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Alereon posted:What do "real companies" (~1000+ employees) typically set their exchange mailbox quotas to? We use <500MB which seems pretty small for this day and age, especially since employees are directed to archive to their local harddrive. My previous employer we had 250MB mailboxes for ~12,000 employees. Customer sites (1000+ users) I've seen anywhere from 1 gig to no limit.
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Alereon posted:What do "real companies" (~1000+ employees) typically set their exchange mailbox quotas to? We use <500MB which seems pretty small for this day and age, especially since employees are directed to archive to their local harddrive. The company that owns our hospital default mailbox size is 10MB. If you need anything bigger, you have to get approval. Managers generally default is 50MB but can go as high as 200MB. Director and higher I think also defaults to 50MB, but I think they can go as high as 300MB. That seems to be the absolute maximum. Even the Hospital CEO is capped at 300MB. As you can imagine, these users have many huge PST's.
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psydude posted:Only one day left at this job! Will you be able to post while in afghanistan? Do the IT guys get guns?
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I'd be afraid of what would happen to the printers if the IT guys got guns.
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Ganon posted:Will you be able to post while in afghanistan? Do the IT guys get guns? Yeah. I'm actually going as a construction manager instead of an IT guy, so I'll have guns.
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Walter_Sobchak posted:I'd be afraid of what would happen to the printers if the IT guys got guns. I'd love would happen to the printers if the IT guys got guns. 
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:Just putting thoughts together right now but I want some additional input for the OP updates. My post earlier in this thread goes into some of this http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=418754495&forumid=22
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skipdogg posted:My post earlier in this thread goes into some of this  wow no idea how I missed that
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Taking a VCAP in Richmond on the 20th of Sept, any goons wanna hang out afterwards? I know I will go for a beer after that. poo poo meant to hit edit
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Alereon posted:What do "real companies" (~1000+ employees) typically set their exchange mailbox quotas to? We use <500MB which seems pretty small for this day and age, especially since employees are directed to archive to their local harddrive.
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Physical computer repair ain't got poo poo on databases and networks and whatnot, but has anybody heard of a BIOS that 1) won't boot from flash drives, 2) Blue screens on start-up because of ACPI non-compatibility, and 3) has no fixes on the innernet whatsoever? I basically threw the book at this drat thing today, even tried tossing a linux distro on a DVD and tried making a DOS bootable CD that way and nothing works. gently caress BIOSes.
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There's an abundance of computers with BIOS having no USB flash support. There's even Dell servers that can only load from USB flash from lights-out management, WTF is up with that?
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Possible YOTJ? Got an interview next Tuesday. 
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Are there any good case study "here's what we're doing" type websites? I can read books all day long but I'm curious what people are actually doing. Like company X saying oh we went with this backup solution for this reason, another went with another for this reason, so and so chose this SAN, etc? Looking to put a little real world perspective on this theory.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Are there any good case study "here's what we're doing" type websites? I can read books all day long but I'm curious what people are actually doing. Like company X saying oh we went with this backup solution for this reason, another went with another for this reason, so and so chose this SAN, etc? Looking to put a little real world perspective on this theory. The term you're looking for is "Whitepaper". They're generally vendor-published, as in "Customer Y switched from A to B because $reasons, here's a breakdown of savings and performance comparisons", but startups are constantly tooting their own horn about this on HackerNews, too. You just have take the "we run our business on Haskell and alpha Javascript frameworks" people with a grain of salt.
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Nah I was deliberately avoiding whitepapers because those have been through an editing process (ie, EMC's not publishing any whitepapers that don't make them looking amazing). I'm looking for more of straight from the horse's mouth. HackerNews might be a great resource, though.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Nah I was deliberately avoiding whitepapers because those have been through an editing process (ie, EMC's not publishing any whitepapers that don't make them looking amazing). I'm looking for more of straight from the horse's mouth. HackerNews might be a great resource, though. Yeah the first thing that comes to mind is company blogs. As evol says a lot of what's out there tends to come from the (web) startup space and may or may not be applicable to you. Some to start with might include Highscalability.com, Netflix's Tech Blog and Etsy's Code as Craft.
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Anyone have any tips for dealing with chronic interrupters during teleconferences? e: other than 
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Anyone have any tips for dealing with chronic interrupters during teleconferences?
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Chinese style, just keep talking.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Anyone have any tips for dealing with chronic interrupters during teleconferences? You have to be a bit of a dick, but a "Hey lets stay on track and save all questions until the end, or lets let Jane finish the presentation before we ask questions" usually gets the point across. Other than that, if you're the moderator mute their line from the bridge lol
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Might be a YOTJ for me! One of our SysAdmins retired and the entire department basically is pulling for me to get it. I've got everything crossed that's possible to cross. Moving from Helpdesk to SysAdmin would be... No words, just wonderful.
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I'm hopefully  -ing within the next few weeks. After being unemployed from a network consulting job for a year and a half, and under a non-compete agreement with details I dare understand, I've got two interviews on the same day with two different datacenters in the area. Both positions are for a network engineer within their datacenters. As far as I understand, I'd be managing the local network for clients, and effectively removed from the helpdesk/operations support side of things. Question is, what does that entail? Have any goons worked that type of position at any datacenters? I've been looking for more detail on that type of position but I'm not having any luck. Best as I can understand, I'd be troubleshooting routing/switching issues, both interior and exterior, and managing the backbone for VM clusters within the  . Outside of that, I can only assume itll be a lot of documentation.Anyone have any advice? What's life like in a datacenter?
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Back of the Bus posted:I'm hopefully Non-competes are largely unenforceable. Double check with a lawyer, but for the most part they're completely ignorable.
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Only time a non-compete will come into play is if you try to do business with your former company's clients in the same capacity as before.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Non-competes are largely unenforceable. Double check with a lawyer, but for the most part they're completely ignorable. psydude posted:Only time a non-compete will come into play is if you try to do business with your former company's clients in the same capacity as before. Thanks for the tips, but the contract is expired now. I'd still like to know more about working in a datacenter, though!
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Back of the Bus posted:Thanks for the tips, but the contract is expired now. I'd still like to know more about working in a datacenter, though! I was a DC technician for a few years. What I remember most is the noise. Hundreds of fans, all humming, all whirring, the noise that gets into your ears and your brain and just never stops my God THE FAAAANNNNSSS... Seriously, though, if you're going to spend a lot of time on a DC floor with a sizable number of devices, invest in a good set of earbud headphones or some earplugs. Your ears will thank you. If you end up being the layer 1 monkey and running cables, please, please, PLEASE, label your poo poo. Both ends. Consistently. When I worked in a DC, the number one bane of my existence was unlabeled cable or fiber runs. I once had to help an admin trace a fiber run through multiple patch panels, by using a goddamn flashlight. Don't be that guy who I wished death upon; label your runs. Do you chill easily? Bring a jacket, even in the summer. The cold aisles get loving cold. This has the added effect of confusing the hell out of people as you walk to work in an Arizona summer with a jacket over one arm. 
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Yes always have a jacket. I spent one 15 hour day trying to fix a couple IBM Power 750's with no HMC or KVM, which meant I was sitting in front of them with a keyboard and screen. Having cold wind constantly blowing on you owns because you're shivering and getting sick in addition to the normal stress of something important being broken. 
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My desk at my last job was in a datacenter. It was actually colder in the summer because the chillers in the server room were buffered by the AC running in the rest of the building.
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Thankfully, I prefer being cold to being hot. There is nothing worse than having to mount some old-rear end 3500XL-48 under a desk in a 3'h x 1'w x 4'd opening that you've wedged yourself into with a drill and a handful of Cat5 runs in 95 degree heat. Don't even get me started on the dustbunnies in there. The drat things were the size of cats, silently laughing at me. I'll take an  in the cold row every day over that poo poo.Either way, as far as network operations go, what would a typical day be like? Coming from the consulting side, everything I did was break/fix and "THIS IS AFFECTING PRODUCTION" -type things. Sometimes I could setup a test lab or two to figure out a problem, but that opportunity was on the far side.
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I recommend buying a coat rack and then keeping an eye out at goodwill for big bulky ugly coats. Bulky enough to be warm, ugly so they stay in the server room.
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I work in on-site help desk. I love it so far but the on call aspect is a pain in the rear end. Luckily my team is decently sized so it's only one week a month. Is there any career path in IT that would allow a more work to live lifestyle or should I jump ship? Networking seems up my alley skill-wise but has hellacious hours and on call. My network team is constantly getting heartbeat pages day and night and there's always something somewhere breaking.
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skooma512 posted:Is there any career path in IT that would allow a more work to live lifestyle or should I jump ship?
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Jedi425 posted:If you end up being the layer 1 monkey and running cables, please, please, PLEASE, label your poo poo. Both ends. Consistently. When I worked in a DC, the number one bane of my existence was unlabeled cable or fiber runs. I once had to help an admin trace a fiber run through multiple patch panels, by using a goddamn flashlight. Don't be that guy who I wished death upon; label your runs. Italy's Chicken fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Sep 2, 2013 |
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Gah I didn't even get to work on the OP at all this studying for this beta certification exam has me tied up...
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:Gah I didn't even get to work on the OP at all this studying for this beta certification exam has me tied up... It's Labor Day dude. Go do something not computer related. Have a drink, grill a steak, go to a state park and take a walk. Jesus dude. I'm driving back from the beach and haven't checked my email since Wednesday.
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Internet Explorer posted:If you don't want to be on-call, IT may not be for you. Most IT positions require some sort of on-call responsibilities. It's Important to note that if you're on call you should be compensated for it. Don't be a doormat.
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adorai posted:In general, the higher up you go, the more out of hours demands you will have to deal with. Some environments handle this way better, others less well. Each person on my team is on call once every 9 weeks, but that's just due to size. Even when I am not on call, I occasionally get escalations from the helpdesk when they are on call. To avoid the above, find a company that separates engineering and operations. Operations (sysadmins) should get all calls unless things are OMG CATASTROPHIC in which case engineering should get involved.
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skipdogg posted:It's Labor Day dude. Go do something not computer related. Have a drink, grill a steak, go to a state park and take a walk. Jesus dude. I'm driving back from the beach and haven't checked my email since Wednesday. Eh, trying actually to focus more on computer related stuff. I feel I am getting a bit too comfortable/lazy with what I know currently. But eh, I see your point. Also pretty much trying to cut out all drinking, but we'll see how that goes. Still on my drink one night a week habit I have been on since I was 21. Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Sep 3, 2013 |
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