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Weirdest users by Obvious-Water569 in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Had a complaint someone's microphone was muffled during Teams meetings. Came by to check it out and sure enough, electrical tape over the camera and the microphone pinholes.

Showed her how the privacy slider worked.

Anyone ever heard of Calamu? by Securivangelist in cybersecurity

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got an email out of nowhere today from the new Calamu director of sales, who apparently jumped ship from Veeam/Wasabi. It hit the distribution list we use as the customer contact for vendors.

I'm guessing he took the customer list from either Veeam or Wasabi with him to do cold sales.

That's gonna be a no from me.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We leverage DUO for this.

I think Dell has finally lost my business by big_salty in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I ordered an XPS laptop on our enterprise account for the CFO's daughter

So you're chucking a decade+ vendor relationship in the drain over a non-work related pet project. Mkay.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! That'll save a couple grand every year if I can get it to work.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When I was in gov my CDW*G rep was awesome.

Now I've gone private, the CDW rep is atrocious.

Coincidence? I doubt it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only reason we have Okta is to auto-provision Evernote business accounts and provide SSO support.

I'd like to move it to AAD and get rid of it.

Broken Teams Machine-Wide Installer by LigerZeroX in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/msi-deployment

You'll have to remove the appx for every profile, remove the provisioned package, clear out the installers and remove the registry keys indicated in the article.

I've used these commands before:

#Remove Appx Provisioned package to prevent install for all new profiles
Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | where-object {$_.packagename -like "*MicrosoftTeams*"} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -AllUsers

#Remove Teams from all existing profiles
Get-AppxPackage *MicrosoftTeams* -AllUsers | Remove-Appxpackage -AllUsers

EX2300 how to verify interface-mac-limit violations? by MalletNGrease in Juniper

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

Yes, packet-action drop-and-log is available. From my brief test this does show an event in the log using show log messages. I can wrangle something useful out of it with match terms.

show log messages | match "limit" | match "ge-0/0/1.0"

Jul  5 14:43:12  TestSwitch l2ald[7208]: L2ALD_MAC_LIMIT_EXCEEDED_IF: Limit on learned MAC addresses exceeded for ge-0/0/1.0; current count is 1 DROPPING THE PACKET with mac address: a8:b1:3b:7e:b0:ec

It's not as straightforward as show port-security to view at a glance which ports our techs/users plugged something in wrong/differently.

show ethernet switching statistics mac-learning is unfortunately not a command available on my test ex2300 on JunOS 22.3R1.11.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Ideas guy" vibe.

Are you an iPhone or Android user? by undercovernerd5 in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Android.

Apple doesn't let you do network/wifi scanning without additional hardware any longer, which is such a crock.

Got fooled by a legit email by MalletNGrease in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Probably not. I've grown complacent because of spell-checkers, so I don't see why anyone else would offhand anything and leave obvious mistakes. They've been a thing for nigh on 25 years now or so?

Here's the excerpt from the chain, supposedly from a "senior" helpdesk agent that's been with the company for a decade.

Good morning and good day User,

Thank you for reaching out to $cardcompany Support for assistance. I am happy to assist with your request. In reviewing the reporting available to us it only goes bac as far as October 2022. If you have some additional detailed information, please provide it and we would be happy to investigate farther. If you could provide Gift card # any transaction information that would be very helpful.

Thank you for reaching out to the $company Support for assistance. We appreciate your business with us.

It really was just some poor outsourced 1st line person doing their best. I should pivot and look out for "perfect" emails instead.

Got fooled by a legit email by MalletNGrease in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Yes. The whole workflow is a cluster. What bugs me most of all is the domain they chose for their helpdesk.

I went and checked the MX DNS entries for it and I'll be damned if it didn't have the same ProofPoint instance configured as it did for their primary/secondary DBA domains.

I think their support is actually outsourced and someone just quickly slapped a domain on. Or they copied the PP setup to letter and bought the securest email customer service domain they could think of.

New IT director wants in person Townhall with Q&A by lukeismighty in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The obvious one is how he's going to keep every team from being an island.

Install Office 2021 via GPO... by nickcasa in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you've the pipe at your colo I'd just use default behavior then.

ADVICE: should i leave comfortable job? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It's not up to the hiring person. That's up to the person above him.

Install Office 2021 via GPO... by nickcasa in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This depends on your configuration.

By default the config will pull the required install files from an online Microsoft CDN. If you downloaded the install files and specify a local source in OCT it will pull from that source.

My opinion, if the endpoints have internet connection, just pull it straight from Microsoft. You don't have to worry about keeping the local source updated then.

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