What Are You Doing Right Now
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Here's to another week in the world of Windows system administration.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Here's to another week in the world of Windows system administration.
If only every week wasn't such a bruiser. . . .
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Here's to another week in the world of Windows system administration.
If only every week wasn't such a bruiser. . . .
My current job has a lower stress level than my last, but the opportunity to work with Linux didn't pan out.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Here's to another week in the world of Windows system administration.
If only every week wasn't such a bruiser. . . .
My current job has a lower stress level than my last, but the opportunity to work with Linux didn't pan out.
Is there really such a thing as a job with lower stress? in IT even? I've not been here at the new job long enough yet to have that. Seems I just started and it's been four weeks... where does the time go.
So....much...to...do... Oh look - Cat Videos.....
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Back to stress for me. PTO was great but now back into teh home office I go.
Big project have to be SOC/CMMC level 1 audited and pass by end of the year. -
Off to a great start on this fine Monday:
- QuickBooks server won't let anyone sign in and last night's backup failed
- Ceiling tile above me completely discolored from the rain we had over the weekend, leaked all over my desk and ruined my keyboard (thankfully, not the monitors)
- Went to move into another office for the day, found the carpet soaked, with no visible sign of a leak
We'll see how the rest of the day goes, but so far, I am not amused...
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Fighting the good GPO fight.
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@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Off to a great start on this fine Monday:
- QuickBooks server won't let anyone sign in and last night's backup failed
- Ceiling tile above me completely discolored from the rain we had over the weekend, leaked all over my desk and ruined my keyboard (thankfully, not the monitors)
- Went to move into another office for the day, found the carpet soaked, with no visible sign of a leak
We'll see how the rest of the day goes, but so far, I am not amused...
Uh - wow. Sounds almost like the room next door. Ironically - they have been replacing the roof liner the last two weeks... in - between - cycles - of office flooding rain.
It gets better,.. but then someone decides to take a challenge and make it not so much.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fighting the good GPO fight.
I love,... err hate GPOs.. I need to review a few to understand how things are being deployed / set. (eye roll).
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fighting the good GPO fight.
oh jeez -
AD is such a mess.... I don't even SEE GPOs. And it's a mix of Site based and User based OUs - Like . .really?? management much? (burn it,.. burn it with fire!) -
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fighting the good GPO fight.
I love,... err hate GPOs.. I need to review a few to understand how things are being deployed / set. (eye roll).
Why do you hate GPOs? I love them!
They are window's version of ansible as far as I know. -
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fighting the good GPO fight.
I love,... err hate GPOs.. I need to review a few to understand how things are being deployed / set. (eye roll).
Why do you hate GPOs? I love them!
They are window's version of ansible as far as I know.Because they are great when they work as designed. and suck when they don't.
GP objects are a mess. I can't find any type of password policy,.. yet there is one.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fighting the good GPO fight.
I love,... err hate GPOs.. I need to review a few to understand how things are being deployed / set. (eye roll).
Why do you hate GPOs? I love them!
They are window's version of ansible as far as I know.Because they are great when they work as designed. and suck when they don't.
Isn't that the case with any management system?
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fighting the good GPO fight.
I love,... err hate GPOs.. I need to review a few to understand how things are being deployed / set. (eye roll).
Why do you hate GPOs? I love them!
They are window's version of ansible as far as I know.GP objects are a mess. I can't find any type of password policy,.. yet there is one.
it's probably applied to the default policy...
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fighting the good GPO fight.
I love,... err hate GPOs.. I need to review a few to understand how things are being deployed / set. (eye roll).
Why do you hate GPOs? I love them!
They are window's version of ansible as far as I know.Because they are great when they work as designed. and suck when they don't.
Isn't that the case with any management system?
To a point, but GPOs are a pain to manage, especially when just looking at them for the first time. Not nearly so quick to look at and understand like Ansible/Salt
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fighting the good GPO fight.
I love,... err hate GPOs.. I need to review a few to understand how things are being deployed / set. (eye roll).
Why do you hate GPOs? I love them!
They are window's version of ansible as far as I know.GP objects are a mess. I can't find any type of password policy,.. yet there is one.
it's probably applied to the default policy...
Uhuh - likely... Only not that I have yet found.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fighting the good GPO fight.
I love,... err hate GPOs.. I need to review a few to understand how things are being deployed / set. (eye roll).
Why do you hate GPOs? I love them!
They are window's version of ansible as far as I know.Because they are great when they work as designed. and suck when they don't.
Isn't that the case with any management system?
To a point, but GPOs are a pain to manage, especially when just looking at them for the first time. Not nearly so quick to look at and understand like Ansible/Salt
If you open the settings tab, it will show you only the things changed for that policy.. but yeah.. reading this vs reading a text file for Ansible is a lot harder.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fighting the good GPO fight.
I love,... err hate GPOs.. I need to review a few to understand how things are being deployed / set. (eye roll).
Why do you hate GPOs? I love them!
They are window's version of ansible as far as I know.Because they are great when they work as designed. and suck when they don't.
Isn't that the case with any management system?
To a point, but GPOs are a pain to manage, especially when just looking at them for the first time. Not nearly so quick to look at and understand like Ansible/Salt
If you open the settings tab, it will show you only the things changed for that policy.. but yeah.. reading this vs reading a text file for Ansible is a lot harder.
And they lack tools. Looking at a GPO often requires all kinds of annoying "remote into a desktop on the network, attach to the server, look at a small, remote GUI" and on and on.
Ansible I would typically either use a "straight to the source" web editor like GitLab has which is gorgeous and fast. Or use something like VS Code on my local machine. Even the Microsoft provided tooling for Ansible blows their tools for GPO out of the water. If we look at Microsoft's effort to make products accessible and usable, they seem to believe in Ansible far and away more than GPO. GPO tools make it clear that the developers at MS see it as the red headed stepchild.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fighting the good GPO fight.
I love,... err hate GPOs.. I need to review a few to understand how things are being deployed / set. (eye roll).
Why do you hate GPOs? I love them!
They are window's version of ansible as far as I know.Because they are great when they work as designed. and suck when they don't.
Isn't that the case with any management system?
To a point, but GPOs are a pain to manage, especially when just looking at them for the first time. Not nearly so quick to look at and understand like Ansible/Salt
If you open the settings tab, it will show you only the things changed for that policy.. but yeah.. reading this vs reading a text file for Ansible is a lot harder.
And they lack tools. Looking at a GPO often requires all kinds of annoying "remote into a desktop on the network, attach to the server, look at a small, remote GUI" and on and on.
Ansible I would typically either use a "straight to the source" web editor like GitLab has which is gorgeous and fast. Or use something like VS Code on my local machine. Even the Microsoft provided tooling for Ansible blows their tools for GPO out of the water. If we look at Microsoft's effort to make products accessible and usable, they seem to believe in Ansible far and away more than GPO. GPO tools make it clear that the developers at MS see it as the red headed stepchild.
True, they haven't really updated it in 20 years.
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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:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fighting the good GPO fight.
I love,... err hate GPOs.. I need to review a few to understand how things are being deployed / set. (eye roll).
Why do you hate GPOs? I love them!
They are window's version of ansible as far as I know.Because they are great when they work as designed. and suck when they don't.
Isn't that the case with any management system?
To a point, but GPOs are a pain to manage, especially when just looking at them for the first time. Not nearly so quick to look at and understand like Ansible/Salt
If you open the settings tab, it will show you only the things changed for that policy.. but yeah.. reading this vs reading a text file for Ansible is a lot harder.
And they lack tools. Looking at a GPO often requires all kinds of annoying "remote into a desktop on the network, attach to the server, look at a small, remote GUI" and on and on.
Ansible I would typically either use a "straight to the source" web editor like GitLab has which is gorgeous and fast. Or use something like VS Code on my local machine. Even the Microsoft provided tooling for Ansible blows their tools for GPO out of the water. If we look at Microsoft's effort to make products accessible and usable, they seem to believe in Ansible far and away more than GPO. GPO tools make it clear that the developers at MS see it as the red headed stepchild.
True, they haven't really updated it in 20 years.
Yeah, it's rough.
