Okay, well those are just separate systems. It's not like one continuous chain of logins.
I've got 7 or 8 that I need to get into by default on any given day plus about 30 more that crop up. Fortunately a lot of them use built in AD authentication or are covered by our SSO app.
Since starting this job a month and a bit ago, the amount of passwords I'm having to memorise is getting silly already. (VPN password + 10-15 different server passwords + firewall passwords) x 10 or so clients that I'm working on. Plus passwords to get on machines that you have to use to connect to said VPNS, plus passwords to the VMs running on the machines you have to remote onto to get onto the VPNs, plus passwords for test servers. I am running out of head space for actual things.
Do we have a central store for all these? Hell no. Find it in a randomly named text file in the labyrinthine setup of file servers. Maybe.
I kinda prefer Terminals, which is like Remote Desktop Manager on steroids, with native support for VNC, SSH, screen cap auto export to flickr, built in ping, trace, dns lookup, whois, Terminal Services admin console, can wake on lan other machines. It can connect to your damn vcenter server and do VM console sessions too. It's pretty fucking awesome.
Also if you just need to remember a lot of passwords, look into KeePass. Not only does it store them in an encrypted, centralized, searchable database with a nice gui and room for notes, you can actually train it to auto-type usernames and passwords into the appropriate windows for you, and copy/paste the passwords without ever seeing them in clear text.
I'll have to try it out, but except for the export ss to flickr, RDM does all you mentioned.
Why not just tie to AD group? That way your roles would migrate based off your group.
Because I actually have to change my identity sometimes. For reasons above my paygrade, they split the field and corp systems into two different forests. Sometimes I have to pretend I'm a field agent and sometimes and have to use the corp tools, and most often I'll need to do that simultaneously. We're in the process of unifying the forests now, but they will still keep Corp and Field separated because the computers are architecturally different in their OS builds. Field people use their systems differently the Corp does. Because I have a Corp system, and support the field, I have to have my feet in both.
@Bowen - Re the Cisco Meraki, if you attend one of their "Intro to Cloud Networking" webinars they have an option towards the end to give them a call for a free device with a 3 year license. Well worth it for an hour of your time.
Finally swapped out my crappy work provided laptop for the Macbook Pro. My monitor here at work doesn't have HDMI but apparently the Dell Displayport --> DVI adaptors fit into the HDMI port and work just fine.
Finally swapped out my crappy work provided laptop for the Macbook Pro. My monitor here at work doesn't have HDMI but apparently the Dell Displayport --> DVI adaptors fit into the HDMI port and work just fine.
Uh, wouldn't a Macbook have mini displayport out, not HDMI?
(also, fuck hdmi, why does it keep showing up on new laptops. Give me that sweet, sweet displayport)
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
It has Thunderbolt ports, which I'm assuming is backwards compatible with Displayport? Either way, the adapters we got with the Dell laptops were full size DisplayPort which conveniently work/fit with HDMI
It has Thunderbolt ports, which I'm assuming is backwards compatible with Displayport? Either way, the adapters we got with the Dell laptops were full size DisplayPort which conveniently work/fit with HDMI
Yeah thunderbolt is displayport++
But uh... how are you jamming a displayport plug into an HDMI jack? Is this possible?
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
No jamming required, just slid right in. I dunno if it because Dell is using some weird ass terminology for their HDMI ports on their laptop or what.
Huh, what model is it? I've got to find out the answer now!
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life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I guess the dell? We're going from (macbook's thunderbolt / dell laptop's ??) to the (dell's ?? to dvi adaptor) to the monitor, yah?
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life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
...I thought they only made macbooks with dp/thunderbolt :oops:
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Well that's cool: this month's kb2868116 patch improves the content of error messages when running local executables. I always thought "Unspecified Error" was pretty crystal clear.
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While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
So I just put a ticket in with my new job's in-house IT for the first time. (They use a different system than the one I use for my work.) I open up theit little web portal, click to the 'New Ticket' page. Type into their form box:
"Printer \\servername\printer has a job stuck in the queue in 'error' status, other print jobs can't proceed. Can you please cancel it out?"
Hit submit.
"NO SPECIAL CHARACTERS ('\') ALLOWED"
facepalm.jpg
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Well that's cool: this month's kb2868116 patch improves the content of error messages when running local executables. I always thought "Unspecified Error" was pretty crystal clear.
Just a forewarning to anyone who is planning on installing this update. I've run into some issues where the install on some servers took over 45 minutes for just this stupid patch. Some went through quick, but a few took waaaaaaaay too long. I'm not sure why, but just plan accordingly. I should have been out of here by 6:00; now I'll consider myself lucky if I'm out by 7:00.
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
We are in the process of migrating our field systems from XP to 7. The conversion is complete for the most part, but we have some agents who are holding on to their dear XP machines with white knuckles. With our last update, we set a timer on it. You have 30 days to get a Windows 7 machine or we are locking you out.
Agent calls up, and she wants a second extension for her XP machine. We tell her it's been extended once and we have to make a request to management to see if she has a business need to continue using XP. ("Because I don't like 7" is not a business need).
Well, she gets super-hot about not being able to use her system, and I tell her that we can't extend it forever because an about a month we will be shutting down or encryption servers here and she's going to wind up with a scrambled hard drive that won't boot after that point. Then she'll need to send the HDD in to use so we can get her data off of it.
Tables were flipped and she hung up. She called back and got an extension from a new rep who didn't know any better. I flagged the system though so she can't do this forever.
If she doesn't figure out that we really mean this, her system will be dead in October.
So I just put a ticket in with my new job's in-house IT for the first time. (They use a different system than the one I use for my work.) I open up theit little web portal, click to the 'New Ticket' page. Type into their form box:
"Printer \\servername\printer has a job stuck in the queue in 'error' status, other print jobs can't proceed. Can you please cancel it out?"
We are in the process of migrating our field systems from XP to 7. The conversion is complete for the most part, but we have some agents who are holding on to their dear XP machines with white knuckles. With our last update, we set a timer on it. You have 30 days to get a Windows 7 machine or we are locking you out.
Agent calls up, and she wants a second extension for her XP machine. We tell her it's been extended once and we have to make a request to management to see if she has a business need to continue using XP. ("Because I don't like 7" is not a business need).
Well, she gets super-hot about not being able to use her system, and I tell her that we can't extend it forever because an about a month we will be shutting down or encryption servers here and she's going to wind up with a scrambled hard drive that won't boot after that point. Then she'll need to send the HDD in to use so we can get her data off of it.
Tables were flipped and she hung up. She called back and got an extension from a new rep who didn't know any better. I flagged the system though so she can't do this forever.
If she doesn't figure out that we really mean this, her system will be dead in October.
I look forward to you recounting the tale of her losing all of her data with 'no warning' and that it is 'all your fault.'
So I just put a ticket in with my new job's in-house IT for the first time. (They use a different system than the one I use for my work.) I open up theit little web portal, click to the 'New Ticket' page. Type into their form box:
"Printer \\servername\printer has a job stuck in the queue in 'error' status, other print jobs can't proceed. Can you please cancel it out?"
Hit submit.
"NO SPECIAL CHARACTERS ('\') ALLOWED"
facepalm.jpg
Database sanitation is sooo hard!
It found the exact character that was the problem, it just told him to go fuck himself with it instead of fixing it, which is amazing.
So I just put a ticket in with my new job's in-house IT for the first time. (They use a different system than the one I use for my work.) I open up theit little web portal, click to the 'New Ticket' page. Type into their form box:
"Printer \\servername\printer has a job stuck in the queue in 'error' status, other print jobs can't proceed. Can you please cancel it out?"
Hit submit.
"NO SPECIAL CHARACTERS ('\') ALLOWED"
facepalm.jpg
Database sanitation is sooo hard!
It found the exact character that was the problem, it just told him to go fuck himself with it instead of fixing it, which is amazing.
The gall of it, too. The sheer laziness. Like, I can kind of understand it when it's a username or password. Those are things where you're making it up, you can choose what characters to use. But the main body of a helpdesk ticket? Really?
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
So I just put a ticket in with my new job's in-house IT for the first time. (They use a different system than the one I use for my work.) I open up theit little web portal, click to the 'New Ticket' page. Type into their form box:
"Printer \\servername\printer has a job stuck in the queue in 'error' status, other print jobs can't proceed. Can you please cancel it out?"
Hit submit.
"NO SPECIAL CHARACTERS ('\') ALLOWED"
facepalm.jpg
Database sanitation is sooo hard!
It found the exact character that was the problem, it just told him to go fuck himself with it instead of fixing it, which is amazing.
The gall of it, too. The sheer laziness. Like, I can kind of understand it when it's a username or password. Those are things where you're making it up, you can choose what characters to use. But the main body of a helpdesk ticket? Really?
Good luck filling out a ticket for any network location or local file path ever.
Personally, I would just re-enter the ticket as "BACKSLASHBACKSLASHservernameBACKSLASHprinter has a job stuck" and keep doing that sort of thing til its fixed.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
We restrict local users rights to Power User, which obviously means that certain things they cannot do. In this question, I'm speaking about running the command prompt. To run it, you'd have to put in admin credentials to get into the command prompt. While command prompt is being run as administrator, if you make any profile-specific changes (such as netsh configurations), would it only being doing such changes on the local administrator account (since you're running the command prompt as admin) or on the account that the user who is currently fully logged in as?
In an attempt to further clarify, let's say George is logged in but there are some issues with this profile's proxy configuration. I get on his system logged is as George, but have to run the command prompt as Administrator. If I start making netsh configuration changes, will I be making changes to the Administrator or George account?
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While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
Ugh, two conference calls on two phones. An entire VM Ware farm with VDI's sitting in Agent Unreachable. Why did I leave home without a cyanide tooth.
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TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
So I've been tasked with migrating a client to O365. The email side should be easy; only a few users.
They also use Sharepoint, though. I know next to nothing about Sharepoint. Any of you beautiful humans want to point me in the right direction? Even a way to just dump everything as flat files onto a server share would be keen.
If SharePoint is already set up, there isn't much you need to do. Honestly, the hardest part is getting SharePoint working. Once that's done, it's more rights/privileges work than anything else. Is there anything specific that they want?
If you want to seem spiffy, you could setup calendars on the SharePoint site and have Outlook link to it so that everything is synced between the two. Take note that you cannot get an Outlook calendar on SharePoint but you can get a SharePoint calendar in Outlook.
Maybe it's my lack of knowledge with O365, but isn't it pretty much just a cloud- and subscription-based service for the new Office software?
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While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
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Sorry, I guess I was unclear. They have Sharepoint on an SBS that will be decommissioned when they go to 365. It's my task to export their Sharepoint files and upload them into SkyDrive. I'm not concerned about the upload bit, but I'm trying to suss out exactly where to get into the Sharepoint library such that I can dump the files.
So I've been tasked with migrating a client to O365. The email side should be easy; only a few users.
They also use Sharepoint, though. I know next to nothing about Sharepoint. Any of you beautiful humans want to point me in the right direction? Even a way to just dump everything as flat files onto a server share would be keen.
From http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh852518.aspx:
"Office 365 does not provide SharePoint content migration support for customers. If you plan to migrate SharePoint content from an on-premises or hosted service to SharePoint Online, your organization will either use a manual approach or to use a third-party SharePoint migration tool.
One way to manually move content to SharePoint Online is by connecting the SharePoint Library to SharePoint Workspace. You can then upload content to SharePoint Workspace and it will automatically synchronize these files to SharePoint Online. Another manual approach is to use the capability of SharePoint to upload multiple files. This will allow you to upload batches of files at once."
Oh damn... I'm not sure about that. I'd have to look into it because it's not as simple as a file server migration; those files are in a database
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
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TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
Right. I'm seeing some stuff about viewing a file library in Windows Explorer, which would let me copy them (sans versioning, etc) to a network share and go from there.
I didn't read heavily into it, but since everyone here adores PowerShell, I figure it'd be pretty sweet if it worked.
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
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Client IT Guy who could just not get his around how a USB HDD attached to one DB server didn't magically have the ability to jump over to the other DB server, just because they're in a failover pair. Oh the backups stopped working? No shit. Thats because H:/Backup doesn't exist on both servers unless you actually bother to set it up that way. Not to mention that they actually went out of their way to mess with what was in place before, where nightly DB backups were stored on a cluster shared RAID array. What was wrong with that solution? Who knows. USB HDD plugged into one of the servers is a much better idea!
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I'll have to try it out, but except for the export ss to flickr, RDM does all you mentioned.
Because I actually have to change my identity sometimes. For reasons above my paygrade, they split the field and corp systems into two different forests. Sometimes I have to pretend I'm a field agent and sometimes and have to use the corp tools, and most often I'll need to do that simultaneously. We're in the process of unifying the forests now, but they will still keep Corp and Field separated because the computers are architecturally different in their OS builds. Field people use their systems differently the Corp does. Because I have a Corp system, and support the field, I have to have my feet in both.
Uh, wouldn't a Macbook have mini displayport out, not HDMI?
(also, fuck hdmi, why does it keep showing up on new laptops. Give me that sweet, sweet displayport)
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Yeah thunderbolt is displayport++
But uh... how are you jamming a displayport plug into an HDMI jack? Is this possible?
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Huh, what model is it? I've got to find out the answer now!
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
...I thought they only made macbooks with dp/thunderbolt :oops:
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
"Printer \\servername\printer has a job stuck in the queue in 'error' status, other print jobs can't proceed. Can you please cancel it out?"
Hit submit.
"NO SPECIAL CHARACTERS ('\') ALLOWED"
facepalm.jpg
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
We are in the process of migrating our field systems from XP to 7. The conversion is complete for the most part, but we have some agents who are holding on to their dear XP machines with white knuckles. With our last update, we set a timer on it. You have 30 days to get a Windows 7 machine or we are locking you out.
Agent calls up, and she wants a second extension for her XP machine. We tell her it's been extended once and we have to make a request to management to see if she has a business need to continue using XP. ("Because I don't like 7" is not a business need).
Well, she gets super-hot about not being able to use her system, and I tell her that we can't extend it forever because an about a month we will be shutting down or encryption servers here and she's going to wind up with a scrambled hard drive that won't boot after that point. Then she'll need to send the HDD in to use so we can get her data off of it.
Tables were flipped and she hung up. She called back and got an extension from a new rep who didn't know any better. I flagged the system though so she can't do this forever.
If she doesn't figure out that we really mean this, her system will be dead in October.
It still baffles my mind that in 2013 people can't get a concept from the early 90s.
Worst case at least allow everything for passwords.
Database sanitation is sooo hard!
I look forward to you recounting the tale of her losing all of her data with 'no warning' and that it is 'all your fault.'
This guy.
Guess who told them to call their ISP and charged an hour?
Also this guy.
It found the exact character that was the problem, it just told him to go fuck himself with it instead of fixing it, which is amazing.
The gall of it, too. The sheer laziness. Like, I can kind of understand it when it's a username or password. Those are things where you're making it up, you can choose what characters to use. But the main body of a helpdesk ticket? Really?
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Good luck filling out a ticket for any network location or local file path ever.
Personally, I would just re-enter the ticket as "BACKSLASHBACKSLASHservernameBACKSLASHprinter has a job stuck" and keep doing that sort of thing til its fixed.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
We restrict local users rights to Power User, which obviously means that certain things they cannot do. In this question, I'm speaking about running the command prompt. To run it, you'd have to put in admin credentials to get into the command prompt. While command prompt is being run as administrator, if you make any profile-specific changes (such as netsh configurations), would it only being doing such changes on the local administrator account (since you're running the command prompt as admin) or on the account that the user who is currently fully logged in as?
In an attempt to further clarify, let's say George is logged in but there are some issues with this profile's proxy configuration. I get on his system logged is as George, but have to run the command prompt as Administrator. If I start making netsh configuration changes, will I be making changes to the Administrator or George account?
They also use Sharepoint, though. I know next to nothing about Sharepoint. Any of you beautiful humans want to point me in the right direction? Even a way to just dump everything as flat files onto a server share would be keen.
If you want to seem spiffy, you could setup calendars on the SharePoint site and have Outlook link to it so that everything is synced between the two. Take note that you cannot get an Outlook calendar on SharePoint but you can get a SharePoint calendar in Outlook.
Maybe it's my lack of knowledge with O365, but isn't it pretty much just a cloud- and subscription-based service for the new Office software?
"Office 365 does not provide SharePoint content migration support for customers. If you plan to migrate SharePoint content from an on-premises or hosted service to SharePoint Online, your organization will either use a manual approach or to use a third-party SharePoint migration tool.
One way to manually move content to SharePoint Online is by connecting the SharePoint Library to SharePoint Workspace. You can then upload content to SharePoint Workspace and it will automatically synchronize these files to SharePoint Online. Another manual approach is to use the capability of SharePoint to upload multiple files. This will allow you to upload batches of files at once."
I didn't read heavily into it, but since everyone here adores PowerShell, I figure it'd be pretty sweet if it worked.