What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
On another MS Teams conference call. Man this stuff sucks. The links don't work, the sound quality is bad, and the announcement system doesn't work properly. This is really basic stuff that the free systems do no problem.
Looks like we will be moving from SFB/Teams to Slack (Plus version).
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs Ocasionally I have time like that. When I do I read documentation over various things. I try to limit them to things that might help me someday. Use the time as learning experience. Learn scripting better through powershell or python. Read over git documentation to understand it better. I'm currently reading a book over KVM and doing the exercises in it. Read the chocolatey documentation and learn how to use it for windows environments. Read over the dnf and rpm commands to use them better. Learn docker. Know how rdp technology works in detail. Find some voip guides to see how things are done. learn a programming language real well. Theres a million things. I make a list of things I want to learn better. Ive used onenote, zoho notes and evernote for this in the past. These all go on your phone too. I rotate through them. smaller things I finish befire goign to another. Larger topics I'll go from one to another more often. Hope some of those ideas help.
Yeah. There are tons of things to learn; you shouldn't ever be bored. Most people pay to learn. I get paid to learn.
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Currently 15 degrees Celsius outside in Nebraska.
Suns shining, birds singing, Crack heads lurking, Im outta here in 20 to go pick up my son from school
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Just had a cocktails meeting where I'm not sure one coherent thought was ever produced. That made zero sense.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just had a cocktails meeting where I'm not sure one coherent thought was ever produced. That made zero sense.
So someone just wanted to go drink, makes total sense to me.
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Got some Starbucks and now preparing for baseball parade
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Server 2019 installs this morning.
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About to record some videos.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
About to record some videos.
We just made some for AviMark training.
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Still doing the full migration from a 2008 R2 DC to a new 2019 AD DC.
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@scottalanmiller Did you just put the new DC on the network and let things replicate. Then remove the 2008R2 DC and raise the functional level?
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Did you just put the new DC on the network and let things replicate. Then remove the 2008R2 DC and raise the functional level?
Brand new DC, and Forest. Doing a clean rebuild because we are merging six independent AD setups into a single one, plus adding a seventh site that is new. Plus going to 2016 functional level. It's a massive "reboot" of the entire network design.
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Deploying Deepin VDI on Hyper-V 2019.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Did you just put the new DC on the network and let things replicate. Then remove the 2008R2 DC and raise the functional level?
Brand new DC, and Forest. Doing a clean rebuild because we are merging six independent AD setups into a single one, plus adding a seventh site that is new. Plus going to 2016 functional level. It's a massive "reboot" of the entire network design.
Was there a need for AD on all this?, as I know you have had a lot of customers move away from it.
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Was there a need for AD on all this?, as I know you have had a lot of customers move away from it.
Need? No. But it was an existing AD situation with over a hundred users. The old setup made AD pretty foolish, especially as 25% of their machines were left off of AD! And they mostly use shared user accounts! So AD is pretty silly in their old setup, each site had their own stand alone AD with huge risk if one failed (which one did, with massive impact.)
But with the new setup, AD seems to make a lot of sense. It's around 100 users, seven sites, all Windows, nearly 100% on AD now. All on a single network, instead of six separate networks.
It's a bit of a legacy design, but a well done one. There is no Windows cost associated with AD, all of the Windows Server and CAL licensing was already required for their apps. No VPN cost, that was all included in their firewall refresh. No cost for AD failover, because with the multi-site they are getting six way failover (N+5) instead of none.
So for their use case, and their use habits in the past, I think AD fits pretty well. They use mapped drives and aren't refreshing that design at this time and their apps require it. So that is what it is.
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Just took the 9yo to see Dumbo. She loved it.
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Just made pizza for the kids.
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Off to bed, goodnight.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just took the 9yo to see Dumbo. She loved it.
Did you?
