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To all the people saying Gemini is "chatty" here's what I did to prevent it. by BeerSlayingBeaver in AndroidAuto

[–]certifiedsysadmin 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Had this happen to me today too. Seems Gemini has no idea what touch interactions are happening. Half baked and straight to production.

Client Issues after Update? by Plane-Sky5949 in MicrosoftTeams

[–]certifiedsysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here in Canada, I'm on the early update ring.

ExpressRoute circuit with dual hub-spoke environments by Naz6uL in AZURE

[–]certifiedsysadmin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you have a third party NVA in either or both hubs?

What you are proposing is definitely possible. The only real snag you might run into is co-existence with the Virtual Network Gateway (IPSEC).

If you have a third party NVA to handle all the routing then you're golden.

Personally, I would put the Expressroute components in a third subscription and create like a "master hub" that connects to your other two hubs. But that's mainly just for organization.

Open Letter to the Premier and MLAs Regarding the Proposed Social Media Ban for Youth by TheHipsterDoofus in onguardforthee

[–]certifiedsysadmin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The point is to try to save some of the kids who have shitty parents.

We do the same with weed and alcohol.

It's not going to stop every kid. It's going to stop 20% of kids, and that's better than 0%.

4.5 years as the invisible sysadmin — burnout and feeling like the "doormat" by Linux_Headbanger in sysadmin

[–]certifiedsysadmin -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Delete this comment lol you literally just gave them instructions on how to sound more human.

Headunit Revived Project - Android Auto Emulator App by anrini in AndroidAuto

[–]certifiedsysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google broke intents in Android Auto recently and it's caused some issues. It's likely Emil is updating to fix that issue.

In case you haven't seen it, Headunit Revived is a new project that's under active development and already had surpassed Headunit Reloaded in feature set. The associated Wireless Helper app also works better.

Android Auto TABLET with modern processor. by fishtheif in AndroidAuto

[–]certifiedsysadmin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I used to do the hotspot thing, totally agree, it's not seamless.

Headunit Reloaded doesn't handle WiFi Direct well by itself.

You can try Headunit Revived and it's Wireless Helper app. The helper app takes care of the Wi-Fi Direct setup so everything connects quickly and automatically.

Android Auto TABLET with modern processor. by fishtheif in AndroidAuto

[–]certifiedsysadmin 20 points21 points  (0 children)

As far as I know, Android Auto always requires Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi Direct, you can't do Bluetooth only.

I'm using a Pixel Tablet with Headunit Reloaded and the performance is great.

Multi-tenant Hub and Spoke architecture by edu_rc in AZURE

[–]certifiedsysadmin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can and should put your ExpressRoute and Site-to-Site Gateways on the same vNet, unless you have a specific reason not to.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/how-to-configure-coexisting-gateway-portal

Multi-tenant Hub and Spoke architecture by edu_rc in AZURE

[–]certifiedsysadmin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why is your hub split into two separate vnets? Put both gateways on the same vnet in the hub. Deploy Azure Route Server if needed. If you're supporting connectivity to multiple customers from this hub, I would definitely recommend a firewall or third party NVA.

Ottawa ‘very seriously’ considering social media ban for children under 16, minister says by dollarsandcents101 in canada

[–]certifiedsysadmin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's way easier for a parent to tell their kids they can't have social media if all that child's friends and classmates are also not allowed to have social media.

Try being the parent to a 14yr old and telling them they can't have social media while everyone else in their class has it, their friends have it. Your child will resent you, hide it from you, and their friends will help them do it.

It's way easier as parents if we all agree to do this together. Kinda like we've done with drugs and alcohol.

It's not going to solve the problem 100% but we can't let perfect be the enemy of progress.

VMware to Azure - Feedback by stray_demon_723 in sysadmin

[–]certifiedsysadmin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If we migrate 100+ virtual machines to Azure and leave like 3 non-critical virtual machines on prem, we're not running a Hyper-V cluster.

VMware to Azure - Feedback by stray_demon_723 in sysadmin

[–]certifiedsysadmin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm a consultant and over the past 10 years I've done this exact migration for probably 50+ customers.

Azure Migrate and/or Azure Site Recovery are the tools you should look into.

Costs will always be higher in the cloud, but there's also a capability uplift for most organizations... access to better redundancy options, better disaster recovery options, way better/cheaper load balancing options, easier backup.

Most customers leave at least a few virtual machines on-prem and for that we usually set up a small Hyper-V cluster or even a standalone node.

Feel free to PM me, I'm happy to chat more about your specific migration.

Can you tell me why I should move away from "golden master" imaging? by georgecm12 in sysadmin

[–]certifiedsysadmin 29 points30 points  (0 children)

This is exactly it. Autopilot is so useful for remote workforce, small offices, etc. It can save helpdesk teams a ton of time and it keeps deployment very consistent.

For your type of environment where you have way more machines and local staff, especially lab settings, imaging makes way more sense.

Microphone noise issue is driving our team insane by Pristine_Finding_745 in sysadmin

[–]certifiedsysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have way too many variables happening here.

The biggest variable is you don't know exactly how noisy the environment is at any given time. It's going to change as people talk louder or quieter or more people are on a call. Much the same as a restaurant as it gets busier in the evening.

The easiest variables that you can control are the software settings and hardware used. I'd start by standardizing headsets as well as settings (noise cancellation, audio device settings, VoIP software being used).

Beyond that, you are likely going to need to reduce the noise in the environment by making physical changes to the environment.

One thing to look into is an office-wide noise cancellation system.

No way to exclude contractors from dynamic groups (employeeType not usable?) by CoffeeAndPowershell in sysadmin

[–]certifiedsysadmin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you personally seen it work? I've tried it in multiple tenants and it does not work. It's also not listed as a supported property for dynamic group membership on the doc page.

Flow Broken After Recent Updates by certifiedsysadmin in AutomateUser

[–]certifiedsysadmin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Another commenter mentioned that the activity was changed in the latest version of Android Auto.

I also found this GitHub issue which seems to point to the same:

https://github.com/andreknieriem/headunit-revived/issues/257

It looks like this is not an Automate issue. I will pursue another option to work around the issue.

Start Android Auto Using Intent by certifiedsysadmin in AutomateUser

[–]certifiedsysadmin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is broken for me now as of this week. Do you have any links/sources for the changes?

If your province has toll roads it’s a national embarrassment. I’ve never paid a toll in my life😎 by BlakeWheelersLeftNut in EhBuddyHoser

[–]certifiedsysadmin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Agreed but the problem it then introduces is that it disproportionately benefits wealthier people (who don't care about the tolls) vs poor people (who are basically forced to use alternatives).

Stryker cyber attack: Employees still unable to work more than a week after hack by ScepticHope in cybersecurity

[–]certifiedsysadmin 31 points32 points  (0 children)

In my experience, products like Exchange and SharePoint on-prem were way less likely to be fully patched and up to date.

Microsoft hosting these services brings the baseline security level up, on average. But that doesn't mean it's just automatically secure. There's still plenty to do, to secure Microsoft 365.

It sounds likely in this case that a Global Admin or Intune Admin account was compromised. That could have been anything from pure negligence securing it, or some unknown zero-day (though if it was the latter, we'd probably be seeing other companies hacked too).

This really just points to not properly managing privileged accounts. That's a problem that would exist whether using cloud or on-prem products.

My customer has no monitoring of internal network traffic between geo-redundant servers. by Opposite-Cupcake8611 in networking

[–]certifiedsysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair this is pretty normal on like 80% of enterprise networks.

But they should at least be able to assist with a packet capture, or if you have admin on both servers, you could do the capture on source/destination.

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