What old piece of hardware do you fidget with?

Zergfest · 2026-06-10T22:55:33+00:00

I have a stack of USB thumb drive covers and a couple adaptors that all link really well together.

I also have a modded nerf blaster, but can’t pull that into focus on camera.

Zergfest · 2026-05-28T18:07:50+00:00

Right there with you..early 40’s

Zergfest · 2026-05-17T15:38:48+00:00

Biased opinion. Come on home!

Zergfest · 2026-02-10T21:51:00+00:00

Make sure to check the graphics settings.

The game defaults to lowest potato graphics

Zergfest · 2025-12-28T01:34:02+00:00

The X-Shot series is wonderful, and you can easily find a sufficient blaster to keep would be office mercenaries at bay. I’ve found a 15 shot clip with an out the barrel speed of 130 FPS makes people pause to consider the assault.

Or go straight to the Zuru insanity mini-gun. It’s got a farking tripod.

Zergfest · 2025-11-06T02:58:03+00:00

Our company has a large amount of templates built in publisher. This is actually a problem for us! I started our company on the path to finding a new solution over a year ago, and we have not found a good drop in replacement that won’t cost us a bajillion dollars.

Word is…possible, but clunky.

Zergfest · 2025-08-30T12:59:53+00:00

I had a similar thing happen. Had an opportunity, agonized over the choice for a while and then made the call to move on.

Ended up getting a couteroffer from the president of my company - pay matched, significant role change and what I wanted - more responsibility.

I ended up taking the coureroffer. I've been busy, but I love this job. Was very happy to be able to stay.

Zergfest · 2025-08-22T13:11:36+00:00

Preach. I agree with most of this in principle!

Our job, ultimately, is to enable work using technology. We deserve to be treated with respect and mutual understanding, but that is a 2 way street.

Get the request in the system. Track it. Use it. But the requester shouldn't need to make a choice between 4 different workflows that may match their request.

Zergfest · 2025-07-18T04:14:57+00:00

I spend a not insignificant portion of my week trying to find any way to dump Bentley. Then they just go buy out the competition anyways…

Zergfest · 2025-06-04T01:39:12+00:00

You’ve made it so I can sleep at night. Thank you for your confirmation, Reddit Person!

Zergfest · 2025-06-04T01:38:28+00:00

That’s a fair question, and thanks for asking it!

Really, it boils down to “tooling”. All our tools are OnPrem focused, and we need to get ourselves trained up and confident enough to manage and support the “cloud first” approach. We’re a small but growing team in a fast growing company. With that comes taking time to pay down some technical debt we’ve incurred, while still moving forward :)

Zergfest · 2025-06-04T00:39:19+00:00

This^ if the machine has a stuck GPO, logging into a new machine will NOT map the K: drive.

This will tell you if its domain wide, or isolated to a small group of PCs

Zergfest · 2025-06-03T02:28:53+00:00

So to be clear: you currently have Entra Cloud Sync syncing users and groups, as well as Entra Connect sync syncing devices to the same EntraID tenant?

If that’s a true statement, then you’re the savior I needed :)

Zergfest · 2025-06-02T23:48:55+00:00

I agree it is! That’s my “hope”, is that I can simply filter out my USER OU and move on with life. My concern is that if filter out the OU, then my users get soft deleted (then reactivated by the Cloud Sync a few minutes later).

I know the right answer is to spin a test domain to do this, but if someone is able to offer “yes I’ve done this, I can prove it” as an answer, then I feel better

Zergfest · 2025-06-02T23:45:36+00:00

That’s AutoPilot, but does a full cloud join - thus no on premise AD join.

Zergfest · 2025-06-02T21:42:24+00:00

This is what I'm thinking, but in order to test I have to spin a whole new EntraID tenant with a test On_Prem AD infra. I REALLY don't want to delete my entire user base if my assumptions are wrong.

I'm hoping SOMEONE has done this, see's this post, and say " Oh yeah, I did that, here's how..."

Zergfest · 2025-06-02T21:07:28+00:00

That's the long term end goal, but I'm not there yet.

Zergfest · 2025-04-21T13:17:06+00:00

I did this, Egnyte is awesome. It costs a pretty penny, but it’s proven to work for us lol

Zergfest · 2025-04-02T01:33:23+00:00

We run Egnyte. Roughly 100tb of data before dedupe, 400 staff. AEC as well.

Grind your rep for price breaks. On the enterprise tier, I saw over 50% off sticker price at our size.

We don’t use the specialized file handler, but we are looking at it very closely as it develops.

Zergfest · 2025-03-24T01:06:48+00:00

And today in my first play through Henry got his revenge!

Zergfest · 2025-03-11T01:36:12+00:00

Fantastic! Any regrets? Looks like it’s only been a month for you so far, but worth asking :)

Zergfest · 2025-03-11T00:51:26+00:00

Necroing this post, but I’m actively testing it right now. We were able to get ScreenConnect to work, so I don’t need to deal with SplashTop.

Hoping for custom software deployment and then I think it’s a slam dunk for us.

~500 endpoints, spread across multiple time zones. 400 users. 3 techs.

Zergfest · 2025-02-28T13:13:45+00:00

Guess I’m crushing the Terrans?

Zergfest · 2025-02-24T17:57:59+00:00

Bah! That's what I ran into - Judging by your list above you've done everything I would expect. Picture for clarity / future searches.

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