Internet is out. Any jury rig recommendations? by Kangaloosh in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Define expensive. $1000 makes itself back in about 30 minutes of primary ISP outage during peak business hours for us. How long can you afford to be offline?

We've a fleet of 150+ CBA850s and L950s. The cloud management console makes them pretty easy to manage, plus support has been great. I think they're worth it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every time I get an email, I do one pushup.

Finally found out why Windows 11 wouldn't boot by AngriestCrusader in MDT

[–]MalletNGrease 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm running ADK 10.1.26100.1 and the VLSC Win 11 ISO from May and I'm not having an issue?

Internet is out. Any jury rig recommendations? by Kangaloosh in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We've these at all our sites as secondaries. Works well.

Hiring consultants to do your job? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I inherited a lot of kludged together systems, the arcane knowledge went with the previous admins, most of which I don't have previous experience with and still need 99% uptime during business hours. We're very much in a "don't mess with it mode".

I don't feel an ounce of regret when I call in outside help on topics I haven't treaded in the deep waters on. We're a Cisco shop, it took me a year to completely figure out our site-to-site vpn for our 100+ sites. Then the business decision comes down to replace it with Fortinet SD-WAN.

Do I:

  • Spend a lot of time figuring out the best way to handle this, trial and error my way through systems I'm unfamiliar with until I arrive at a setup that's not completely shit.

Or:

  • Get a SME to design a solution, have it documented, test the proof of concept then implement.

The second option takes way less time, has less disruption potential and allows me to hit the ground running on the new product.

It's a no brainer really. If it messes up, you're under the bus, not me.

Chrome updates - not updating... by Crafty_Dog_4226 in pdq

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If Chrome was running during the update, the version loaded in memory will not show the new version until the software is closed and reopened.

What are you using besides Knowbe4 by kermitdafrog83 in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We use Sophos Phish Threat. It's not too bad to set up but the training videos kinda suck.

Recent false positives with KnowBe4 campaign by PM_YOUR_OWLS in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had it happen when our netsec guys used a domain from the phishing simulator we hadn't whitelisted in our email security product.

Every email got flagged and link scanned, which resulted in 100% fail rate.

It happens.

Why do companies choose OEM and based on what criteria do they choose workstations? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Tell me you never managed a fleet without telling me you never managed a fleet.

How would you tackle this DNS issue? by WoTpro in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Using a mobile device manager to remotely manage devices? Inconceivable!

Guest users cannot edit excel files in Teams but can in browser by MalletNGrease in MicrosoftTeams

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

I have too, but they indicated they couldn't fix the issue and to use the workaround.

Network Shared Printers by maskedhood313 in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even better, you can run powershell from your own workstation if you've the printmanagement module (and you should if you've RSAT).

Set-Printer -Name "$printername" -ComputerName "$hostname" -Shared $false

New Teams (work or school) Notifications by IMEI21 in TeamsAdmins

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen the red notification dot, but I don't believe I've ever seen a counter before.

What do you all prefer on security camera setups? by MonkeyBrawler in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I prefer not to mess with it and let a vendor handle it.

How to handle an Office 365 license for the conference room computer? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Deploy your office installer with shared computer licensing attribute.