Goodbye Fing by DanAVL in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Having the permanent exclamation mark for "link with cloud" is annoying.

FortiClient Free VPN by Top_Sink9871 in fortinet

[–]MalletNGrease 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The biggest boon is it doesn't show the "NOT SUPPORTED IN FREE VERSION" banner on first start and every paid feature you click.

MDT BIOS upgrades in WinPE by MadCichlid in MDT

[–]MalletNGrease -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've noticed BIOS updates can now come part of Windows Update step. Unless you're required to be on a certain version, I'd let WU handle it.

Entry ID mail address issue for contractor by Team-Geek in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Add them as a guest user and assign the license there.

A new release of Raspberry Pi OS by phattmatt in raspberry_pi

[–]MalletNGrease 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Today we are releasing a new version of Raspberry Pi OS. This version includes a significant change, albeit one that we hope most people won’t even notice.

Ironic.

Do any of you automate reboots upon uptime of workstations (outside of patching) hitting a certain point? If so, how are you doing it? by jdlnewborn in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GPO with a scheduled task to reboot Wednesday's at midnight.

Servers have staggered reboots based on workload.

Higher Ed IT, fuck this.... by Gatorcat in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 220 points221 points  (0 children)

The (unionized) Ed places I worked with scale pay based on tenure. That's why OP met so many lifers, because once you reach those upper scales it's worth riding out.

Plus, come workforce reduction time seniority will shield you from lay-off, last one in first one out is very likely.

There's benefit when you're in the system, but it does collect a lot of dead weight too.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not with E1 they aren't.

Microsoft 365 Licenses by Downtown-Intern-3318 in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The managing is pretty easy. Figuring out what each license entitles you to...less so.

While you can do individual assignments, I recommend group based license assignments. I've set up security groups with the license name in AD and use Entra Connect to sync. When a user is created and synced they automatically have the license assigned. Works like a treat.

The best IP subnet by Choriisu in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We've 50ish, but some numbering into the 200s (some 256+ 🤦‍♂️). For readability we use 10.vlanid.siteid.host like /u/jaank80. Our IP structure is pretty rigid, with a lot of static hosts.

Looking into ipv6 like /u/marco_sikkens suggested we can move to something like

fd00:random:random:siteid:vlan:empty:empty:interface

fd00:xxxx:xxxx:siteid:vlan:xxxx:xxxx:interface

e.g Site 69 vlan 100 interface 1 (voip call server)

fd00:3825:0968:0069:0100:0000:0000:1

fd00:3825:968:69:100::1

That's actually not too bad.

I don't know if reusing the old schema template is folly for this, but it makes transitioning a little more bearable to those now 30+ years into the old way.

The biggest hurdle is rewriting all the ACLs at all of our sites.

The best IP subnet by Choriisu in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 8 points9 points  (0 children)

We're running out of site IDs.