skipdogg posted:

Hahahaha Nah. When people would leave the company I'd dump their email to a PST, and you just kinda poke around

Swink posted:

Question: Those of you who map drives to a DFS share, have you ever had any trouble with file conflicts? I have two designers who work on the same files out of a single DFS share and I kind of feel that its only a matter of time before they open the same file at the same time and cause a conflict.

Che Delilas posted:

What the gently caress is a couple thousand dollars paid out to people to make sure they will be willing to bust their rear end to get poo poo back online?

Caged posted:

I believe there's still quirks in Windows about picking up an admin token, in that even if you're logged in with an admin account you still need to elevate.

Lord Dudeguy posted:

So how the heck do you do it? Do you basically have to pre-emptively robocopy the entire volume again before re-introducing the node? If that's the case, then I'd need to set DFSR to manual service startup and not automatic, which is the default.

:edit: ^^^ Dear christ. I'm going to start shopping for a better method. poo poo, SAMBA w/ rsync has better failure recovery features than that.

blackswordca posted:

it is 03

evol262 posted:

Ah, the true goon, critiquing people in the most puerile way possible for the subjunctive mood and proper homophone usage which are so crucial to writing Java.

Daylen Drazzi posted:

Who the hell knew that having the LAN set to SHARED instead of DEDICATED would prevent the fucker from communicating?

Lord Dudeguy posted:

- "The phone beeps 4 times before ringing" = The phone beeps 4 times before ringing. (gently caress you, Lync certified phones, not being fast enough to negotiate codecs)

Dick Trauma posted:

EDIT: Goddammit this is still too long and makes me sound like a colossal whiner.

Lord Dudeguy posted:

Oh my god...

The team was mentioning that during an edge outage the phones were dialing great. I didn't believe them.

I'll try bouncing the edge tomorrow. Why in the hell would it do that? I have federation disabled.

:edit: 6,100 handles for System process. Restarted Lync services and it dropped to 5,100 handles. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

Lord Dudeguy posted:

gently caress

After a knock down, drag out fight between my boss and I, where I insisted the Edge services were working OK and he begrudgingly started calling Polycom for a possible refund...

... it was the Edge. There were no static routes for our VoIP VLANs on the Edge LAN interface. Wasted a Software Assurance ticket with MSFT to tell me that.

loving hate humble pie. I like the peg that I'm on. gently caress getting taken down a few.

DrAlexanderTobacco posted:

The first thing you should do is always ask for more info. What are you trying to do? Is it slow to start up as well? How long does it take to open internet explorer? What about files from a network drive? poo poo like that.

Resmon.exe (In windows by default but not advertised that much) is great as it'll break down resource usage in great detail; more-so than task manager.

It might be slow simply because it's a poo poo PC. If it's got a low (2GB) amount of RAM, or a 5400/7200RPM disk that might be the bottleneck. Try to remember that when someone calls in with THE COMPUTER IS SLOW that doesn't mean it's suddenly happened out of nowhere. They could just be wise to the ways of the helpdesk you're at and know that screaming about something will warrant a closer look. Whereas in fact, the laptop is 3 or 4 years old and they've put up with it until now.

Pyroclastic posted:

I'm just a lowly computer janitor. I can't go lugging servers around (and this one may be virtualized now), especially since the other two techs are imaging off it in their own buildings.

Maybe if our bench tech had stayed on he could've learned how to make SCCM more flexible like that, but I figure we'll be damned lucky if it even stays functional for two more months. Our SCCM server crashed twice last year and each time it took over a month to rebuild because the backups didn't work (one admin said it was because of file pointers and symlinks or something which don't get backed up correctly, so the entire deployment service had to be rebuilt).

Our old wiring generally splits the 4 wire pairs into 2 separate jacks, but I'm fairly sure I reterminated that cable with a new module that's actually 100mbit. Otherwise, I probably would've been lucky to finish 3 computers in a day.

Crowley posted:

I have a ticket to get a list of department membership from a list of usernames. Luckily for me the users' OU is their department. Unluckily for me I apparently can't Powershell for poo poo.

Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong in the following script?

code:

### Define Variables before we start ###
$PathToFile="C:\path\etc\blah\input.xml"

### Open XML Document ###
$xdoc = new-object System.Xml.XmlDocument
$file = resolve-path("$PathToFile")
$xdoc.load($file)

### Get the field we want from contents ###
$BrugerID = $xdoc.SelectNodes("//BRUGERID")

### Get the AD OU from the UserID ###
get-ADOrganizationalUnit -LDAPFilter '(name=$BrugerID)'

Everything works until the last line. If I Write-Output $BrugerID I get

code:

#text
-----
DOMAIN\userinitials1
DOMAIN\userinitials2

which should work fine, but I still get a big empty nothing out of get-ADOrganizationalUnit.

I've been wondering if I'm using the $Variable wrong, should I use Where-Object instead, or.. something else?

m.hache posted:

18 Character Limit posted:

You might need this then too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

odiv posted:

Jesus Christ, if you put a ticket in at 10am and then are unreachable for half an hour, and then when I finally get a hold of you, you complain so much that it takes ten minutes to fix your problem instead of five, don't loving bitch to me about how much work you didn't get done this morning and "most of yesterday" because of it.

I mean, I'm going to do gently caress all about your attitude except apologize because I abhor confrontation, but it's a lovely thing to do.

Dragyn posted:

This is fairly common practice in Health IT, they're not looking for you to prove it, they're looking for you to confirm it was deleted/destroyed and not retransmitted anywhere else. It's a CYA measure so that the person who sent the erroneous data can say "the breach was contained and eliminated".

fishmech posted:

Well the problem is that the ones the station requires are over a meter tall, and quite a bit more complicated than a normal valve/vacuum tube is.

This isn't one of the ones they'd need to replace, it's a similar design though, but smaller:

Judge Schnoopy posted:

What's the best way to get an accurate look at memory consumption across three hosts in a VMWare environment?

I'm planning on increasing memory in a few guests that are below best practice specs (and are running like dogshit). My MSP is crying fowl that this will push me to 90% memory consumption according to the Host Summary page in VSphere if we lost a node, and that it could start to cause serious ballooning problems.

I'm looking at an ESXI host with 64 GB RAM. The sum of allocated memory for all guests on the host is 27 GB, and it's eating 2 GB overhead. On the Host summary page it's reporting 29 GB / 64 GB used.

There's no way all of the hosts on this server are running at 100% memory utilization. So how do I find out my actual utilization? Is this a safe practice to allocate 90% memory in a failsafe environment if the servers are utilizing less than 50% on average? Or does the host not care, committed memory is consumed memory, and 90% allocation is a dangerous game to pley?

In my research online I can't find a straight answer on this because I know over-allocation is a thing some people role the dice with, which leads me to believe that there is some metric of utilized guest memory that I'm missing and is important when calculating redundant capabilities.

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

Next big idea (Don't Steal)
Some way to aggregate a bunch of CPUs into one gigantic Meta-Core, so that applications that charge per core just get stuck with one really powerful one.