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skipdogg posted:Sounds like something that needs to be taken care of. That stills means he needs to have a backout plan and contingencies in place in case of some kind of failure. Change denied with out a rollback and contingency plan. I think the contingency plan is to make someone ( not me ) drive 5 hours to the client site to try and fix it there.
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Yeah, that. Unless you have a plan for rolling back / replacing the hardware if and when it goes horribly wrong, don't do it.
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# ? Sep 27, 2013 20:06 |
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It's risky, but I am 100% sure it'd go smoothly on the first try if someone drove 500 miles and did it locally.
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# ? Sep 27, 2013 21:19 |
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Pshaw. It's a perfectly valid and trustworthy solution - firmware upgrades wandering off into the ether and bricking any Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to overnight a goat and two black roosters for... uh, "testing purposes".
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# ? Sep 27, 2013 21:30 |
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A user took his work laptop along on his European vacation and killed it by letting the battery die during Windows updates. Guess what I'll be doing Monday morning? EDIT: Oh man, that Shoretel quote is over $30k!
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# ? Sep 27, 2013 21:36 |
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Blackswordca, I don't think I'd want to copy a firmware via a WAN connection straight to the switch, is there somewhere local you can remote in to and copy it from? If it's a cisco switch (other vendors I'm unsure about) you may be able to do an MD5 check on the firmware before reboot. I say may.. i've done this on Cisco switches before but not an 8 year old one.
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# ? Sep 27, 2013 21:37 |
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Biggz posted:Blackswordca, I don't think I'd want to copy a firmware via a WAN connection straight to the switch, is there somewhere local you can remote in to and copy it from? Yeah there is a server onsite that can upload the file. The switch is an HP Procurve. One of the other Sr has taken the ticket from me which im fine with. I think its the guy that would have to drive up if there was a problem. One less headache for me to worry about before the weekend.
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# ? Sep 27, 2013 21:43 |
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Dick Trauma posted:A user took his work laptop along on his European vacation and killed it by letting the battery die during Windows updates. Guess what I'll be doing Monday morning? Depending on how difficult of a setup the person has, I'll usually dump their existing hosed up install to an image, then see if I can either roll it back to an earlier time using system restore or see if I can just do a repair. This still takes forever as we have to decrypt the hard drive first, but at least it's mostly waiting to see if it will work rather than having to sit there and babysit while poo poo's installing. Otherwise, if it's a simple setup, I'll just re-image it and install the few programs they need (if they aren't already on the generic image) and hand it back.
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# ? Sep 27, 2013 21:50 |
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blackswordca posted:Yeah there is a server onsite that can upload the file. The switch is an HP Procurve. One of the other Sr has taken the ticket from me which im fine with. I think its the guy that would have to drive up if there was a problem. One less headache for me to worry about before the weekend. You should probably be fine since ProCurve's can store two firmware images
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Dick Trauma posted:Oh man, that Shoretel quote is over $30k!
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# ? Sep 27, 2013 22:05 |
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Year of the Job time! tl;dr version: 56% pay raise over my old desktop lead role at a new company to administrate Active Directory and Exchange for a fairly large energy company. Closer to home, pretty flexible hours, no direct user contact (only escalations from helpdesk), more interesting work, and a boatload more money. It's also nice to get back into the swing of things after six months off from my last job (was finishing up my bachelors degree). I'm so pumped I can barely see straight!
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Agrikk posted:I agree. Oh MS, you've spent twenty years convincing us that your GUI was so awesome and easy to use and now that we are conditioned to it you want us to forget all of that and start using object-oriented commands via powershell. I'm right there with you. I had to use "runas /user:domain\administrator powershell" just to get access to run "Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted", in order to connect to Exchange online services with this stuff: code:
MSTechnet posted:The Exchange Management Shell uses remote Windows PowerShell features for all commands, even commands that are run on the local server. As a result, all responses from Exchange Management Shell cmdlets are serialized XML. This means that although the response object indicates the Exchange object type that was used to generate the response, the response object cannot be cast to the Exchange object type; instead, you must use the property bag that is exposed by the response object to obtain the values from the Exchange object type.
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Caged posted:You should probably be fine since ProCurve's can store two firmware images I would be more worried about things like Fans that have been spinning non stop for a long time, having to start spinning again after being shut down. I think most of us have heard a story about some mechanical piece of hardware that was fine for years until someone tried to reboot it.
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quote:This means that although the response object indicates the Exchange object type that was used to generate the response, the response object cannot be cast to the Exchange object type; instead, you must use the property bag that is exposed by the response object to obtain the values from the Exchange object type. Wha...? gently caress you Microsoft. gently caress you so hard for dreaming up something that makes you use an exposed property bag for anything. Find a big pile of gently caress you and pound it up your rear end with a big gently caress you hammer.
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# ? Sep 27, 2013 23:53 |
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skipdogg posted:I would be more worried about things like Fans that have been spinning non stop for a long time, having to start spinning again after being shut down. I think most of us have heard a story about some mechanical piece of hardware that was fine for years until someone tried to reboot it.
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# ? Sep 27, 2013 23:59 |
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bort posted:They surprise sex you on the handsets. If you don't need to trunk (aka I'll take my cost in wiring, instead!) you can cut costs a little by going with 100 Mbit phones (e.g. the 560). Comradephate posted:My boss rented a lake house for us on Tuesday and my entire team was drunk by noon, and full of fajitas and bratwursts that he made by 1.
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# ? Sep 28, 2013 00:22 |
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My ShoreTel guy is too lazy to update, so we're stuck on a client version that causes DLL hell with Lync. It's a fine VOIP platform, but every time Windows Update or something serious runs I have to fiddle with ShoreTel client DLLs to make screen sharing work in Lync again (UccApi.dll). On the VOIP topic, if you're a "decision maker" in sales guy terms, you're gonna get cold-called. I've started making "Spammer" contacts that sync to my VOIP and keep adding phone numbers to them. So every time I get a new recruiter or reseller call me, they get 1-2 minutes of my time and then go into my "contact database". Then whenever they call again, my phone says Spammer and I turn back to whatever I was doing. coyo7e posted:Sounds like quite the drunken sausage party. bort fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Sep 28, 2013 |
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coyo7e posted:And also check for the little gotchas like "we can only put up to 64 extensions into a container maximum, so your receptionists will have to page 6 different zones when someone can't be found at their own extension.." Granted, this should probably be going over a PA and not over phones.
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GargleBlaster posted:MS, y u do dis?? Ever try to administer a very large and complex Exchange 2003 environment? I'm talking tens of thousands of mailboxes spread across numerous sites. That poo poo sucked. Either it was GUI or some hosed up vb script with WMI. With PoSh you can do some amazing stuff. Here's a hint for Exchange though that I've recently been going through: use LDAP queries to get your data if the cmdlets are dragging rear end. I've saved some huge amounts of time in some of my processes and reports by changing them to use LDAP in certain places. One script was taking over an hour regularly, now runs in under five minutes. Edit: YOTJing hopefully soon. Had a good interview this week with a follow up next with senior peeps doing a technical interview. The Electronaut fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Sep 28, 2013 |
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wintermuteCF posted:Year of the Job time! gently caress yeah good job man
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wintermuteCF posted:Year of the Job time! Sounds excellent. Congrats!
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# ? Sep 28, 2013 02:04 |
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Had a user request a email restored from 2 months ago, said it was sent from one of a half dozen people and gave me a 3 week time frame to search. We are in the middle of corporate SAN upgrades. It took 3 days for her to even give me this limited info and she needs it today. Never felt so much satisfaction telling someone that the earliest we can get to it is mid next week. Also a principal requested a retina display MacBook Pro "to protect my eyes" (bear in mind that he has taken it out of the docking station once since he got it in July 2012, the rest of the time its sitting with the lid closed). CIO basically told him to gently caress off and that is 1080p 15" laptop display is having hardware issues that we can talk to Dell about getting it repaired.
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MJP posted:Again, still in catchup mode, but put me in for 32gb. I just wish the USB stick/bottle opener came with something a la isostick - would be nice to have various bootable OSes/installers on it. Oh, man... I'd completely forgotten about that. I'd wanted to pick one up back when they were doing their kickstarter but was broke at the time. Thanks for reminding me. Just ordered one.
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# ? Sep 28, 2013 05:04 |
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I don't work in IT, but once when I was working on a Sunday I overheard one of the upper level managers furious and ranting about how he "installed ThinkPoint on all the computers" and that they all had "errors costing $80 to fix on them" and how he was going to let the IT department have it on Monday. For those of you who don't know, ThinkPoint is one of those scare ware virus things that fakes problems to get you to send them money. So on Monday, the IT dept gets to get yelled at by the guy responsible for the issue and then presumably having to spend hours and hours fixing it.
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Xequecal posted:I don't work in IT, but once when I was working on a Sunday I overheard one of the upper level managers furious and ranting about how he "installed ThinkPoint on all the computers" and that they all had "errors costing $80 to fix on them" and how he was going to let the IT department have it on Monday. For those of you who don't know, ThinkPoint is one of those scare ware virus things that fakes problems to get you to send them money. So on Monday, the IT dept gets to get yelled at by the guy responsible for the issue and then presumably having to spend hours and hours fixing it. You can build a lot of goodwill up by informing IT guys of something like this so that they can respond calmly and provide the proverbial bitch-slap when Mr Chucklefuck comes along and starts screaming at them. After that they can then completely destroy his authority and credibility and turn him into the laughing stock of the company to prevent the next person with more balls than brains from trying the same poo poo.
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Can you imagine the unrepentant ugliness of ladies' underwear designed to part in such a way to allow the wearer to piss without removing them e: wrong thread, this was meant for the achewood one. I assure you it makes sense there. user on probation fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Sep 28, 2013 |
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tehloki posted:Can you imagine the unrepentant ugliness of ladies' underwear designed to part in such a way to allow the wearer to piss without removing them uh...what?
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Too many tickets came in...the poor man is clearly traumatized. 'Tis a sad fate we must face.
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# ? Sep 28, 2013 18:59 |
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tehloki posted:Can you imagine the unrepentant ugliness of ladies' underwear designed to part in such a way to allow the wearer to piss without removing them Let this be a lesson to all you putting off your YOTJs. It could happen to YOU!
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Walter_Sobchak posted:uh...what? I'm glad it wasn't just me who was hella confused by that.
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Meanwhile in another thread - "where did my post about panties go?"
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I'm just wondering what's so inherently ugly about crotchless knickers?
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GargleBlaster posted:Meanwhile in another thread - "where did my post about panties go?" That thread needs to be found and loaded with misposts about Exchange and Cisco firmware.
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# ? Sep 28, 2013 20:39 |
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I (assume) he meant to post that in the Achewood thread in BSS. The current Achewood comic ( https://www.achewood.com ) features a cat who has had traumatic underwear experiences. The last couple pages in the thread have been underwear discussion.
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# ? Sep 28, 2013 21:36 |
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Lum posted:I'm just wondering what's so inherently ugly about crotchless knickers? They are clothing for your crotch. It defeats the entire point!
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# ? Sep 28, 2013 21:48 |
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Volmarias posted:They are clothing for your crotch. It defeats the entire point! If you think the "point" of crotchless underwear is to be clothing, I think someone glossed over something in your sex ed class
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Ursine Asylum posted:If you think the "point" of crotchless underwear is to be clothing, I think someone glossed over something in your sex ed class Well, isn't it? What's the point of clothes if they don't cover the part of your body that they are supposed to cover. If you want your crotch to be uncovered, why bother with underwear at all?
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# ? Sep 28, 2013 23:29 |
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Clothing can serve other purposes besides just covering body parts up.
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# ? Sep 28, 2013 23:36 |
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Ursine Asylum posted:If you think the "point" of crotchless underwear is to be clothing, I think someone glossed over something in your sex ed class I never said that they didn't have a reason, I just pointed out the inherent contradiction.
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Serious Hardware / Software Crap › RE: Some knickers came in....
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