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Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

We bought 365 recently. Imagine my disappointment when I realized onedrive was garbage.

# ¿ Nov 25, 2015 21:42

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 10:51

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

We have a database application with a frontend that doesnt do any validation. So records get added every day required data missing. Important poo poo like client email and address.

Each week, a member of staff gets a report of all the records that were are missing data. She highlights the missing element on a piece of paper and sends it to the person who added the record so they can add the missing details.

Now the normal thing to do would be add form validation but because we are here, in this thread, we can't do that. Instead we want to blast the input user with an email as soon as the record is added.

Before we go any further, yes I know this is stupid. However this is the world and the office that we live in.

On SQL Server 2008, what can I use to detect when a record has been added, and validate what data is present\absent in the relevant tables? Is this idea so bad that it's worth telling management that it cannot be done?

# ¿ Dec 1, 2015 02:37

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dissss posted:

Really this (and the 30 copies of the same data) cannot be solved without changing user habits.

So you're saying it's impossible?

# ¿ Dec 1, 2015 03:16

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

dissss posted:

Possible? Sure

Worthwhile? Absolutely not.

I was more suggesting that our staff are untrainable which is why I'm going down this rabbit hole.

The thing is, we don't even analyze the data. We spent so many manhours chasing people and getting the details but management don't see value in analyzing what we collect.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2015 03:37

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

What part of 'test this before you leave' do you not understand?

Good job leaving the building with the entire sites' phones offline. I'll just fix it up 6 hours later.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2015 23:28

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

We're being sold a distributed scanning workflow application. The only technical person on the vendor side I've spoken to recommends running the three nodes on three Intel NUCs. In our DC. This is their suggestion. This is what they want us to do.

There have been several delays in getting the software. Why? Oh we get a lot of excuses. The real reason? The software is not complete yet. Its not finished. We are customer uno. We're going to pay for the piviledge of beta testing this poo poo.

Oh but they're throwing in three NUCs and their load balancer(what?) for free!

"Why NUCs?" My colleague asked. Well because the dev team only has a crappy slow VMware enviroment "Not production class", and they got better performance on the NUCs than on their loving test environment.

So naturally I dont want it to go ahead, but my boss has been promising this project to higher ups for months and we havent delivered. So we'll just push ahead into the literal unknown with this software and these NUCs and see what the gently caress happens. Good God.

The last chance: Can anyone recommend software for one-touch scanning to PDF from Toshiba copiers. Integrating with Papercut. Save me.

# ¿ Dec 24, 2015 00:19

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

The kofax website is intimidating. But thanks.

# ¿ Dec 24, 2015 04:01

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Thanatosian posted:

My mom's office uses a Windows server farm that everyone RDPs into to do pretty much all of their work. Some of the software she needs doesn't work on some of the servers, so I set her up some shortcuts that connect directly to specific servers via IP. Did I just create a "poo poo that pisses me off" thing for her IT guy?

If your mums IT dept has an issue, she can reply by saying 'fix your poo poo'.

# ¿ Dec 30, 2015 02:09

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

On Asana: "I'm no good with technology"

It is not technology, it's a product. Like a microwave. You can reheat pizza without being a physicist, you can add and complete a task without being a goddamn computer scientist.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2016 10:51

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

We use asana to move an item between stages. For example, to bill a client we have a gargantuan 50 step process. So a clients bill will move through Asana 'sections' during its life and only be marked complete when the bill is paid (a million days later. )

I personally use it as a big todo list. I only really use it so I know how to support the teams that rely on it. I find the interface sluggish since the upgrade, they have said they're working on that issue.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2016 23:59

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nitrogen posted:

We use Asana here and its awesome. Check it out. It's cancelled four weekly meetings by allowing people to see whats up.

Using asana necessitated an additional meeting for asana related chit chat. Can you loving imagine what that's like?

We're starting to use Slack. I can't wait to see what bullshit comes from that.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2016 21:48

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Cisco VPN and shrewsoft are for IPSEC vpns. You need to configure a nice SSL VPN and switch to anyconnect. It owns bones.

I fought with shrewsoft for months but now those connection problems and annoying error messages are a distant memory

# ¿ Jan 12, 2016 21:46

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Signing into Microsoft sites 3 times in a row to access a tech net article

# ¿ Jan 20, 2016 03:30

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

A lot of our installed applications are replaced with web apps so the Win10 build I'm preparing has virtually nothing installed.

Complaints of 'this app doesn't work' have been replaced with 'what's my login for X?'

Hint: it's the same login for literally everything. What is the matter with you?

# ¿ Jan 22, 2016 22:58

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

You never realize how many variations of PDF elements exist until you deploy something that can't render half of them.

#nuance

# ¿ Jan 24, 2016 08:58

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

The printers and devices list takes loving forever to display printers in Windows 8 and 10. Why is this? Is it the Toshiba Universal driver?

I've got staff asking me why we're even bothering to upgrade, given that Win7 was so stable. I dont really have an answer for them.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2016 10:55

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

I'm working on implementing basic change management in my dept. are those irrelevant questions just a symptom of beaurocracy where every box has to be ticked?

What I'm really asking is, how do you do change management right, without giving everyone the shits?

# ¿ Feb 6, 2016 23:54

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

I'm getting those win10 auto updates. It's not respecting the WSUS settings. I hate it.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2016 06:41

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Through trial and error I concluded that that is the only way to do it.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2016 03:17

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Because the users don't know any better.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2016 09:01

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Thanks Ants posted:

I'm attempting to evaluate Intune for managing our users Windows 10 Pro laptops to decide if it combined with Azure AD join gives us enough control / ability to push nice things to machines or if we need to look into DirectAccess with 10 Enterprise and keep everything on the domain.

I cannot find a way to use the new Office 365-integrated control panel in Windows 10. It won't load in Chrome or Edge because it wants IE. If I use IE 11 it wants Silverlight, which is apparently already installed. What a piece of poo poo.

I don't have anything to add but I'm interested in your experience with AzureAD and Intune.
I really want it to be good but I sorta think it's gonna need 5 years before its usable as a legit replacement for onprem AD.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2016 07:52

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

^ I'm in my civvies, got my backpack and sunnies on. Walking briskly towards the exit, I hear "before you go, how do I print a zip file?"

I could pretend I don't hear them. I could just run for it.

It's useless. They have me. God drat.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2016 13:39

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

We have that same list for our company. However we hire for 'fit'. The person who fits best with a bunch of dinosaurs is another dinosaur.

The company has no IT competency, it's expected that the IT dept somehow bridges the gap by delivering.... Something.

I'll let you guys know when I figure out what it is.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2016 00:43

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

So apparently group policy is not supported on the non-ProPlus installs of Office365.

I'm seeing this in action, only half of the policies I set actually apply.

How the am I supposed to manage 200 installs of Office?

Is this a supreme 'gently caress you' to small shops or am I missing something?

# ¿ Mar 15, 2016 03:02

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Visibility on your projects is important. The tool might help there. You're going to have to make people aware that the new project they want done is at the bottom of the list of existing stuff.

I had that same problem: anyone can rock up with work and I just have to do it. I voiced concern to my manager. Then I quit.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2016 05:15

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Hah yeah it's super third world over here buddy. I gotta hunt my own whales to keep my lamps burning.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2016 11:55

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

I'd point the camera to a picture of me flipping the bird.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2016 07:03

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

We have the thing where you tap your credit card on the machine and it beeps and you take your liquor and go.

Chips are oldscool.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2016 13:10

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

I learned a while back that sometimes business doesn't care if things are happening in the most efficient manner, as long as they happen and the staff doing the thing clocks their 40 hours without causing a fuss.

Money still gets made. Wheels still turn.

# ¿ May 2, 2016 14:53

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Pipe a digest message to Slack via a web hook.

# ¿ May 6, 2016 11:12

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Just let it go man

# ¿ May 12, 2016 10:59

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Can anyone recommend a USB boardroom style mic for a rectangular room of around 15-20 people? We're currently using the JABRA 510 (http://www.amazon.com/Jabra-SPEAK-5...4bbd47326fdedc8) but the CEO is saying it doesn't cut it.

Something flashy with little satellite mics would be good.

Things I hate: Boardroom AV.

# ¿ May 15, 2016 22:03

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

I can't afford your company so I gotta solve the problem by buying something that works ok and but most importantly looks impressive

Swink fucked around with this message at 04:52 on May 16, 2016

# ¿ May 16, 2016 04:49

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Ynglaur posted:

Did they offer you a job in sales?

# ¿ May 17, 2016 10:30

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Someone snapshotted and reverted a domain controller.

Dfsr is uber hosed.

# ¿ May 27, 2016 01:10

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Haha us IT people reckon we've got it tough. Try med school.

Gods speed!

# ¿ Jun 15, 2016 09:45

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

I do that. I'm a terrible person

# ¿ Jun 28, 2016 05:13

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 10:51

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Today I realised our "Guest WiFi"is just WiFi on our subnet, named 'guest'.

Now I'm a bit of a network dunce, I have a Draytek Vigor 2960 gateway and a spare Cisco RV220W Firewall that I can use as a radio. Can I break those two things onto their own VLAN to create an isolated network that only have access to the web?

# ¿ Jul 8, 2016 02:47

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