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Doesn’t help with the usb problem, but you can mount an iso with CIMC’s vKVM functionality. Might help in a pinch.
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Charliegrs posted:Cisco has literally nothing about this in their official instructions to create the bootable USB Try using Rufus to 'burn' the ISO to a USB stick. Alternately, try a different vendor/make of USB stick.
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gooby pls posted:Doesn’t help with the usb problem, but you can mount an iso with CIMC’s vKVM functionality. Might help in a pinch. Can you elaborate on this? Like I know how to get into the vKVM but that would still rely on loading the .iso from the USB stick which is where my problem seems to be. Unless you're saying there's another source you can load it from another source using the vKVM?
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xzzy posted:WFH folks going across time zones: what techniques you got to keep times straight? I'm only an hour difference and I've done okay this past year converting times in my brain as needed but I've missed a couple meetings from conversion gently caress ups and figure there should be a more reliable way to do it. download outlook or your favorite calendar app to your workstation, enable notifications, problem solved
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Charliegrs posted:Can you elaborate on this? Like I know how to get into the vKVM but that would still rely on loading the .iso from the USB stick which is where my problem seems to be. Unless you're saying there's another source you can load it from another source using the vKVM? You'll want to go into this menu and use Activate Virtual Devices to get the options shown, then Map CD/DVD on the ISO file located somewhere on the machine where you're running the vKVM. This will create a virtual drive through CIMC:  I have installed DNAC several times using this method. I would recommend you use a machine at the same site as the destination appliance to run the vKVM if possible, since I assume the virtual drive's performance with WAN latency would be pretty rough. Eletriarnation fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Dec 6, 2023 |
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Raymond T. Racing posted:download outlook or your favorite calendar app to your workstation, enable notifications, problem solved Hey everyone should do the first thing and keep a copy of that installer version because apparently the new Office update (Build 2311) is forcing "New" Outlook and I am not sure if they fixed the bugs(feature) of PSTs not working (oh and rules breaking that part matters). https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/18bpmux/
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minusX posted:Hey everyone should do the first thing and keep a copy of that installer version because apparently the new Office update (Build 2311) is forcing "New" Outlook and I am not sure if they fixed the bugs(feature) of PSTs not working (oh and rules breaking that part matters). Google Workspace companies stay winning?
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Raymond T. Racing posted:Google Workspace companies stay winning? We're all-in on Google Apps. Other than the new Chat layout being stupid and dumb, it's just steady improvements all over. Meet especially, most slide decks can be presented directly from Meet (I need to be able to click through animations, but I'm weird). 3rd party apps like Lucid have Meet plugins now so I can feed my Product Owners' brainworms and make sticky notes without leaving the Meet tab.
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I get a perverse pleasure of telling my users that when Microsoft poo poo does not work I can't do anything about it when I really am powerless Of course I'd still do bad things to microsoft management (cemented shoes)
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mllaneza posted:We're all-in on Google Apps. Other than the new Chat layout being stupid and dumb, it's just steady improvements all over. Meet especially, most slide decks can be presented directly from Meet (I need to be able to click through animations, but I'm weird). 3rd party apps like Lucid have Meet plugins now so I can feed my Product Owners' brainworms and make sticky notes without leaving the Meet tab. we're Zoom/Slack boys but also Workspace
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All in on Microsoft and incompetent to boot! We just tell the users pound sand half the time! I hate it, our users are 99% nice and my boss and coworker are just rude at people constantly. It wouldn't be so bad if they were competent at anything.
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Uh Hey thread, it's been a little bit. I need some advice. So I'm starting my 5th month at my job, and things have been.. kinda poo poo. Basically they bumped my shift off to 2nd shift at the start of november and I've started hemorrhaging technicians. It's down to just me and one other guy on my shift right now. We've started having problems with parts availability as well. So the result of this has been a bunch of people leaving because they don't want to do warehouse work (I don't blame them). When the parts shortage started they essentially loaned all of the techs on my shift to a nearby department and gave them absolutely insane KPIs. Think like 25 an hour when the most you can do with focused effort is like 6-7. It's a mess and it sucks. Then last week nVidia came down and told us they want us to diagnose *125* of their HGX H100 8GPU servers every week. Please look up the price on one of those, they'll probably make your jaw drop if you're not familiar with the cost of server hardware. Anyway, that number is impossible to meet because anyone who could be a diagnostic tech on my shift has absconded, moreso because we've only trained 8 people on them and two of them are myself and the dayshift lead who have other duties. Also they only sent us 83, but then nVidia's engineers are still developing the diagnostic troubleshooting process for us, so they're asking us for additional diags that are sometimes making a single server take up to 10+ hours to get a final diagnostic on. An Aside: Also we've missed essentially every SLA because the parts nVidia keeps sending us for the HGX A100 8GPU servers have an absolutely ridiculous failure rate, like 45% average baseboard fail rate. So that number got more than halved to a slightly less unrealistic 47. Which we still can't meet. Last week we got 5 final diagnostics on these servers and this week so far we've got 7. This stuff doesn't really bother me as much as the mistreatment of my team because my boss and the other supervisor understand that this is the circumstance we have and it's not our fault for the breakdown in communication or some bigwig at nVidia trying to squeeze us for an insane number we can't make. Even if they make other dumb as gently caress decisions. The thing that does suck is.. I'm still making 17.50 an hour without benefits. I was promised a pay increase and to be brought on from the contracting company back in September. That hasn't happened, and what is salting the wound is I found out two weeks ago is that apparently they hired multiple techs from the 1st shift people, some of them with significantly less time than what I've put in. They rushed to get these guys in before thanksgiving so they could get benefits and time off for Dec.They're now not hiring new people until after January. I'm thinking very hard about moving on. I guess maybe with my experience in a leadership role and working on (I Guess?) cutting edge server tech, I'm wondering what I should aim for? and also if it's too soon and I should tough it out for a little longer? Also if it was never my actual title because of the lead around I've been put on, but it was still the work I did, is it disingenuous to write my title as "Lead Technician" on my resume?
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Susat posted:and also if it's too soon and I should tough it out for a little longer? Susat posted:Also if it was never my actual title because of the lead around I've been put on, but it was still the work I did, is it disingenuous to write my title as "Lead Technician" on my resume? No. Titles don't mean poo poo. You're allowed and expected to gas yourself up as long as you're not overrating yourself. You do not do yourself any favors by being brutally honest on your resume.
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It's really quite something to witness Microsoft seemingly having no idea of the reason that companies stick with M365 rather than moving to Google Workspace when it becomes time to make the decision about what to do about their on-prem Exchange, which is that EAs and the like are familiar with the way Outlook works and use all the delegation features, and then gently caress that up completely. Going back to the days I used to do a lot of mail platform migrations as everyone was getting onboard with the whole cloud thing, the main reason people were picking M365 over Google was that people were familiar with Outlook and didn't want to use a web app, well congratulations because now if you stick with Outlook you get a poo poo web app wrapped in a launcher.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/broadcom-ceo-vmware-new-remote-work-policy-2023-11quote:Hock Tan, the CEO of Broadcom, said in an all-hands meeting Tuesday that he expects employees living within 50 miles of an office to return to in-person work. Yeah amazing strategy. The best can choose where they want to work. This will ensure you end up with brown-nosers and presenteeism. They are going to bleed talent.
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100 miles a day to go to work, gently caress that. The guy sounds like an idiot Musk fanboy.
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Thanks Ants posted:100 miles a day to go to work, gently caress that. The guy sounds like an idiot Musk fanboy. "The tech world watches as Broadcom navigates integrating VMWare’s culture, which included support for employee resource groups (ERGs) – a concept Tan humorously called “alien” but is open to considering. " Ah yes the alien context of "the vaguest possible way to acknowledge employees are human beings".
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Susat posted:Uh Hey thread, it's been a little bit. I need some advice. Leave ASAP
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Thanks Ants posted:It's really quite something to witness Microsoft seemingly having no idea of the reason that companies stick with M365 rather than moving to Google Workspace when it becomes time to make the decision about what to do about their on-prem Exchange, which is that EAs and the like are familiar with the way Outlook works and use all the delegation features, and then gently caress that up completely. TIL that get-distributiongroupmember in the cloud will return external recipient GUIDs, exchange SamAccounts (not onprem), and o.g. name attribute (this changes for c2h). Fun!
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Susat posted:Uh Hey thread, it's been a little bit. I need some advice. This is a poo poo smoothie with a whole fuckload of problems that management is responsible for both creating and solving. You should GTFO ASAP, with the understanding that lots of companies functionally stop hiring between mid-November and early January. Titles in IT are almost always disconnected from the actual work you're doing. You should use something that makes more sense and can be backed up with description. If anyone asks during interviews, handwave it away with "Oh, they set titles in 1994 and haven't really updated. My actual title was 'Minicomputer Analyst', but I was doing the work that's better described as 'Server Diagnostic Technician, Team Lead', which you can see by responsibility 1, 2, and 3." It sucks. Do what you can in the time you get paid for, and plan to pull the ripcord when you can. They may guilt you about "abandoning the company", but it's a business decision and would they would absolutely fire you in a moment if it made financial sense.
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Susat posted:Uh Hey thread, it's been a little bit. I need some advice. 90% of people working in terrible jobs leave just a single day before Management changes its entire strategy, expectations, culture and budget and fixes everything. Keep at it!!
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HalloKitty posted:https://www.businessinsider.com/broadcom-ceo-vmware-new-remote-work-policy-2023-11 They don't care. Broadcom just did insanely big layoffs right after closing the deal, there's no way they figured out what's working well and what isn't. They just chopped people. This office thing is just another way to get rid of more people, and it's cheaper than layoffs and you don't have to WARN. Broadcom didn't want any VMware employees. They want VMWares customers to pay them money, and they want to hike prices significantly so that Said customers pay them more money next cycle.
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HalloKitty posted:https://www.businessinsider.com/broadcom-ceo-vmware-new-remote-work-policy-2023-11 I think this is intentional. Broadcom has a reputation of going nuts with cuts in the companies they acquire. Part of how they run them into the ground.
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I wanted to pick up where I left off my trials and tribulations of deploying Cisco DNA Center. So I was trying to load the image file from a USB stick and getting lots of error messages it didn't look like the appliance could read from the stick. This was after burning the image onto it using the instructions from Cisco. This morning I decided to reformat the disk in NTFS and burned the image again. This time, no error messages. It just jumps straight into the maglev configuration. My question is, is that normal? I would think it would start some kind of loading operation first. But anyway I said F it and went through the maglev config and now it seems to be loading the image so I guess thats the normal way things work? I think this process takes a few hours if I'm not mistaken.
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Susat posted:Uh Hey thread, it's been a little bit. I need some advice. Sorry to hear that things have been so rough. What you're describing... it's not accidental or even incidental that things are that bad. It's purposeful and you should act accordingly. Do the bare minimum, protect your own sanity, and try to find a new job as quickly as you can. It's not a great time to be looking, which sucks, but at least you still have a job right now. Just try not to let it drag you down.
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Charliegrs posted:I wanted to pick up where I left off my trials and tribulations of deploying Cisco DNA Center. So I was trying to load the image file from a USB stick and getting lots of error messages it didn't look like the appliance could read from the stick. This was after burning the image onto it using the instructions from Cisco. This morning I decided to reformat the disk in NTFS and burned the image again. This time, no error messages. It just jumps straight into the maglev configuration. My question is, is that normal? I would think it would start some kind of loading operation first. But anyway I said F it and went through the maglev config and now it seems to be loading the image so I guess thats the normal way things work? I think this process takes a few hours if I'm not mistaken. Yes, that's normal - you tell it how to configure maglev, then it goes through the whole installation process. "A few hours" is optimistic, I remember it taking something like eighteen hours per node with first gen appliances and it didn't allow me to start more nodes until I finished the first, but maybe it'll be a lot better using an actual flash drive than the network mount. Susat posted:... This is insanity, I was making 20/hour as an intern in 2009. You would think they could pay a proper living wage to someone who's validating servers that cost as much as a house. Eletriarnation fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Dec 6, 2023 |
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Susat posted:The thing that does suck is.. I'm still making 17.50 an hour without benefits. I was promised a pay increase and to be brought on from the contracting company back in September. That hasn't happened, and what is salting the wound is I found out two weeks ago is that apparently they hired multiple techs from the 1st shift people, some of them with significantly less time than what I've put in. They rushed to get these guys in before thanksgiving so they could get benefits and time off for Dec.They're now not hiring new people until after January. I'm guilty as hell of sticking around when I shouldn't have in the past, so let me say, please, start looking hard for other options, because almost anything else will be better paying and less stressful.
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Just learned that New Teams has a bad habit of fully removing the Teams Outlook plugin. Thanks Microsoft. (should be fixed now with the latest New Teams patch but haven't verified)
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klosterdev posted:Just learned that New Teams has a bad habit of fully removing the Teams Outlook plugin. Thanks Microsoft. (should be fixed now with the latest New Teams patch but haven't verified) Yeah that was a fun month.
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klosterdev posted:Just learned that New Teams has a bad habit of fully removing the Teams Outlook plugin. Thanks Microsoft. (should be fixed now with the latest New Teams patch but haven't verified) Let me know if you do verify that it's fixed. A month or two ago I disabled the rollout of New Teams in my org after we had like five tickets come in simultaneously saying their Outlook plugin was mysteriously gone. I'd like to re-enable it since people say it's a big improvement over the old client
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Charliegrs posted:Is this what it looks like when a DNA center image is loading after the maglev config? I can't say I'm familiar with the exact sequence of events since I usually walked away after I got it started and came back several hours to a day later, but it looks like it's just installing stuff. Once it's finished it should give a pretty clear message to that effect.
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Susat posted:Uh Hey thread, it's been a little bit. I need some advice. By asking this you already know what you need to do, it's just a question of your personal timing and logistics, etc. But if all you're walking away from is crummy pay, it certainly makes the math of that a hell of a lot simpler. You're the Lead Tech - absolutely put that on your resume. Also including the dollar value daily/weekly you were responsible for as part of the job description is a good idea.
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Susat posted:Uh Hey thread, it's been a little bit. I need some advice. I was in a slightly less toxic job and stayed too long. Not leaving that job earlier is still my biggest IT carreer regret a decade later. Get out. They treat you like poo poo, don’t keep promises (likely on purpose) and there will be no improvements. You owe them nothing. Start applying / interviewing today.
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So my DNA center primary unit is now online and reachable through the GUI. Unfortunately it looks like it loaded an older version so I guess it didn't like the USB stick after all. I didn't even know these devices had an image already I thought they didn't come with one. However it appears to be downloading and installing the latest version on its own so that's cool. I think I might just bring up the other 2 this way. Eletriarnation posted:I can't say I'm familiar with the exact sequence of events since I usually walked away after I got it started and came back several hours to a day later, but it looks like it's just installing stuff. Once it's finished it should give a pretty clear message to that effect. So it looks like it worked-ish. Apparently the appliance still didn't like my USB stick but I guess it had an older version to boot to so it did and it became reachable on the network. And then it automatically updated itself to the latest version direct from Cisco so that was nice. So I tried adding the 2nd node and I think it worked but I'm not totally sure how to verify it. In the settings - system configuration tab in DNA it shows the 2nd node with its IP and a green marker so I think that must mean it's good?
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