@Texkonc said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Ticket from Local IT.
Exchange is slow. blah blah.
Netops: No excessive traffic at your location..
Sysops: Exchange within daily operation performance trend....
Local IT: Screenshot."Outlook trying to Connect with Exchange"
30k emails just in the Inbox folder......
So they are caching EVERYTHING. Asking a lot of Outlook there.......
Yeah asking just a bit. I have people like that. Never delete or organize anything.
@popester said in Non-IT News Thread:
@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
@popester Heck yeah I'm proud of him!
Gives world experience you will never get at a University. Priceless. I can only hope my boys choose the service. My Dad served, I was too stupid to see the value. So I am a civy. Wish I had a time machine.
I did not serve either and wish I had. I was actually planning on it in high school but when I told my mom she was very torn up about it. So i never did.
@popester Scott may have a different opinion but from what I have seen most schools have some sort of algorithm. Professors that I know tell me it usually favors black or female. I don't know why that is though, if its true. However I will say one of my nephews from Michigan wanted to go to UT Austin and was 4th in his senior class with a 4.0 and he was denied. He did everything right and applied a year in advance. He couldn't get in so joined the marines and just got through boot camp. I'm proud of him either way. I would have liked if he was close to me at school though so I could help look out for him. oh well.
@dbeato said in Resentment to Purchasing Software - Split From Unrelated Topic on IT Professionals:
IT is also about planning and managing those migrations process ahead of time and not waiting until the last minute to just do a change.
Very good point and a good lesson to remember.
Real busy already this morning. First day of classes. Faculty friends don't wear masks around each other. Students don't wear masks around each other when they are standing around. One teacher couldn't operate a projector, another couldn't operate a document camera, updated a couple users already, found a missing laptop that someone incorrectly put in storage, and checking laptop loaners that have come back in to make sure they are working correctly. whew!
@scottalanmiller Cool thanks. I want to check them out. Might be good for kids I am thinking.
@scottalanmiller Where is the best places to look for these?
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@jmoore said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:
@scottalanmiller said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:
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@gjacobse said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:
@Danp said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:
Where are you hosting this? What measures have you taken to restrict access?
Host: Vultr
Steps taken: fail2ban
Can you verify fail2ban is working. The service might have stopped.
There's no possibility of it doing anything. There's nothing here for it to block.
Ok got it. I don't own one so kind of guessing at trying to help.
Set one up along with your new network gear. It is well worth it. Amazes me at how much crap gets blocked.
Yeah I have always wanted to play with one. I need to do this soon. Just have had other stuff to mess with first lol.
@scottalanmiller said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:
@jmoore said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:
@gjacobse said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:
@Danp said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:
Where are you hosting this? What measures have you taken to restrict access?
Host: Vultr
Steps taken: fail2ban
Can you verify fail2ban is working. The service might have stopped.
There's no possibility of it doing anything. There's nothing here for it to block.
Ok got it. I don't own one so kind of guessing at trying to help.
@gjacobse I think using a free Cloudflare plan might help, if I understand the situation. I don't own a RP so just guessing. Cloudflare will block a lot of bad traffic.
@gjacobse said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:
@Danp said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:
Where are you hosting this? What measures have you taken to restrict access?
Host: Vultr
Steps taken: fail2ban
Can you verify fail2ban is working. The service might have stopped.
@black3dynamite said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
@jmoore said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
@scottalanmiller said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
@jmoore said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
@scottalanmiller said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
It's native to, and built into Ubuntu Linux which is our official platform. This means essentially zero IT support needed, it's even in the default install. Even employees opting for Fedora, Pop_OS, Raspberry Pi OS get it by default, too. And our one MacOS user gets it. And anyone playing with Windows gets it from Chocolatey.
This is a very valid point. I do all the installs at our campuses. I spend so much time installing and re-installing because it develops problems for us. While I have mitigated a lot of the install time by putting it in my user image, I still have to reinstall on a regular basis. We have close to 300 non-IT users and it breaks a lot. Too much in my opinion. I have to do 2-3 re-installs a week on average to fix issues it gets on its on.
Same here for customers on MS Office. Reinstalling Office and/or Windows + Office is a major time sink. Especially when customers are small and can't do imaging options.
Exactly. Since I am the only one that does all this for us, it uses time I could be spent on clearing work tickets.
Well technically those are work tickets too.
Haha your right in some cases they are.
@scottalanmiller said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
The other being our terminal server. Yes, you can put MSO on a TS, but it's a pain. We have customers doing this and it's a licensing headache. LO, just works.
Yeah not having to deal with licensing compliance and having it cost so much money for an organization are real drawbacks to using it. If I was in charge I would have people use whatever makes sense. So 90% or more would be on LibreOffice or something similar and the occasional power user, if they demonstrated a need, we could easily just pay for those few power users that needed something in MS office. I would also do this for several of our Microsoft products. Use them only for people that needed. Save all that money and spend a fraction of it on training people how to be proper users and save the rest. We would come out very far ahead financially.
@gjacobse said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
To make matter worse is the password / time policy that restricts the type of passwords you can have. And - the additional kick ( which many have when you have in office and WFH staff ) de-sync of the passwords from the device and the domain.
Your right, that is the fault of using AD. Users at home have to keep using same pw forever because they do not go into the office to sync where it makes them change pw. I also do not like AD for that and other reasons. Guess I am just getting bitter lol.
@gjacobse said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
My office; the State; using SSO for a number of things - which is great - and very much NOT. Damn near every aspect of access is attached to the AD account. I believe there are a total of five different NON MS based systems that use AD - the only one that doesn't - Mainframe - and well - it's Mainframe.
Yeah we use SSO also. Well I don't because I disagree with it entirely. We have the choice so I am not breaking any rules. I see SSO as an excuse to be lazy with passwords for poorly trained users. We won't train our users and they will not take any responsibility for their own training. I have asked if I could start an initiative to train people campus wide because I am very good with all the software we have and I am good with people. I was told no, they would rather have me do manual labor moving around equipment and work on tickets only. My updating of users every day is my own initiative, I don't think they even know I do that on a regular basis.
@gjacobse said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
I can see where AV can cause issues,.. but some times I wonder if it's not all the layers and layers of security. MS, with Azure and hybrid configurations with SSO and 2FA or MFA adds quite a bit of additional steps.
That could certainly be an issue. Just no way to prove or disprove it in our situation.
@scottalanmiller said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
@jmoore said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
@scottalanmiller said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
In reality, LO handles MSO formatting pretty well. Far better than people give it credit for. Even if we were in a situation where we needed to do it, it would likely not matter.
I use a combination of Zoho and LibreOffice myself. More Zoho to be honest. It's like 60-40. I could use either exclusively though. I can't remember the last time, if ever, that I had trouble with formatting so I totally agree with this as well based on my experiences. There are always exceptions of course as there will be some user that has trouble. However, I have never had an Excel sheet or anything else that LibreOffice did not handle. I see no speed difference either. So maybe in cases where people have trouble there are other circumstances not mentioned or things happening they are not aware of.
Same here, I use Zoho for some things (historical reasoning) and LO for almost everything else. I have no access to MSO. I get files, once in a while, in MSO, but I can't remember the last time that there was a formatting problem. I'd guess not for ten years or more. Not to say that it is exact, but it's a Word doc, it's not meant to be exact, it's a collaboration format.
I have mso installed and keep up with how to use it adequately because I have to know it well enough to support it.
Nothing will keep formatting exact but I don't see that as a problem anyway.
@scottalanmiller said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
@jmoore said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
@scottalanmiller said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
It's native to, and built into Ubuntu Linux which is our official platform. This means essentially zero IT support needed, it's even in the default install. Even employees opting for Fedora, Pop_OS, Raspberry Pi OS get it by default, too. And our one MacOS user gets it. And anyone playing with Windows gets it from Chocolatey.
This is a very valid point. I do all the installs at our campuses. I spend so much time installing and re-installing because it develops problems for us. While I have mitigated a lot of the install time by putting it in my user image, I still have to reinstall on a regular basis. We have close to 300 non-IT users and it breaks a lot. Too much in my opinion. I have to do 2-3 re-installs a week on average to fix issues it gets on its on.
Same here for customers on MS Office. Reinstalling Office and/or Windows + Office is a major time sink. Especially when customers are small and can't do imaging options.
Exactly. Since I am the only one that does all this for us, it uses time I could be spent on clearing work tickets.
@scottalanmiller said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
@jmoore said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:
@scottalanmiller I am sure that a large percentage of organizations that use MS office would get by peachy without it. It might just be a culture thing to expect MS office in a business because no one really evaluates things. I know there are always exceptions.
Once upon a time, it was a running joke to move people to StarOffice and see if they noticed. I knew someone whose clients didn't realize, at all. And another that thought that it was just a standard upgrade. And that was around 2000!
Yeah not surprising at all. 95% of users in my experience use nothing but absolute basics of its capability. When that is the case, it does not make sense to pay for it.
