How about on any of the paperwork/booklets that came with the system(s)?
Note: I haven't worked with Dell hardware for quite some time...
Regards,
Don Guyer
Catholic Health East - Information Technology
Enterprise Directory Messaging Services
3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square,
There should be a Microsoft key on a sticker if OEM was ordered with it.
John W. Cook
Network Operations Manager
Partnership For Strong Families
5950 NW 1st Place
Gainesville, Fl 32607
Office (352) 244-1610
Cell (352) 215-6944
MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4
-Original
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Nigel Parker
nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk wrote:
Although the desktops have a bronze sticker on the back with the windows
flag and the words windows 8
I cant find a COA sticker with a key anywhere on the machine inside,
outside , top bottom
A unique,
Hi
No
no paperwork has a coa with it
Thanks
-Original Message-
From: Guyer, Don [mailto:dgu...@che.org]
Sent: 04 February 2013 13:02
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Dell windows 8 COA
How about on any of the paperwork/booklets that came with the system(s)?
Note: I haven't
The windows 8 PRO discs we get from MS as part of our enterprise agreement come
with their own product key. I've used one to do a clean install on a dell
ultrabook that came with windows 8 HOME. It automatically used the key embedded
in bios and installed as home, not pro.
Sent from my Windows
Hi
I think this may be the case
---
A unique, unit-specific code is embedded in the firmware (ACPI BIOS).
You don't get a Certificate of Authenticity or Product Ley.
Microsoft is encouraging their large OEMs (like Dell) to do this.
Toshiba laptop I just bought is the same way.
My wife's new Toshiba Win8 laptop has no COA sticker.
Thanks
Webster
-Original Message-
From: Nigel Parker [mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk]
Subject: Dell windows 8 COA
Hi
Just purchased a few Dell desktop machine with windows 8 And a server (dell
) with 2008 server
I am similar, I am fortunate that my SMB clients run similar hardware and
Hyper-V, and if my home server was powerful enough I wouldn't feel the need to
try and charge for it. I too shoot for consistency (ok, except anti-virus
vendors). I've been doing SMB support for 12 years now and also have
How about making sure the boss gets a workstation class machine as his desktop?
That way in the event of an incident (when the boss will be busy running around
doing other things) you can drop the drives in and reboot. This might only cost
a few £100 more when he next gets a new desktop.
I
congratulations! good work! :D
- mark
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:
Congrats, Z...
*ASB
**http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker*
**Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security)
for the SMB
I don't know that the key is embedded in the BIOS so much that the OS install
looks for some specific BIOS properties, I've been able to re-install via CD
across various Dell models (I can install XPSP3 on a machine that came with
XPSP2, for example).
Dave
From: Crawford, Scott
finally back in the office. Which 6.5 Citrix server should I install/run
the script on? I have ten servers, 2 web, 1 lic, 2 Data Collectors, 3 App
srv's, 2 FS srv's.
Todd Lemmiksoo
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote:
Updated Article: Where to Get Copies of
Have you started at the oldest snapshot and deleted (rather than consolidate)?
To delete each snapshot may take some time - perhaps hours!
From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 9:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMWare snapshot issue
Hi Folks,
Any XenApp one (which rules out WI and Licensing servers), but probably an
infrastructure (controller) server is best as it won't have users on
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-Original Message-
From: Todd Lemmiksoo tlemmik...@gmail.com
Script can be run on a collector or, by using remoting, a session-only host.
The remoting stuff is built-in to the XA65 PoSH stuff EXCEPT for the Group
Policy module.
Set-XADefaultComputerName XA65CollectorServerName
If you are going to use the V3 script, Word 2007 or 2010 or 2013 must be
They don't appear in snapshot manager. But I can select the consolidate
option. After an hour or so is when I get the input/output error.
From: Richard McClary [mailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 11:11 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMWare snapshot
Do you see the snapshots from PowerCLI?
DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
317.447.6033 (office)
317.447.6014 (fax)
HARRISON COLLEGE
From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 11:30 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMWare snapshot issue
They don't
This might be due to the fact that Windows 8 Enterprise is not a valid upgrade
from Home edition.
Tim
From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 8:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Dell windows 8 COA
The windows 8 PRO discs we get from MS as
I see them when I browse the datastore.
From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 11:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMWare snapshot issue
Do you see the snapshots from PowerCLI?
DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
317.447.6033 (office)
I've seen copy jobs break several times...but not robocopy jobs
The clue's in the nameROBust file COPY utility
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-Original Message-
From: David Lum david@nwea.org
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:53:44
To: NT
Each generation of Windows has used a more sophisticated way of seamlessly
installing on a branded machine. The setup process has always stopped at the
key setup part and queried the machine before moving on.
With XP it looked at the pre-installed key and then checked the BIOS had a tag
in it
I've never had any problems with it.
From: Tigran K tigr...@gmail.com
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 10:34 AM
Subject: Robocopy reliability
Having a discussion with the boss on how we should
Nice work!
From: Webster webs...@carlwebster.com
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 10:27 AM
Subject: RE: Where to get copies of my various documentation scripts
Script can be run on a
But that doesn't answer my question. You can't delete the snapshots by browsing
the datastore, but you can delete them via PowerCLI. This would allow you to
delete the snapshots one or two at a time to try and workaround the issue since
consolidate fails.
DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
If the network breaks, robocopy breaks.
If the hardware breaks, robocopy breaks.
I'd like to know one utility whether either of those are NOT true?
I don't know of ANYTHING that is more reliable than robocopy. What did he
suggest?
From: Tigran K [mailto:tigr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday,
It might not be a common choice, but if you want to upgrade a netbook/ultrabook
to Pro and then add it to your corporate fleet then you can put Enterprise on
it. With 7 this would sometimes fail at the BIOS check stage.
Mike
From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com]
Sent: 04 February
I've used it many times for file migration moves and even for permissions
copies. Just this past weekend I migrated a pretty complex old Windows 2008
server shared to Windows 2008 R2 this past weekend. I didn't copy permissions
since they were a mess.
The only errors I've seen were my own,
Have you tried moving the VM to a new datastore? I've found that helpful on
occasion when the VCenter isn't cooperating with a VM.
John W. Cook
Network Operations Manager
Partnership For Strong Families
5950 NW 1st Place
Gainesville, Fl 32607
Office (352) 244-1610
Cell (352) 215-6944
MCSE,
I had this happen when using a VDR (vmware data recovery) appliance. I
would have to shut down the VDR appliance, create a snapshot from vcenter,
then choose delete all snapshots. It would take a significant amount of
time, but it worked.
I've never had an issue with the reliability of RoboCopy. I have used
ScriptLogic's Secure Copy, which I believe is now a Dell product through
the Quest acquisition. Great, product, but I wouldn't say it was more
reliable, just easier to use and had a few specific features that we
liked. One
It's not an enterprise disc. It's the pro discs for work-at-home rights. My
point is there's never a prompt to use the key that comes with the disc. It
just uses the one built into the bios and licenses the OS accordingly. It was
basically a response to Ben's question about a clean install.
I have never had a problem with Robocopy. It did exactly what I told it to do
and gave me detailed information on what it did. I could not ask for more from
a command line copy utility.
I'm sensing that your Boss has a bias, perhaps due to a bad experience he had
previously. If so, what does
+1
In fact just this morning I expanded it's use here automating the deletion of
videos from a security camera share.
From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 12:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Robocopy reliability
The only errors I've seen
So his reliability comment was directed more toward robocopy utility
itself. Eluding to the fact that he's seen robocopy copy files that turned
out to be not the same as the original.
We're not doing anything complex. We want to copy some files from source
control and catch deleted files at the
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:45 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
I don’t know that the key is embedded in the BIOS so much that the OS
install looks for some specific BIOS properties, I’ve been able to
re-install via CD across various Dell models (I can install XPSP3 on a
machine that came
Thanks for the quick servery.
My experience with robocopy has been positive as well.
--T
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
---
To manage subscriptions click here:
He was saying we should use just plain old copy.
-T
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Matthew W. Ross
mr...@ephrataschools.orgwrote:
I have never had a problem with Robocopy. It did exactly what I told it to
do and gave me detailed information on what it did. I could not ask for
more from a
Alluding, but I digress :)
I believe he is misinformed. I have *never* seen that. Sounds more like
something he heard through a grapevine vs. experienced directly. I'd wager if
pressed for details on this opinion he will be short on specifics.
Don't trust pneumatic tires, they all leak, I know
*snerk*
Did you point out that the robo in robocopy was short for robust and that it
was made and named so because of shortcomings in copy? :)
Ask if he'd prefer xcopy. ;)
DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
317.447.6033 (office)
317.447.6014 (fax)
HARRISON COLLEGE
From: Tigran K
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Tigran K tigr...@gmail.com wrote:
Having a discussion with the boss on how we should do something I suggested
robocopy. His reply was a strict NO. Reasoning was that it's not reliable.
He said I've seen it break.
So my question is have you seen it break? Is
Definitely not as reliable as robocopy, in my experience.
Kurt
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Tigran K tigr...@gmail.com wrote:
He was saying we should use just plain old copy.
-T
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org
wrote:
I have never had a
Something like that… I forget anymore…
And hell Kurt you probably know more than I will ever be able to fit in my
brain…
Z
Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network +
Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
ezi...@lifespan.org
This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged
Good one I am sure they will bypass the protections in this version within the
week, I will just wait for the Post from the Polish Team on Bugtraq.
Z
Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network +
Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
ezi...@lifespan.org
This electronic message and any
Fail.
From: Tigran K [mailto:tigr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 10:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Robocopy reliability
He was saying we should use just plain old copy.
-T
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Matthew W. Ross
Thanks all, on to the next episode :) or Certification.
Z
Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network +
Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
ezi...@lifespan.org
This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential
and protected from disclosure. If you are reading
Yeah I have to agree, never had a problem with Robocopy and the mirror command
or any of the switches and done terabytes of data copies with this utility.
Z
Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network +
Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
ezi...@lifespan.org
This electronic message and any
I have used XXCOPY for the few customers who still think Robocopy is an
unsupported MS utility.
http://xxcopy.com/
XXCOPY is actively updated and maintained and also has at less 10 quadzillion
command line parameters.
Thanks
Webster
From: Tigran K [mailto:tigr...@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:
Copy command failures are the reason we started using robocopy circa about 2002
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-Original Message-
From: Tigran K tigr...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 10:49:09
To: NT System Admin
Damien I didn't but I should have. I will if the conversation comes up
again.
--T
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu
wrote:
**snerk**
Did you point out that the robo in robocopy was short for robust and that
it was made and named so because of
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Jon D rekcahp...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a VPN newb and I know this is probably a dumb question, but I don't know
the answer.
If I'm on Network A and I connect to a VPN so that I can see the inside of
another network Network B.
Can 'Network B' people see anything
Congratulations!
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote:
Just got the official email that I passed my CISA exam, so I guess
another Certification on the title and looking forward to the auditing work
that comes with it.
** **
Z
** **
Edward
Flattery will get you a recommendation on LinkedIn...
:)
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote:
Something like that… I forget anymore…
** **
And hell Kurt you probably know more than I will ever be able to fit in my
brain…
** **
Z
**
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Jon D rekcahp...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a VPN newb and I know this is probably a dumb question, but I don't know
the answer.
If I'm on Network A and I connect to a VPN so that I can see the inside of
another network Network B.
Can 'Network B' people see anything
Robocopy is great, but Syncback might be worth a look in this case
also. IIRC it can perform md5/sha1/etc. file consistency checks after
a copy, retry, etc., and is easy to configure.
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Definitely not as reliable as robocopy, in
BTW - you might point out to him that robocopy is native to Windows
since Vista/2k8.
Kurt
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Tigran K tigr...@gmail.com wrote:
Having a discussion with the boss on how we should do something I suggested
robocopy. His reply was a strict NO. Reasoning was that it's
Syncback looks interesting. Thanks
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Steve Kradel skra...@zetetic.net wrote:
Robocopy is great, but Syncback might be worth a look in this case
also. IIRC it can perform md5/sha1/etc. file consistency checks after
a copy, retry, etc., and is easy to configure.
Can you tell me the commands off-hand? I'm fairly new to VMWare and am still
learning.
From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 12:06 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMWare snapshot issue
But that doesn't answer my question. You can't
Sure; once you've fired up PowerCLI you'll need to connect to vCenter:
Connect-VIServer -server VCENTER_NAME_HERE
Now get the list of snapshots for the VM:
Get-Snapshot -VM VM_NAME_HERE
DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
317.447.6033 (office)
317.447.6014 (fax)
HARRISON COLLEGE
From: Tom Miller
Another option I have used.
Do a V2V using the VMware converter. You now have a new machine that
includes all of the information. Then delete the old machine including the
snapshots. After, of course verifying the new machine functionality.
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Tom Miller
Thanks for the info ASB, good reading.
Z
Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network +
Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
ezi...@lifespan.org
This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential
and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, but
Would be tough to verify terabytes of data didn't have any errors ;)
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 1:23 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Robocopy reliability
Yeah I have to agree, never had a problem with Robocopy and the mirror command
I thought you had bat for that.
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 2:27 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Robocopy reliability
Not nearly as flexible.
Try to use COPY to copy only the new files of a multi GB/TB share...
ASB
And I think I need to trademark your new slogan: There's a bat for that.
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 2:27 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Robocopy reliability
Not nearly as flexible.
Try to use COPY to copy only the new files of a
There is a switch for that.
From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 5:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Robocopy reliability
Would be tough to verify terabytes of data didn't have any errors ;)
From: Ziots, Edward
That's why I always sell Dell Pro Support. If their business is critical, 5
Years of 2 or 4 hour 7x24 Onsite Service. If the server is older than 5 years,
replace it.
Let Dell carry the risk of their hardware.
Michael Walker
Senior Network Engineer
Citrus Valley Health Partners
1115 S.
You are new around here aren't you? :)
He's been saying that since at least 1998 or 1999...
From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 5:06 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Robocopy reliability
And I think I need to trademark your new slogan:
Firefox now requires you to click to play any plugin (save Flash, and only if
it's the most up-to-date version):
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414931,00.asp
I don't know if this feature has shown up in any of the ESR versions of FF yet.
--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District
-
Try removing the Users group from Shut down the system policy at:
Computer Configuration | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Local Policies
| User Rights Assignments
[cid:image001.png@01CE02E9.87DA76C0]
Note that this is the default on servers, so this policy has been tested and
Tough? No, if you know powershell, or can do some shell scripting.
Tedious? Oh, yes.
Powershell can calculate md5/sha1 hashes, and for batch files, md5sum.exe
and sha1sum.exe exist.
Something like this:
for /f in (dir /s /b g:\) do md5sum %i c:\batchfiles\output\out.txt
would get you
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
for /f in (dir /s /b g:\) do md5sum %i c:\batchfiles\output\out.txt
diff -qr c:\one n:\two
-- Ben
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~
Oh, gack.
That's what I get for doing this off the top of my head...
This is still off the top of my head, but this actually has a chance of
working:
for /f %i in (dir /s /b g:\) do md5sum %i
c:\batchfiles\output\out.txt
And this might be even cooler:
for /f in (robocopy
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Matthew W. Ross
mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote:
Firefox now requires you to click to play any plugin (save Flash, and only
if it's the most up-to-date version):
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414931,00.asp
I don't know if this feature has shown up in
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
for /f in (dir /s /b g:\) do md5sum %i c:\batchfiles\output\out.txt
diff -qr c:\one n:\two
Interesting.
Doing that against the hash lists, or the
This has worked for us when NetBackup has messed up the snapshots,
sometimes need to do it a couple of times.
There is a cmd line to run on the host that will clone the disks while
applying the snapshot, but I'm not at work at the minute. 23:30 here. I'll
dig them out tomorrow.
T
On Feb 4, 2013
There's a lot of chatter on the Mozilla Enterprise mailing list about
this stuff right now.
-- Ben
Ooh, another list to check out... Thanks Ben.
--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District
- Original Message -
From: Ben Scott
[mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
To: NT System Admin Issues
Really? I musta missed it then. Of course, I've always known there was a bat.
I just never heard it stated like that.
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 4:31 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Robocopy reliability
You are new around
LOL
*ASB
**http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker*
**Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for
the SMB market…***
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.eduwrote:
And I think I need to trademark your new
Indeed®
*ASB
**http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker*
**Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for
the SMB market…***
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote:
You are new around here aren’t you?
Was kidding more than anything, but to take it to a slightly more serious
level, you'd need a different utility to check the work of the first. If you
don't trust robocopy to accurately copy files, why would you trust it to verify
itself? Ideally, you'd want a different OS to do the verifying.
I meant that uses only COPY as stated in your challenge :)
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 5:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Robocopy reliability
Yes, I do -- several, in fact.
A few use XCOPY, but most use ROBOCOPY, and a few let
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Matthew W. Ross
mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote:
There's a lot of chatter on the Mozilla Enterprise mailing list about
this stuff right now.
Ooh, another list to check out...
https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise
:-)
Thanks Ben.
You're welcome.
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
diff -qr c:\one n:\two
Doing that against the hash lists, or the directory tree directly?
Against the directory trees directly.
Doesn't work if you don't have access to both trees at the same time
on the same machine,
Might as well keep it native ☺ Correct the drive letters on the second line if
needed.
for /f delims=* %i in ('dir /s/b') do echo %~pi%~ni%~xi files.txt
for /f delims=* %i in (files.txt) do fc C:%i G:%i
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 5:25 PM
To: NT
Congrats Z :)From: "Ziots, Edward" ezi...@lifespan.org To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 1:54 PM Subject: On a
lighter note for a Friday, Passed my CISA exam
Just got the official email that I passed my CISA exam,
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