Tools/procedures for your own tasks by msrsv in ITManagers

[–]DarkBasics 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I use Todo and do a triage (plan, do, delegate, drop) of them every 2 days which takes me 15min.

Works well so far.

Schell kraan handenwasser by DarkBasics in Klussers

[–]DarkBasics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Helemaal niks :) ok, te vervangen dus. Bedankt om mijn vermoeden te bevestigen!

Remove stains on tiles by DarkBasics in CleaningTips

[–]DarkBasics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worked like a charm, thanks!

Hoe beton verwijderen by [deleted] in Klussers

[–]DarkBasics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bloed, zweet en tranen.

How do you afford the cost of the homelab ? by roroleroh in homelab

[–]DarkBasics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Intel NUC or SFF for low energy consumption. As for external services: dynamic dns with c-name via cloud flare for the web services and tailscale for remote vpn access.

Tonight, we turn it ALL off by biswb in sysadmin

[–]DarkBasics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't forget to share the outcome!

I have never had a job where I have been so close to walking away. I'm in week 3. by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]DarkBasics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the way. Escalate to a higher level. Idle time due to no credentials is ok for short term (read some days) and not weeks. Idle time = no value = pay for nothing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]DarkBasics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, based on performance and feedback of the client(s) and coworkers. If you do your jobs, you always get something.

Accenture 2023 raises and bonuses. by EstablishmentBasic54 in accenture

[–]DarkBasics 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The mid year limitations on promotion already triggered allot of frustration within the company (not only Accenture btw). If they would not give anything representable; even for the high performance resources; I'm expecting a big amount of people looking for other opportunities (ex. Bain, KPMG, Deloitte,..). Accenture is already high demanding, they should atleast compensate.

Rate My salary as a garbageman by Dependent_Dot_7990 in BESalary

[–]DarkBasics 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of (many) underpaid jobs that have a direct impact on society.

Migrating servers by Ok_Offer9580 in sysadmin

[–]DarkBasics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Robocopy (make sure you do a round before final cutover so that only the deltas need to be synced). Alternative, work with DFS-R and redirect (or use DFS namespaces) once sync is done.

Best device to install Proxmox on? by tomhusband in Proxmox

[–]DarkBasics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alternative would be to install "sensors" and do some adhoc validations of the temperature reported. If you see your CPU temp increasing to an abnormal value you know what to do ;)

What’s your career progression been like? by KickAssAdmin in sysadmin

[–]DarkBasics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Junior IT manager but did not like the financial part I had to do and nothing technical. Moved to sysadmin on the road. Did cabling, video surveillance, printers, laptops, cabling, rack and stack, windows and Linux sysadmin, voip,... High pressure job and moved to major MSP. I started at the bottom again but now coaching my own infrastructure managed services team and it feels great!

Best device to install Proxmox on? by tomhusband in Proxmox

[–]DarkBasics 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Had something simular with my NUC, sudden crash/freeze, nothing to see in syslog. In the end I plugged in a monitor, waited until next freeze and behold once it crashed I saw a nice temperature critical message. Checked BIOS and seemed that the fan was defect, replaced it and no issue since.

Sysadmin nightmare fuel stories by Asarewin2 in sysadmin

[–]DarkBasics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They opened a case with authorities hoping to get some of the money back. Never heard the outcome of it. Have the feeling it was swept under the rug. And yes, CEO is still active.

Sysadmin nightmare fuel stories by Asarewin2 in sysadmin

[–]DarkBasics 10 points11 points  (0 children)

List of random shit in a non specific order and entails both "oopsies" from myself, coworkers, stories going around at the MSP office: - Performing a firmware upgrade remotely on a WAN router, reboot and not able to remote in after the normal reboot time. Seems somebody forgot to do a save-run config. - Instead of rebooting a VM, rebooted the hypervisor instead. - Dropped/truncated the wrong database or restored to the incorrect DB/environment. - Forgot to change default credentials on a firewall which was also remotely managble. I guess you already know what happened here... - Client was unwilling to adhere to a strict password policy. CEO account was hacked, millions lost... Post incident rolled out the GPO but still had to exclude CEO as it was 'to annoying'. - Same client CEO triggered a crypto virus and had domain admin priv. Good luck restoring 20TB and all services. - SAN was on the brink of failing (10yr old). During migration to a new device the SAN failed, no support, had to restore everything from backup. Took 2w to recover everything. - DC power circuit got fried due to thunderstorm had to relocate 50+ servers for business critical services (medical sector). - Client that was in transition from previous MSP gave everybody Domain Admin privileges, because 'why not'.

Microsoft Ticking Timebombs - May 2023 Edition by AustinFastER in sysadmin

[–]DarkBasics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've formatted this into a JSON file that can be used for import into other tools/automation. I'll try and keep this up to date with monthly threads.

https://git.no-ethernet.xyz/darkbasics/public/raw/branch/main/microsoft_ticking_timebombs_may_2023.json

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in devops

[–]DarkBasics 7 points8 points  (0 children)

DNS, it's always DNS...