@krzykat said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'll be in west palm tomorrow

What you doing in my back yard?

Flew down to pick up a car and drove it back to NY.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Due to a super annoying chain of events, we are trapped in Miami for several days. Missed our flight yesterday because of the mountain of paperwork necessary to get on the plane and no one could get the other countries to send confirmation of paperwork fast enough. So we are trapped and the next flight is on Sunday!!

I'll be in west palm tomorrow

@irj said in Does Mesh Central support blanking remote screen:

@krzykat said in Does Mesh Central support blanking remote screen:

@dustinb3403 said in Does Mesh Central support blanking remote screen:

With another product I had a customer complain because we had to jump into a server because of performance issues, and they could graph that we too access the active console of the server (all virtual). And thought it was a security risk because we could potentially see confidential data.

Of course we are the domain administrator as well so...

Then their option is to hire their own onsite personnel that handle the same tasks, won't be as qualified and cost them more money. If you don't trust your IT team ... well time to move on. I don't want any clients that don't trust us.

Insider threat is the number one threat.

True, but that isn't such a concern here more than just a basic lack of understanding of remote support tools and how console access works (to a physical or virtual system)

@krzykat said in Does Mesh Central support blanking remote screen:

@dustinb3403 said in Does Mesh Central support blanking remote screen:

With another product I had a customer complain because we had to jump into a server because of performance issues, and they could graph that we too access the active console of the server (all virtual). And thought it was a security risk because we could potentially see confidential data.

Of course we are the domain administrator as well so...

Then their option is to hire their own onsite personnel that handle the same tasks, won't be as qualified and cost them more money. If you don't trust your IT team ... well time to move on. I don't want any clients that don't trust us.

Yes exactly, either trust your support team or not, from time to time we may access the same vcenter guest console. Same difference with our support tool except we aren't authenticating to vcenter.

With another product I had a customer complain because we had to jump into a server because of performance issues, and they could graph that we too access the active console of the server (all virtual). And thought it was a security risk because we could potentially see confidential data.

Of course we are the domain administrator as well so...

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Just realized that SharePoint turns 20 years old this year!

Mean ShartPoint?

@dashrender said in Good deal on 14TB drives - BestBuy:

externals?

I'm thinking the expectation is to open the casing and pull the drive out.

But yeah externals.. . For a nas.

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'll be doing something similar when I pick up my new car this weekend.

@jaredbusch said in KVM or VMWare:

@hobbit666 said in KVM or VMWare:

What about XCP-ng? Would that be something to consider to run a business on?

I am unclear on how supported it is. Tech wise, it is still KVM.

Xcp-ng isn't kvm, it's Xen.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Been AWOL. OnePlus phone died when T-Mobile pushed down a bad update and they had no means of dealing with it. On iPhone now, so much better.

Except.... iPhone ...

@scottalanmiller said in Does a script imply Automation?:

@gjacobse said in Does a script imply Automation?:

Simply thus

Does a script imply automation?

No. Automation means doing a task for you. A script doesn't necessarily do anything for you.

I disagree here, in that a script written to replace the human process is automating the humans work flow. Just because the human kicks that process off doesn't mean that something hasn't been automated.

As @Pete-S said there are different levels of automation to consider...

@dashrender said in script to download and extract MicroSip portable:

@dustinb3403 said in script to download and extract MicroSip portable:

@dashrender why not pick up maintenance of the chocolatey package and save* yourself some effort?

https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/microsip#virus

It's not being maintained for one.

And installing it in an admin PS doesn't install it for the desired user. So it does me no good. A non admin user can't use it - because MicroSIP saves it's data in a protected area when installed from Choco.

I don't think you understood what I was saying, why don't you become the maintenaner of the choco package.

Two birds one stone. As for the installation option are you saying you can't install programs without admin rights?

@dashrender why not pick up maintenance of the chocolatey package and save* yourself some effort?

https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/microsip#virus

Cursing out Verizon for not opening until 10AM... what the crap sort of hours is that..

@gjacobse said in I can't even:

All - Staff
\ This group
\ that group
\ New group
=user 1
=user 2
=*user 3

So - uhm, yea,.. we have this group that is a member of a group, but has disabled users in it....
Yup - seems perfectly normal... OmFG!

Meaning - lets not remove disabled users from groups and just leave them 'laying' around ADUC

/Sarcasm Once they're disabled they can never get reenabled so what's the issue?

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

/rant

IT department from a restaurant I support called in this morning - They are moving everything to their domain - YAY right?
no. It's horrible -
Anyway - we get all terms on the domain and I think everything is working.
except theres a terminal that wont load the POS - it's a known error so I run the fixes that I know - still nothing.
It's been 3 hours that I've been working on this.
Also - the guy at the site I'm working with says and I quote ;
"Im gonna call it a day, it's 3:50 and I get off in 10 minutes. So you can do what ever you want, but call me in the morning and we can try some more stuff."
after that I didn't hear from him again, while I'm still trying different fixes and talking it through with people I work with, right? But the domain is so locked out (good for security not for little guy me over here trying to fix a terminal) I can't do anything at all - they were providing credentials for me to do the things i want.

So these guys just break shit and go home? Love it. then leave me stranded with no credentials - never told us ahead of time so I had to figure a bunch of shit out on the fly today and we're so backed up on calls, I'm still making them after hours - luckily im the on call guy.

Happy 4th monday of the week.

/end rant

Hey, if his boss doesn't allow OT, and the restaurant isn't paying for after hours support - he should leave.

No I get that - but they do pay for after hours support through their maintenance contract.

Likely to the company and not the employee...

System sold with an S100i, but we're using the motherboard to do "hardware raid"... um what...

It's software raid through the motherboard, which is fakeraid.

If the board has any issues, the array is toast....

Taking from a previous post I made about a certain piece of equipment, I've just learned that the equipment must run Windows 7... because of course it does for legacy hardware.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@iroal said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Recovering a file from a Backup of 2014, the backup are in 6 Lto-3 tapes.

Recovering a file from seven years ago? Wow -

This seems completely normal to me, maybe the laws of retainment are more strict in NY, but I want to say that 7 years is the minimum that records need to be kept.

@gjacobse said in I can't even:

Oh for FFS -

An alert has been fired on local host DOMAIN\COMPUTER regarding user myuser. A suspicious powershell script has been found in C:\Users\myuser\Desktop\Teams_ODfB.ps1.
Please let us know if this is legitimate.

This is the script

 Start-Process -File "$($env:USERProfile)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\Update.exe" -ArgumentList '--processStart "Teams.exe"'
 Start-Process -FilePath "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe" -ArgumentList "/background"

Which only starts Teams and ODfB.... Like.. JFC -

Hey we don't know what it does we're just script kiddies out here, tell us if this is kosher, thanks!