Posts made by alex.olynyk

ready for my weekend, cant remember the last time I posted on this site. But I read it every day.

I work at the help desk for a retail company that uses SAP Point of Sale and SAP Store Manager. Our escalation teams haven't been able to solve an issue that we have had for over a month and I am curious if anyone has experienced this issue at their job or with one of their clients. The register printers at all stores will spontaneously fail to initialize and the cash drawers will fail to open. We can temporarily resolve the issues by restarting the Toshiba POS Startup Control service on the register but it reoccurs the next day. They have engaged with the vendors but no solution yet. I am simply asking if others have had this issue. We are using 4800E784 registers with 4610-2CR printers so maybe its the age of the hardware that is causing the issue.

@Obsolesce Microsoft/Powershell/Linux/Infrastructure/Databases

I have been a generalist/jack of all trades IT guy for 20 years. I have been laid off and while I'm looking for a job I've been thinking about getting a certification. What are your thoughts on certifications? What would you recommend? Do employers value them? I don't have a degree. Are cloud certifications worthwhile to get?

Resume

Just laid off due to COVID-19. I am trying to upload my resume for critique. I dont see a file upload button on the toolbar and I cant drag and drop either. It says I dont have enough privileges to upload a file.

I am looking to buy a piece of hardware that does parental control and can be easily be added to a home network. Does anyone have experience with Router Limits? Good or bad? Please let me know your thoughts.

Anyone have experience with these? If so did you call a professional and spend 2,000 or use a DIY method? What were the results?

I have several failed Dell SAS drives and have no way of knowing the service tags of the servers they were removed from. Any way to obtain drive warranty status by the drives serial numbers?

https://techsnips.io/

function Repair-SophosUpdate {

    [cmdletbinding()]

    Param(

         [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
         [string]$computername
    )
    $Services = Get-Service -Name 'Sophos*'

    ForEach ($Service in $Services) {

        If (($Service.Name -like 'Sophos*') -and ($Service.Status -eq 'running')) {

            Restart-Service -Name $Service -PassThru -Verbose -Force

        }
         Else
         {

            Start-Service -Name $Service -PassThru -Verbose
        }
    }

} ; Repair-SophosUpdate -Verbose

When I run this I get

PS C:\Users\aolynyk\Desktop> C:\Users\aolynyk\Desktop\Repair-SophosUpdate.ps1
cmdlet Repair-SophosUpdate at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
computername: localhost
Restart-Service : Cannot find any service with service name 'System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController'.
At C:\Users\aolynyk\Desktop\Repair-SophosUpdate.ps1:16 char:13
+             Restart-Service -Name $Service -PassThru -Verbose -Force
+             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController:String) [Restart-Service], ServiceCommandException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NoServiceFoundForGivenName,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RestartServiceCommand

I can restart the services as an admin but when I run the script as an admin I get the same error

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Restart-Service 'Sophos Agent' -PassThru

Status   Name               DisplayName                           
------   ----               -----------                           
Running  Sophos Agent       Sophos Agent                          



PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Restart-Service 'Sophos Message Router' -PassThru

Status   Name               DisplayName                           
------   ----               -----------                           
Running  Sophos Message ... Sophos Message Router                 



PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> 

How do I do this so it appears nice and readable on ML?

@EddieJennings I use Feedly.

So wife showed my resume to her boss and she suggests I add this:

Results driven professional offering a progressive, 17 year career in information technology.
Expertly manage technical support operations and troubleshooting issues to identify root causes and prevent recurrence.
Process improvement champion researching ways to strengthen security, enhance efficiency, and control costs.

I want to sell myself but don't want to sound over confident. Thoughts?

@Grey Im in FL and you are in CO. Thats one hell of a commute.

@scottalanmiller Thanks Scott. All of you guys are awesome. I appreciate the help.

@scottalanmiller Done. I removed a lot of the filler from my older jobs to make it fit on a single page.

@IRJ Yes, it does. Thank you.

@scottalanmiller I have 2016 installed on my personal laptop in Client Hyper-V. I dont have the funds for server hardware.