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Honestly they want People who will blow smoke up peoples asses, they don’t want honest good people who actually want people to find good solutions. Based on your posts that was you, so it’s probably for the best

They really arent, someone asked for a comparisons of their features to their competitors and every single person who responded was banned and the thread deleted They just shoved AI down everyone's throats, jacked up their costs than hid their thread about it and than tried to deny it happened They are a terrible company

When we do fleet refreshes, we set a few aside for spares and the rest we use as raffles. In our case, we award points to people who pass our KnowBe4 Phishing tests. We put a sign up sheet up on OneDrive and give each unit type a points value and people can enter for up to 3 (they can only win one) Everything from our current raffle pool are i7-1165G7/32Gb (Laptops) or i7-11800H/32-64gb (Laptop) , and i7-10700's with 64GB for Desktops

The user will not always let you know.... we did a fleet upgrade first thing in the year, this is how the user returned their old laptop... Which I'll add in was only 2.5 years old (and was its first deployment, after it had been in inventory for a year) Not one ticket (and yes some of the key caps are just sitting there and not attached), not one remark or comment. https://preview.redd.it/dkallfwm8q3h1.png?width=2856&format=png&auto=webp&s=de1bf344c05687c342ce3f13987a5bcf0718d69d and those naming conventions don't work over time and dont account for scenarios where you have users with the same first, or last (or some times yes even both) names Also no one using intune should be having to do hands on configuration for a device before it goes out to someone. Thats why we have provisioning profiles, naming templates and various other targeting methods. But even with that Intune is **NOT** an inventory system, it cannot track non-compute devices

We banned Dropbox in our Org fully, if clients try to share stuff with us we'll send them a OneDrive folder or a webSFTP site they can load stuff into.

Luckily we are all remote so there’s 1 printer and it’s xerox. We use ninja One for the heavier lifting, so I just have a script that calls their api, does some field translation and update devices in snipe it (check outs, check in is still manual), it includes scanning for the docks and monitor serial numbers Once the user logs in to their system for the first time (Intune/autopilot) an automation in ninja triggers the sync an after it detects the device and checks out out the monitors, dock, computer. User gets confirmation email, accepts they have the stuff

I have to keep a windows 2003 terminal server running for a database 3 people use That was super fun migrating to hyper v lol

Pulling from inventory, easier to scan a barcode to check a device out and see its state than typing in some obtuse serial number

Worse case buy a month of the hosted service and set it up exactly how you want and export the database. Cancel and than import it into the local copy (using the systems built in tool)

\*microsoft access enters the chat \*

I have an API script that also adds m365 & Google licensing SKUs and pricing and associates them to a user that matches in each service That way we can report on what how much each users costing us

I’m just very much not a fan, we used them for ticketing and inventory (the agent is awful) and we attempted to do a AD automations (that service is also awful Java based garbage)… didn’t work and in the process of them troubleshooting it them selves ended up breaking our entire instance. And despite being month to month when I went to cancel they tried telling me I had to give 90 days notice.. after they ignored me asking for a credit for 1 technician license for 2 months after not being able to do anything for 3

\*vomit \*

Even if that is true, than you should be focusing on everything else that can move off it

Who are they, Atera?

Dell once replaced (on site) the motherboard of one of our developers laptops with a refurbished one that was still tied to another companies autopilot some how

At least it wasn’t “just use Claude to build a new one”

This, thankfully my employer very much backs this up For example , we are doing a very fast exodus from VMware… I’m the only one on the team that knows (understands hyper v, and yes I know “ew hyper v” ), our sans and has a very deep knowledge of VMware Aka I’m doing 80% of it and doing 14-17 hour days right now so I get to start work when ever the hell I like lol

We had to buy a few new machines (not servers), was about 1000$ per 32gb of ram… I forced the order in December in a way we didn’t have to pay for it until January On January 5th it went up to 1300$ per 32 gb (these each had 96-128 GB) the SSD’s also went up about 15% If I had of signed in handier l January the ram alone would of increased the order by 23000

Time to pull out the disks and build a lotus notes server on prem

We give them away via raffle, users can get points by passing phishing tests and then use them to buy “entries” on hardware

So, does your MTA support TLS 1.3? And are you sure that your SSL certs are configured correctly (aka, are they valid and are you using opportunistic TLS or Enforced TLS)

ChatGPT be like get-sharepointadminpassword -user

I Had a paid Sev 1 ticket go ignored for 2 weeks...

Latitude's can probably get you in that price range (if USD) . Just keep one thing in mind, ram prices right now for end user class machines is exceptionally volatile

Here's an idea... Get together with your co-workers, build a detailed report on where things are failing massively . Approach him (with out his knowledge of the list) with suggestions, and when ignored (especially critical ones) bring it to leadership as a group

The drives are slow, they only loaded 8gbs fibre channel cards The reporting is awful and the way they stand up DR is so rigid

Atera Acronis Unitrends Freshservice To name a few

At the compromise of my staff having to constantly have a hammer of infrastructure self responsibility looming over their heads when they aren’t at work

Yeah not like universal print isn’t already included in a majority of our licenses or anything Guess where just shills for fully utilizing features we already pay for. You also forgot the “cost” is Licensing + hardware + upkeep (Software assurance etc )+ staffing + DR (so now that one exchange seat goes from 3.44/mo to 13.25/mo vs the 10.50/mo it costs for exo stand alone) Is cloud still going to General be more expensive than the above? Sure Am I going to have to get raked over the coals because a SAN or Switch pair failed bringing down internal coms? No, because now is not on my network I’ve been doing this for 25 years, I’m smart enough to recognize what’s better to pay to not have something on my or my times plate. No amount of staff stops the inevitable or unexpected to happen

Yeah it takes a lot for it to get a script right lol

The *only * things I use chat gpt for? Powershell scripts Formatting notes That’s it that’s all

In terms of risk, it will just be the risk of having something running out of warranty running. The main thing is making sure it can run a supported OS (like Win 11, or if you have bought Win 10 extended updates) AS far as where to go/ budget you could check Dells Outlet/Refurb store [https://outlet.us.dell.com/GDOOnline/Online/InventorySearch?c=us&l=en&cs=28&s=dfb&buid=11&brandid=2802](https://outlet.us.dell.com/GDOOnline/Online/InventorySearch?c=us&l=en&cs=28&s=dfb&buid=11&brandid=2802) A decent unit would be something like this :, as it wil have enough memory to load semi-complex pages [https://outlet.us.dell.com/GDOOnline/Online/SecondaryInventorySearch?c=us&l=en&cs=28&s=dfb&buid=11&brandid=2802&pFilter=eyJQcm9kdWN0QnJhbmQiOlsiMTAwNzYiXX0%3D&id=28:28987:1\_4782130\_1\_3266109\_1\_5104156\_1\_4121105\_1\_2831072\_1\_2831072\_1\_3441105\_1\_2339019\_:1\_25759\_1\_3604107\_1\_2617057\_1\_2977140\_1\_2615063\_1\_4529150\_1\_439910\_1\_3504108\_1\_2460044\_:SA:610:859&productid=1\_25759\_1\_3604107\_1\_2617057\_1\_2977140\_1\_2615063\_1\_4529150\_1\_439910\_1\_3504108\_1\_2460044\_&productvariant=optiplex-7020-small-ff](https://outlet.us.dell.com/GDOOnline/Online/SecondaryInventorySearch?c=us&l=en&cs=28&s=dfb&buid=11&brandid=2802&pFilter=eyJQcm9kdWN0QnJhbmQiOlsiMTAwNzYiXX0%3D&id=28:28987:1_4782130_1_3266109_1_5104156_1_4121105_1_2831072_1_2831072_1_3441105_1_2339019_:1_25759_1_3604107_1_2617057_1_2977140_1_2615063_1_4529150_1_439910_1_3504108_1_2460044_:SA:610:859&productid=1_25759_1_3604107_1_2617057_1_2977140_1_2615063_1_4529150_1_439910_1_3504108_1_2460044_&productvariant=optiplex-7020-small-ff) Keep in mind, for like 190$ more you can get new with a warranty [https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/dell-tower-desktop/spd/dell-ect1250-desktop](https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/dell-tower-desktop/spd/dell-ect1250-desktop)

Fun fact don’t microwave stuff in the middle of the microwave, it gets the least amount of energy

God no, it’s also why we push UEFI passwords (and no they can’t be reset on new Dell devices unless Dell fines you the generated recovery code)

My favourite is when power shell commands are working properly and they tell you to capture a har from Chrome or Edge

People who have had jobs in enterprise for 20 year’s and still can’t use outlook or make a pdf

I think they moved off free with jre 7_181 it?

oh they once tried to make us pay them directly for the JRE stuff packed with Coldfusion Server.... Which was a whole fun argument

We have a single Oracle DB Server that's 10 years out of service life.. They still make us prove its only running on a single socket hypervisor

I love when oracle randomly called us to audit our installing of Java plugins

Just get a big ol vacuum seal bag :p

Before the storm hits, schedule an outage. Move it to a bank vault that is storm tight

We had a few things start to act weird, and than we tried using the AD integration automations. And during their troubleshooting they broke all of our automations for tickets They couldn’t get the ad workflows to work at all, it would throw random errors (wouldn’t accept managers to be passed through, or locations) Noting we aren’t a big company, but 3 months of it and them refusing to even give is a partial credit was enough

Have fun with with integrations breaking and getting the run around from support for months

With KnowBe4 your likely using DMI (Direct message injection) meaning the message is being inserted directly into Exchange via M365 Service Now also has an M365 integration

If they are setup in M365 chances are other M365 costumers will also route directly to them internally That said, the only way to prevent them from bypassing your own priorities is to just setup a load balancer that will handle it behind the scenes

Oh honey, has no one told you?

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