Random Tech (or IT Work!) Fail

**Ratatapa** · 2017-12-15 09:25

Originally Posted by Yabby

Yea, GPO or block the PST file from the drive itself. You have to go download the GPO files, they are not built in.

Yeah that won't work then, since the sales reps laptop are not connected to the network (Not on domain or VPN) or are company property

So i'm SOL until my bosses stops being stupid

**Yabby** · 2017-12-15 09:50

Yea if they allow data to be on an unregulated device, then they don't really care about security in the 1st place.

**Ratatapa** · 2017-12-20 08:52

edit : nvm not needed anymore they gave me the wrong info

**Corrderio** · 2017-12-29 16:08

I hate career path goals. Since apparently "put me wherever we're lacking" isn't a valid answer.

Now I need to think of 3 long term goals by next week...

**BaneTheBrawler** · 2017-12-29 16:30

1: grow my skillset
2: advance my leadership experience
3: improve workplace rapport

corporatese is easy dude

**Corrderio** · 2017-12-29 16:43

That might work. I think I was looking at it from a wrong direction thinking "Okay I sucked ass at this for the year. Let's fix that" for my goals.

Sadly I can't put "getting this incompetent dumbfuck fired" as a goal. Dumbass broke something else I need to spend more time than I should on this weekend.

**BaneTheBrawler** · 2017-12-29 18:59

i mean, you can break down the things i said into smaller more specific stuff. like "i want to improve my knowledge base within ACSR" or something. improving your weak-points isn't bad. acknowledging that you HAVE weak points shows management you're not a blowhard. laying out an action plan for how to improve them is the hard part, but doing that will get you major points.

basically, what management wants is a way to make human beings quantifiable. so make your goals quantifiable: state a goal, work out an action plan to accomplish said goal, execute it as best you can, document progress. we use trackers a lot at the call center. for example, for a while my trouble calls were a tad high. so every time i set up a trouble call, i wrote down why. eventually i noticed a trend: i was sending a lot of trouble calls for No Signals, which SHOULD be easy to resolve. so i concluded i was not doing a good job of ensuring that connections were being checked, and made a point to do so. my trouble calls improved.

so if you pick a metric, lay out a plan to document your progress with that metric. if you pick a skill, lay out a plan to improve it, create a metric for it somehow. quantify that shit.

**Jamison** · 2017-12-29 19:50

Crud. I was supposed to fill out my evaluation today and completely forgot.

**Shenrien** · 2017-12-29 20:38

It's okay, no one reads and takes what it says seriously.

My year end review they pulled up my goals and were like huh yeah that looks okay and flipped to the next page.

**zoobernut** · 2018-01-10 16:48

Any one have any experience with Spanning Tree Protocol loops and how to find/fix them? My network crashed this morning twice and I need to figure out why. Also anyone have any experience with Root Guard and BPDU Guard at the port level? I am running all Cisco Meraki switches and AP's and they only handle layer 2 traffic. Layer 3 and above is handled by the firewall.

**Yabby** · 2018-01-11 06:51

Not much on networking myself, but do you have a network meter of some sort? SolarWinds, Cacti? anything? Something you can see the traffic because if you have a loop you should see a massive amount of traffic coming from somewhere. If you don't, fastest way I know is to start pulling trunk ports switch by switch. Once you know which switch the loop is on, you should be able to narrow down who plugged in a line they shouldn't have.

**Ratatapa** · 2018-01-11 07:44

Originally Posted by zoobernut

Any one have any experience with Spanning Tree Protocol loops and how to find/fix them? My network crashed this morning twice and I need to figure out why. Also anyone have any experience with Root Guard and BPDU Guard at the port level? I am running all Cisco Meraki switches and AP's and they only handle layer 2 traffic. Layer 3 and above is handled by the firewall.

Dumb question but why don't you call them?

Usually meraki has good phone support

**zoobernut** · 2018-01-11 12:26

Originally Posted by Ratatapa

Dumb question but why don't you call them?

Usually meraki has good phone support

I did call them and they helped me narrow down the issue to spanning tree loop as well as which branch of the network the loop came from. The way I figured out there was a loop is that it crashed my core switch. I enabled Root Guard on my trunk ports on the root switch so hopefully that will isolate the issue and allow me to start narrowing down which part of the network the loop came from.

**Ratatapa** · 2018-01-11 14:10

Originally Posted by zoobernut

I did call them and they helped me narrow down the issue to spanning tree loop as well as which branch of the network the loop came from. The way I figured out there was a loop is that it crashed my core switch. I enabled Root Guard on my trunk ports on the root switch so hopefully that will isolate the issue and allow me to start narrowing down which part of the network the loop came from.

I love dumb questions (I dont know how many switches you have) but did you check your cables to be sure you dont have 2 cables to the same switches?

Exemple Switch 1 port 1 to switch 2 port 1
And Switch 1 port 15 to switch 2 port 5

that could be issues too

**zoobernut** · 2018-01-11 16:15

Originally Posted by Ratatapa

I love dumb questions (I dont know how many switches you have) but did you check your cables to be sure you dont have 2 cables to the same switches?

Exemple Switch 1 port 1 to switch 2 port 1
And Switch 1 port 15 to switch 2 port 5

that could be issues too

This issue is not happening with the core switch infrastructure which I control. I don't know if someone has a device plugged into two ports out there somewhere on the property. I will have to walk around and visually inspect all the ports to see. We have a large property and there are 3 switches downstream from the core switch that crashed. I enabled Root Guard on the Trunk ports on each of the two core switches and I plan on enabling BPDU Guard on the access ports to hopefully isolate any potential issues.

The network has 2 core switches and 15 downstream switches scattered over a large property.

**Ratatapa** · 2018-01-15 16:20

Fuck I hate microsoft.

So we have an image on Windows 10 pro 1709 VL, and we use it to image ALL our PCs, NP

So now we had a PC that had a defective Motherboard, Call lenovo they came to change it np. Now I boot windows and it says that that windows is not activated (ok it<s fine)

Go to activation paste my key and it says

We found a Windows 10 Pro Digital Licence for this device running Windows 10 Pro. To Activate using this digital licence you need to install Windows 10 pro

Wtf do i do now exept reimaging the Pc?

**djzombie** · 2018-01-15 16:35

double post my b

**djzombie** · 2018-01-15 16:37

from what i understand the license keys for windows 10 are attached to the motherboard in some way.

haven't had to deal with it personally, but this article seems to address the problem.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-r...ardware-change

also https://www.howtogeek.com/226510/how...%99s-hardware/

But, if you’ve changed the motherboard or just a lot of other components, Windows 10 may see your computer as a new PC and may not automatically activate itself.

Head to Settings > Update & Security > Activation and you’ll see a “Troubleshoot” option if activation failed. Click that option and sign in with the Microsoft account you associated your license with. You’ll be able to tell Windows that you “changed hardware on this device recently” and select your PC from a list of devices associated with your Microsoft account. Microsoft’s documentation now explains exactly how this works.

**Ratatapa** · 2018-01-15 16:49

Originally Posted by djzombie

from what i understand the license keys for windows 10 are attached to the motherboard in some way.

haven't had to deal with it personally, but this article seems to address the problem.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-r...ardware-change

also https://www.howtogeek.com/226510/how...%99s-hardware/

I dont have the option in troubleshoot to tell Windows that i changed hardware

**BaneTheBrawler** · 2018-01-15 19:51

windows 10 is kinda weird about licenses. not quite the same thing, but i replaced the hard drive in my laptop, and in order to re-install i had to do a system backup on a flash drive (fortunately the old drive was still functional- barely), then boot from that. on the bright side, it was easier than doing partitions and shit. downside is it'll only work for that particular license.

there's gotta be a different way to do it for a business license though.

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