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    Burned by Eschewing Best Practices

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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

      I can't believe that we've gone nearly two months without any craziness!

      More realistically we've simply stopped searching it out. . .

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      • Reid CooperR
        Reid Cooper @DustinB3403
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        @dustinb3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

        @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

        I can't believe that we've gone nearly two months without any craziness!

        More realistically we've simply stopped searching it out. . .

        A sad commentary on the state of things.

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        • dafyreD
          dafyre
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          Given enough time, it will seek us out.

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          • StrongBadS
            StrongBad @dafyre
            last edited by

            @dafyre said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

            Given enough time, it will seek us out.

            Make a thread, and they will come.

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403
              last edited by

              Here we go, future "BBEBP".

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              • EddieJenningsE
                EddieJennings @DustinB3403
                last edited by

                @dustinb3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                Here we go, future "BBEBP".

                The answer to his actual question is to roll a d20 to see if you hit. 😛

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403
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                  Paging @scottalanmiller

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                    @dustinb3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                    Paging @scottalanmiller

                    Source

                    He's definitely got a mess there.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
                      last edited by scottalanmiller

                      And we are back in full swing, this one is a train wreck:

                      https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2072941-virtual-machine-hosting

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
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                        Taking bets, but we just know that this is the cardinal sin of AD. How do so many people, so often, deploy AD without knowing about the names that have to be used? If you get taught one thing about AD, that's it. If you look up AD problems, it's the one thing you always find. It implies that most people deploy AD without having ever seen so much as a discussion about it. How do they even know what AD is or how to acquire it?

                        https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2084423-company-website

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
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                          Used a SAN for a NAS task. Has no idea what a SAN is. Overfilled his SAN (not his LUN) and made the whole unit go read only. No means to clear up space because it's a LUN that was larger than his SAN capacity.

                          https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2083765-synology-drive-is-full-and-cannot-delete-files-from-iscsi-drive

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                            bnrstnr @scottalanmiller
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                            @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                            Taking bets, but we just know that this is the cardinal sin of AD.

                            I am ashamedly guilty of this, too 😞 and we've been living with it for years. I just setup an A record in our AD DNS for www to point to our web host. If I had any issues other than this I would have fixed it by now, but it's not that big of a deal.

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                            • RojoLocoR
                              RojoLoco
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                              https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2083822-oh-no-the-feed-service-is-currently-down-nov-7-2017

                              "oops, we totally blew it when we decided to upgrade the backend during regular business hours.... No, we don't know when it will be fixed."

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @RojoLoco
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                                @rojoloco said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                                https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2083822-oh-no-the-feed-service-is-currently-down-nov-7-2017

                                "oops, we totally blew it when we decided to upgrade the backend during regular business hours.... No, we don't know when it will be fixed."

                                That one is a pretty major best practice. Deploy off hours. So basic.

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                                • Reid CooperR
                                  Reid Cooper @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                                  @rojoloco said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                                  https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2083822-oh-no-the-feed-service-is-currently-down-nov-7-2017

                                  "oops, we totally blew it when we decided to upgrade the backend during regular business hours.... No, we don't know when it will be fixed."

                                  That one is a pretty major best practice. Deploy off hours. So basic.

                                  Indeed it is.

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                                  • dbeatoD
                                    dbeato @scottalanmiller
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                                    @scottalanmiller Many have done it this way because in the past Microsoft "recommended it" and they did not understand the requirements and kept upgrading their DCs with the same domain name....

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                                    • dbeatoD
                                      dbeato @RojoLoco
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                                      @rojoloco Yes, the off hours update would have gone much better.

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                                      • dbeatoD
                                        dbeato
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                                        I don't know about this one
                                        https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2084810-dell-h700-upgrade-and-esxi?source=superfeed

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @dbeato
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                                          @dbeato said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                                          I don't know about this one
                                          https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2084810-dell-h700-upgrade-and-esxi?source=superfeed

                                          Not cost effective, but should be fine.

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                                          • mlnewsM
                                            mlnews
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                                            RAID 5, lost two disks, didn't take solid backups.

                                            https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2088286-hyper-v-server-2012-corrupt-filesystem

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