I work in a company where encryption is standard on all laptops. One day someone in IT that worked out of a remote office pushed a change to the encryption server. He thought he was testing a change in DEV. He was very, very wrong. The change he made prevented all the laptops from booting up. This affected everyone with a laptop worldwide. Talk about a cluster fuck. Everyone in IT from the Help Desk reps to Developers were dispatched to fix every single laptop in the company. It took almost a week to get everyone back to normal.
Now, there is of course about a million and one things that could have been done to prevent this - better admin controls, better configuration of the encryption server and a better change management process just to name a few. Unfortunately the fact of the matter is this great system that was supposed to protect the corporation brought it to its knees for days.
I’m not saying encryption is a bad thing, But this was slapped it in placed by an arbitrary “mandatory deadline” without understanding the first thing about how to deploy this correctly. If they had taken the time to understand it first this probably wouldn’t have happened.
We still use it. Users still complain about it. Nothing has been done to prevent this from happening again other than the guy that mistakenly pushed the change getting canned.
Perhaps an previous version of the file may have said the license is "Free" and "No limitations", but I'm not finding any evidence of it now
You are not looking in the right place. It lists the license as "free" and "No Limitations" under the Detailed Product Specifications section.
I went through this exact experience. I worked for a very large company doing first line tech support for about a year and a half. At the end I just couldn't take it any more. I went to my boss and explained that I was just burned out, the phone support was killing me. She told me that if a job opened up in second level support it would be mine, but I would have to be patient.
I waited a month, nothing changed so I found a new job. It was the best choice I could have made. I left a very large company doing tier 1 support to go to a *much* smaller, privately owned company doing tier 2 support. 2 years later I'm still at the same company and now I'm a sys admin II.
In my experience I've found that a degree isn't really what is going to get you the better job. Don't get me wrong, I have one. It just happens to be in Psychology so it isn't exactly that much help to me. I got a better job because I proved I knew what I was doing.
Typically opportunities don't just fall into your lap, you have to make change happen. Work hard, and work someplace where you will be appreciated and you'll do fine.
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I work in a company where encryption is standard on all laptops. One day someone in IT that worked out of a remote office pushed a change to the encryption server. He thought he was testing a change in DEV. He was very, very wrong. The change he made prevented all the laptops from booting up. This affected everyone with a laptop worldwide. Talk about a cluster fuck. Everyone in IT from the Help Desk reps to Developers were dispatched to fix every single laptop in the company. It took almost a week to get everyone back to normal.
Now, there is of course about a million and one things that could have been done to prevent this - better admin controls, better configuration of the encryption server and a better change management process just to name a few. Unfortunately the fact of the matter is this great system that was supposed to protect the corporation brought it to its knees for days.
I’m not saying encryption is a bad thing, But this was slapped it in placed by an arbitrary “mandatory deadline” without understanding the first thing about how to deploy this correctly. If they had taken the time to understand it first this probably wouldn’t have happened.
We still use it. Users still complain about it. Nothing has been done to prevent this from happening again other than the guy that mistakenly pushed the change getting canned.
You are not looking in the right place. It lists the license as "free" and "No Limitations" under the Detailed Product Specifications section.
I went through this exact experience. I worked for a very large company doing first line tech support for about a year and a half. At the end I just couldn't take it any more. I went to my boss and explained that I was just burned out, the phone support was killing me. She told me that if a job opened up in second level support it would be mine, but I would have to be patient.
I waited a month, nothing changed so I found a new job. It was the best choice I could have made. I left a very large company doing tier 1 support to go to a *much* smaller, privately owned company doing tier 2 support. 2 years later I'm still at the same company and now I'm a sys admin II.
In my experience I've found that a degree isn't really what is going to get you the better job. Don't get me wrong, I have one. It just happens to be in Psychology so it isn't exactly that much help to me. I got a better job because I proved I knew what I was doing.
Typically opportunities don't just fall into your lap, you have to make change happen. Work hard, and work someplace where you will be appreciated and you'll do fine.