@JaredBusch said:
@DenisKelley said:
Should be fun. Hopefully one of the vendors will give out a gun for swag this year instead of a knife.
Not their fault that when they planned swag months before that the TSA had announced they would be relaxing the rules, just to take it back weeks later.
LOL, yeeeeeah riiiiight, since knives are a common swag item at IT conferences. 
@ajstringham said:
@DenisKelley said:
I'll be there as well. Monday - Thursday
Looking forward to seeing you again Denis!
Should be fun. Hopefully one of the vendors will give out a gun for swag this year instead of a knife.
@technobabble said:
@DenisKelley said:
Many of the ones above, but add Ghost Busters, Ip Man, Ip Man 2, Highlander, and pretty much any cheesy disaster film.
Have you seen Mn of Tai Chi yet?
I did and it was fairly good. While I know Tai Chi is a disguised martial arts form, I have only known it as that slow exercise old people do., so it was a bit weird watching.
@scottalanmiller said:
@DenisKelley that's like a secretary / office manager. That description is almost exactly what my secretaries are like now. Secretaries always want other titles these days so you get weird things.
Definitely administrative.
At the IT company I worked for 10 years, we called it IT Coordinator. This person was responsible for assisting the customers and Project Managers with booking techs and engineers and oversee the overall schedules to insure there were no conflicts. They also helped with hounding folks to get their time sheets, hours, and others things involved when herding cats.
@Carnival-Boy said:
@DenisKelley said:
As you probably are aware, you just setup a different Group Policy for those PCs you wish to test.
No I'm not, can you explain? What I have done is setup different groups within WSUS - one for Accounts dept, one for Sales dept and one for everyone else. That way I can approve for Accounts dept first, and then assuming that goes well, I can approve for Sales dept and then everyone else. So I'm staggering the installations, so that if there is a problem, I only have to deal with a handful of PCs rather than every PC.
One thing I'm not sure about with this process is how I should approve updates for other departments once I've approved for Accounts dept. How do I view which updates have been approved only for Accounts, so that I can then select them and approve for other users?
You can probably tell I'm a newbie when it comes to WSUS.
It is somewhat similar to what you are doing, but in Active Directory, I have different computer OUs. I have one for Servers, one for PCs, and one for WSUS test. Since they are in different OUs, I can apply a unique WSUS group policy to them. The best guide I've used is the WSUS Step-by-Step guide. I realize the new O/S have a newer WSUS version, but the concepts should be similar. Browse the setup here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=913. Rob over on SW also has a how-to he wrote with a bunch of good advice. http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/1390-wsus-gpo-settings-for-the-real-world
Sharknado is on Netflix now. I went into it knowing it was gonna be bad. However, the acting and everything about it is so bad that it was funny. +
@JaredBusch said:
@DenisKelley said:
and pretty much any cheesy disaster film.
So much this.. My Netflix history is a testament to this.
Of course there are only so many of those, so I branch out into B movies quite a lot.
It's funny, but I just love them. NY freezes in 20 minutes...awesome. Let's fly to a freaking asteroid, drill, and drop a nuke....yeah, Murica! Big on science here, but I can just enjoy these films for their over the top themes. I still laugh so much with Sharknado. Hey, let's just fly this helicopter next to the tornado and drop these homemade explosives. That'll do the trick.
Many of the ones above, but add Ghost Busters, Ip Man, Ip Man 2, Highlander, and pretty much any cheesy disaster film.
I consulted and worked with a 3 location ALF for about 10 years. They had their own HIPAA person so I didn't have to directly deal with that thank God.
@Carnival-Boy said:
Testing: do people really test updates? How common is this. I'd never find the time. Updates are released weekly, so you'd be testing constantly. And there are loads and loads of updates. Plus, by having a testing strategy in place, you are delaying the roll-out of updates. For critical security updates, this is leaving your systems exposed to zero-day threats. Isn't the risk of having an unpatched system greater than the risk of an update breaking a system? There was an IE update recently that broke our ERP system and I was advised in advance by the ERP vendor not to install it so I configured WSUS accordingly. But this left me in a dilemma, the ERP vendor was effectively dictating that we run IE unpatched and this is not a good place to be. What should you do in this scenario? Or do you release all critical updates and just test non-critical ones?
I think with 20+ PCs to manage, WSUS is a good solution for managing the updates. Testing is pretty easy too. As you probably are aware, you just setup a different Group Policy for those PCs you wish to test. Out of the 30 odd that I deal with, I've got about 4-5 that I let suck down and auto-install. I agree that most of the time there are no issues, but there have been, and as recently less than a year, that Microsoft released a hastily, untested patch that screwed people. While that happens infrequently, I don't wish to be the one having to deal with that. In addition, I also time my synchronizations a good 8 hours later than when MS does their patch Tuesday thing, so I can catch and deny one if need be even before it gets to the test PCs.
Honestly, I'd rather have a total solution to include app updates, but as we all know, not every company will pay for that software so we all make do.
@thecreativeone91
I'm curious and that seems a bit over the top. Can you paraphrase/quote what you wrote and where you did so we can see context? I'm no longer a mod, but do like to see what might be wrong and am not ashamed to rant to the OG team.
@Joyfano
It is truly amazing what people find enjoyable.
Just saw that the other day on Tosh.0. Season 2 was free on Amazon Prime.
Did you see the comment near the end:
"Earlier this year Wal-Mart (WMT) recalled some donkey meat after it was found to be contaminated with fox meat. "
Can't have fox in ma donkey meat.
