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@travisdh1 said in Dynamics 365 issue - no idea how to fix:

It's worse to attempt to support than even Quickbooks with all of it's known issues.

As I also have to support that here as well, I am starting to have a similar mindset about Dynamics the more I dig into it, especially with some of the customizations that have been done to our environment over the last couple of years. What it even better is that there is no documentation on what has been done with the system.

@travisdh1 said in Dynamics 365 issue - no idea how to fix:

If nobody is available at the MSP to support it, have them open a ticket with Microsoft. It sucks not being able to interact with Microsoft directly, but with nobody left at the MSP that knows your particular instance of Dynamics there is probably nobody that knows what might have happened where.

I hadn't considered that - if I don't hear back from the MSP on this issue soon, I'll suggest that they do that. I do have a global admin account on our tenant, but when it comes to Dynamics, I have no idea what I should look for or where, so this might be the best option - thanks!

@Obsolesce said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@kamidon said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@kamidon said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller Yeah because having to constantly watch your back for other players adds a ridiculous amount of stress! Hah...Makes me think of my World of Warcraft days.

I don't mind that stuff, it's the online stuff... I don't have time to commit, and want to make sure that I can play the game 20 years from now kind of thing.

YES exactly, great point.
Eh and I didn't mind either, aside from the couple of times I was ganked for several hours. Though that sort of thing was and is few and far between.
Heh and they got theirs.

No Man's Sky is now my to exploration and building game.

Excellent choice! I've stuck with NMS since it was released and have always found it relaxing to explore. After all of this time, I think I am still on my first galaxy and have yet to reach the center...

Finally have a temporary solution for this issue. The MSP has put a temporary workflow in place that can be manually run on one or more work orders to generate the documents and attach them as notes to the record. Not ideal, but it works for now and surely beats having to manually create the documents by copying / pasting the data.

@travisdh1 said in Dynamics 365 issue - no idea how to fix:

have them open a ticket with Microsoft

Thanks again for the suggestion - since the MSP has determined that this issue isn't caused by our environment, user permissions, or templates, they did precisely that. Now we wait to see if this is a issue with an update or from something else going on...

Everybody seems to forget about (or don't know about / care for) foobar2000

Never looked back once I switched to it from WinAMP. Yeah, it's a bit minimalistic, but it plays music without being a pile of useless eye candy, so it works for me.

Knowing nothing about Cisco vManage, I've dropped the ball and am thinking we have a pretty major issue about to occur that I have no idea how to resolve.

Long story short, the MSP that managed the Cisco SD-WAN that we use was fired and everything they managed was dumped on me. Very little documentation was left, and nothing was really explained to me. Networking is not my strong point, and I am highly unfamiliar with Cisco stuff, so this is completely out of my comfort zone.

Fast forward to today. I was trying to figure something out, finally found working credentials for our Cisco vManage, logged in, and noticed that it says there are 5 certificate warnings. Looking at the details, it says that all 5 vManage, vBond, and vSmart certificates expire Feb 19 23:19:00 2023 GMT.

I can't find any record of us having any kind of support contract with Cisco; my guess is that we don't.

I am completely unfamiliar with this stuff, and how all of this was setup wasn't explained to me, so I had no idea that this was something that I had to do anything with. Once the certificates expire, will we lose all connectivity? If so, what can I do to fix this and prevent loss of connectivity? Or are we screwed and will experience a loss of connectivity no matter what I do at this point?

Learning about MeshCentral 2 and Vultr, since I constantly read good things about both and I haven't really looked into either of them before.

@scotth Setting up a new Vultr account / instance was super quick. Within 15 minutes of signing up, I was connecting to a new Ubuntu 19.04 instance on a subdomain of my domain.

I suspect the "hard" part is going to be digesting all of the various configuration options for MC so that I install it securely with a proper Let's Encrypt certificate.

Been wanting to learn Node.js for a while, so I'm starting "The Complete Node.js Developer Course" on Udemy

Got my copy of Freespace 2 last night and started looking into the Source Code Project, since I've read that it adds quite a bit more life to the game.

My only issue now is that I no longer own a joystick and I can't stand trying to play games using keyboard and mouse for flight controls. Might be time to look at purchasing one...

@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@srsmith said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Got my copy of Freespace 2 last night and started looking into the Source Code Project, since I've read that it adds quite a bit more life to the game.

My only issue now is that I no longer own a joystick and I can't stand trying to play games using keyboard and mouse for flight controls. Might be time to look at purchasing one...

I'd forgotten about that. One of the really nice ones if you're into the story is that they ported FS1 into the FS2 engine, so you can play through that campaign without having to track down a copy of FS1.

I'll definitely have to check it out - I remember playing Descent 1, 2 and 3, but not the Freespace titles.

A brief look at some of the other mods / campaigns / total conversions leads me to believe that this could be installed on my games SSD for quite some time...

@Dashrender Further to what @WrCombs quoted above, it was a hospital stay for a pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lung). Scary experience that I don't want to repeat ever again.

Looking at purchasing a OnePlus 7T to replace my current Nexus 6P. Really like the specs on it, and the price is right around what I want to spend.

@jmoore Based on our experiences with using it since 2001, I've found that the only thing it is quick at is frustrating the people who are stuck using and/or supporting it.

Of course, that could partially be due to our company file being 1.29 GB in size...

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Making rookie mistakes even though I know better

Sadly it is a thing that happens. It's how you deal with it after the fact and what you learn from it.

In theory though - the user should not have lost any mail - or at most - a few hours worth... In theory..

Absolutely - I owned up to my mistake, fixed it, and apologized to the user. Luckily, this was a user with a far lower volume of mail than say, our President & CEO. In this case, nothing appears to have been lost, except for possibly a couple of internal messages that may not have been delivered between yesterday and today. I also learned that before hitting the save changes button when modifying licenses, I really need to take 10 seconds to verify that the correct apps are selected in addition to the correct licenses. Much quicker and easier to do that than to deal with recovering a mailbox later while trying to keep the user calm and assured that they haven't lost everything.

After it was all said and done, the user didn't scream at me and was happy, so this turned out to be a minor inconvenience to them instead of a major issue.

Thought I was going to actually be able to leave early on a Friday. Unfortunately, one of our main UPS units decided that is crazy talk and that I need to stay to replace the entire thing (discontinued, can't get replacement battery). Oh well, at least I won't have to come back in tomorrow to take care of it.