), sorry for the delay, but here's your lunch/breakfast combo- Chicken and Waffles!

Ingredients

Chicken:
  • 4 chicken breasts pounded 1/4 inch thin
  • 2 cups buttermilk
  • 1 tablespoon paprika
  • 1 tablespoon kosher salt
  • 1 tablespoon pepper
Dredging:
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon paprika
  • 1 tablespoon kosher salt
  • 1 tablespoon ground pepper
  • 1 quart vegetable oil (for frying chicken)
Waffles:
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 3 large eggs
  • 2 cups milk
  • 4 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 drizzle of maple syrup (per sandwich)
  • 1 dab butter (per sandwich)
  • 1 dusting powdered sugar (per sandwich)

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O365 Exchange Online retention policy to exclude Notes

March 10, 2020, 8:36 am
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Our company wants to deploy a retention policy to permanent delete all emails older than 6 years and exclude Notes and Calendar items.   I setup 3 retention tags - 1 default, permanent delete 2192 days.  2 Calendar no delete, unlimited 3 Notes no delete, unlimited.   But the Notes items were still deleted.  How would I fix this?




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Updated from 12.04 to 12.05.0.6698 after uninstalling JRE

March 10, 2020, 8:40 am
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The Power Alert Local (PAL) user guide states that "The latest version of PAL has a self-contained, compatible version of Java Runtime Environment (JRE), which allows it to operate independent of any other JRE version installed on the computer."

We had uninstalled the Oracle JRE prior to upgrading from 12.04 to 12.05.0.6698. After the upgrade the PAL console will not start as it is looking for Java (Windows can't open this type of file (.jar).

What needs to be done so that PAL recognizes its own "self-contained... JRE" now that Oracle is no longer installed?

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Windows XP Machine can no longer open files on DFS Share

March 10, 2020, 8:43 am
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Hi All,

just had a call from a user who uses Windows XP in a VM (I know dont ask).

Previously he had a drive mapped to a DFS hosted share \\mydomain.com\dfs-engineering\someshare

Now when he tries to open the mapped drive he gets an error.

The actual share is located on a Windows Server 2012R2 file share, though the DFS is provided by 2 2019 servers... whereas previously it was provided by 2 2012r2 servers.

As this VM is so rarely used I don't know when the problem started.

I can browse to the DFS folder target no problem from Windows 10 machines so I'm assuming there's some Windows XP issue here.

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Tape Storage?

March 10, 2020, 8:44 am
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Hi: I've been using Backup exec for about 6 years now.   I use an HP ultrium tapes. I backup 7 servers. (about 15 TB of data) do a full every week, and incremental every day.  I sent the tapes to offsite storage.

I want to change all of this, and I was wondering what's new on the market.. I heard cloud backup could be very very expensive...

Our servers are located in our facility, but we also have an office that is about an hour from here.  I was thinking about purchasing some NAS and backup via internet downthere...  but I might keep or purchase a new tape solution also..

what are your recommendations for this?  thanks!

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Exlaimer Email Archiver: Are any Spiceheads currently using this?

March 10, 2020, 8:47 am
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One of my previous employers previously used the Exclaimer Signature program but I don’t know anyone currently using the Email Archiver Program.

My current employer need to archive large amount of emails with the original attachments still in place. This is for legal and contractual reasons and not just end users being too lazy to tidy up their mail boxes.

Exclaimer Archiver seems like an interesting option but I can find little information from a system admin perspective on their website.

Can anyone advise me how easy is to set up on a server, what sort of compression ration it uses and what the minimum server requirements are.

At the moment we are going through a reorganisation and I don’t how our Exchange environment will look in the next year and a bit so it would be useful if anyone has migrated an on premise (albeit in a data...

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DFS problem

March 10, 2020, 8:50 am
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I currently have a DFS namespace with two file servers underneath it. FS01 manages the namespace, but some shares are located on FS02. I had an empty share folder that I set up previously on FS01 but I've now decided that I want it on FS02 instead. I thought I had the folder completely removed from the namespace, but when I go to recreate the DFS target to FS02, it gives me an error stating that the file already exists. I've tried recreating the folder first on FS02 and then linking the share to it, I've also tried creating it at the same time I recreate the DFS folder. I've also unshared the folder and deleted it before I tried re-creating it. Still getting the same result. Is this being cached somewhere? If so, how do I remove it? Or should I just wait it out? Thanks for any help you can give.

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application error in portal

March 10, 2020, 8:55 am
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We get an application error message when our users try to check the status of their open tickets through the ticket link in the user portal. (From the Portal Designer, it's the feature under Manage Content / Open Tickets).  I've tried restarting the application like the message suggests, but that didn't fix the problem. We've been using spiceworks for several years without using the portal, but are now wanting our users to use the portal to check on the status of their tickets. Has anyone else had this issue?  Any suggestions on how to fix it?
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Snap! Australia sues FB, AMD vulnerability, Uber testing in SF, asteroid fly-by

March 10, 2020, 8:57 am
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Your daily dose of tech news, in brief.

You need to hear this.

Australian government sues Facebook for $529B

The Australian government is suing Facebook because they said the Cambridge Analytica scandal, despite happening some time ago, violated the country's privacy laws.

According to Mashable:

"According to the suit filed to the Australian Federal Court on Monday, Facebook violated the privacy of approximately 311,127 Australians by disclosing their personal information to the This is Your Digital Life app between March 2014 and May 2015. The developers of the app sold personal information to Cambridge Analytica, which used it for political profiling.

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner alleges that Facebook 'failed to take reasonable steps to protect those individuals’ personal information from unauthorised...

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Where the **$# is the IP Scanner tool?

March 10, 2020, 9:00 am
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Getting really frustrated trying to find the IP scanner tool that can be downloaded and uploads findings to cloud based spiceworks.

All the pages that talk about it link back to the inventory page in our cloud based dashboard. Nowhere can I find a link for downloading the ip scanner tool to my local computer so it can scan our network. 

The links just send us around and around in circles, with none of them pointing to the download!

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Determine what RAID device a set of disks were made with

March 10, 2020, 9:00 am
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We are going through our old disks running DBAN before recycling them and I've come across a set of disks that appear to have been in a RAID 1 configuration.  They are in a generic drive mount that's been removed from the tower. This tower could have held any kind of motherboard with built in RAID or PCI RAID. Obviously whatever is on the drives is not important but I'm still curious to see what's on there.

I've plugged them in via USB SATA, directly to a computer via onboard SATA, and to an ESATA adapter.  Drives just show up in Diskpart as offline with no free space.  

Does anyone know of a way to determine what RAID device was used to create an array?  Or maybe a software method to examine the contents of a drive?

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Issues with WSUS on Windows Server 2016

March 10, 2020, 9:04 am
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For the past few months I've been having a hard time with WSUS on my Windows Server 2016 machine. When it works, it works...but if I need to change a setting, or cleanup the database, or decline old updates, really anything beyond approving new updates it just dies. And the only way I've been able to bring it back to life is to use my computer backup software and recover the machine to before it broke. I'm hoping that someone with much more know how on WSUS can help me diagnose and fix this thing, it would really make my life a lot easier and I'd appreciate that. Haha

When WSUS breaks, this is typically always the error log it spits out at me.

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The WSUS administration console was unable to connect to the WSUS Server Database. Verify that SQL server is running on the WSUS Server. If the problem persists, try restarting SQL....
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Testimonial Tuesday

March 10, 2020, 9:50 am
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Happy #TestimonialTuesday! Check out this fantastic review from Neal Juern, CEO of Juern Technology. We value your feedback. Thank you, Neal!


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Another one...

March 10, 2020, 9:51 am
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It would appear that the Spiceworks app is now stalking me. (I just stayed at the Lubbock Hyatt about 2 or 3 weeks ago.)


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Mapping An External Hard Drive To The Cloud

March 10, 2020, 9:55 am
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Hello All!

I have two computers, one of the computers has an external hard drive. 

We use cloud software and also operate on the local disc. 

Is there any way to sync the external hard drive to the cloud, so on the computer that is not connected to the hard drive can access it through the cloud? 

We have mapped the hard drive through the network, however as we transfer files back and from the cloud we would really like to be able to work from the external hard drive.

Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated!

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