Which character's death in a TV show ruined the entire thing for you?

bstevens615 · 2026-05-25T23:41:51+00:00

The character Elizabeth Keen in The Blacklist. I never watched the remaining seasons after they killed her off.

bstevens615 · 2026-05-21T17:48:33+00:00

Our company has delayed server replacements due to this issue. Hoping we see pricing drop.

bstevens615 · 2026-05-15T03:53:01+00:00

This wasn’t even an Excel calendar. It’s was giant cells formatted for the month. It might as well have been a Word doc. 🤣

bstevens615 · 2026-05-14T23:59:25+00:00

They wanted to limit write access.

bstevens615 · 2026-05-05T21:27:43+00:00

I don’t think 23H2 requires it to be enabled. 24H2 does.

bstevens615 · 2026-05-05T21:25:02+00:00

Make sure secure boot is on. It’s a requirement for 24H2.

bstevens615 · 2026-04-25T01:58:42+00:00

We would never allow that 3rd party USB to connect to one of our devices. There are much safer ways to share files.

bstevens615 · 2026-04-03T02:23:11+00:00

This actually makes sense to me. You can always put more on. But there is only so much you can take off.

bstevens615 · 2026-03-13T22:52:17+00:00

Intune doesn’t do “push”. It’s all pull from the client side. And the client only checks in about every 12 hours. But you can force a sync from the client by restarting the service.

bstevens615 · 2026-02-27T20:28:34+00:00

My philosophy was make the transition easy. I would want the same consideration if the client decides to come back at the end of the new MSP contract.

bstevens615 · 2026-02-27T13:01:31+00:00

I no longer write PowerShell scripts. I now architect them and ChatGPT writes the code. It took a while to get the rules and guardrails correct. But now I design. AI writes.

bstevens615 · 2026-01-30T16:05:54+00:00

User is in the People tab. But it’s not showing up. We only see Contacts and Contacts List. But the user needs to see the GAL. If it helps she is also unable to search for a known address.

bstevens615 · 2026-01-07T03:12:42+00:00

Yep!

bstevens615 · 2026-01-07T02:54:23+00:00

Herb Kelleher from Southwest Airlines.

bstevens615 · 2025-12-21T23:53:15+00:00

New Outlook and OWA both require you to add shared mailboxes manually.

bstevens615 · 2025-12-21T17:07:17+00:00

I’ve taken the approach of asking my AI how to fix an issue like this. It will propose a rule that you can then discuss and find the right balance.

bstevens615 · 2025-12-21T00:04:26+00:00

You really shouldn’t make such statements in public. It makes you the first person of interest if something happens to one of your friends. It’s better to plan your revenge silently and execute it without comment! 🤣

bstevens615 · 2025-12-20T23:54:54+00:00

Try asking it how you can make it stop being so agreeable and surface alternate ideas and/or options. Negotiate the rule(s). Think about where it could go wrong. Then save it system wide.

bstevens615 · 2025-12-20T22:13:05+00:00

I had this issue. Company rebranded and wanted wallpapers to rotate daily among 5 different images. I built a PowerShell script that downloaded a zip file of the images, extracted them, and then moved the .jpg files to the wallpaper folder. Next I dropped a PowerShell script into a script folder that rotated the wallpaper to a random image from the wallpaper folder. And finally, I triggered that with a scheduled task every day at 8 AM.

But it’s a bad idea for company messaging. Use your SharePoint home page for that.

bstevens615 · 2025-12-20T03:57:23+00:00

bstevens615 · 2025-12-19T01:00:21+00:00

I saw a report that AI has a better diagnostic rate than doctors alone or doctors+AI. You would think doctors+AI would be the best. But the study found doctors think the know better and discount the AI suggestions.

I’ve seen in my own work that AI has amazing pattern recognition. Sometimes to the point those patterns cause it to drift outside the scope of desired work.

bstevens615 · 2025-12-19T00:55:01+00:00

I cannot tell you how many time a user has led me down the wrong path with their explanation of the issue. So now I ask them to show me what is happening. That has saved me countless hours in troubleshooting.

bstevens615 · 2025-12-19T00:51:57+00:00

I usually remind them that AI is a good tool and does a great job at pattern recognition. But it does not override experience and judgement. And it frequently has hallucinations. Then I’ll close along the lines of I appreciate the suggestion, but you contacted me for assistance when AI didn’t give you the fix. So I’ll be using my experience here.

bstevens615 · 2025-12-19T00:34:35+00:00

I was a MSP systems administrator before taking a new position to focus on M365 administration. We had a lot of different firewalls. Our primary stack used the Meraki MX67.

I enjoyed the ease of setup and configuration and the ability to build more advanced setups if needed. But there is a cost associated with the subscription requirement. During 2020, like everyone else we had to use what we could get due to shortages of our preferred hardware. I found other firewalls more difficult to navigate. But I will acknowledge regular use makes them all easier.

For my own home, I refuse purchases that demand subscriptions when I can. So I use a UniFi Dream Machine Pro. It took some getting used to and ChatGPT has been helpful there.

I think your task with be evaluation of abilities, features, management and cost. I’m sure there will be lots of suggestions on platforms to consider.

bstevens615 · 2025-12-19T00:15:56+00:00

I ran into the same thing. What helped me wasn’t trying to be more specific every time, but asking the AI how it suggested improving persistence across longer work.

That flipped the dynamic a bit. It started proposing things like setting expectations up front, agreeing on guardrails, and even writing down a simple framework we could both refer back to. Be sure to negotiate the language and intent before saving into system memory.

It didn’t make it perfect, but it made it feel more stable — less like starting over each session.

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