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    • dafyreD
      dafyre @gjacobse
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      @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      Working on another PS convenience script; the POS systems in both pharmacies will ‘stop’ and they can’t process cards from time to time. You have to stop and start the services to reset.

      When I got here, they were remoting to that computer and then stop/starting it,.. having used the command line tool in (remote tool I can’t think of now) I found I could do the same in Manageengine,.. and then via command line. So I wrote a simple batch file to do that task.

      Now creating a menued powershell script for both sites.

      You could helpfully label it "Fix Broken POS"

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      • gjacobseG
        gjacobse @dafyre
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        @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        Working on another PS convenience script; the POS systems in both pharmacies will ‘stop’ and they can’t process cards from time to time. You have to stop and start the services to reset.

        When I got here, they were remoting to that computer and then stop/starting it,.. having used the command line tool in (remote tool I can’t think of now) I found I could do the same in Manageengine,.. and then via command line. So I wrote a simple batch file to do that task.

        Now creating a menued powershell script for both sites.

        You could helpfully label it "Fix Broken POS"

        Lol, yea… issue for another time. Just one of the many systems it seems that someone else decided that IT should figure out after having gone to the conference and bought it.

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        • dafyreD
          dafyre @gjacobse
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          @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          Working on another PS convenience script; the POS systems in both pharmacies will ‘stop’ and they can’t process cards from time to time. You have to stop and start the services to reset.

          When I got here, they were remoting to that computer and then stop/starting it,.. having used the command line tool in (remote tool I can’t think of now) I found I could do the same in Manageengine,.. and then via command line. So I wrote a simple batch file to do that task.

          Now creating a menued powershell script for both sites.

          You could helpfully label it "Fix Broken POS"

          Lol, yea… issue for another time. Just one of the many systems it seems that someone else decided that IT should figure out after having gone to the conference and bought it.

          I definitely know that feeling!

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            I've been so busy today I've not really been online at all. Hey everyone!

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            • dafyreD
              dafyre @scottalanmiller
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              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              I've been so busy today I've not really been online at all. Hey everyone!

              Has been rather crazy around here too as of late. Hoping things will settle down now that Halloween is over, lol.

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              • nadnerBN
                nadnerB
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                Bit of a brown pants moment for this chap:
                https://twitter.com/NewtonMark/status/1587347349008920576
                https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-03/truck-explosion-wa-goldfields-mining-blasting-/101609164

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
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                  Long day for us, we have a lot of servers in Belize where the storm took out the national power grid.

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                  • dafyreD
                    dafyre @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    Long day for us, we have a lot of servers in Belize where the storm took out the national power grid.

                    Yikes! Hope everybody down that way is alright!

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @dafyre
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                      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      Long day for us, we have a lot of servers in Belize where the storm took out the national power grid.

                      Yikes! Hope everybody down that way is alright!

                      So far, they seem to be.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
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                        Coffee now. Lots of work today. The kids just got their Pfizer vaccines in Managua.

                        Seeing a house that we are 95% sure we are renting today. Then I'm heading to Managua myself to party.

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                        • jt1001001J
                          jt1001001 @scottalanmiller
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                          Last Friday before much deserved PTO/Birthday celebrations. Closing out open ticket and training the new guy on the Windows/Azure admin stuff I do

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                          • dafyreD
                            dafyre @scottalanmiller
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                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            Coffee now. Lots of work today. The kids just got their Pfizer vaccines in Managua.

                            Seeing a house that we are 95% sure we are renting today. Then I'm heading to Managua myself to party.

                            P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!

                            7f54469b-4be1-42b9-852e-8feb795eb4c3-image.png

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @dafyre
                              last edited by

                              @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              Coffee now. Lots of work today. The kids just got their Pfizer vaccines in Managua.

                              Seeing a house that we are 95% sure we are renting today. Then I'm heading to Managua myself to party.

                              P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!

                              7f54469b-4be1-42b9-852e-8feb795eb4c3-image.png

                              That's nothing, on December 7th we are closing our hotel and all its associated bars and restaurants, fencing off the beach, erecting two stages, and TEN international DJs are attending a giant concert on the beach. We have to hire an entire shadow hotel staff to cook, serve, bartend, etc. It's going to be crazy. We are going to sell out every hotel room on both beaches and tons of them in the city. The entire crowd is expected to be from the capital hours away, with lots of people flying in from the US.

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                              • JaredBuschJ
                                JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                December 7th

                                Pearl Harbor Day is a big thing there?

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                                • DashrenderD
                                  Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  Coffee now. Lots of work today. The kids just got their Pfizer vaccines in Managua.

                                  Seeing a house that we are 95% sure we are renting today. Then I'm heading to Managua myself to party.

                                  P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!

                                  7f54469b-4be1-42b9-852e-8feb795eb4c3-image.png

                                  That's nothing, on December 7th we are closing our hotel and all its associated bars and restaurants, fencing off the beach, erecting two stages, and TEN international DJs are attending a giant concert on the beach. We have to hire an entire shadow hotel staff to cook, serve, bartend, etc. It's going to be crazy. We are going to sell out every hotel room on both beaches and tons of them in the city. The entire crowd is expected to be from the capital hours away, with lots of people flying in from the US.

                                  why shadow staff?

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
                                    last edited by

                                    @JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    December 7th

                                    Pearl Harbor Day is a big thing there?

                                    Jaja, yeah, that's it.

                                    Laguna de Perla is actually a major place here, lol.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                                      last edited by

                                      @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      Coffee now. Lots of work today. The kids just got their Pfizer vaccines in Managua.

                                      Seeing a house that we are 95% sure we are renting today. Then I'm heading to Managua myself to party.

                                      P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!

                                      7f54469b-4be1-42b9-852e-8feb795eb4c3-image.png

                                      That's nothing, on December 7th we are closing our hotel and all its associated bars and restaurants, fencing off the beach, erecting two stages, and TEN international DJs are attending a giant concert on the beach. We have to hire an entire shadow hotel staff to cook, serve, bartend, etc. It's going to be crazy. We are going to sell out every hotel room on both beaches and tons of them in the city. The entire crowd is expected to be from the capital hours away, with lots of people flying in from the US.

                                      why shadow staff?

                                      We need the real staff for the full day before the event and opening for breakfast as the event ends!

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                                      • DashrenderD
                                        Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                                        last edited by

                                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        Coffee now. Lots of work today. The kids just got their Pfizer vaccines in Managua.

                                        Seeing a house that we are 95% sure we are renting today. Then I'm heading to Managua myself to party.

                                        P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!

                                        7f54469b-4be1-42b9-852e-8feb795eb4c3-image.png

                                        That's nothing, on December 7th we are closing our hotel and all its associated bars and restaurants, fencing off the beach, erecting two stages, and TEN international DJs are attending a giant concert on the beach. We have to hire an entire shadow hotel staff to cook, serve, bartend, etc. It's going to be crazy. We are going to sell out every hotel room on both beaches and tons of them in the city. The entire crowd is expected to be from the capital hours away, with lots of people flying in from the US.

                                        why shadow staff?

                                        We need the real staff for the full day before the event and opening for breakfast as the event ends!

                                        Shadow IT at least to me is IT that is undermining the companies assigned IT staff.

                                        I assume this additional staff isn't there with the goal of undermining the normal staff?

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                          @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          Coffee now. Lots of work today. The kids just got their Pfizer vaccines in Managua.

                                          Seeing a house that we are 95% sure we are renting today. Then I'm heading to Managua myself to party.

                                          P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!

                                          7f54469b-4be1-42b9-852e-8feb795eb4c3-image.png

                                          That's nothing, on December 7th we are closing our hotel and all its associated bars and restaurants, fencing off the beach, erecting two stages, and TEN international DJs are attending a giant concert on the beach. We have to hire an entire shadow hotel staff to cook, serve, bartend, etc. It's going to be crazy. We are going to sell out every hotel room on both beaches and tons of them in the city. The entire crowd is expected to be from the capital hours away, with lots of people flying in from the US.

                                          why shadow staff?

                                          We need the real staff for the full day before the event and opening for breakfast as the event ends!

                                          Shadow IT at least to me is IT that is undermining the companies assigned IT staff.

                                          I assume this additional staff isn't there with the goal of undermining the normal staff?

                                          Not necessarily undermining. At IBM Shadow IT did all of the work, the actual IT department was running scams and not actually working, but had political clout and couldn't easily be fired because they were the same ones making money scamming customers and that was the big money (and why only an idiot would get services from IBM.) Internally they were required to pretend the IT staff were doing work so that customers could ask if they were eating their own dogfood, but shadow IT did ALL the work. Anything that actually ran came from shadow IT. In that case, primary IT was the one undermining the business. If they were the only ones there, IBM would have had to have closed its doors.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
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                                            Morning everyone!

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