@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

binged the Matrix movies over the last 3 days. they left the last one wide open for 5th film.
still reckon the original is the best.

I reckon they should have left it at one. There was just something missing from the others that followed. Don't get me wrong, I have watched 2 & 3 and I did like them but I just feel that they were unnecessary.

eh. maybe, dunno. at least the follow ups were watchable.

i'll be back onto sbs now, see what new Scandi noir masterpiece I can wrap my eyeballs around.

binged the Matrix movies over the last 3 days. they left the last one wide open for 5th film.
still reckon the original is the best.

@scottalanmiller said in Migrating to xxxxx:

@siringo said in Migrating to xxxxx:

@scottalanmiller said in Migrating to xxxxx:

@siringo said in Migrating to xxxxx:

I believe it would be more useful to ask questions like 'how would you solve this?', or 'what's something you've done that you've taken great pride in completing?'
Questions that dig into how a person thinks and solves, rather than past job history.

Exactly, and anyone with business or interview training would tell you that that's kinda day one training in that stuff. If you are getting deep into specific skills, it suggests that no one interviewed you on being an interviewer, LOL.

I find even better than questions is just discussion. It's hard, but just dive in and get people talking. If they are passionate and knowledgable they will be able to talk and it is really hard to bluff conversation of a technical nature of any large period of time.

Ah. So that may be why I've been interviewing shitterly for the past 12 months.

I've been in the game for a long time, i've aqcuired lots of knowledge about business, technology and life and when being interviewed I probably don't appear all that interested? When asked about something I may seem half hearted, the thing is though, I've been in front of so many 'how the crap am I going to do this' moments that not much worries me anymore. I've learnt that almost everything can be solved, fixed, upgraded or replaced, all you need is time.

Sorry, this is way off topic.

I have a similar situation. There's no more panic. Just "let me do my job and get on with it." People sometimes see that as not taking it seriously when really, I'm just that much more on top of things.

This ^^^ absolutely.

@scottalanmiller we were talking on the weekend and my wife said, ' ... unless you move to Nicaragua, or some weird place like that...'.

I said I know a bloke who could put us up if you want to go.

@nadnerB yeah it was mate. Did my mental health some real good, feel like i've had a holiday to be honest.

had a great weekend.

went down to the city on Friday afternoon. got there about 8:30pm, met our son at the pub and had a great night meeting with his friends, drinking beer and listening to some alt country band outta nashville.

saturday was a free day and ended the day by over eating on thai food and rolling home.

sunday went and saw Rockwiz live and got to meet the presenters back stage.

now back at work.

@scottalanmiller said in Migrating to xxxxx:

@siringo said in Migrating to xxxxx:

I believe it would be more useful to ask questions like 'how would you solve this?', or 'what's something you've done that you've taken great pride in completing?'
Questions that dig into how a person thinks and solves, rather than past job history.

Exactly, and anyone with business or interview training would tell you that that's kinda day one training in that stuff. If you are getting deep into specific skills, it suggests that no one interviewed you on being an interviewer, LOL.

I find even better than questions is just discussion. It's hard, but just dive in and get people talking. If they are passionate and knowledgable they will be able to talk and it is really hard to bluff conversation of a technical nature of any large period of time.

Ah. So that may be why I've been interviewing shitterly for the past 12 months.

I've been in the game for a long time, i've aqcuired lots of knowledge about business, technology and life and when being interviewed I probably don't appear all that interested? When asked about something I may seem half hearted, the thing is though, I've been in front of so many 'how the crap am I going to do this' moments that not much worries me anymore. I've learnt that almost everything can be solved, fixed, upgraded or replaced, all you need is time.

Sorry, this is way off topic.

Thanks everyone for the input.

I had another play with rclone and got it to work, looks quite useful.

@Obsolesce said in Migrating to xxxxx:

@siringo said in Migrating to xxxxx:

But how do you/we get around the problem of an interview panel asking " so how much experience do you have with Ansible, Salt, AD etc"

Either don't interview for those positions, or get experience doing the stuff you want to be doing.

Sorry, I wasn't clear.

What I meant was, how de we, the interviewer, interviewee and industry, get around panels asking that style of question?

I believe it would be more useful to ask questions like 'how would you solve this?', or 'what's something you've done that you've taken great pride in completing?'

Questions that dig into how a person thinks and solves, rather than past job history.

@scottalanmiller Interesting.
But how do you/we get around the problem of an interview panel asking " so how much experience do you have with Ansible, Salt, AD etc"

If you're the interviewee and you say none and 90% of job respondents reply with none, that business is going to have trouble finding a suitable replacement, which becomes a business problem.

You have to remember the majority of businesses are small businesses without IT departments, they don't understand IT and an IT issue is usually a major headache.

I guess what I'm saying here is, is it a good idea to use technologies that aren't as well known Vs ones that are well known.

I'm not anti this or that, I don't care what anyone uses.

The last interview I went to I was asked "what experience do you have managing iPads in an MDM environment?" I answered none, because I had none. Then I inherited 2 sites that were managing iPads with an MDM and both sites I have improved and made the management of the iPads easier and more efficient than what was configured by the so called highly paid expert that set it up initially.

So I do agree with what you say about how an experienced IT person should be able to just sit down and figure it out, but it's hard to get that opportunity when applying for a new position, interview panels want immediate results most times.

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Interesting. In no way am I being critical / criticising, just asking questions for my own education.

Are all the PCs located within the same building or are they geographically dispersed?

Do you have any Ansible and/or Salt experience, will there be a learning curve?

Could you achieve the required result using AD in less time than by using the proposed apps & services listed?

If you get hit by a bus, will the setup be able to be supported by your replacement?

Sorry, TLDR, very busy ATM. I really appreciate the input from everyone, this is very interesting.

If I were starting from scratch and didn't want to use AD and only had Windows devices and sysadmins with only Windows experience, what would you use?

The network size is small, 15 client PCs, 2 servers, everything is Windows.

Just wondering if anyone here has used / is using rclone to upload to Google Drive from within Windows?

I've had a quick n nasty try following the docs and didn't get anywhere.

I'm looking for a way to schedule an upload of VHDX files to Google Drive.

Thanks.

I dunno. Sorry I haven't read all this, my back is giving me hell ATM.

So how do you add a new shared printer to a group of PCs? You'd never visit each PC individually and add it.

I saw @jt1001001 mention they could upgrade so they can use Intune &/or Azure AD. Azure AD is AD, but Intune is an MDM.

I can understand how you could use an MDM to manage Windows devices, but why not just use native AD?

I cannot see any corp running 1000's of Windows devices without AD. However I could see a small business not using AD.

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

New job has me swamped. Going to get rid of Active Directory as one of the dc suffered a failure this week and executive management said "been meaning to do that for a while. You take the the project. What licenses do you need". No questions, not push back, just OK get it done. Good to work in a company where pretty much everyone is at least somewhat technical.

@jt1001001 Sounds like fun times ahead.

What will you replace AD with?

hello everyone. beautiful weather over the weekend.

Q: if you drive at the speed of light and turn your headlights on, does it make any difference?

.. an old Steven Wright joke.

hmmmm.
need a powerpoint for my desk.
only powerpoint close to my desk has a ups plugged into it.
ups runs a mix of servers and switches.
got a power board I can plug into the powerpoint
that'll give me and the ups power.

hmmmm.
should i??? I mean, everything's running off the ups, it should all stay up.
what to do, what to do, what to do???

@jaredbusch haha. yep.

friday morning. what a completely upside down week, glad it's close to finishing, somehow i've got to this point with no dramas.

grabbed an old 44 gallon drum off a bloke down the road. the underside is stamped with 'Property Air Force U.S. Army'

how the sam hill did that end up in our small town??