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4-0, w00t! 

Congrats guys! (and gals, if any) Enjoy

It's good now, thanks! 

Makes you wonder about his policing methods

Best wishes Lindsey!

OK, so I read this thread AFTER submitting 5 or 6 times. Sorry, Maria. TGIF 

Love the new interface!

brett.holzhauer I just ordered the Astro Geek t-shirt. It did not ask me what size. Does Thwack know my size based on previous orders? LOL ;-) PS Nice additions to the store!

SCCM. I'm not with that group anymore, so I don't know much detail, but they've been able to upgrade some of XP to 7 and 7 to 8.1, so it seems to be working well. I shot them a message the other day, pointing out that MS now recommends in-place upgrades, as opposed to wipe & install... this would save them a lot of time in…

We use a commercial PPM. It works pretty well. We just set it up with 2FA (RSA tokens). We have 2 sysadmins who can add and modify objects, and everyone else can read them. You can set up separate areas so that staff can be restricted to just their area. It also keeps a log of password reads. There's also a local app admin…

#2 - Visual firewall connection mapping #3 - Traffic information in NetPath

Our mgmt decided not to disable monitoring during maintenance windows (we had staff argue both sides of it). We have a 24 x 7 NOC who always want to see what's happening, even if it's planned maintenance.

We are close to fully virtualized with vmWare. Currently image-based, but moving to orchestrated with vCAC / Orchestrator. Patching is WSUS. We have a tight Change Mgmt process, so automation has it's limits for patching. Decommisioning is still a minor pain point for us... it's totally manual, and too often I find stale…

Have the winners been announced yet?

Congrats @"ChrystalT" ! That's a great backstory 

Love it. If I win the Death Star, it might blow up my marriage, cause I'm gonna hang it from the ceiling of my family room. Then I can hang the Falcon and an X-Wing at the other end. Wow, too many ideas. 

NPM, WPM, SRM, VNQM, DPAIM, NTA, VMAN, UDT, SAM, DPA, SQL Sentry.

Agree. Our alerts are routed based on a customer property field. Also, NOC maps are filtered on customer properties. So right now we run an audit monthly to catch any nodes added with that field still null. Usually catch 1 or 2.

@"sqlrockstar" That's a fantastic pic of the shuttle launch! I got to see Endeavor's last flight to CA (they did a nice fly-over of Tucson, a salute to Mark Kelly). I think at least half of Tucson stopped what they were doing and went out to watch it. Good times

Network Engineer made an oops Logs filled up due to routing loops Storage is quickly filling up Dang near spilled my coffee cup No matter how simple a change seems Please remember to communicate with all teams

Love Q20! That's an all-time classic movie. Great reference. "It's not my fault being the biggest and the strongest. I don't even exercise!"

I placed several orders, I think it was on 9/3 or 9/4 (it was a busy week). They were for: basketball hoop, hammer, job security badge, and a pint glass.

My first sys admin job was at a small finance company (@ 100 staff). They ran everything local off a single PDC (NT 4.0 sp6). There was also a WAN connection to the parent company for email. We were running a client/server financial application, which was out of date. I learned that it was not updated because our server…

Awesome! Thanks so much. My kids will love this!

My half of the office:

Hi Danielle, I posted on 8/28, but have not yet received the gift card. Did I post too late?

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Congrats nantwiched‌! Enjoy. In honor of the Labs episode, perhaps you should load your favorite Linux distro. I imagine TuxRacer will run really fast on that box

Our CIO is pretty aggressive with new MS products. We have Win 10 ENT in use for some of IT (I have it on my workstation and Surface Pro 3), and plan to roll out for all of IT by the end of the year (@ 200 staff). Then the rest of the organization, beginning in Spring. It's not as big a deal for us, as half our desktops…

This was about 12 years ago, when I was the on-site IT guy for a small mortgage company (we were a subsidiary of a much larger company). We had some kind of large color printer in the back corner. I don’t remember the brand. It was the type that you had to add the powder to refill the colors (there were 4 slots, one for…