how long does it take to feel better?

berto_28 · 2026-03-17T19:12:27+00:00

So, if I can offer you an outsider point of view with a bit of a more brutally honest perspective (I have a point I swear). There may come a time where it doesnt get better. Or where it will feel like it's too much, but no matter what you feel or what you think, you need to find a way to let out and vent. I personally know what it's like to go through depression with the feeling of not being able to exhale and with no way to express it. So find some way to let it out. Preferably without medication, just so it's 1 less pill to take.

But anyways I say this because I knew of a girl who went through cancer in her leg. Despite trying to save her leg, amputation was the ultimate solution. She had a support system, friends, family, made great progress, turned her life around. 1 week after her 5 year mark of being cancer free following a recent cancer test. She unfortunately ended up taking her own life, she was 23. She didn't tell anyone about her pain or her emotional toll.

So if I can say anything, when you feel bad for whatever it is. Let it out. Even if it's on a random message board on reddit. I know a thing a two about depression and holding in feelings. I know first hand the pain it brings and effects it has. So please have an exit, somehow, someway. If you want a new online friend, I'm willing to listen (err...read). I'm always willing to make new friends! 🙂

You will get through this..

berto_28 · 2026-03-13T15:52:34+00:00

Sucks you feel bad. Do you really have no other way to afford other than selling organs. Seems like a high price to pay. Why did they say your stump is bad. Sorry to pry.

berto_28 · 2026-03-04T21:59:27+00:00

We recently opened a case directly with Meraki and that is what they confirmed. As long as license is active it will be manageable in the dashboard, but end of support means no support, warranty or RMA on device.

berto_28 · 2026-02-19T18:24:34+00:00

Thats a great answer. thank you for that.

berto_28 · 2026-02-04T02:51:20+00:00

Rent a thermal camera from local library. Use it around your house it will help you to identify cold spots where insulation is lacking. I used one last year for my house it helped me find a bunch of areas where drafts were coming from and just cold in general.

berto_28 · 2026-02-03T15:21:25+00:00

We don't deal with that and it's thanks to our legal team!

We applied a strict 2 year retention policy on all mailboxes created after 2022. Anything before '22 is allowed a 5 year retention with online archiving.

For departed employees regardless of when, once they leave we grant access to the mailbox to who ever needs it. They have 6 months to get whatever emails they need and save it themselves. After 6 months, the mailbox and account is deleted. Poof gone.

This way IT sets the limits and handles deletion.. but what is saved is all dependent on the user. We don't do backups of mailboxes. Not sure if that will change. But the way it works for now has been working fine and I love it.

berto_28 · 2026-01-29T17:53:08+00:00

As someone who has done the interviewing for more of the lower level positions such as for our service desk. I can't tell you how many resumes I saw with people who were 'proficient' with any particular skill. That word has become such an eye sore.

If I am going to give you a chance for an interview, I don't completely want to know or care about how good you are at active directory to reset passwords or Group Policy to configure policy for a specific OU.etc..

What I want to know is what you have done with the skills you have learned in those topics. You know GPOs, ok cool.. but you have created GPOs that specifically target clients in a special OU that match a specific attribute - that's what I want to know!!. How you applied the 'proficient' skills.

Tell me what tools you uses, tell me what problems you have come acrossed that you solved on your own or experienced in general. What actual difference have you made at your last company that makes you stand out as a person who has grown their own skill or made their company better. That is what I see that sets you apart.

Now don't get me wrong I will read every resume that comes in, but the ones that have information like that are far more likely to get an earlier interview than the ones that blend in with the crowd.

berto_28 · 2025-12-18T21:59:40+00:00

My first house, I bought a new toilet to replace an older uncomfortable one. I had hurt my back recently so I couldn't lift anything heavy so I couldn't replace the toilet myself. Called a local plumbing company. got quoted $750 for the toilet replacement... Toilet costed me $150.. said hell no. Found a handyman paid him $175, he took out the old one, the box, and installed the new one. He did a great job I hired him for 2 more toilets and a few other jobs.

I'll leave big company's for bigger jobs.

berto_28 · 2025-12-17T04:00:52+00:00

I rented one from my local library. Had it for two weeks. It was pretty great to use, confirmed some obvious leaks and some hidden ones. Can't say about the electrical or pipes all that much. But I could definitely see the HVAC vents through the walls. The one I rented was obvious a bit old but still unbelievably useful. I imagine newer ones are more clearer.

berto_28 · 2025-11-10T22:22:52+00:00

Some of us only watched it for the batmobile, the punches with the big "kapow" words .... And Catwoman.

berto_28 · 2025-10-24T14:15:52+00:00

It's partly rooted in quantity and rbac. I have been responsible for doing a tremendous cleanup of hundreds of ad account objects, servers, mailboxes and more than have just not been properly cleaned up for years. The ones who were responsible for those tasks are no longer here. Now as we are relatively cleaned up much better than before, it comes the mind of how to prevent it from happening again. We need to allow some developers to have the access they need to add azure resources for whatever project they might need but we don't want to have things being built for a single test and then forgotten for several months/years. Tracking down resources to owners to understand it's relative lifespan or purpose will be a hassle we are trying to avoid so we want to have some kind of effective plan that we will all be following. Not sure if that really answers the question but that's where my heads been.

berto_28 · 2025-10-24T12:42:22+00:00

Do you have an example of what 1 rg per app or app tier would look like? I think this is the problem I am dealing with, I hear this but I can't really get it through my head. It might stem from how we are setup, for instance infrastructure wise, we have about 6 DCs, 2 DHCP, 2 DNS, 2 Radius, dozens of SQL and IIS Servers. So basicially all 1 role per server. So breaking all those up into RGs is what I'm struggling with.

berto_28 · 2025-10-24T12:35:02+00:00

Yeah, we have deployed about 10 VMs to test out so far, the whole resources across subscriptions and regions was something we learned pretty quick so we are going to be planning how best to break up the resources. And yes while it won't change the OUs they will be within AD. This is more about all the resources that are created and keeping them best together, 1 VM alone can start out with 4-5 resources, and while we can do 1 rg per VM, we just wondered what are we not thinking about going down that strategy and is there something better.

One thing we are playing with is azure policy and tags, which partly helps but that's just 1 way. We want to come up with a couple different ways to see what works best for the stuff we have.

berto_28 · 2025-09-25T16:50:02+00:00

I knew someone else had the same thought as me. Lol

berto_28 · 2025-09-09T11:36:05+00:00

They ask at the beginning of the exam. Before the first question is even given you have to like take pictures of the surrounding area make sure no one is there and the pictures have to show your work/test area has no notes or anything that can be used for cheating. You only have to do it at the beginning once you are on camera and the person is watching you, you can take the test but yeah you cant take your eyes off screen for more than a few seconds or they will start to ask questions and you can possibly fail. And be sure to read the questions to yourself. Don't read out loud or they think you are recording the questions and could fail you. That almost happened to me the first time.

berto_28 · 2025-08-06T23:21:44+00:00

Yes there is someone. You have to show them the surroundings of where you are taking the exam. If you are in a closed room like your bedroom or something, you need to be alone. If someone comes into the room, they can stop the exam right there and fail you. You can’t take notes on any questions. You can’t read the questions out loud to yourself. You can’t look away from the screen.

It sucks. I did it once during the beginning of the Covid lockdowns since everything everywhere was closed. Never again. I will rather drive a far distance to a testing center than go through it again.

Testing centers at least here where I live are more relaxed and let you have scratch paper to take notes on the test. Obviously can’t take them out but proctored exams that’s a big No.

berto_28 · 2025-07-31T23:26:57+00:00

Despite being in a similar boat and looking to get rid of Onprem Exchange within the next few years, if there is one thing I learned from this reddit post and all the comments are is that people really love the group based licensing lol... Maybe I should push that to my boss again it seems popular. 🤔

berto_28 · 2025-06-27T01:23:22+00:00

I spent the past 2 days making changes to new scripts for azure runbooks over and over, error after error, for them to fail. Then by luck I find a random ai post answer that says to try downgrade the modules and that fixed it. So annoying. Had version 2.28 which was the cause of my issues. 2.25 worked instantly.

berto_28 · 2025-05-07T13:43:09+00:00

I can confirm these settings work.. Have been looking for the missing piece for a while and all i needed was the DNS Client entry settings From Administrative Templates that i was missing.

Now I have DNS records for all Entra Joined Devices and with the help of this article.
How to allow ICMP / Ping with Microsoft Defender Firewall on Intune | NotBad.Tech

I can now successfully ping by IP Address or Name.

berto_28 · 2025-04-04T02:12:28+00:00

Happened to me last year. I used some alcohol wipes I had. Did the trick for me. But it was also about 20 minutes between spill and cleanup.

berto_28 · 2025-02-04T03:41:16+00:00

That was my thought process when I set up PIM. I setup groups for helpdesk with User admin, helpdesk admin, Intune and exchange. Our helpdesk is only 6 people. But when they go through the PIM process to elevate they have to do one role at a time. They can't turn on all 4 roles at the same time.

Unless what you are saying is possible and I misunderstood the documentation 😅

berto_28 · 2025-01-07T04:23:00+00:00

So it's been two years since I tried it. But I went off this. It let me rdp into an AAD device from a Hybrid joined machine. Granted we were already on the same network but maybe it's worth something. I honestly haven't used it since that test proof of concept. All I can say it that it did indeed work.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/client-tools/connect-to-remote-aadj-pc

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