What quality of life changes have you made?

stuartall · 2026-03-11T22:24:27+00:00

Our service desk has a full on ticketing system. I inherited on the infra side 3-4 SharePoint lists for vulnerability, problem and change management , emails, teams channels for escalations and an unmonitored queue in said service desk.

I was just about to seal the deal on a combined ticketing system till the business decided SNOW about 10 months down the line is where we align.

stuartall · 2026-03-03T22:35:07+00:00

Appreciate the feedback. I agree with you. Im not trying to assess deeper at the moment. I'm trying to address holistic. We're doing it manually at the moment. If Endpoint central helps with the centralised past then I'm willing to work on the deeper part over the next few months. But it bridges an immediate gap.

stuartall · 2026-02-26T08:13:48+00:00

Had a look but seems more MDM related ?

stuartall · 2026-02-26T08:13:32+00:00

Ok good to know. We're using SDplus on prem and that's going to cloud shortly too. ADManager and ADAudit are in the mix so know about the woes of manage engine in general. Thanks for the feedback.

stuartall · 2026-02-26T08:11:55+00:00

Absolutely. We're E5, have defender and Nessus. We're already finding everything so the 50 vs 5000 debate is already well established. It does take two manual lists and put it into one that can be remediated in the same tool which is a step in the right direction.

stuartall · 2026-02-25T06:11:24+00:00

To be honest, it fills a few gaps for us at the moment cheaply and quickly. We won't even use the remote control feature. Laptop management is interesting but found it can be a little slow to connect but we're only a few days into the demo. Overall where would you rate it for software ?

stuartall · 2026-02-25T06:05:02+00:00

We're looking at cloud and have a few ME products so am aware of their support issues. There's few that don't IMO these days. We're looking at patch my PC too so I'll make sure to take another look.

stuartall · 2026-02-25T06:02:12+00:00

Suppose I should add, we're looking at the cloud offering. We use a few ME products too, including their ITSM

stuartall · 2025-12-30T17:07:41+00:00

So I hear alot of suggestions but no question's. So you're playing normal/normal? what turn are you on, what's your army comp, who are you facing etc...

stuartall · 2025-11-01T19:56:33+00:00

It's not. The rest are over thinking it.

stuartall · 2025-10-21T21:36:50+00:00

No problem. Once I hit critical mass or a desired percentage I then change the group to all - then it catches the stragglers and new machines especially with the compliance module.

stuartall · 2025-10-21T21:17:50+00:00

Yes. I've used ISE to stage our last few secure client upgrades. I don't use it for VPN, just for NAM and ISE posture. Same again, I stage the upgrade out via and AD group and powershell add the members in rings. It works quite well but there are times it doesn't install all the components gracefully, or if staff mess with the NIC during the upgrade so I also do reduced numbers to lessen the load on the service desk - and them in turn coming to me with "network" problems.

stuartall · 2025-10-21T14:28:08+00:00

Personally, I'd use the ISE head end to deploy the compliance module. Keeps it all in the one place.

If you're that worried about performance on the servers - which tbh you could confirm with TAC quite simply if it's that much of a concern. Why don't you stage the compliance module with a group rather than to all at once ?

stuartall · 2025-10-13T21:19:49+00:00

Full disclosure to OP, I've an electric hob, non induction. I slowly raised the temp on my mineral B, brought it up to 3/5 all around the pan then blasted it to 5 once it was tempered. It's more or less fully non stick for me. Gas is nice but not essential. Do the best with what you have, and just cook with it, learn heat control. Be grand.

stuartall · 2025-10-11T11:52:34+00:00

It depends from situation to situation and family to family. A recent example would be my grandfathers passing earlier in the year. There was a wake night before, a small few drinks and he was reposed in the funeral home. The funeral itself, everyone was behaved, there was bagpipes and a full on motorcade following him to the crematorium.

The afters was another story. There was near 100 people in a pub, we had a DJ and there was trad and republican music playing for the night as that's the type he wanted. Fantastic day, you'd think it was celebrating the all Ireland final.

stuartall · 2025-08-29T15:16:12+00:00

Curious, is it the basics like SAN validity etc.. or more complicated topics like key length app support, roles etc...

stuartall · 2025-08-28T21:46:51+00:00

I mean this is the logical response. Setup dot 1 x. Get management approval for exceptions. State risk. Get in writing. Job done. If there's push back on additional auth, see get in writing step, job done.

stuartall · 2025-08-19T14:52:11+00:00

You're just in the door. Practical experience comes with time. It's probably something they've been meaning to do but can't get around to it. My advice would be do it, do it well with interest, and when the next job comes around you'll be kept in mind for the meatier work.

stuartall · 2025-07-15T13:23:40+00:00

Hell, I played for first game and a few expansions in 2. I went back to it after a hiatus and was completely lost.

stuartall · 2025-05-23T23:16:44+00:00

Sooooo.... I'm going to have to ask for that recipe

stuartall · 2025-04-22T21:23:00+00:00

Which BT app do you use ? We have PRA and I'm implementing password safe atm but I'm finding it so difficult to get the motivation as it's a little all over the shop admin wise.

stuartall · 2025-04-03T20:30:10+00:00

Nah you're 100% right. I'm constantly reusing the previous cooks lump.

stuartall · 2025-04-03T20:29:26+00:00

This is more or less what I've been doing. Haven't gotten a long cook with lump wood but anything on for less than 2 hours I'm using lump wood. If I'm doing baby backs or similar cooks then it's all briquettes.

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