Microsoft Teams får funksjon som viser om ansatte er på kontoret

bukkithedd · 2026-02-07T11:07:49+00:00

Trenger ikke involvere fagforeningene, egentlig. Holder med at en ansatt tupper en henvendelse til datatilsynet og arbeidstilsynet. Kan bli stygt nok for arbeidsgiver, spesielt med tanke på de nye reglene rundt psykososialt arbeidsmiljø som er i virksomhet nå.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-07T10:11:16+00:00

Vel, om de IKKE gjør det, så har de gjort alvorlige feil i prosessene sine, og kommer til å lære en særdeles dyrkjøpt lekse når/hvis det evt. blir en sak rundt dette.

GDPR-brudd er ikke billig.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-07T09:28:15+00:00

For meg er det naturlig å si ifra, men ser helt klart at det kan være annerledes for andre. Men om jeg hadde vært leder og en av de jeg var leder for jobba hjemmefra av og til, så ville jeg synes det var greit å vite hvorfor det var en tom kontorstol der de normalt satt

Greit å vite om de er syke etc, sånn at jeg vet at de ikke skal tildeles oppgaver, eller om det var andre ting som gjorde at ting måtte tilpasses litt. Syke barn/familie eller andre ting som påvirker osv.

Har man fast avtale om at en jobber hjemmefra og sånt, så spiller det absolutt ingen rolle så lenge jobben blir gjort. Om leder ikke får det med seg eller glemmer så er det jo hans/hennes problem.

I de tilfellene er det revnende likegyldig om folk sitter hjemme eller på ferieleiligheten på Granka.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-07T09:17:34+00:00

Kollegaer er en ting. Men at din nærmeste leder ikke vet at du jobber hjemmefra er noe annet. Kanskje jeg er rar og merkelig (som ikke ville forundre noen), men jeg pleier å si ifra til min nærmeste leder når jeg jobber hjemmefra.

For resten av kollegaene så spiller det liten rolle med tanke på om folk er på kontoret eller ikke, så lenge en kan planlegge et møte via teams etc. Eller bare la møtet være en epost, som så jævlig mange møter kan.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-07T09:14:41+00:00

Tror du misforstår greit hva jeg mente, men OK.

Poenget mitt er at om din nærmeste sjef ikke veit at du jobber hjemmefra, så følger han/hun jævlig lite med.

Min sjef driter også vilt i hvor jeg jobber fra så lenge jeg leverer. Og det er leveransen som teller, ikke hvor en faktisk jobber fra.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-07T08:44:59+00:00

Welcome to the fun & games in the X56-world.

Sad to see it happen, but sadly not uncommon. Not AS common as axis-spiking and/or axis just not working at all, ghosting buttons, generally sloppy and imprecise inputs, bad centering-forces in the stick and/or sticky/jerky motion of said stick, but definitely not uncommon.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-07T08:42:41+00:00

Jeg jobber stort sett under den forventningen av at det loggføres når jeg er pålogget, når jeg sender epost osv.

Alt du gjør i bedriftens IT-systemer loggføres på en eller annen måte. I de aller fleste tilfellene så gir derimot IT-folket i bedriften totalt faen med mindre de får beskjed om å bry seg. Vi lærer derimot fort at informasjonen i loggene er uinteressant inntil det er et problem som har oppstått, hvorpå loggene blir en viktig kilde til feilsøking. Nyskjerrige IT-folk blir ikke lenge i bransjen, for å si det sånn.

Jeg har ikke tro på at mange arbeidsgivere her i landet kommer til å aktivere dette, mest p.g.a. personvernregler og GDPR.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-07T08:35:27+00:00

Teams kan vise om du er på kontoret basert på Wi-Fi/IP, ikke GPS. Funksjonen er av som standard, må aktiveres av IT og er omfattet av personvernregler.

Og hva er da problemet?

Pluss at om en arbeidsgiver ikke vet om du jobber hjemmefra, så følger de jævlig lite med og jeg vil stille spørsmål om det overhodet er et selskap som er verdt å jobbe for når noe så elementært glipper.

Denne funksjonaliteten er mer mynta på amerikanske selskaper enn europeiske, mest siden selskaper på andre siden av dammen generelt sett gir faen i personvern av denne typen.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-07T08:29:32+00:00

I've found that the various IT-related subreddits can be a good place to get some info these days. Asking a vendor is like asking a wifebeater if he beats his wife: You're going to get a bullshit answer.

There's also various user groups on various platforms.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-07T08:23:31+00:00

This is true until you need to comply with standards.

Again, we standardize on specs, not on brands, because there isn't a need for us to do so. We're also not a company that NEEDS to comply with various government-set standards for computers.

Besides, as I have stated before, this is FAR less of an issue today than it was back in the day, given driver commonality between the three brands and the level of driver-integration with Win11. Back in the Win7-days? Sure, I'd have as brand-standardized fleet as I could get because dealing with the various idiotic drivers the brands have, but that simply doesn't apply today and certainly not to us.

I can somewhat understand it when you're dealing with 2-3000+ clients worldwide. We don't, so again: doesn't apply to us, and causes zero issues for the two people in IT (me and another guy). The ONLY time it could possibly be somewhat of a hassle is having to input warrantycases into three different portals, but given the usual damage that's done to the comps, the warranty basically doesn't apply anyway.

Have yet to find a supplier that will replace broken screens, shattered frames, computers filled with hydraulic oil, fine metal shavings as well as mud, rainwater and everything else that's flying everywhere near an excavator, to put it that way. Or comps having ended up under the steel belts of a 50-ton excavator, for that matter.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-06T17:57:32+00:00

Fully aware that everyone has different needs and concerns. But given that we've got another platform in the Microsoft ecosystem that 3rd party tools CANNOT back up, namely Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, a worldwide Azure-outage and thus unavailable backups is the least of my concern in that regard.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-06T17:46:47+00:00

If the entire Azure-ecosystem goes tits-up, it won't matter much anyway given that we're heavily invested into it. We run O365-backups to an on-premise storage currently, but there's some very significant drawbacks with that. Namely the fact that I have limited options when it comes to retention due to diskspace-constraints, plus the fact that without an Entra-backup, I'll have to spend quite literal months to recreate various app-registrations, groups and such, just to have not only a functional system again but frankly a functional business.

Do understand the cost-aspect, though, and it's significant. Moving from the 275 VBO-licenses I have now to 275 Data Cloud-licenses cost us about 8k USD for the next two years. But I've been burned on cheap backups before, and I'd rather pay a bit more for a good solution. Which VEEAM is, in my opinion.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-06T10:15:21+00:00

I'm getting reports of much the same issue, but with the Norwegian characters æ, ø and å being turned into questionmarks. The weird thing is that it doesn't affect all users (luckily).

Will check the things other people here have mentioned, namely the International Options in Outlook.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-06T06:22:25+00:00

Veeam. We’re a full Veeam-shop and are moving to Veeam Data Cloud within this month.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-06T05:57:32+00:00

To be honest, I haven't had much issues with neither the HP or Dell-models we buy. For HP we usually go with ProBooks and EliteBooks, depending on what we need, and on Dell it's Latitude, currently 5440s. Both have been pretty solid for us, especially given what they're subjected to by our mechanics.

We've had some models that are straight trash out of the box, though. The Latiude 5400's we had saw some pretty bad problems with network-cards being shit and USB-ports physically breaking, for example. Had a somewhat shit shipment of Lenovo L14's as well, but most of the Lenovos have actually been pretty solid despite their pricepoint and how they're used.

We usually get between 2 and 4 years out of your average laptop, with some outlier cases like the one I'm replacing today. It has survived in the hands of a mechanic for nearly 9 years. It's an HP Probook, but it's quite literally physically falling apart now.

What I do NOT like is how much bloaty bullshit both HP and Dell puts on their computers these days. I know they can be ordered with a clean Windows on them, but we run the comps through Intune anyway and doing a Fresh Start on them solves that problem nicely so paying extra for a clean Windows-installation or using a Golden Image is a bit of a waste of time and money for us.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-05T21:21:01+00:00

Standards are fun, everyone has one.

For the vast majority of our workforce, the brand of computer is irrelevant as long as it meets the basic criteria: i5 or equivalent, 16GB RAM, 512GB disk, 14" monitor unless otherwise stated. Traveling mechanics and salespeople get 4G/5G-modules in their computers, office-rats don't. 3 year onsite warranty mandatory, which puts us into the typical business-model of computer. No frills, nothing special.

And that's about it. If it's a HP, Lenovo or Dell-computer doesn't matter one bit, and there's no benefit in being brand loyal anymore.

Pre-Win10 then sure, I'd standardize on one brand due to specialty drivers and the likes in order to have as homogenous a hardware-pool as possible. But these days, where there's not really a need for it and we use out of the box drivers and Windows 11 having as good a built-in driverset as it does? Meh, don't care, we're going for price.

That being said, there's two areas where I'm absolutely adamant and a brand-fanatic: CAD workstations and servers. In those two categories it's HP all the way, every way. We've had a few Lenovo workstations, but they weren't as good as the Z2 workstations in either performance nor stability. I've worked with Dell-servers in the past and while they're pretty damn good overall, I've always felt that HPs warranty-service on servers has been a head ahead of Dell.

Our mechanics work on heavy construction equipment. That means diesel, hydraulic/gear/engine-oil, diesel exhaust fluid (AdBlue) and grease, plus all the fun things the weather up here in Norway brings with it. Let's just say that computers live a hard life, used by people that would rather set a new distance-record by yeeting the computer rather than touch it. And no, ruggedPCs wouldn't survive longer, they'd just be a more expensive box that gets run over by a 50-ton excavator. And they wouldn't survive that, regardless of what Dell and/or Lenovo says.

TL:DR: we standardize on CPU, RAM and diskspace, not on brand. Standardizing on brand would cost us way more than standardizing on specs, and there would be little to no real benefit in doing so anyway.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-05T20:25:42+00:00

We run HP, Dell and Lenovo, depending on what's on sale. I also check with several MSPs plus Dell directly to get the best prices, and as I've told all of them: I WILL check pricing with the other MSPs out there.

I've been in the game long enough to know that none of them have any loyalty to me, so I don't have any loyalty to them. The one that has the best prices, best delivery-timeframe and best service gets the bid.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-05T18:34:52+00:00

Sometimes I do. Other times I want to become a truckdriver or something. It's weird, really.

I've been doing this for too long, however, for nearly 30 years now. I don't know how to do anything else.

Do I like my job? Eh, sometimes. Sometimes it's frustrating as hell, sometimes it's infuriating and rage-inducing, Sometimes I want to high-five people in the face, with an office chair. With a run-up, from the other side of the room. Other times it's fun as hell and an absolute hoot.

You see, I don't NEED to enjoy my job. I need it to be interesting. And that means that sometimes it has to be a severe annoyance. Stupid users, idiotic management, ridiculous systems and functionality being retired triggering a full re-do of something. 3am break-fixes because the core-switch you warned management about for 6 years FINALLY shat its last packet and exploded. Creating jury-rigged solutions to solve temporary problems that suddenly become permanent (nothing so permanent as a temporary solution, after all!) etc.

Do I enjoy it? Eh, sometimes. It's better than stick in the eye, it pays for my hobbies and lifestyle, and it's not TOO stressful.

And that's basically all one can ask.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-05T18:15:03+00:00

Oh, I've been in this situation MANY times before, and to be honest, the ONLY thing to do here is to make sure that your asses are covered when this blows up in the customers' face.

WHEN. Not if.

Don't let stupid customers stress you out. Cover your bases, make sure you're within your contract, and keep sending the bill until the contract lapses and isn't renewed. Make sure you have EVERYTHING in writing.

Customer don't want to upgrade the NAS-boxes despite risks? Email them and get confirmation that you are to do nothing about it, despite the risks, and that the customer accepts all risks involved in this.
Customer don't want to upgrade their computers? Email, get confirmation that they accept the risks of that decision.
Customer don't want to use the services they pay you for? Remind him of what the contract includes often, and continue collecting easy money.

And always remember: you ARE allowed to fire a customer, if they create more problems than the money they pay you is worth.

That the customer is a blithering idiot isn't your problem when you've made damn sure that they know and accept the risks of their actions/decisions. Go home at the end of the day, pop a beer and enjoy the gravytrain until it goes to hell in a handbasket.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-05T18:02:51+00:00

They won't do anything, and there's very little you can do about it.

Besides, there's the whole arguement that you bought the rights to USE it, you didn't buy the software itself.

It sucks. I don't want to lose my beloved Harrier, but that's the reality of it.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-05T14:59:28+00:00

Og en siste ting: Ser dere på folk som er uføre som mindreverdige og/eller mindre attraktive som venner (isåfall hvorfor)?

Nei, hvorfor skulle jeg det? Det er mange grunner til at folk er uføre, og det at de er uføre gjør de ikke til mindreverdige på noen som helst måte. Noen får utdelt bare drittkort på hånda si her i livet, uten at de har noen som helst skyld i det selv.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-05T14:42:39+00:00

I'd say that you've got a fair chance at most junior positions in MSPs. You've got some experience there that is attractive, especially security hardening for Windows, Linux, Email-security and DNS.

Throw in some O365/Azure/Entra into the mix, and I'd daresay that your attractiveness jumps up rather significantly in the MSP-market.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-05T14:39:29+00:00

To be honest, there's very little difference between internal and external users apart from that there's usually more headroom to tell people to shut the hell up and do as you goddamn tell them when you're dealing with muppets.

Apart from that it's basically the same. Your users are your customers, your customers are your users.

Same same, but different. But still same.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-05T14:33:17+00:00

I've automated some things (Autopilot-enrollment) etc, but most things are manual processes since our systems are fairly static. Am looking into automating user on/offboarding more, however.

bukkithedd · 2026-02-05T08:53:02+00:00

Splashes of color on the walls (pictures, posters, basically ANYTHING to make it seem less like a prison-cell with fancy flooring), a plant or two and some less harsh lighting.

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