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Internet Explorer posted:Does anyone use Azure Microsoft Backup Server (MABS?) and if so, why do you hate yourself this much? At my last job yes. And I did a lot back then. So glad to be out of Operational IT!
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Zero VGS posted:Azure AD also has something called Azure Active Directory Domain Services, which counter-intuitively would not allow public-facing DC services or LDAP for years and years. They actually expected you to make a site-to-site VPN which wouldn't have worked for us and all the work-from-home people (and no we're not paying for Win 10 Enterprise). But very recently they improved it to allow a public IP that can have domain services and Secure LDAP. Check it out here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/active-directory-ds/#overview I have a client with this, it's pretty slick except the fact that it can't be moved between subscriptions so I'm going to be stuck deleting it and rebuilding it so we can takeover billing/management.
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LochNessMonster posted:How are you dealing with not running docker on it, just use a VM? Yup. There’s some struggles with emulated software right now but it’s so loving fast. Most of my poo poo is in the cloud anyway so I don’t run a lot locally anymore.
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How's y'all's change freeze week going so far?
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Nov 25, 2020 17:05
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Vargatron posted:How's y'all's change freeze week going so far? What's this???
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Nov 25, 2020 18:44
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It's a US thing, if changes froze in Canada you wouldn't be able to get anything done 9 months out of the year.
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Vargatron posted:How's y'all's change freeze week going so far? Not till Dec 15 dude... duh
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Nov 25, 2020 19:01
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CLAM DOWN posted:What's this??? Ah you know, the time where somebody rolls "a quick fix" into prod and it causes everybody to work over the holiday.
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Vargatron posted:How's y'all's change freeze week going so far? I was thinking about getting some particular thing done so I can discuss it on friday in one of the meetings. Then I remembered, oh wait, US holiday. That’s awesome: I’ll be able to just get through some of my backlog work without anybody being around to assign me more. I wish all the americans would gently caress off more often.
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Nov 25, 2020 19:25
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As an American I concur!
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Nov 25, 2020 19:32
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devmd01 posted:As an American I concur! Not emptyquoting
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Nov 25, 2020 19:34
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Vargatron posted:Ah you know, the time where somebody rolls "a quick fix" into prod and it causes everybody to work over the holiday. I run content/document repository systems and we have lots of people doing end of year reporting. In most cases I can't even restart a service unless I get approval 2 levels up AND it's during a contractually bound maintenance window.
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Nov 25, 2020 20:56
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Been on vacation and just got word that the company is insolvent and is being liquidated. Happy Thanksgiving! I knew it was coming and have been looking for a new job but ugh the pressure is really on now.
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Nov 26, 2020 12:13
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George H.W. oval office posted:Been on vacation and just got word that the company is insolvent and is being liquidated. Happy Thanksgiving! That sucks, especiallly just before thanksgiving. Hope you find a new job quickly.
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Nov 26, 2020 12:30
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Going to ask a nebulous question here, hopefully there's some wider insight here. Our director has asked me/our infrastructure team to look at making a reporting server (PowerBI on-premises) externally facing, whereas I'd suggest it's much safer to limit access to this to behind the VPN - is this something that many places tend to do? My experience is that reporting stuff should generally not be something available to the outside world.
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Nov 26, 2020 17:14
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I hope that if you ask for an explanation they will provide one. If they don't, or if they don't seem to understand, the phrasing I use is "Do you have a compelling business reason for exposing this server to the outside world? If not I will put it behind the VPN." At the very least sometimes it prods people into examining their reasoning, or lack of it.
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Nov 26, 2020 17:22
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My guess is he wants to access it and can't be rear end'ed to VPN in first.
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Nov 26, 2020 17:26
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Dick Trauma posted:I hope that if you ask for an explanation they will provide one. If they don't, or if they don't seem to understand, the phrasing I use is "Do you have a compelling business reason for exposing this server to the outside world? If not I will put it behind the VPN." So the governing body can access a report(s).
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Nov 26, 2020 17:27
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Olpainless posted:Going to ask a nebulous question here, hopefully there's some wider insight here. I don’t particularly think VPNs are a good security model as a general practice - the network is to say the least an unreliable security boundary. Since this is on prem there may not be much you can do to avoid it, but identity based security models > network based security models. Could you replicate the data to bigquery or something similar and stick it behind SSO?
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I’m taking my Core 2 test Monday, mostly just watching all of Messer’s videos plus his free study group live-streams. Probably a little underprepared since most people recommend studying two months before but I this is all the time I have so gently caress it.
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Nov 26, 2020 17:31
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Olpainless posted:Going to ask a nebulous question here, hopefully there's some wider insight here. How does Power BI handle auth on prem? Is it AD or can it use SSO?
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Nov 26, 2020 17:35
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Olpainless posted:Going to ask a nebulous question here, hopefully there's some wider insight here. We make reports available to our board by rendering them to pdf and putting them on Sharepoint.
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Nov 26, 2020 17:35
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i am a moron posted:How does Power BI handle auth on prem? Is it AD or can it use SSO? AD. Some vague information out there that it's capable of SSO using ADFS but we're not set up for it.
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Nov 26, 2020 17:36
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George H.W. oval office posted:Been on vacation and just got word that the company is insolvent and is being liquidated. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Nov 26, 2020 17:37
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Olpainless posted:AD. Some vague information out there that it's capable of SSO using ADFS but we're not set up for it. I would use an Azure AD app proxy in that case assuming Power BI can do the IWA stuff (conditional access + other security features you get with Azure AD are good enough imo), but if that isn’t possible I wouldn’t like it either but I don’t like things using AD being externally facing at all.
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Nov 26, 2020 17:38
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Two jobs ago the management answer to the problem would've been to print out the reports and messenger them to whomever needed to see them. They spent at least $20k per year on messenger services instead of just emailing stuff.
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Nov 26, 2020 17:53
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I’m not overly familiar with PowerBI but if your management doesn’t need to run analyses themselves I’d say the simplest option would be to automate the creation of a PDF and use a scheduled task + script to export it somewhere easily accessible over the internet. I probably wouldn’t expose the whole server to the internet either tbh. Or use Azure AD if your org has it.
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Vulture Culture posted:This was me and Methanar a year and a half ago. Job hunting was stressful but I think we both ended up in really good places! The rabbit, it turns out, was not healthy.
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Cheers, this has been valuable feedback. Much appreciated.
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as a general rule, even if it's behind vpn you don't drop all your sso requirements or ad requirements otherwise you end up with the crunchy outer shell, soft creamy centre issue. user-controlled devices on vpn are still hostile.
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i am a moron posted:How does Power BI handle auth on prem? Is it AD or can it use SSO? Isn't PowerBI just another Microsoft Office 365 Application that uses Azure AD?
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https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/report-server/ For some reason this exists. I have never actually seen it in action cause the data gateways seem to be fine for getting on prem data onto the SaaS version of Power BI.
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Biowarfare posted:as a general rule, even if it's behind vpn you don't drop all your sso requirements or ad requirements Oh yeah, it's still managed by AD, but i feel having something like this running operational stuff able to be causally probed by the world seems like a terrible idea. i am a moron posted:https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/report-server/ Yep, it's this we're using. Basically everything we have is on premuse stuff and we have a hell of a lot of SSRS stuff on it as well. And powerbi saas has vicious pricing.
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George H.W. oval office posted:Been on vacation and just got word that the company is insolvent and is being liquidated. Happy Thanksgiving! Did they wait until people were taking time off so they couldn't strip every valuable item out the office on their way out the door?
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Thanks Ants posted:Did they wait until people were taking time off so they couldn't strip every valuable item out the office on their way out the door? They dropped it a hour before sending the email that said “good news early release at noon on Wednesday!” Lol I can’t imagine what’s going on in the office now. I’ll have to run in and grab my poo poo and headset on Monday. Supposedly we have a buyer and IT will be needed for a bit longer but for the rest? Yea they’re gone.
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Nov 26, 2020 20:34
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I'm reading job postings at LinkedIn and just saw one for a company called GOAT Group. 
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There’s few products where the gap between what a name promises and the product does is greater than Power Bi.
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Does anyone have any recommended training courses or reading on Terraform for Azure outside of their website? That's my next thing to do for my job... This PluralSight one is interesting Implementing Terraform on Microsoft Azure but I'm kind of surprised it's only about three hours of content. It can't be that simple... can it?
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Nov 28, 2020 20:39
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Gabriel S. posted:Does anyone have any recommended training courses or reading on Terraform for Azure outside of their website? That's my next thing to do for my job...
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You're better served learning the overall functions of terraform rather than Azure specifics. Things like count, workspaces, modules, state, etc. The certification is not hard to get and a very good way to learn TF for beginners. Even if you don't take the test.
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