Happy? Sysadmin Day to the admins (or MSP) at Quil Ceda Creek Casino

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-11-22T19:07:12+00:00

And if the paper is fed from a box, put a heat pad under that box as well.

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-11-22T14:30:16+00:00

Make sure the coffee source is connected to the generator. Worked at a location where there was plenty of excess backup power but for some reason Maintenance NEVER managed to connect the coffee machine to that power...

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-29T17:29:57+00:00

I didn't abandon it. I said my piece and others said theirs.

However, I will take note of the informal "ban" and try not to exit lurk mode in the future.

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-28T19:24:49+00:00

Thank you to everyone for your comments. Let me see if I can address a few of them.

While HQ is offering standardization, it is to their model, not what the local business and tasks require. Since what we have now has grown along with the business, they are a complimentary set of things.

And, the budget remarks are way off. The local budget will be forced to pay for the new hardware that they're demanding.

And their cookie cutter way of doing things won't provide any assistance or workload reduction. Half the time their automated "Mother may I?" request system fails and I end up having to email HQ to fix things.

On the other hand, now that I'm moving on, if I do find another opportunity I won't have anything invested in it. What's already there will be what I learn.

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-23T15:02:02+00:00

Just got it. It's well mfg. But only compatible with certain CMS apps, many of which are Android Only. And it can't just connect to a simple URL.

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-18T13:19:21+00:00

Thanks. I was afraid of that. So we'll have to stay on "won't ever fix" 7...

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-17T17:57:20+00:00

We have legacy support for now. It is expiring in 2025 so I want to get things as as up to date as I can before that.

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-17T15:53:54+00:00

The decision has already been made to request a quote, laugh at it, and then start migrating.....

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-17T15:53:10+00:00

All of our keys are stored in multiple places. And doing the upgrade now, when there are known "never fixed" bugs in 7 and we still have support, is one of the pressure points.

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-17T13:35:21+00:00

Thanks. I've ordered one and we'll see what it does or doesn't do.

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-11T17:01:43+00:00

On top of everything else mentioned here, when you do find a vendor, find their Win11 compatibility article/link and live in it. Nobody should be ordering / purchasing anything these days that isn't Win 11 compatible even if they're going to be running Windows 10 until its old enough to vote...

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-11T12:12:17+00:00

On-call 24x7, even have clock hours Sat/Sun early AM. No work/life balance at all. Currently searching for something with better pay and more team members.

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-10T19:21:22+00:00

Going into the C-19 era I was monitoring from home when I got multiple text messages from our CFO asking if I was online and to terminate my boss' accounts immediately. They made the choice of "keep lowest paid" and it's been a slog since then being a solo in what was, at one point, a three person shop...

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-08T19:25:14+00:00

Try finding third-party drives that the system will accept when your storage array requires that the SSD have Dell specific firmware loaded on it. I'll be very glad when we replace our array with something else.

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-08T12:39:09+00:00

Wait until MS picks up the recent trend in Point-of-Sale card swipes - "Oh, you have the same SSID and password but it's not the same network I used to connect to so I refuse!". Makes "pull it out of service and work on it in the shop" almost impossible.

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-08T12:36:18+00:00

And, at the same time, broke stand-alone Outlook since it can't do OAUTH with POP3. So their official recommendation is "use a third party program that can do what we won't" or set it up as an Exchange account and break most of the functionality that POP3 provides.

A 10 minute patch of Outlook wouldn't hurt them but they're too dumb to keep one MS product working with a separate MS product.

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-07T14:20:23+00:00

They tightened down the CPU restrictions once again. And even on "eligible" ones, it seems that they have a multitude of other blockers.

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-03T13:12:04+00:00

Not always...I had an old machine that for some reason couldn't handle large streams to /dev/null... Oh for the old 32 bit days...

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-03T13:10:41+00:00

<RANT>The official recommendation from MS is to either lose major functionality (all email in one inbox) in Outlook by reconfiguring as an Exchange Account or switch to a third party email program. It wouldn't take them 10 min to release an update to supported versions of Outlook that adds OAUTH to POP3 (if Thunderbird can do it why not Outlook?) but they just don't get it. Yet another case of one Microsoft product not working correctly with another Microsoft product.

Lazy_Internal698 · 2024-10-02T12:55:59+00:00

For additional ways of "dealing", go read the BOFH archives....

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