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Internet Explorer posted:Plus while most people seem to like Pluralsight, my only experience with it was for that test and both the training and practice questions were bad enough that I will never recommend that poo poo to anyone. They were so far off from the actual test I can only assume they had no clue what the test looked like. I've done Udemy courses and they were fantastic. Plenty of depth, extremely test oriented, and provided walkthroughs for do-it-yourself labs. Passed my CCNA off of a Udemy course. I'm doing the Pluralsight trial and have started up a few courses. Each one feels slow, monotonous, and way off point for getting certifications. The labs require buying other services like VIRL or building server stacks. It's really terrible and like you I would not recommend Pluralsights to anybody. I'm trying to figure out the difference, and I think it's that Udemy gets money directly from people purchasing the course. To get these people they need to have a high rating, so each course competes to be the most complete and best resource. Pluralsights doesn't have any of that internal competition and greatly suffers from it. Dross posted:I guess my question is where the shallow end of the pool is? If I want to have a skillset that can get my foot in the door at another organization with only a helpdesk job on my resume, what's my best bet? Everybody is going to tell you this depends on the field you want to end up in. Look 5 years down the road and imagine the type of job you want, look at job postings for that job, and set your course for the experience and certs you need to get there. If you're not sure I'd start with the CompTIA Net+ because having network knowledge is a great background for any IT job. Judge Schnoopy fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Jan 19, 2016 |
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Sefal posted:I am not looking forward to 411. I glanced over it and saw it had something called Radius. I don't know what a 411 is, but RADIUS is like TACACS but something people actually use for AAA.  It's built in to basically every network device ever that has AAA as a configurable option. It's been around for a very long time and is incredibly useful to know. Modern times it's used to let people into network devices, as well as authenticate things like 802.1X. Protip, don't let anyone trick you into FreeRADIUS. It is garbage. Use Windows Server "NPS" - it is seriously plug and play. This is how places can assign policies like "You aren't allowed on the internet because your virus scanner is out of date. Instead you go on the VLAN of shame which only has ways to install/update virus scanners, or get virus remediation tools." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADIUS https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755248.aspx
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H110Hawk posted:I don't know what a 411 is, but RADIUS is like TACACS but something people actually use for AAA.
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Dross posted:I guess my question is where the shallow end of the pool is? If I want to have a skillset that can get my foot in the door at another organization with only a helpdesk job on my resume, what's my best bet? Virtualization. This can be tricky, but you've got an amazing group of peers on this forum who can help you out.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Pluralsights doesn't have any of that internal competition and greatly suffers from it. There is no "internal" competition because PluralSight doesn't produce the content, it just hosts other people's training (mostly small independent folks). Much like YouTube or github, there's going to be a massive spread in quality between individual courses based on the author so blanket statements about the service are going to be just as effective as arguments about YouTube red. You should be name-and-shaming (or -faming) the author.
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Dross posted:
You might also want to take a look at architecting/building cloud-native applications. We [here at Amazon Web Services] can't hire enough people who can think "cloud native" instead of "I'm just going to dump my datacenter into a cloud provider and call it good". A quick google search for "building cloud native applications" will bring up a host of articles about the differences between a hosted solution and cloud solution. If it interests you at all, I highly recommend it as a way to be on the cutting edge of platforms technology as well as extending and future-proofing your skill set. We hire Helpdesk people all the time for Cloud Support Associates, with a vested interest in getting you skilled up to Cloud Support Engineer and have a good career path into higher level positions and will do our level best to help you get there. Agrikk fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Jan 19, 2016 |
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H110Hawk posted:I don't know what a 411 is, but RADIUS is like TACACS but something people actually use for AAA. That sounds pretty cool. I'm just going to start the course and figure it out. I have a virtualbox lab on my laptop I can use to experiment with. I have a meeting with my boss on thursday. Hopefully I can convince him to pay for the 70-411 course and exam. Even though i passed the 70-410 exam. I still don't completely undertstand ipv6. Do you guy know where i could brush that up a bit? I'm still trying to figure out how to migrate the AD. I have written down how to do the migration. But I don't really know how to test it proper. I'm thinking about creating a user, giving him some rights, link exchange to the user. Test if he can log on,recieve, send mail and if the user rights are working correctly. It seems too shallow. DCdiag would show me if it's healthy. correct me if i'm wrong, Would a rollback work if I 1st shutdown both AD vm's and then take a snaphshot of them. In that case the USN shouldn't gently caress up right?
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I'm going through the 410 Pluralsight series and it seems okay. Definitely not something you can solely use to pass the exam. The Powershell series is pretty in depth and useful I feel though
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Sefal posted:That sounds pretty cool. I'm just going to start the course and figure it out. I have a virtualbox lab on my laptop I can use to experiment with. I have a meeting with my boss on thursday. Hopefully I can convince him to pay for the 70-411 course and exam. Instead of snapshotting you could shut down both and copy the entire VM folders somewhere and leave them dormant as a backup if necessary. Just don't start them up at the same time.
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H110Hawk posted:Looks like it's aiming for 100k EUR, and that is an artifact of EUR-USD conversion? It's off by a few hundred at todays rates, but who knows! There's other money than  ?What a weird idea. 
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SaltLick posted:The Powershell series is pretty in depth and useful I feel though Could you link this or give me the title?
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Dross posted:I'm a Tier 1 helpdesk type for a smallish private family owned company (~120 employees) that kinda lucked into this position when my predecessor died of cancer. The network/server admin, who is a personal friend of mine and got me the job after I had been working as a security guard for 10 years, mostly keeps his side of things as modern as possible. The web guy and the lead dev do all their coding in Visual FoxPro because reasons, and our order entry system still runs on FoxPro for DOS. All of that is supposed to change when our new website, which we contracted another company to write, is deployed, but that's been simmering for a couple years now while the lead dev (who refuses to collaborate or use source control, by the way) lethargically writes a back end to move things from the DBFs to SQL.
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How do people get t1 jobs? I've joined Indeed and other job engines with keyword searches but it's very dead. I'm located in NYC area so I guess I could be extremely unlucky too. In progress studying for A+ but figured irl exp would help a bit and I need more for additional certs eventually. I have checked the college job board but they get 1-2 new jobs which I vaguely qualify for every 2-3 weeks. I've checked the LinkedIn threads but otherwise still searching for stuff.
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Vulture Culture posted:Upward mobility or not, this sounds like a poo poo place to develop marketable skills and the entrenched people sound like they couldn't scale the product even if the company took off. Get out. Came to post exactly this. This place sounds like a mismanaged shithole where no one actually knows how technology works. Get out yesterday.
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Alder posted:How do people get t1 jobs? I've joined Indeed and other job engines with keyword searches but it's very dead. I'm located in NYC area so I guess I could be extremely unlucky too. In progress studying for A+ but figured irl exp would help a bit and I need more http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=Desktop&l=New+York+City%2C+NY What keywords are you trying? What type of T1 are you looking for? I've found indeed to be really helpful if you know what to punch in the search box, but if you try to narrow down what level of job you're looking for it will crap out. Try hitting on parts of the job title you may be interested in, like Desktop, Network (though I get a lot of nursing jobs thrown in this search), A+, CCNA, MSCA, or even the blanket IT and sifting through the gruff. And always apply for jobs you'll be qualified for within a year. Maybe apply to jobs you'll qualify for in 2 years. You could always get lucky.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=Desktop&l=New+York+City%2C+NY This is good advice. Also try to find IT networking events and go to those. That first job can often come down to just knowing someone.
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Volmarias posted:Came to post exactly this. This place sounds like a mismanaged shithole where no one actually knows how technology works. Get out yesterday. That's why I posted. I originally saw this position as a foot in the IT field door, but more and more I feel like the time I spend here won't do anything for me in the long run except give me the ability to say "I've had an IT job before." I live in Nashville, which is a reasonably sized city and should have opportunities, but I guess I wouldn't be opposed to relocating either if I found a good opening. So my question was less "how do I get awesome at this company" and more "how do I form an exit strategy and have somewhere good to go when I'm still bottom of the barrel?"
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Dross posted:That's why I posted. I originally saw this position as a foot in the IT field door, but more and more I feel like the time I spend here won't do anything for me in the long run except give me the ability to say "I've had an IT job before." PM me. My company is HQ'd there and I know people that know people. I've already placed one Nashville goon so let's double down... Actually flying into Nashville for 3 days of training aka drinking tomorrow, just in time for snow!
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KS posted:For the same price as the 2515H there are numerous 27" 2560x1440 panels out there. That's a weird size. Thanks. I now have 2x 2415s and they are money well spent coming from 2x 20" Samsungs from 2007. I don't think the 25" would have fitted properly on my desk.
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Dark Helmut posted:PM me. My company is HQ'd there and I know people that know people. I've already placed one Nashville goon so let's double down... Sent you a PM. I'll be surprised if we get sticky snow, but let me know if you want to get a beer tomorrow (Thursday is my fiancee's birthday and Friday is the party).
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The only reason I'm using pluralsight is because of the free six months. I do get the feeling it's not very good, especially when 90% of the powershell stuff is "run get-help".
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siggy2021 posted:especially when 90% of the powershell stuff is "run get-help". That's 90% of Powershell though.
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I'd be fine with it if that was 90% of the test.
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Students moved back on campus. One dude was downloading a bunch of movies and Fallout 4, got caught by the copyright-checking-appliance. The dumb thing then proceeded to lock out the entire student side network and display a copyright violation notice, instead of singling out the MAC as it is supposed to. Now I get to troubleshoot that in a live environment... 
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siggy2021 posted:I'd be fine with it if that was 90% of the test. It's bullshit that you can't type get-help on the exams. I would be so much happier with their complicated Powershell questions if I could use the built in help.
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Thanks Ants posted:Thanks. I now have 2x 2415s and they are money well spent coming from 2x 20" Samsungs from 2007. I don't think the 25" would have fitted properly on my desk. The generic ~$40 dual monitor arms work surprisingly well if you want to free up some surface space. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ITG90D0 http://www.amazon.com/VIVO-STAND-V002-Monitor-Adjustable-Screens/dp/B009S750LA/
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I have an Ergotron LX Dual  But yes, dual displays need a nice stand ideally.
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Has anyone used one of these before? Full Motion Dual Arm Desk Monitor Laptop Mount Stand Was it worth it? I'm really curious if I could place my docking station on top then plug in my laptop.
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What do you think the salary for this position would be? What would you guys do it for? https://ghgcorp.applicantpro.com/jobs/333288.html
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sudo rm -rf posted:What do you think the salary for this position would be? gently caress I'd love to work in Antarctica, too bad Canada is at the wrong end of the globe
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sudo rm -rf posted:What do you think the salary for this position would be? quote:hubs
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CLAM DOWN posted:gently caress I'd love to work in Antarctica, too bad Canada is at the wrong end of the globe They don't staff it with people who can commute there, dude.
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sudo rm -rf posted:What do you think the salary for this position would be? Immediately. I'm tired of people.
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sudo rm -rf posted:What do you think the salary for this position would be? There was a thread at one time where a goon was working IT at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. He would lose Internet throughout the day. Someone with a better memory or archives should find the thread.
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Inspector_666 posted:They don't staff it with people who can commute there, dude. No poo poo, I mean Canada has no presence there and nowhere to work, all the jobs there require you to be a citizen of another country, like USA in that ad
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CLAM DOWN posted:No poo poo, I mean Canada has no presence there and nowhere to work, all the jobs there require you to be a citizen of another country, like USA in that ad Oh, I figured Canada had folks there. I guess you could just keep going north?
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sudo rm -rf posted:What do you think the salary for this position would be? applied.
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Stupid degree requirement. I will never understand why places want you to have a computer science degree to be an admin. "Can you set up a router?" "No, but I can tell you all about big O notation!"
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