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incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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evol262 posted:

I like metal, but the real metalheads seem to be totally aware of the existence of any other genres of music and incapable of believing someone may not like metal; the offending person just hasn't heard the right band yet.

You should tell them you only like indie-approved metal, like mastodon and any any band that doesn't fit those parameters you're not interested in. Because I told a metalhead that once, and he stuttered a bit and went on about a band that wasn't like it at all. Then I asked him if he liked earth and sort of walked away.

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incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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I'm glad you guys wrestled control back from them. I would of lost my goddamn mind if I'm the administrator and couldn't fix the email that could've been prevented by virtue of a IT management workflow.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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poo poo pissing me off

incoherent fucked around with this message at 04:47 on May 18, 2015

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Surprise! it was just exchange running in azure all along.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Dick Trauma posted:

I'm in Los Angeles. I don't have a name for the brewery yet but I'm curious to see who they are. And to see how quickly I can pass of management of all of this stuff to their engineering staff.

I bet you its a smaller brewery that's looking for more footprint. It's an insanely hot market.

LA BREWERIES!

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Just articulate the man hours needed to correct this error.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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poo poo pissing me off: MDM on windows 10 blows compared to 8.1. Same profile that can be used in 8.1 and 10 doesn't apply and now I have to open a ticket with airwatch to see what the gently caress is wrong.

Which means a email tag of a day or two and then a random phone call.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Look man it's the future, just push windows server 2016 technical preview into production

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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ratbert90 posted:

I did and he said he does, but that he's "too busy" to fix it.

The thing is though, is that there is LITERALLY a LDAP server working that he can connect to on the decommissioned subnet that has the user info setup properly to at least get git working, but he insists that he can't just create the same user on the new LDAP server, look at the old permissions, and enable/select the same permissions. When asked why, he wouldn't give me a straight answer and said "I will look into this later I don't have time right now" and left.

Ugh, you can't do your freakin job. Escalate that poo poo.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Person on the other line had anime\porn up and refused a remote sesh.

It happens.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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keseph posted:

Pissing me off: Me.
Spend an hour writing and testing a powershell script for my lab, cleaning it up, etc. Go to save it. There's a script with almost that same name already. Because I wrote the same thing six months ago and saved it for later reuse and promptly forgot.

My friend, time to setup that powershell repository

https://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/creating-a-powershellget-repository/

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Jerk McJerkface posted:

I prefer my printers to be hand delivered by gentle sirs.

Hauled authentically by hand, through the courtyard.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Bob Morales posted:

ARE YOU READING MY SCREEN



dude just knows as/400. You can't do any worse to him.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Agrikk posted:

poo poo not pissing me off: ButtFormation and Powershell and scripting

I'm working on a proof of concept involving SQL Server 2016 on AWS EC2, so last night I decided to upgrade an existing SQL 2012 server to 2016 by flattening the instance and building a new one:

- script to shut down SQL server services
- AWS CLI to shutdown and terminate instance without terminating EBS volumes
- Buttformation script to launch new Windows Server 2012r2 box, configure it, re-add existing EBS volumes, launch powershell script to online volumes in the OS, rename instance and add it to existing AD domain, install datadog agent
- log onto the box
- run unattended installation script to install SQL 2016
- launch SSMS to attach databases
- import scheduled tasks from backup

Total elapsed time the server registered as unhealthy in SQL Server load balancer pool: 47 minutes.

Sometimes poo poo just works, folks.

All I think about when someone talks a full instance of SQL in AWS is $$$$$$$

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Thanks Ants posted:

I need to clear some time out to get in on this.

Cloud formation is some neat poo poo. Spring up an entire zone with your active directory extended to your own VPC on demand and having things come online.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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something something do it in prod

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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anthonypants posted:

How have you never heard of Google before?

e: http://didgoogleshutdown.com/

good rear end site. needs to all current and future apps on there with default of "sketchy".

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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ratbert90 posted:

I am a embedded Linux engineer. I am going to try to convince my boss I need a surface studio. :v:

Learn to use hyper-v. Congrats you've got a 27 inch adjustable linux box.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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milk milk lemonade posted:

Thor.

gently caress my whole weekend I guess

block all attachments (except for pdf). That's what i had to do :(

Now is the time to move to memecast and sandbox all attachments. Or :lol: option barracuda.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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fridaydamn.gif

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Bob Morales posted:

We use a program called Drivve on our copiers to route documents based on some barcode, it's a pain in the dick.

Hey we bought that and never used it.

Hot loving garbage.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Thanks sophos for rolling out an application update and breaking itsself on 300 devices, requiring me to manually push out the update. again.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Orcs and Ostriches posted:

The standard display resolution around here is 1024x768 on 4:3 screens.

I didn't know you can post through a time wormhole.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Trastion posted:

I stop in and building is dark except for the stuff that is on our natural gas generator. I made sure servers were ok and AC was still working and left thinking the power would come back on. That was 8pm. 8am when people starting coming in the power is still out. Generator had been running for 12 hours at roughly $300/hr. Glad I don't pay that bill.

Still not sure what the issue was. Electric company came out and the guy was in his bucket up the pole for about 2 minutes and we had power again.

$300/hour for JIT business continuity? That's incredibly cheap.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Avenging_Mikon posted:

Ugh, gently caress auditing. Good luck on convincing them.

Nobody's really auditing anything. It's just a dog whistle for them to behave.

stevewm posted:

Some issues have cropped up at our test store. So I've spent several days running register and ringing customers out so I can see the issues myself that were coming up and figure out how to solve them or report them to the developer. Its been "fun". What has surprised me (though it shouldn't have I guess) is how many times problems are the fault of the customer. A huge amount of people simply don't know how to handle EMV cards yet. I thought our new system was simple... Put the card in, pick debit or credit when asked, enter PIN# or sign when prompted. Remove card when prompted. About every other customer gets a look of dread on their face when you tell them they have to insert their card.

Roughly two generations were trained to mash on buttans or scribble. People need time to adjust (still, in 2017) tip: make the remove noise as loud and nagging as possible.

incoherent fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Mar 7, 2017

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Bob Morales posted:

We didn't want to charge sales tax on shipping costs back then (quoted post is like 2 years old)

Just got out of a sales tax meeting. Turns out we should have been charging tax on shipping this whole time! I was right motherfuckers! I fought our CFO over this for weeks and then just gave up.

Guess who got in trouble by like 3 states. :lol:

Not you, the CFO has to explain to the board why they have to back pay without consulting a tax assessor. A fate worse than wrong. But it's literally tax101 if you have presence in a state you add tax? Sure some states will shake their coffers at you but you can always shine them on.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Spring Heeled Jack posted:

Christ, after our team has been developing this app in an Azure kubernetes environment for 2 months our CIO wants us to move everything on prem for some loving reason. The app is supposed to go live 4/3 and it hasn't even left dev yet, no testing has been performed.

Anyone hiring a cloud systems admin in Maryland?

Man, to have that on your resume: I was able to successfully move back on prem a poorly thought out cloud play.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1107915637077139456

microsoft just holding your email hostage nbd. And to be clear mail.app is awful, but i'd never hamfist my users like this.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Symantec bought touchdown, then sunsetted it LMAO.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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That deffo sounds like "not your problem".

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Epicly pissing me off: vmware loving up my windows mdm enrollment certificate update. A week of backend bullshit for them to 1) not use my certificate i spent 400 dollars on and 2) doing a SS cert and thinking its fixed.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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BaseballPCHiker posted:

But god forbid one of us underlings actually works from home when something comes up. Email from the head boss saying all work from home needs to be approved in advance. Showed him the email from my boss that said it was OK. This leads to a whole chain back and forth on whats allowed and what isn't. If I thought it would be this big of a deal I would have just taken PTO.

Always take the PTO. Sounds like a bureaucracy hellscape and you're better off. Especially with catty other dept getting butthurt.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Khisanth Magus posted:

No way in high hells am I doing "freelance" work. I have a wife with health issues which requires decent health insurance.

Being "managed out the door" will screw you out of this "decent" healthcare. There are remote-only jobs that will treat you decently. The alternative is to get talking to a recruiter.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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DigitalMocking posted:

Way not pissing me off:

About 18 months ago we found out that our marketing team was using google smartsheets for "reasons". I had a meeting with them, explained this wasn't supported and IT would have no involvement in it. Fast forward to last week, they fired the person in charge of it without notice and walked her out of the building. She changed the password on it.

They opened a ticket today asking for help. I responded: "Per our previous discussion, this is not an IT owned or protected resource, we cannot and will not help with this."

Hope u did this irl after hitting enter, cuz I fukin would

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Thanks Ants posted:

Anybody who claims they can do everything they need to solely in the web apps offered by G Suite is a liar

G suite is an surprising example of google app abandoning despite being a revenue source.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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First of May posted:

Hey boss, I was able to increase the amount of traffic our internal CRM can handle by 10 times over, saving literally thousands of man-hours every year.

"Thanks, unrelated request: please paste the link to our customer newsletter to our newsletter archive."

Cool. Cool and normal.

Put it back.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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tactlessbastard posted:

On the bright side it went by quickly. On the downside, my baby started walking today, I hear.

This right here is poo poo that pisses me off. Sorry dude.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Thanks Ants posted:

Azure AD can sync password hashes with an on-premises AD, which is nice. You can also license a tier of the product where users can use all the normal Office 365 web portals to change their own password, which is also nice. What's not nice is that if you just use the Office 365 admin portal to do a password reset, it generates an 8 character alphanumeric (no symbols) password regardless of what your AD password complexity policy is set to. Then when the user attempts to log in with this newly reset credential they get told it's time to reset the password as you'd expect, but the form will not accept the password they've just been given as the existing one, because AD never wrote it back since it didn't meet the complexity requirements.

Good poo poo! Well tested. Why can't the complexity settings sync with Azure AD Connect so the platform isn't generating hosed passwords when people need resets?

Only do it in the azure portal, not o365

password writeback details posted:

Supports password writeback when an admin resets them from the Azure portal: Whenever an admin resets a user’s password in the Azure portal, if that user is federated or password hash synchronized, the password is written back to on-premises. This functionality is currently not supported in the Office admin portal.

incoherent fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Sep 5, 2019

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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IF you're looking for some morning coffee here is some of that pureuncut of a thread from /r/sysadmin


quote:

So when I arrived at the office at 730 am still looking like a shell shocked survivor of Omaha beach. The CFO immediately pole vaulted into my cubicle the moment I sit down and proceeds to hammer throw me and my manager into his office. He starts breaking down that "finance software we've never heard of" hasn't been brought back online and it's going to cause a catastrophe if it's not back online soon. I go through the list of critical applications that could not fail and what he was talking about was not on there. I professionally remind we are in crisis mode and can't take special requests right now. He insists that the team has been patient and that is app is basically there portal to do everything. I think to myself then why I haven't heard of it before part of the security audit six months was to inventory our software subscriptions. Unless and I cringed there's some shadow IT going on.

This actually made its way up to the CEO and we had to spend a security analyst to go figure out what accounting is talking about. What he found stunned me after two straight days of this cannot get worse moments it got worse. 15 years ago a sysadmin who had reputation for being a mad scientist type. He took users special requests via emails without ever ticket tracking, make random decisions without documentation, and would become hostile if you tried to get information out him, for ten years this guy was the bane of my existence. He retired in 2011 and according to his son unfortunately passed in 2015 to be with his fellow sith lords in the valley of dark lords this guy was something else even in death. Apparently he took it upon himself to build finance some homegrown software without telling anyone. When we did domain migrations he just never retired an old domain, took leftover 4 windows 2000 servers ( yes you read that correctly) and 2 ancient redhat servers since the licenses still worked and struck them in a closet for 15 years with a house fan from Walmart.


quote:

We looked and looked to understand how it worked because the web app appeared to have windows paths but also had Linux utilities. I did not understand how this thing was cobbled together but we eventually figured it out this maniac installed wine on the redhat server then installed cygwin on wine then compiled the windows application and it ran for 15 years kinda of.

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incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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EconOutlines posted:

Someone dropped the ball.

We converted from mapped shared drives of ~2GB for PST files 1 year ago to O365 and one user didn't have her PST portion converted to O365.

Fast forward to our Windows 10 rollout this month and a large chunk of her sensitive data is gone with new machines issued. Evidence needed for removals, suspensions, drug-free workplace, etc.

Assistant HR Director gets involved, elevates it to OIT national since local doesn't know what's going on. Spent 72 hours tracking down data through backups until it was found apparently.

shouldn't, ya know, that stuff be printed out into a permanent file?

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