|
poo poo pissing me off: Security team yanked my team's local administrative privileges on workstations with no notice. Not like I support database clients or have to update tnsnames files frequently or anything. Enjoy all the tickets you just caught shitlords.
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 15:58
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 15:56 |
|
|
We use an ancient version of Peachtree Account (2007 I think) for basic accounting on a handful of small subsidiary LLCs. Been having some issues with it and the accountant is finally ready to give upgrading a try. Sage has replaced Peachtree with "Sage 50". So I decided to check our their support website, just to see what, if any, are the common issues with the software. The very first and most popular KB article is how to disable UAC 
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 16:11
|
|
|
Raerlynn posted:poo poo pissing me off: Security team yanked my team's local administrative privileges on workstations with no notice. Not like I support database clients or have to update tnsnames files frequently or anything. Enjoy all the tickets you just caught shitlords. Even if removing your access was justified, doing so with no communication should be grounds for reprimands. They will cite "process" or "policy" when they come back on why they did it without seeing the irony.
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 16:18
|
|
|
Sickening posted:Even if removing your access was justified, doing so with no communication should be grounds for reprimands. They will cite "process" or "policy" when they come back on why they did it without seeing the irony. Should be. Since this is the sixth or seventh infrastructure change this year that wasn't communicated, I'm not holding my breath.
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 16:49
|
|
|
Yeah you'll never win the debate because they got the "it's INSECURE!!" moral high ground. So it gets marked down as another chapter in the documentary of how working IT slowly destroyed your will to live. Best case they get mad about the sudden flood of tickets and propose an "exemption" to allow you the access you used to have. To be reviewed annually of course. 
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 17:05
|
|
|
xzzy posted:Yeah you'll never win the debate because they got the "it's INSECURE!!" moral high ground. So it gets marked down as another chapter in the documentary of how working IT slowly destroyed your will to live. My solution is less subtle. I'm forwarding every ticket that requires those rights to the team in question. I suspect after getting yelled at for a day or two they'll relent.
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 17:22
|
|
|
Raerlynn posted:Should be. Since this is the sixth or seventh infrastructure change this year that wasn't communicated, I'm not holding my breath. Good change management is also good security, but nobody told the guys doing this kind of poo poo at my shop either
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 18:05
|
|
|
Hosted Exchange 2013 with Rackspace We have meeting rooms setup as 'resources', eventually you get enough meeting requests and such where the paltry 100mb limit is hit. Then, you can't book roooms because the resource is full. Rackspace says "Log into the resource using OWA, and manually delete the calendar items" fuuuck
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 18:39
|
|
|
Bob Morales posted:Hosted Exchange 2013 with Rackspace What were you expecting exactly?
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 18:41
|
|
|
Sickening posted:What were you expecting exactly? Easier way to clear the resource out or an increase on the storage limit
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 18:42
|
|
|
As someone who worked for a place reselling/supporting hosted Exchange, is it ever not a nightmare
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 18:42
|
|
|
Bob Morales posted:Easier way to clear the resource out or an increase on the storage limit That is more of a microsoft issue and not a rackspace one. I don't thinking increasing the limit is a long term solution.
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 18:43
|
|
|
Sickening posted:That is more of a microsoft issue and not a rackspace one. I don't thinking increasing the limit is a long term solution. No, but it'd let you log back on. Edit: whoa, totally misread the issue. I'm dumb, carry on.
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 18:45
|
|
|
Sickening posted:That is more of a microsoft issue and not a rackspace one. I don't thinking increasing the limit is a long term solution. Considering the limit at Microsoft is 50GB, I'm pretty sure this is a Rackspace issue. e: If you managed to fill up your Resource Mailbox with 50GB of meetings, jesus christ
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 19:11
|
|
|
Bob Morales posted:Easier way to clear the resource out or an increase on the storage limit Is setting up a retention policy an option? I think that would let you clear out old items automatically, although only by age.
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 19:13
|
|
|
nielsm posted:Is setting up a retention policy an option? I think that would let you clear out old items automatically, although only by age. Online chat guy refused to really help other than "Log in and delete stuff", said we had to call in for further assistance. Calling now and will ask.
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 19:16
|
|
|
Jeoh posted:Considering the limit at Microsoft is 50GB, I'm pretty sure this is a Rackspace issue. Its exchange, and with rackspace you have as much space as you pay for. Bob Morales posted:Online chat guy refused to really help other than "Log in and delete stuff", said we had to call in for further assistance. Calling now and will ask. Dealing with level 1 at rackspace is like dealing with any other.
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 19:22
|
|
|
Set a retention policy on the mailbox and clear out anything older than 12 months or whatever.
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 19:31
|
|
|
Move from hosted with Rackspace to Office365. Get new and exciting (well different) issues.
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 22:33
|
|
|
Varkk posted:Move from hosted with Rackspace to Office365. Get new and exciting (well different) issues. Gonna do this pretty soon. And save $2/month!
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 22:37
|
|
|
Your sanity has been given a price and its less than that of a bacon cheeseburger
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 22:59
|
|
|
Bob Morales posted:Gonna do this pretty soon. And save $2/month!
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2017 23:21
|
|
|
Thanks Ants posted:I think my issue is that install.wim on the Server 2012 R2 VL media is bigger than the FAT32 filesize limit. I've done it now slowly through iDRAC virtual media. Yup, that is a fun one to deal with. If you're lucky your EFI supports some other filesystem, apparently some support exFAT and/or NTFS. If not you have to split the install.wim using dism /split-image or install from a DVD/virtual DVD. I've usually gone with the latter approach as well, it's easier and I don't deploy Windows servers often so the time difference is relatively meaningless. wolrah fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Apr 6, 2017 |
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 00:15
|
|
|
Bob Morales posted:Hosted Exchange 2013 with Rackspace Search-mailbox -identity "Mailbox name" -Searchquery "received:< 04/30/2016"' -deletecontent Make sure you're running it from the Exchange Management Shell. I don't know if you could set up a good variable to do them all at once, but subbing in the names one by one is still going to be faster than logging into each box on OWA to do it.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 01:36
|
|
|
Guy said we can't - we had a few year worth of meeting room reservations in there
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 02:28
|
|
|
I told my current boss that I wanted to do the job I was brought in for(aws architecture and solutions) and stop being Jenkins guy full time because the last one quit right before I got tired and I said I'd help out. We also had multiple people complain about staffing numbers and no junior members to train and balance workload with. I basically got the most Lumberg of responses. We have a meeting Friday to talk about all our team members learning everything else's jobs to help out. I think the point has been missed. Having people at 100% capacity cross train into other jobs doesn't fix anything? Me knowing Kafka/zookeeper, disaster recovery and testing, account management, aws deployments, Jenkins / release engineering doesn't help any of this.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 03:02
|
|
|
Virigoth posted:We have a meeting Friday to talk about all our team members learning everything else's jobs to help out. Get that resume ready, your job isn't going to get any better and it looks like management is doubling down on doubling down.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 03:09
|
|
|
Virigoth posted:I told my current boss that I wanted to do the job I was brought in for(aws architecture and solutions) and stop being Jenkins guy full time because the last one quit right before I got tired and I said I'd help out. We also had multiple people complain about staffing numbers and no junior members to train and balance workload with. I basically got the most Lumberg of responses. We have a meeting Friday to talk about all our team members learning everything else's jobs to help out. I think the point has been missed. Having people at 100% capacity cross train into other jobs doesn't fix anything? Me knowing Kafka/zookeeper, disaster recovery and testing, account management, aws deployments, Jenkins / release engineering doesn't help any of this.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 03:52
|
|
|
Techs flat out lying to me and feigning ignorance when caught. : the backup failed because the c: drive was full, must have happened immediately before the backup because we didn't even get an alert on it yet : we received backup failure alerts every day since Thursday last week with the same error : weird I'll look into thatI've had to rewrite the orgs backup policy because of these guys, sent it to them for review last week, and they're still loving it up.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 04:51
|
|
|
Can you not ditch that lovely MSP?
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 10:02
|
|
|
Right now we have zero, none, zilich for configuration management for our servers. Our software licensing would let us setup SCCM at no cost to us. I've brought up two or three times and get shot down with "is SCCM the best solution for our environment?". In the meantime we still continue on with no configuration management.... Is Ansible any good at doing configuration management for Windows servers in TYOL 2017?
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 13:52
|
|
|
Thanatosian posted:Sounds like someone's got a case of the Mondays! I laughed and then immediately got bitter again.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 13:58
|
|
|
Virigoth posted:I laughed and then immediately got bitter again. plausible thread title, there.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 14:41
|
|
|
Thanks Ants posted:Can you not ditch that lovely MSP? 2 months into the 6 month process of replacing ~*@*~ government ~*@*~
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 17:23
|
|
|
Judge Schnoopy posted:2 months into the 6 month process of replacing I'm about 99% certain I, alone, with about 3 months of real experience! could be a better MSP than them. Try not to drink TOO much.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 18:26
|
|
|
Thanks Ants posted:I think my issue is that install.wim on the Server 2012 R2 VL media is bigger than the FAT32 filesize limit. I've done it now slowly through iDRAC virtual media. Just make the USB using Rufus and select the UEFI:NTFS option.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 19:08
|
|
|
Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Just make the USB using Rufus and select the UEFI:NTFS option. Most uefi bios don't support ntfs. I know that Rufus tries to do some partitioning and have it boot fat32, then have the ntfs partition accessible, but I still had a ton of problems with it when I had to deal with it.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 19:10
|
|
|
The Fool posted:Most uefi bios don't support ntfs. I know that Rufus tries to do some partitioning and have it boot fat32, then have the ntfs partition accessible, but I still had a ton of problems with it when I had to deal with it. I am pretty sure at worst you need to update some firmware. I am constantly using boot disks larger than what fat32 can handle with uefi bios's.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 19:14
|
|
|
Sickening posted:I am pretty sure at worst you need to update some firmware. I am constantly using boot disks larger than what fat32 can handle with uefi bios's. From what I gathered in the 3 months I had to deal with it before I finished setting up mdt, only booting fat32 in uefi is a common issue on hp and dell laptops, and on surface pro's
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 19:22
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 15:56 |
|
|
Rufus has a EFI driver that attempts to add support for NTFS to any EFI, but it is not secure boot compatible so it won't work on systems with that enabled. In theory you could sign it yourself and load it from the Secure Boot shim if you wanted to go down that path, but for purposes of installing Windows I'd just temporarily disable Secure Boot and then re-enable it on the first reboot when I didn't need to boot from the USB stick anymore. edit: Ok this is cool, the author of Rufus has apparently converted GRUB's filesystem drivers to EFI so it's not just NTFS, it's basically any filesystem that matters and a lot that don't. http://efi.akeo.ie/ wolrah fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Apr 6, 2017 |
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2017 20:01
|
|