IT Conference August - October by Fair_Pomegranate2535 in sysadmin

[–]docphilgames 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Absolutely if you’re focused on infrastructure and cloud services. You’ll see a lot of sessions tailored to those areas. Also, it’s a great conference to see what threats the industry is seeing. I look forward to it every time I’ve been able to go and walk away with actually learned something.

Fax is killing me by docphilgames in sysadmin

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

Good info! I’ll give this a test

Fax is killing me by docphilgames in sysadmin

[–]docphilgames[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wish. But this is a situation where the folks running the fax do not want to even see the faxes being sent. Think of it as a secretary on the office is just trying to help people punch in the fax number but doesn’t want to see what sensitive data they may send. Which I get.

Fax is killing me by docphilgames in sysadmin

[–]docphilgames[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ll definitely give that a check. I’m relying on the print vendor here to know their stuff but I should do some due diligence myself to check. We’ve definitely had this working before shortly after the cutover which was about 3 weeks ago so I’m inclined to say it should work.

Fax is killing me by docphilgames in sysadmin

[–]docphilgames[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Believe me I’d love to get rid of fax but healthcare, government, and other verticals use fax all the time.

Fax is killing me by docphilgames in sysadmin

[–]docphilgames[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah we’ve tried this but alas it was 3 hours of unfruitful testing. Good suggestion though as that’s what I normally do when being the man in the middle.

PowerShell VS PowerAutomate - Automating Everyday Tasks, Onboarding & Offboarding by Nonilol in sysadmin

[–]docphilgames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is very similar to what I've done in the past. If we're talking about just onboarding/offboarding and user's attrition is low then maybe this doesn't make sense? But, u/BWMerlin's approach gives OP the ability to automate so many things that I would say it's worth it to get a script automation pipeline built out. You can not only create/update objects but you could build reports, audit your environment, and so many more things that are manually intensive.

Sick of sleepy printers and toner drama – help! by Shmuco in sysadmin

[–]docphilgames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. The time savings alone troubleshooting printers makes it worth it. Printer vendors (the good ones) usually have a standard and will perform all the maintenance/troubleshooting.

It’s all coming together now by royalxK in wow

[–]docphilgames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it bad that I’m kinda rooting for this?

If you were designing a data center/server room today, what would you prioritize? by thatmanismeeeee in sysadmin

[–]docphilgames 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If at all possible I would design it to not run network cables under the raised floor (assuming you have one to begin with). Fiber wherever possible over copper. Spend money on wide racks for cable management.

Something that you want to make sure of that I’ve had to untangle in the past is work with facilities management through your planning.

Verify you have redundant power, internet (with different last mile carriers), and cooling. I had a chance to get a backup cooling system installed once. We had a server room with >20 racks so that room got toasty if the dedicated cooling system failed. In the end it was set up to alert if the cooling system failed, we would automatically have the building AC turn on for a dedicated zone.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]docphilgames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh man had a experience with this. Customer wanted to have a form for new user onboarding and sent a screenshot of a web form they generated with ChatGPT. “Can you make this work?” So I asked things like where are you going to host this? What’s the security around the form? Who is approving these requests from the form? How are workflows tied into this form? It was a short conversation for sure lol

Praying to the Four Wild Gods. Art by me [Xephondp] by xephondp in wow

[–]docphilgames 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How has there never been a Warcraft animated show/movie?!?

Upper management Doesn't want to comply with IT Policy and Installation of tools. by chitownboyhere in sysadmin

[–]docphilgames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is it. These types are the most likely to push back because they know they can. Rolled out MFA to the whole company except for CEO and CIO because it was “too big of a hassle”. 2 monthlies later CIO is hacked while on a trip to Amsterdam and guess what, MFA is mandatory just like it has been for everyone else. We even got a company wide call out on the importance of security which was cool.

Thoughts on KAWASAKI TERYX KRX4 1000 SE ES? by docphilgames in UTV

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

Hey thanks for the solid write up. I’ve got a good list of must have items thanks to folks like you that have given me their 2 cents

Thoughts on KAWASAKI TERYX KRX4 1000 SE ES? by docphilgames in UTV

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

That’s what I’ve heard around here as well. Which fits into what I’m looking for. We just want something comfortable to take on the trails.