@scottalanmiller Yeah for whatever the reason I'm ready to move on. I'm sure your right though. It's really irritating. I heard my VP talking about "operational efficiency" to our president and how she got things done with as little salaries as possible; I admit it disgusted me. I never expected instant rewards or instant salary increases which is why I stayed there for 5 years. I want to learn and move up somewhere and I'm willing to work for it.

@wrx7m Why yes I do!

@scottalanmiller said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:

@jmoore said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:

So i saw one vote for specializing in Cloud. Are there any other must learn technologies that would be good for someone with my experience?

The biggest factor will be... what do you enjoy?

I knew someone was going to ask this. Its the reason I havent specialized yet. I have about 30 books I have bought, waiting to read and study, because they were all interesting. They are on the topics of: Powershell, Linux, Advanced C++, 3 different Python books, 2 books on Git, Ansible, Voip(Asterisk cert book), Storage(have my SCSP cert book) and will probably venture to VMWare after that, SQL has been great fun when I use it, MCSA books from microsoft because I know I should and Virtualization. I read constanty from blogs to books on all these topics. I love playing with various tools in several of these categories. I know I'm all over the place lol but thats what I like and could see myself specializing in any of those if I needed too.

Happy Birthday Nadner!

@scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

Ended up using https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd

Sysinternals is truly great

@scottalanmiller montes in Hillsboro

Anyone have any experience getting this to work? Using its native support or a plugin is fine.

On way to San Antonio. kids all on their fire tablets

Dang, my fault, I did a search and found it. I just forgot lol.

Got very soaked at the whale show.

@scottalanmiller said in Centrally Controlled Local Backup System Options:

For those wondering why email doesn't cut it.... literally had an unrelated situation where they were using Veeam with email alerts and it didn't alert and no one knew it wasn't backing up for four months! The customer presumably knew that they had removed the backup target and not replaced it or communicated with anyone. But nonetheless, had there been the central console for this local backup job, we would have known instantly.

Reminds me of a couple weeks ago when we had an emergency alert go out on campus. I know this is fairly unrelated but but it does describe a flaw with email. I did not get an email giving me the notice because we were also having email issues at the time. So i walked out of a classroom at 4:00 in the afternoon and there was no staff left on campus but me. So yeah, have to have something else working besides email.

@WrCombs Yeah thats what you have to do. That was me at my previous job, working with an AV company. Management actively tried to prevent you from learning more on the job. I had to buy books and watch videos and slowly piece together how to do things above my position and it took a long time to get there. It totally should not have.

Well I'm probably naive but i took it to mean that hypervisor=toolbox in this scenario. Add tools as needed. Hyper-v works but I also prefer kvm. I read a book a few months ago on it and worked through the multitude of exercises in it and its a lot more powerful than I realized. Also, this doesn't have to be for a server either so that has to be taken into consideration. For example, I run kvm on all my 2 laptops and 1 desktop at home and on 2 machines at work. Use windows vm's when I need something from there.

@dafyre Split between neutral good, lawful neutral, neutral, chaotic neutral,neutral evil.

@scottalanmiller said in Re-evaluating Local Administrative User Rights:

@nadnerB said in Re-evaluating Local Administrative User Rights:

@Obsolesce said in Re-evaluating Local Administrative User Rights:

If it's about users doing something to work around company device management and security software, well then at that point it becomes a matter of company policy, management, and not an IT issue.

An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.

Policies are only good if they followed, HR & management are only good if they have the balls to do something.
Chances are that a rogue actor won't care about policies or HR.

More importantly, normal end users are not trained to understand what they are doing in most cases. Ignore malicious actors, we are talking about good, well meaning people that HR has vetted. They still don't understand what "installing" means, they can't identify safe sources, they don't have the diligence to do package maintenance, they don't know overarching IT strategies, they don't control licensing or often even have awareness of it.

I think this is key here. These things are the difference between them and us.

@valentina Very good luck there!

@scottalanmiller Personally I love LibreOffice and Zoho. There are very few things that Office365 can do that they don't. However most businesses I've seen use one of the Office versions and no one ever uses most of the features. Just too heavy also for my liking.

@DustinB3403 I was just reading about Kuiper Belt Objects!

@Carnival-Boy said in Comparing Office Suites:

've been using Office for years and I'm still pretty rubbish with it (as in only using about 20% of its features),

i feel like this is the norm everywhere. No one uses much of the Office features. So why are people paying for all those features their organization wont use?