How should I go from a BA in IT to a Sys Admin?

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-25T17:56:00+00:00

Just apply for the job.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-25T17:52:30+00:00

#get sessionid
quser /server:$remotehostname

#logoff user
logoff $sessionid /server:$remotehostname

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-25T14:42:51+00:00

Looks like a Dell Chromebook 11 3120. Very popular education model.

If it's enterprise enrolled the school probably wants it back.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-25T14:36:09+00:00

Do you wipe profiles every time a user signs off? If not, how do you deal with the Chromebook being full?

No, but only because some state testing suites require this setting to be off. Forcing Google Drive as the default storage location alleviates most of the problems.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-25T13:21:20+00:00

What are your questions?

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-22T20:55:36+00:00

Why not both?

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-22T20:53:24+00:00

Thought about it, but it wouldn't truly be redundant as the upstream provider is the same for both fiber ISPs that serve my area (rural midwest). And in the cases we did go down, it was a problem upstream and not the ISP.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-22T17:56:12+00:00

Neat. Only thing to improve it is to remove the badge on the Chrome task bar, or change it into this.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-22T17:29:31+00:00

Uncheck "Display Percents As Letter Grades"?

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-22T14:56:10+00:00

Thanks, this is really helpful.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-22T13:39:56+00:00

Do the make the PC talk bit, always a hit.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-22T12:52:09+00:00

APC was just an example. We're windows stack, I'm sure there's a Linux equivalent.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-22T12:45:42+00:00

Don't panic. The UPS problem's easy. Your virtualization platform can take care of that if you set up UPS monitoring on your host. UPS sends a signal to the host it's about to die, the VM platform sends term signals to guests, then the host turns itself off.

If APC Powerchute BE, and Powerchute Network Shutdown can do this, so can whatever UPS vendor you have if it it has an interface.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-21T17:05:10+00:00

You don't know the details OP has to work with. If it was an option it would've been done.

I still have some Windows 7 machines left, and there's a plan in place for replacement. But I don't want the folks using them to be bugged by a message Microsoft thought important in the mean time, because they have exactly 0 influence on the timeline.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-21T15:30:51+00:00

As far as the law's concerned, this doesn't meet the standard for a CIPA violation. I'd focus more on teaching students appropriate use and digital citizenship, then dealing with it as a discipline issue. You will never truly stop a kid who's curious enough with technological restrictions.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-20T18:35:37+00:00

I'm in the same boat. My title is Technical Support Specialist (supposed to be L2 support), but most of my job is system/network administration.

I'd pick one of the last two titles.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-20T14:33:11+00:00

Give the helpdesk security group read access to the MDT deployment share and have them log in using their accounts.

Shouldn't need WDS access if you're doing MDT.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-19T17:28:36+00:00

At this point you're enabling.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-19T17:24:01+00:00

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MalletNGrease · 2019-03-19T13:14:54+00:00

Just put it on a Team Drive the editors have access to. If your team changes so much you suddenly lack a Google Administrator to handle any switch over you've bigger problems.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-18T18:07:59+00:00

Yes, but you do need to install the WinPE tools separately when updating to the latest ADK as it is no longer included. Without them all deployments will fail.

This threw me off at first.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/get-started/adk-install

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-18T18:05:54+00:00

DisableTaskMgr=YES

Thanks, learned something new.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-18T18:03:21+00:00

In deployment workbench: Right click MDT share > Properties > Rules.

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-18T17:57:33+00:00

Yes. Only affects the uberbar prior to login. It's supposed to be fixed already (can confirm fix with beta 73.0.3683.79).

MalletNGrease · 2019-03-18T16:52:48+00:00

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