Posts made by Texkonc

Just setup 1 of 3, 24TB monsters to replicate us to Scale from HyperV.

Interesting thread that popped up when I logged in.....

This is a new one to me. Thanks Lansweeper.
"Computers with chassis Lunch Box(5) "

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

"Please Whitelist this email address for this user"
Hmmmmm, not blocked for other users......
Looked in his personal block list, and what do I find?

"I removed it from his personal block list that he manually added. Try again."

The thing I find more interesting is - who is acting as a go between? I hope it's the helpdesk, otherwise, why can't the user contact you directly?

Local IT.
aka Helpdesk for the remote location, not our Corporate helpdesk.
Only myself, coworker, and CIO have full rights to the spam gateway.

"Please Whitelist this email address for this user"
Hmmmmm, not blocked for other users......
Looked in his personal block list, and what do I find?

"I removed it from his personal block list that he manually added. Try again."

Im just here for the popcorn.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Zoho is mostly down. Up for me, but seems to be down for just about everyone else.

Outage week. Lets see who dies tomorrow.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/09/microsoft-purchases-bethesda-softworks-in-industry-changing-acquisition/

Asked another team to open a ticket rather than email for DNS changes.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Did someone here the other day have a DC that looked alive but when logged onto it just had a white screen?

Was it @JaredBusch ???

I've got one now.

Today I had another Hyper-V 2012 R2 with a Server 2012 R2 DC acting weird, but everything was still reachable. Rebooted everything under a controlled reboot and it all came back up normal. but it took almost double the normal reboot time.

HyperV Reboots are always up in the air on timing.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Vultr says it is a Tier 1 ISP outage.

Yup, our MFA is affected. Good thing I was already on the VPN.

@scottalanmiller said in Weekend Plans:

House guests all weekend, all three days.

Any leaks after that Monsoon last night?

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2285950-outlook-not-connecting-getting-error-when-installing
Wipe the firewall for 1 user? Waaaaaa?

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bv8bwd/watch-the-ultimate-typing-champion-reach-otherworldly-speeds

Napster is still a thing?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/25/napster-sold-british-startup-melodyvr-surprise-deal

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@Texkonc said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Ticket from Local IT.

Exchange is slow. blah blah.

Netops: No excessive traffic at your location..
Sysops: Exchange within daily operation performance trend....
Local IT: Screenshot.

"Outlook trying to Connect with Exchange"
30k emails just in the Inbox folder......
So they are caching EVERYTHING. Asking a lot of Outlook there.......

Well, at least they aren't working out of Deleted Items

All their subfolders are subfolders of the inbox, so they get refreshed when the inbox gets refreshed.

I have a seperate root folder called Saved and all my Sub Folders are under there.

Ticket from Local IT.

Exchange is slow. blah blah.

Netops: No excessive traffic at your location..
Sysops: Exchange within daily operation performance trend....
Local IT: Screenshot.

"Outlook trying to Connect with Exchange"
30k emails just in the Inbox folder......
So they are caching EVERYTHING. Asking a lot of Outlook there.......

Vendors that put their SQL Express directions on a Public KB on their site, and say "you might want to use this sa password as our software uses it during the install"
So you are telling the public world how to compromise your own product on my network....

@Dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Salad

Isn't it early for dinner?

You mean lunch.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey I may need a Dallas plumber and carpet cleaner though...

I was thinking I could use a few hundred locksmiths

Surprised there has been no Porn spam yet..