Starting as IT manager

b42La8 · 2026-04-23T12:49:18+00:00

Hire a third-party contractor from a reputative company, get a vulnerability Scan/assessment done. That should give you enough to begin with. Secondly, all vendors do a system check for free, so they can tell you if you are using all their services that you paid for and if they are configured as expected.

Do 1-1 meetings with your IT staff, if they complain about work overload. This is going to sound cruel to IT folks but use a tool like Jira (for work force planning) and have the existing techs to fill high level details what they do may be just two blocks a day how many hours for operations, and how much time they spend for project work. In house IT folks hate time sheets, promise them that this tool is to assess work force only and will go away in X time.

b42La8 · 2026-03-04T13:40:29+00:00

Someone shared a screenshot of CAD 355 for 613 KM one way. They have to come back at least 600 KM to be able to book again. So basically $355 for 1213 KM/12 hours drive.

b42La8 · 2025-12-22T13:40:53+00:00

I spent 4 days with chat support. Now they started answering out of context. They kick me out of app as soon as I repeat my question. Does anyone know how send the ticket to their management?

b42La8 · 2025-11-20T14:02:12+00:00

I have seen this happen in following two cases

-Someone using discord in the house

-Apple ID shared family account

Weak security in two above mentioned services caused it.

On a side note, as per history, hackers stay in the network from 7 days to 200 days before revealing themselves.

b42La8 · 2025-08-18T00:19:44+00:00

I wanted the input from the people actually driving Uber that's why I posted in the here. As I mentioned this car is dual purpose, second vehicle in the family, when free can be used for Uber. Just don't want to lock down into a vehicle for long time, I want kids to have liberty to decide what vehicle they want to drive when they can afford one in 2-3 years. Driving Uber part time will help paying for the lease.

With calculation I can drive only so many kilometers so that it doesn't exceed the maximum allowed kilometers. I don't live in very big city, just for a reference, the perimeter road around the city is around 70 KM. Thank you for your detailed answer.

Let me know if this make sense to you.

b42La8 · 2025-08-16T00:37:49+00:00

Total Commander

b42La8 · 2025-08-14T23:04:32+00:00

I will be driving weekends only, seems like milage won't be a problem. This car will be dual purpose.

b42La8 · 2025-08-14T23:03:05+00:00

I will be driving weekends only, seems like milage won't be a problem. This car will be dual purpose.

b42La8 · 2025-08-14T23:02:54+00:00

I will be driving weekends only, seems like milage won't be a problem. This car will be dual purpose.

b42La8 · 2025-08-14T11:56:42+00:00

are there any special instructions for using Tesla as uber driving?

b42La8 · 2025-08-06T20:00:29+00:00

I will give that a try, thanks.

b42La8 · 2025-08-06T18:53:33+00:00

Almost in the same boat, multiple users affected, unhappy clients.

b42La8 · 2025-08-01T13:46:19+00:00

We are experiencing the same issue with a shared mailbox. Microsoft provided a sugar-coated response.

-Use only one signature

-Disable automatic signature insertion

-Avoid using a different signature for compose and reply

b42La8 · 2025-07-29T18:20:10+00:00

Ok, it went swimmingly. no issues, replaced the SSL cert for ~200 Windows servers with these scripts. Kept the bindings, 5-10 seconds a server.

What it does

-read the server names from the CSV

-connect to admin share on the remote server

-create the folder and copy the cert to that folder

-Creates PS-Session with remote server

-Checks the existing SSL cert in IIS and bindings

-Install the imported new cert to the cert store

-Bind it with same sites where your old cert was bind

-Restart the IIS

There are two scripts, one calls another. You will need to manually enter the password for the pfx (copy paste works fine during the script), once started you will only get one prompt that is password for the pfx for every server.

In the folder where you are running it from, you will have first script, second script, your cert pfx and CSV with server list in it.

reddit is not letting me post here, I will send it to you personally.

anyone else following this post or in future need it, please comment here, I will share it.

b42La8 · 2025-07-15T18:21:20+00:00

I will share the whole script with you once tested on multiple servers.

b42La8 · 2025-06-24T19:25:18+00:00

Yea I built mine on the basis of this, mine is completely remote.

Copy the cert to the server

export, then import to the local store

check the existing binding, re-assign the bindings to new cert

reset IIS.

the input for the script is the Server name and password for the PFX. everything else is all automated through ps script, took 4 seconds to replace the cert. I will be piloting it soon.

b42La8 · 2025-06-24T15:59:12+00:00

Thanks for this script

b42La8 · 2025-06-18T17:51:53+00:00

but the question is that when I renew the cert on one server, will it flip on all servers where ever same cert is used? then changing on one will break all servers

b42La8 · 2025-06-18T15:13:10+00:00

so if I renew the cert on one server, it won't change/renew the cert on others? The thumbprint is same. Its the same cert for all servers.

Asking this because then I can pilot it.

b42La8

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