I dumped FB in Jan19 - About the only thing I miss is the comments from friends about things that happen... and photos. I don't miss the political, religious, you must help me overcome, give me money posts. And the big one,.. the hate posts.
It was (one avenue) of keeping in touch with people I won't get to talk to much. Ah well..
@travisdh1 said in What the world? No user backup script:
@gjacobse said in What the world? No user backup script:
@travisdh1 said in What the world? No user backup script:
@DustinB3403 said in What the world? No user backup script:
Why not use something like UrBackup rather than recreating the wheel with custom scripts?
Especially when it's in the Chocolaty repo. Just script the install and configuration!
Many aspects of Chocolatey are blocked. I tried to install Greenshot and it failed.
It’s the state- which has a high number of limiting GPOs and such.
Scripts are also restricted... to a degree.
Ugh, hope you find a job somewhere reasonable quick!
I took this as a stop gap. But it's what I have now, and what I have to work with. Just trying to improve and make the best of it while here.
In this one building we have I think about six different agencies. Many are highly mobile, and are in the field a lot (Dept of Energy, Water, Forestry, etc)
We had a case today of a user 'complaining' of how slow her computer was. Turns out she was trying to access email in her PST file over the VPN. A 15GB PST file.
Employees could access email, or Scanned documents, Surveys - GIS or other data. So,.. 'always on the server' isn't 'always' going to work.
Being that it's the state, scripts are controlled. I can't run some simple batch scripts without elevation, and then that changes the 'accessed' folders making the script fail.
@travisdh1 said in What the world? No user backup script:
@DustinB3403 said in What the world? No user backup script:
Why not use something like UrBackup rather than recreating the wheel with custom scripts?
Especially when it's in the Chocolaty repo. Just script the install and configuration!
Many aspects of Chocolatey are blocked. I tried to install Greenshot and it failed.
It’s the state- which has a high number of limiting GPOs and such.
Scripts are also restricted... to a degree.
As I look to script something up, it is likely better to use Powershell over simple batch - yes?
PS would have tools to query ADUC and provide more logic than batch, but I have little experience with PS...
And of course each agency, company , etc will have differences to account for. So there will be some obvious adjustments over general user dox, fav, pix, etc.
I find this seriously difficult to understand and believe.
With nearly 2,000 systems in 2 builds and all the rest in the states core, there isn’t a script of some kind to backup the user data to the server!
FFS people- even I prefer scripts!
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Good Grief.. Just skipped about a months worth of content here... ugh. Been way to tired and way to far behind to keep up. And with work, just don't have time.
Smoking some cheese after a weekend of normal chores and house work. Also working offloading some images from the phone.. Don't want to believe that tomorrow is Monday again... sigh.. oh well. Time marches on.
I can empathize. The past two weeks at work have yielded me little time to take part in forums.
I have come home completely beat. It's a 45-60 min drive in, and a bit more coming home. This makes for a full 10 hour day really. And i'm not sitting like I had been, so this is good, but I'm just not accustom to it. Oh and the freight elevator was out two days..
I've managed to deploy about 30 24" monitors, manage some inventory, learn a bit about OrcaScan for barcode scanning, and get two computers deployed - with stress.
State applications are horrrid... They have SCCM and gods I miss ScreenConnect, and Chocolatey... I mean barf.
They have had to build and move to a new SCCM server, which broke every package they had... not that they were good to start with.
It's crazy the amount of personal touches you have to make on EACH stupid software in some cases.. Like,.. this one REQUIRES Firefox 52.2.... NOTHING ELSE works!!! like FFS WTH.
Ah well.. It's a pay check. I went into this as a stopgap measure.
We use SCCM (and GPO for stuff). I actually don't mind it, I've just never had the time to really dive into it and use it "right." My time with it has been more of make-what's-already-there-work. Mind you I had zero experience with SCCM prior to this gig.
For the most part I don't mind it. But I miss the SC Command line and Chat. It was nice to just do things to the remote computer without having to interact with the end user.
It is what it is. I'm still \learning how it works
Are you working a state contract now? I assume you can't suggest something like Mesh Central - no cost except for the VM space/compute/RAM needed - assuming they have that, it's basically free.
For now - yes.
And not likely moving from SCCM in my life time here.
Caught this guy hanging out on my 80-10m antenna while mowing the lawn -
Sometimes I'm really impressed with the imaging camera in the iPhone....
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Good Grief.. Just skipped about a months worth of content here... ugh. Been way to tired and way to far behind to keep up. And with work, just don't have time.
Smoking some cheese after a weekend of normal chores and house work. Also working offloading some images from the phone.. Don't want to believe that tomorrow is Monday again... sigh.. oh well. Time marches on.
I can empathize. The past two weeks at work have yielded me little time to take part in forums.
I have come home completely beat. It's a 45-60 min drive in, and a bit more coming home. This makes for a full 10 hour day really. And i'm not sitting like I had been, so this is good, but I'm just not accustom to it. Oh and the freight elevator was out two days..
I've managed to deploy about 30 24" monitors, manage some inventory, learn a bit about OrcaScan for barcode scanning, and get two computers deployed - with stress.
State applications are horrrid... They have SCCM and gods I miss ScreenConnect, and Chocolatey... I mean barf.
They have had to build and move to a new SCCM server, which broke every package they had... not that they were good to start with.
It's crazy the amount of personal touches you have to make on EACH stupid software in some cases.. Like,.. this one REQUIRES Firefox 52.2.... NOTHING ELSE works!!! like FFS WTH.
Ah well.. It's a pay check. I went into this as a stopgap measure.
We use SCCM (and GPO for stuff). I actually don't mind it, I've just never had the time to really dive into it and use it "right." My time with it has been more of make-what's-already-there-work. Mind you I had zero experience with SCCM prior to this gig.
For the most part I don't mind it. But I miss the SC Command line and Chat. It was nice to just do things to the remote computer without having to interact with the end user.
It is what it is. I'm still \learning how it works
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Good Grief.. Just skipped about a months worth of content here... ugh. Been way to tired and way to far behind to keep up. And with work, just don't have time.
Smoking some cheese after a weekend of normal chores and house work. Also working offloading some images from the phone.. Don't want to believe that tomorrow is Monday again... sigh.. oh well. Time marches on.
I can empathize. The past two weeks at work have yielded me little time to take part in forums.
I have come home completely beat. It's a 45-60 min drive in, and a bit more coming home. This makes for a full 10 hour day really. And i'm not sitting like I had been, so this is good, but I'm just not accustom to it. Oh and the freight elevator was out two days..
I've managed to deploy about 30 24" monitors, manage some inventory, learn a bit about OrcaScan for barcode scanning, and get two computers deployed - with stress.
State applications are horrrid... They have SCCM and gods I miss ScreenConnect, and Chocolatey... I mean barf.
They have had to build and move to a new SCCM server, which broke every package they had... not that they were good to start with.
It's crazy the amount of personal touches you have to make on EACH stupid software in some cases.. Like,.. this one REQUIRES Firefox 52.2.... NOTHING ELSE works!!! like FFS WTH.
Ah well.. It's a pay check. I went into this as a stopgap measure.