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Now I'm hoping our label maker craps out so we can get one of those.
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Kazinsal posted:Now I'm hoping our label maker craps out so we can get one of those. It's 30 bucks. Just buy one if you want one.
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I almost talked work into buying this at the end of the fiscal year but we had to drop 20K on a server instead so that was the end of that. I've been thinking lately I'm just going to buy one for myself, I could probably use it around the home.
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At one of my previous jobs, they dropped $15,000 in a few minutes on new displays for our conference rooms because I casually said the displays on the tables should match the displays on the walls in aspect ratio. I couldn't get $20 to buy new screwdrivers, cleaning fluids and microfibre cloths to refurbish our laptop pool and had to use my own stuff.
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evobatman posted:I couldn't get $20 to buy new screwdrivers, cleaning fluids and microfibre cloths to refurbish our laptop pool and had to use my own stuff. Can y'all stop doing this poo poo? If your company doesn't want to pay for the supplies, they don't feel its important. Hand out garbage rear end nasty grime coated laptops.
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What do you all do for AV? We have Webroot in place and it's been okay at an okay price point so far, but it's up for renewal in August so I'm having a look around. We've had Sophos and Kaspersky in the past but I found the clients pretty heavy and users complained about scans making things crawl even on decent machines.
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We just use the Microsoft solution that comes with our CAL's. Works fine.
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Jack the Lad posted:What do you all do for AV? Microsoft AV, Telling my users about links and emails they shouldn't click on, and offhandedly mention that if the boss wanted to he could look at what their surfing on the web.
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Yeah, Windows Defender is good for small shops, with the caveat that you not have users running as local admins. If you have users with local admin permissions, you should look at an enterprise solution (I'm pretty happy with Symantec on our systems, though I know others don't feel that way).
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Eh, we're all local admin with the enterprise ver of Defender. But we also use Cisco Umbrella, Cisco email security, etc. AV is rarely ever engaged because we block so much poo poo at the edge.
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Defenestrategy posted:Microsoft AV, Telling my users about links and emails they shouldn't click on, and offhandedly mention that if the boss wanted to he could look at what their surfing on the web. name\post combo 
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Jun 21, 2018 19:41
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Jack the Lad posted:What do you all do for AV? webroot + ~security awareness training~
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also, kaspersky stumbled down the ‘good software’ lists your friendly neighborhood compliancy officer keeps fast. they’re now just a notch above ‘state sponsored terrorist hacker collective’ in parts of europe. They’re facing a similar situation in the US i guess but i’ve been replacing a few kasperskys lately
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Cylance + defender Fireeye hx + defender
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i hate vendors that are just like contact us mainly because they will never ever ever stop calling/emailing
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My spam folder is full of "Are you stuck under a rock? I'll send help!" gently caress off with your default drip campaign.
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So I just started working in a small company and am dealing with all kinds of fun IT shenanigans. Can anyone in here who's worked with IP phone systems before tell me whether this tech support telling me that it's impossible to change an IP phone's extension might be right? Seems insane to me that you wouldn't be able to change one of these's phone's extensions, I mean they must have been initially configured at some point it's not like the extension is hardcoded into the things? Sorry, a bit off topic I know but wasn't sure where else I could ask. There are a variety of phone hardwares being used but obviously they're all pretty standard IP phones (e.g. Aastra 6755i's). If I could get into the config for the network I could probably deal with it myself but everything's locked down in order idiot proof it all (which I understand & agree with as a policy).
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Yes, that's one of the more ridiculous things I have ever heard.
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Agreed, of course. It barely takes much time at all... moments/minutes.
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Cheers both. Bloke either didn't know what he was doing or just didn't want to do it. Sorted now though. I've been in his position so I don't exactly blame him that much lol
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El Grillo posted:Cheers both. Bloke either didn't know what he was doing or just didn't want to do it. Sorted now though. I've been in his position so I don't exactly blame him that much lol I would, giving out blatantly wrong information when you don’t know the right answer is one of the worst things we can do.
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Digital_Jesus posted:Can y'all stop doing this poo poo? Or just have a talk with the company owner about image. This is the small shop thread, one of the "benefits" of working at a small shop is that you can usually talk to the owner. Tell him it's unprofessional and looks like poo poo.
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El Grillo posted:So I just started working in a small company and am dealing with all kinds of fun IT shenanigans. Can anyone in here who's worked with IP phone systems before tell me whether this tech support telling me that it's impossible to change an IP phone's extension might be right? Seems insane to me that you wouldn't be able to change one of these's phone's extensions, I mean they must have been initially configured at some point it's not like the extension is hardcoded into the things? that sounds like pre-voip where the extension is dictated by the port
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dogstile posted:This is the small shop thread, one of the "benefits" of working at a small shop is that you can usually talk to the owner. This but without the quotes around "benefits". Being able to ask the owner out for lunch (or asking her to take me out to lunch  ) is what it's all about.
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The Fool posted:I would, giving out blatantly wrong information when you don’t know the right answer is one of the worst things we can do. to the defence of the IT guy, though I agree that answer was quite stupid, 'no can do' can mean a couple things. Maybe they don't know how to and they're being lazy asking a coworker. Maybe they're straight up lying so you go away - both of those pretty dumb and bad. But being busy or tired or whatever and not in a mood to argue turns 'won't (due to company policy)' into 'can't' without explanation sometimes. Dumb because if people find out you lied they won't believe you ever again but lovely senior backing/not knowing the magic words 'i can't decide to make an exception for you myself, you can take it up with my manager' lead to this.
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El Grillo posted:So I just started working in a small company and am dealing with all kinds of fun IT shenanigans. Can anyone in here who's worked with IP phone systems before tell me whether this tech support telling me that it's impossible to change an IP phone's extension might be right? Seems insane to me that you wouldn't be able to change one of these's phone's extensions, I mean they must have been initially configured at some point it's not like the extension is hardcoded into the things? You (or those with administrative privileges to the phone server) can definitely change anything about an Aastra 6755i pretty much on demand. Every time they boot up, they look to DHCP option 66 for a TFTP server and pull down a series of config files which tell them what to do. Changing the extension on one takes seconds to minutes at most for any competent phone admin. I only have a half dozen or so of those things left under my control because our users hated them, but they respond to all the usual remote provision commands so any decent system will allow the admin to update the config and send a "recheck your config files now" command with a few clicks. They are definitely not some kind of traditional PBX idiocy where the extension is hard-mapped to a port.
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speaking of phones. I am in the process of setting up a new satellite office, anyone have any recommendations for voip solutions that can be remote admin-ed easily without some homebrew 3cx or asterix box and not completely gently caress you on pricing? (about 30 users or so)
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Is Onsip any good?
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Thanks Ants posted:Is Onsip any good? I am equally interested in other opinions of Onsip. Never buy Windstream service. It's trash.
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sneakyfrog posted:speaking of phones. I am in the process of setting up a new satellite office, anyone have any recommendations for voip solutions that can be remote admin-ed easily without some homebrew 3cx or asterix box and not completely gently caress you on pricing? (about 30 users or so) https://www.zultys.com/
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sneakyfrog posted:speaking of phones. I am in the process of setting up a new satellite office, anyone have any recommendations for voip solutions that can be remote admin-ed easily without some homebrew 3cx or asterix box and not completely gently caress you on pricing? (about 30 users or so) Ringcentral
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Second RingCentral, never had any problems with them and we even did fax over SIP (yes I know) without problems for years.
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Sheep posted:Second RingCentral, never had any problems with them and we even did fax over SIP (yes I know) without problems for years. i love the abbreviation FoIP because it looks and sounds subtly wrong just like fax over IP is. I deployed Faxination Server hooked up to Exchange a few times when a job featured prominent fax usage. Faxination is a good name too because it's an awkward pun on the word fax and a positive emotion, which just doesn't work but the software mirrors this by being really awkward to install, use, maintain and it doesn't work out ever trying to provide 100% uptime in HA environments.
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I was someplace the other day that had physical fax modem on a physical server receiving actual faxes.
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Honestly that's kinda awesome if it's integrated tidily
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NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:I was someplace the other day that had physical fax modem on a physical server receiving actual faxes. When the time eventually comes to kill the fax servers usually only a handful users actually actually have a need for one. One Simple Trick Fax Server Vendors Don't Want You To Know: you can just stick a real fancy fax machine on their desk and be done with it. Get a nice one. They're more reliable, (old) people know how to operate them and you'll still save a bunch probably over licensing and servers and whatnot
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Or just use a SaaS faxing service like the rest of us who decided to stop dealing with that poo poo?
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Internet Explorer posted:Or just use a SaaS faxing service like the rest of us who decided to stop dealing with that poo poo? sane ideas for sure. I tried but got tangled up in cloud regulation and compliancy red tape too complicated to deal with for just a couple users in dinosaur land (finance IT). You're right though.
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Thanks Ants posted:Is Onsip any good? We switched from Nextiva to OnSip, no problems here 🤷
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