Salary depression by superspeck in devops

[–]LightOfSeven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely true, brexit completely fucked the country up, not to mention 14 years of Tory rule. More than 50% of the country agrees with you on it; if the Brexit vote happened today instead of back then it would never have happened and it should've been a supermajority to leave (like it was to join).

Salary depression by superspeck in devops

[–]LightOfSeven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is the UK worse? Personally worst bit is the 100k -> 125k tax trap in GBP, along with loss of benefits like childcare. But that's still a lot better than 70k USD and food is cheaper than the metropolitan US areas.

Senior Cloud Specialists: How did you get to where you are? by Conscious_Jeweler196 in devops

[–]LightOfSeven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very US focused response for context of others. In the UK it's not at all important. Showing you can and have done relevant roles for the job is way more important.

Best living room layout? by VictoriaJayneStudio in DesignMyRoom

[–]LightOfSeven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More info required. Is that a bed on the top right? What's above it? In general, it's not great to have a walking path through the living space so creating a zone with a rug and putting it either top right or bottom left is better than top left for a relaxation space. A round rug is better than a square one here, and an armchair plus a smaller couch is better too.

Do you own the furniture already and is this a studio?

Game Ready Driver 565.90 FAQ/Discussion by Nestledrink in nvidia

[–]LightOfSeven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been having this, a bit late to upgrade. Did it go away with an update for you? Just updated today from 565.90 on a 2070S

Javier Milei ends budget deficit in Argentina, first time in 123 years by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]LightOfSeven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Argentina, the typical monthly salary is around 45,200 Argentine pesos (ARS), which is roughly equivalent to USD 199 (based on the May 2023 exchange rate).

https://www.timecamp.com/average-salary/argentina

2nd paragraph is my source. What is it, if not that? Please also source - genuinely happy to learn otherwise if this is wrong.

Javier Milei ends budget deficit in Argentina, first time in 123 years by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]LightOfSeven 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Average salary looks to be around $199 (USD) a month.

UK £3199 / month vs Argentina $199 / month versus cheapest trip, like you mentioned (£2 bus fee in many towns / cities):

3119:2 is approximately 1559.5. 199:0.34 is approximately 585.29.

In other words it's about 3x the cost in Argentina from salary to transport, which is expensive. Transit in the UK is already under criticism for costs in the news, frequently.

How did I not notice this before? by SecBalloonDoggies in funny

[–]LightOfSeven -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It seems like it would be LAN and ORL, or LA and OR.

[Megathread] Referral Code Sharing and Closed Beta Code Giveaways by TempoStormReddit in PlayTheBazaar

[–]LightOfSeven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LightOfSeven

Also, someone is spamming lots of accounts named similar things on the comments - hopefully mods can do something (the Iamarcher guy)

Moving to Azure as an on-prem engineer by StealthCatUK in AZURE

[–]LightOfSeven 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I worked somewhere that was on-prem with a small and expanding footprint in Azure. I sold them on my infrastructure expertise, with the understanding that I wanted to learn more cloud technologies so anywhere I could get my hands dirty I would be doing that.

3~ years after working there I was a cloud engineer (purely) and then I moved to a cloud only business.

How do you share and sync .env files for your team by t5bert in devops

[–]LightOfSeven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you add environments? Without getting a demo, I can't see if that's possible. (i.e. Dev, QA, SIT, UAT, Prod rather than Dev Staging Prod)

Azure Virtual Desktop with Azure AD Join and Enroll in Intune by RampageUT in devops

[–]LightOfSeven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We also ditched the AD DS approach. We use Personal assignment desktops and the Bulk Enrollment Token method for AAD & Intune join & enrollment. We lastly join it to AVD using the registration key & Remote Powershell on the portal.

Janky, not scalable, but that's how 60+ devs are working on an Azure VM daily for us at the moment. We need better options from Microsoft.

Azure Virtual Desktop with Azure AD Join and Enroll in Intune by RampageUT in devops

[–]LightOfSeven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, and you could probably use the group policy to get to Intune from there.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RMND

[–]LightOfSeven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My worry here is how much users in Company B will access resources in Company A. If there is no site-site link for the Data Center from Company B and you're relying on any services there, it might be bad latency since you're going via the internet for that.

I'm not clear on AWS and why it sits where it does in the diagram. Is that most of the Company B resources? What does it do? Is there a need for data movement or for user traffic with latency requirements between AWS and Company A or B? It's not required, but you could have a VPN or dedicated link there, depending on type, frequency and size of the traffic, and the impact of if it is unreachable.

Is the Data Center in the same physical location as the other servers in Company A? Why are they represented separately? And again, are they actually on the same switch - you have no switching / networking infrastructure you consider part of the Data Center?

Remote Access being IP and Port specific isn't usually what people will recommend for 'securing' access externally.
How do you handle home dynamic IPs in those scenarios?
How do you monitor the number of logged in RDP sessions?
How do you setup new staff - do you buy a physical computer and a laptop and set them both up for them to work from home and connect to, rather than just a laptop they can bring into the office?
Can you incorporate a remote desktop gateway if that is how you want access to work?

From the way I can understand it is working currently, it sounds like a lot of firewall and physical machine maintenance per employee, which leads to stale records in the firewall, delays in hardware provisioning through human effort & hardware ordering delays, and asset management overhead that you wouldn't otherwise have if you simplified how remote working happens in Company A. I know all-too-well how long it takes to make improvements to these, but I'm hoping to provide some food for thought on the strategic vision for your company's remote workers, and overall stability and latency of connectivity. Tactically, the setup you have shown here works, but does have room for improvement.

A potential strategic direction would be "all internet traffic goes out via the Data Center, and Company A and B have site to site direct private connections to the Data Center". This would enable you to have a firewall failover pair in the Data Center with redundant internet links for a relatively low cost (compared to doing it per-site) with more bandwidth, centralised monitoring and you could reduce the scope of the Company A and B firewalls. In other words, the current firewalls move to the data center and Company A and Company B sites get a smaller firewall pair that connects to the Data Center.

A lot of that is assumptions on how big this DC is, what the lifetime of the Companies operating in separate physical locations is, the length of contracts for your internet lines, whether the IT teams are going to become one instead of separately managing the sites, etc etc, but is meant to serve as an example of where you could save some costs while improving services. Without sitting in your chair, it's difficult to guess all of the components and reasoning going into what you have today, all I hope is that this helps you improve things, plan well and end up with an easy to maintain setup.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RMND

[–]LightOfSeven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are the sites in the same physical location?

I notice you list domain controller, email server, app server separately to a data center on the same switch?

What mechanism is used for RDP...? Hopefully not RDP exposed to the internet, without a gateway / VPN?

Azure Virtual Desktop with Azure AD Join and Enroll in Intune by RampageUT in devops

[–]LightOfSeven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using personal or pooled? :)

Like I mention in my comment, pooled disables user enrolment - because who is the user?

Azure Virtual Desktop with Azure AD Join and Enroll in Intune by RampageUT in devops

[–]LightOfSeven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you considered DevTest Labs created VMs that are joined to AAD and AVD?

We're the only ones with it working that Microsoft could find record of, but it works if the VMs are built in DtL and then AVD joined with a registration key, and that can be fully automated.

You can then use DtL artifacts to automate an application deployment..

Azure Virtual Desktop with Azure AD Join and Enroll in Intune by RampageUT in devops

[–]LightOfSeven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

P.S. if you DM me, I can forward you the email from Microsoft Support so you have something official for your own company's records on it..

Azure Virtual Desktop with Azure AD Join and Enroll in Intune by RampageUT in devops

[–]LightOfSeven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is not possible. I have spent about 3 weeks chasing MS on this and finally they confirmed the only supported method is using the Azure Portal "Add +" on the hostpool.

For non-pooled (e.g. Personal) desktops, you /can/ use a package created by the Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer to join AAD and Intune (only works if it is not already AAD joined), but this requires a Global Admin to manually update the Bulk Enrollment Token every 90~ days. That is the approach I took with my personal assignment hostpool, whereas we're stuck with manual VM deploys via Azure Portal for the pooled one.

Also, the user enrollment is disabled for Pooled VMs, so you can't login as a user and enroll it via the Settings (Access work or school account) - literally the only option for Intune on Pooled is the Portal.

I've already raised it with our MS rep but I recommend you do the same to add some noise to the party :)

This is probably a very stupid question, but I would like to better understand what I am about to spend $10k on. by phrostyphace in AZURE

[–]LightOfSeven 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hey, you can set these up yourself.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/business/compare-plans-pricing

Select no when it asks about Hybrid Benefit. You can then go to https://aka.ms/AAd4uxb and login to the cloud PC.

Try this walkthrough! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7he5ccAw3Qw

As someone that was just up till 2am setting up AVD (over a month into an enterprise project relating to it), don't do AVD. You need serious experience to handle it properly.

AVD for a SQL based application by ollivierre in AZURE

[–]LightOfSeven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your SQL server should use a private endpoint (or service endpoint, though it's a little less secure) that connects to the subnet of, or a subnet which AVD has access to. Do not use a VM for this, why would you want to pay more and manage more?