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is that not in the OP with the spec bucket anymore?
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I hope they're all mining bitcoin.
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Nov 27, 2018 02:37
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Sickening posted:You sweet summer child. How did you get into my server room
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Nov 27, 2018 03:17
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Rackspace was primarily a white box data center. Mini towers everywhere. Now it’s all dell or synnex
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Nov 27, 2018 03:27
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jaegerx posted:Rackspace was primarily a white box data center. Mini towers everywhere. The gently caress? Just parts from Newegg?!?!??
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Nov 27, 2018 03:32
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When I first went to our remote office, I found extremely old servers with a kvm attached to a old compaq monitor. When I went to grab the monitor and take it off the top of the servers, it immediately shattered into pieces in my hands.
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Nov 27, 2018 03:37
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Tab8715 posted:The gently caress? Just parts from Newegg?!?!?? Yes. Built by hand by our techs.
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Nov 27, 2018 03:44
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Sickening posted:You sweet summer child. That's just a hidden doorway to the Ops Lounge. Slip in for a scotch or three after lunch.
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Nov 27, 2018 04:22
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jaegerx posted:Yes. Built by hand by our techs. Maintaining that must have been a nightmare of epic proportions. No wonder Rackspace flopped.
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Nov 27, 2018 04:36
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Update: My boss has apparently found out that the Microsoft Store in our city will do the migration of our office onto cloud services for free, taking me off the hook entirely. I guess we'll see how it goes.
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Nov 27, 2018 05:54
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Cirrhosis Johnson posted:Update: My boss has apparently found out that the Microsoft Store in our city will do the migration of our office onto cloud services for free, taking me off the hook entirely. I guess we'll see how it goes.  Please keep us updated.
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Nov 27, 2018 05:57
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jaegerx posted:Yes. Built by hand by our techs. This explains so much.
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Nov 27, 2018 06:57
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Cirrhosis Johnson posted:Update: My boss has apparently found out that the Microsoft Store in our city will do the migration of our office onto cloud services for free, taking me off the hook entirely. I guess we'll see how it goes. 
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Nov 27, 2018 12:24
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Cirrhosis Johnson posted:Update: My boss has apparently found out that the Microsoft Store in our city will do the migration of our office onto cloud services for free, taking me off the hook entirely. I guess we'll see how it goes. "Yeah sure just bring your server on down here and we'll plug it in and do the migration. Should take a week or so. No you won't receive email during this time, they'll all bounce back to sender as if you were out of business. But it's free!"
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Nov 27, 2018 15:28
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Tab8715 posted:Maintaining that must have been a nightmare of epic proportions. No wonder Rackspace flopped. We have one or two racks composed of "Self-Built" machines (Some kinda slide out rack rail key lock black box with retail parts) dedicated as nodes for TeamCity, weird poo poo happens every now and then; particularly one day a node cropped up that a disk drive disappeared, turned out the sata power cable was disconnected from said drive  Virtualisation? We don't need no stinking virtualisation.
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Nov 27, 2018 16:16
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Judge Schnoopy posted:"Yeah sure just bring your server on down here and we'll plug it in and do the migration. Should take a week or so. No you won't receive email during this time, they'll all bounce back to sender as if you were out of business. But it's free!" Lol if you think any data is getting migrated.
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Nov 27, 2018 16:18
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First official day and I am meeting all my team middle managers for meetings discussing daily workflows and their current projects. It mostly went okay. None of the projects or daily production support work is super efficient but not much of it seems too out of place without going over the details in full. Two teams stood out to me as being total shot shows from the get go. The network and windows administration teams. First off the windows administration team manager went over this “grueling” task of changing production dns servers entries for thousands of Servers across multiple continents. Trying not to be a jerk I asked the obvious question “what is the big challenge to this project?”. His entire bottleneck was performing these actions during outage windows. Okay fair enough, so I asked him how much time he needed to complete the project and the personnel needed etc. His estimates shocked me. Of course when I went over the details of the project he had people RDing into these severs and changing the dns entries. I wanted to throw him out the loving window. The network team wasn’t much better. So many high salaries and fancy titles for a large group of people where nobody wants to make a decision on things. Lot of old farts applying 2000 network concepts poorly. Lot of junior people trying to do good work but being overruled by clueless farts who have the nerve to be smug about it. The culture is going to loving change.
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Nov 27, 2018 17:30
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Sickening posted:First off the windows administration team manager went over this “grueling” task of changing production dns servers entries for thousands of Servers across multiple continents. Trying not to be a jerk I asked the obvious question “what is the big challenge to this project?”. His entire bottleneck was performing these actions during outage windows. Okay fair enough, so I asked him how much time he needed to complete the project and the personnel needed etc. His estimates shocked me. Of course when I went over the details of the project he had people RDing into these severs and changing the dns entries. This seems like the kind of thing you could do surely do with an automated script.
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Nov 27, 2018 17:35
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RFC2324 posted:is that not in the OP with the spec bucket anymore? Nah I never copied it all from the old thread. It's in $thread-1 OP
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Nov 27, 2018 17:37
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Neddy Seagoon posted:This seems like the kind of thing you could do surely do with an automated script. Someone broke something with a script once. Never again.
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Nov 27, 2018 17:43
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Neddy Seagoon posted:This seems like the kind of thing you could do surely do with an automated script. The majority of "Windows Administrators" I've dealt with have little to no ability with powershell. This is indeed a semi trivial task with the only complication being that they apparently have directives to run it during an outage. Though unless I'm misunderstanding the task (repointing client DNS settings to new DNS servers) it could be run easily in production. Get your script to locate the appropriate interface, modify the DNS settings since I'm assuming it's static and then flush DNS if needed. DNS will be repointed and no one will notice. Though if you are dealing with servers in thousands it'd probably be better just to get DHCP in order at the same time and change everything to that. Maintaining static addresses is just cumbersome particularly in a vritual environment (I'm assuming most/all of them are VMs. lmao if not). With properly setup DHCP and DNS that are rock solid and redundant like they should be then there's really no reason not to just go all in with it. We use infoblox for DHCP/IPAM/DNS at my current place and it's great.
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Nov 27, 2018 17:53
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Neddy Seagoon posted:This seems like the kind of thing you could do surely do with an automated script. That was what I was hoping was obvious to everyone reading here. It’s not just a script. It can be done with a single line of power shell. Targeting, filtering, and running the command to change the dns servers. Basic poo poo. I having a feeling when is ask who my power shell people are none of the people with seniority are going to raise their hand.
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Nov 27, 2018 17:54
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Yes why do the servers have static DNS configuration in the first place? Pull that poo poo from DHCP.
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Nov 27, 2018 17:54
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nielsm posted:Yes why do the servers have static DNS configuration in the first place? Pull that poo poo from DHCP. I don’t want to give some of the old fucks a heart attack during my first week. Not giving a server static network address might cause some people to lose grip on reality.
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Nov 27, 2018 18:02
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Sickening posted:I don’t want to give some of the old fucks a heart attack during my first week. Not giving a server static network address might cause some people to lose grip on reality. Sounds like a good way to promote some of those promising junior guys 
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Nov 27, 2018 18:11
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Nuclearmonkee posted:Sounds like a good way to promote some of those promising junior guys As much as people suck right now they are all going to get an opportunity to not suck. All the windows folks are going to have to learn basic power shell at the very least. It’s adapt or die time.
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Nov 27, 2018 18:20
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My big push for 2019 is to move to DHCP because I hate this static poo poo.
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Nov 27, 2018 18:32
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O365 MFA was only down for like 4-5 hours today, much better than 16 hours last week...
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Nov 27, 2018 18:40
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One of our tasks for the datacenter is to get all of our servers switched from DHCP which was a Minimum Viable Product onto statics. It's going to be great. This is not trolling.
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Nov 27, 2018 18:44
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H110Hawk posted:One of our tasks for the datacenter is to get all of our servers switched from DHCP which was a Minimum Viable Product onto statics. It's going to be great. This is not trolling. Same but the exact opposite
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Nov 27, 2018 18:48
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I'm supposedly a Windows admin but all my powershell is scripts I've googled. Haven't broken too much yet!
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Nov 27, 2018 18:57
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My main interest in IPv6 uptake is that all those fuckers who "know every IP on my network" can finally go count toothpicks for a living or whatever the gently caress they think they're contributing with.
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Nov 27, 2018 18:59
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Internet Explorer posted:My main interest in IPv6 uptake is that all those fuckers who "know every IP on my network" can finally go count toothpicks for a living or whatever the gently caress they think they're contributing with. I've memorized a bunch of ips because they're shorter than typing the real name. Fight me.
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Nov 27, 2018 19:06
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The guy who makes the containerization effort posts memorizes IPs!?! You're breaking my heart.
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Nov 27, 2018 19:11
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Logging into devices is a bug.
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Nov 27, 2018 19:27
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Is doing DNS through DHCP just setting DNS to feed from the router/DHCP server? I assume so, but I've done more networking stuff at home since moving into this house than I ever have at work. All I bother memorizing is which subnet has what stuff and the static IP for my pihole, which I set to an easy to remember number.
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Nov 27, 2018 20:00
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IPv6 is good because NAT is poo poo
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Nov 27, 2018 20:09
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Is doing DNS through DHCP just setting DNS to feed from the router/DHCP server? I assume so, but I've done more networking stuff at home since moving into this house than I ever have at work. You tell the DHCP clients what DNS server(s) to use, so you can have them go through a local source or just plug OpenDNS/Google/1.1.1.1/Umbrella/whatever in there.
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Nov 27, 2018 20:10
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Methanar posted:I've memorized a bunch of ips because they're shorter than typing the real name. Fight me. If it's easier to remember the IP than the name your naming convention probably sucks
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Nuclearmonkee posted:If it's easier to remember the IP than the name your naming convention probably sucks A lot of people's naming conventions are poo poo, and those that even make logical sense typically end up needlessly long. I contracted at one place that had a naming conversion of {initials of company}{location id}{physical or virtual id}{{responsible group id}{type of server id}{number} so an Exchange server would be: WESDC01PMSGMBX11 WES = made up company initials DC01 = Datacenter 01... which is weird, because it wasn't their first datacenter... P = Physical MSG = Messaging team MBX = Mailbox server 11 = number of server, however this was confusing because there weren't 01-10 before this server, this was the new numbering for Exchange 2010 servers at the time because 2007 servers were 01-02
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