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The other day I was joining a WebEx and the sales person from our side was like WHY AREN'T WE USING SKYPE BOB
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"Let's name two completely different products the same thing, this will never get confusing." -Microsoft marketing dept.
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Jun 10, 2016 13:23
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Okay, thanks, guys. I was seeing people complaining about transitioning from Lync to Skype for business ( I know it's basically Lync 2016) so wanted to be sure. I have Skype for Business installed on my home system since I got Office Pro Plus 2016 at a massive discount and just hav eno use for it there. One of my goon co-workers had a fun issue recently. Customer ordered systems from in bulk 3 years ago. Some got deployed and others got thrown into storage and deployed slowly since. So one system gets opened up 3 years after ordering and found that they had recieved the wrong controllers installed. Okay, that's fine, but...why did you not check on your inventory before storing it? I'm waiting of for the cusotmer who stores the system, lets the warranty lapse, and calls us complaining about problems with the order when they finally open it.
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Jun 10, 2016 14:49
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It was bad when we first made the transition, but that was a long time ago and most of the issues have been ironed out. Our biggest issue now is that it won't give you any big notification that it wasn't able to sign you in so you can be offline and not even know it, which is fixed by emailing that person asking them to check their skype. It even saves conversation history to outlook properly now. If I had bet money on that being fixed, I would have lost for sure.
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Jun 10, 2016 15:24
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God forbid you use a Mac, since Lync 2013 hasn't been changed to Skype for Business, and it barely works. Mainly you can't add contacts. It even tells you that when you try.
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Jun 10, 2016 16:40
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Jerk McJerkface posted:God forbid you use a Mac, since Lync 2013 hasn't been changed to Skype for Business, and it barely works. Mainly you can't add contacts. It even tells you that when you try. I'm waiting to try Skype for Business 2016 for mac I've even sign up to test it. Been about a month now. Am not hopeful at this point, is anyone on the trial? Does adding contacts work? Oblig content- poo poo that's pissing me off - first time running a big hardware replacement and different suppliers quoting prices with tax, without tax, dear god someone standardise this.
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Jun 10, 2016 17:00
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The Mac preview of Skype for Business works with meetings only at the moment. No chat, no phone calls.
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Jun 10, 2016 17:11
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CitizenKain posted:So this week we had the weirdest error I've seen in a long time. At one of our sites, they had grown to the point where we needed to expand their IP range, mainly because they have 1 printer for every 3 people. We have a few more like that, and we moved them from a /24 to a /23 without issue, and haven't had a problem. So why don't you have DHCP snooping on the switches? Too cheap?
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Jun 10, 2016 17:45
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Thanks Ants posted:The Mac preview of Skype for Business works with meetings only at the moment. No chat, no phone calls. Jerk McJerkface posted:God forbid you use a Mac, since Lync 2013 hasn't been changed to Skype for Business, and it barely works. Mainly you can't add contacts. It even tells you that when you try.
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Jun 10, 2016 17:54
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I've spent all day staring at 10,000 line excel spreadsheets spin and hang while sorting columns.
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Jun 10, 2016 19:31
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Bigass Moth posted:I've spent all day staring at 10,000 line excel spreadsheets spin and hang while sorting columns. Do a VLOOKUP on 50,000 records and listen to your fans kick on full blast for 5 minutes while you're PC is unusable
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Jun 10, 2016 19:36
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In call manager you can export basically everything. What I want is to export all phone model types, mac addresses, directory numbers, description and IP address on one spreadsheet. Of course you can't actually get all of these things on one report. The only way to get the IP addresses easily is to copy paste the entire phone device screen. Then you can match those up with the rest of the data in a bulk pull. Oh, except for the directory numbers because for some reason there is no export for that. You can copy paste thewhole directory number screen andthen match it to your other reports. Of course if your directory numbers don't have descriptions, which mine don't, there is nothing to match to. Unless you manually go into each phone or dn and write down the associations. So I have a billing report from another department that lists directory numbers and the Ethernet ports they are in. Great except much of the data is wrong. Did I mention I have 8000 phones and many more directory numbers? I'm sure there an easier way to do this but I haven't found it. The reason I'm doing this? They have Cisco emergency responder which has thousands of unsigned phone lines that will not send emergency services to the correct place! So I need to update that information but wait, of course the rest of phones from cer has conflicting info to what is in call manager! It has not been an exciting day. Edit:you can export directory numbers with phones, forgive me for my faux pad. I had of course done that but have been overwhelmed juggling so many other things. Bigass Moth fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Jun 10, 2016 |
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Jun 10, 2016 19:56
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Bob Morales posted:Do a VLOOKUP on 50,000 records and listen to your fans kick on full blast for 5 minutes while you're PC is unusable VLOOKUP is the wrong tool. I don't know what you are trying to do, but holy poo poo, don't do it through VLOOKUP. Even two MATCH queries inside an INDEX lookup processes faster than a VLOOKUP.
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Jun 10, 2016 23:06
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MrMoo posted:So why don't you have DHCP snooping on the switches? Too cheap? Its never come up before. This is the first time we've had a problem with DHCP at the switch level, also we thought the problem was on the DHCP server. Our switches will do it, so we'll probably have to roll that out when we catch up on everything else.
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Jun 10, 2016 23:13
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Arsten posted:VLOOKUP is the wrong tool. I don't know what you are trying to do, but holy poo poo, don't do it through VLOOKUP. Even two MATCH queries inside an INDEX lookup processes faster than a VLOOKUP. List one has Internal ID for system 1 - My Value List two has Internal ID for system 2 - My Value End result needs to be Internal ID for System 1 - Internal ID for System 2 - My value It's actually really fast to just import them both into MySQL as two tables and then do select t1.internal_id, t2.value, t2.internal_id from sometable t1 join t2 on t2.value = t1.value or something like that
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Jun 11, 2016 00:01
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Bob Morales posted:List one has
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Jun 11, 2016 00:16
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anthonypants posted:For starters I would stop using " - " as a delimiter. That was my awesome ascii formatting. The real data is just .csv files
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Jun 11, 2016 00:28
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Jerk McJerkface posted:God forbid you use a Mac, since Lync 2013 hasn't been changed to Skype for Business, and it barely works. Mainly you can't add contacts. It even tells you that when you try. I know I shouldn't, because the product name is the product name, but I have trouble calling it Skype. In my mind, Skype is the consumer product - it competes with Facebook video and Facetime. Lync is what businesses use. So even now that the enterprise product has been rebranded as Skype, I'm still finding myself calling it Lync. That is my story.
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Jun 11, 2016 03:03
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I texted my ex girlfriend to tell her to delete TeamViewer from her Mac. I installed it to calm her down when backed up files weren't showing up. I had to teach her how to uninstall programs in OSX. This is what my life is. Is IT a terminal illness? Do you think they'll let me have an assisted suicide here in CA? Will I have to make a change management ticket first?
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Jun 11, 2016 04:07
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Bob Morales posted:List one has If the "My Value" is the same, that's fairly quick to do in Excel, too, without using vlookup. code:Edit: It's kinda sad I can do that off the top of my head. 
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Jun 11, 2016 04:17
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Goddammit what the gently caress is wrong with MS Office (2016), two major issues with practically the same result from the same source. (Major because our advisors live off our software and need speed, and there aren't any hot spares) First person reported "problems" to our MSP and they did a repair install which worked for a short while, then I came back in the office and person needs help that all his office programs constantly require activation. So I go over and lo and behold activation goes through but doesn't stick, one reinstall later and the same thing happens, a chat with MS support leads us to do one further reinstall except this time manually punching in the licence key during installation, install goes through and programs get activated, awesome. Meanwhile another person is completely losing her poo poo because she hasn't been able to work all morning with clients piling up because Outlook completely fails to load, I swing by and for some reason it errors out that it takes to long to load and just closes. Our MSP is already on the job with her, they do a repair install which makes no difference, then launch a system restore and tell me if it fails I'll just have to flatten it, gently caress that time passes and I swing by to see an automated system repair boot screen wondering what the gently caress; the person moved to another desk (along with her IP Phone which the PC piggybacks ethernet off of, whoops remote connection severed). So I take over when it boots back up and figure gently caress it I'll just reinstall this one as well, normal install successful and Outlook works fine on her profile now.
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Jun 11, 2016 21:06
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New clients.  Our account manager thought this week would be the best time to bring them on, despite us telling them weeks in advance we would be understaffed due to client training/visits. Of course, they come on and it's an absolute disaster. Not only are we struggling because of staffing issues, but also because the "metrics" the client sent us were about a third of what we've been seeing on a daily basis. In other news, one of our other clients got hit with three different variants of Locky in one afternoon.  Their CIO was absolutely livid about the whole affair and is making every staff member take an online cyber-security course.
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Jun 11, 2016 22:12
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Cfo just emailed all execs and IT to ask why some ex employees were in some static district lists at 7 pm at night. I replied that it was most likely mistake, but made no functional difference as the ad accounts were disabled. He is now wanting to debate the merits, as if anyone gives a poo poo but him. It's my fault for replying to any non-emergency on the weekend. His ramblings can wait till Monday.
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Jun 12, 2016 03:50
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Why does it take 10 days to be removed from some email list again? Does some guy only come in on every other Thursday or something to manually delete people?
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Jun 13, 2016 14:17
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Because that's what the law allows and it means they get 10 more days to spam you.
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Jun 13, 2016 14:19
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Some places have a central list. Then they'll send off a portion of that list to some campaign service or software that actually does the sending. When you unsubscribe, you get removed from the central list. But your email may have been pulled for a mailing already. *note - this is how some places do it, not how they should do it.
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Jun 13, 2016 14:41
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Gounads posted:Some places have a central list. Then they'll send off a portion of that list to some campaign service or software that actually does the sending. When you unsubscribe, you get removed from the central list. But your email may have been pulled for a mailing already. This. All spam campaigns should be happening from a third party unless you are looking to get your domain on more spam blacklists.
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Jun 13, 2016 14:44
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Sickening posted:This. All spam campaigns should be happening from a third party unless you are looking to get your domain on more spam blacklists. We have a large mailing service as one of our Colo Customers. Our Marketing Manager wanted to use them for our marketing until we pointed out the volumes of abuse tickets we receive because of their shoddy practices. For once, sanity triumphed over synergy. Sadly, we have a very large block of IP space that is probably never going to be clean.
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Jun 13, 2016 15:23
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http://www.foaas.com/ I just found this and it has made my morning much better.
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Jun 13, 2016 15:56
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porkface posted:If you're in IT and you're being asked to manage Salesforce someone seriously hosed up. It's a sales tool and it needs sales management to define how they want to use it in very clear terms to be successful. Pretty much. I was originally asked to take a look at it and after about 5 minutes I said "this is a job for a rep from Salesforce. Why do you want me to sell this to you?". I guess they didn't like that answer and gave the job to my coworker instead, who clearly didn't tell them to gently caress off. Now he's on vacation and the job's come back to me.
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Jun 13, 2016 18:02
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Just realized HR VP's emails all use Comic Sans as the default font. Might have to take the rest of the day off and go find some blood pressure medication.
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Jun 13, 2016 19:45
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Sheep posted:Just realized HR VP's emails all use Comic Sans as the default font. Hey we have one of those too except they're in a technical leadership role.
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Jun 13, 2016 19:47
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Sheep posted:Just realized HR VP's emails all use Comic Sans as the default font.
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Jun 13, 2016 19:55
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In a limited medium such as text, font (and weight, etc.) helps to convey tone. In the case of Comic Sans, that tone is "I'm an idiot who can't choose something more appropriate to a professional environment."
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Jun 13, 2016 20:09
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anthonypants posted:Why does anybody care I always wonder this myself when I see Comic Sans-related apoplexy.
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Jun 13, 2016 20:18
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Inspector_666 posted:Hey we have one of those too except they're in a technical leadership role. Which still isn't as bad as the lady next to me that set her default text color as the bright red "alert" color that Lync uses.
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Jun 13, 2016 20:27
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When dealing with someone using an aggressively obnoxious font, I usually counter by going bold, italic, strike through light grey. Enjoy deciphering that, rear end in a top hat. Then I c/p their message into the notepad window I always keep open.
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Jun 13, 2016 20:53
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The Something Awful Forums > Serious Hardware / Software Crap › More poo poo that pisses you off: Comic Sans
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Jun 13, 2016 21:35
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Fellatio del Toro posted:poo poo pissing me off: I'm a developer working as a contractor at an Air Force organization. There is this middle management government guy who used to oversee the development team. He's an alright guy but he really likes to hear himself talk and never passes up an opportunity to interject his recommendations based on the wisdom he has gained from years of working for the government. About a year ago he moved to a different position here completely unrelated to the development team. Despite this, he still comes to all of our developer meetings and makes them take twice as long by offering his opinions on things that he doesn't know anything about and that have nothing to do with him or his new job. There is absolutely no reason for him to be at our meetings except that the new government guy doesn't want to tell him not to come anymore. Every government employee ever.
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poo poo pissing me off today, my car took a dump on the way in to work, it's been having a few issues and I was waiting until I get paid Wednesday to start swapping out parts on my own time. It's only like $200 in stuff that I was going to do and that would have hopefully fixed it, but we just moved so money is slightly tight and I didn't want to run into a situation... like I'm in now...
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