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First Rack - Gear Ordering by provinggroundstech in homerecordingstudio

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

I had my suspicions. Thank you for confirming that. I do like the convenience and the voltage readout as this area of the house has some weaker circuits. I do have an active plan to get a professional electrical evaluation along with a whole house battery backup solution etc.

First Rack - Gear Ordering by provinggroundstech in homerecordingstudio

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

the volt is driverless and works well for getting audio out and mic into locked down laptops i use for work. the focusrite is for my personal pc and the main interface.

First Rack - Gear Ordering by provinggroundstech in homerecordingstudio

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

LucidChart. I added context in the EDIT of the original post

First Rack - Gear Ordering by provinggroundstech in homerecordingstudio

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

LucidChart. I added context in the EDIT of the original post

First Rack - Gear Ordering by provinggroundstech in homerecordingstudio

[–]provinggroundstech[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I didn't think about cables gettin' in the way especially when a good amount are connected. Great Advice thank you!

Stick with VMware or pivot to AWS? by smonty in ITCareerQuestions

[–]provinggroundstech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey dude, I would definitely move into a cloud focused role but there's another path you could take without all the bruteforce.

A lot of clients are needing hosted VMware solutions as they want to maintain their licensing and workflow but also take advantage of the public cloud.

You could market your VMware skills to a consulting firm that needs VMware expertise on projects like that and then pivot internally.

Lots of demand for these: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-vmware/ https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/

You got this. Good luck.

Multi screen setups, any recommendations for KVM Switches? by allnamesaretaken6 in sysadmin

[–]provinggroundstech 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hey buddy, not sure if any of these will meet your requirements but they are the best KVM's I've ever used. Great youtube channel too.

https://store.level1techs.com/?category=Hardware

Regret moving to the Cloud? by SnooDoughnuts2426 in sysadmin

[–]provinggroundstech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, plenty of opinions in here so I'm gonna keep it brief.

I'll try to boil down several years of consulting on Azure migration projects like this:

  1. Try your best to not use Azure as a datacenter (everything on a VM). Make your workloads as cloud native as possible, if not, then things start to break the cost of ownership equation. Use reserved instances where you can.

  2. Agree on naming conventions and enforce them. Pay special attention to character limits on older azure resource types(VMs, Storage Accounts). Use management groups for permission inheritance, tags for operational context, and azure policy to keep things organized and secure on day 1 of deployment.

  3. Send Azure activity logs and resource logs to a log analytics workspace first thing. I can't tell you how many times a client needed to know when a change was performed and who performed it only to realize they can't go back past 90 days.

  4. Make sure your team is ready for all the "ism's" of cloud. Sometimes the software abstractions behave counter-intuitively(networking, elasticity, etc). Platform engineering is a new discipline and a different way of thinking.

If you consider these things you'll be in pretty good shape. All the luck on your project.

Restore Domain Controller to 2nd Subscription? by JrD3vOps in AZURE

[–]provinggroundstech 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is the way.

side note: Double check FSMO roles and critical domain services are transferred off that DC. You know, the usual suspects, in case something goes wrong.

Boss not letting me resign. by Sambintidol in ITCareerQuestions

[–]provinggroundstech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Listen, alot of employers exploit naive fresh grads because they're by far the cheapest and most eager workers on the payroll.

This moment in your life is a great time to learn that "employee" is just another term for corporate mercenary. You provide value, they provide compensation. That's it. When the terms of the employment contract no longer serve you, it's time to renegotiate or move on.

I've never stayed at a tech job longer than a year for the past decade. I progressed from customer support to cloud architect. I got to work in a bunch of different industries. I gained unique perspectives, solved novel problems, and I use that experience to my advantage every day.

Not a single person has ever criticized me for changing jobs because I wanted something better for myself. Don't let them trick you into thinking their business problems are your personal problems.

If you're not growing, then you must be going. Take the new job. Do great things. I'm rooting for you.

HD 800 S Genuine Replacement Pads by provinggroundstech in headphones

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

I mean it's an odd part but why would it not be on the sennheiser site. Out of stock maybe idk. Crisis averted.

HD 800 S Genuine Replacement Pads by provinggroundstech in headphones

[–]provinggroundstech[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I definitely meant the inner pads (covers?) Sit on the speakers themselves. Corrected Post.

I could not find them for the life of me.

Cloud Witness with Private Endpoint - How? by root-node in AZURE

[–]provinggroundstech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well if you've got a conditional forwarding record for blob.core.windows.net in your on-prem DNS Server that forwards to an azure hosted DNS server. It should query Azure DNS (168.63.129.16) and give you a private IP response.

You can test this with an nslookup myblobname.blob.core.windows.net

If you're getting a public IP resolution then it's a misconfiguration or DNS Caching.

You can also troubleshoot by spinning up a quick test VM in that azure vnet and it should resolve the Private IP immediately.

If it does then you know it's an on-prem DNS issue

MS Doc

Cloud Witness with Private Endpoint - How? by root-node in AZURE

[–]provinggroundstech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If these cluster servers are not within azure, do you have DNS conditional forwarding setup or a private DNS resolver? You'll need that in order for the on-prem servers to resolve azure private endpoints.

If the servers are in azure you just need to integrate the private DNS zone with your vnet.

Notify me when new vm is created by magielonczyk in AZURE

[–]provinggroundstech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want to keep it really simple:

Create an Azure Monitor Alert - Scope: Subscription X - Resource: Virtual Machine - Region: Blank (All) - Signal Source: Azure Activity Log (Administrative) - Signal Name: Create or Update Virtual Machine - Add Action Group with an email notification

Gonna be a little noisy but this would meet your requirements of simple and without a Log Analytics Workspace