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Until enlistment includes the average age of politicians, I'm fighting.

Can you have the AI work on a side project while you're writing the actual code?

Can they do it in the morning? I dont want to go to work that day.

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Online form for new hires with selectable needs. Form should then be used to do what's needed. What's needed could be automated.

You any good? I can hire you for some contract (not dogshit) dev work if you can "throw" decent working code. Wouldn't be consistent, but would certainly help me out, and I'm happy to be a reference for something more permanent. DM me if interested.

Time to go AMD from here on out.

Sounds like it should open up the possibility of lawsuit then, correct? Pain and suffering? Lost wages? Legal fees of course.

Everything Trump said applies solely to himself.

Cool, still got time to learn to sail.

They got bus routes setup yet? I'm game.

One sql command away from 1929...

Many MMCs support connecting to another computer to manage it remotely. Helps from having to be on that computer at times.

I wouldn't hold your breath...probably just more lies.

Don't let the door hit ya...

Talk to who you need to in order to determine of you're internal IT only, or also enterprise architect. Some of the things you mentioned are arguable more enterprise architect roles. If the ladder, get approval for some solution architect hires to inject into those early product conversations. If the former, clarify that the product lines are going outside of IT policies, and thus, are unsupportable.

Do an audit on your licensed users, there are probably some that don't need licensing anymore. I would also check/audit mailbox usage to see if you can find accounts not needing mailboxes or even licensing possibly. If you're using cloud VMs, make sure they're setup with reservations, which will reduce price quite a bit if they aren't already. This might offset cost enough to keep M365. Additionally, look for older circuits (like Internet) -- very commonly, old circuits will become cheaper when looking at a new circuit due to circuits becoming cheaper to operate over time.

Find a WORM (Write Once, Read Many) storage provider. Amazon Glacier Vault has WORM capabilities. Many backup solutions support it now. It basically ensures there is no loss of backup data with a ridiculously high SLA around it (typically better than you can get with tape due to statistical hardware failures).

I own a business that offers year-based or month-based retainer contracts designed around being an escalation point for technical folks just like yourself. The contracts are universal across technical topics. Hit me up on DM.

I recommend giving this article a read: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/active-directory-functional-levels#windows-server-2016-functional-levels

When you said costs aside, I think you may have meant ongoing operating costs - so to throw out there three important considerations when it comes to costs that aren't there with public cloud (such as Azure): - Hardware refresh costs - wouldn't be your hardware to worry about anymore. - Software/firmware upgrades - again, not your problem anymore. - Services costs of the above (whether internal or external) would no longer be needed. Now the technical/design/non-cost business reasons: - From a remote access user perspective, the public cloud is going to allow faster access for your high speed remote users without you having to worry about the circuit speed of your main location. Also, their internet circuits are pretty likely more redundant than your main location's circuits. - You can balance resources across regions for geographic redundancy. Even across countries if you really want. Careful with data sovereignty in other countries. - Your main location's DR strategy becomes a lot easier. (WFH or disperse to other, further locations for staff) - The hardware you need is available without the need for hardware upgrades (although Azure may take a week to get it into your quota in certain regions) - The IT focus shifts more towards higher level instead of infrastructure, which is usually where greater business benefits from IT emerge. (IT often becomes a business strategy more than just an operational expense)

Fanboy of the Public cloud versus on-prem investment, absolutely. I gave my reasoning. Go troll someone else.

Thanks for the info -- just trying to be helpful. Parking is the approach used a lot for national (non toll-free) numbers when you're using, say, 75 numbers of a 100 number range. Had no idea it was against federal law on the toll-free side.

MSTSC isn't crashing, the fax printer driver is what is crashing (the DLL it references in the log). I would double check the driver to see if there is a better one.

Cisco UCS is good - lots of similar and better options to all the other server options out there. Generally speaking, you'll find better stability with Cisco; however, it comes at a price - the servers are expensive, and without the maintenance, Cisco TAC is unavailable to you. Also, the refreshes get awfully expensive..and just leads to more maintenance costs over time. My honest recommendation - don't buy physical servers anymore. Focus the refresh monies on upgraded or redundant Internet circuits and move your systems to the public cloud. You can't scale hardware purchases down when budget gets tight -- but you can scale public cloud services down. Also, no refresh costs. Additionally, no more hardware upgrade worries. Worried about a cloud provider going down? Spread the workloads across cloud providers, or use a BDR solution that allows you to restore to another cloud provider. So many good things about public cloud...

No, SMB does not require NetBIOS to function. In fact, it is now not recommended to run NetBIOS on your network due to the security exposure. The TrueNAS appliance should be setup to use a virtual IP between the controllers, and the virtual IP should be setup in your internal DNS. TrueNAS also supports integrating with domain authentication for SMB if you have a domain. Further, if you have a domain, mapping drive letters to SMB paths can be performed via GPO policies.

Approach the team with what you're trying to solve or improve and involve them in the solution strategizing. I recommend selecting trusted representatives from each team so that you don't get too many voices (which causes too much overtalking). Document the requirements and ideas. Acknowledge who came up with them. Being involved in the solution greatly increases buy-in from the team members, and it also reduces their and your stress levels. Also, they may have some other creative ideas that you haven't considered for your challenges.

If grabbing the rules is simply to identify info for the graph/chart, you may want to look at pfsense netflow capabilities with a netflow collector and analyzer. That _may_ satisfy the need.

"Network response times" might be too vague in this case: What type of traffic? UDP or TCP? Standard frame sizes or smaller or larger? Unidirectional or round trip time? What is the jitter requirement? ICMP (ping) may be a bad tool to measure this due to it being a diagnostic tool and often de-prioritized on systems and network devices. Typically, this low of a latency is only needed when dealing with mission critical exchange apps (like the NYSE). They do make special network switches that reduce network latency, but you may not see it too much with ICMP (pings). Also, try pinging 127.0.0.1 - if you can't beat the latency requirement there (which is basically pinging the NIC through the OS kernel), then you won't be able to beat it across a switch. The human eye can't see any faster than about 10ms (at the extreme), so I would have to cry bullshit on it being an application response thing and would argue more that it should he a healthy, high-speed LAN with high-bandwidth links (10Gb or higher). If their support SLA hinges on the requirement, I would make sure to escalate with their technical leadership. Don't blindly agree to it - they could use it later to refuse support.

Have you tried duplicating the template settings into a new template to see if it publishes?

I had a customer (I usually work on the MSP/VAR side) that would always say, "Never waste a big outage". I know that it wasn't prod, but in this case you may be able to present valid argument for a kubernetes backup solution of prod and nonprod.

Check out LetsEncrypt -- you may not need to pay for a cert.

Is the cost associated with HAVING them, or ROUTING them? You may be able to park the numbers somewhere for a lot cheaper if you don't need to route them.

You could grab a CA backup and remove and re-add the ADCS role (restoring the backup afterwards) to see if that does the trick.

DNS was likely auto populated by dynamic DNS on the client PC - so it was actually probably both DNS and DHCP.

DHCP server conflict detection helps, but Windows PCs and Servers block ping by default anymore for "Security". I usually recommend to clients setting a GPO to add a firewall rule to allow it again. This along with conflict detection solves a lot of these types of problems. I've made it one of my first steps to reboot or unplug a device. If the IP/device still pings (or ARPs if on the same subnet) while it is down, something else is using the IP... Also, it's generally a good idea to separate servers from client PCs (separate VLANs and subnets) which eliminates the source of the problem altogether. I recommend using an L3 switch for this purpose -- routers on a stick are generally a bad idea anymore as they don't offer the throughput desired between VLANs.