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Sometimes I've been scratching my head over that command only to realise that I forgot to move the newly connected computer into the OU that has the WSUS GPO attached... Those tend to highlight a need for more caffeine.
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Fenrisulfr posted:It's supposed to. The fun is when it doesn't and trying to figure out why! When I first updated our WSUS to 2008 R2 I had 4 or 5 servers and 30-40 computers fail to get updates or even connect for a half dozen different reasons. The best one was probably where ~20 computers had the Automatic Updates service disabled. Still haven't figured out who did that or why. Good times. That is why you use group policy more effectively to ensure all the essential services are on and stay on. Even if these users get local admin, turning off the service will simply mean it will get turned back on again during a policy refresh. Some features will be totally grayed out even to other admins if group policy enabled for that feature.
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Aug 21, 2013 23:18
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Call came in to fix a backup. Windows Server Backup can't shrink the shadow copy size anymore, and it doesn't delete backups. I've formatted the disk and got the program to recognise it was a "fresh" disk, but it's still erroring. Does anyone have any ideas? The backup is smaller than the size of the disk by a good amount (720ish GB to a 1TB disk) - Not sure if the shadow copy portion is an issue. I added the disk via its GUID, so removing it completely is a problem I think.
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Aug 21, 2013 23:27
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Fenrisulfr posted:It's supposed to. The fun is when it doesn't and trying to figure out why! When I first updated our WSUS to 2008 R2 I had 4 or 5 servers and 30-40 computers fail to get updates or even connect for a half dozen different reasons. The best one was probably where ~20 computers had the Automatic Updates service disabled. Still haven't figured out who did that or why. Good times. Isn't there a way to force a check and installation of updates using VBscript? You should be able to force an update remotely. EDIT: Here's one on MSDN. I think you can even run a script like this remotely, so you can push the command/script to all of the servers at once and just let them do their thing. capitalcomma fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Aug 21, 2013 |
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Aug 21, 2013 23:30
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Sickening posted:That is why you use group policy more effectively to ensure all the essential services are on and stay on. Even if these users get local admin, turning off the service will simply mean it will get turned back on again during a policy refresh. Some features will be totally grayed out even to other admins if group policy enabled for that feature. Man I'd love to do stuff like that, but unfortunately my boss signed away our ability to manage our own GPOs just after I started. We can ask the company that now manages it to do it of course, but it's something like $150/hour for simple stuff (usually multiple hours because of testing and whatnot, of course), and like $300-500/hour for anything complex. Admittedly I also don't know GPO basically at all so I didn't know that was possible (and I now have no motivation to learn it except for my own edification), and my boss is usually pretty chill with costs less than a few thousand, but it still means I have to know what to ask for and get approval from the higher-ups before anything like this can happen. Also, of course all of our users (and for a time, hundreds or thousands of other users also hosted by the aforementioned company) have local admin on all of our computers, including until recently our servers. I'm fairly sure it was either my co-worker or my boss that did it for some reason, but if they did neither can remember it/won't admit to it.
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Aug 21, 2013 23:31
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Sounder posted:Isn't there a way to force a check and installation of updates using VBscript? You should be able to force an update remotely. http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/2d191bcd-3308-4edd-9de2-88dff796b0bc PowerShell required but why don't you have it installed anyway, if it's not installed? It's a windows update for 2003 I believe.
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Aug 21, 2013 23:46
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Sirotan posted:I just did this to a Dell GX280 and GX620 and will be delivering it to one of our sites in an hour. Win 7 32bit installed, 2gb of RAM. That's the status quo in Sirotan land.   We aren't "allowed" to put Win 7 on anything lower than a 760. I've got 150 GX280s and 200 520s. With no refresh in sight. Now I've got a client app that will not run under XP so half of our agents can't troubleshoot specific customers. "Our other centers don't have this issue. You need to find out why they work." Uh, they're 100% Win7?
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Aug 21, 2013 23:50
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For those of you having issues with Lync/Office 365, do you use Microsoft's servers for everything or run your own ADFS stuff for authentication? We do the latter and I haven't noticed any outages to Lync (or maybe it just hasn't affected the Asia-Pacific region).
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Aug 22, 2013 00:02
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Fenrisulfr posted:Man I'd love to do stuff like that, but unfortunately my boss signed away our ability to manage our own GPOs just after I started. We can ask the company that now manages it to do it of course, but it's something like $150/hour for simple stuff (usually multiple hours because of testing and whatnot, of course), and like $300-500/hour for anything complex. Admittedly I also don't know GPO basically at all so I didn't know that was possible (and I now have no motivation to learn it except for my own edification), and my boss is usually pretty chill with costs less than a few thousand, but it still means I have to know what to ask for and get approval from the higher-ups before anything like this can happen. Wait, it sounds like you're a Sysadmin. Why would the Sysadmins not be able to handle GPOS? That seems like a ridiculous slice to contract out.
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Aug 22, 2013 00:05
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Inspector_71 posted:Wait, it sounds like you're a Sysadmin. Why would the Sysadmins not be able to handle GPOS? That seems like a ridiculous slice to contract out. Yeah, for a Windows sysadmin I would think that GPOs would be most of your day. It is like being a Linux sysadmin and not using bash.
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Aug 22, 2013 00:10
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Fenrisulfr posted:Man I'd love to do stuff like that, but unfortunately my boss signed away our ability to manage our own GPOs just after I started. We can ask the company that now manages it to do it of course, but it's something like $150/hour for simple stuff (usually multiple hours because of testing and whatnot, of course), and like $300-500/hour for anything complex. Admittedly I also don't know GPO basically at all so I didn't know that was possible (and I now have no motivation to learn it except for my own edification), and my boss is usually pretty chill with costs less than a few thousand, but it still means I have to know what to ask for and get approval from the higher-ups before anything like this can happen. this entire paragraph brought me out in a cold sweat
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Aug 22, 2013 00:22
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xThrasheRx posted:No idea why the hell its standard to have those silly holes, almost all balconys have them here, potential draining from water or something? Yes, exactly. If the water can't go over the side of the balcony, then it goes into your house. You really don't want that. As for beer, all the beers I like are pretty expensive, though at least beer prices in general in Georgia are decent. Luckily I usually only drink a couple beers a week, so I ain't gonna go broke indulging in the good stuff. 
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Aug 22, 2013 00:27
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Got babby's first "Do the necessary" today from a customer. Sure it's not needful, but I'm counting it!
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Aug 22, 2013 00:48
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Two today! Client sends in some logs. I guess they think letting us know the exact IPs of machines is a security risk, so they edited the logs: quote:srcip: 172.28.xx.xx srcport: 50618 drat! How will I hack their machines now!?
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Aug 22, 2013 01:03
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Inspector_71 posted:Wait, it sounds like you're a Sysadmin. Why would the Sysadmins not be able to handle GPOS? That seems like a ridiculous slice to contract out. My job is kinda weird. I work for a small business, about a hundred users, so I'm a sysadmin, but I'm also a DBA, helpdesk, etc. Before I was hired, there was basically just 1 guy doing IT (his and now my boss would do stuff like reset passwords or whatever, but most of his time was spent doing manager-type things), so they had a contract with a 3rd-party IT company that handles our type of business pretty much exclusively. They also do product testing and higher-level support, as well as hosting and management of various services including Active Directory/Group Policy since quite a few of the companies they manage are too small to have any dedicated IT staff at all. Since my coworker had neither the knowledge of nor the time to learn AD and GPOs more advanced than creating users and setting up WSUS and share mappings (don't get me wrong, the guy's decent at his job, but he's been doing the same job for 10 years and has no desire to advance or move on) and it didn't look like my boss was ever going to get permission to hire another person, he decided that they'd be better off with a managed domain. Then he was told basically out of nowhere that he could hire someone, and as far as I know I was basically the only applicant (small town, small business IT for not a lot of pay) and I had no prior experience that wasn't messing around with my own stuff; by the time I was hired the ink was already drying on the contract and the fact that I'd have to learn AD and GPO to be useful (which I had already started doing and would have gladly taken responsibility for) wasn't enough to change the decision. But yeah, we're kind of neutered Windows sysadmins here since that changeover. I can do pretty much whatever I want in AD within our OU, at least, but GPOs, Exchange, DNS, that's all third-party managed. All in all despite the various things about it, I do like the job. I'm learning a ton of stuff (not about GPO, obviously ) and I've already talked my boss into talking his bosses into paying for some certifications, starting with A+ and N+ and then probably some Microsoft ones (still hoping I can talk them into paying for a CCNA, despite us not using any Cisco gear other than our routers which I have no access to or control over, since, again, we pay that other company to take care of it).edit: Urit posted:http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/2d191bcd-3308-4edd-9de2-88dff796b0bc Whoops, meant to comment on this: this is awesome, thanks! Dunno why this never turned up on any of my various searches. Yeah, I love Powershell, I've got it installed on every machine I do any kind of regular work on. Fenrisulfr fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Aug 22, 2013 |
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Aug 22, 2013 01:45
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Boss wanted me to use Norton Ghost on our linux server today. I spent drat near two hours messing with it before I threw the disk out the window and used a partimage livecd and had a backup in less than a hour. Thanks Norton for loving up your only good product! 
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Aug 22, 2013 01:51
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The question is, why drink Bud when there are better domestic options like Sleeman's or Moosehead for about the same price? (I live in Guelph, I may be biased on the Sleeman beer)
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Aug 22, 2013 02:01
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Sage Grimm posted:The question is, why drink Bud when there are better domestic options like Sleeman's or Moosehead for about the same price? Those are awful too! Muskoka and Beau's seasonal beers are both way better.
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Aug 22, 2013 03:19
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Those are awful too! Muskoka and Beau's seasonal beers are both way better. If you ever come to the Ottawa area, take the Beau's brewery tour because it's awesome.
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Aug 22, 2013 03:54
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We've been having circuit issues at a location for awhile now, and we've sent new equipment, reseated cables, changed the ports heading back to the demarc, changed cables going from the walljack to the NIU, no change. I even drove down with different equipment, no change. So we are finally to the point where people who work for ATT and are actually physically in the US have are involved. They have a engineer driving up from San Francisco to Boise to work on this now. I was on the phone with the guy arranging this, and he recommends sending new equipment and maybe opening a case with Juniper, as they are convinced its us. I remind him that we've sent all kinds of new equipment down and he was surprised, apparently the original tech didn't write that down. We could have shaved a good week or more off this if that had happened. The big mystery to all this is why we can't have the LEC do something like drive over and hookup a tester. Its their circuit, and more importantly, they are actually local. Or why the T1 is regroomed or moved to another pair, so many mysteries. I can't decide if that makes me want to drink, or dealing with video conference systems, or dealing with Java being poo poo.
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Aug 22, 2013 04:23
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Sab669 posted:Where the hell do you pay more than $3 for a beer My bottled drink of choice is $9 for 4, but it's worth every penny. I do have a $10 for 6 that I go to for an easy drinking beer though. I'm still in my tasting phase though. I'm a little worried that Old Rasputin is going to spoil me, the stuff I used to drink just tastes like water now.
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Aug 22, 2013 04:28
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JohnnyCanuck posted:If you ever come to the Ottawa area, take the Beau's brewery tour because it's awesome. I live there and have and yes! Beyond The Pale's stuff is pretty good too.
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Aug 22, 2013 04:30
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Helushune posted:Pray you never have to try and RMA something to them. Several of our Asus laptops broke while under warranty and it's been an absolute nightmare trying to get them RMA'ed. Asus seems to go out of their way to prevent you from doing so. We gave up and I'm currently using one as a Windows 8 client and trying to get it to play nice with our group policy settings. Speaking from a consumer standpoint -- I have a ASUS G73, had an issue with it not charging, went on the website, shipped it in, and less than 10 days later had it back all happy and fixed. (MB swap I am sure since they also fixed the SD card slot which was my fault.) so I'd say it varies a bit.
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Aug 22, 2013 04:43
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I screwed up the ip addressing for all four of our microwaves. We are planning to use them to carry Ethernet and phones over the microwave link to our transmitter site. But this dummy put them on a different subnet than the one they are patched into. Changing two of the microwaves is no big deal, they are used for the live trucks. The other two are what we are using to send all three of our stations up to the transmitter. Resetting the ip requires a power cycle so that will knock us off air for up to 60 seconds. Between that and my boss tasking me with a way to remotely monitor the ups statuses at the site without buying anything means my next week is going to be fun. All because of one ups not coming back up after a power hit, which our microwave reciever was plugged into, which was the only dish that could be pointed a certain way, which was toward a wildfire that the news was covering. Joy diremonk fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Aug 22, 2013 |
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Aug 22, 2013 05:52
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diremonk posted:I screwed up the ip addressing for all four of our microwaves. Subject: I can't reheat my lunch. Body: P1 THIS IS AFFECTING PRODUCTION.
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Aug 22, 2013 07:08
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Prosthetic_Mind posted:My bottled drink of choice is $9 for 4, but it's worth every penny. My goto is usually $7.99/6, is tasty, and comes in handy bottles that are great for reusing in homebrewing.
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Aug 22, 2013 07:27
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Sab669 posted:Where the hell do you pay more than $3 for a beer Not to turn this into a beer chat, but here we pay around $6 for a pint of beer 
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Aug 22, 2013 07:53
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drukqs posted:Perhaps some of you will recall from the previous thread my discussion about a new work machine that the company approved for me. What on earth compelled you to buy anything asus for business related? What monitor do they make that couldn't possibly be a cut-rate dell or HP monitor?
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Aug 22, 2013 08:06
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DrAlexanderTobacco posted:Call came in to fix a backup. Windows Server Backup can't shrink the shadow copy size anymore, and it doesn't delete backups. I've formatted the disk and got the program to recognise it was a "fresh" disk, but it's still erroring. Does anyone have any ideas? The backup is smaller than the size of the disk by a good amount (720ish GB to a 1TB disk) - Not sure if the shadow copy portion is an issue. Sorry to say the only fix for this I've ever had work reliably is to recreate the backup and migrate the drives over. Windows server backup just does it occasionally and I have no idea why. I suspect you need a drive about 33% larger then the volumes you're backing up but I have no proof of this.
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Kidney Stone posted:Not to turn this into a beer chat, but here we pay around $6 for a pint of beer We should all just shut up before evobatman shows up and start wringing his hands over how much they pay in Norway. (Cheapest I've seen is ~€6 for a pint, good brew runs about €9) fatman1683 posted:You can't post the bag and not the kids' pictures. As promised. Princess' houses  An army truck carrying more troops to fight the monster  A tank about to fight the monster  The horrible 4-armed monster (that's going to eat all the soldiers) 
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Aug 22, 2013 09:09
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:3 So a couple here want to send mail, through Outlook, using their existing exchange accounts, address books and folders etc, from a subsidiary's domain (jane.smith@anotherexample.com) instead of the usual (jane.smith@example.com). Sounds fair enough and simple enough, right? Just add it to their SMTP addresses and let them change the From: address, right? Pfft. Come on, this is Microsoft. No, it's going to be all HURR YOU CAN'T SEND FROM THIS ADDRESS IT'S NOT YOUR PRIMARY ADDRESS There is no workaround that I can find (at least for Exchange 2003) The only fudge, and it really is a fudge, would be to set up a dummy user with jane.smith@anotherexample.com as its primary email address, and then grant "Send As" permissions. Because it won't allow the same display name twice, she'd have to be called Jane S Smith or something like that (I hope she has a middle initial). Even then I'm pretty sure it'd say "sent by jane.smith@example.com on behalf of jane.smith@anotherexample.com" and the point here is that under no circumstances do they want example.com to be associated with anotherexample.com. Goddammit, Microsoft. This should be simple. E: Illustration added. 
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Aug 22, 2013 10:29
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Inspector_71 posted:Auto/bike shop software is the most retrograde, fly-by-night bullshit I ever dealt with at my old job, even if it comes from established manufacturers like Yamaha. Every single piece of it required some kind of combination of incredibly specific hardware configuration and installation order for the various unconnected modules on the CDs. I used to work for a dealership chain. The parts catalogue software from one manufacturer required that you install a specific (and ancient) version of java, and then uninstall it, and install another specific version. I have no idea how/why, but the software would not run without doing that. Another manufacturer had a catalogue that would only run if it was installed on a FAT16 drive (this was in 2002).
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Aug 22, 2013 10:47
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Sweevo posted:I used to work for a dealership chain. The parts catalogue software from one manufacturer required that you install a specific (and ancient) version of java, and then uninstall it, and install another specific version. I have no idea how/why, but the software would not run without doing that. Probably because that old Java left behind some registry keys, drivers, binaries, whatever bloat they leave, and the software relies on it. Instead of just taking those repositories and giving you a package or installer for them, they have you do that. At least that's my best guess.
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Aug 22, 2013 10:51
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Boss just told me to lie to a potential new customer. Because there's nothing like making a first impression by telling them something that they immediately will recognize as a lie.
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Aug 22, 2013 11:33
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One of our social media people just had their Twitter account hacked. For the second time in 3 months. If I find out that it was a phishing attack someone is going to need to lose their job.
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Aug 22, 2013 11:43
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toe shoes posted:One of our social media people just had their Twitter account hacked. For the second time in 3 months. If I find out that it was a phishing attack someone is going to need to lose their job. Doesn't twitter have two factor authentication now?
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Aug 22, 2013 13:14
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psydude posted:Doesn't twitter have two factor authentication now? Only if you enable it.
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Aug 22, 2013 14:08
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Use this as a good time to fire all social media people
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piss boner posted:Only if you enable it. Ah yes, much in the same way that all cars have seatbelts and yet people still magically wind up being ejected through their windshield during collisions.
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I would like to point out that there has not been any update or resolution on the puppy in the data center issue. This is unacceptable. If this were PI there would be many people expressing concern about Puppy Explosion Syndrome. Please do the needful.
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