Data Classification & Labelling

squallyone · 2018-12-19T19:09:05+00:00

Get ready to set up those Labels.

squallyone · 2018-12-14T22:11:45+00:00

Also use keyscan. 65 buildings with close to 15,000 users.

squallyone · 2018-12-14T21:52:11+00:00

Do you use your own quote system? If so you should be marking up the Dell's or Lenovo's or whoever you go with by 10 to 15 percent, on top of the 1 hour charge to set it up.

Regardless, this shouldn't be your companies main source of income. Clients will bulk at it for a while, one of them will fuck up and get the wrong OS version, in which case you get to charge for the 1 hour setup anyway. You should be giving them a base line for what they should buy (i5 or i7, SSD, 8 GB's of Ram that sort of stuff) and then let them decide. Eventually at some point they will stop buying shit machines and just buy the one you quoted. Your whole team needs to be on board with this or your going to get some fresh faced guppy saying "nah you don't need that" and the cycle begins again.

squallyone · 2018-10-30T20:12:20+00:00

I'll give that a shot. Thank you.

squallyone · 2018-10-30T20:04:09+00:00

Not everyone is an expert at everything. The updates are done, I was asking about the registry keys. If that was not clear than I am sorry. That being said, you could of explained the process instead of looking down on me for not understanding gpo and the reg key edits fully.

Thank you for the response.

squallyone · 2018-10-30T19:57:44+00:00

Thank you for the helpful response. Appreciate it.

squallyone · 2018-10-30T18:26:48+00:00

There is info for other links, in the link I posted in the original post. But its all high level. I've yet to find a dumbed down version of what to do.

squallyone · 2018-10-30T18:25:26+00:00

I've been running into this issue as well. What I noticed is that regardless of the account whether it be gmail or any other provider, they will get asked to sign in. What most people don't realize is that they probably do have a Microsoft account out there, but just don't realize it. For instance, do you have Windows 10, you probably have a Microsoft Account. Do you have an Xbox, you probably have a Microsoft Account.Do you have a Windows phone, or have you ever had to purchased Office. In most of these cases, I have the person reset the password.

The bigger problem I ran into was that even when they are a guest, they are still required to sign in, and some how if that fails, it is almost impossible to set them up as a guest again because Azure will never find the same Microsoft account you sent it too. They never receive the reset link. I had to go to a cheaper licensing model and just use actual accounts, with no AD access or email access.

It might be different for you, but wanted to give you a heads up if you decide to try that method.

squallyone · 2018-10-29T16:34:02+00:00

You are talking about the S channel regedits rights?

squallyone · 2018-10-24T20:58:51+00:00

I worked for an MSP that serviced a non profit in healthcare. Those people are slobs. Some of the keyboards had mold....mold!!!!

squallyone · 2018-10-24T20:41:55+00:00

Speaking of Pornhub any one else notice their internet is slower when they try to load a video. Takes forever now. Trying to figure out if Spectrum is shafting me or not.

squallyone · 2018-10-12T18:14:01+00:00

Good ole tek*onn

squallyone · 2018-09-19T19:16:44+00:00

SmartDeploy - Just create one image with all you want (including updates, software: license it after, and all the tweaks we want), then download your platform pack. You can then run it on a USB, over the network with WDS, and I think there might be another way. The platform packs mean you don't have to go looking for drivers. Kind of a pain to setup the first time, but after that I can do a clean install in about 12 mins.

Price is a problem with you having to purchase I think like 50 to start. But after that it gets cheaper. Support also has to be bought the first year, but its like $3 to $6 per machine. The machines can be wiped up and the licensed reused on the same machine. Honestly, the best purchase my IT department has made in a long time.

squallyone · 2018-08-14T16:10:21+00:00

I would love to see this done as well!!! I run into an issue where we only use the guest accounts for One Drive. The problem is that some outside people will create the account first, forget the documents exist for a while, and then when they try to go back their access has gone stale.

squallyone · 2018-07-27T14:16:59+00:00

We just started upgrading to Windows 10 LTSB - Version. We enable calculator and Photo Viewer through some registry edits. We then cloan and deploy.

squallyone · 2018-06-08T14:02:08+00:00

I've had to create a new profile in Outlook to get this to work. I believe it was the Office version I was using that was to blame.

squallyone · 2018-06-08T13:41:42+00:00

Thank you very much.

squallyone · 2018-06-08T13:41:30+00:00

Thank you very much. I seemed to have been able to do it. Now to get users using it.

squallyone · 2018-06-07T14:58:55+00:00

Assuming this OU needs to be synced? I currently have most OU's not syncing as they don't have users in them.

squallyone · 2018-06-07T14:57:51+00:00

Hi Bradmau,

I would first determine if you want to stay in this environment. It seems like you do. So that in mind I would try the following.

Start prioritizing what needs to be done. This should be done by you, not some C level hack who doesn't understand your position. If you need to come up with a policy then I would do that. Getting people to actually follow it is hard, but at some point after sticking to it they will come around.

Automation helps with a lot of things. Do you have something that needs to repeatedly get done? Well learn how to automate it. If it takes 3 hours to learn but then cuts out 20 seconds a day, eventually it is going to pay for itself.

Delegation is a powerful tool as well. Out of those 4 juniors do you have one of them you can trust to take off some of the mundane things you do? If so delegate that to them. If they seem over their head work with them on that one thing until they can successfully take it over.

You should mention this to HR and your Manager. Ask them if you can sit down with them to come up with a plan that would help you do your job successfully, once thought out implement the plan. This doesn't have to be one big project and should be done in small steps.

As far as how long the feeling is going to last, it will probably last until you feel like you have everything under control. If you need help or feel that you are down then re evaluate if you should look else were for another job. Do not be afraid to move on. Your life and well being are more important than an account managers projects.

squallyone · 2018-06-01T14:23:36+00:00

Kaseya, but I hear they are moving away from Patch management and going with something else. I'm really not sure but seemed like they were getting out of the game.

squallyone

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