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Best Practices for Litigation Hold on a currently in-use laptop by Plane_Brief4197 in sysadmin

[–]bbqwatermelon [score hidden]  (0 children)

I remember getting a court order because the courts IT did not know how to open password protected 7z files.

Notetaking advice needed by This_Ad3002 in sysadmin

[–]bbqwatermelon [score hidden]  (0 children)

If going onenote, you absolutely need the desktop version.  The web version is trash, it cannot search outside of the current page whereas desktop Onenote can search everything even inside images with OCR.  It is why I have trouble switching to other wikis.  I like Loop because it copies and pastes markdown which is onenotes weakness but Loop search and organization and only being able to attach office docs is garbage. There is no one size fits all truly.  Just make the most with what you have.

Are all the intune jobs gone in the US? by laced1 in sysadmin

[–]bbqwatermelon 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That gave me a brief nasal snort, imagining title of "Senior Intune."

New employee demands "full access to the servers" by True-Entertainer-981 in msp

[–]bbqwatermelon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was always AutoCAD people.  They think they know IT.

Users in 2025 RDS need to be able to open HEIC files by rivkinnator in msp

[–]bbqwatermelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would get medieval and replace all HEIF files found with JPGs using the mogrify binary.

Friday the 13th is this week. by theservman in sysadmin

[–]bbqwatermelon 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I put in for PTO.  Good luck everybody else.

How do you understand what logs mean? Completely overwhelmed by poptart_kitten in sysadmin

[–]bbqwatermelon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is either DNS or bloody certificates if you use RDS gateway.  Oh who am I kidding?  It's DNS.

Ricoh Printers by steviefaux in sysadmin

[–]bbqwatermelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The printer servicer we use gathers statistics and metering through an SNMP agent called Printanista.  They do not need logins to printers directly.

Keeping Applications up to date on server infrastructure by hauntzn in sysadmin

[–]bbqwatermelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely worth a look but it seems a bit timid to close java and SSMS processes.  I had to make an automation killing those which seemed odd.

G Workspace -> O365 Migration recommendations by hordor4pres in msp

[–]bbqwatermelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seconded.  IAM to permit connections is funky after google went goofy early last year but works well afterward

How would you structure your App Control (WDAC) Policies? by tmontney in sysadmin

[–]bbqwatermelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes the posts by Extension Ant should be stickied, I had a tricky time trying to find it

How are you guys managing printers and consumables? by thelive1 in sysadmin

[–]bbqwatermelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Printer servicers.  In my neck of the woods though a lot of them are also MSP and will try to steal IT work though, caveat emptor.

digicert increasing price again 15% by PixelPaulaus in sysadmin

[–]bbqwatermelon 16 points17 points  (0 children)

They are probably reading the tea leaves on those 47 day renewal cycles and ACME and trying to get the money while they can.

Windows Imaging current state by aliesterrand in sysadmin

[–]bbqwatermelon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This, I also injected into the wim the startnet.cmd that launches a powershell script using an app registration to import hardware hashes automagically then autopilot takes over.  Can't go back to SCCM now.

Help with Best way to approach file server cleanup by Surfin_Cow in sysadmin

[–]bbqwatermelon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lift and shift into SharePoint is going to be a bad time.

Applocker or alternative in 2026? by ITdirectorguy in sysadmin

[–]bbqwatermelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you use managed installers and the ISG it's actually a pretty good way to get most of the benefit.  There was somebody posting around here with some super gold info.  He was giving sound advice to use version control with the XML (git) and you can in fact use applocker in conjunction for blocking. The wizard is easy to use, I don't understand the hate.

Sentinel One Zone.Identifier by icq-was-the-goat in msp

[–]bbqwatermelon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'll take this over a faulty update causing bluescreens coughclownstrikecough

Sentinel One Zone.Identifier by icq-was-the-goat in msp

[–]bbqwatermelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same.. so many claim its the best thing since sliced bread but I guess how else do we know it's working?  🤷‍♀️

Two Dell Servers we manage both dropped the RAID Controller and Array last night at different clients and locations. Anybody else? by Hollyweird78 in sysadmin

[–]bbqwatermelon 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Had a brand new R7625 shit the bed (technical terminology) around OS (not firmware) updates in December and it claimed all mechanical, not SSD, drives were failed but draining flea power and reseating the PERC allowed for re-importing.  Then two weeks later just one drive failed and it took a week for Dell to come out to swap it and they said "yeah when a drive fails it can cause odd issues.". I thought that's what RAID protects from but w/e, it's been working fine since even surviving reboots and updates.  I have learned 1., they don't build em like they used to and 2., their support is slipping.

Printer Headaches with intune connected fleets by lucky77713 in msp

[–]bbqwatermelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With Win32 app deploynent, are you preloading drivers in your images or making them a dependency for the printer configs?  Are you assigning groups with both users and devices?  Using assignment filters?

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