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incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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PremiumSupport posted:

I wish I knew PowerShell better. I've got that book, but I haven't had a chance to read it because everything is always an emergency everyday.

GO TAKE YOUR LUNCH. You're entitled and will help your own mental health.

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incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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MAHHHMAAAAA I JUST rm -rf A MANNNNNNN

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Thanks Ants posted:

I've no idea what's happened at Polycom but they're now producing $500 phones that look like the poo poo that the Chinese vendors were putting out a decade ago.



lol is that the "new value tier"? I had to spend 800+ on the mid-tier trio model compatible with my phone server, and it still looked jank.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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22 Eargesplitten posted:

E: the company has a 1.7/5 on Glassdoor. Never mind then.

Gotta post the company. I wonder if they tried to paper the score and this is the best effort OR they don't even bother.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Oh these guys? Yeah, full on cunts. Glad you dodge a bullet.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Sirotan posted:

He's PMing me government conspiracy poo poo in Slack now, gently caress

More poo poo that pisses you off: "You've been added to #911wasafalsef"

e: I deffo don't want to be the one having to assist discovery to find that room

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Pissing me off: Microsoft forms isn't actually for making forms to fill in (like an order form) and neither is the "pro" version of it. They're survey monkey derivatives for surveys, quizzes, and polls.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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LawfulWaffle posted:


e: An Assistant Director got wind of our Win10 upgrade plans and she "wants as little interruption to her business as possible during the equipment upgrade. She would prefer PM re-imaging, nights and weekends." Sounds like overtime, baybee. Gonna have to set up some hypercare center just for me so I can report any problems but I"ll happily stick around an empty building pressing a few keys on each device for time and a half.

I'd be MAXIMUM PETTY and only resolve their issues after hours and on weekends.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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slartibartfast posted:

Anybody got a cloud-hosted eFax provider they actually like? Or is it just a matter of finding one that sucks in the least awful way for our company?

Sfax by scrypt is the only non-terrible one i've found so far. They were "acquired" by j2 fax but they haven't touched it nor planned to. Which is great because the UI is initiative and responsive and I've got full access to their API.

I'm pretty sure j2 fax just buys other companies to monopolize the fax industry, which is fine if they don't gently caress with us.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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My W O N D E R F U L coworker never told me that our new window 10 deployment are affected by a horrendous access bug that, at 18 months, microsoft has still not figured out and sorta has a workaround and maybe a fix in the fast ring for o365.

All because I asked why the hell these users have local admin still after my mandate for this deployment was "no local admins".

incoherent fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Jan 17, 2020

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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The Fool posted:

That’s a doozy of a bug but I don’t see anything in your link that indicates why local admin is necessary.

The users historically ran a repair script to replace the corrupted access files using a horrendous windows scripting file. It's an absolute bullshit solution that I (attempted) to kill with this move by implementing for coworker PDQdeploy to repair remotely. But they're getting daily corruptions and the ideal version of windows 10 that doesn't exhibit this, 1709 ENT, is EOL this year.

The thing is my coworker never brought it to my attention and he just did thing that always worked. I can't fix or troubleshoot what I don't know.

Bob Morales posted:

We had this wonderful one last month:

https://www.fmsinc.com/MicrosoftAccess/Errors/query_is_corrupt/


Microsoft is just cutting QA departments left and right, apparently.

This also bit me in the rear end

incoherent fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Jan 17, 2020

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Oh my god barracuda broke their SSO login with portal update and I am locked out of everything till tomorrow fffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkkkk

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Biowarfare posted:

i fuckin love not catching a cold or flu for the first time ever

Wait till you get cold 2.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Antioch posted:

Got a VXrail deployment going. It's been a struggle to say the least, but it's going. Two days ago I used the Updater to apply patches from 7.0.1 to 7.0.2 and it rebooted vCenter. When it came back up, my license wasn't applying.

I have spent two days talking to Dell support to get this resolved. Every one of them has tried to send me to the Digital Locker, but vCenter is embedded in VXrail so that's not going to work. I am at my wit's end. I've involved our entire team from Account Exec to PM. No one is useful. I hate this Dell poo poo, I should have pushed harder to get a couple servers and a SAN.

We got sold a backup appliance too that is going on 4 months of not able to be deployed because every time I send a planning document some rear end in a top hat makes a suggestion and it all starts over.

Should have just bought a bunch of supermicro boxes and rolled my own.

Never trust Dell.

drat, that sucks dude. I love my VXrail implementation but I also paid for extreme hand holding through the implementation.

e: Oh I re-read and bought dell direct. VARs make a world of diffrence....never give your money directly to Dell.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Evidence #2 not to give dell direct your money:

Literally got this email a year to the month after the implementation was over.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Please someone tell me I'm not crazy: Has anyone seen a rule to FOWARD EMAILS to their CALENDAR in outlook? If so how the hell do you get them out?

E: figured it out. Just change your calendar to list view! Still, gently caress outlook forever.

incoherent fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Dec 3, 2021

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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us-west-2 supremacy

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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There should be no peace for this man. Please tell me you went supersonic on his account and made sure as poo poo the e-mails went directly to his inbox (vs a plausible deniability of junk\delete).

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Lum posted:

So our AOVPN doesn't work on Windows 11.

In unrelated news, the head of IT updated their Win10Enterprise company laptop to Windows 11.

A bright spot is Windows 10 is good till 2025! You can smooth out the rough spots over ~1,098 days.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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i'm onprem and Azure devops administrator!

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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epic handshake meme of admins coding "hello world" and AI scientists coding "deep learning" with PYTHON underneath.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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"Oh man, 10 new laptops!" - builders

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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wait, we can't use pets vs cattle anymore?!

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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2022 Not that different? Hope you never need to expand the c: drive ever, because they put the recovery volume at the end of the drive vs of before the data volume.

Also

quote:

It's more that for some reason Windows Update isn't working correctly on these 2019 instances - I haven't actually checked this out myself but my junior admin claims he's tried everything and they just won't update.

I would "trust, but verify" this. If you're running WSUS (and being an old school admin), just click "check from microsoft" directly to see if it updates. I can guarantee they're missing a service stack update.

quote:

I wonder if there's a phrase for this kind of thing. Hmm, "infrastructure through scripts" maybe?

You're so insanely close to infrastructure as code.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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You ain't going to find another suite of creative tools. Take the refund and take solace in you can shrug your shoulders risk free at your managers.

PDF editors? Foxit is a slot-in alternative.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Actuarial Fables posted:

Started a new job on Monday as a network administrator. I was told that they were rebuilding the team.

Documentation is split between a sharepoint site, a 1password vault, and people's personal folders. The sharepoint is outdated, I don't have access to the shared 1password vault (not much of a network admin if I can't access network devices), and good luck guessing the right person to ask.

Supervisor got me started on tickets today. The tickets (high/critical severity) were all opened months ago and no one has touched them since. It feels bad updating tickets with "Is this still a problem?". It's all I can do at the moment because I don't have access to any of our support tools or management interfaces.

The commute is pretty short though.

just remember to put in your 8 and go home.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Silly Newbie posted:

Man Core Trust pricing OWNS.

Tell me your organization is owned by private equity without telling me they're owned by private equity.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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All i'm saying is enjoy the freedom now. They may want to size you and your dept up if they go and drill in some commonality ( like shared technologies in their portfolio like...rackspace 🤢). Coretrust was one of them and for me it was easy to "embrace and extended" as while coretrust give you the cheap hardware these coretrust VARs are looking to make up on implementation projects. I had a stable of VARs and that aggressively quoted projects me and my CT reps couldn't touch.

Hell, they took a loss on a dollar on each office 365 licenses just to wildly swing their knife at any one coming within a feet of my organization.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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angry armadillo posted:

I have a personal Surface and I think it's great. I'd really like one for work but we just do Lenovo devices - I quite like them too, had no bother at all but I dont do anything fancy and I'm low maintenance too

I'm also in the same boat. I got stuck with lenovo that requires its own obscene power supply cable.



gently caress all of this.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Sounds oddly like they wanted you to do their homework. One of those "they asked me to make a test program" but for ops side.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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evobatman posted:

Well poo poo, it's the exact same situation I'm in. 17 years of desktop and server support administration, pivoted to security engineer. I now work with tons of people who "work with IT security" but don't know poo poo about computers.

The cursed knowledge of "how computers work". I want to be a smooth brain year one security engineer. They seem to have a much simpler life.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Thanks Ants posted:

Does every organisation that uses Google Apps Suite Workspace also subscribe to Slack and Zoom? My side gig uses Google and the bundled chat and meeting stuff is really bad, and in true Google fashion it doesn't look like they've developed it much for a few years. I joined a meeting the other day and just assumed that I could hand control of my shared screen to someone else but lol, nope.

devs and product management get slack, IT gets google messenger, and the rest of the company can use messenger, zoom chat or ring central!

Wizard of the Deep posted:

Apple continues to half-rear end enterprise support through third parties and that's More poo poo That Pisses Me Off.

Managed iCloud for business they needlessly and deliberately keep behind their basic mdm paywall. The MDM is fine for specific conditions, but anything pas 10 devices and you should be using jamf at the very least. Now that hardware device sales are falling off cliffs and they need services it's literally another print money avenue.

At least we'll get platform SSO in mac os wineo country.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Legitly pissed off microsoft discontinued the ergo keyboard and didn't rebadge for the surface line or sell it off to a 3rd party to make forever. (more of an IT thing than a mega-keyboard thread post)

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incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Since CA followed Colorado lead in forcing companies to reveal their salary ranges (making it pretty much defacto nationwide) up front it's always been like this but most are just fake posting ghost positions they never intend to fill.

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