@Dashrender said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@Dashrender said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@thecreaitvone91 said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@Dashrender said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

some employees just can't do it - they can't stay on task while at home

But can they in the office? These are the same people who derail others in the office.

Studies show that people stay MORE on task at home. If we cared about people being on task, the office would have been ruled out long ago. So clearly, no one using an office is concerned with this, so this is moot.

Sure, a few people are useless anywhere, but the majority work better at home.

I'm way more distracted in the office, my Boss and our CIO would let me work from home, but it's the fact that others will complain that's it's not fair etc that it doesn't happen. Company politics and all..

So let them all work from home. Create metrics that allow them to be measured and then disperse.

Why create metrics? If you don't need those metrics in a less conducive environment, you don't need them in a more productive one.

This is the solution to the management problem - they "believe" people are more productive at work than at home... they dont' know it, they are blinded by their own lack of a job if the employees are working from home perhaps..

It's well known in the business world that supervisors and lower management are some of the dumpest people in the company, even C-level's joke about this.. sometimes jobs are even created for these people to stop them from fucking up the actual work.

@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@Dashrender said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

some employees just can't do it - they can't stay on task while at home

But can they in the office? These are the same people who derail others in the office.

Studies show that people stay MORE on task at home. If we cared about people being on task, the office would have been ruled out long ago. So clearly, no one using an office is concerned with this, so this is moot.

Sure, a few people are useless anywhere, but the majority work better at home.

I'm way more distracted in the office, my Boss and our CIO would let me work from home, but it's the fact that others will complain that's it's not fair etc that it doesn't happen. Company politics and all..

@travisdh1 said in Disable Screensaver and User Lockout with PowerShell:

I'm resurrecting this old ghost today.

I've got a couple of police computers that they want the screensaver password turned off for. Our remote registry editor doesn't have HKCU available of course, and Powershell is giving me the same sort of errors it was for @gjacobse. Did anyone ever get it figured out, or am I stuck waiting for them to call me back?

You can always browse to the HKEY_Users then the SID for the current user that is loggged in using remote registry, this is the same thing as HKCU.

Tip: if you don't want to look up the SID using powershell just right click on the SID and check the security settings, it should give you hints to who is who unless it's been customized.

This is how I do it, I think it's only on Windows 10 and newer so if you have older OSes it will not work. We have one that sets it to 900 seconds (15min) for every computer, then this one that removes it filtered to an AD Security Group I have the desktop guys add computer accounts too that shouldn't get the lock. The screensaver method is the older way before windows 10.

Our company policy has always been against WFH, granted we have random exceptions, sales people. and the weirdest one was a supervisor for one location (in engineering) was working from home while all the people he was supervising was onsite (and much of the engineering work they were doing involved printed work).

I think we will allow more in sales to work from home. I don't think us in IT will be able to as much as our software developers really want to.

Honestly it seems to go back and fourth on if companies will allow work from home over the years, in cycles. I know Wells Fargo for example tends to do this as well. Company management just likes to change things for the sake of change.

Is is a straight SMS? not an iMessage etc.. Most carriers log these and the accuser could request a log for them in offical form however, they usually have to be within the last 30 days. I'm not sure if they provide these to consumer accounts, We can get them through both Verizon and AT&T for bussiness provided phones (and it's in the Use policy of accepting employer paid phones that we can)

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

#@%%%%$ VLANs! Someone made a different VLAN just for the WiFi on their main network and didn't add it to all the switches. VLANs still suck people.

This is why you use Ansible Playbooks

What the heck happened here....

@garak0410 said in Share From Synology Stopped Working:

@dbeato Crazy huh but thankful for the suggestion.

If the Synology supports NTP you may want to enable it and point it to your Domain Controllers.

@srdennis said in Need help trouble shooting GPO.:

OMG!!!!! It worked!!! Thank you so much Obsolesce. I cannot believe that I didn't understand that aspect of how this all works. So If I were to put a user into this test OU and apply the test GPO that has a user GPO in it then it will get applied?

You can also setup loopback GPO processing, if you want that GPO to only apply to a User when logged into a computer in that OU.

Does it give an error when you link the GPO to that test ou? Or the computer just won't apply it? Have you tried running gpupdate manually? Also try gpresult and rsop to see what is applying.

@biggen said in Xeoma NVR:

The issue i have with these guys is they are a Russian outfit and they pay reviewers with free camera licenses for good reviews posted online.

I just don’t care for that business practice.

I haven't seen where they are paying reviewers. But, veeam software was a Russian company until recently as well, and the change to US was mostly a symbolic thing on paper to allow the US government to use Veaam Backup & Recovery.

Edit: If this is what you are referring to almost every company out there will give free copies of software to bloggers and yotubuers they feel have a big enough of an audience. https://felenasoft.com/xeoma/en/specialoffer/bloggers/

Just wanted to point out that archives isnt a DNS name but a NetBios name. If you can get to it by IP it points to some sort of issue with the resolution. NetBios was historical done with WINS. However in modern systems you typically are pushing out a search domain to your clients via DHCP and GPO so when you look up 'archives' it appends it to be 'archives.domain.com' to do a dns lookup rather than NetBIOS. We always use FQDN on drive mapps even with search domains setup. Try using the FQDN of the archives server and see if it works and this will show if there is an issue.

@black3dynamite said in Xeoma NVR:

Which functionality did you choose? Lite, Standard or Pro?

I did the Pro

Wondering... What if the reason microsoft is release so much of there software for linux is because the next version of windows will be Windows the Linux Distro.. maybe with a compatiblity layer better than wine to run current apps til they convert to native apps..

Incase anyone is looking fo a good local NVR software that works with ONVIF IP Cameras and can do facial recognition I found one that is pretty good: https://felenasoft.com/xeoma/en/ It works on Linux or Windows and MacOS for both the server and client. It has has good facial recognition for the price I was looking at Luxriot Evo S but it was going to cost me around $3,000 to do the same thing. would be good for Small business use as well, I'm using it at home.

@gotwf said in Anyone ever return a server to Dell?:

If you requested a cancellation from Dell, and have proof, you can file a dispute with your credit/debit card company. They'll make you jump thru various hoops and various delays while Dell is provided the opportunity to refute your dispute but in the end right usually wins. Provided you can back it up. So I hope you saved a copy of that cancellation request. Also any detailed specifics you can document about the multiple delays. Submit all that when you file your dispute. Oh, and don't let lamer operators on the other end dissuade you - they're just being lazy. Stay assertive. Not passive. Not aggressive. You know the drill.

Do any businesses actually pay with Credit/Debit Card though? Most would be paying with a Purchase Order I would think.

@syko24 said in Anyone ever return a server to Dell?:

@notverypunny - I am not sure yet. Dell never seems to use FedEx or UPS when shipping servers. They are using Mach1 Global which is a first for me.

They usually use freight for shipping. And you can't refuse it. If you have an account manager they can help you I'm sure.

Possibly looking into do some side work on UpWork for random IT Networking Jobs.

@stacksofplates said in Password manager for ordinary users?:

I'm not sure what there is to 'release' though. Chromium works natively on Linux right now, I don't see what they would have to do.

All their extras and stuff. There's already a beta insider for linux and Mac released in may. They have an Android version (and I assume iOS too)

I guess the beta isn't open yet.. but I can download it when logged in to my insiders account.

https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/