Is anyone aware of open source, free, or inexpensive quality management system software? The industry standard seems to be Master Control, but they charge an insane amount of money on an annual basis. We're hoping to find something that's open source or very inexpensive. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Microsoft has just announced the nail-in-the-coffin date for SfB Online.
What is the Skype for Business Retirement plan?
Skype for Business Online will be retired on July 31, 2021, and after that date the service will no longer be accessible. Between now and then, current Skype for Business Online customers will experience no change in service, and they’ll be able to continue to add new users as needed. However, starting September 1, 2019, we will onboard all new Office 365 customers directly to Teams for chat, meetings, and calling. Please note that the Skype Consumer service and Skype for Business Server will both be unaffected by this announcement.
I’ve seen lots of posts on time tracking for timesheet/payroll purposes, but I’m wondering if anyone is doing time tracking to determine time spent on each topic. For example, between 9:10 and 9:35 I worked on tickets. Between 9:35 and 10:15 I sorted through logs. Between 10:15 and 10:45 I fixed a domain controller issue.... etc. This is the level of detail that has been requested. I’m curious as a sys admin with multiple projects and juggling sometimes half a dozen things at once, if this is standard or out of scope. Obviously, this makes staff feel micromanaged and untrusted, and sys admin work is ill suited to tracking in this manner. Would love your input on this.
I had six systems (CentOS 7.3) on friday with clocks that either didn't run at all (1 sec every 2-3 minutes), or ran very quickly forwards (90 sec every 1 min), or very very slowly forwards (1 sec every 30 sec)
no chrony daemon, no ntpd running. Setting the system time with ntpdate or ntpd reset the time to the correct time, but the clocks quickly behaved the same way, and quickly departed the correct time. There is no other time controlling software on the servers (GPFS itself doesn't manage time either)
I would have thought myself to be going crazy had five or six other sysadmins not witnessed the same.
These events immediately followed the failure of a GPFS (Spectrum Scale) cluster, and the unmanageable clock time on the server prevented the cluster from forming properly again.
It was a hectic number of hours to be sure.
Warm Rebooting the servers did not fix this issue, it took a complete hardware power off. Once the servers had been power cycled, they behaved fine.
Wat?
Hello, I am a fresh systems administrator looking to automate a few things using a tool like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
Where can I find a list of the things that are possible with such tools?
I really want to automate the update / reboot / update / reboot process that I have to go through on our numerous production servers in the evening reliably.
I am wondering what other areas it can be time saving but I guess that's a case by case issue.
I realize this is probably not the ideal place for this, so I apologize, but I know there are a lot of healthcare sysadmins here.
Those of you in healthcare that use patient photos for registration (or any similar situation), what are you using for cameras and software?
We have a pile of older logitech cameras of different models that all work great with their webcam software and windows 7.
None of them work with windows 10 - and the newer ones that I've tested that do work with win10 have to use the windows camera app to take pictures. All fine and dandy except that I can't change the resolution of the pictures taken - and our requirement is 320x240 MAX. Logitech camera settings app doesn't allow changing resolution either.
I checked with one of the BIG healthcare orgs in the area and they said they are still using win7 with the old logitechs because they couldn't find a solution either (this org is like 11 hospitals and 25 clinics so I figured they'd have figured it out by now).
Anyone have a suggestion I can start from, rather than reinventing the wheel?
Saw this in the health report section:
"Reflexion is currently experiencing delays with inbound and outbound email. Our engineers are working to resolve the issue; updates will be provided on this page as soon as available."
I'm having trouble seeing the benefit of a subscription security device vs. something like a USG for a small office setup. Anyone have a good recommendation for an office with <10 users?
Karen in Accounting is wondering. I don't have great way of testing this without looking at Karen's logs after running a few test queries. Even then, I'm not sure I see anything significant. I know it pretty much all depends on the size of the data Karen's working with but I don't see it being a serious issue. Anyone have experience otherwise?
This issue has now happened at the 2nd company I have worked for. Laptops shop detecting monitors and the only way the fix it is to swap the hardware dock they use. They are all different models and brands of docks/laptops/monitors. They all have Intel graphics. Display driver uninstaller did not helped. Google has failed me.
I believe the OS is holding a GUI for the PNP dock but not sure how to wipe that or if that would fix it.
Edit: While Writing this PNP jump started a memory. Downloading and running PNP ghostbuster and wiping old records fixed it.
Adding a new server 2016 domain controller to our existing set up with 4 already-existing controllers.
I've never seen this error before during the DNS portion of setup (Mind you, this is the first 2016 controller I'm ever promoting, and the first one at this company)
Anyone have some good insight into this error? Most of what I can find online is surrounding it being the first domain controller in the forest.
"Notice: SonicWall physical firewall appliances running certain versions of SonicOS utilize third-party TCP/IP code for remote management that contain vulnerabilities named URGENT/11. At this time, there is no indication that the discovered vulnerabilities are being exploited in the wild, however:
SonicWall STRONGLY advises to apply the SonicOS patch immediately. Patches are available for all recent SonicOS versions. Detailed instructions are provided in the Security Advisory.
SonicWall provides the patched versions of SonicOS at no charge, including for customers not currently covered by an active support contract. SonicWall also recommends updating to the latest SonicOS release (6.5.4.4), which provides firewall capabilities to help protect other devices vulnerable to URGENT/11."
This was right out of the box, had enough time to power it up and connect to the console and its already trying to phone home:
edit: i should add, also no opt-in or opt-out before it started phoning home.
We had this issue after upgrading our mail service. One of our vendors is sending invoices in the raw and getting rejected by our server.
All personal vaults for your company were viewable today in global search. Passportal has since corrected the issue but all passwords were viewable for most of the day. You are able to see if anyone else viewed your password so I recommend checking if you have any passwords in your personal vault.
Brief summary...13k systems, Win10, SSD, we have a few thousand of them with old SSD's that we'd like to swap out. This is an mfg environment, downtimes are hard to get and coordinate, so we're looking for a way to speed up and simplify the swaps. Right now, because it's a clean room, we simply power the old box down and slap up a new one quickly, run it in and plug it in, but that takes about an hour and is very labor intensive.
What I would like, my "perfect solution" is a way to mirror the drive while it is still running, either USB 3.0 connected to the box or across 1gb network. I can run software on it, run the data to the "offline" drive until they're 100% in sync, then quickly power off, swap drives, power on, a quick swap. Easy peasy.
I don't want backups, I don't want cloud storage, I don't want NAS, I don't want offline storage, I don't want any of the things that instantly come up when I try to google an answer for this and have to wade through 10 pages of sponsored ads.
Anyone seen or done anything like this? I'm trying to get "out of the box" here so if you think of something that isn't the above, fire away, no ideas are bad ideas . Thanks.
Ladies and gents, I need to vent a bit and I'm hoping some of you can relate and/or give advice.
As a sysadmin, I feel like people look at us for answers to all technical issues related to computers. And, the fact of the matter, I think most of us have a knack for finding an answer even if it's something we aren't familiar with.
I've always been a "let me see what I can do" guy. The problem is, it's biting me in the ass. To be frank, I'm worn out. I worn out doing things that aren't part of my job, I'm worn out doing things for superiors when "they are too busy" yet the project falls under their job description, I'm worn out being asking to "research" some bullshit idea for someone above me has but has no clue what they are talking about.
Just to be clear, I'm referring to jobs that either 1. are CLEARLY not part of my job description or 2. are things I have absolutely no experience with (because they are not part of my job).
Yes, I know this is my fault for even opening the door to this to begin with. But I can't exactly tell a superior "no, do it yourself". I've gotten myself into this situation with the past two jobs and I feel taken advantage of.
As sysadmins (or technically minded people), can any of you relate? Is there a way to turn the tide without losing respect?
I’ve seen lots of posts on time tracking for timesheet/payroll purposes, but I’m wondering if anyone is doing time tracking to determine time spent on each topic. For example, between 9:10 and 9:35 I worked on tickets. Between 9:35 and 10:15 I sorted through logs. Between 10:15 and 10:45 I fixed a domain controller issue.... etc. This is the level of detail that has been requested. I’m curious as a sys admin with multiple projects and juggling sometimes half a dozen things at once, if this is standard or out of scope. Obviously, this makes staff feel micromanaged and untrusted, and sys admin work is ill suited to tracking in this manner. Would love your input on this.
Suddenly can't edit a few GPO's, on Server 2012R2 (3 seperate DC's) or Windows 10, one in particular is the Default Domain Controller's Policy, but I can edit them on an older Server 2008 non-DC using gpmc. The error I am getting on the 2012 servers or my Win10 desktop is "Failed to open the Group Policy Object. You might not have the appropriate rights. Details: The volume for a file has been externally altered so that the opened file is no longer valid." Member of Enterprise Admins, no replication issues, no DNS errors, no AD errors....simply can't edit 5 of my 70ish GPO's(same GPO's on all machines I am trying to edit with), BUT I CAN ON AN OLDER 2008?!?!
Not sure what the full impact is, but our app is down since 3:20pm PST (we depend on a few Office 365 services in an end-user application). Looks like "Affected users may be unable to access their mailboxes" as well.
That puts us at Office 354 by my count :)
https://portal.office.com/servicestatus
https://downdetector.com/status/office-365
Edit: Looks like our issue is resolved (3:20pm PST - 3:55pm PST). Other services may still be impacted.