Posts made by flaxking

At my new job we estimate 5/8 hours in a day for spending on your actual work.

Some companies that invested heavily into company culture might be worried about how to make the transition to remote and keep the same company culture. It can be hard to have the equivalent of music events, beer on tap, etc.

The reality is that company culture would not stay the same, a new remote company culture based on the ashes of the old culture has to be created.

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I'm pretty impressed they turned Morrowind into an MMO
I may want to get into running my own server one day.

@stacksofplates said in Yet another way Azure sucks:

@IRJ said in Yet another way Azure sucks:

@JaredBusch said in Yet another way Azure sucks:

When you want to delete a virtual machine, you have to clean up all the its manually.

There is not even an option to remove everything at once.

This is by design, because all your resources are separate. Companies that leverage Azure/AWS are not using the console to deploy resources for this very reason. Using infrastructure as code is the only way to go. Both Azure and AWS offer their own IaC at no cost, but you can use terraform as an open source before neutral deployment method as well.

Azure VMs and AWS EC2 are not VPS as you know. AWS does offer VPS style servers called lightsail. It's more affordable than EC2 and you would be able to delete with one click like youre used to doing. Of course you don't get all the other features like advanced networking, storage, etc.

We've been looking at Pulumi lately for IaC. I'm kind of over DLCs to write things and then having to wait for that DLC to support control flows. Just let the language your used to using do the work.

Coming from a company that only uses ARM templates, Bicep was the most exciting thing I saw at Ignite.

The scariest thing was using AR and Teams to remotely assist with surgeries. Teams didn't even work properly for that whole presentation.

Yeah, so then you figure it's a great idea to put every VM and the resources only associated with it in all separate resource groups.

Now say you want to give someone access to a bunch of VMs but not all VMs in the subscription. Well, you can't nest multiple resource groups under a parent resource group. You could move them to another subscription and give that person permission at the subscription level.

But hey, what about Azure AD groups? So you create an Azure AD group and assign that group permission to each of the resource groups. But there's a limit to how many individual permission assignments you are allowed, and guess what? Now you've created a back door that would allow an Azure AD User Admin to give themselves access to your servers and resources.

The solution? Azure AD Administrator Units, create a whole new Azure AD Admin unit that does not share User Admin roles with your normal Microsoft 365 tenant, but guess what? Now you need to get licences that include Azure AD P2 for some people in order to use Administrative Units.

My wireless radio internet is 60ms, I pre-ordered starlink a couple of weeks ago.

@Dashrender said in Another RDS server?:

@notverypunny said in Another RDS server?:

Just a reminder to step back and make sure that CPU and / or RAM are really your bottlenecks here. Network tuning / QoS can do wonders for the RDP experience and then there's the other side of the equation for the RDS server accessing those LoB apps. Some time spent with with processhacker watching not just RAM and CPU usage but process IO, network and disk / filesystem use is always a worthy investment to confirm your course of action. As soon as you've got users directly interacting with a system, be ready for surprises.

This is what I was thinking.

Sure a 5 year old server ain't a spring chicken - but the real question is - what's the bottleneck?

Now - as previously said - more than about 50 users on TS box became problematic in the past, but I haven't dealt with this since it was called Terminal Server, so I don't know if things have changed for RDS?

At some point Task Manager stops working properly, and then other tools start breaking when you hit 100+. I forget exactly what, but I remember you couldn't use powershell commands either, but some older cmd tools still worked.

I wouldn't go over 50 users on one server. At 100 users you start running into limitations with the OS.

Multiple servers does make taking one host down easier.

@Danp I'm not sure what team I will be on yet. All I know is that I will be using C#.

I just landed a new job that I'm pretty excited about. My current position moved slowly back from development into straight up IT, so I'm glad to be a software developer again.

My new company has good benefits and I know some people that work there and it sounds like they treat their employees really well.

If I didn't get this job, I might have given up on developer. There's so much work involved in dev hiring processes.

Am I missing something? What's wrong with the third party auth and SAML supported by Bookstack?

Also if you go with FTPS instead of SFTP you have to deal with UTM/Next Gen Firewalls messing with the traffic on the client side all the time.

@siringo you might want to rethink Filezilla, last I heard it the installer was bundling some sketchy stuff with it. I just use WinSCP when needed.

Syncthing could be an option here

Speaking to just the YAML side of things and not Ansible, you've got it pretty good, just a few minor clarifications:

2. a. hosts is a key within a dictionary, not a dictionary itself, looks like they might have just been a typo

3. c. I mean, you could think of that dictionary being named tasks, but getting technical, tasks is a key in a dictionary that has a dictionary as the value.

@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: The Three Components of Web Hosting:

@flaxking said in SAMIT: The Three Components of Web Hosting:

I'm liking these non-IT technician focused videos.

Thanks! I'm hoping to broaden the audience and make tools that IT staff can either use directly by sharing with management or learn from on how to present to management.

Far too often IT is pressured to make business decisions that other business stakeholders should be involved in.

@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: The Three Components of Web Hosting:

@flaxking said in SAMIT: The Three Components of Web Hosting:

I once worked for a company where a previous employee had set up their own domain reseller and that's who the company had gotten their domains. Luckily he let us transfer while still in talks with the company about payments.

Wow, now that's scary.

We are dealing with a customer right now that let their former IT company own their domain, DNS, hosting, everything. Now they are begging them to give it to them, which likely they will, but they've been using the pressure to try to extort them softly for more services in the meantime.

It seems like that is not an uncommon scenario.

I'm liking these non-IT technician focused videos. I once worked for a company where a previous employee had set up their own domain reseller and that's who the company had gotten their domains. Luckily he let us transfer while still in talks with the company about payments.

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Use a Tryton partner as your developer. Something happens to that company you can use another one for modifications.

The only trick is getting. A Business Analyst that understands the business and can communicate the requirements.

Does anyone else think a Gordon Ramsay esque TV show called IT Nightmares would be a great idea?

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/lfoklv/does_anyone_else_think_a_gordon_ramsay_esque_tv/

The way I would see it is as mostly directed at business owners and getting them to understand the role of IT in their business.

"That's an HR problem, not an IT problem."