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[Sysadmin] Improper Wireshark use has restarted the editor wars.
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He specified unmanaged.
Here's the problem. His company is trying to do BYOB stuff without a BYOB strategy.
No, you cannot push SSL certs to laptops without some kind of laptop management. The management could be an MDM solution, or it could be Active Directory.
In lieu of that, you can put the certs somewhere your users can find them and download them, and provide them instructions for how to import them in their own machines.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I had 2 tests this week because I hate my future self (and past self) and put all the things off until the last possible moment. I took Net+ Wednesday and passed that so whoo! But my effort was so focused on that and the paper that I sort of put off Linux+ prep way longer than I should have and totally bombed it. I'm not very comfortable in linux, I mean, I can do stuff but not much, and this test very much highlighted that I don't know shit about shit.
My boss: can we give $user a laptop?
Me: will it be for internal mobility within our offices, or is it intended for remote work?
Boss: internal mobility
Three weeks later, $user is calling the helpdesk
"I'm at (some other company) and I can't log in to the VPN..."
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Boss: I agree, but $user needs the laptop tomorrow
Me: then I don't want to touch it. Either let me do it right or give it to somebody else.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Nope it sounds like you got it. I need to convince someone to get us something to manage the laptops. Does active directory work for a primarily MacBook environment? Need to do some research into options I think. And also explain to my bosses why that would be a good thing to have.
You can connect macOS to Active Directory for the purposes of, for example, file share access. But you don't get the same management tools as you get with Windows workstations.
You'd need a mac-compatible management solution, like JAMF, Centrify, or Apple's first-party management tools.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Jamf is $$$ for non-edu. If you're edu it'll be worth your while to look into it as they offer a pretty good discount. Having used Jamf for a while now, and previously used Apple's own management solutions. Use Jamf.
I do not recommend Ivanti
At all
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Yes, a BYOB strategy is key. Mine is to grab a sixpack of random singles to sample and fill the rest of the cooler with Miller Lite.
I noticed that after I posted and decided to leave it
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
And avaya won't let me download it.
What a fucking nightmare.
IT says- "Occasional downtime does occur... give it time."
Otherwise everyone else says - "EVERYONE PANIC"
So at least I knew I wasn't having the worst day.
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
I mean, technically it's more "cloud" now than it was before it was on fire.......
the o365 problems are because the south/central azure region is down. It appears to be causing odd issues in other regions too- just not as all the way down as the main region.
Nothing you can do but wait. i like to meditate in times like this. Contemplate clouds. Fluffy ones. Tall ones. Black ones emanating from server farms.
Yes, but did you escalate our ticket? We need status updates every 15 minutes, because that will absolutely fix the problem.
Thanks.
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
HEY. Im a network guy. Sitting on the phone while nothing is happening to somehow speed along a fix is mandatory.
I wasn't lying when I said it was on fire.
On the positive side, meandering through the twitter threads did give me this.
So... you mean you put a fire out?
Well are you accidentally winning or losing?
I think I may have been selected as the blind-to-the-study judge, and I am therefore losing very badly.
Having a publicly posted password that I can give out to everyone seems safer than just having no password, but is there really a difference? We're using Ruckus Zonedirector to manage the WLAN stuff. It has a guest access service I can activate for that, though I'm not entirely sure what that would do.
I imagine a lot of my job is going to be convincing people that ease of access is not necessarily worth the security holes.
You want some sort of way to expire sessions and force people to re-authorize occasionally. Ideally a login page where people have to accept an acceptable use agreement or something. No password required, just a button to accept the agreement.