Meeting done. Just under an hour

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Headache is coming in all of a sudden and I dont know why..

I can empathize. Drink ye some water!

@dafyre said in What is your perspective on the overall tone of interactions here on ML?:

I think a lot of it boils down to whether or not we expect ML to be a site for people to be professionals, or be themselves.

I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. I think it's possible for someone to be themselves but follow the ideal of "don't be a dick."

@dafyre said in What is your perspective on the overall tone of interactions here on ML?:

@eddiejennings said in What is your perspective on the overall tone of interactions here on ML?:

I have a feeling we may be moving to an impasse. In my experience I've found "brutal honesty" used to try to excuse the behavior of "being a dick."

<sarcasm>Did you not read my post?</sarcasm>

I said I agree with you, lol.

I did read it Then you typed "One person's "being a dick" is another person's brutal honesty." Which I'm not convinced is entirely true because [see previous post].

Annoying someone on the applications team with questions about VMs they want me to deploy (since they chose to put the fewest details possible in the request).

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Funtimes with ADFS >(

Let me know how that works out for you... (I'm really not trying to be sarcastic, I promise, lol).

"Somewhere out there" (can you hear the song), a user has something that's trying to authenticate against Exchange and / or Skype for Business, which authenticates against ADFS, which is feeding a domain controller wrong credentials, which results in a user's account being locked. The question of the day is "what device?"

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Funtimes with ADFS >(

Let me know how that works out for you... (I'm really not trying to be sarcastic, I promise, lol).

"Somewhere out there" (can you hear the song), a user has something that's trying to authenticate against Exchange and / or Skype for Business, which authenticates against ADFS, which is feeding a domain controller wrong credentials, which results in a user's account being locked. The question of the day is "what device?"

All of them as they are all attempting to sync at different times. . . the user change their password a week ago and hasn't changed it on any of the devices. . .

Problem solved, and I'm a fool for looking at the wrong set of logs. Though I am sure I remember looking at [aforementioned log] earlier today and it had no entries.

VMM agent updated on 11 Hyper-V hosts (manually - since the console is broken). World didn't end

The Ancients helping me focus while I work.
Youtube Video

About to send an E-mail to a member of our applications team which includes a short explanation of how Windows Server OS and SQL Server are not the same thing.

/sigh

"Which of these three servers do you need cloned? How many test servers need to be made from this clone?"

Response: "Please clone $servername server."

Listening to Ben Shaprio while I get some work done.

if ( $memberServerIsServer2003 ) {
      Write-Host "Joining it to the domain will not be fun."
}

Need to clear my head. Time for lunch.

E-mails that end with "please advise" make my blood boil.

The beginning of today.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings that sounds like a great way to have an OOO response.

Sorry I'm out sick, will be back Monday.

Ha! Here's the brief history of this.

1. Every week I take on old tickets that have been in the Systems queue (usually escalated by HelpDesk with no troubleshooting), 99% of which have already been resolved and were just never closed.
2. This dude never actually answered the question of "is the issue on $ticket still a problem?" but has now apparently "lost everything"
3. /sigh

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Somtimes I love PowerShell

Apparently -erroraction doesn't work with get-aduser and such... I use a try/catch block in my code.

A little Googling and testing returned this.
Get-ADUser -filter { samaccountname -eq $SAM }
if $SAM has a username that doesn't exist, there's no error message. Just an empty value, which I can then use in the forthcoming if statement.

Reading about nginx configuration options to understand why this was written the way it was.

1. Take some time to finally become familiar with using git.
2. Get my OSTicket lab test running.

Reading NextCloud documentation.