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There have been a ton of those fake Ukraine support scammers so while it is in bad taste, it's also emulating an extremely common scam at the moment.
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KillHour posted:Really? Come on - this is in bad taste.
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May 27, 2022 00:26
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User education is such a high effort, low return practice. If users can do it, they will do it.
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May 27, 2022 00:57
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Rexxed posted:There have been a ton of those fake Ukraine support scammers so while it is in bad taste, it's also emulating an extremely common scam at the moment. The point of phishing training is to reinforce patterns of behavior when it comes to handling email, not to train against a specific example of an attack. There's very little utility in exploiting war crimes and a massive humanitarian crisis because the only goal with using a current event like that is to get the failure percentage to go up to satisfy some quarterly power point. I mean, I guess gently caress the employees that might have loved ones that live in Ukraine that they haven't been able to contact in a month to know if they are living or dead. It's lovely and scummy behavior and doesn't increase the security posture of an organization.
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a little late from last page but the head of HR for one of my clients has a rule to CC herself on all e-mail she sends. shes also fallen for multiple fake employee banking info changes, and once was scammed out of 3k in gift cards when she tried to buy a truck on craigslist.
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May 27, 2022 01:49
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tango alpha delta posted:This is a classic CYA move. Just lean into it because it might help you down the line. It's also a way to signal to your boss you're taking something seriously if they've abruptly decided something is an emergency. Unless the contents of the email are pissy or I knew I hosed up, I wouldn't read it as anything directed at me.
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May 27, 2022 02:20
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Sywert of Thieves posted:My toddlers do this. Even if I'm just in the adjacent room with my back turned, they go "hey daddy why does this thing do that?" as if I know what they're taking about. Mrs. Bastard will answer the question 'Where? ' with 'There', unaccompanied by any sort of gesture of in which direction.
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May 27, 2022 02:31
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tactlessbastard posted:Mrs. Bastard will answer the question 'Where? ' with 'There', unaccompanied by any sort of gesture of in which direction. I didn't read your username at first and this was way funnier that way.
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May 27, 2022 03:42
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KillHour posted:I didn't read your username at first and this was way funnier that way. Just wait until you hear about one of my little bastards pouring a cup of water out over Mrs Bastard's laptop this week.
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May 27, 2022 03:47
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Internet Explorer posted:Are you going across a VPN or WAN? ADUC isn't meant for higher latency than your normal LAN. Doesn't seem to matter whether I'm in the office or on VPN. It's entirely possible the AD server is somewhere like Maryland but also it's just never been this bad. Maybe size has something to do with it? I think there's around 1 million users overall
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holy I've never dealt with a million user accounts, but afaik ADUC is supposed to have pagination, etc., to not query all that at once. If the sever is across the WAN, that would be your problem. But as others said, may not be a bad idea getting comfortable with PowerShell at that level of scale.
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We have less than 200 that we can do things with directly, everything else is segregated to other bases. Powershell seems like the way to go at this point though, one of our sysadmins has been starting up some short classes to get us more familiar with it and show us the magic of command line
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May 27, 2022 04:25
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once worked with a large energy company that created AD accounts for every single customer for some horribly stupid reason I don't remember anymore. literally millions of accounts. aduc worked fine but the amount of resources it took were loving ridiculous and i could imagine how it would probably be slow sometimes from what, i imagine, was everything involved straining not to collapse in on itself constantly
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At 1 million accounts, even PowerShell is going to struggle over a WAN unless you get real, real good at filtering left. This honestly sounds like a good use case for a jump box/admin workstation. If you're starting from scratch, pick up PowerShell In A Month of Lunches. ~30 half-hour lessons in one book.
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May 27, 2022 06:36
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Is there a decent PowerShell book that isn't Learn PowerShell In A Month Of Lunches? I have a copy of it and I really don't like it.
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May 27, 2022 10:32
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guppy posted:Is there a decent PowerShell book that isn't Learn PowerShell In A Month Of Lunches? I have a copy of it and I really don't like it. Oreilly has a lot of picks to choose, do you have any requirement? What rubbed you the wrong way about month of lunches?
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May 27, 2022 11:00
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Why did our identity people not only let people have apostrophes in their email addresses, but also made it so that it's the kind of apostrophe that resolves as a single quote in SAS?
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May 27, 2022 12:52
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I'm guessing it's because they're aware of Irish names.
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Arquinsiel posted:I'm guessing it's because they're aware of Irish names. Yes, but maybe use the type of apostrophe that doesn't cause mailing programs to poo poo the bed.
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May 27, 2022 13:12
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Mailing programs should have thought of that before deciding to use it. It's only been a few hundred years of use and apparently the USA is full of us 
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May 27, 2022 13:14
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The single quote character is valid for emails ' but if it's being turned into something else by your email program, well brother that's a poo poo email program, innit?
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DelphiAegis posted:The single quote character is valid for emails ' but if it's being turned into something else by your email program, well brother that's a poo poo email program, innit? Yes, we've established that it's an email program.
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SlowBloke posted:Oreilly has a lot of picks to choose, do you have any requirement? What rubbed you the wrong way about month of lunches? It's been a few years since I've tried it, so I don't remember it all that well, but I really didn't like their approach. It felt like every chapter was "PowerShell does x in a different way than other languages, which might seem bad but is actually good, also we won't talk about why until way later, but we're going to say something like this in every chapter for a while, and also PowerShell is god's gift to mankind." It's fine in principle not to do a deep dive right away, but they kept doing it. If you are constantly having to say "we'll come back to this," I think you need to re-think your book's structure, and I don't think I learned or retained much of what I was reading. I've read plenty of other books on both networking and programming and found them more accessible, so it's not like I can't handle reading technical content. And the constant PowerShell evangelism is exhausting.
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Nah, as in, I'm writing a SAS program that takes a dataset containing database details for our EDW including the email addresses of each of the databases' multiple owners, rearranges it to spit out a dataset for each owner containing details of all databases owned by that owner, and then converts that into an excel spreadsheet containing the info which it then automatically emails to each owner with a message asking them to confirm their continued ownership of the database and to indicate where there is scope for reduction in database size/retiring the database as space constraints are becoming a problem. The issue is that I'm trying to get it to work as one-click and you're done as there are 130 owners who need to receive the email and mailing them individually whenever we need to perform this function would be prohibitively time-consuming. But as I'm using a macro to achieve this (e.g. a do loop for do i=1 to &count in order to send the appropriate email with the appropriate attachment to &&email&i), I'm running into issues because the email addresses for people with apostrophes in their names are stored with the apostrophe being ’, however this doesn't resolve to an email address in our system as the apostrophe in email addresses in our system are ', which resolves to a single quote in SAS which causes an error in the program as it interprets it as the commencement of a string with a missing end quotation mark. Hence also why the email addresses are stored with the unresolvable (for our email system) ’, as that's the only way they could be stored. Turns out the only way to get it to work is to to run a TRANWRD function, but you can only do it in the call symputx step where you're defining the email macro variable because attempting to do it at any step that might conceivably have the resulting string stored in a table will cause the program to poo poo itself. But it took a long time to get to the bottom of it and I'm cranky.
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In other "Broadcom is going to gently caress up VMware" news, Broadcom just told the press and investors that perpetual licenses are going away, have fun explaining management about your VMware licensing expenses ballooning.
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SlowBloke posted:In other "Broadcom is going to gently caress up VMware" news, Broadcom just told the press and investors that perpetual licenses are going away, have fun explaining management about your VMware licensing expenses ballooning. Ahahaha oh god  E: Do you have a source for that, btw? Wibla fucked around with this message at 14:52 on May 27, 2022 |
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Wibla posted:E: Do you have a source for that, btw? https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/27/broadcom_vmware_subscriptions/?td=keepreading-btm
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I thought we already pay a vmware subscription except they call it maintenance but refuse to fix poo poo or work tickets.
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ghostinmyshell posted:I thought we already pay a vmware subscription except they call it maintenance but refuse to fix poo poo or work tickets. We got quoted the subscription price rather than SnS once, it was fun to see a 150k€ per year rather than 15k€ for five bill.
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Congrats, $SeniorDeveloper, you managed to completely torpedo any respect I might have had for you. But at least you managed to save a few key-presses by typing "u", "plz", and "thx", completely avoiding the shift key, and managing to spell my name in two different ways, neither of which was right. In an "emergency" request for dev resources right before a long weekend. And a Teams Chat window where no idea can be expressed in one message.
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May 27, 2022 16:33
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Anybody who uses "lol" as random punctuation instantly puts me off helping them
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But like lol what if i really like to use lol lol
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hey it could be worse...they could be one of those people that type their messages like this...just paragraphs on paragraphs of endless dribble only being separated by ellipsis...i like to think theyre talking as they type out their sentences...and it sounds like eeyore...our education system has failed us all...
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Our cybersecurity insurance requirements are almost to the point of people standing around to twisting two keys to launch nuclear weapons. "Administrators requiring Domain Admin privileges must be on site and accompanied in person by a second trusted Administrator to perform Active Directory tasks that require Domain Admin privileges."
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i feel attacked ghostinmyshell posted:Our cybersecurity insurance requirements are almost to the point of people standing around to twisting two keys to launch nuclear weapons. hahaha
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Which bean counter snuck that in as a cudgel to get people back onsite?
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Internet Explorer posted:Which bean counter snuck that in as a cudgel to get people back onsite? Just wait until they find out your DC is hosted and you have to drive to Duluth every time you want to make a change.
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Start deploying DCs in Azure regions that you fancy visiting
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Internet Explorer posted:Hell yeah! Congrats! Zil posted:Huge congrats. RadicalR posted:Congrats! Let us know how your current work reacts. thank you all very much. what ended up happening is: i got my resignation in just barely in time to get a slot in the end-of-year staff meeting where they honor departing employees by having one of their close colleagues talk for a minute or two about how cool they are. the lady who did mine has worked here for so long that she was my math teacher 20 years ago, and she's retiring this year, so she asked me if i wanted her to spill the beans about my being trans, and i said hell yes go for it. i wasn't sure how everyone would react but neither of us cared, and a murmur certainly swept through the audience when she dropped the bomb, but afterwards a ton of people came up to me to give me hugs and wish me well and tell me how brave i am, so that was nice. and now that everyone knows the deal, i can work my last day (the 31st) as myself so everyone gets to see how hot i am. everything worked out great and i am very excited to start my new job
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ghostinmyshell posted:Our cybersecurity insurance requirements are almost to the point of people standing around to twisting two keys to launch nuclear weapons. How can teams get poo poo like that passed but I get nothing but fire and brimstone when I push to encrypt as much internal traffic as possible?!? I should learn to be a better salesman or something I guess.
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