Posts made by Grey

Now: went to Five Guys for lunch and it's been a couple hours of trying to stay awake since then. I might leave early and go to bed at 8pm or so. I was up early to drop my wife at the airport so she could fly out to a conference and I've been dragging ass all day.

@Mike-Davis said in old MSP won't give up domain name:

@Grey said in old MSP won't give up domain name:

It's surprising to me that the registrar didn't give up the domain, really. Was the letter to reclaim sent on letterhead? Is this a reputable registrar?

That's the process I have been through in the past. Letter on company letterhead. The registrar is bluehost.com

https://hostingfacts.com/hosting-reviews/bluehost/

If the MSP was being paid as much as you said in the other thread, they were making serious bank and doing fuck all.

It's surprising to me that the registrar didn't give up the domain, really. Was the letter to reclaim sent on letterhead? Is this a reputable registrar?

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

UGH I HATE OWA!! So limited in what I can see on a page have to open 3 separate pages to get anything done (well actually it's 9 separate pages, for 3 email accounts). Today is going to be one VERY LONG DAY!

I am having Office issues I can't activate anything. So I also can't use my office aps either on my desktop or online today. DRIVING ME NUTS!

I set up KMS in November and just recently fixed/eliminated the last of the false KMS hosts from the network. The previous admin has used the KMS activation server key on VDI guests instead of setting up a single KMS host server and using the keys from appendix A on the guests. Our DNS literally had over a hundred KMS server listed and no one was getting software activations properly.

I wish you the best of luck in your quest to achieve license compliance if you're not using a KMS box.

http://i.imgur.com/OYDbCMK.jpg

I only use my surface when I go to meetings or at home (it's my personal device, but I like the pen input for note taking and I can check out stuff online in boring meetings). The laptop connects to the 3 monitors, and I use the tall one (sideways) for MangoLassi and the ticket system, or whenever I need to as a result of a long article like SMB IT journal. It's generally handy to have. I really, really like it for SSH sessions.

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Kind of lost hope and faith in Spiceworks, as a company.

It's really sad that so many people are leaving Spiceworks due to so many fixable problems. Interestingly, it's all the fault of the CEO because that's where all blame eventually lies in a company, despite the 3 envelope joke. Since we know that Jay has a marketing background, it's super obvious to see why things are failing at a company that, at it's core and slogan, was designed for IT. They've shifted to marketing their mistake, the community, and it's clearly hurting them. I predict that, unless Jay realizes that his boat is headed for Davy Jones' Locker, that ship is going to sink before anyone realizes it, if it hasn't already. People are already leaving the app and community in rafts and competitors like ManageEngine are just cheering.

At the very least, we can thank them for bringing people like Scott and most of the people in this community together. I hope that MangoCon picks up steam and is a viable event to replace SpiceWorld when it finishes circling the drain.

Should we start a deadpool on their community?

Are we just discovering this? It was discussed and published years ago!
http://gizmodo.com/a-google-engineer-is-publicly-shaming-crappy-usb-c-cabl-1742719818

@scottalanmiller So, are you posting this because something happened while you were traveling? Suddenly, a wild lice appeared in Liesl's hair? Maybe that AirBnB wasn't such a great idea? Cleanliness is on par with their attitude regarding WEP?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

DAS = Direct Attached Storage (e.g. no switch)
SAN = Storage Area Network (e.g. there is a switch)

You left out NAS.

What if you hadn't gone with iPads at all? What if you'd used Android tablets?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Now that we have Internet, we are working on unpacking and getting things set up around the new house. Dominica managed to get a hot shower, I had an ice cold one We have very limited water here, which is going to be a huge pain. But the wine is excellent and the Internet seems decent right now.

Obviously then, the resolution is simple: bathe in wine, OR drink all the wine before bathing so that you'll never notice the cold water.
A more complicated solution would be a tankless heater.

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/2900000/hedonism-bot-futurama-2942551-500-375.jpg

Dude. From within your org, create a calendar, right click it from folder view and then hit share. Send an email to your friends and it will include the ICS attachment. Done. Works on Android, and the Android Outlook app works really, really well. it looks up stuff in the GAL and more.

Edit: I should point out that I am on a Nexus so your android experience may vary.

@wirestyle22 said in VMWare VDI Deadpool:

@Grey Does this help you?

http://www.itninja.com/blog/view/how-to-delete-a-stuck-vdi-pool-vm

I saw that, too. That's the method for a single desktop/clone stuck in a status that doesn't delete as normal. In my case, I have a whole pool that's empty, but the pool definition itself isn't deleting.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Well, with a lot of help from @dashrender, I successfully demoted two problem Domain Controllers and fixed my add network printer list not populating. The DC's were two standalone servers and free up two servers for use as VM Hosts.

https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder655/500x/34774655.jpg

Has anyone seen a VDI pool not delete? I have two that were supposed to have deleted last week and they're still 'deleting' and greyed out. I checked in vSphere and they don't have machines in the pool to be deleted, and refreshing has no effect. Restarting the service is an action I'm loathe to do as there are users connected and I don't want to disconnect them.

MRW I was going to post about how my Surface Pro 4 is lovely, and then I see all of the comments.
http://i.imgur.com/AXzU1wl.png

@Breffni-Potter said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

Challenge started. Will see how it goes.

Which challenge?

@scottalanmiller I was wondering where Denver was shipping them.

Ref: http://www.ktvb.com/news/city-of-denver-giving-homeless-people-one-way-bus-tickets-out-of-town/388318805

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Does anyone know of a good 3D printing service that allows .STL files?

The total ended up being over $75 for a plastic Gameboy case. Is this normal?

Are you in the US? Check with your local library system. Mine (Denver, CO) has free 3D printing and courses on design. If you are unable to get this done at a reasonable price, I don't mind dropping the STL at the library here for you, though it would take a couple weeks for them to print and then I'd have to ship it out (I'm sure you can cover a USPS flatrate box).

@RojoLoco said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@Grey said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@RojoLoco said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@wirestyle22 said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@RojoLoco said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@Grey said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

Here's a challenge: stop using Spiceworks for 30 days.

Done, many times over. Which is easy when a heavy handed mod gets a boner from ousting you from the community. Plus, after attending Spiceworld for the first time, I realize I never need to waste $$$ on that again.

Be flattered someone still gets a boner for you. I'm devolving into a chicken mcnugget

Pretty sure I'd be happier if I could slap the smirk off him.

If it's the mod that I think you're thinking of, who's name rhymes with ass, then we have something in common. However, I would also posit that, due to the haste he displayed in sending me on my way, they no longer value the people that put time in to the community in the first place and only want quantity (as opposed to quality) in IT. That makes sense given that page views are their revenue generation.

^^^ Truth.

In the meantime, my challenge stands: stop using Spiceworks' community for 30 days, if you're currently using it.

Does lurking for information count? I still read stuff over there to learn, but zero posting.

I think lurking would be fine, especially if you have ublock activated.