Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

I've got the fired department on alert for a hose down.

Personally wearing an environmental safety suit, fire suit, rain gear, an adult diaper, and a condom under all that.

[RKDinOKC]

Definitely NOT how I was expecting to start my weekend, except for maybe the last thing.

[flipper35]

I can tell you from experience that it can take a lot of work because of all the different blacklists. Some won't let you off until there hasn't been any suspicious activity for x amount of time. This is also why the CEO should not give out the enterprise wifi passphrase after he was told to not to for this reason. We have a different connection for those people. I do let teh DIA people on. They have the most paranoid IT group I have ever seen.

We don't use the MS stuff for anything other than Exchange mail.

I had a vendor contact me asking who was in charge of our 365 migration and if they coud talk to them. I said they cannot talk to them because they don't exist because there is no chance we will be migrating to 365.

How is the weekend going? Are they moving back to the in house server so they can migrate it back out to the cumulonimbus again?

By the way, our IT team does not care if it is enterprise or not if it works properly for the task at hand. On the other hand, we have some WiFi arrays that are enterprise/military class that worked well at first but don't scale well and are terrible expensive. They are being replaced. Looking at Ubiquity.

We have some iOS devices but dont really support any Macs since they don't work well with our clinicals software so there isn't much use for them on site but our old CEO had one that we helped him with. We do have a print server for the iPads and such.

[RKDinOKC]

Yep, bringing it all to our on-site server then moving everything out to "microsoft" as the hosting provider. We were using att. It is so we can start using Microsoft CRM because Salesforce has gotten too expensive. The MS partners are charging $30K to do the move. I don't know what salesforce costs but can't image salesforce being that expensive?

Was the same IT manager that killed my literature management script that decide the cloud would be cheaper and have less problems.

[RKDinOKC]

Glad I am wearing the flame retardant stuff. Seems most all the problems weve had with the test migrations has been with my boss and the IT director trying to get things to work with other users and objects that haven't been migrated yet.

[RKDinOKC]

This time my boss kept me almost completely out of the loop until they started migrating IT staff yesterday. The IT vice president that gave me the kudos yesterday saw they were leaving me out of the loop and secretly told me to only do what they told me to when I was specifically told this time and to not fix anything until he calls and tells me to make it work. He want's to see just how bad the decision was to pay the $30K to have the migration done. Has me forwarding all the emails of the migration.

Before we contracted the company to do the migration I had told them i could do it.

[RKDinOKC]

Help my brother, the Chairman of the Board, move to a newer old iPhone yesterday. He likes the smaller 4s. The newest are too big.

Anyway told him about what they were spending on the migration when I could do it and they were going to cause a lot of problems again by what I saw so far. He just said well, sounds like with all this cloud stuff you are going to have plenty to do.

It's like they are hiring others to do my job and keep me around just to make sure it works right..But don't put me charge of it until those they hired fail or start taking way too long. They only had me take over the migriation to the cloud when the support contract ran out and they would have had to start paying consulting fees. And it wasn't migrated at the time. And for the entire year we had been paying on-line licensing for 700 users that didn't exist yet. That's $33K!

[Jim Richards]

We're back. Customs should've been a cake walk except my lovely wife packed some fruits & veggies from Spain. Food we should've consumed in Spain. We had to declare them so that Customs could have the joy of helping us go through her bags to remove and throw all of it away. Did I mention my lovely wife?

[pete3799]

Hey.......where's my fruits and veggies you promised? Tee shirt?

[RKDinOKC]

Dar una buena acogida!

Did they confiscate any pants, trousers, shorts, pantaloons , or anything with a zipper?

They confiscate the fruit because they don't want you bringing back no Spanish Fly!

[flipper35]

Well Richard, if you were on an airliner you are flying into heavy icing conditions with that cloud. At least you will keep busy.

We use the cloud for one thing at work and that is because it is included at no extra charge. Our backups are from the datacenter to a NAS in another building and replicated in another building. Our DR software allows us to upload to their cloud storage as well. I have some of it that is really important in case a nuke falls on our building we will still have the important stuff. We won't need it if we lose all three buildings, but it makes senior management feel better. I wouldn't pay extra for it.

I hope it goes well enough for you personally since I don't see any way it will go well in general.

Jim, welcome back. You should have had the fruit for your meal on the plane. You have a lovely wife, Rick has said so. She has a lovely fork as well from what I have heard.

[porsche4life]

Jim... Your wife is Asian, so smuggling fruit doesn't surprise me at all...


Thuy's uncle packed an entire checked bag of Basil when he came to Canada for her cousins wedding. Basil and dried squid in a suitcase, still shocked customs let that through!

[RKDinOKC]

Maybe the thought it was some kind of weird Asian pot and an aphrodisiac?

[Noah930]

Maybe the customs guy had no sense of smell?

[Outback Porsche]

G'day gents.

Had a lovely late summer Sunday. A round of golf this morning, then replaced the agm battery under the Engels in the tojo with a new'un. Cold beer and icecreams in the camp again, woohoo

[Jim Richards]

Thanks for the comments, guys. Lu is most definitely Asian, so yeah, packing half her suitcase with food is how she rolls. It nearly broke her heart to have to give the stuff up to the customs people. I just told her how much I enjoyed being there instead of heading home.

[Outback Porsche]

LOL, feeling for you mate.

Once they gets an idea in their noggins there's no stopping them.

[Jim Richards]

Yep.

It's supposed to be nice (low 60s) today. It's only around freezing outside currently. Hey, sun, get to work!!!

[flipper35]

Sid, did you lose some pets that are running through traffic there?

[RKDinOKC]

Oh boy, moved all the company email accounts back on-site this morning. Company email is copulated.

Everyone that was involved in approving this decision should have to help working the help desk this coming week!
Especially since they chose to make this move the week 2 of the help desk people are on vacation.