The Fool posted:

Do you have any specific questions?

My biggest recommendation is to also learn some iac tool alongside learning Azure. Terraform being the biggest but ARM/bicep are fine.

The thing to keep in mind is that the type of company that uses Azure is totally different than the type of company that uses AWS.

Azure customers tend to be enterprises that are totally bought in to the MS ecosystem so having a cloud provider that neatly integrates with the technologies they’re already using on-prem is an appealing concept. (Yes, reality varies widely)

GreenNight posted:

Network Admin. Supposedly I'm to meet with the boss when I'm back from vacation to go over the IT org chart since we want to hire 5 people next year. Told him I expect a Senior in front of my title with a compensation increase. He had me go over my job description and add all the things I do now that I did not do when I was last promoted. It was substantial.

luminalflux posted:

I've had the plastic inside the connector on my 5c get all bent out of shape so now it won't fit in a usb-c socket, and it's lived on my keychain for like 3 years

Dick Trauma posted:

I got the goddamn job.

Offer letter by the end of the week. I told them I would give my current employer two week notice, but I wanted a third week following that for myself. I know they're hot to have me start ASAP, so I told the recruiter that I would be willing to start right away if they guaranteed me a week off after my first month.

And the pay? It's a 45% increase, the biggest percentage jump in my life. Sort of takes the sting out of getting just two 3% raises over the last six years.

Thank you all so much for your support. I'm a damaged person, and I oscillate between behaving like the person I should be, and the person I became. Throughout this process I tried very hard to channel the former, and tell the latter to shut up.

Thanks Ants posted:

Oh are you expecting a cake?

KS posted:

Change resume title to helpdesk ops manager or IT ops manager or something. There's nothing wrong with manipulating keywords copying the job description setting the font to white and pasting it in the margins of your resume.

DelphiAegis posted:

Sickening posted:

Update your ios stuff, today.

https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/

Sickening posted:

This is a start up. She CISO believes she is god herself at times and is an incredibly toxic person. Everyone dreads working with her on anything and she doesn't understand most of the cloud technologies we use. She sure thinks she does though. She is an extreme micro manager and sole do-er of things, she only has me around her to tell her the wrong way "IE: the actual feasable way" so she can do it the right way "the way that won't work, hasn't work, and technically isn't possible to do". Nothing gets done, nothing gets done ever.

She is nuts and has certain tendencies that are completely predictable. One of the service desk employees is someone she obsesses over. All things are his fault for doing "wrong". He has only been an employee here for 2 months, but she routinely blames him for things that were clearly setup before he was an employee here. I often have to remind her of this fact. Its to the point where its starting to make me feel uncomfortable because she will bring up his name in every meeting, every conversation, and its just silly. Its compulsive.

She has decided that IS Security is not just security, but also the folks who define the proper way every other team does their job. Its possible the helpdesk made an actual mistake with something or she just perceived they did, and she has stripped them of all roles. Didn't tell them, just removed their roles. Now I am suppose to work service desk tickets. I am not going to work them mind you, I am just going to pretend to flail along with them while I do work with my other jobs. Smile and nod and let the CEO finally decide when enough is enough.

Paychecks still cash.

Sickening posted:

HR doesn't exist in this start up yet.

Thanks Ants posted:

Do you want to define yourself as the wireless guy?

Darchangel posted:

and this is the only reason she's still employed.

edit: that and the old boy's network that is C-levels.

Farking Bastage posted:

That PrintNightmare patch just loving exploded here. Everyone's already installed print drivers just started requiring elevation. This is why you shouldn't use the internal IT team as test subjects. Most, of not all have elevation privileges.

The Fool posted:

You shouldn’t, and this a good opportunity to fix it.

Even especiallyIT should be using regular user accounts day to day and only elevate to a privileged account when needed.

Wibla posted:

Second round of interviews today, feels like it went really well

Dick Trauma posted:

My new boss forwarded me a quote for PCs put together by the outgoing I.T. person. Wanted me to do a quick review. It's $20k of desktops and 4k monitors, top level warranty on everything, Quadro graphics cards, etc. Under different circumstances I might want to put the brakes on and review the needs, but having not actually started the new job I don't know the environment or expectations.

So instead I asked about their depreciation schedule and was surprised that tech purchases are all OPEX, no depreciation. He said they have an informal two year replacement cycle. They only buy high powered systems, which is fine with me. If they're desktop heavy makes me wonder if anyone's mobile, working remotely.

I had the sense that the company was loaded, and am looking forward to recalibrating my budgetary sensibilities.

Dick Trauma posted:

I had the sense that the company was loaded, and am looking forward to recalibrating my budgetary sensibilities.