@Dashrender said in DC seems to have fallen off the Domain:

@NerdyDad said in DC seems to have fallen off the Domain:

@thwr said in DC seems to have fallen off the Domain:

@NerdyDad said in DC seems to have fallen off the Domain:

@Dashrender said in DC seems to have fallen off the Domain:

Can you ping the other DCs? can they ping you?

Both both name and IP?

Problem server and known good server can ping each other via both IP address and FQDN.

Any chance you added another IP to the server's NIC/LAG/whatever? Could be a bad DNS entry of some sort.

No changes in IP addresses, NIC, etc. Think I might have found the issue with dualing AV's. We recently changed from Symantec cloud AV to Cisco SourceFire AMP. Failed to uninstall Symantec first. Need to wait for a quick reboot window before I can reboot WINDOWS. You see what I did there? Huh? Huh? ...Okay, I'll see myself out.

Glad to hear you got rid of that virus from your network - Symantec - though I wonder if the SourceFire stuff is any better?

It seems to be a lot more thorough compared to Symantec. Symantec did find a few things here and there along the year. However, when we installed AMP, it started reporting back a lot more information in regards to security situations. It also gives me a more thorough analysis of either the infection or the device. Not sure if it is better or worse for the money (didn't write the check).

@thwr said in DC seems to have fallen off the Domain:

@NerdyDad said in DC seems to have fallen off the Domain:

@Dashrender said in DC seems to have fallen off the Domain:

Can you ping the other DCs? can they ping you?

Both both name and IP?

Problem server and known good server can ping each other via both IP address and FQDN.

Any chance you added another IP to the server's NIC/LAG/whatever? Could be a bad DNS entry of some sort.

No changes in IP addresses, NIC, etc. Think I might have found the issue with dualing AV's. We recently changed from Symantec cloud AV to Cisco SourceFire AMP. Failed to uninstall Symantec first. Need to wait for a quick reboot window before I can reboot WINDOWS. You see what I did there? Huh? Huh? ...Okay, I'll see myself out.

@Minion-Queen said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

I always welcome new members via Chat but rarely remember to come over here and say hi too!

Welcome everyone!!

Always? Really Always?

@Dashrender said in DC seems to have fallen off the Domain:

Can you ping the other DCs? can they ping you?

Both both name and IP?

Problem server and known good server can ping each other via both IP address and FQDN.

Seeing Event ID 1311 in the event logs under ADDS.

Forest and Domain level is 2008R2. Local DC seems to have fallen off of the domain because it is not pulling from other DC's Users and Computers, etc. When I attempt to have it connect back to another DC, it keeps telling me "A local error has occurred."

Should I demote by dcpromo then repromote?

I do have backups, just in case.

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm using the CodeTwo tool to import user pictures to AD. So far, it's killed my laptop once and complained about memory 3 times.

AAaaand CodeTwo crashed.

They have the worst developers. $5 says that some of them were fired from Ubisoft.

@Grey Where is your Exchange server? On-Prem? O365? Hosted?

On-Prem - There is a PS script for that but its a pain to use.
O365 or Outlook 2016 - The user can upload their own profile pic, or you can do it for them through the Admin Portal.
Hosted - I have no idea, but would assume that PS script would still apply.

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Where is everyone this morning? Man this place is slow.

Hiding in the dark...

With my eyes closed

@coliver said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific

Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.

But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.

VERY much the opposite. Windows and Cisco are taught at university 10:1 over Linux. They are PAID to be sales people for those vendors. And universities can't afford to hire Linux skills, but Microsoft and Cisco are a dime a dozen. So they teach whatever professors are unemployed on the market at the time.

College should only teach theory and principles. And that's all we are looking for here. If a college teaches hands on useful stuff, it's violating its mandate (outside of using them to demonstrate theory.)

I NEVER had a MS lab with servers or Hyper-V or anything. If I touched Linux, then it was through Cygwin. That was it. Otherwise, it was theory and principles.

How do you "touch Linux" through cygwin? Cygwin is an application layer for Windows only.

The only point of using Cygwin was to teach on how Linux's file systemS are different than Windows.

But Cygwin sees the Windows NTFS filesystem, not a Linux one. There is no Linux, at all, with Cygwin. What the heck did they think that they were showing to you?

And I barely made a B in the class because the teacher was not good at teaching. He had a difficult time explaining the same thing in different ways so that his students would understand how the principle worked. However, a lab would still have been very valuable for this class, even if the professor hosted it themself.

Probably not, since he apparently didn't know the subject matter well enough to even know what to have put in the lab!

Team up with Mike Rowe and create MangoU has an IT Trade school for the different facets of IT. You want to be a programmer? Take this course. You want to go into networking? Go into this program.

How valuable is that really? The people who need structured courses to learn are most likely going to have a very hard time with a fluid IT environment. I think most people could benefit from an internship long before they would benefit from a structured course.

Okay, so how about some kind of work/study program? Team the student up with half a day in the field, behind a helpdesk or something and the other half in school. The time they spend in the field pays for the schooling with maybe a little extra for themselves plus a 2nd job to live or something.

I'm not married to one solution. Just like love, IT will find a way.

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific

Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.

But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.

VERY much the opposite. Windows and Cisco are taught at university 10:1 over Linux. They are PAID to be sales people for those vendors. And universities can't afford to hire Linux skills, but Microsoft and Cisco are a dime a dozen. So they teach whatever professors are unemployed on the market at the time.

College should only teach theory and principles. And that's all we are looking for here. If a college teaches hands on useful stuff, it's violating its mandate (outside of using them to demonstrate theory.)

I NEVER had a MS lab with servers or Hyper-V or anything. If I touched Linux, then it was through Cygwin. That was it. Otherwise, it was theory and principles.

How do you "touch Linux" through cygwin? Cygwin is an application layer for Windows only.

The only point of using Cygwin was to teach on how Linux's file systemS are different than Windows.

But Cygwin sees the Windows NTFS filesystem, not a Linux one. There is no Linux, at all, with Cygwin. What the heck did they think that they were showing to you?

And I barely made a B in the class because the teacher was not good at teaching. He had a difficult time explaining the same thing in different ways so that his students would understand how the principle worked. However, a lab would still have been very valuable for this class, even if the professor hosted it themself.

Probably not, since he apparently didn't know the subject matter well enough to even know what to have put in the lab!

Team up with Mike Rowe and create MangoU has an IT Trade school for the different facets of IT. You want to be a programmer? Take this course. You want to go into networking? Go into this program.

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific

Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.

But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.

VERY much the opposite. Windows and Cisco are taught at university 10:1 over Linux. They are PAID to be sales people for those vendors. And universities can't afford to hire Linux skills, but Microsoft and Cisco are a dime a dozen. So they teach whatever professors are unemployed on the market at the time.

College should only teach theory and principles. And that's all we are looking for here. If a college teaches hands on useful stuff, it's violating its mandate (outside of using them to demonstrate theory.)

I NEVER had a MS lab with servers or Hyper-V or anything. If I touched Linux, then it was through Cygwin. That was it. Otherwise, it was theory and principles.

How do you "touch Linux" through cygwin? Cygwin is an application layer for Windows only.

The only point of using Cygwin was to teach on how Linux's file systemS are different than Windows.

But Cygwin sees the Windows NTFS filesystem, not a Linux one. There is no Linux, at all, with Cygwin. What the heck did they think that they were showing to you?

And I barely made a B in the class because the teacher was not good at teaching. He had a difficult time explaining the same thing in different ways so that his students would understand how the principle worked. However, a lab would still have been very valuable for this class, even if the professor hosted it themself.

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific

Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.

But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.

VERY much the opposite. Windows and Cisco are taught at university 10:1 over Linux. They are PAID to be sales people for those vendors. And universities can't afford to hire Linux skills, but Microsoft and Cisco are a dime a dozen. So they teach whatever professors are unemployed on the market at the time.

College should only teach theory and principles. And that's all we are looking for here. If a college teaches hands on useful stuff, it's violating its mandate (outside of using them to demonstrate theory.)

I NEVER had a MS lab with servers or Hyper-V or anything. If I touched Linux, then it was through Cygwin. That was it. Otherwise, it was theory and principles.

How do you "touch Linux" through cygwin? Cygwin is an application layer for Windows only.

The only point of using Cygwin was to teach on how Linux's file systemS are different than Windows.

Let me see what I can do.

goes to create several fake email accounts

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific

Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.

But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.

VERY much the opposite. Windows and Cisco are taught at university 10:1 over Linux. They are PAID to be sales people for those vendors. And universities can't afford to hire Linux skills, but Microsoft and Cisco are a dime a dozen. So they teach whatever professors are unemployed on the market at the time.

College should only teach theory and principles. And that's all we are looking for here. If a college teaches hands on useful stuff, it's violating its mandate (outside of using them to demonstrate theory.)

I NEVER had a MS lab with servers or Hyper-V or anything. If I touched Linux, then it was through Cygwin. That was it. Otherwise, it was theory and principles.

@coliver said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@coliver said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific

Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.

But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.

Wait what? Every university/college I have talked to that has an IT program is predominantly Windows and Cisco based. Microsoft has some great deals for education and it is the "market" leader as many professors I've talked to profess. I have a fairly large sample size but it's limited to two states at this point in time.

I never used Cisco in my classes. If anything, they taught me the basics of routing, but was agnostic about the network environment. Pretty much they went from "Okay, you know how to subnet. Lets get into WAN management" and that was it.

Unless you go to Dreamspark to download your software as a student, you only get the 6-month license and that will last for only a couple of classes.

Dreamspark is very inexpensive to colleges. But that's not really where you would be using it. Most lab environments in multiple colleges were Microsoft based. Even the sysadmin labs are almost 100% Microsoft.. due to Microsoft basically giving away licenses to college for academic purposes.

Well that sucks, because mine wasn't that way.

@coliver said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific

Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.

But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.

Wait what? Every university/college I have talked to that has an IT program is predominantly Windows and Cisco based. Microsoft has some great deals for education and it is the "market" leader as many professors I've talked to profess. I have a fairly large sample size but it's limited to two states at this point in time.

I never used Cisco in my classes. If anything, they taught me the basics of routing, but was agnostic about the network environment. Pretty much they went from "Okay, you know how to subnet. Lets get into WAN management" and that was it.

Unless you go to Dreamspark to download your software as a student, you only get the 6-month license and that will last for only a couple of classes.

@IRJ I have both a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree from Colorado Technical University in IT. The Bachelor's degree has helped me, to some extent, get into the IT workforce.

However, the Master's degree is what I have in the back pocket for Management later into the future. It has allowed me to talk Management sometimes and to come from where they are coming from as far as business priorities and agendas. I find it useful if you can get it from a reputable place for a decent price such as WGU or SNHU.

@Dashrender said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific

Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.

But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.

I think Scott's question is pre university. This is also ultimately why university is nearly useless to IT folks.

This topic is going to require a different post eventually, but do you think somebody needs to remarket IT to be more of a skill/trade instead of a career?

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific

Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.

But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.

@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

Basic security concepts

Both computer and user based.