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So apparently I'm a complete idiot today. A client was having trouble getting into their voicemail pro server to change some of the greetings. I look at our remote access and notice it's down completely. I wonder if their vmpro server is offline. So I call our contact at the site to ask if their voicemail is working at all right now. She doesn't answer, so I leave a message, asking if their voicemail system has been working at all. I hang up and immediately realize I'm a dumbass.
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Jul 24, 2017 21:24
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Didn't get a call back *closes ticket*
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Jul 24, 2017 21:25
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An exec wants to use Google Home here at work. Of course it doesn't work. I can't find jack poo poo on what protocols, ports, or sites Google Home connects to. It gets an IP but then fails. Good times.
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Jul 24, 2017 22:21
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Did you connect a smartphone to the same WiFi, open the Google home app, sign in to a Gmail account, and attempt to provision the Google home? I have to imagine it just uses http and https, it shouldn't need any special ports.
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Jul 24, 2017 22:28
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We filter all port 80 traffic through Cisco Web Security, but yeah provisioning fails. Some forums are saying that it needs to connect to Google DNS to work, maybe that's it.
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Jul 24, 2017 22:29
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 I got a user who got this message, and when they signed out their password wouldn't work any more. They changed it according to policy about 3 weeks ago. Their account wasn't locked, but for some reason the "password expired" flag was set, but it wouldn't let them change their password either until I reset it in AD. This something to worry about on their system?
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Jul 24, 2017 22:43
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"The storage bar on the [Main company file share] has gone red, anything we should be worried about?" It's funnier because the file server is also where Exchange 2013 and its DB lives, I wonder if the threat of deleting loads of poo poo is convincing enough to buy licensing for VM's... or even o365.
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Jul 24, 2017 22:45
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Super Slash posted:"The storage bar on the [Main company file share] has gone red, anything we should be worried about?" Your file server and Exchange server are one and the same?  Tell me it's not running Windows SBS, at least...?
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Jul 24, 2017 22:52
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Thanatosian posted:Your file server and Exchange server are one and the same? Oh you know it's going to be. WSUS is also going to be corrupted and ballooning in size faster than anyone can decide to fix the problem.
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Jul 24, 2017 22:55
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Holy poo poo if exchange 2013 is installed on sbs. No. Bad MSP.
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Jul 24, 2017 23:01
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You know that USB disks from the store down the street will be the answer here
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Jul 24, 2017 23:03
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Thanks Ants posted:You know that USB thumbdrives plugged into a USB hub and RAID-0'd together with the label "Server Drives" on the hub from the store down the street will be the answer here Annnnnnd there we go
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Jul 24, 2017 23:18
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Super Soaker Party! posted:Annnnnnd there we go This sounds like a Linus Tech Tips video.
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Jul 24, 2017 23:36
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Linus wouldn't label them
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Jul 24, 2017 23:46
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TinTower posted:This sounds like a Linus Tech Tips video. The video where his server dies is a guilty pleasure of mine.
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Jul 24, 2017 23:50
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I can still see the panic on his face as he can't understand how he could have lost all his data.
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Jul 24, 2017 23:52
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ChubbyThePhat posted:I can still see the panic on his face as he can't understand how he could have lost all his data. "WE have three RAID-5 arrays striped together..."
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Jul 24, 2017 23:53
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Super Soaker Party! posted:Annnnnnd there we go Nothing about that is branded Buffalo, so there is still some hope.
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Jul 24, 2017 23:54
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You go to LTT for the impractical but cool-looking projects, and stay for the dead servers.
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Jul 24, 2017 23:54
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blackswordca posted:The video where his server dies is a guilty pleasure of mine. Same. As someone who works with SAN and NAS units all the time it is both horrifying and educational. Mostly horrifying though. Though it reminds me that I need to check on the data recovery of a Drobo that a client asked us to take a look at. Nothing like a 6 TB device reporting at 18 TB 
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Jul 25, 2017 00:28
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TinTower posted:This sounds like a Linus Tech Tips video. He did literally do a USB drive RAID a couple weeks ago with those nVidia GeForce USB keys.
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Jul 25, 2017 00:29
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pr0digal posted:Same. As someone who works with SAN and NAS units all the time it is both horrifying and educational. The Drobos can thin prov datasets that are a LOT larger than the backing file store. I assume that the assumption is that you can always put bigger disks in the Drobo or something.
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Jul 25, 2017 03:57
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:You'd think I'm using dark magic when I print to our other office via network print, rather than fax. I've got one coworker on board but the rest are still faxing away because it's what they've always done. I don't know if our office phone service is straight unlimited, but I sure hope so because it's long distance between the offices. I was viewed as a loving wizard at an old job when I had our IT company set me up to be able to print to any printer in the building. I got sick of being asked to print things that were on a common shared network drive and walking it down two flights of stairs so this was the compromise I came up with.
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Jul 25, 2017 04:45
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blackswordca posted:"WE have three RAID-5 arrays striped together..." Wait, I missed that. His software multi-RAID was at the top a RAID 0?
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Jul 25, 2017 05:33
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Wait, I missed that. His software multi-RAID was at the top a RAID 0? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSrnXgAmK8k&t=114s
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Jul 25, 2017 05:39
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Zil posted:Nothing about that is branded Buffalo, so there is still some hope. We are taking over IT services for a company whose backups are on a Buffalo 
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Jul 25, 2017 06:06
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mewse posted:We are taking over IT services for a company whose backups are on a Buffalo My brother has one of those routers, he made the SSID "BUFFALOL"
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Jul 25, 2017 06:36
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Wait, I missed that. His software multi-RAID was at the top a RAID 0? anthonypants posted:25 SSDs total, configured as 8 disks connected to three controllers as RAID 5 each, and then a software RAID 0 in Windows. The 25th drive was a cold swap.
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Jul 25, 2017 09:52
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Holy poo poo if exchange 2013 is installed on sbs. No we actually got rid of SBS years ago and moved everything to 2012r2, HOWEVER the migration was taken care of via MSP and during the install I did ask them something along the lines of; "So uh, aren't we going to have everything separated onto different virtual machines on this beefy new host?" "Nah it's ok things can still run fine on one" "Oh  "
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Jul 25, 2017 11:14
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anthonypants posted:25 SSDs total, configured as 8 disks connected to three controllers as RAID 5 each, and then a software RAID 0 in Windows. The 25th drive was a cold swap. I don't... why would you... what?
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Jul 25, 2017 11:32
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Fil5000 posted:I don't... why would you... what? For views and ad revenue.
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Jul 25, 2017 12:01
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Super Slash posted:You're half on the money! A single virtual running every service? I mean poo poo, count yourself lucky they didn't install it on bare metal, but goddamn if they're going through the trouble of setting up VMware they might as well use it correctly.
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Jul 25, 2017 12:45
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The Claptain posted:For views and ad revenue. But presumably you only need the ad revenue because you spent $texas on 25 sodding SSDs.
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Jul 25, 2017 12:54
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Judge Schnoopy posted:A single virtual running every service? I mean poo poo, count yourself lucky they didn't install it on bare metal, but goddamn if they're going through the trouble of setting up VMware they might as well use it correctly. After purchasing hardware, licensing backup software, buying CALs, putting the time in to get everything configured  But Windows Server licenses are so expensive
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Jul 25, 2017 12:56
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Fil5000 posted:But presumably you only need the ad revenue because you spent $texas on 25 sodding SSDs. I think he got the SSDs free. Because apparently tech companies love his batshit ideas and channel viewership.
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Jul 25, 2017 15:02
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blackswordca posted:The video where his server dies is a guilty pleasure of mine. Guilty my rear end, that video is a goddamn pleasure. The only thing that would've made it better would be if he did lose all data
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Jul 25, 2017 15:20
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Fil5000 posted:But presumably you only need the ad revenue because you spent $texas on 25 sodding SSDs. They're sponsored by Kingston. (The drives were Kingston as well) so I bet they got them for free or at cost...
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Jul 25, 2017 15:57
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mewse posted:We are taking over IT services for a company whose backups are on a Buffalo My goondolences
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Jul 25, 2017 17:19
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Fil5000 posted:I don't... why would you... what? BUT I HAD SO MANY RAIDS LAYERED! HOW COULD I LOSE EVERYTHING?????
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Jul 25, 2017 18:00
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Raid 00. All those juicy benefits.
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