The 'I work in I.T' thread

[Advikaz]

This company is HUGE too. So yes.
They are moving from colo to Azure. Saving around 150k a year doing it on azure too.

Mental money for a small system for 3rd parties.

They'll spend a fortune on remediation work and then ripping it out down the line because it's s**t as well

 

[rctempire]

They'll spend a fortune on remediation work and then ripping it out down the line because it's s**t as well

Absolutely know so, but thats what they want. Supply as required.

 

[andybond]

Shitrix*

Unless its well implemented Citrix can be a PITA.

I have worked with it a fair bit and its not bad once you get your head around some of the concepts

 

[andybond]

Currently implementing a Citrix via Azure VMs. What a interesting project its turned out to be.
GPOS are a disaster and unreliable at times it seems with domain joined azure vms.
How annoying Microsoft and Citrix.

Tell more. What issues are you having?

 

[Gray]

mSA/gMSA FTW here.

Yup - implemented gMSA's for lots of service account 'tasks' and automation, cannot complain - Works great!

 

[rctempire]

Tell more. What issues are you having?

GPOS taking ages to actually push down onto the vads. Then inconsistencies of the vads showing policies.
Im sure Azure Conditional Access is kicking in for the office apps, so just implemented a shared token to fix that if possible.

 

[andybond]

GPOS taking ages to actually push down onto the vads. Then inconsistencies of the vads showing policies.
Im sure Azure Conditional Access is kicking in for the office apps, so just implemented a shared token to fix that if possible.

Interesting.

I dont know enough about your setup so difficult to help.

Could you use appsense instead of policy?

 

[davo172]

GPOS taking ages to actually push down onto the vads. Then inconsistencies of the vads showing policies.
Im sure Azure Conditional Access is kicking in for the office apps, so just implemented a shared token to fix that if possible.

The most confusing post I have ever read in this forum!

 

[hopgop1]

Still early in my career, all at the same company in the gambling sector, started out on 1st line straight out of my A levels, then 2nd/3rd line hybrid role, now a lowly junior infrastructure engineer despite getting far more done than the rest of my team, IMO anyway.
Some of the infrastructure is so ancient it’s comical, but honestly I quite enjoy it. A few absolutely mission critical systems held together by tape and prayers, favourite of mine is an Outlook macro written by someone 15 years ago, 0 documentation, sat on an ancient version of Outlook on a server 2003 (I think) VM.
Software in daily use written a few years after I was born, have a third party that is supposed to support it, but the guy who wrote it died 10 years ago and again no documentation on our side or theirs.

Most of that is supposedly going this year, big spend on IT infrastructure after over a decade of absolute minimal spending.

I’ve got some good stories already and I feel like I’m progressing quickly which is why I’ve stayed around, been verbally promised a title upgrade and pay uplift this year, if not I’ll start looking elsewhere, although I do like it here, good relationships with everyone etc. Would like to end up in a solutions architect role if I can longer term.

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

Cat 5 is only rated for 100mb

When your new cable comes try it again and see what happens mate. It might just be down to that cable being old and w**k

WiFi on my phone

Wired to the PS5. Not sure whats going on with the upload though?

 

[Crayola]

WiFi on my phone
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Wired to the PS5. Not sure whats going on with the upload though?
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Can you do a speed test on a laptop?

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

Can you do a speed test on a laptop?

If my laptop boots up I can try 🤣

I did have 38 up on WiFi yesterday on the PS5.

Joseph's Chromebook doesn't have a socket which I found surprising.

 

[Crayola]

If my laptop boots up I can try 🤣

I did have 38 up on WiFi yesterday on the PS5.

Joseph's Chromebook doesn't have a socket which I found surprising.

Most stuff doesn't these days mate, everything is USB C

 

[welshname]

Anyone use Darktrace out of interest and/or use it in a OT network?

Used it, replaced it. Not in OT though. Also used their antigena add on for the network monitor and agents along with their email solution.

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

Most stuff doesn't these days mate, everything is USB C

Yeah my laptop is fucked.
Showing 10/10 or so, when I can get it to recognise that it's connected to the LAN 🤣

 

[Advikaz]

Not unusual to find mobile devices (phones) having quicker internet than a generic laptop

 

[Donny_Dog]

 

[ChrisR]

Well if we’re posting nerd memes…

 

[charltjr]

Yeah, but spaces or tabs in your code, that's the question.

 

[rctempire]

Yeah, but spaces or tabs in your code, that's the question.

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New lines require tabs for clarity.
Space coders are clear nonce's

 

[Cookie]

Yeah, but spaces or tabs in your code, that's the question.

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Tabs

 

[SharkyUK]

Not all space coders are nonces.

Spaces.

 

[Greeny.]

Used it, replaced it. Not in OT though. Also used their antigena add on for the network monitor and agents along with their email solution.

Replaced with?

 

[Rojer]

I remember working with Linux once. I was entering a command my boss sent to me and when I copied and pasted I must have added an extra space. Not sure what happened to the VM after that, but it had to be rebuilt. Haven't touched Linux since 🤣

 

[SC03OTT]

I’ve just read all 4 pages of this thread. But I actually don’t know what I’ve read.

 

[Crayola]

I’ve just read all 4 pages of this thread. But I actually don’t know what I’ve read.

Bye then loser

 

[Advikaz]

This often feels like IT TBH

 

[charltjr]

Oh god yeah, my favourite is when you have a customer who screws you down to every detail of a contract, but then absolutely loses their s**t when they want something outside the contract for free and you say no.

Live by the sword and all that

 

[andybond]

I am doing some work to migrate a site from openmage20.3 to Adobe Commerce opensource.

How did this product get through testing? There are a myriad of steps you need to take to get it operational, and even then there are some showstoppers.

There are 1.7k issues on their github : https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues

 

[boultonn]

I am doing some work to migrate a site from openmage20.3 to Adobe Commerce opensource.

How did this product get through testing? There are a myriad of steps you need to take to get it operational, and even then there are some showstoppers.

There are 1.7k issues on their github : https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues

This is exactly how I felt trying to get my dad's Adobe Elements catalogue migrated from 2019 to 2024 on a new machine. Not one person at Adobe has actually clicked the 'Restore Catalogue' button because if they had they'd know it does jack s**t.

 

[rctempire]

Did a decent wee job this week.
Decom of a 2016 exchange, creation of a third 2019 DAG Node, 8 DAG dbs synced, creation of a Hybrid Server to O365, single certificate transport rules done. (Company is slowly adopting office365 ad such but its about 6 months away).
Reverse proxy and full exchange certificate woes, resolved 99% of them, just need to convince them to bin off reverse proxy going forward.
All resolved in a week. Busy busy.

 

[Donny_Dog]

Public cloud networking is fckin tragic.
Jus sayin.
Hope everyone is well.

 

[andybond]

Did a decent wee job this week.
Decom of a 2016 exchange, creation of a third 2019 DAG Node, 8 DAG dbs synced, creation of a Hybrid Server to O365, single certificate transport rules done. (Company is slowly adopting office365 ad such but its about 6 months away).
Reverse proxy and full exchange certificate woes, resolved 99% of them, just need to convince them to bin off reverse proxy going forward.
All resolved in a week. Busy busy.

What did you do Tuesday?

 

[boultonn]

I’ve spent most of this week doing the interns job running some nmap service discovery against our clients network.
That and some python to make sense of the xml output, thank f**k it’s the weekend.

 

[ChrisR]

We had a company ‘wellness’ day today, so I took my son to the Zoo

Spent rest of the week starting to actually do my job since starting end of December.

 

[rctempire]

What did you do Tuesday?

Coffee, biscuits repeat. Till Friday.


I wish.

 

[.Joe]

Public cloud networking is fckin tragic.
Jus sayin.
Hope everyone is well.

Public cloud for 90% of business is tragic, data egress, we'll charge extra for that, cpu pinned at 100% because a junior made a bad config update, charge for that.
What with the state of Broadcom/VMware mess at the moment, moving back to on prem or at least private cloud may be the move over the coming years

 

[Crayola]

 

[ChrisR]

One thing I really miss from my many years at IBM is having a bright red nipple to play with everyday. Preferred it to trackpad.

 

[rctempire]

Public cloud for 90% of business is tragic, data egress, we'll charge extra for that, cpu pinned at 100% because a junior made a bad config update, charge for that.
What with the state of Broadcom/VMware mess at the moment, moving back to on prem or at least private cloud may be the move over the coming years

Cant believe broadcom have basically cut their cashcow and gone, nah we dont want the business. Other than top 500 companies. Who will move elsewhere because of this.