What Are You Doing Right Now
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@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sending emails to 3rd Party vendors to fix a site we re-imaged a PC on which wiped out all of their software..
also seeing a lot of calls with " this has been happening all week..."
But its Friday and the first we're hearing about it...
Happy Friday peoplesOf course... Your end users are going to waste the whole week going "hurr... durrr.... it doesn't work..."
Then on Friday, somebody will have the bright idea of going "Why haven't you fixed this -- it's been down all week?!"
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Just got an email back "What PC did you re-image, yours or ours?"
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sending emails to 3rd Party vendors to fix a site we re-imaged a PC on which wiped out all of their software..
also seeing a lot of calls with " this has been happening all week..."
But its Friday and the first we're hearing about it...
Happy Friday peoplesOf course... Your end users are going to waste the whole week going "hurr... durrr.... it doesn't work..."
Then on Friday, somebody will have the bright idea of going "Why haven't you fixed this -- it's been down all week?!"
Exactly!
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@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got an email back "What PC did you re-image, yours or ours?"
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Seriously....To really screw with their support, just say, "Yes."
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got an email back "What PC did you re-image, yours or ours?"
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Seriously....To really screw with their support, just say, "Yes."
LOL
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got an email back "What PC did you re-image, yours or ours?"
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Seriously....To really screw with their support, just say, "Yes."
Or Neither.
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Rolling out Rocket Chat clients.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got an email back "What PC did you re-image, yours or ours?"
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Seriously....To really screw with their support, just say, "Yes."
I sent back
"we ONLY service OUR side.."
Told the office about it, and they all looked at me... and said "yep.." -
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Rolling out Rocket Chat clients.
I am still trying really hard to get my Pops to move all his guys to Rocketchat... He's been using the same IRC server software since the late 90s... Nobody wants to change, lol. They did use it once like 3 years ago, and never looked at it again.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Rolling out Rocket Chat clients.
I am still trying really hard to get my Pops to move all his guys to Rocketchat... He's been using the same IRC server software since the late 90s... Nobody wants to change, lol. They did use it once like 3 years ago, and never looked at it again.
You can hook Rocket to IRC as a transitional step.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Rolling out Rocket Chat clients.
Are you using your own push service for notifications?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Rolling out Rocket Chat clients.
I am still trying really hard to get my Pops to move all his guys to Rocketchat... He's been using the same IRC server software since the late 90s... Nobody wants to change, lol. They did use it once like 3 years ago, and never looked at it again.
You can hook Rocket to IRC as a transitional step.
Yeah, I saw that. Pops is like eh... I hope one day to get him and Ma on it so they can see how well it works vs Skype.
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@scottalanmiller where do you use rocket chat at?
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Going to go take a nap in a few
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Working with a Server 2003 machine
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working with a Server 2003 machine
I have a couple of those left. Almost done retiring them. Then I begin to work on retiring my Server 2008 machines.
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@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working with a Server 2003 machine
I have a couple of those left. Almost done retiring them. Then I begin to work on retiring my Server 2008 machines.
Our's aren't going away anytime soon. Mission critical application runs on them, and apparently the "plan" to get stuff current has been in the works far before I arrived.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working with a Server 2003 machine
I have a couple of those left. Almost done retiring them. Then I begin to work on retiring my Server 2008 machines.
Our's aren't going away anytime soon. Mission critical application runs on them, and apparently the "plan" to get stuff current has been in the works far before I arrived.
Any way to replace the mission critical application with something that does the same thing, but newer? if they have been trying to "become current" for this long, then its not that high of a priority.
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@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working with a Server 2003 machine
I have a couple of those left. Almost done retiring them. Then I begin to work on retiring my Server 2008 machines.
Our's aren't going away anytime soon. Mission critical application runs on them, and apparently the "plan" to get stuff current has been in the works far before I arrived.
Any way to replace the mission critical application with something that does the same thing, but newer? if they have been trying to "become current" for this long, then its not that high of a priority.
Perhaps. Unfortunately those decisions are far above my pay grade. From what I've learned, the current version only runs on Server 2003. They've sat on this for so long there's no upgrade path to current, so it would be install current on new infrastructure. I have a feeling the problem will be finding a way to migrate the data.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working with a Server 2003 machine
I have a couple of those left. Almost done retiring them. Then I begin to work on retiring my Server 2008 machines.
Our's aren't going away anytime soon. Mission critical application runs on them, and apparently the "plan" to get stuff current has been in the works far before I arrived.
Any way to replace the mission critical application with something that does the same thing, but newer? if they have been trying to "become current" for this long, then its not that high of a priority.
Perhaps. Unfortunately those decisions are far above my pay grade. From what I've learned, the current version only runs on Server 2003. They've sat on this for so long there's no upgrade path to current, so it would be install current on new infrastructure. I have a feeling the problem will be finding a way to migrate the data.
I hear ya. My ERP is similar. I have all current environment, but the software was written for 32-bit instead of 64. The vendor has no plans of updating the software to 64-bit.
