Patrick Farrell

2 weeks ago | community.spiceworks.com | Patrick Farrell

itbymiket (ITByMikeT) June 9, 2025, 5:17pm 1 Does anyone know if there’s a different version of the LAPS Fat Client to view Windows LAPS passwords? I’ve installed the one with what I believe is the latest install for LAPS, but it doesn’t pull the same password that AD has if I go to the LAPS tab of a computer. For now we have to retrieve the password from the LAPS tab in AD or with PowerShell.

2 weeks ago | community.spiceworks.com | Patrick Farrell

featured, best-practices, general-hardware, question Stark (Stark) June 9, 2025, 2:53pm 21 Laptops are selected based on the department the user is in. But are generally standardized. We dock all laptops with 2 x 27" Displays so if the laptop display is too small for some users they just close it and use the full sized monitors. We have the managers on board to the process, and we do the same as what @Jay-Updegrove saidTheir job dictated what they got.

2 weeks ago | community.spiceworks.com | Patrick Farrell

PatrickFarrell (PatrickFarrell) June 9, 2025, 2:24am 1 A friendly reminder, no matter who asks, no matter how much they complain, do not port forward to your NVR/DVR. Make them use a VPN to access it. BleepingComputer New Mirai botnet infect TBK DVR devices via command injection flaw A new variant of the Mirai malware botnet is exploiting a command injection vulnerability in TBK DVR-4104 and DVR-4216 digital video recording devices to hijack them.

2 weeks ago | community.spiceworks.com | Patrick Farrell

spiceuser-b39l (spiceuser-b39l) June 8, 2025, 6:08pm 1 Hi community, I am a junior network administrator. I want your help. My company is designing a new network structure for CCTV cameras in a 20000-meter square yard. I have planned to have 5 more additional IDFs along with the MDF to cover all the CCTV cameras. My question is what should be the backbone cabling for 1 MDF and 5 IDF?

3 weeks ago | community.spiceworks.com | Patrick Farrell

seanmcg182 (seanmcg182) June 8, 2025, 11:29am 1 I’ve been scouring the web for hours readin every post I could find… So if this has been asked before, and I missed the answer I apologize in advance… Long story short, I have a HP2920 that I am planning on using as the entry point to my network, before going to a redundant OPNSense configuration… My main issue lies in that the ISP is only providing me one DHCP’d IP Address, and for CARP in OPNSense, I need 3 IPs. My “Goal” is to take the...