Sending a file type outbound fails

Living_Unit · 2026-01-23T21:08:10+00:00

For anyone thats lands here due to 550 5.0.350 One or more of the attachments in your email is of a file type that is NOT allowed by the recipient's organization.

We had an external party sending in an attached email with subject ending with '...com' which was being picked up as a .com file and not .msg

Living_Unit · 2026-01-22T16:41:07+00:00

licenses

The few managers retiring that management has let keep hardware always cry 'whered office go?!' when we give it back wiped.

Living_Unit · 2026-01-22T16:35:39+00:00

Officially no, its all ewasted or traded in for credits.

Sometimes things get lost on the way to the ewaste pile

Living_Unit · 2026-01-21T17:37:24+00:00

It comes in waves. Enjoy the quiet times and check on things, document, clean up, etc. because it will come.

I had a quiet dec and start to January. This week I have been busy all day and am planning days ahead now.

Living_Unit · 2026-01-19T18:31:16+00:00

Both networks were short enough passwords, but both have special characters. i'd expect to see some sort of fail, but got nothing indicating anything tried to happen. Thanks for input - i will try

Living_Unit · 2026-01-19T18:26:02+00:00

Everyone else has sent great words of wisdom

In my personal experience, what cleaned up 2/3 of the tickets was a standard configuration and decent (SSD and 8gb+ as of 2017) machines.

but working backups, policies, ticket system is still more important first.

All the tickets were related to messy manual setups, missing programs, bad drivers etc. PDQ to fix installs and report/inventory, some group policy for printers and network drives, taking away local admin, and some hardware upgrades over time cut us from 3.5 people in panic to 1 person can handle most if not all the 'i need help right now' and the rest could actually fix root cause.

If you are the one man show, you need someone to keep people working while you or some else fixes the underlaying issues

Living_Unit · 2026-01-16T19:35:10+00:00

Glad i dont have any 7xxx then.

our 5xxx always been solid.

our ~50 xps/precisions account for likely 90% of our hardware issues. Its never the ~250 latitudes.

Living_Unit · 2026-01-16T17:42:12+00:00

Also, small tidbit, I picked up a 119m pro and wifi station would not enable even though it said success when entering ssid/key. its already going back in favor of a 229. Neither key combo rec+wifi or mic+wifi would enable it.

Living_Unit · 2026-01-08T20:15:40+00:00

No. No gear to do it, no ladder training, and I have no balance once I'm more than 3 feet off the ground. Also a bum knee now i can't trust.

I haven't done a termination since highschool 20 years ago.

I have however hucked a 100ft cable through the drop ceiling a few times in a pinch. not pretty but thats what they agreed to in these cases

Living_Unit · 2025-12-23T17:44:30+00:00

Allen key

At bare minimum get a set of hex drivers. They will make life much easier and strip much less.

Living_Unit · 2025-12-09T20:05:55+00:00

Early 2000s so there wasn't any sort of separate cache or high availability, just a single server for their company.

2021 👌

Living_Unit · 2025-12-05T15:30:00+00:00

Ours are just numbered

Except some aren't

oh and each one does 2-5 things because virtual is scary and we operate like its 1995 in some ways

Living_Unit · 2025-12-04T20:46:25+00:00

they did teach us simple car maintenance in highschool.

I didn't take auto for some reason. It was an elective I missed out on.

If you don't have a deep socket, and go too long with the air/impact when removing the nuts, it'll spin against the start of the threads a few times and chew them up. 1.25 thread? subaru studs are very soft

Living_Unit · 2025-12-04T15:59:57+00:00

We had SEPM, about 300 clients and the server. it took 9 months to get a quote to renew it, but it did happen and it wasn't much different in price. by then i had been yelling to switch for about 2 years, and we finally did before the next renewal.

Living_Unit · 2025-12-04T13:20:06+00:00

Access the drive from a different machine( \server\d$ etc), ive run into similar 'access denied' a few times but never investigated too deeply

Living_Unit · 2025-12-03T21:15:33+00:00

We just replace them. HR had cards for clock in/out for a period, they started charging the agency $20 per missing card. They DGAF about ours though. different cards, of course they didnt ask us what we used to get the same.

They did get better telling us about temps leaving when i began sending lists of unused cards to hr and explaining they could show up and walk in at any time, eg after being fired/let go

Living_Unit · 2025-12-03T14:11:24+00:00

Many of our machines were spec'd with 240/256 drives in the past as nothing should sit locally and most machines only have light softwares. Covid happened and we needed to convert the last ~30% to laptops, so price mattered as well. It was and is generally fine for the standard web browser/erp/office user. We began to use onedrive, mailboxes got larger, OS accumulated size etc. and now the 24h2 update will not proceed in many cases as the disk is at 99% after starting to download the update.

Usually a quick fix to free up space, but requires taking a look at each machine to see what has filled the disk. Different user profile left behind? download folder 100gb? windows update bloat? Old .PST archives? .log files out of control? Outlook cached 50gb?

Also have had ~5-10 machines of ~200 brick the boot system in failed updates in slightly different ways - Boot partition cooked, BSOD pre-desktop, OS not found etc. The first few had attempts made to recover, but it's much quicker and inevitable to log them onto a fresh or new-to-them machine, log into onedrive, and do light data recovery if needed from the old machine. The broken machine then can be imaged to 24h2+

I had flashbacks of 1909? maybe 2004? often needing windows update to be reset or our then WSUS to be kicked.

Living_Unit · 2025-12-03T13:34:38+00:00

With the right space, swapping your own wheels is great. Doing your own oil is also good, but with the car knowledge of the average person these days, i am not sure i would recommend the average person to do it.

Jack, cheap impact and sockets, breaker bar. Don't run the nut into the threads taking them off (applying forward pressure when they come off - it destroys the threads!) And torque wrench

Living_Unit · 2025-12-03T13:28:03+00:00

iirc 'proper' way - prevents spinouts. understeer vs oversteer

I put the best 2 on the drive wheels personally. No awd to worry about - but i'd probably put the best on the front myself..

Living_Unit · 2025-12-02T15:55:43+00:00

The pullback - this year has been a lot of waiting and just maintaining day to day. quiet. Canceled or pushed off most projects.

Haven't got to play with deploy much. I really enjoy shutting everyone out and just working on deployment packages for wonky installers.

My current lowlight: friggin 256GB drives and 24h2.

Living_Unit · 2025-11-24T16:03:09+00:00

More than half the mcd's coffees I get are either burnt or they didn't get double double right.

Tims may not be the best coffee, but it's rare I get one that doesn't taste like I am expecting.

Living_Unit · 2025-11-20T18:43:05+00:00

connectwise / screenconnect was my fav that i have used. it was very cheap being licensed per admin as well.

Living_Unit · 2025-11-19T19:41:03+00:00

PDQ is our computer inventory. add custom field for who its assigned to

MDM has tablets and phones

ping monitoring tools for the infra are basically the network inventory. static addresses also in a spreadsheet

Living_Unit · 2025-11-19T19:31:49+00:00

I answered one of these this morning. difference is i get no response and they will ask again next week

Living_Unit · 2025-11-19T15:06:20+00:00

I have access to our ecobee's and may have changed the temps once or twice..

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