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[SYSTEMS ADMINS & IT MONKEYS] ...maybe they should have hired a professional
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Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
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This thread is for those of us who watch progress bars all day to talk shop. Discuss how much you love and appreciate your users. Wax poetic about how understanding management is of IT's budgetary requirements. Express gratitude that you never inherit a situation like this
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She doesn't have Opera installed. I can change it, after which IE will display pages again, but it reverts after a reboot. Fun!
85.143.166.90
Checked malware and av and they found something so I cleaned. I tried it again with no hits and it's still banging up against that site once more. I checked the hosts file and it's fine as well.
I haven't seen this in awhile, but try "IE -> Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN settings" and make sure there's no proxy set.
Also you may want to try TDSSkiller.
I'm going to reimage now as it has something really nasty in it.
Edit: Wiped and reimaged and now it's fine.
I went to their "Small & Medium Business" site and bought 15 licenses for Symantec End-Point protection (for $800), and apparently that license isn't for the software we have: Symantec End Point Protection: Small Business Edition. What the fuck?
I mean :rotate: Symantec
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/forefront/ee822838.aspx
I think I bought the wrong thing from AVG once, I just phoned our rep at the time and she sorted it all out, refunds/charged out the right amount and re-issued me a new key. AVG is not as good as it once was, but they're pretty good customer service wise. Once our current license is up we're jumping ship to Forefront.
In other news, 5000+ messages in the Exchange queue about some polish conference, that was a fun way to learn I hadn't locked down the goddamn mail server to just receive from Postini.
Possible, or will I need a separate 'read only' calendar for her stuff?
If they're contributors on the calendar but not editors, then they should be able to add but not edit the items belonging to others.
They did, but yeah, we ditched them not long afterwards. ~50 machines, we migrated to AVG and were spending less than half the price for a 2 year renewal vs 1 year with Symantec.
Our networking guy (who hooks up the outlets and stuff) has been mysteriously absent. Turns out he lost his vision in one of his eyes so that's why he hasn't been answering our calls. Well my COO called him and got him to come in today at 5pm EST (I leave at 4:30...supposedly). Here's the kicker: he can't climb ladders, so I'm going to be the one on the ladders doing all of the work. I'll be here until 8pm or so.
Get a hard copy of your job description and just start writing all this down.
It will at least be lulzy when you go to ask for a raise.
$60K or bust.
It was more like 4200 a year :P
If he can't do the job, then shop around for someone else. Always pays to get a few quotes on jobs once and a while just to insure your contractors (I assume he's an outside IT person) are keeping up with current pricing.