@coliver said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@travisdh1 said:

@Breffni-Potter said:

I just did an in place upgrade from 8.1 to 10 on my main desktop.

Flawless so far, everything works.

Wish mine would have been that simple. I have an add on usb3 card that refused to work at first, then just started working out of the blue, no change that I could see besides some updates.

That just happened to me with my led controller arduino that I have in my arcade stick

Stick was made by www.jasenscustoms.com to give credit for it!
Custom art was done by hibachifinal on the SRK forums.

It's the highest quality arcade stick I have ever seen and I go to tournaments for Street Fighter often.

I've been thinking of building myself an arcade stick/cabinet. That is really cool!

Thanks! I was researching everything intending on building my own as well but the guy (Jasen) who built it is a nuclear engineer for the Navy. I just couldn't beat his stick, there is no way. I wish I had it with me right now to show you how unbelievably clean the internal cabling is. It's crazy. Metal body too.

@BBigford I stay about 2-3 years and then move on but every time I leave it's for a pay raise. I'm at a point where I more or less make what I have wanted to make so now I just have to be disciplined, learn and do my absolute best. It's a weird feeling.

@MattSpeller said:

@dafyre said:

If it can be scripted, script it.

Comment the devil out of the script so you don't leave yourself wondering why your black magic works.

Generally I agree but it's only for a short time to gather info from our dilapidated WIFI AP's... Ugh. I'll sleep on it tonight and see if I care enough to do it tomorrow.

Story of my life. The state is forcing training upon my company for direct care staff and half of the videos are hosted by Rutgers.edu. I'm trying to track down who the actual administrator is for the server. It's not normal IT it's someone in their medical school.

It's like Narnia. You have to believe it exists.

@travisdh1 If you end up making $120k out in Seattle can you change the title of this thread to "Well, this is really, really great."

They drop us off on an island with a gun and one bullet

@travisdh1 said in How to choose public DNS provider for an ISP:

If it were me, I'd just provide full internet access. If you really feel strongly about helping people help themselves, then maybe offer an option to use a DNS service provided by you through something like Pi-Hole, but that would have to be optional. People get all kinds of cranky when they can't use the "coupon" websites and applications, where coupon is actually malware of course.

"Coupon malware is the best kind of malware. I love printing out a $1 off milk coupon online and then buying a new computer for hundreds of dollars" - Standard User

@MattSpeller said:

@dafyre said:

You have a brain filter? Dang... I need that upgrade. I think my "Shut Up" filter needs an upgrade too.

Yesterday I actually told a user why I was chatting and distracting her (so she'd leave the computer alone and let it chooch through an install). I'm slipping. I have most of April off for vacation so that'll be a good recharge of the old batteries.

I'm seriously considering filming a commercial for IT services at my company starring myself for April Fools Day.

@dafyre said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@dafyre said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@dafyre said:

@wirestyle22 said:

Is it possible to use this in conjunction with a File Server to provide an alternative means of accessing and also provide domain authentication or am I way off base here?

That is pretty much what ZeroTier is for. The easiest way to use it though, is an all-or-nothing approach. Every computer runs it (AD Domain Controller, DNS servers, Workstations, Laptops). Otherwise, you get fun issues with DNS returning wrong IP addresses.

You mean even domain connected workstations? Is this just for mapping purposes?

Pretty much, yes. There are other ways you can do it and not have to install ZT on everybody's computer... but it can muddy the waters a bit.

If ZeroTier is linux compatible I wonder if you could turn a Raspberry Pi into an external NIC kind of like external hp jet direct cards.

Update: Oh my god they even have it for Rasbian.

They do? Nice!

I know they have binaries for Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android. You can build it yourself on other platforms (*BSD, and a few others).

Building from source isn't too bad on Linux.

Whenever I have a free minute I'm going to make this into a project. I just wish the Raspi were POE compatible.

@MattSpeller said:

@wirestyle22 It's a friday this year so you can prank and have two full days for your coworkers to calm their vengeful hearts

They know better than to try to mess with me. Someone tried once and I made it so every time they hit a vowel a different billy mays catch phrase would play. I left it there for a year.

#dontplaywithme

Thread of my dreams.

• I have no IT budget which puts me at the mercy of our executive director who is extremely frugal.

• I have to set up every building regardless of the size completely alone. This translated recently to a 10,000 sq ft building. All of the cabling. Configuring over 50 computers with no space to work (I have a small desk in finance). They asked me to give them an estimated cost and I told them we needed a physical firewall with content filtering, two switches and a replicated domain server. They said we'll buy the switches but nothing else. I then told them that a tiny little business router can't handle the traffic and it's not going to work. No one will be able to maintain their RDP sessions. They said we don't care. All users are annoyed with me even though I explained the situation. Two months later my executive director asks me what we have to do to fix it.

• I am constantly asked my opinion and it has never been taken into account a single time. As an example, we have demanding medical billing documentation (basically every 15 minute interval has to be documented and billed for). I was asked if we should purchase laptops or ipads and I said laptops. iPads aren't designed with the kind of data entry we need to do in mind. I was told "I competely agree". Two weeks later I received 35 iPads.

• When I was hired they were using a per diem server admin from another company in the same field that they previously worked for. I asked what this guy was going to do since we were keeping him on. I was told to talk with him and decide among ourselves. Fine by me. We basically said he was the server admin and I was the network admin/desktop support. Well fast forward to the future and he told me he had to delete and re-create the assistant executive directors e-mail account and it was unrecoverable. I asked him if he was going to tell her and he said "You're the IT tech there. You have to tell her." This woman is known to kill the messenger and is extremely nasty. I go and explain everything I know of the situation, which is very little. She freaks out and blames me for it even though I explained that it has nothing to do with me. I am not the server admin. She then said she can see the e-mails and contacts on her iPhone and that she wants me to recover them. I ask her if she actually manually entered them into her phone and she says "yes I did" to which I reply with great. If that's the case I can recover it. This was not the case and I was held responsible for not being able to recover her information even though she lied to me. I spent 3 hours on the phone with apple to prove what I was saying was true to receive nothing but attitude. 3 months later the assistant executive director approached me at an open house for the 10k sq ft building I just built alone and said "hopefully nothing happens like my e-mail again. You really screwed that up." To which I replied with "I've explained to you at length that this situation has nothing to do with me that was <insert name>'s responsibility." She said "Yeah but we've known him awhile and you're new so you take the blame".

I could write a novel in this thread.

@Dashrender said:

Just got the fake Microsoft your computer is calling us to say you have a virus call.

I start talking to them about my divorce (non-existent) and how I can't pay my bills etc. Any thing that could be considered a life problem. I don't let them re-direct me.

@MattSpeller said:

@NattNatt said:

Company now uses all Cat6 - but I miss Cat 5e, was easier to run and terminate, easier to bend etc too...

You won't miss 5e in a couple years when 10gig switching is dirt cheap

I'm pretty sure this is what they promised a few years before Mad Max became actual human history but what do I know. My network is held together by bubblegum and soothing words

@scottalanmiller said:

Picked up RPGMaker for my kids today. We want to use it as part of their schooling to learn storytelling.

That's a great idea.

@Dashrender said:

@wrx7m said:

I am starting the planning for migrating our on-prem Exchange 2010 server to a hosted solution. I have been leaning toward Office 365 for some time, as we have been using the pro plus subscription for the client side of things for a couple of years and have heard mostly good things about it for the Exchange hosting side of things. If other people have service providers that they think are way better for hosted Exchange, please chime in.

I also wanted to build a check list of things that need to be considered when migrating and running Exchange as a hosted service.

• I am currently using Azure AD Connect (was using dirsync) to sync AD user accounts and passwords for Office 365.
• What should I use for backup of the databases?
• Service provider to perform the migration?
• Do I need additional spam filtering/ AV?

Any other tips or suggestions that I should consider or plan for are greatly appreciated.

I thought if you buy O365 from NTG they will migrate you as part of that purchase, but then again maybe I was hi that day?

@Minion-Queen @art_of_shred

FYI - This only applies if you pay for it. If you're a non-profit O365 is free and NTG doesn't receive any money for it. Just in case anyone is interested that is a non-profit.

@johnhooks said:

Ha I was looking for a post on SW and saw this.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1515322-is-this-too-much-to-ask-for

....okay? He's never going to pay someone for that. Needs to adjust his expectations imho

I don't know you man but if some random guy on a forum (me) wants more for you it tells me that you probably don't have a lot in that job right now. Ultimately do what you think is right though.

I hope everything improves one way or another

@DustinB3403 said:

Guys guys, it's OK you only need 35 years combined experience in order to qualify for the position.

I want a unicorn but let me check the internet to see if I'm being unreasonable. Does not compute.

Ransomware is so annoying. It doesn't matter how much I train my users they ultimately don't care.

@coliver said:

@crustachio said:

@Dashrender said:

@hobbit666 said:

Wondering the best way to implement RADIUS into my environment.

AD on Server 2003
Unifi AP's
(I do have a "spare" 2012R2 server ready (For NPS Service and CA if needed))

Seriously? 2003? You know MS dumped support for that a few years ago? No more security updates.

Sounds like he, too, is an IT Cowboy. We're a dying breed. But those of us still around have proved our mettle on the ol' dusty trail of tears. Also, Vista.

You and your fancy smancy Vista... back in my day we used Windows Me and were happy to have it.

O365? pft. Back in my day we wrote IP addresses on the back of our shirts and ran the mail to each site. High speed was just a really fast guy

@BBigford said in A thread for ranting...:

@scottalanmiller said in A thread for ranting...:

When he leaves, just make sure to note that PAINFUL made it so.

He thinks she could get him fired, I keep telling him she's wrong about that. I've had to go to bat for Timid a few times about his performance. I say what an idiot Painful is, and that she doesn't have a damn clue what she's talking about. Crisis averted and Timid gets kicked loose from the office, no write up. There was another case where Painful was yelling at Timid, I stepped in and just said "uh uh, you can yell at me but you leave him alone. I was working on your issue, not him or anyone else in IT. So what's the problem..."

Would I would have liked to have added is "If you would have simply asked I would have told you to direct all the questions to me. Get out of our office and go back to your desk. Oh and if you go complain to the VP, you'll hear it come down from his boss so don't pull that passive aggressive shit with me cause that card is old and worn out."

I don't understand how you can't say that to her considering how she is treating everyone around her. Why does she get away with it? I check everyone here and myself as well. I have a reputation as a hard but fair person. If I'm wrong I admit it and apologize. If you're wrong I'm going to stick up for whoever is right.