IT BS thread

LOL, that's awesome. I had to go back an re-read it in that guy's voice.

No help here for you on the July patch, I am in a different area of IT. In relation to your Real Men of Genius: I logged in from home last night and left my notebook on so I might get the Win10 1703 push overnight (I did). Logged in this morning and stuff seemed fine, got to work and my headset microphone wouldn't work with our video conference software. Messed with some stuff that didn't help, so tried a reboot -- which took FOREVER. Something was still going on, but no indication of what. But, my microphone worked after reboot.

Joined a conference call (late) and the software tells me to close some apps -- I might have poor performance due to limited system resources. I only had Outlook running. Check Task Manager and I'm pegged at 100%. Tanium, SMS and other stuff cranking away doing something.

It eventually settled down, but these things shouldn't be this hard -- and they should give you some indication and warning that it still has work to do and will eventually settle down. We have people switching to Macs because their Windows notebook fans are pegged and it sounds like a jet engine. WHY. Fix your $hit (not necessarily MS, but our client and security teams need to get their $hit together).

 

Speaking of patching.

Just broke Oracle ACFS by upgrading the kernel on Oracle Linux 7 to UEK5

Luckily not a production system yet and the actual database isn't stored on ACFS.

 

Sending this to the entire Windows admin team...while BCCing the Linux team.

 

Yeah, upgrading to 1703 it is going to look like a new os as far as patching so the. SCCM probably patched the shit out of it.

Lol, they will love it.

 

Linux team has already made a poster of it and it's hanging next to their Java poster.

Fun FYI, the Java poster reads "I had a problem and I used Java to fix it. Now I have 137 problems."

 

Java was touted as cross platform.
Well it excelled in that.
Its universally hated across all platforms.

 

We got it all. Server 16...and server 2003.

The 2003 boxes are firewalled into their own subnet surrounded by blast walls and armed security for when the inevitable happens.

The system owner for those boxes has until December to update his code, his database, and migrate as he was ordered to years ago, or the CIO has approved revocation of their ATO. The devs were suddenly motivated to update the code.

 

When I started as IT Director at my current place last September everything was still on 2003.
We don't run a lot of Windows servers here but still.

 

Been a lot of talk about Guix on the Telegram groups. Anyone here use it?

 

Fixed my Oracle ACFS / Kernel incompatibility issue hours ago but have since been banging my head expanding the ASM DiskGroup so I can expand the ACFS disk.

Just has the moment

 

we were down to 12 - 2k3 servers. Then we were part of a merger/split. as a part of that we get to inherit 50+ more of them bastages. Apparently trying to firewall them off will take too much work so we get to put them on the internal network.

 

Let me guess ... they are all physical boxes as well?

 

Hell no, thank god.

 

That is at least the silver lining.

 

Anyone have to deal with third party outsourcing companies such as TCS, IBM, Accenture, or others?

 

All of the above and two dozen others. By the time we finish with them, they can only operate inside our network.

Welcome to CitrixWorld.

 

we've been slowly forced to outsource a lot of our remote sites to TCS for support. I really can't figure out what we pay them for. we end up doing all of the fucking work anyways. they are a glorified monitoring system that i'm sure i could write scripts that do a better job than they do.

 

I hate the lack of visibility. I should be able to see and monitor all of the actions taken on our behalf in their cloud.

Not too much to ask. Just because the contract indemnifies is in the event of a data breach, I’d rather not have to sue them and have the peace of mind that all the security measures are working as designed.

Is that too hard?