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HypeTelecon posted:I've worked several places where it didn't really matter what "part" of IT you were in...you just did anything and everything that was dropped on your desk. What do you mean facilities only comes twice a month? The toilet is broken now! (cue IT tearing down the inside of a toilet and installing new parts) Why don't we have better reception on the break room TV, we won't pay for cable it's too expensive (cue IT installing an OTA HDTV atenna and running 100' of CATV cable) My digital camera always takes 3 pictures instead of just one... The conference room needs to be rearranged for the shareholder meeting tonight, and out yeah you have to go pickup chairs from the rental place in your personal vehicle. I do enjoy my job but yes IT is the 21st centuries "Mr. Fix-It"
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IT Guy posted:You're a better CJ than me, I wouldn't have done it. (I'm playing WoW at work today) We just purchased a number of 55" LCDs for advertising in our lobby. We've been 'testing' them every Friday for the last few weeks with some Gears of War2/Halo3 fests after lunch to verify no dead pixels 
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FISHMANPET posted:*Looks at the three 6410s on my desk waiting to be imaged* Did the same thing for the 40 we had delivered last week.
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Farking Bastage posted:^^ I had the same plans until once of the terminal servers took a poo poo. Turns out my users fail to realize that turning off their WYSE boxes does not constitute a logoff, so 36 people were logged into one of the 4 TS boxes causing it to take a massive poo poo. This is why I force inactive connections to terminate after a 4hr idle period. I used to have so many problems with this, not anymore!
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Deviant posted:Reddit is a porn site? /r/nsfw, /r/gonewild, /r/jailbait, etc.
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GOOCHY posted:What kind of circuit requires that kind of installation lead time (and installation fee...)? I had a dark fiber run to a new office last year that cost us $157,000 just to run the fiber a little over 600' from their nearest hub because Verizon owned the conduit and charged like $60,000 as an 'access fee' since we wouldn't do business with them.
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rscott posted:How the gently caress can people browse the internet like that? I bet their resolution is something stupid low like 1024x768 too. We were forced to purchase 2 24" Dell monitors for someone so they could have more 'room to work' upgrading their pair of 19" LCDs.... they're both still set at 1024x768 because 'i can't see anything when it's that small' no matter how large we make the font. $800 in monitors for no return, your tax dollars at work!
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drat guys  Our requirement is that it at least has to have electricity running through it. Although we did have to assist the roofers in lifting our AC unit because they couldn't do it without turning it off :\
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enotnert posted:So what u scrubs doing toinght? Just got to work. Starting our migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007
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rolleyes posted:The irony being there probably is a paid version out there somewhere, and guess what it'll be loaded with! There is indeed. It's called 'EBAN' and provides support for network booted dban as well as full commercial support. It's pretty slick if you need to nuke a few hundred machines.
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Dick Trauma posted:Just seconding "do not extend the schema" unless you have a compelling reason. In a house full of Macs we had an unused Xserve sitting there in case someone decided it was time to enforce actual policy on the users and not just authenticate. It never happened. I'm not a mac person in any way shape or form. If all it's doing is creating an AD partition there's no harm in extending the schema. Would not having the proper attributes inside AD make management and implementation of policy easier?
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Dick Trauma posted:Haven't heard anything. Perhaps we were too small to go after. I'm going on 9 months on mine, it just got passed to an attorney for review. It appears to move at the speed of smell with them.
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We're removing our first round of public folders tonight as we transition from Exchange 2003 to 2007. Two weeks of client training and emails back and forth and people are still unsure as to how they are going to view their precious vacation calendars. Sigh.. Also I'm fairly certain Microsoft made moving from Public Folders to resource accounts a painful process on purpose. There's no easy way to move the shared calendar permissions or move the data inside the public folder to the new account. It's quite possible I'm retarded but if anyone has a way to script it I'm open to suggestions, I've got a bunch more data to move next week.
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coyo7e posted:Have you guys noticed that Microsoft seems to be phasing out Public Folders (and thus, Bulletin Boards)? Yep, they're officially supported through Exchange 2010 although they are 'de-emphasized' which is why we're moving to resource mailboxes now in order to make our migration to whatever is after Exchange 2010 easier. And managing them in 2007 is a complete bitch, they don't offer the same functionality as the 2003 exchange tools do. I have pity for our help desk folks, ~40% of or workforce has been here for 20+ years and getting them to use the computer over paper was apparently an act of God, let alone training them to use public folders when Exchange 2003 was implemented.
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kensei posted:How many PacNW goons post in this thread? Besides you and Negromancer; I believe Midelne is a PacNW goon, I work in Everett.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Jesus, 2 days? I get 12 a year - and they accumulate, so I have 40 days banked. yay for working in government 8hrs/month of sick and 8hrs/month of vacation time the day i started. After 5 years its 12hrs/month after 15 years 20hrs/month.
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brc64 posted:I keep looking at it thinking maybe it's a bulk order or something, but as best I can tell, HP honestly thinks that a 256 MB DIMM is worth over $600. I do believe that's the most impressive markup I have ever encountered. You apparently have never purchased RAM for an HP printer before. That's pretty much standard for them
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brc64 posted:Oh, I believe you. I suspect that the Samsung stick on the same page is for the poor suckers with Samsung printers looking for name brand memory as well. It's just... the markup... I wouldn't be surprised if they threaten not to warranty a printer that doesn't have HP memory, too. There's no 'threaten' about it. The will flat out refuse to warranty a printer that has had unapproved memory in it. But if you need that much RAM, you should probably look at replacing that 2015 perhaps. I had nothing but bad luck with them, but we had a pretty heavy duty cycle and an additional tray (the tray gave us the most problems)
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Dear god man, Integra. Run away, run very far and very fast. :\ They would promise us the moon in terms of service but their tech and hookup times were atrocious, support was also very lacking once we did have an issue. It was always blamed on the Telco and never their fault.
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Naramyth posted:Did you know that Office 2010 requires product activation on every new computer despite the fact the product has been activated in the master image? Part of the awesomeness that is "Volume Activation 2.0" At least office 2010 and above will report correctly to a KMS server. I suggest getting one up and running very soon
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It's pretty easy on hardware, if you can just throw it on a VM, hell you could run it on a DC if you wanted to. The proviso to this is that your Office 2010 license is VLK/MAK and not oem or retail.
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Recruiter calls, says we have wonderful position for you! It sounds intense supporting Exchange for a an environment with hundreds of thousands of users. Not really my cup of tee, but hell with a contract up in 4 months I can't be too picky. Interview with client goes swimmingly and they come back with an offer that's $20,000/yr LESS than what I'm at now. They want to know why I even interviewed for it... Well you said it 'started at $xx.xx/hr' not 'that drat number is set in loving adamantine'  EDIT: gently caress me, was supposed to go in poo poo that pisses you off thread.
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OMGLOLetcetc posted:What's everyone's flash of choice around here? Or do you just drink straight from the bottle?? I believe we had a discussion on scotch a few pages back...
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serewit posted:A doesn't work because they don't want to get rid of things completely. B won't work because retraining the Director to open a particular folder on the Blackberry isn't really tenable. for B.. Setup BES to only allow sync for the selected folder to his device. the device can be configured to display that folder as default.
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devmd01 posted:Dell Poweredge M610 Blade with dual Xeon X5670s @ 2.93 GHz and 48GB Ram. I have an couple R815 Poweredge servers with 2 12 core AMD Opterons at 1.90Ghz with 128GB RAM if you want me to run some comparisons against your box.  Click here for the full 905x709 image. (wtf new page :\) EDIT: Also, 11VMs and 3% CPU usage. Go team! I really wish They'd let me cram more stuff on this box. It's disk I/O isn't taxed at all either
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notwithoutmyanus posted:legitimately occupy or just pre-allocate or something? It's pre-allocated. I can't over commit the RAM on a Hyper-V box until SP1 for 2008 R2. Moey posted:We have been going with the R610's for our most recent servers (dual E5620, 32gb ram), wish we had close to any justification to get a R910, I was spec'ing out one today....I could purchase a house for the price of what I was looking at. Yeah, I believe it was $25,000 or so before software. We just got another R815 for a branch office (2x 12core @ 1.9ghz, 32GB RAM, 6x 300GB 10k SAS for $9,981.30 w/ free overnight shipping)
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CubanRefugee posted:Sadly I haven't found any other goons that work with me here at Providence. How's your EPIC transition coming along? I'm so happy you guys are moving away from McKesson and GE (and the other 8 vendors), ProvCare is a pile . My father works in Prov IT (Systems Architect) and I've met quite a few of you. I've applied multiple times but your HR dept has one hell of a nepotism policy. As long as Dad is working IT at prov me or my brother can't. However we can be hired as contractors for extended terms (brother was there over a year)stubblyhead posted:I applied for a few things a while back but got no love. If you ever apply again, do it in person hopefully to someone who works their. The automated (online) system is keyword based and if you don't match any keywords you get automatically rejected.
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Bardlebee posted:Welp, you lost me with this, but it sounds like you know more then I on what you are talking about. I am more of a Cisco Engineer seeking kinda guy so... If you only have 2 DCs it really doesn't matter to holds the FSMO roles, if you lose one permanently you're still going to have to seize them from the failed DC. Are both DCs also Global Catalog servers? It depends a lot on the environment but you generally want the Schema Master and Domain Naming Master on the same DC, the PDC Emulator and RID Master on the same DC and Infratsture Master on its own (note that the Infrastructure Master should not be a Global Catalog server) Wikipedia has a decent article on the FSMO roles - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_single_master_operation EDIT: Syano's on the ball apparently, the stuff with ADS&S is quite right
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Bardlebee posted:Oh cool thanks for this. I will look it up. Especially since, yeah our WAN links are a joke. Right now I have the DNS servers as the primary in their respective sites, what you have stated is a better solution. Thanks! Correct there is no 'backup' in the traditional sense (on a tape/disk completely separate from live/production) Active Directory is a multi master database and each domain controller holds a complete copy of the database, each domain controller also has read/write access to the database. So when one domain controller goes down your clients know that a second domain controller exists (this information is provided by DNS) and will go to it. There are some times when a domain controller only holds part of the database (ADLDS (Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services)), or can only read it (ADROC (Active Directory Read Only Domain Controller) but these are used in specific situations.
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Bardlebee posted:Oh.... hell I am not sure. First time in a server environment. I will look this up, thanks for the advice on that. For NTBackup, the 'System State' option will backup Active Directory. If you don't wan to backup the entire server. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738755%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
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Dick Trauma posted:
I had a SEVEN HOUR INTERVIEW on Tuesday for a position that would be long term contract (no sunset date on funding) and would be a 40k/yr bump. They told me I undersold myself and beat everyone else on the time for the hardware side (they broke a server, had me fix it). But do I take 1099 contract at 40k/yr more or stick with a known group of people who I've been contracting with and are now offering me FTE (amazing government benefits)? I'm not sure I'd like working 1099, having to figure out my taxes, send quarterly reports and get no time off nor medical coverage doesn't sound like a good deal, even for a 40k/yr bump.
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Dick Trauma posted:Broken vista service pack install! Your dad prefers his gaming on PC instead of the console eh?
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So in the spirit of 'Year of the Job' I got officially offered to stay on permanent at the place I've been on contract with for the past 10 months. Made my day Keep up the good work folks, maybe we won't need threads like this eventually... Also any of the WA goons want to celebrate this Friday evening? Drinks are on me!
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stubblyhead posted:If you're buying I'm drinking. Send a PM, ill forward my contact info and we'll make some sort of plan
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dvgrhl posted:Congratulations! But your profile says you're in Marysville? I'm West Seattle. A little far to travel, and I can't make it Friday. But all of us Sea-Tac area IT people really need to have an after work happy hour some time. I enjoy long rear end drives (all of my friends are Kirkland/Bothell/Auburn). I'm willing to jostle down to downtown or even Tacoma if it's more central (just don't know any establishments down there)
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afflictionwisp posted:My turn! Got the offer letter this afternoon. I'm going to be going from consulting for < 50 user companies to systems admin I for something like 1300. There's a massive opportunity to learn poo poo here at a much bigger scale than I've worked with before, and I'm starting at more than double what I made last year. CONGRATS! =D Get me a decent price on Oban's 32yr old would you? My drat state run liqour stores want like $1,400 for a $900 bottle of booze I'm seriously tempted to order it at the duty free store and drive up and drink it in Canada. enotnert posted:Just cracked my first cold one. . . It tastes delicious We're also figuring out the sysprep for Win7 stuff as we finally got the approval to move away from XP this year.
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Maybe one of you guys can point out I'm being loving retarded. HR needs to connect to a website for benefits administration, but are unable to access it. I figure it might be a proxy/firewall issue (some sights take issue with ISA2006/TMG 2010). Create the allow rule for the site and still unable to browse to it. I'm able to get to it from home (Frontier FIOS), and from our government connection (Verizon T1). But not from over our comcast connection, even directly plugged into the comcast modem. I don't believe it to be a DNS issue as the address resolves. But if one of you folks in the Seattle are with a comcast connect could confirm/deny access to https://www.ibsisolutions.com I can call comcast and have better footing to stand on. Perhaps I'm loving retarded and am missing something very simple? EDIT: Fixed URL
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Bonzo posted:https://www.ibsisolutions.com works for me, ibsisolutions.com does not Thanks Bonzo and Crowley. It should be https://www.ibsisolutions.com I apparently can't type today 'll take a look at our DNS and see if we're caching something funny. Appreciate it gents
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