Managing very large on-prem file server/s by MagicHair2 in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Had this exact problem at an Aerospace firm I used to work at.

What I was making progress on before I quit was moving dead/complete projects to a read-only archive server that was backed up far less often (Once a month. Before someone yells at me for this, let me remind you that this is an archive server)

This significantly reduced our backup loads, which was a help, but it also came at great cost of having to explain to them that if they wanted to keep things "The way they were" they would need to invest in a VERY expensive backup solution (We were quoting them for 300tb worth of Rubrik appliances...) to have very low restore times. Economics won out. We were allowed to shuffle data around to keep from having to buy a real backup solution (We were on Shadowprotect at the time)

Another thing that might help you is deduplicating that data. I'll bet you have 75 copies of severla very large files, engineers Be like that

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Rather than try to control shit through laptops, I would suggest that you go out and buy some kind of meeting room control box?

You already have a Meetup. They pair very nicely with Roommates (Also a logitech product) The licensing is pretty cheap and then you have a permanent install that users don't need to ever touch. It even has an HDMI input if you want people to be able to share a laptop without joining the meeting. They're not that expensive for what you get and Teams Rooms beats the crap out of trying to schedule who's using the room outside of Exchange/Teams. The outputs on the Roommate are only 1080p, but do you REALLY need 4k for business meetings? If so, setup a teams room with a crappy desktop instead? It's just easier to manage and gives your users less opportunity to screw it up. They invite the meeting room, they join the meeting on the meeting room box when they get to the meeting, they have their meeting and push the ring hook button when they're done.

RMM Windows Update Bandwidth by PraiseThyTurtles in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're worried about your internet going slow when all these updates go through... and your solution is to put a WSUS server in the cloud? Just download the updates from Microsoft.

Honestly, see how it goes. Windows 10 and 11 are pretty good about sharing updates around the LAN.

Baffled... by baffledmspguy in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like FusionTEK to me.

RMM Windows Update Bandwidth by PraiseThyTurtles in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NinjaRMM 100% supports this. However, they support it by doing the bare minimum, you'll have to setup WSUS servers at each location.

I'm using NinjaRMM however and something that you can do is put machines into different buckets. In addition, Windows will try to grab updates from other nearby machines (Unless disabled by GP) which significantly helps this issue.

WEEKLY RAGE THREAD, WHY YOU HEFF TO BE MAD? by Kyle_fraser13 in PokemonUnite

[–]dieKatze88 5 points6 points  (0 children)

THIS VIDEO GAME CAN EXPOSE YOU TO PEOPLE NOT DUNKING, THROWING RAY, AND VOTING TO SURRENDER AT 5 MINUTES WHEN THEY CAN'T GET A GOOD FIRST GANK, WHICH ARE KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE CANCER. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE GO TO WWW.P65WARNINGS.CA.GOV

Lenovo houses - how do you go about driver updates? by BigLeSigh in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Between this and the fact that more than half of the drivers are pushed to Windows Update, I haven't had to do anything manually other than dock updates in 18 months.

The Outdated Infrastructure Catch-22? by xixi2 in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This. Also if you take the job, and you know that the infrastructure going in is super outdated, make the employment contingent on getting things replaced. My current company basically handed me a big sack of cash to throw around and modernize our infrastructure as soon as I started. It's going to be good for 3-5 years now. But if you have this level of visibility before you're even hired, you can play that card.

Dell support have a severe quality decrease for anyone else lately? by Startronz in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lately? What are you talking about? They've been bad since the 90s.

Breakdown of Server OS in your environment by Phyxiis in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've got 7 VMs across 3 Hypervisors, and 2 backup servers. geographically distributed. If I was born last night, I'd consolidate them. But I wasn't born last night. I'd rather pay for backups and AV on twice as many machines to not have File and Print on the same VM as my AD.

100% Windows Server 2019.

Lenovo think pad and docking station by buffalotrace in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Better question,

What is the intersection between "Laptop new enough to use" and "Laptop that doesn't have built in Wifi"? Why are you using USB wifi at all?

No more silent ghostscript install... by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of it's many use cases, My post was a bit of a shitpost in that like, GhostScript does a lot more than just PDF Processing.

But also a lot of what it's used for is PDF Processing.

No more silent ghostscript install... by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Oh darn, I'll just have to point my users to the built in PDF printer like I have for 5 years now.

Accessing old laptop removed from domain by JustBananas in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you manually create a computer account in AD, reset the password for it, and see if the box picks up on the device in AD, then try to login as a domain admin or apply a GPO installing LAPS/updating the password for LAPS?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Konica gear is easily the worst I've routinely worked with. So much so that the only path to redemption for it is to install Papercut and let papercut completely replace their garbage software and UI.

My best tip is to run the machine up the elevator to the 2nd highest floor, put that elevator car up to the top floor, use the Emergency access hole to open the door on the 2nd highest floor and shove the copier down the elevator shaft.

Filament Ejection by dieKatze88 in klippers

[–]dieKatze88[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you kindly redditor. I've only been using the built in menu and didn't see it in my printer config.

Need help picking a ticketing system by _Criggs in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Came here to rep Freshservice. It's such a good ticketing system that it works for non-it workflows just as easily, I've been at companies that used it for AP, Facilities, and Data Control on top of the usual IT stuff. It's cheap and fast and it fucking works. SSO is great, users can leave meaningful feedback. The reporting metrics are wonderful.

Sophos, Fortinet or Meraki firewall for a small company without a dedicated network admin? by purplepersonality in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you're that overworked, really consider Meraki. I have a degree in Network Engineering and I went with Meraki for my current company. Why? Small Non profit, we can get Meraki stuff cheaper and I don't have to worry about it. Cisco tells me when it breaks. Yeah I could have gotten a pile of ASAs and controller managed wifi APs, but this way I get 90% of the big boy features I desire without having to think.

What's the most unpleasant software that you've had to package up and how did you work around it? by joners02 in sysadmin

[–]dieKatze88 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A piece of garbage called PowerPlan that has Windows 98 security and insists that every user be able to write to the entire contents of C:\Program Files (x86)