What Are You Doing Right Now

EddieJennings

@dafyre Hope it goes well. If was a planned hard drive failure, I'd question the motives of the one who implemented the plan.

dafyre

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre Hope it goes well. If was a planned hard drive failure, I'd question the motives of the one who implemented the plan.

Fortunately, it was just my office machine's data drive. Veeam Endpoint Recovery restore FTW.

StrongBad

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@StrongBad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I am dealing with random reboots after updates last night even though my GPO active hours are between 7 AM and 7 PM and Default maintenance is set to 2AM and the computers are still rebooting... Windows 10 Pro with WSUS....

Are you using any monitoring software? My boss used something (I forget the name of it) and it actually out-prioritized those settings. Turned automatic updates on and everything.

If any app sends a reboot signal with proper privs, it's going to reboot. Those other settings won't apply. It's like hitting the reboot button.

In my case it was triggering reboots due to updates and ignoring GPO

Normal updates, or a third party app running updates and then rebooting?

EddieJennings

Days like today I wish I had some programming chops.

scottalanmiller

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Days like today I wish I had some programming chops.

What needs to be done?

EddieJennings

@scottalanmiller Cross-referencing Windstream Tollfree + Longdistance call log (csv) with my PBX's CDR log (csv) for the same period. Problem is, even if I could write a program, I don't think the task can be done programmatically. There are slight time derivations between the Windstream csv and my PBX, so I have to decide if X records are really a match.

scottalanmiller

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller Cross-referencing Windstream Tollfree + Longdistance call log (csv) with my PBX's CDR log (csv) for the same period. Problem is, even if I could write a program, I don't think the task can be done programmatically. There are slight time derivations between the Windstream csv and my PBX, so I have to decide if X records are really a match.

Is the deviation consistent?

coliver

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cornell-chicken-barbecue-sauce-upstate

This is really interesting. Literally never heard of this but it's basically the only chicken that's available around here.

EddieJennings

@scottalanmiller No, and looking closer, the "derivation" is actually the fact that the PBX adds seconds, and Windstream doesn't. However, Windstream's csv has Date + Time in one column, while PBX is separate.

scottalanmiller

Well that is just crap.

scottalanmiller

Seeming that 10M on the counter is pretty sweet.

EddieJennings

@scottalanmiller Yep. Don't see a way around manual work.

scottalanmiller

From a post on SW. It's amazing how often things not quite this dramatic happen in IT. You can see it in hundreds of posters on SW and the way that they think that they are so much more important than the business itself.

"The former Sysadmin for a client was terminated. Basically he was becoming increasingly difficult, and eventually we were called in because they felt this guy was holding their network hostage. When he was asked for passwords he had some kind of mental meltdown, jumped on a desk and started screaming that he is an IT God at myself and another technician I brought in to clean up the mess. Security dragged him off as he tried to get violent with the owner. "