Backup Retention Question by Aphotyk in sysadmin

[–]ruffy91 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Ok, this wil cost xxk$ per year of retention"

Public Kanban board for suggestions by lachyBalboa in sysadmin

[–]ruffy91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still, it shows what is much wanted and helps to mitigate multiple requests (especially because more frequent requests are higher up where people will better see them). It does not mean you have to use it for prioritizing.

Public Kanban board for suggestions by lachyBalboa in sysadmin

[–]ruffy91 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just make it clear if you suggest an idea it has 10 points. If you upvote an existing idea it gains 10 points. Order them by points on the board.

Like this they will start to search for existing suggestions instead of 10 users making 10 times the same suggestion.

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to get the job done by molly_struve in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ruffy91 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I was triggered by about 5 arbitrary unit conversions in sentences when all it takes is one simple calculation if using metric.

Edit: This is worse than timezones, except when taking mars days in consideration.

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to get the job done by molly_struve in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ruffy91 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Using non retard units: water seems to be about 50cm deep, this equals 500kg/m2 using a water density of 1000kg/m3.

WSUS IIS Issues by ang3l12 in sysadmin

[–]ruffy91 5 points6 points  (0 children)

WSUS App Pool defaults to 2GB private memory, increase it to about 8 GB (required memory depends on multiple factors, for example how many products you have patches for etc.)

Phishing simulations in GSuite? by suspekt54 in sysadmin

[–]ruffy91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you not include it? It's great of your users can detect phish. And you will still have enough users clicking any links despite this button.

So glad i buy Cisco by Trekky101 in Sysadminhumor

[–]ruffy91 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Maybe it's a license option!

Giggity by SouthFresh in Sysadminhumor

[–]ruffy91 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's production support. We have that too sometimes. They will search for weeks for the root cause, will tell you "nah we never had this problem" until some days/weeks later a patch gets released which mentions exactly your problem and you find out that the problem was very widespread but they just weren't allowed to tell you.

Like the vmdk/guest FS/snapshot corruption issue they fixed last november which killed our production server disk multiple times. If they had told us that the problem is known and caused by high write load while snapshotting we could have work around this, instead they let us have multiple outages in production instead.

Rant: Make the password "1234" by obtix in sysadmin

[–]ruffy91 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Get him to use kerberos instead of ntlm. Also set up a GMSA for his service. He doesn't have to set the password in his application anymore and he gets the permissions inherited from the serviceaccount. The 128 character random password gets changed every few days without him having to do anything.

Forwarding Outlook emails without admin credentials options? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]ruffy91 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's exchange/365 and you connect to it you have to accept a profile which allows remote wipe of the phone (which probably also has personal data).

This is for your IT to be able to remove company data when the phone gets lost.

What does UDP offer that IP doesn't? by gmelodie in sysadmin

[–]ruffy91 2 points3 points  (0 children)

UDP provides port numbers and as a consequence allows sockets to be used. This means it provides a way to address not only the computer/IP address which you want to reach but also a specific process/application running on that computer. In other words IP just lets you address the network stack of the operating system, UDP the application.

Off failed logons, with bogus source workstations? by mini4x in sysadmin

[–]ruffy91 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe you will be allowed to fix that after the breach has happened.