What Are You Doing Right Now
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
IDK man, @Dashrender has been teaching me a lot.
Not anything that will actually make you valuable. You can learn AD all you want and get more basic shit ass jobs. But why keep looking at crap?
As much as I am friends with him, @Dashrender is a horrible example of what to look up to in IT.
He knows a lot, yes. But it is all mostly old. He is in a great position with the company he works for which has the weight of legacy crap and misunderstood HIPAA holding it back.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Spinning up my server 2019 VM with AD, thinking I need practice with Hyper-V as well..
thought?Single host Hyper V operation is very simple. I wrote an article over at @StarWind_Software's blog a while ago which explains the basic networking stuff (the articles there are all great). Could be a good starting point.
More advanced topics include things like backups, MAC spoofing (required by VPNs, for example), VLANs vs multiple NICs (important for VPNs and firewalls for example), resource allocation, correct snapshot usage, different virtual disk types, underlying storage architecture (beware, that's the personal topic of @scottalanmiller :p) etc. IMHO, backups and the underlying storage are by far the most important things to learn.
I prefer the learning-by-doing approach. You could, for example, build a working VPN server. Try SoftEther on a Linux VM, a really cool and free to use multiprotocol VPN server. Let it authenticate inbound SSTP connections against your Active Directory. Or play around with Veeam B&R.
Thanks, I'll look into that.
yw.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't?Every Job Posting I've seen requires some knowledge of AD.
Yes, like how to attach a desktop or change a password. Takes seconds to learn. You've already done those things. Learning to deploy it isn't a bad thing to know, but not a priority. No one is ever going to hire you to set up a new AD system, just to do basic maintenance of an old one. You literally can learn that stuff in an evening. So put in your one evening and move on.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't?Every Job Posting I've seen requires some knowledge of AD.
Yes, like how to attach a desktop or change a password. Takes seconds to learn. You've already done those things. Learning to deploy it isn't a bad thing to know, but not a priority. No one is ever going to hire you to set up a new AD system, just to do basic maintenance of an old one. You literally can learn that stuff in an evening. So put in your one evening and move on.
I did that already. Only thing I gotta figure out is how to add a Computer/device to the domain
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't?Every Job Posting I've seen requires some knowledge of AD.
Yes, like how to attach a desktop or change a password. Takes seconds to learn. You've already done those things. Learning to deploy it isn't a bad thing to know, but not a priority. No one is ever going to hire you to set up a new AD system, just to do basic maintenance of an old one. You literally can learn that stuff in an evening. So put in your one evening and move on.
I did that already. Only thing I gotta figure out is how to add a Computer/device to the domain
- Control Panel
- Deployment Script
- PowerShell
Add-Computer –Domainname my.domain.tld -restart - ...
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Upgrading Nextcloud to current stable.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Upgrading Nextcloud to current stable.
I'm running all those workloads on Docker. Makes life so much easier. No more per-application handling.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Upgrading Nextcloud to current stable.
I'm running all those workloads on Docker. Makes life so much easier. No more per-application handling.
Yeah, not going to happen.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Upgrading Nextcloud to current stable.
I'm running all those workloads on Docker. Makes life so much easier. No more per-application handling.
Yeah, not going to happen.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Upgrading Nextcloud to current stable.
I'm running all those workloads on Docker. Makes life so much easier. No more per-application handling.
Yeah, not going to happen.
Last time I looked, wasn't the docker container of NC community sourced?
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Upgrading Nextcloud to current stable.
I'm running all those workloads on Docker. Makes life so much easier. No more per-application handling.
Yeah, not going to happen.
Last time I looked, wasn't the docker container of NC community sourced?
Sec, let me check
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Upgrading Nextcloud to current stable.
I'm running all those workloads on Docker. Makes life so much easier. No more per-application handling.
Yeah, not going to happen.
Last time I looked, wasn't the docker container of NC community sourced?
f964b9c86514 nextcloud:latest -
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Upgrading Nextcloud to current stable.
I'm running all those workloads on Docker. Makes life so much easier. No more per-application handling.
Yeah, not going to happen.
Last time I looked, wasn't the docker container of NC community sourced?
f964b9c86514 nextcloud:latest
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Upgrading Nextcloud to current stable.
I'm running all those workloads on Docker. Makes life so much easier. No more per-application handling.
Yeah, not going to happen.
Last time I looked, wasn't the docker container of NC community sourced?
f964b9c86514 nextcloud:latestyep, that link points to the Docker Hub page I've linked above. Snap... well, I don't like them, but that's personal preference.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't?Every Job Posting I've seen requires some knowledge of AD.
Yes, like how to attach a desktop or change a password. Takes seconds to learn. You've already done those things. Learning to deploy it isn't a bad thing to know, but not a priority. No one is ever going to hire you to set up a new AD system, just to do basic maintenance of an old one. You literally can learn that stuff in an evening. So put in your one evening and move on.
I did that already. Only thing I gotta figure out is how to add a Computer/device to the domain
- Control Panel
- Deployment Script
- PowerShell
Add-Computer –Domainname my.domain.tld -restart - ...
BTW @WrCombs: If you want to learn something really useful, learn PowerShell. Scripting helps you to automate repetitive and error prone tasks like user creation, group assignments and so on. You could build a script to assign users to groups. That script could also inform users and managers about new assignments by mail. That's what I do with our research assistants and students, for example.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't?Every Job Posting I've seen requires some knowledge of AD.
Yes, like how to attach a desktop or change a password. Takes seconds to learn. You've already done those things. Learning to deploy it isn't a bad thing to know, but not a priority. No one is ever going to hire you to set up a new AD system, just to do basic maintenance of an old one. You literally can learn that stuff in an evening. So put in your one evening and move on.
I did that already. Only thing I gotta figure out is how to add a Computer/device to the domain
- Control Panel
- Deployment Script
- PowerShell
Add-Computer –Domainname my.domain.tld -restart - ...
BTW @WrCombs: If you want to learn something really useful, learn PowerShell. Scripting helps you to automate repetitive and error prone tasks like user creation, group assignments and so on. You could build a script to assign users to groups. That script could also inform users and managers about new assignments by mail. That's what I do with our research assistants and students, for example.
Along these lines, having a script to remove a person from security and distribution groups makes like easy as can be when you get a termination notice 5 days after the fact. . .
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
BTW @WrCombs: If you want to learn something really useful, learn PowerShell.
Did you watch my video?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
BTW @WrCombs: If you want to learn something really useful, learn PowerShell.
Did you watch my video?
I'm preaching that all day long...
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
BTW @WrCombs: If you want to learn something really useful, learn PowerShell.
Did you watch my video?
Not quite, Just purchased a powershell book though.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
BTW @WrCombs: If you want to learn something really useful, learn PowerShell.
Did you watch my video?
Not quite, Just purchased a powershell book though.
Forget about books. They are old when they hit the shelves. I think I own about... erm... maybe 15 IT books? Most of them are 15-20 years old, some are about programming languages, two are about SharePoint installation and administration.
Essentially everything you need can be found online.
