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George H.W. oval office posted:This is definitely the time to start studying for something, anything and seeing if your company will pay for certifications. Position yourself as best as possible for the future. Some places are giving away free training. I've got an all day Amazon training session tomorrow, and another vendor is comping a week long training course for us.
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The year is 2021. All that is left is logistics/delivery, grocery stores, hospitals, and law firms.
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Mar 31, 2020 18:17
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siggy2021 posted:Anyone else work for a small consulting firm and have no work to do? All of our current clients have either closed up shop temporarily or aren't currently taken on new projects. New clients are apparently basically impossible to get a hold of or have no interest in talking to anyone. We aren't small exactly, have somewhere in the 200-250 client range, but I work on billable hours and I am already seeing a lull in work. We also have clients that have already cancelled work and I've heard a few that had to lay people off already.
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Mar 31, 2020 18:19
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George H.W. oval office posted:This is definitely the time to start studying for something, anything and seeing if your company will pay for certifications. Position yourself as best as possible for the future. My AZ-301 test was scheduled for right when this all kicked off and it got canceled on me. Now I have to figure out a time to do it at home and I’m not excited about that.
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Mar 31, 2020 18:20
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I've only been here two months and I'm a newly added position as of this year, so I'm waiting to get laid off as well. On the bright side we are a hospital so maybe I won't, but our numbers are way down because of Corona. Should get a poo poo ton of 'in case of next time' projects when it's over, though.
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Mar 31, 2020 18:20
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I just emailed five possible projects to my MSP rep. Not sure if I would be allowed to proceed with any of them, but if they have the capacity and I can get the money I'd be happy to help keep them afloat.
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Mar 31, 2020 18:22
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I had been talking to recruiters and interviewing over the last month. One of the places I interviewed with emailed me last week to say they would be sending me an offer in the next 2-3 weeks. Even if they follow through and make an offer, I’m super afraid to take it, even if it’s amazing, just because my current company is pretty stable and I don’t want to be low man on the totem poll at a new place in this environment.
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Mar 31, 2020 18:30
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What do you dudes losing work specialise in? A recruiter called me last week and said an ISP in London had 45 open network related positions. I'd feel like a piece of poo poo if I bailed right now though in this hour of need.
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Mar 31, 2020 18:38
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Internet Explorer posted:The year is 2021. All that is left is logistics/delivery, grocery stores, hospitals, and law firms. The only remaining sport is marble racing.
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Mar 31, 2020 18:43
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Weaponized Autism posted:The only remaining sport is marble racing. This is the truth https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UI4FB-QKqI8
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Mar 31, 2020 18:46
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George H.W. oval office posted:This is definitely the time to start studying for something, anything and seeing if your company will pay for certifications. Position yourself as best as possible for the future. This is basically what we've been instructed to do for now until we can drum up some business. I'm doing some Palo Alto stuff because we support quite a few of the firewalls and I'm not the strongest on that particular platform, and I pickd up some time at Pentest Academy because it was on a crazy good sale and there are a few things I need to shore up on before I start going after the OSCE. On the plus side of working for a small consultant company is everyone here are actual people and they've basically told us that they will continue to keep us all employed through this until there isn't enough money in the coffers to do payroll.
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Mar 31, 2020 18:48
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uhhhhahhhhohahhh posted:What do you dudes losing work specialise in? A recruiter called me last week and said an ISP in London had 45 open network related positions. I'd feel like a piece of poo poo if I bailed right now though in this hour of need. That's confusing because there's a lot of work that just isn't going ahead. So either they are onshoring a lot of roles that have disappeared in the past couple of weeks or something weird is going on.
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Thins are slow so I did a thing. Inspired by another's effort, I decided to create my own latency heat map for AWS regions: http://latency.bluegoat.net/ What I didn't realize is how the latency between regions remains eerily rock steady over time. I would have expected at least a little variance during peak or off-peak times.
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Mar 31, 2020 18:50
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I am looking to hire a patching and provisioning engineer. This basically a brand new position (we had someone who did this years ago, lots of turmoil and I am rebuilding my group from almost scratch). I want to make sure I am tailoring the position correctly and not mixing roles too much. Background: We are a smallish liberal arts university. My group (Infrastructure) has a technical manager who ran the ship by himself during the dark times (me) and a windows engineer. Due to a lot of things, we really need an engineer who is completely handling patching of our endpoints and servers so myself and the other engineer can focus on projects. Most of our things are Windows, so starting out, I want someone who has SCCM and group policy experience. Intune / WSUS + anything else can be taught, but those are the basics I want to bring someone in for. I am also trying to start operational assessments of systems individuals are responsible for. In this context I mean: how well does this system run? What stage is it in "everything manual" to "fully automated". And it should be a progression. That way I can measure poo poo that my team can actually control, not some poo poo rear end metrics that make the numbers go up. So this position would start out with SCCM administration, reporting on endpoints, assisting in making plans for remediation of patches etc. And then work back into maintaining the image that we use for endpoints (mostly not a huge thing, because the idea is that intune / sccm / group policy would already be handling the configuration aspect so it would be low stakes base image with drivers for our Dell fleet which we have an appliance that handles most of it). Then, ensuring that it isn't too much load, working into JAMF as well. We don’t do very much with it, but similarly, just baseline reporting on configuration and managing those systems we have. I need a reality check but does this job description make sense: Job Description posted:
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If I had to do just SCCM and only SCCM for my job two things would happen: 1. I might actually get SCCM to work nicely if I genuinely spent 40hrs a week on it 2. I’d be dead or insane within a month I’d add in some Infra as Code and maybe Azure experience for the intune side of things too.
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Does anything ever get done with Agile or is it just all meetings all the time? Jesus Christ.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:27
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George H.W. oval office posted:This is the truth Not empty quoting Team Momo 4 lyfe
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Mar 31, 2020 19:40
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My companies COO just quit. Someone was not happy about not getting their bonus.
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I can't imagine there's a strong market out there for COO's right now.
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Sickening posted:My companies COO just quit. Someone was not happy about not getting their bonus. You mean asked to resign rather than be fired.
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skipdogg posted:I can't imagine there's a strong market out there for COO's right now. I assume when you make millions a year you aren't living paycheck to paycheck. Methanar posted:You mean asked to resign rather than be fired. Meh, who knows.
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skipdogg posted:I can't imagine there's a strong market out there for COO's right now. the old boys club will protect their own
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Thanks Ants posted:That's confusing because there's a lot of work that just isn't going ahead. So either they are onshoring a lot of roles that have disappeared in the past couple of weeks or something weird is going on. Sounded like they need a bunch of NOC engineers because of all the extra load. And people to run fibre.
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Mar 31, 2020 20:02
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How bad at perceiving reality to you have to be to get upset about not getting a bonus right now
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Thanks Ants posted:How bad at perceiving reality to you have to be to get upset about not getting a bonus right now North of 6.5 figgies worth I'd assume.
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Mar 31, 2020 20:06
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Sickening doesn't know why they left the company, so piling on that reason doesn't help anything.
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The Iron Rose posted:If I had to do just SCCM and only SCCM for my job two things would happen: To your first points, I do not disagree. We have a contractor currently working on this, that I would like to apply for the position. Has the demeanor to work through those issues. Not saying this person would get it, just looking at the kind of applicants we tend to get, I think this person would get an interview at least. We have been toying with Infra as Code, but we aren't anywhere near being ready yet. Whatever the position, I think that the person we get in would really flesh it out. Lots of green field here to take care of and almost none of it is staked out. Because of some stuff I can't go into we are not allowed to use Azure as this time: 
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Thanks Ants posted:How bad at perceiving reality to you have to be to get upset about not getting a bonus right now I drove by an ice cream place on Saturday and it was packed. People just sitting around outside together, standing close in line, milling about. There is a massive divide between people who are taking the situation right now as serious and people who are just ignoring it and thinking its overblown. And that's precisely why we are going to have to remain in lockdown for another month.
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bull3964 posted:I drove by an ice cream place on Saturday and it was packed. People just sitting around outside together, standing close in line, milling about. https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavi...very-lives.html
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The Fool posted:Even if they follow through and make an offer, I’m super afraid to take it, even if it’s amazing, just because my current company is pretty stable and I don’t want to be low man on the totem poll at a new place in this environment. Ask for a minimum guarantee of employment in your work contract! Its a thing that happens sometimes, but I think its a reasonable fear to address in interivews in the current situation. George H.W. oval office posted:This is the truth I caught their marble olympics video. The production values are wonderfully and hilariously overboard for a basically a marble race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR3aImy7dWw
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Internet Explorer posted:Anyone using Azure Windows Virtual Desktop? Starting to deploy it. I'm surprised it went into GA in Sept of 2019 and they are only expecting it to have a management blade in Azure portal in Q3 of 2020. I mean, I guess I shouldn't be, but I am. Still excited to use it. I can talk about this some. We're in New York, and we've been 90% WfH for about three weeks now. We swung hard to Windows Virtual Desktop because we realized there was no way we could get the ~500 laptops we would need in time. We're an essential business, but the majority of our people are back-of-house. The management is weak right now. Practically non-existent if you aren't extremely comfortable in PowerShell. It is utterly mind-boggling the lack of in-browser management options available. That said, the PowerShell module is full-featured and effective. There's also a Microsoft-provided Azure WebApp you can deploy for a GUI management. It's not perfect and it's not native, but it does offer a functional GUI interface for when you don't want to break out the blue & white.. A couple of other points: No, you really can't assign a group to a pool. Users only. Besides WVD pooling, you'll want FSLogix (for profile roaming) and MSIX (for app roaming). AADDS will help keep things clean too. Normal Azure AD isn't enough, they need full Domain Services one way or the other. If you haven't already done so, you can use Conditional Access policies to add multi-factor authentication to logging in to the web front-end. Use this to get a toe-hold on MFA in the rest of the environment. Good luck!
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ptier posted:I am looking to hire a patching and provisioning engineer. I think that’s a pretty detailed enough list of requirements that describe the position well. I’d maybe put JAMF, Intune, etc. in a optional skills section? Trying to find someone with SCCM, JAMF and Intune experience is going to be a tough find and I wouldn’t want discourage potential candidates from applying. I feel any half decent SCCM engineer could easily ramp-up on Intune and JAMF. Lastly, I’d just say for education requirements that a four year degree, technical degree or equivalent practical experience is sufficient.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:I can talk about this some. Matches up with my reading and what I was planning. A lot of my career has been Citrix/VDI, and it all seems fairly straight-forward. I actually wanted to push WVD hard when I saw this coming, especially considering we were already planning on migrating away from our terrible ~cloud~ VMware Horizon environment, but was then put on some other nonsense project instead. I don't mind the PowerShell bits, but it would be nice to have some sort of management interface for others to interact with, so I was planning on deploying the Azure WebApp. Have you implement scaling already? How is that working out for you?
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Internet Explorer posted:Have you implement scaling already? How is that working out for you? That's what I'm putting off working on now. I'll get back to you on that.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:That's what I'm putting off working on now. I'll get back to you on that. No worries. I'll speak up if I tackle it any time soon.
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TheParadigm posted:Ask for a minimum guarantee of employment in your work contract! Its a thing that happens sometimes, but I think its a reasonable fear to address in interivews in the current situation. The 60fps and the pure white background that it's shot against made me think I was watching something rendered initially
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Internet Explorer posted:our terrible ~cloud~ VMware Horizon environment What's the tl;dr on Horizon? Is it really that bad? What's the appeal of this over a native Microsoft tool like Windows Sever, Azure or Citrix?
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Methanar posted:You mean asked to resign rather than be fired. Turns out yes, he was forced out with a 7 figure severance. These people don't live on the same planet as us.
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Tab8715 posted:What's the tl;dr on Horizon? Is it really that bad? What's the appeal of this over a native Microsoft tool like Windows Sever, Azure or Citrix? I mean, Citrix isn't a native Microsoft tool. By Windows Server I assume you mean Remote Desktop Services? By Azure I assume you mean Azure Windows Virtual Desktop? Honestly, even your questions are jibberish.
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This is definitely time to go all out on personal projects. I'm standing up a GitLab server which will be useful in its own right, and also good experience with modern web apps on Linux. I've got LDAP integration working, SMTP configured but not working, and just put in a request with Identity Management for an SSL key. This has also given me a much greater appreciation for the KACE appliance I manage, on that I just press buttons and things like server upgrades happen. On GitLab I'm back to editing configuration files in vim. it's fun, and good experience, but it's also nice to see that the web "appliance" we bought actually works an an appliance - it just does stuff.
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