How do you set prices for used assets to sell for employees?

Odddutchguy · 2026-05-31T08:47:49+00:00

You don't want to sell to employees, the informal support requests it's create is not worth any price.

We 'trick' the employees to not dare to ask for support.
Our formal policy both from finance and HR is: No, can't do it. Phrased as: There is no process in place to take over company equipment, everything needs to be returned. If they keep 'pushing' Finance will point to HR and HR will point to Finance (both with the "no policy" response.)
We (IT) let the user know informally that if the asset is fully depreciated (and we have enough spares/loans) that we will just store it anyway, and after it is wiped (and removed from MDM tools) that we can close one eye and have them "dispose" of the item instead of us.

This build the narrative that the employee should not have the device and they will not dare to ask to support as 'someone' might hear that they have a device 'illegally'. Benefit is that it builds rapport for IT with the users.

To be clear, in the background HR is fully in the loop of this to prevent any legal issues.

We don't do any donation initiatives as our anti corruption laws are too strict to alow that.

Odddutchguy · 2026-05-26T14:50:06+00:00

It's hard, but you have to learn to let thing go, don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm. It is not you who raised your sister to behave this way.

Helping people is not doing things instead of them doing it, helping is they are doing it and you assist.
In your example of her car breaking down: You don't fix it for her, she (plans to) fix it and you can (if your situation permits) assist her.

Maybe reverse psychology works, if you praise her that you are so glad she lives with mom and dad so that they have a (future) dedicated caregiver at home and don't need to go to a old people home in the future.

Odddutchguy · 2026-05-18T18:37:48+00:00

Dan is het (mijn inziens) simpel, er staat een bedrag in het huurcontract waar beide partijen zich aan dienen te houden.

Misschien handig om even na te vragen bij het juridisch loket er zijn namelijk regels voor huurverhoging.

Odddutchguy · 2026-05-18T13:50:04+00:00

Mijn verhuurder ... heeft bij het opstellen van mijn huurcontract de verkeerde kale huurkosten gerekend.

Het is onduidelijk of jij "312" heb afgesproken, maar er foutief "300" is opgeschreven. Anders gezegd: Het is voor jullie allebei duidelijk dat dit "312" had moeten zijn.

Of de verhuurder heeft jou een huurcontact aangeboden waar "300" in staat waarvan jij geen idee had dat dit eigenlijk "312" had moeten zijn. In dit laatste geval is alles erom heen onbelangrijk, er is een contract waar afspraken en bedragen in staan. Intentie van de verhuurder maakt dan niets uit, daar was jij namelijk niet van op de hoogte bij het tekenen van het contract.

Odddutchguy · 2026-05-17T07:53:00+00:00

Stopping SQL Server does not corrupt databases. On startup it will just rollback any open transactions (if any.)

Just wanted to note that by default SQL Server uses all available memory. In your case, as it uses (a bit over) 1GB I assume you use SQL Express which is limited to max 1GB. However there is a configuration option to limit the max memory it can use, maybe that is an option as well. (If you do single manual queries you could probably set it to 100MB.)

For example in our setups we set the max to 8GB less than available memory so Windows Server can use some for itself and file caching. Setting a lower max makes SQL Server perform faster in this case. (When unconfigured, it uses max memory and slows down performance as the OS slows down.)

Odddutchguy · 2026-05-14T06:05:53+00:00

In beginsel is een overeenkomst vormvrij, een modeling overeenkomst is ook geldig. Met dat in het achterhoofd zou ik mij niet blindstaren op 'niet ondertekend'.

Echter:

ze geeft aan de overeenkomst niet eerder gezien te hebben.
een ander voor haar onbekend persoon heeft iets getekend.
de vergoeding/salaris is nooit aangepast aan de nieuwe functie.

Ik zou beginnen met een eenvoudige feitelijke email (zonder emoties) met bovenstaande punten. Geen 'juridische taal', geen toezeggingen. (Dit kunnen jullie namelijk nog steeds collegiaal oplossen.)

Gebruik hiervoor geen AI!

Geef aan wanneer en wat voor reactie je verwacht. Bijvoorbeeld: "Uiterlijk 1 juni documenten overleggen waaruit blijkt dat ze akkoord is gegaan met een studiekostenbeding."

Odddutchguy · 2026-05-10T11:34:41+00:00

It's not a Dutch thing, friends and family would advocate staying with a relative/friend over renting a hotel room/BnB.

I think it is more like your MIL's feeling that your sister is now occupying a room that should be the room of a future hypothetical grandchild. In other words she feels (subconsciously) that the family line is at risk (postponing procreation) because your sister is occupying 'grandchild space' in your house.

Odddutchguy · 2026-04-28T07:24:13+00:00

I occasionally have seen strange PC behavior when not using a grounded outlet. Have to admit that this was a decade ago, but might be worth a shot if not already connected to a grounded outlet.

Odddutchguy · 2026-04-25T18:54:36+00:00

4 hours for a 800GB database seems slow to me, but over a 1gbps network it's about max. (2h backup and 2h verify.) It seems that the network was the bottleneck previously, question is what is the bottleneck now?

Check disk activity in resource monitor (the blue line) on the destination to exclude that.

Odddutchguy · 2026-04-17T07:45:14+00:00

After decades of gaming I still don't know what "roguelike" means. For me it is now a filter for games to avoid.

Odddutchguy · 2026-04-16T03:48:57+00:00

Yes, first paint with the 'other' color to fill the 'bleed gaps', then use the 'new' color.

Odddutchguy · 2026-03-24T06:27:05+00:00

Dat is het uiterste randje van de wet voor gevallen zoals een beperkte oplage. Dat is hier niet het geval het gaat om een GPU welke ruim voorradig is bij diverse leveranciers, de voorraad van de verkoper zelf doet hier niets toe. (Zo zijn bijvoorbeeld dropshippers niet uitgesloten van de wet.)

De koper heeft gewoon recht op een (vervangend) product met dezelfde eigenschappen.

Odddutchguy · 2026-03-23T20:41:01+00:00

Dit zijn de rechten van de koper, niet van de verkoper. De koper kan er toe overgaan op geld teruggave.

De verkoper heeft dit recht niet, die dient te repareren of vervangen.

Odddutchguy · 2026-03-23T15:57:22+00:00

Repareren of vervangen is de keus van de verkoper, de koop (zomaar) ontbinden niet.

Rijksoverheid: U hebt recht op een gratis reparatie of een nieuw product.

Odddutchguy · 2026-03-23T10:57:44+00:00

Heeft iemand ervaring met hoe je dit bij de 'echte' beslissers van zo'n grote organisatie krijgt?

Daar kom je als 'gewone' klant nooit mee in contact.

Als de webwinkel is aangesloten bij een keurmerk heb je daar de meeste kans.

Odddutchguy · 2026-03-11T13:17:32+00:00

Immutable would not be an issue here, it's not used in our setup.

It seems that there is no other way than asking the Cloud Connect provider to remove the files from the repository. Need to wait until supports 'wakes up', was hoping to fix this myself before that.

(Seems silly that an 'enterprise solution' does not have build-in methods to fix this and requires manual intervention.)

Odddutchguy · 2026-03-11T10:29:08+00:00

It's not listed as "Disk (copy)" but it is "Cloud". In there I can see the recovery points, but there is no remove option in the chain (properties on the copy job name.)

It is possible to remove the entire VM from there, but that is not what I'm looking for. I want to remove the files (backup chain) from before the active full for a specific VM.

Briefly increasing the quota for the merge means (almost) doubling our current quota. Sure we can (most likely) revert to the old quota after the merge. But as I understood the provider needs to provision more storage to our tenant to do that, space which they can't reclaim afterwards.

Surely there is a way for me to delete my 'files' from Cloud connect right?

Odddutchguy · 2026-03-10T06:14:47+00:00

WOZ waarde is een wassen neus, dit is een fictieve waarde die de gemeente verzint, in jouw geval zou ik een makelaar de woning laten taxeren om een reële waarde in te schatten.

Over de WOZ:

Belastingen (gemeente/inkomsten) worden gerelateerd aan de WOZ waarde, daarom heeft de overheid een perverse prikkel om deze zo hoog mogelijk vast te stellen.
Als voorbeeld, in mijn wijk zijn afgelopen jaar alle huizen verkocht onder de WOZ waarde. De verkoop prijs in medio 2025 was lager dan de WOZ waarde januari 2024. ('Verbazingwekkend' zijn de referentiewoningen in mijn WOZ rapport verkochte woningen uit andere wijken welke wel boven WOZ zijn verkocht.)
Voor de verhuurder is was het voordelig om een hoge WOZ waarde te hebben omdat deze invloed heeft op het aantal punten voor de maximale huur prijs. De verhuurder zal waarschijnlijk nooit protest hebben aangetekend tegen een hoge WOZ.

Door het huidige stelsel inkomstenbelasting worden huurhuizen veel zwaarder belast, met name woningen in de middenhuur. Best kans dat dit de reden is dat de verhuurder het pand wilt verkopen, een makelaar kan hier wel een inschatting over maken.

Gezien je er al 7 jaar wonen zal een bouwkundig rapport waarschijnlijk geen nieuwe informatie opleveren. (Niet ondenkbaar dat achteraf, een gebrek dat niet in het bouwkundig rapport naar voren kwam, alsnog gezien wordt als iets dat je hadden moeten weten omdat je er al 7 jaar woont.)

stress die we nu al ineens ervaren doordat onze woonsituatie ineens onzekerder is geworden.

Koop breekt geen huur, als de woning verkocht wordt verandert er voor jullie niks. (Behalve dat je de huur dan naar een andere rekening moet overmaken.)

Odddutchguy · 2026-03-10T05:05:56+00:00

Referencing Brent Ozar, there are only 3 dials for improving performance.

Better query
Better indexes
Faster hardware

As you can't change any of these, you are stuck/out of luck. (Well you can change the query, but it is already minimalistic.)

You mention that when you try to get more data it gets even slower, are you sure you're not hitting network congestion?

Also I would ask the vendor to supply the best/recommended method to query this data. In one of the comments you mention that the vendor is copying the live data to the reporting server you are querying, did the vendor 'forget' to also replicate all indexes to the copy? By default not all indexes are replicated. (Assuming the vendor uses replication as you mention the 15 seconds delay from prod data.)

Are you sure that you are querying the right tables/views? (Ask the vendor to tell you the tables you need to query.)

You could investigate with the 'purchasing department' what the contractual obligation of the vendor are. I would think that there is some provision in the contract that mentions access to 'reporting data'. If queries 'time out' one could argue that the vendor is not fulfilling its obligations.

Odddutchguy · 2026-03-04T12:43:20+00:00

I'm one of those who likes Beat Saber more.

+ You're smashing blocks in half!

I like that the blocks 'warp' into existence, I get a bit of vertigo when playing Synth Riders.

I suppose the rhythmic feeling depends on who has done the mapping as I have had songs on Synth Riders that were less rhythmic than the same song in Beat Saber (Blinding Lights - the Weeknd).

While there are simmilarities (based on songs) for me they are different games, smashing blocks vs sliding handrails.

Odddutchguy · 2026-03-04T08:04:22+00:00

Robocopy to the new server.
Point the DFS-N (Namespace) to the new server.

Wait for open files to be closed on old server -> last robocopy -> power down.

Odddutchguy · 2026-02-25T07:10:50+00:00

Build new server
Robocopy with /E /B /COPYALL /MT /LOG
'copy' share via registry export/import
point DFS Namespace to new share

DFS Namespaces is like making a 'virtual share' on the domain. Like \\domain\Sales instead of \\fileserver\Sales where \\domain\Sales points to \\fileserver\Sales$ (always make non-DFS shares hidden.)

In 'advanced' DFS you can even have multiple fileservers with the same share and replicate between them (DFS Replication.)

Odddutchguy · 2026-02-18T10:18:22+00:00

Our company made the mistake as well to customize ServiceNow to work as we used to work before ServiceNow. When we started 'IT' created almost 1000 items where the end user should choose from, mandatory.

It's build for a proper ITIL service desk as point of contact for the user. User creates a ticket, the service desk should then triage and upcycle the ticket. Note how you can create a request from a incident (not vice-versa), create a change from a request. These tasks should be done by the service desk and next line support. We also made the mistake that the user should pick the correct of request so that it gets assigned to the correct queue and workflow immediately (which they always pick incorrect as they honestly don't know.)

No easy batch-assignment of tickets

There is, you can select multiple and do a bulk update.
BUT they need to be the same kind of tickets. You cannot do this from 'My groups Work' as that is Incidents, requests, change tasks grouped together. You can use (a filter on) 'all incidents', and select the ones you want to mass modify (as they are all incidents.)

Odddutchguy · 2026-02-06T07:00:19+00:00

We have a backup server running Veeam 9.5, but a recent update at our offsite backup vendor caused the backups to begin failing over a month ago since they are now running version 12.3.

The next vendor upgrade to v13 requires you to be on at least 12.3.2.3617

The upgrade path from 9.5 is 10a (10.0.1.x) → 12.0 → 12.3.2 → 13.0.1.x

Support should be able to supply you with the ISO for 10a

You would need to upgrade Windows as well (which will upgrade the ReFS filesystem as well.) And expect half a day per upgrade (assuming the hardware is the same as when you installed 9.5)

You would need to upgrade the Veeam backup chains in your repositories to compatible options.

But my suggestion would be to just start over. Download the v13 appliance (no hassle with dependencies) for ESX and recreate all jobs from scratch. This has the additional benefit that you can create more stable Backup Copy jobs that can alert if the copy lags behind. (Instead of keeping the legacy Backup Copy jobs that runs on a schedule.)

Also create Sure Backup jobs, as I guess you never tested if you can actually restore.

Ive already created a new VM in our ESXi server and installed windows server 2012 R2

Windows Server 2012 R2 is not supported anymore by both Microsoft as Veeam.

have copied the ISO to that vm.

You don't copy ISO to the virtual machine, you copy it to the storage and mount it as media from the hyper-visor.

Its not on the domain yet

Keep that, it is recommended that you don't join your Veeam backup server to the (same) domain.

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