MF_James posted:

argh what is today, ticket i just got:

Folder that W drive is mapped to show be "SyncData" and under should be "receive/send", see attached screenshot for issue....

attached screenshot shows a drive labeled "W: SyncData", subfolders are received/send

Siochain posted:

Trying to puzzle out a "should be easy but the solutions I can find work...except they look like poo poo" one here.

New job, only been here for a month. Our head of security is in the process of rolling out a "Welcome to X" powerpoint presentation for visitors. She also wants the weather, road closures, etc to be on it.
I've found a few options for dynamic weather, but the only free ones seem to suck. You put in a website, and it just splats a part of that site in your power point. It does work, but it looks bad.
There's a paid-for option from PresentationPoint that looks cool, but its $150. I'm using LiveWeb, but its not a great display.

Does anyone have any other suggestions? Should I look into using something else? It needs to be editable by a not-very-savvy user. My main concern with powerpoint is that if she wants to update, she'll need to close presentation and re-launch it to grab any updates, which isn't ideal.

n0tqu1tesane posted:

This going to display on a monitor/TV in the visitors area?

What you really want isn't powerpoint, but a proper digital signage solution. There are some free ones out there, but I don't really have any experience with them.

We're a reseller for Industry Weapon, which can do everything you want to do, but isn't free.

Thanks Ants posted:

If you want a more DIY option to piss some time away on then have a look at https://www.screenly.io/

Gunjin posted:

We use RMG Networks Symon Digital Appliance for our digital signage, do not use these. The last generation device had about a 50% failure rate, I was told the new ones would be better, they've had a approximately 60% failure rate.

pixaal posted:

What about using powershell? this technet post looks to be what you need.

I wrote a quick input for their function if you are only going to use it once, it's not pretty but it works!

code:

Param(
	[Parameter(Mandatory=$true, HelpMessage = 'Remote Computer Name')]
	[string]$ComputerName
) #end param
  $output = @()
  if(Test-Connection -ComputerName $ComputerName -Count 1 -Quiet){
    $Hive = [long]$HIVE_HKU = 2147483651
    $sessions = Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $ComputerName -Class win32_process | ?{$_.name -eq "explorer.exe"}
    if($sessions){
      foreach($explorer in $sessions){
        $sid = ($explorer.GetOwnerSid()).sid
        $owner  = $explorer.GetOwner()
        $RegProv = get-WmiObject -List -Namespace "root\default" -ComputerName $ComputerName | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "StdRegProv"}
        $DriveList = $RegProv.EnumKey($Hive, "$($sid)\Network")
        if($DriveList.sNames.count -gt 0){
          foreach($drive in $DriveList.sNames){
          $output += "$($drive)`t$(($RegProv.GetStringValue($Hive, "$($sid)\Network\$($drive)", "RemotePath")).sValue)`t$($owner.Domain)`t$($owner.user)`t$($ComputerName)"
          }
        }else{write-debug "No mapped drives on $($ComputerName)"}
      }
    }else{write-debug "explorer.exe not running on $($ComputerName)"}
  }else{write-debug "Can't connect to $($ComputerName)"}
  write-Host $output

You will get Drive Letter Path Username for every drive letter at that computer spaced by a tab.

If you need to use it again or want the input to look better it shouldn't be too hard to go from here.

Siochain posted:

Trying to puzzle out a "should be easy but the solutions I can find work...except they look like poo poo" one here.

New job, only been here for a month. Our head of security is in the process of rolling out a "Welcome to X" powerpoint presentation for visitors. She also wants the weather, road closures, etc to be on it.
I've found a few options for dynamic weather, but the only free ones seem to suck. You put in a website, and it just splats a part of that site in your power point. It does work, but it looks bad.
There's a paid-for option from PresentationPoint that looks cool, but its $150. I'm using LiveWeb, but its not a great display.

Does anyone have any other suggestions? Should I look into using something else? It needs to be editable by a not-very-savvy user. My main concern with powerpoint is that if she wants to update, she'll need to close presentation and re-launch it to grab any updates, which isn't ideal.

n0tqu1tesane posted:

This going to display on a monitor/TV in the visitors area?

What you really want isn't powerpoint, but a proper digital signage solution. There are some free ones out there, but I don't really have any experience with them.

We're a reseller for Industry Weapon, which can do everything you want to do, but isn't free.

Siochain posted:

Correct. Big TV in the security shack (which is the only entrance to the facility).
Thank you, though, that may give me something I can Google and look into! And I'll check your stuff out. Free is better, but the company will pay if the solution is solid.

Siochain posted:

Correct. Big TV in the security shack (which is the only entrance to the facility).
Thank you, though, that may give me something I can Google and look into! And I'll check your stuff out. Free is better, but the company will pay if the solution is solid.

n0tqu1tesane posted:

Yeah, but at least Siochain had enough information in the initial question for someone to infer what they were trying to do, and asked about other options. It wasn't just "How do I solve my powerpoint problem?", there was other information about the intended application, and a direct question asking if they were going about it the right way.

Thanks Ants posted:

If you want a more DIY option to piss some time away on then have a look at https://www.screenly.io/

PierreTheMime posted:

An email came in:
: "Hey our oncall has been getting pages for issues that our specific team doesn't handle! Other people in our project should be paged. We have to fix this!"

: "Okay, provide me a list of people who should be added based on your project."

: (Provides an intricate list of 20+ people based on on specific applications within the same project)

:

: "Also, please don't have your monitoring teams page is outside of business hours for specific applications."

Our monitoring system (HP Openview Operations) uses policies based on the project name (first 3 characters of an application). Monitoring/paging is typically all or nothing. In order to provide them with what they want, we'll have to spawn 20+ new project designations and sub-divide their applications based on time for office hours and non-office hours.

This project has existed as-is for 6+ years with no complaint or comment.

Ghostlight posted:

Also not if you're running on-premises.

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

Screenly works beautifully. I loved it.

There's also http://dashing.io/ for all you dashboard nerds.

In any event, get yourself a raspberry bi and google 'kiosk mode'
It's a great way to get what you want for $30 and a few hours of your time.

QuiteEasilyDone posted:

A week of "Oncall" came in. My companies vision of oncall is that from 6am to 830am and 530pm to 11pm you are responsible for responding to any-all alerts, tickets, or issues that come in and "resolving" all 'emergency' issues as well. Of course everything is an emergency in my company so .

Oh and the response times are 15 minutes, and you're still expected to work the full day shift (an hour early offset so that you're in the office because reasons)

QuiteEasilyDone posted:

A week of "Oncall" came in. My companies vision of oncall is that from 6am to 830am and 530pm to 11pm you are responsible for responding to any-all alerts, tickets, or issues that come in and "resolving" all 'emergency' issues as well. Of course everything is an emergency in my company so .

Oh and the response times are 15 minutes, and you're still expected to work the full day shift (an hour early offset so that you're in the office because reasons)

Kurieg posted:

How exactly are you supposed to go anywhere or do anything if you have to be within 15 minutes of a work computer at all times? I'm not sure how you would even be able to commute to or from work like that.

QuiteEasilyDone posted:

I've had to pull over on the side of a highway on more than a single occasion. Some nights it's a goddamn boss rush of lovely issues/clients

Judge Schnoopy posted:

gently caress yeah man risk your life for those amazing SLA numbers

Team player right here.

Sickening posted:

Sleeping in your car to make someone else wealthy. gently caress yeah.

KoRMaK posted:

what?

Sickening posted:

If you find yourself driving at all hours of the night , needing to pull over to sleep in your car, realize you are probably doing it to make someone else a lot of money.

Sickening posted:

If you find yourself driving at all hours of the night , needing to pull over to sleep in your car, realize you are probably doing it to make someone else a lot of money.

fishmech posted:

I read that as needing to pull over to open up the laptop, presumably on some sort of tethering.

KoRMaK posted:

Lol yea, same here which is why I'm confused by the response.


e: fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck i quoted fishmech

neogeo0823 posted:

neogeo0823 posted:

tons of words

SEKCobra posted:

Why can't you sue?

RFC2324 posted:

Its still an ideal for XY just because using powerpoint feels like such an obvious solution, but in reality is probably the worst.