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Looks like all I needed to do was mount the hard drive.

Mounted, and transferred the data over the network via smb://windows share

Was some additional steps than what I did previously, but it worked like a charm.

Thanks!

My manager (IT Manager) messaged me a screenshot of speedtest.net results from one of our DC's that showed there is 33 ms ping times, and that I should look into this. I login the DC, pull up command line, ran a continuous ping to 8.8.8.8 with solid 3ms ping times. I sent him a screenshot of the command prompt and said ping times look solid to me, and speedtest.net does not give accurate results of network latency from a computer as the built-in ping utility from windows.

This is basic troubleshooting, and is just sad.

I was 26 and working in a warehouse (been in different warehouse jobs since I was 18). My work computer's OS was corrupted and bogged down (XP) and I had to ship it to corp to get it reloaded. I was fascinated how it was completely restored. I spoke to the IT guy on the phone about what he did to fix it. I told him I wanted to learn how to do that. He gave me the fundamentals on what to study. I checked ITT tech out and gladly ditched them due to the cost. Took courses at a local community college (Paid by my company), started doing computer repair on the side, including anything my manager had me do internally. Our company was outsourcing our work to Germany and was soon to close down, and our IT guy said I should apply for an IT job. I said I can't, because I don't have experience. He said what you've been doing is experience, put it on your resume. I did, and got a help desk position in a fortune 500 company. I've been in my company for 3 years and have advanced my tech and communication skills tremendously. So glad I didn't go to ITT tech!

I currently have a lot of my notes from issues I've come across and fixed saved in notepad, which is organized with different folders. Ex: Folder c:\notes\Networks\routers\watchguard\sslvpn.txt. What is a better solution where I could so a search and find what I need? Ex: search ssl vpn and find that documentation. I've been looking into One Note, but want to see what else is out there.

Thanks everyone. I was able to console into the device with the console cable I bought from Microcenter. I did have to install some drivers since Windows was not recognizing the device. After that, it recognized it as Com3. One of my coworkers was able to remote in my laptop and help me configure the AP.

Appreciate everyone's help. I may be posting more often, because I'm getting exposed to a lot of technology I'm not familiar with. LOL

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Billy Graham just died at 99.

A great servant who made a huge impact to the world.

I may have an opportunity for a support engineer position at MS. My career goal is to eventually be a system admin. I'm currently doing junior system admin tasks in a break/fix type of environment and this position would be more experience with MS products in the ADDS/GPO/DNS/Etc role. I would appreciate some feedback.

I've got a client who has about 1.2TB of data and is currently using Backup Exec as their backup solution. They run full backups every night and take each backup tape (yes tapes!) offsite once backup is complete. It's time to change their backup solution since the business has grown and it now takes like 21 hours to run their backup. I was thinking of some sort of NAS, but they still want to take their backups offsite like they do with their tapes. Any suggestions?

@scottalanmiller I've been drinking the NEIPA's (New England Style IPA) lately. It's very good and doesn't have extreme bitterness like most traditional IPA's do.

Yea, that makes sense. I wasn't sure if it would give an impression that I wasn't interested if I didn't follow up.

Also, after I interviewed with operations managers/etc I immediately interviewed with the HR manager. HR did tell me she's sure that I'm actively applying for other companies and to have patience as it's a long process for their hiring. I'm still going to actively apply at other places though. If I've already been eliminated I would really like to know if there was anything wrong I did so it can help me with future interviews.

@kelly said in Can I Restore files from c:\$recycle.bin\guid??:

You would probably have better success with a tool that can recover deleted files. I'm not sure what is the best these days. I used Recuva a few years ago and it did the trick, but it was finicky.

Yes. I ended up using EaseUS Data Recovery and it worked like a champ. Thanks for your feedback!

@thwr This is indeed a European company with branches in U.S, Canada, and Mexico. I will still continue to seek other opportunities as they come along with keeping my patience.

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft plans on retiring the MCSA,MCSD,MCSE certifications in June 30,2020:

Perhaps Microsoft sees the writing on the wall and is just letting everyone prep for the Linux world?

I sit next to this older guy who we hired that was laid off from an Aerospace Defense company after working there for years. He really has no clue about Windows, and mainly used unix. We often chat about unix/Linux as I've been studying Linux, and we talk about how great it is. He's shocked how poor Windows OS is from all the issues we have with our customers. He's just working here for a little while and is about to retire. Which I have no clue why he's even with us....lol

@scottalanmiller said in Follow-Up After Interview:

@Dashrender said in Follow-Up After Interview:

@scottalanmiller said in Follow-Up After Interview:

@Fredtx said in Follow-Up After Interview:

there is some cons. The pay will be about 15K more a year than what I currently make (below market value) at my company, It will be 5 min away from my home, there is some technology that I will learn that I don't have experience with.

Those are the cons?

this was my question.

So first thing... make sure you have the pros and cons straight. LOLOLOL

Yes. Prevents confusion. I was very confused at your first initial response. I was like, "Are those things not good enough"? Then, I realized I listed it as cons, instead of pros. LOL

I would unjoin and rejoin to the domain. Be sure to reset the the password for local administrator before unjoining. I would also make sure the NIC is only looking at an internal DNS server for DNS. Not sure what happened with the computer account, but possibly it was deleted at some point.

Re: Linux: Collected Educational Resources

Does anyone recommend any material/books for studying Linux, preferably RHEL/CentOS? I've got the RHCSA/RHCE Redhat Study Guide Seventh Edition that @scottalanmiller referenced in an older post. It's a great book. I would also like to get the RHCSA, but it looks like the RHEL 7 exam will be expiring on August 1, 2020 and with my limited experience I may not be ready by then. Especially with the fact that it costs $400. Or do yall recommend I take a different approach? I understand the goal should be to actually learn the content, instead of trying to pass an exam, but I figured while I learn I can at least take the exam (hopefully pass) and put it on my belt.

@scottalanmiller said in Job offer:

@irj said in Job offer:

I always sign offer and wait for background check, drug screen, etc BEFORE I put my notice in

Heck yeah. Everything has to be totally finalized before I'll consider it.

Well, I got another offer from a different company. Same pay range. System Admin role, so I'll be managing/maintaining all their systems. First system admin role. Pretty excited about this one as it's exactly what I've been looking for. And I got an actual offer this time. Submitted drug test and background check today, and signed the offer. Once it's validated, then I will let my current employer know. I would hate to retract 2 resignations. lol.

@scottalanmiller

And that job was fake. I even checked on their linked to see if that role was fulled afterwards out of curiosity. I actually had quite a bit of those at the end of 2021, and some in 2022.

I’m learning how to filter through some of that bs, and after the interview, I just move on. Like the saying goes, “If something doesn’t feel right, it most likely isn’t.” I haven’t got to the point where I’ve ended the interview, although I would think it would be fun to do once I catch their bs. Like this one job interview I had, they couldn’t list the responsibilities I would be handling and just gave me bs answers without actually answering the question.

Freddie from Texas in the DFW area. Currently a remote desktop support tech for enterprise customers, which consist of dental offices across the U.S. I like to have fun with my 7 year old daughter, which includes swimming, bowling, and playing at the park.

Huge crisis for PM Consultants as several of their customers were infected with ransomware through their agents. Hope they have a good lawyer.

https://tdn.com/news/local/local-dental-offices-hit-by-malware-forced-to-cancel-appointments/article_d4a6fc1e-f4c4-5ef0-9974-3b7bee11bab8.html