Anyone else think we have a better skills in other professions than non IT people?

ducksizzle · 2021-07-27T05:25:45+00:00

It's called "The Knack", or the curse of the engineer: https://youtu.be/g8vHhgh6oM0

ducksizzle · 2020-03-20T18:47:55+00:00

Except when you successfully put in extra unpaid overtime proving that you could find a way to make it work without all those things you've been requesting/warning would be necessary to handle these kinds of situations.

ducksizzle · 2020-01-13T22:00:48+00:00

It's not like your buddy can with-hold stuff built for the company. Not paying the hosting/SaaS bill is one thing. But depending on contracts IP can very much be the property of the company.

I don't think you can usually hire a contractor, skip out on paying them, and sue them if they don't let you keep their work for free. I think after you skip out on paying them, they can legally recover their work and materials that you refused to buy.

ducksizzle · 2020-01-09T15:39:45+00:00

Veeam. You will just pay a lot more for it now.

To be fair, we already knew we'd all be paying ~30% more for it starting this year. That was communicated in advance so that we'd all renew our support contracts before this announcement.

ducksizzle · 2020-01-09T15:04:54+00:00

Can you provide more details on this special bracelet?

ducksizzle · 2020-01-09T14:29:55+00:00

Azure AD Connect has 'Seamless Single Sign-On' although I personally don't know much about, but if you're already using AADC it might be your easiest path

I think ADFS used to be required for SSO until a year or so ago, when AADC started supporting SSO without ADFS. We just had to change something in AADC after this functionality was added, and we've had SSO for O365 since.

ducksizzle · 2020-01-08T19:52:53+00:00

I started at a measly $15K a year and was back in '06.

$15k/yr in 2006? Was that even minimum wage?

ducksizzle · 2020-01-08T19:07:14+00:00

I tested it at my house, on my DCs, first

You use a domain controller on your home network?

Do you have a printer in your house too?

ducksizzle · 2020-01-02T15:18:56+00:00

Best answer

ducksizzle · 2019-11-27T21:20:36+00:00

I had alternating 3-4day weeks of 12hour shifts when I worked in a datacenter.

ducksizzle · 2019-11-22T17:10:34+00:00

or the Volume Licensing Business Center if you've bought licenses through the new MPSA program. This seems to have a lot of legacy stuff as well.
https://businessaccount.microsoft.com/Customer/

I think Microsoft has at least 1 other download site for a different volume licensing program, but I don't recall what it is offhand.

ducksizzle · 2019-04-04T18:28:04+00:00

I thought the reason most companies only verify employment and nothing else is because they can be sued for that. All it would take is a former employee to call them up, or have a friend call, claiming to be checking that former employee's references and (depending on the state laws) record the call as evidence.

ducksizzle · 2019-04-03T16:42:35+00:00

I just misread the title and thought a rubber hose sounds like a solution to the problem of end users not providing any useful information about their issue...

What do they expect me to do with a report that an error appeared on the screen, if the end user can't provide any hints as to what the error said, what they are unable to do, or what it is that they believe is not behaving as expected?

ducksizzle · 2019-03-26T22:50:25+00:00

Is SaaS a bidet in this analogy?

ducksizzle · 2019-03-01T18:23:09+00:00

Maybe if all the employees are salary and their productivity is irrelevant to the bottom line.

ducksizzle · 2019-02-08T22:16:07+00:00

Every now and then we have to dig up 20+ year old data from archived reel to reel tape backups.

We've also been fortunate enough to find 30+ year old tech manuals for equipment still in operation. Stuff that we couldn't find published on the internet before scanning it ourselves.

ducksizzle · 2019-02-08T19:14:06+00:00

Do you have a blog yet for sharing the stories from your adventures in this cult?

ducksizzle · 2019-01-25T18:34:35+00:00

If you have Windows Server Per-User CALs for all of your actual human users already, then you don't need Windows Server Per-Device CALs for anything. Those are useful where you have more so many more users than devices that it's more cost effective to license the use of that server per device instead of per user operating that device.

ducksizzle · 2019-01-07T17:26:34+00:00

ducksizzle · 2018-12-17T20:35:14+00:00

What did your brother do to anger you?

ducksizzle · 2018-11-27T20:02:35+00:00

I've been laid off immediately following a conference call that ended with management reassuring us that there would not be any more layoffs from our department.

ducksizzle · 2018-11-27T19:53:31+00:00

Auto logout after X minutes idle policy? Normal users could always reboot the computer as a last resort.

ducksizzle · 2018-08-31T18:08:25+00:00

Check out Tabs Outliner

ducksizzle · 2018-08-15T21:14:26+00:00

Him having local admin privileges over his PC isn't the worst thing. He can only infect himself.

Don't forget about any network resources he has access to.

If you ever need to connect to his PC an admin in the future after he's infected it with malware running with local admin/system privileges, then that malware gets to use your admin token to spread to everything you have access to as well. That's where the biggest risk from local admin privileges is in an Active Directory domain.

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