@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

About to close out the first day of what I expect to be my first full week at the new office. Lot's of previously mis-managed things,... like Printers and Printer Contracts. They use Meraki APs (kill them with fire!!!)... and well just an otherwise utter mess of things. Glad to be here, hope I can improve on a few things.

Sounds like a few major improvements are already obvious, good luck!

Fast math has me at an $1.25 hr increase just in not getting fuel twice a week..

So yea..

About to close out the first day of what I expect to be my first full week at the new office. Lot's of previously mis-managed things,... like Printers and Printer Contracts. They use Meraki APs (kill them with fire!!!)... and well just an otherwise utter mess of things. Glad to be here, hope I can improve on a few things.

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

GAH!

I'm also for doing things the 'old way' in a lot of cases,.. but JEEZ... Move forward with how you create / disable / deal with accounts in AD/O365... Insanity!!!!

It depends on who owns the code, you or your company.

Well,.. right now, they manually do nearly everything.... and they do it badly!

People are left in AD as disabled... sigh fine.. but they are still in the GAL!! Like really? do you really want email 'flowing' to a user that isn't here anymore?

And installing software or setting Bitlocker. Manually done.. like REALLY!!... in five minutes I wrote a batch script to do that....

Discussing IT stuff with Mr. @EddieJennings - Been a while actually speaking with him.

Wondering if anyone else creates a consolidated location of scripts, PS or batch to use at a later date when they have moved on... Generally some bit of code that seems useful elsewhere, and beneficial to have...

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Here's to another week in the world of Windows system administration.

If only every week wasn't such a bruiser. . . .

My current job has a lower stress level than my last, but the opportunity to work with Linux didn't pan out.

Is there really such a thing as a job with lower stress? in IT even? I've not been here at the new job long enough yet to have that. Seems I just started and it's been four weeks... where does the time go.

So....much...to...do... Oh look - Cat Videos.....

@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:

Fighting the good GPO fight.

I love,... err hate GPOs.. I need to review a few to understand how things are being deployed / set. (eye roll).

Why do you hate GPOs? I love them!
They are window's version of ansible as far as I know.

Because they are great when they work as designed. and suck when they don't.

GP objects are a mess. I can't find any type of password policy,.. yet there is one.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

About to replace a Mosfet on a GPU see if I can get it to come from the dead
Also got live stream of the Benzo launch on the TV

Did he crash land yet?

No - successful launch and landing

Getting this Friday started,... Right now am the only one in the office with one on vacation, two working from home, and the remaining two either on a site visit or something...

Looking to get home to inspect the 3D print that finished about midnight. Then it's high time I dealt with the four pork loins so they can get put in the smoker...

Finishing the nights gaming session - getting set up for another day in the office. Watching the netdata dashboard and wondering what else I can do with this Ubuntu Server.. piHole is next,.. UBNT controller is already on it.

Meh - problem for another day.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

shaking my head again at a process that I've made a suggestion on how to 'fix'

Several of the POS card scanners have an issue with the Windows Service stopping. Have to remote to the desktop to restart them...

Has to be a better way and one that doesn't keep requiring Human intervention which may take 5-20 minutes depending on IT availability.

Powershell script that runs once a minute (or once every x minutes) to check the service and restart it if needed?

My thoughts. Was about half way writing it when it was discovered that:

Powershell is disabled ...

@hobbit666
Yikes -
Oh - looks like you need more coffee....

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Good loard
The gutters can’t keep up with how much rain is coming down… and the amount of lightning is crazy… one crack less than a mile away!

Sounds like you guys are in Zeus's back yard this week.

Just a little rain

How often is it that you run into a Vendor's Application that is broke AF!?

Came across another application that the vendor needs to have User write access to the
c:\program files (x86)\application folder. It's totally non functional until you added that permission.

Why - (epic face palm)?

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Morning @scottalanmiller

Weekly Staff meeting that is also a meeting with a vendor over the Grafana system that they built for us... Whoo!

Using Prometheus as a part of Grafana....

And we now have our own internal Chocolatey server... Fun

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Wondering what became of the user I'm supposed to be getting setup with a VPN. No phone answer and not in office. Yay people.

it's to Peopley out there.

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

Ever wonder why the competition is so cheap....

The vendor that got a large account from us, and honestly they've been great to work with for handover up till now, asked us today to train them on how to manage phone systems as "part of the handover process"... three weeks after our engagement with the account had ended.

Um.... what? No.

They needed training on things like "how to log in" and "how to add a new user" and "how to attach a phone."

For the record, this is FreePBX running totally vanilla, that we didn't even set up!

That's a WTF, not just a "I can't even,.."

@obsolesce said in Framework | Modularity hits laptops?:

@dashrender said in Framework | Modularity hits laptops?:

@pete-s said in Framework | Modularity hits laptops?:

@dashrender said in Framework | Modularity hits laptops?:

@pete-s said in Framework | Modularity hits laptops?:

That company is not going to be around in five years. Good luck finding any upgrades then.
The whole idea is flawed in too many ways to list.

If you want to have your laptop for a number of years, just get one that can actually be opened and have components replaced. A lot of them can - almost everyone I'd say with exceptions such as apple. For example:

I tend to agree with you. My old Lenovo, you know the one I got the same time Dominica won one from SpiceWorld - it was easy to upgrade the SSD or RAM, really the main components one would upgrade.

Yeah, a lot of them are easy because laptops are made out of components anyway.

Here are videos of hundreds of laptops and how to open them and how to do upgrades:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpYZc4lOys6gtJj8-dr4pY1-m0yo_NYqn

The biggest waste is things like the monitor - they can generally last 8-12 years, so short of needing an upgrade there, there is nothing wrong with it, yet we are tossing it aside because we want a new processor.

Hmm... Can you still get newer or upgraded VGA monitors?

The just ordered and received Viewsonic monitors have VGA ports on them....

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Friday Morning Coffee, email purge. Ready for the weekend (regardless if I'm on call or not) to do as little as possible -

I was ready for the weekend five days ago

I hear ya'! I didn't get a "weekend" last week cause I was out of town with my family at an amusement park which was an utter scam really.

Ouch - I pretty much don't get weekends with all the yuts and yard work.

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Friday Morning Coffee, email purge. Ready for the weekend (regardless if I'm on call or not) to do as little as possible -

I was ready for the weekend five days ago

I hear ya'! I didn't get a "weekend" last week cause I was out of town with my family at an amusement park which was an utter scam really.

How was it a scam?

Likely how many of them are. $10 hotdog that is tasteless, and the $4 drink that is more ice then soda...