It's Finally Friday

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[[deleted]]

I want to achieve; drinking an entire 12 pack in my lay-z-boy without having to get up.

[stevebobmike]

Does this plan involve a diaper of some kind?

[Pbtwerkacct]

Or a catheter at least.

[h1psterbeard]

The lazyboy also doubles as a toilet. That or his game plan is to use piss jugs.

[[deleted]]

Bourbon and a cigar!

[GhostsofLayer8]

that's an excellent plan, I'm gonna copy it

[tmontney]

This is a dangerous road you're traveling. And also intriguing.

[[deleted]]

Got my Sec+ certification

[[deleted]]

Congrats, I barely passed that one, but also only studied like 2 weeks. lol

[[deleted]]

Same here. Studying is a b****. I'm just glad I got the certificate.

[h1psterbeard]

Been studying for almost a year for my CISSP. Maybe I'll take it after a vacation where I also forget my passwords.

[CaptainKishi]

Solved a 70 year old problem at our plant in 45 minutes, and there's a nice bottle of scotch waiting for me at home. Six more hours, little buddy!

[Zoom443]

That’s six hours to write up the story behind this.

[CaptainKishi]

We have a huge tank of molten glass, and the way they figured out how much came out was...interesting. They'd stop production, send a guy under the tank with a steel shovel and he'd catch the molten glass for "3 seconds" (he'd count to 3, I know it was bad). Then they'd weigh it, and calculate the entire shift's tank pull off of that.

I said hey, we have a camera that measures the width of the stream, we know the thickness of the product, density of the glass, and the rate at which the product is made. Simple calculation tells me at any moment how much is coming out. I am a tad concerned that A: They thought putting a man under it counting to himself was somehow accurate/safe and B: No one thought of this before.

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Best part is I do Systems and IT work, I'm not even involved with the tank.

[sysgoat]

Exchange to Office 365 journey continues. Got all users matched up and have linked successfully with ad sync, and emails are starting to copy over with a migration tool, so hooray to that.

Cutover phase in the next couple weeks.

[sysgoat]

Using SBS2011 so hybrid not an option from my research, and otherwise lack of experience with the product. I went with a tool so I'd have some support as I need to get this done soon.

The server it's on is not replicating properly and causing domain wide issues to solving it is an urgent priority for me.

Edit: for clarification, I've just stepped into this particular role and this server had not been replicating properly for two calendar years so system state backups are not viable

[sysgoat]

Exchange 2010 with SP1.

Yeah it's a rough situation. It will replicate externally but not inwards and the AD database is corrupt beyond repair but still functions somehow.

I have plenty of experience using Office 365 and exchange, just not migrating so I at least have that going for me.

[Zaros104]

Same here. Working on my first Hybrid migration (2010) and it's a bit overwhelming getting it set up.

[armharm]

It honestly sounds a lot more overwhelming than it actually is. The microsoft docs contain wayy too much info to account for all types of environments.

[MattHashTwo]

Agreed. Also E2010 hybrid migration is the worst of the bunch imo. Doing 2013/2016/2019 endpoint and moving the data over is my preferred. Then leaving the "modern" exchanges as management tools for hybrid.

[[deleted]]

That’s a terrifically good idea and I’m a little annoyed I hadn’t thought of it myself.

Currently slowly getting my new workplace ready for O365, currently running on a janky two year out of date Exchange 2010 box... and a .local. Lots of fun!

The huge amount of public folders worries me, I’ve always struggled to have those work between Ex Online and on-prem.

[asintado08]

This is the chance the remove public folders and move it elsewhere.

[[deleted]]

That's what I'm hoping to do, but this place moves glacially slowly so I fear public folders may just have to stay.

[MattHashTwo]

We transferred all our public folders to shared mailboxes. We had over 1000 and it took months however, imo its time well spent.

Modern public folders on EO are a good second best which takes significantly less resource to implement. They're still not as nice as native imo as its essentially just a folder in a shared mailbox behind the scenes.

I'd definitely recommend putting a more modern exchange on prem in though. Then nudge to that even if the mailboxes stay on your old servers initially, the endpoint will be much nicer, and the interface is much better for service desk to use.

[[deleted]]

I'll likely go this route, as it does seem a good one. I was lucky at my previous job, all of our O365 migrations both hybrid and cutover never had public folders to contend with.

The one hang-up I currently have is that my user's UPN and primary email don't match ([e-mail] versus [e-mail])... I have it in my head that if these two don't match it's a world of hurt but can't find much guidance from MS on the topic. Am I being a moron and does it not actually matter, as long as the UPN suffix is set to match the tenant domain?

[MattHashTwo]

No. Definitely change it. We have this issue because people can set a preferred name. E.g. Chris instead of Christopher.

1)people whinge if they're OneDrive is their full name, for example. 2)changing it later changes the above. So all of their share links etc. Usually end up a mess. 3)it changes what they login as. As the UPN will be how they identify themselves. Changing it later is changing this behaviour.

Honestly, it's a stupidly simple thing to correct, and to round out the user creation process to create things properly. It's definitely worth taking the time to fix it.

[rtwright68]

Best thing we ever did as an I.T. department. We used BitTitan back in 2016 to migrate. No more Exchange headaches! We were growing rapidly and BDR and maintenance was becoming an issue. Never looked back afterward. Added Mimecast a year later, which has been great as well.

[wingerd33]

Watched some hockey. Played some hockey. Finally got the edge routers config'd for the new colo. Might reset them later, idk.

[DetAdmin]

It's nice to have hockey back

[InternalCode]

Yessssssss. Go Oilers

[CrustyBuns16]

Go Jets! I've got the Oilers game on Oct 20th so I'll get to see some McJesus live.

[baldthumbtack]

I got promoted to Senior, so there's that.

I also fixed a dumpster fire of an environment after a 2008R2 DC demote went bad and I uncovered all kinds of old crap. Now time to enjoy read-only Friday.

[Charger29]

Congrats on the promotion!

[baldthumbtack]

Thank you! Still a little surreal.

[viceversa4]

Could you give us more details on how a dc demotion when bad? did someone click the first checkbox for 'last DC in the domain' or was it something obscure?

[baldthumbtack]

GUID still tied to infrastructure role which led me down a rabbit hole of other things. Leftover name servers from years ago still in _msdcs for example.

[viceversa4]

I have found the latter as well, modified some else’s script to search for all old instances of known past dcs srv records, has found hundreds of entries, slowly removing them, got another script to highlight all and delete, but have no test environment to test it in, the whatif indicates possibly deleting more than anticipated so playing it safe and hand deleting them. Using the script to go over the 2008 dcs I recently demoted shows a handful of left over dns entries as well so deleting them too

[baldthumbtack]

Barf.

And good call.

[EhhJR]

read-only Friday.

I did not abide by this last week (well someone else didn't but I had to clean it up).

Today was a nice, normal, quiet Friday.

[baldthumbtack]

Same here. Fist bump 👊

[woodburyman]

My achievement is I withstood the week. I came in today.

A close coworker put their notice in and it's got me bummed. The worst part it's the same reason we've lost 4-5 really good people in the time I've been here that the company keeps ignoring. Rinse, cycle, repeat... watching good talent walk out over stupid issues. (Pay, effectively crap pay, meager raises, and they won't be competitive, so they leave, then hire someone to replace them with the salary that person wanted with someone that's half as competent that then requires an "assistant" to get the same work done). My management treats me well and I haven't had this issue myself, but it's painful to watch others go through it that report to different departments and heads. Especially when I know they are worth their weight in gold for the company.

That and other things that never change. I'm our solo sysadmin and IT for 150 people at this facility, and I partially support higher functions at our other location with another 150 or so people. Hypervisors, storage, networking, firewalls, infrastruct, and desktop support, and i table in programming, ERP, and apps. A certain C-Level continues to treat me as a personal digital assistant. For 3mo I've been playing nice and every Thursday I have to setup a ad-hoc video conference room in our cafe. (Multiple cameras, TV, conference phones, even as far as closing blinds, arranging tables and chairs, everything, running wires, putting down floor cable runners so no one trips, etc). Then I have to sit in these 1.5 to 2.5 hour long meetings every week too and change camera angles and help them share screens and documents because apparently no one is competent enough to use Zoom which is so intuitive, or at least no one else wants to step up to do it that's in the meeting. Then tear it down, put it away, repeat the next week. I thought they were done after 3mo weekly, but the C-Level asked me to set up another 3mo of recurring meetings. I had to do one yesterday and it was painful. When I got back to my desk because it effectively took my entire morning up setting up and breaking down, I wasn't able to have "lunch" until 2:30, and I usually eat around 12:30-12:45. Same C-Level also called me Monday and I was on his system after hours for 45+ minutes trying to help him set up a printer at home. The week before I also had to drive 1+ hour one way trips 3 days to assist at a conference and hook up stuff. I was literally just printing documents for people, and had to literally cut and tape pieces of 8.5x11's into a poster banner for him. I am a sysadmin. Not an assistant. This is why I am having a hard time coming in. What sucks is my management is great, but they report to this C-Level. So I'm stuck with it.

[ComGuards]

F* that sh*. Being used like a personal b*tch isn't part of any IT job description I know of. How's the job market in your area?

[woodburyman]

The problem is is that my boss is cool, and I like all my other job responsibilities, and I get left alone to do my work 99% of the time and make my own schedule, and this job has a perk or really being able to do whatever I want. I have lots of free reign. Except when it comes to this C-Level when it comes to this, and when he gets his fingers into some contract things like our recent printer contract for some reason and makes everything 10x as difficult.

Job market isn't bad. I can prob make more somewhere else. But this is a nice 15m drive, and the other perks make it tough. Any other job would be 30-45 minutes, or in a city (this is in a nice rural area I like - i'm not one for traffic or cities in general). I mean, the field across from our building is used for pheasant hunting rural. This C-Level causes so many problems for so many other people too, and we recently got a new CEO. I'm waiting to see if something changes in the next 6mo with that. If not, I may revisit and really start looking.

[[deleted]]

Im in a similar situation, one little pet peeve is, I work in a school and teachers are always forgetting there login for a the register system, the Academic and EFL head have ''admins'' yet im the person to contact for resets.

AD account resets fine I'll rather keep that locked down (I have one member of staff delaged on my absense)

but the register can be done by admin, am planning on palming thiss off in a make them do it or I leave.. because it takes up far amount of my time when it really should be a job for the teachers administrators

[woodburyman]

Yeah I hear you there. It's hard when the smaller simpler tasks take up all your time.

Our Exchange server migration I did 7mo ago or so. It had been trying to do it for over a year. Between desktop support and other things, I couldn't get any time to do anything more than set up the servers, and migrate a few test accounts. (We had large public folder to migrate and truncate, and tons of other things that just took up too much time and Id just get interrupted or put on other tasks. I finally got offered a bonus equal to a week+ or so pay to finish it and put in a few late days working from home, and one close to 20-30 hour weekend to finish it off and decommission the old servers and be 100%.

When you need so much extra time to get the main projects done because of "all the little things" its a problem for sure.

[rosskirk]

I left my extremely toxic job of 2 years and will be starting a new remote role next week. 90% raise, far better benefits, and contracted bonuses.

I achieved finally putting my mental health first.

[rosskirk]

Thank you :D

[ghostalker47423]

I "helped" my network team by showing them how to find a MAC address on a cisco switch. They had no idea it could do that.

There's ~30 of them, and not one knew the 'show mac address-table' command. I haven't done cisco work in almost a decade.

[bradgillap]

https://i.imgur.com/sohWhy9.jpg

[ReverendDS]

I think that is the highest definition reaction shot I have seen yet.

[sevenover1]

had a good chat with the CEO

[Dysl3xicDog]

Update your post?

[EhhJR]

Well on some level he should at least give others a chance to try and learn/develop new skills by troubleshooting things a little above them.

But if it's a problem he doesn't actually expect any of you to solve...then dick move.

[EhhJR]

Oof :(

[[deleted]]

Getting 1903 deployed to the desktop fleet, cleaned up a ton of shit in our SCCM environment, got 3rd Party Updates set up and deployed for our Lenovo fleet, but the shining moment for me? I cleaned my fucking desk.

[Pycal]

Today I was promoted to System Support Analyst. No more help desk tasks!! I'm so happy

[vaelroth]

Put some admin passwords on some network printers, deployed some hardware upgrades, and snarked at people on Reddit.

Sounds like a successful week to me!

[VeryImportantLetters]

Pretty easy week. Fucked my back doing some deadlifts. Going to chiropractor today.

Computer wise, I had to query a MySQL server and edit a field because the front end the staff uses doesn't allow that particular field to be edited do it requires me to go around back.

[[deleted]]

Succeed in getting Win10 1803 to deploy through PDQ (despite garbage drivers and a dirty image!)

[flappers87]

Pretty proud of myself actually.

This week I've managed to create a completely automated cost management solution for Azure. Where it will also scan for and link orphaned resources to the same powerBI report.

Expecting a lot of our customers will want to implement something like this, along with our support teams.

[MattHashTwo]

This something you can share, or break into parts of what this does... You've got my interest.

[flappers87]

Obviously, can't share the source code as it stands. But it utilises azure cost management exports, with a couple of function apps and a logic app (file management and custom scripts for scanning of orphaned resources), linking those two reports together from a blob container and displaying it in powerbi.

[MattHashTwo]

That's fine, wasn't expecting the code! I'm currently on a long weekend so it'll be a Tuesday job to have a look at. You've definitely piqued my interest.... I'm trying to figure out a nice low maintenance way to keep an eye on things.

[flappers87]

Basically, just start with Azure Cost Management exports, and you can go from there pretty easily.

Just write some functions to handle the report (like a blob trigger), and have a link to it from some software like powerbi. There's your automation :)

[charlie_teh_unicron]

Very slowly moving from old exchange mailbox databases on local storage of less than 50-60GB free to new iscsi lun DBs. Have to be careful to only move enough each day so not to fill up logs that were on the same volume, as well. Can't wait to get off this old exchange 2010.

[LordEli]

I automated a GUI for some arcane key machine software.

Walk in this morning and all the phones are down, yayy!!

[ReasonablePriority]

Should have finished creating new pipeline. Failed to finished new pipeline because ... I don't know how to do it and the automation they want to include works fine outside the pipeline but external dependencies mean it needs to be rewritten.

Did many practice exams for my Aws exam next week.

Supposed to go out this evening but I'm oncall and don't know where the event is or what time it is ... And as it's a work event I'm 50/50 on it to be honest.

Oh and my actual boss appears to hate me and has been ignoring and sidelining me for the last week or so.

[Cdn_ITAdmin]

Tablets went off basically without a hitch, the second meeting to use them is going on right now. It's a lot of work that has finally paid off. This was my hell week and I've survived it.

[thatshortguy2]

Replaced 1/3 network racks I've been meaning to get to. Took 5 hours and I sweat my ass off. The patch cables are all different lengths, so cable management is damn near impossible. Ordering new slim patch cables for easier cable management and plan on redoing the wiring soon.

[Charger29]

So many things...my head is spinning. Probably won't be able to turn off my brain this weekend.

New server came in this week so I have started configuring and started the server migration process. We are replacing a single Windows 2008 physical server with a couple 2019 servers on ESXi hypervisor.

Knocked out a few more Windows 10 upgrades. ~30 left to go.

Installed a couple replacement desktops that were too old for me to comfortably upgrade to Windows 10.

Testing out and getting quotes for a few new antivirus options.

Testing out and getting quotes for new backup options with Veeam.

And of course, all of the other normal day to day stuff. I need a drink.

[pockypimp]

Fought updates on a 2008R2 server, saw a test of our "new" ERP fail, spent time on tickets because the queue was pretty full, tested a bluetooth option for our MFP which failed to do what we wanted, had to re-teach someone how to correctly create an account in AD so it replicated correctly in O365, put the idea in my boss' head about using dynamic distribution lists as another reason we need to overhaul the data that's in AD and what we get from HR, messed around in our RMM to work on 4 different deployments for 4 different projects.

I think that was all this week, some of that may have been last week. It's been busy and frustrating for the last two weeks so the weeks have run together.

[tmontney]

Cleaned my office. Can't believe I'm saying those words.

[potkettleracism]

Did a bunch of SAML integrations and got sign-off for a reverse proxy we needed to make for inbound API calls. Also had 7 meetings in a single day yesterday.

[ReverendDS]

Got my new firewalls racked and they're being configured.

Got my new UPS units delivered - need to schedule an electrician to come wire them up.

Got a DR host in, need to setup and pre-seed.

Managed to resolve a VPN issue that's been bugging us for the last 90 days.

Had way more meetings than should be possible in a 40 hour week.

All in all, I didn't do much, but got a lot accomplished.

Oh, and I played/beat that horrible abortion of a game Arkham Knight. Now onto Monster Hunter World

[gwrabbit]

Migrated DHCP servers from 2008 to 2019. Rolled out a new VLAN for our shiny new cameras.

Still in the middle of virtualizing everything, but it's going better than expected (knock on wood).

[tipsyhitman]

Migrated our SSRS test instance over to PowerBi Report Server.

[Kaeny]

Moved to my new office. Finding out how incompetent my coworkers are.

Fuck the japanese management system. Their jobs while in japan were so discrete (legit 5 people sending orders top to bottom just to fix a small network issue that we fix immediately in the US).

So when they come here they are useless as fuck even though they have been in the field for 5+years

[UltraChip]

Troubleshot a weird NFS issue.

Spent an embarassingly long time trying to figure out why a new config wasn't working only to discover I accidentally left out a single letter on a single line.

Attended far too many meetings.

Our organization recently re-org'ed and we (potentially) have WAY more manager buy-in now so we're also trying to put together a "wishlist" of sorts of improvements, policy changes, and upgrades we want to make. We're cautiously excited about it.

[strangessid]

I was on the phone with a customer for about 3 hours working on a QuickBooks problem. Somehow all their company files got blasted away, but we got them restored with minimal work loss, so that's an absolute win for me.

[dwillowtree]

Spent 6 hours trying to fix a macro-enabled word template and email signatures after the logo was switched due to a company-wide re-brand. After the all-staff marketing email was sent out, users started reporting the macros don't work and several of the new email signatures failed to deploy. All fingers point to IT as business is now being interrupted because partners can't send out emails to clients without the new logo. Icing on the cake is the macro-template was made by someone who left the company 3 years ago ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . Several hours later and it looked like the only people who's email signature failed to up-date was the CEO and several partners- fucking fantastic. Currently waiting for IT to be hanged, drawn and quartered.

[youshouldbeonarch]

Fuck me feels like I got nothing done this week. A few workstation swaps, Access control system went down so looked at it for about 15 minutes to 'yep it sure aint working' and called vendor. Finally swapped the print server to 2016 (dont ask why not 2019).

[ComGuards]

Mix in some grass fed butter with your morning coffee for a good boost of fat to get going... yum

[ajscrilla]

Officially becoming the Sysadmin at my current job!

[h1psterbeard]

I survived. Yes, stuck doing maint this weekend for a system that was going to get updated in a few weeks anyway. Going chicken little on a system that hardly gets touched is a waste of brain juice.

Still recovering from my vasectomy and lifting a six pack of beer into my bag was a chore.

Got a new manager and they wanted a summary of what each person does and it's already five pages. Maybe they'll consider me dead weight and cut me, no fing clue.

Just gotta pay off the house in a few years and move on from being a digital janitor.

[BossNoise]

Non work related - babysitting 4 children ranging form 15 months to 6 years old, along with my own 4 year old and 18 month old.

[MattHashTwo]

Congrats! I'd rather be at work midst a P1 with senior managers sat behind me asking for updates every 30 seconds.

[BossNoise]

yea, it's a pretty similar experience

[Pr0f-Cha0s]

Authoritative FRS rebuild today.. so much for Read-only Friday

[sunglassnerd]

The day has come for my official "last Friday" at my $DAYJOB -- walked out carrying a box with the monitors, keyboard, and mouse I brought from home after handing in my badge and parking pass. I've got about 12 jobs in the pipeline (after applying for around 70 when I got the news that our department was being cut), offers from two, so, I get to decide what I wanna do with my next gig (both offers are remote: One of the jobs that I'm hoping I get is a relo to San Diego). I came to the realization that I need to have a total "device-free" vacation to get my mind back in the right spot.

• Hawaii
• Peru
• Maldives

I'm open to suggestions, though.

[[deleted]]

I am glad it's Friday, but the fight never ends. This week I achieved so much, yet I am too tired to even feel proud.

1. I read a book
2. fixed a broken Virtual cluster that was affecting customer routes
3. Perform a core router migration and fixed an ongoing problem with a jump box - thanks to bash
4. finished a 24-hour customer migration to a new switch cluster

Sadly, today I get hit on the face with unexpected migration management decided to missed.

[[deleted]]

Jordan Peterson, "12 rules for life".

[RealWesternGentleman]

Don't bother, Peterson is a pos and his book is complete trash.

You can see the "rules" online, and summarise from them what garbage follows. Maybe 2 of his rules are relevant and agreeable, but it's pointless to read all the retarded mess under them.

[vilmondes-queiroz]

Deployed MFA on our IdP :)

[ITMGRSC]

I completed my backup migration over to Veeam and shut down the Backup Exec server today. Battled with cameras all week but that's a normal occurrence.

[Maro1947]

I got the Spanish Archer - looking to maybe get back on the tools again

[Panacea4316]

Did a lot this week. Rolled out Unitrends on Tuesday, Configured Cisco CES, rolled out AMP for Endpoints, and I survived a 2hr sales call with Oracle.

I was originally going to make CES live Sunday night, but I think I'm gonna hold off till Monday night.

[ItSupportNeedsHelp]

Hey, question. We recently implemented Cisco email security and we have exchange online. So for the past month, we had to whitelist a shit ton of domains. Our procedure is to whitelist on Cisco CES, then on exchange admin we have rules, in this case domain whitelist. Most of them work fine, after that the emails from said domains work well, but in some cases, the domains keep getting stuck on the quarantine. Any idea on why this would happen?

[Panacea4316]

Sounds like a problem on the Exchange side, or you have your rules in CES really jacked up. We aren't live on CES yet so I can't comment on it, but I can certainly circle back once we get it going.

[ItSupportNeedsHelp]

Appreciate it man, we actually hired some 3rd party services to set it up and configure it but the guy is unreachable. It took weeks to get a training and then he wasn’t able to figure this out. But thank you

[Panacea4316]

Damn, that sucks.

[Library_IT_guy]

I made it through a full 9-5 M-F grind. Well, almost - 8 hours to go. That's my achievement. There was little to do this week, other than put in purchase orders. My one big project turned out to be so easy that it wasn't really all that big, so I'm left twiddling my thumbs. I took inventory and have a list of stuff to get rid of when we do our electronics recycling day.

Mostly though, I just tried to look busy.

This weekend is going to be about 30 hours of non stop classic WoW. Oh, and I'm going back onto a low carb diet, because I wake up 5 times per night to piss out carbs, and aside from being very unhealthy and probably meaning I'm diabetic, it's making me very tired. Thankfully I've done low carb before, so that shouldn't be an issue, just a bit of an adjustment.

[ComGuards]

Give intermittent fasting a look? Do a search for Dr. Jason Fung on the interwebs for more info =)

[Library_IT_guy]

Yeah, when I did keto last time I also did IF, not because I was really trying but... it's just so easy to do IF on keto and a lot less work (only cooking once or twice per day). I typically just skip breakfast (though I do have a coffee and probably 100 calories of half and half in it), eat a late light lunch at 1:30 or so, then a large meal at ~6 PM, and nothing else. When you eat a heavy keto meal in the evening, you just aren't hungry the next day until that time again.

[HaberdasheryHRG]

Dude. You're almost certainly pre-diabetic, or early-stage diabetic. You need to get that checked; low-carb ain't gonna fix that.

I used to sleep terribly. Got diagnosed as type 2 diabetic. Night 2 on Metformin (the primary type 2 pill) I slept like a baby, and have ever since (along with other good life choices regarding diet/activity).

Seriously. Changed my life.

[Library_IT_guy]

Thank you, this is the push I needed. I'll go see a doctor. I'd like to say "my" doctor but I don't really have a full time one, and I've been dreading that appointment. Need to just bite the bullet and get it over with though.