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Someone who is an admin/architect of that type of setup is universally terrible at their job. Including management.
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Just use it as a good example of what not to do. For the next 40 days only do things that you find educational or entertaining. Ignore your boss, collect your $5,000 and your resume bullet point and move on.
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Jul 3, 2015 01:33
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No one should commute 3 hours to work. Read this - http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/06/the-true-cost-of-commuting/ To the dude setting up a ticketing system, you could do a lot worse than Spiceworks in a small shop. I agree with the others that JIRA may be overkill, although I love Confluence for internal documentation.
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Jul 9, 2015 02:03
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siggy2021 posted:DHCP server is on the DC at HQ. We theorized that the old router had something in it's config to be a helper. We rooted through the old config files and found them. Unfortunately we have no control over our previous or current routers. The configs were supposed to be copied over, the new isp had the old ones. Someone hosed up. Every time I've done a managed router cutover the ISP has forgotten the DHCP helpers, even when they were supposed to be copying the config from the previous router. It got to the point where we had to force them to give us our own admin credentials so we could check before cutovers.
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Jul 18, 2015 06:27
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Not sure if it meets your requirements, but ShareFile does have the option to use your own storage. Everything else exists in the cloud, but the data itself can be kept on site.
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Jul 27, 2015 19:44
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spud posted:Would still try and remove you from the equation ASAP. What are you on about? Getting rid of system admins and replacing them with...?
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Jul 30, 2015 19:59
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Colonial Air Force posted:DevOps. Or network engineers who will slum it. This is a hilarious post. Thank you.
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Jul 30, 2015 20:42
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Yes, you see, but Linux goes to 256.
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Aug 1, 2015 16:14
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go3 posted:Ive almost completely banished every personal printer and lovely OfficeJet all in one from my clients and replaced them all with Xerox's serviced by my local Xerox distributor. My Xerox rep is also smoking hot. I won the printer game. Yeah, until you realize Xerox is literally the devil.
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Aug 7, 2015 15:43
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Spectracide posted:I change my password 10 times after it expires so I can keep using the same one That's why god invented minimum password ages.
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Aug 8, 2015 08:22
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flosofl posted:
Worst part of IT right here. I know it was always bad but I feel like it got a lot worse after the economy downturn. Fire all your decent support and engineers and just waste the customers time until they go away. Unfortunately, all these years later its still crap.
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Aug 14, 2015 23:12
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Rhymenoserous posted:Yesssssss. I have run into that exact thing more than once. Doing consulting / MSP type work really makes you hate your fellow IT workers.
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Aug 19, 2015 18:50
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"I wanted to give everyone local admin and this seemed the easiest way"
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Good job! There will inevitably be something broken tomorrow. Just keep calm and work through it and you'll be fine!
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Aug 25, 2015 03:53
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Started my new job Monday, still going through company training and haven't seen my desk yet, but an interesting tidbit came up in the email security section. The cloud spam filtering service quarantines nothing and just appends *Spam* to the subject. I think I inherited a network with your service and just finished ripping it our and switching to Mimecast...? Life has been much nicer since.
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Aug 26, 2015 04:57
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I'm with you. I'm all for showing Jr. guys how to do things but some of the "went to school for IT" guys I run into now a days just want everything fed to them. At some point you have to figure something out on your own. There won't always be someone there with knowledge to bail you out.
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Aug 26, 2015 21:05
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Methanar posted:Well I just finished my last day at my first garbageman-with-domain-admin job. So I won't be spamming the thread as much as I have been for a while. Where do you live and when will you be done with school? I may be hiring soon and just going by the thread I'd love to have you. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
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Aug 29, 2015 03:28
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Methanar posted:
I don't actually believe you that they have computers there. But yeah, that's too far away in distance and in time. Your resume is going to look great and you'll do fine in a technical interview. References don't mean much these days. A lot of places don't even ask for them anymore.
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Aug 29, 2015 07:11
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Yeah, there is a balance between keeping things clean to make it easier when the poo poo hits the fan or to be more time efficient overall and going completely overboard to satisfy your OCD tendencies. That sounds like the later to me.
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Sep 4, 2015 14:51
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I'm currently replacing Unitrends with Veeam. Can't wait.
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Sep 9, 2015 03:54
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CloFan posted:Man I don't know poo poo about DNS, maybe I should learn. And here I am hovering over the button to turn on DNS Scavenging... Turn it in and fix anything that breaks. It should be on for a healthy network anyways.
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Sep 10, 2015 05:18
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WDS or MDT is more than enough for 40 to 90 people, especially of half are Macs. I wouldn't worry about SCCM unless you are planning to grow a ton very quickly and you have lots of free time now. It will hold you over until you hire a dedicated IT guy. Or just go the old school imaging route and do things local. Anything that will boot and take an image with handle Windows or Mac. Or am I misreading and you are going to grow into the dedicated IT guy? Or do you have other responsibilities and don't want to waste time on IT?
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Sep 10, 2015 15:01
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Don't give them your current salary.
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Sep 11, 2015 14:17
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I feel like there's some appropriate comparison to users who do not report problems, but I'll leave that to those with more free time.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:4) Redact all salary information. My wife was just recently asked for her w2 in an interview. This is what she did and she got the job. Not sure how useful a w2 is without any of the payroll info on it, but I assume it was to seem like they were doing their due diligence in confirming employment. Like hell I am handing over a w2 with my salary info on it.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I think a W2 is the same as a T4 in Canada, which you should absolutely never ever give a prospective employer or anyone other than Revenue Canada/whatever you have there. Here, it has info on it like your SIN which you're legally obligated to keep to yourself. It's a good job at a good place. They're small and misguided. I think they probably just heard about someone else doing it and were like "oh us too!"
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Sep 18, 2015 02:14
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Barracuda Bang! posted:Best peatyness to cost ratio I've found so far: Like drinking a loving campfire. That you threw peat moss on.
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Sep 18, 2015 13:54
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Inspector_666 posted:Well yeah, that's the point. I can't stand either. My wife ordered both, one right after the other and I almost died watching her try to finish them. I'm more of a McCallan guy. I do really like Oban as well. Also Cardu is great, if you can find it.
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Sep 18, 2015 18:40
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Hands up who is having fun with this Mimecast outage in the US?
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Sep 21, 2015 22:31
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I have met plenty of CCNA who have no idea what they're talking about. You can definitely brain dump it.
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Sep 25, 2015 14:10
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Chickenwalker posted:What's a good freelance consultation/labor rate in NYC? I'm thinking $150/hr, too high? Doing what? What level of expertise?
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Oct 9, 2015 04:34
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Holy poo poo, can't believe they actually did it.
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Oct 12, 2015 15:40
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They seem to have done just fine with EqualLogic and SonicWall. Although Wyse has been terrible. I'm not sure I'd consider EMC capable of being any more terrible. My experiences with VMware support haven't been fantastic either.
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All of my support interactions with EqualLogic and SonicWall have been better than my support interactions with EMC and VMware.
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Oct 12, 2015 16:51
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:How long do you let a fellow sys admin hit his head against a problem before you tell him where to look? It's definitely a balance. If you always help they'll never learn.
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Oct 23, 2015 18:47
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bull3964 posted:This is work, not a loving lab exercise in college. You get poo poo done. If you can point someone in the right direction without causing your work to slip, you do it. The way Fruit Strip words questions is usually pointed and slightly annoying but there is very much a limit to "pointing someone in the right direction." I'm glad you don't agree but maybe you haven't worked in an environment that isn't as cut and dry.
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Oct 24, 2015 17:43
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go3 posted:If you have time to post on SA about it, you have time to point them in the right direction But the whole point is that sometimes helping people sometimes robs them of the opportunity to learn ahsgubxudvwkeb
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Oct 25, 2015 02:45
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skipdogg posted:Please don't take this the wrong way, but are you anywhere on the spectrum? Have issues with interpersonal relationships? Not playing internet doctor, just want to help. That's a bit much. It's his first resume and he's probably trying to sound professional.
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Oct 25, 2015 22:57
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flosofl posted:I found it fairly easy, but I had years of experience in several of the domains they test when I took it. I know my weakness was Legal and Development Methodologies. I got mine in 2003 and have maintained it with CPEs since. He changed it.
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Oct 29, 2015 04:47
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Managing technical debt is the single most important thing you can do in IT and should be considered in any action you take.
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go3 posted:its a dumb phrase hth What can I say, there's a lot of lovely IT guys out there.
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