@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

One of my DCs just died. Noticed that the hard drive was nearly full (probably about time to replace SCOM with Icinga). Told the VM to shut down, took it nearly an hour. Added another 40GB to the VMs VHD, started it and bang: Bluescreen, disk full. The VM went into a reboot loop afterwards, ending up either in the recovery console or another blue screen.

Well, couldn't expand the filesystem this way, so I grapped a gparted ISO and the DC was online again just 5 minutes later.

Are you running a 2003 DC? You can expand disks on 2008 and 2012 without a shutdown.

https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

For the second time in a week, a light fixture fell off of the wall in a room that no one was in and shattered all over the place. Not the bulb, a glass fixture.

uh - weird..

@wrx7m said in Ticketing Solutions for IT Department:

@quixoticjustin said in Ticketing Solutions for IT Department:

I know that it is very, very early in development and super rough right now, but have you looked at Sodium's SaaS helpdesk option? It is completely free and getting in early lets you be involved in helping to make sure that it has the kinds of features that you need for it to make sense for you.

I am interested in it but, like you said, it is still very early. I need something to use that is polished but also still going to be actively developed/improved.

At the risk of getting flamed, I still think Spiceworks is a good solution for the very small IT department. I don't know how their development is going to continue, so time will tell if it gets any more love and/or if they just stop being a company. For the ease of use, installation, and overall result, it's still a valid product in the right size company.

Conversely, you could go for ManageEngine's ticket system, which might be overkill for you and I don't know if there's a free edition. It is ITIL compliant, though, and has an agent for monitoring/inventory.

Trello has a ticket mode. https://blog.trello.com/easy-to-use-it-support-system

http://www.huntwildpig.com/state-specifics/colorado/
Let's go! Someone check out when we can schedule this.

A previous admin created a gpo to alter and add an entry under the hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER in Key path Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Ranges\Range66 which forces a single entry for compatibility mode. I've spent a lot of time testing and, while the setting is to apply once and not again, it doesn't seem to allow a user to add more sites to compatibility mode and keep that addition after a reboot.

Has anyone successfully created a GPO for IE11 to enable CM for users to add items, while also pushing a list of our own? Is there a best method around for achieving this goal?

cron rm

I needed to iterate through a list of systems that I'd placed in to a text file so I could shut them off, perform work on each one through vsphere and return it to service without just taking them all down immediately. The countdown gives me the opportunity to do the work and turn the vm back on.

$file = "$($ENV:USERPROFILE)\desktop\systems.txt"
$systems = get-content $file
foreach ($guest in $Systems){
        Write-Host -foregroundcolor cyan "``nStopping $($guest)."
        Stop-Computer -ComputerName $guest
#On-screen Timer
$delay = 280
$Counter_Form = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form
$Counter_Form.Text = "Countdown Timer!"
$Counter_Form.Width = 450
$Counter_Form.Height = 200
$Counter_Label = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label
$Counter_Label.AutoSize = $true 
$Counter_Form.Controls.Add($Counter_Label)
while ($delay -ge 0)
{
  $Counter_Form.Show()
  $Counter_Label.Text = "Seconds Remaining: $($delay)"
  start-sleep 1
  $delay -= 1
}
$Counter_Form.Close() 
}

Recorded here for future use and/or sharing. Counter from here.

Mongolian BBQ for lunch.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Roots was his first show. Not just his first screen appearance... literally his first audition!

LeVar Burton is freaking awesome.

It is known.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@StrongBad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@StrongBad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Good morning coffee, oh how I love thee.

Man, I wish coffee still worked for me. Even if it didn't I still wish we didn't have shit coffee here.

Better to have shit coffee than coffee shits.

j/k good coffee with coffee shits is still good coffee.

True... but I'll drink good coffee, just not for a pick me up. I need about 50x the amount of caffeine provided by drip coffee (which literally puts me right to sleep).

A good double espresso goes a long way.

8oz of drip coffee has 95mg of caffeine, vs 80mg for a double espresso. That kind of microdose of caffeine doesn't do shit for me but make me want to go back to bed. I have no idea how much caffeine is in my 8 day cold brew, but it's more like taking drugs than drinking coffee.

According to the box of Kroger Morning Boost (Wild Strawberry), which I add to my water in the morning and after noon, there are 120mg of caffeine in the little packets (each). There are 10 packets to a box, which cost about 3.50. Starbucks can suck it!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Still in the office.....

You up mighty late tonight!

No kidding.

Might as well go ahead and start the coffee pot.

Yeah, I don't know how to do that. The little Ukrainian secretary has left She is the keeper of the coffee knowledge.

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@RojoLoco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Packed all weekend and our place looks like a disaster right now

Sounds like the house when my wife starts cleaning up.

"cleaning up"

I call it shuffling the piles of stuff around.

Garbage Tetris

When did you see my garage?

There is an IoT thing in there somewhere, we can all see it!

I'd suggest a drinking game where we do shots every time that +scottalanmiller shows up in frame, but we all know his propensity for garages and I don't think it wise for people to get alcohol poisoning.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Welcome back Americans - y'all have a good weekend charring and consuming some food?

I have never owned a grill

I'm a vegetarian and I've owned several!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got blocked on Facebook by someone today for not backing down that equality is important. LOL Only in 'merica do people really feel that inequality is a good thing still in enough numbers to feel that saying it publicly is okay.

The best part is that people are screaming for equal rights while ignoring the glaring inequalities.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

He's a web master, so of course SQL Server 2008 R2?

Terms like "the database departed" make this pretty hard to follow.

This is best read if you image the OP as being the All-Powerful Beginning Webmaster, the first of his name, Creator of Databases, Master of Information, and Overseer of Departed Components.

Fixing this:

In case anyone is wondering how, here are the steps I use:

• Do:
  Net stop wsusservice
  IISReset /Stop
  IISReset /Start
  Net start wsusservice
• Then (if that fails):
  C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools>WsusUtil.exe postinstall

Also, you can check the application pool for wsus and increase memory if you have a lot of clients. Details: https://www.404techsupport.com/2016/03/21/iis-wsus-private-memory/

Also, while writing this, I fixed the reset server node error and my wsus is running fine now.

@EddieJennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

My whiteboard

If that's actually a whiteboard, then it's very remarkable.

@nic said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@dustinb3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@nic said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

And I'm over 1000 games in Steam

Started playing Player Unknown Battlegrounds yesterday and it's loads of fun.

Holy hell @Nic is alive

Yeah just been busy with work

Last that I heard, you were working from home with the cannabis industry.

@nattnatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

I upgraded my GPU at the weekend - got a cracking deal on 3x EVGA GTX 1080 FTW Hybrid cards - should be £595 retail, but they were ex-display (never used in a system) and got them for £400 each! So upgraded my 1080 SuperClocked to the FTW edition and had a rework of my cooling setup (2 new fans put in, and the others rearranged).

Hitting 200+ fps on all the games I've tried so far!

I fucking hate you.