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Re: Working in IT 3.0: You can't fax glitter.
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Vargatron posted:Thanks for this. There's a user wanting to run test programs which apparently take 30-60 days to run. He asked for a battery backup and a laptop to try and mitigate any power outage that might occur. I had found a APC battery backup for like $1100, but they probably won't go for that.
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Aug 2, 2018 23:42
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So we've been dragged into project management hell on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/AlexDRocca/status/1034120767846277120 please ⊂_ヽ ＼＼ do ＼( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) > ⌒ヽ / へ＼ / / ＼＼the ﾚ ノ ヽ_つ / / / /| ( (ヽ | |、＼needful | 丿 ＼ ⌒) | | ) / ノ ) Lﾉ (_／
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Aug 28, 2018 16:50
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Sepist posted:I hope you converted your [company name] points to Schrute bucks before you were let go.
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Aug 30, 2018 19:39
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Internet Explorer posted:How many times a day do you all think "how the gently caress does this place even operate / how do these people tie their shoes every morning?" I'm just curious what a healthy number is. For my own mental health. As a new page bonus, here is the latest Dilbert that’s been circulating around the office: 
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Sep 5, 2018 20:44
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Bob Morales posted:I'm just loving with the owner of our company now. I sent him a copy of the Valve Employee handbook. Just got this email:
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Sep 14, 2018 18:36
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Krispy Wafer posted:Not sure what it'd be like in Georgia, but for a red state Georgia is surprisingly regulated (source: wife who had to deal with the GA insurance commissioner for years).
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Sep 15, 2018 18:34
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Judge Schnoopy posted:NSX is good and stable, but has some weird caveats. They have a very in-depth API for automation but powershell integration relies on a third party PowerNSX module that doesn't cover everything in the API. Most things work though. 2. gently caress NSX agents. We use PaloAlto virtual firewalls and neither PaloAlto nor VMware seems really comfortable with the idea of their two products being integrated.
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Sep 19, 2018 00:21
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Yeah. We have a basically annual sales pitch from MS and even factoring in the costs of compute, prod storage, and backup storage, they have admitted they can’t get the price of Exchange online anywhere near on prem. Four VM’s running in a DAG hosting about 4,000 mailboxes on flash storage. We’re currently doing an evaluation to see if full O365 replacing our discrete Office licensing would help matters any. We have a very vanilla setup and aside from managin storage consumption and doing patching, we’ve never had any major issues.
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Sep 21, 2018 02:23
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I actually implemented user provisioning two ways. Both in PS. One is manual and accepts CLI parameters or starts an interactive series of prompts to gather data for new employees or contractors, validates their employee number isn’t already associated with an AD user, then creates the account, generates a password, sets their groups to match a template set, moves them to the right OU, creates their home folder and Exchange mailbox as necessary. Then it updates a tracking document and ticket via email. The other is a series of three jobs that runs nightly when I get an extract from our HR system. The first updates everyone’s AD user with correct title, manager, location, phone, etc. If I hit an employee number without an account associated, create an account and put it in a created staging OU. If an employee has been terminated, disable the account and move it to a disabled staging OU. The next two jobs process everyone out of those OU’s. The created users are matched to someone else with the same department and title as a template. If the template has a mailbox and home folder, the new user does as well. Then the new account is added to the same OU and distribution groups as the template. Finally the new user’s manager is emailed their account details. If no equivalent title exists it uses their manager as a template. The disabled users are processed out per policy.
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Sep 29, 2018 08:02
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The Fool posted:PuTTY. 
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Oct 6, 2018 02:15
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Internet Explorer posted:DFS-N is super easy to set up and everyone should do it if it makes sense for them, even if it's only pointing to one server.
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Oct 11, 2018 04:23
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I have all the patience in the world for users. They can be exasperating but it’s my job to help them. I wind up being short with other people in IT, especially the so-called application administrators who are basically level 1 support for the apps and expect us (the sysadmins) to maintain their applications for them.
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Oct 17, 2018 00:49
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gently caress every printer. In other news, is anyone at NetApp Insight this week? A bullet-free event so far this year!
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Oct 22, 2018 23:56
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adorai posted:wow, it's been a whole year already? where does life slip away to? It melts into a puddle of tears, toner, and whiskey.
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Oct 23, 2018 01:31
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Vargatron posted:You mean you haven't run Exchange 2003 off of a laptop with a "DO NOT POWER OFF" label on it?
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Oct 25, 2018 19:54
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Nuclearmonkee posted:My first guess as a person who supported county level elections offices years ago is "lmao" 
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Nov 6, 2018 02:49
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adorai posted:Speaking of IBM power series, is anyone running one and backing it with non-ibm SAN storage? I want to connect one to Pure or Nimble via Fibre or iscsi, but all the IBM related sales guys say no. I am not sure if they are greybeard haters or if it really isn't possible.
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Nov 17, 2018 07:14
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adorai posted:IBM i. We've always used only DAS.
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Nov 17, 2018 19:19
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Thanks Ants posted:We do the whole 'lessons learned' thing and it will highlight glaring errors in the way our sales team approach things and then....nothing changes!
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Nov 25, 2018 21:39
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CLAM DOWN posted:Most Windows admins don't know poo poo about PowerShell. It's really quite sad. I excelled at my old Windows admin job because I could script.
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Nov 28, 2018 00:19
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My org has a lot of seasonal/re-hired employees, so maintaining their disabled account ensures that all the AD-integrated services like our records management, financial, etc systems will all maintain full continuity of their activities.
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Dec 5, 2018 19:14
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We use VeeamONE and are analyzing our environment to see if the sizing recommendations are accurate. They seem to be pretty reasonable so far. We’re just watching some of our applications with spiky demand to see if they’ll be able to perform under load if we size by Veeam’s suggestions.
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Dec 8, 2018 01:28
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jaegerx posted:Sure it can. That’s how I get free WiFi at airports
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Dec 12, 2018 05:28
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Cross-quoting myself from the small shop thread:Aunt Beth posted:We have an on-prem Mitel deployment and it’s pretty capable for the price. Just make sure either you get trained or you pick a vendor who understands these new-fangled computer phones. Due to institutional inertia our phones are administered by a vendor who was great at managing our ancient digital InterTel system, but good lord they’ve been making some facepalmy mistakes now that they’re in VOIP world.
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Dec 21, 2018 05:20
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If anyone has any decent NSX reads, this guy could use them.
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Jan 4, 2019 05:31
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Judge Schnoopy posted:I highly recommend your team working with NSX jump into powershell dev from day one. Make custom tools that do everything you need for daily NSX operation and never touch the GUI.
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Jan 4, 2019 06:34
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We have this manager too. And the reckoning has officially begun this month. He quietly fluffed his LinkedIn profile so I sincerely hope he’s swept away in the coming purge.
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Jan 9, 2019 15:41
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Kashuno posted:When does IT finally get a new thread title someone please do the needful and revert back to the team
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Jan 15, 2019 01:04
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Local government employee here too. Pay is quite good and benefits are fantastic. After-hours support burden is minimal. Our department's structure and management is unsurprisingly a flaming dumpster fire, but thanks to being a top-down bureaucracy it seems change is coming to that soon.
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Apr 16, 2019 19:03
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methanar, was it your company that ran its Lotus Notes server on a laptop in the closet? Did the company die because the 5400RPM HDD in the laptop finally went belly up?
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May 16, 2019 21:05
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Any goons at vmworld this week?
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Aug 25, 2019 17:53
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The Fool posted:Impromptu poll, choose the lesser evil:
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Sep 6, 2019 00:48
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Methanar posted:Why are non technical people requesting servers
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Oct 9, 2019 20:17
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