You don't have to be physically present while a computer is busy crunching numbers.
Most users told me they don't like starting up their computer and their applications. They want to pick up where they left off from the day before. I understand that. But corporate policy says to log out every night. At the very least, log out on Fridays.
Getting 80,000 machines to do this at once isn't an issue.
These systems are split up in Monday/Wednesday, Tuesday/Thursday, and Friday/Saturday/Sunday patch groups. Out of 80,000 systems, 5% are having SCCM issues and 5% are being held up by users not logging out each night. My job is to console hurt computers and fix broken users.;)
Your job is to support the users, not for them to kiss your ass.
I don't want users to kiss my ass, I want users to follow corporate policy.
And how is this possibly a problem in the year 2016?
Users have this entitlement mentality at work. It's their computer, and not the company's computer.
In a professional IT setting using modern software and a *nix OS this should never be a problem.
Linux users are responsible for updating their own servers. They're just as a bad as Windows users when it comes to updating their servers on regular basis.
If the tech -- and the software company you patronize -- are so incompetent to not know how to do updates without inconveniencing the users, that's not the user's fault.
Corporate policy requires users to log out of their computers every night. They have two weeks to log out of their computer and avoid being inconvenienced by a 60-minute reboot notification. Two weeks.
Remove the inadequate tool you've given them and replace it with something even more inadequate, rather than do your job.
If your employer decides that the best tool for your job is a box of crayons, you either do the best job that you can with the tool provided or look for a new job. I had a boss who gave me a box of crayons one time. I did my job with it, submitted my work to his supervisor, and started my reputation of getting the job done.
Users at my job are supposed to log out at the end of the day, giving Windows the chance to update itself during the nightly maintenance window. If two weeks go by and the patches aren't installed, users will get a 60-minute notification that their system will reboot (if required). Some users inevitably call the help desk to complain about this happening on their computer, and get mad when the tech tells them that their computer belongs to the company. For a few users, I've been tempted to take the workstation away and leave behind a box of crayons.
You're the voter exercising their civic obligation Most registered voters don't vote. Most citizens aren't registered to vote. Democracy is decided by the few and the proud.
What do you see that makes you think they are being done wrong?
If you're looking for a job and scan the job search websites on a regular, you will notice job listings with unusually high qualifications that never get filled for months. I'm not talking about the proverbial "must have five years of experience in a technology that came out six months ago" job listing. The corporations use these job listings as proof that qualified Americans can't be found and foreign workers are needed to fill these jobs.
I just know when I look online I see the average rental on a 2 bedroom within 10 miles of SJ is $3k\month, that's like 80-90% of the takehome on $50k\year.
Online you're probably looking at the "luxury" rental units. Offline you can find cheaper rental units. I pay $1357 per month for a studio apartment. When I moved in 10+ years ago, it was $800 per month, $199 deposit and a free microwave.
Because having a female VP pick worked so well 8 years ago?
A winning strategy by the looks of it.
Presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) intends to name former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his vice presidential running mate if he succeeds in winning the GOP nomination, multiple sources reported Wednesday.
A well placed water balloon filled with paint, or spraypaint, would render it impossible to use the cameras.
Paintball gun. Make sure it has a bright-colored tip to distinguish it from a real weapon. Otherwise, a human cop might shoot first and ask questions later.
However, no one would have used "corporate" to describe Apple while Steve Jobs was alive because the perceived "personality" of Apple while Steve Jobs was alive was the same as the perceived personality of Steve Jobs.
By that argument the following companies are not "corporate" because they had strong CEO personalities: GE with Jack Welch, HP with Carly Fiona, Microsoft with Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer, Oracle with Larry Ellison, and eBay with Meg Whiteman, etc.
[...] one of the reasons why if you go to school they will explicitly tell you not to trust wikipedia, not to even use it as a basis for research for furthering your topic.
Teachers had the same complaint about the Dummies book. Whenever I need a broad overview of an unfamiliar subject, I would get a Dummies book (or go to Wikipedia), from there I'll decide where to go from there. Alas, schools don't teach critical thinking skills and most people can't jump from a single source to multiple sources.
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Also, the world population is increasing at an alarming rate!
The population will peak in 2050 at 9B people and then start declining as old people outnumbers young people and population growth becomes slower.
http://www.cgdev.org/page/global-demographic-trends
And does corporate policy require that you clean off your desk and lock everything into its drawers every night as well?
Yes.
"A tidy desk is the sign of an empty mind!"
Uh, no. Policy falls under Information Security.
8004100E is the WMI issue. /resetrepository
Run
Stop-Service winmgmt -Force; winmgmt
from an elevated powershell window, then
reinstall the client.
No dice. Still getting the same error message as before. I got 188 systems with this error. The reimaging team is going to love me on Monday morning.
SCCM issues? Such as?
Error 8004100E in the logs. All these systems will probably get reimaged.
Users not logging out? Your maintenance window fixes that.
Not always. One of the admins implemented a script to force reboot every 30 days. Users hate that more than the 60-minute notification.
Running current version on my PC. No issues whatsoever.
Anyone who thinks ITunes is good has never used it on a PC.
I use iTunes and iPhone on my $300 PC. I'm not having any issues. But I do store the media files on my FreeNAS file server.
Must be another iTunes program out there. The iTunes I'm using works fine.
Anyone letting MS managed that scale of deployment needs to be fired and blacklisted immediately.
Patches are rolled out two weeks after Patch Tuesday and being tested with existing applications. Standard corporate practice. Or should be.
Don't you dare question authority!!! It will upset the PHB. Yes, the perfect cog you are.
The PHB can get upset. That's not my problem.
You don't have to be physically present while a computer is busy crunching numbers.
Most users told me they don't like starting up their computer and their applications. They want to pick up where they left off from the day before. I understand that. But corporate policy says to log out every night. At the very least, log out on Fridays.
Getting 80,000 machines to do this at once isn't an issue.
These systems are split up in Monday/Wednesday, Tuesday/Thursday, and Friday/Saturday/Sunday patch groups. Out of 80,000 systems, 5% are having SCCM issues and 5% are being held up by users not logging out each night. My job is to console hurt computers and fix broken users. ;)
Your job is to support the users, not for them to kiss your ass.
I don't want users to kiss my ass, I want users to follow corporate policy.
And how is this possibly a problem in the year 2016?
Users have this entitlement mentality at work. It's their computer, and not the company's computer.
In a professional IT setting using modern software and a *nix OS this should never be a problem.
Linux users are responsible for updating their own servers. They're just as a bad as Windows users when it comes to updating their servers on regular basis.
If the tech -- and the software company you patronize -- are so incompetent to not know how to do updates without inconveniencing the users, that's not the user's fault.
Corporate policy requires users to log out of their computers every night. They have two weeks to log out of their computer and avoid being inconvenienced by a 60-minute reboot notification. Two weeks.
Remove the inadequate tool you've given them and replace it with something even more inadequate, rather than do your job.
If your employer decides that the best tool for your job is a box of crayons, you either do the best job that you can with the tool provided or look for a new job. I had a boss who gave me a box of crayons one time. I did my job with it, submitted my work to his supervisor, and started my reputation of getting the job done.
If your machines require a "nightly maintenance window", maybe that's a sign that your OS isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Not necessarily. You don't want ~80,000 Windows systems updating at the same time. It's better to spread out the load over the course of a week.
Users at my job are supposed to log out at the end of the day, giving Windows the chance to update itself during the nightly maintenance window. If two weeks go by and the patches aren't installed, users will get a 60-minute notification that their system will reboot (if required). Some users inevitably call the help desk to complain about this happening on their computer, and get mad when the tech tells them that their computer belongs to the company. For a few users, I've been tempted to take the workstation away and leave behind a box of crayons.
Most of us have learned to put the 90's behind us.
"Who am I? Why am I here?"
You're the voter exercising their civic obligation Most registered voters don't vote. Most citizens aren't registered to vote. Democracy is decided by the few and the proud.
What do you see that makes you think they are being done wrong?
If you're looking for a job and scan the job search websites on a regular, you will notice job listings with unusually high qualifications that never get filled for months. I'm not talking about the proverbial "must have five years of experience in a technology that came out six months ago" job listing. The corporations use these job listings as proof that qualified Americans can't be found and foreign workers are needed to fill these jobs.
I just know when I look online I see the average rental on a 2 bedroom within 10 miles of SJ is $3k\month, that's like 80-90% of the takehome on $50k\year.
Online you're probably looking at the "luxury" rental units. Offline you can find cheaper rental units. I pay $1357 per month for a studio apartment. When I moved in 10+ years ago, it was $800 per month, $199 deposit and a free microwave.
Because having a female VP pick worked so well 8 years ago?
A winning strategy by the looks of it.
Presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) intends to name former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his vice presidential running mate if he succeeds in winning the GOP nomination, multiple sources reported Wednesday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-carly-fiorina-vice-president_us_5720e23ce4b0f309baef5657
A well placed water balloon filled with paint, or spraypaint, would render it impossible to use the cameras.
Paintball gun. Make sure it has a bright-colored tip to distinguish it from a real weapon. Otherwise, a human cop might shoot first and ask questions later.
She's so amazing people can't even remember her name.
Even more so if she becomes a VP pick.
http://www.people.com/article/ted-cruz-campaign-vetting-carly-fiorina-vice-president
However, no one would have used "corporate" to describe Apple while Steve Jobs was alive because the perceived "personality" of Apple while Steve Jobs was alive was the same as the perceived personality of Steve Jobs.
By that argument the following companies are not "corporate" because they had strong CEO personalities: GE with Jack Welch, HP with Carly Fiona, Microsoft with Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer, Oracle with Larry Ellison, and eBay with Meg Whiteman, etc.
[...] one of the reasons why if you go to school they will explicitly tell you not to trust wikipedia, not to even use it as a basis for research for furthering your topic.
Teachers had the same complaint about the Dummies book. Whenever I need a broad overview of an unfamiliar subject, I would get a Dummies book (or go to Wikipedia), from there I'll decide where to go from there. Alas, schools don't teach critical thinking skills and most people can't jump from a single source to multiple sources.