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Hello, I have entered the company couple of months ago, and the current state is that MSP is basically managing everything. I am completely handicapped at anything I want to do, each change, disk resize, new VM, configuration, has to go per email via MSP. I want to change this. We are a small team, like 2 people of infra. Environment is 8 ESXI + Azure. I basically wanted to take over ESXI from MSP, but my boss says he doesn't want us to do any ESXi or vCenter upgrades, that should remain in the hands of the MSP. Agree. I am now trying to come up with a list of "What do I need" for daily business and continuous optimizations, that I can stop writing 10 emails daily to change this or that... My boss basically wants following MSP managed: Hardware/Firmware/ESXi/vCenter updates and patches Storage-Array-Administration Adding/Removing hosts (not really happening daily, but anyway) Configuring networking links (also doesn't change very often) Capacity planing on the cluster-level. I am fine with that. I want though at least: Everything around VMs (create, change, delete, clone, snapshots...) Resource Pool Management vMotion / DRS accessibility and ability to configure, affinity + anti-affinity Templates / Clones Read-Access on host/cluster performance in vcenter (per-vm, per-host, per-cluster performance tab in vcenter, tasks&events) esxtop/resxtop - not really used, but I've read about it. msp would probably hard push back around ssh/console access to the hypervisors. could be helpful while troubleshooting performance. Also should be able to use RVTools. How do you see my list, am I missing some very important things? And do you see this doable without giving us (the company, or me) full administration rights in vcenter? I have never worked with RBAC in ESXi, so have no idea what roles are there, only ever had full access in vCenter. So the question is, do you see it as a requirement, basically, for the tasks I want? Thanks submitted by /u/kosta880 [link] [comments]

When you check request samples in appinsights, it doesnt seem to be possible to open sample detail in a new tab. I would oftentimes find this very useful when I need to swiftly analyze traces. Is there a way around it? submitted by /u/PresenceLonely4847 [link] [comments]

This article explores an alternative to directly troubleshoot production Linux systems with AI tools by using the sos command and using AI to analyze sosreports instead. I think is an interesting read: https://medium.com/@linuxjedi2000/the-agentic-ai-risk-issue-on-linux-environments-fd5c55cedcc5?sharedUserId=linuxjedi2000 I know that this subject is very controversial and would love to read your point of view on the subject. submitted by /u/jlrueda [link] [comments]

A logical outcome of what we've been recently seeing in AI's breaking out and attacking other environments, is that companies are going to eventually design their own AI departments for offensive purposes. We even saw this somewhat hypothetically in the remakes of the Deus Ex games, where corporations attacked other corporations in various ways. So when the day comes where another company's AI department attacks your company... what are you going to do? How long will it take for the law to catch up? How will you be able to even prove what happened? How will you prove it in a court of law? Will you even have an employer to wake up to the next day? What are you going to do? submitted by /u/BloodyIron [link] [comments]

I'm writing this out of pure rage and total desperation right now. I run a small business, and Google Support’s absolute incompetence just completely wrecked my operations. Because of their broken promises, my company’s cash flow got frozen hard enough that I was late on payroll, and one of my key employees literally quit over it. Here’s the nightmare I’ve been dealing with for the past month: Back in late June, I had an accidental 3-year Compute Engine Flexible commitment charge hit my account for about $12,100 (16.3M KRW). On June 30th / July 5th, a support rep named Merilyn confirmed IN WRITING (Case 72227473) that internal teams canceled the commitment and processed a 100% full refund. Great, right? Wrong. While waiting for the bank to clear the credit, the reps suddenly swapped out. A new agent jumped in and basically went, "Yeah, about that... we reviewed it again and the best we can do is a 50% waiver ($6,050) as a one-time courtesy," and tried to mark the ticket as resolved. When I replied with screenshots and the exact case ID where Merilyn explicitly promised a 100% full refund, they just started playing hot potato with my ticket. Eksha, Janna, Farha, Asad Ali—I’ve been handed off to a new person every few days. Every single reply is a canned template saying "the previous agent is out of office" or "specialized teams are looking into it, please wait 24-48 hours." Meanwhile, I’m sitting here with over $6,500 of my own cash already charged to my credit card and stuck in limbo. Google officially confirmed a full refund in writing, reversed their decision when a new rep took over, and now they're just stalling while my business suffers real financial and operational damage. Has anyone ever dealt with Google pulling a bait-and-switch on a written refund commitment? How on earth do I get this escalated past these front-line support reps to someone with an actual brain and authority to fix this?Any advice or upvotes to get some visibility on this would mean the world to me. Thanks guys. TL;DR: 1. Accidental $12k GCP charge in June; support (Merilyn) promised 100% refund IN WRITING. 2. New reps took over, went back on their word, and capped refund at 50%. 3. My cash is locked up, payroll got delayed, and an employee literally quit. Now stuck in a support loop. Need help escalating! submitted by /u/No-Brick8275 [link] [comments]

Hi, I'm 27, new to AWS services for hosting my app backend.. I have worked 4 years in the IT industry and never touched the cloud side of the development, only worked on backend.... I am planning to use elasticache serverless with valkey, and AWS lambda as well, my db will be in supabase... Now , I've heard about the insane bills shocks that people faces when using serverless, also heard about AWS budgets where you can control them, but are there other methods to save me from shocks ? Can I put hard limits ? Please give me your suggestions, any help will be super vital, I'm planning to deploy by EOD .... Thankyou.♥️ submitted by /u/Exotic_Jury_9646 [link] [comments]

I found a workaround! It may not work for everyone. I reset my microsoft password in myaccount and then devices> view details > manage recovery keys> and the page actually worked and got past the infinite loop. I hope this helps :) submitted by /u/OccasionEntire6898 [link] [comments]

2 weeks and total crickets. As a startup, its getting hard to justify using AWS when you cant get a response to basic tickets. Anyone have any ideas? Case no 178468976600279 submitted by /u/dbacks820 [link] [comments]

In a dilemma, need to know how to troubleshoot. I have access to the O365 tenant where the recipient email address is housed and the couple of test message sent that boucned are not showing up in Message Trace as if AOL never actually attempted to submit them to Exchange Online. If they did, again they dont' show in Message Trace. Below is the only info from the NDR, no actual diagnostic info or bounce code. The user reported issues with receiving multiple emails from AOL/Yahoo addresses. What do you make of this situation? This seems to be more an AOL issue, could they have "blacklisted" the recipient address in their system for outbound email? I've seen them do that with senders for inbound emails. From: [ [email protected] ](mailto: [email protected] ) To: "Sending_AOL_addr"@aol.com Aug 3, 2026, 12:00 AM Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address. <"office365emailaddress">: Unable to deliver message after multiple retries, giving up." submitted by /u/JamesHarenDPOTY [link] [comments]

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Possibly moving to this and seems like a ton of processes will change. Have you guys done it and how is your honest experience with it? I want to know what to expect submitted by /u/bobert3275 [link] [comments]

Every team I talk to these days will tell you, unprompted, that they've moved past that mentality. More deliberate now, more careful, more "quality-first." Nobody wants to be associated with the phrase anymore, it's become a bit of a punchline. But when I look at what actually happens day to day, ship first, find out what broke from a user report or a support ticket, patch it after, it looks pretty similar to what it always looked like. The vocabulary changed. The retros got more polished. There's a Slack channel for "learnings" now instead of just quietly fixing it and moving on. The underlying loop, though, ship, discover, patch, doesn't look that different from five years ago on most teams I've seen. Maybe that's fine. Maybe the loop was never really the problem, and the actual improvement is somewhere else, better rollback speed, better observability so the discover step is faster, smaller blast radius when something does break. That would be real progress even if the core behavior looks the same from a distance. Or maybe I'm just seeing survivorship bias, the teams that talk publicly about being careful and deliberate are a specific, vocal subset, and they're not representative of what's actually happening at most places. Genuinely asking, not trying to make a point here: what's concretely different about how your team ships now versus a few years ago? Not how you'd describe the philosophy, what's actually different in practice, deploy frequency, review process, what happens in the fifteen minutes after something goes wrong. submitted by /u/ClickOk5811 [link] [comments]

Hi, I'm looking for a solution where Cloudflare is hosting public DNS but it's replicating downstream to a secondary? Is anyone doing this? I want Cloudflare to be the source of truth for things like DNSSEC and for Powerdmarc to publish to it, etc. submitted by /u/SethTTC [link] [comments]

I have a problem with a VM in azure that requires me to use the iso, only problem is all of my licensing is handled by azure. The eval setup disk won't work. Anyone have a method to obtain the full iso? submitted by /u/BrokenPickle7 [link] [comments]

I've been troubleshooting an infuriating issue that started after moving clients from Windows 11 23H2 to 24H2 (and confirmed it's still present in 25H2) and definitely banging my head on against the wall. Symptoms User has a mapped drive SMB share open in File Explore Browser download appears to hang for ~1-3 minutes (sits at 100%) Explorer.exe stops refreshing properly e.g., right-click create file - does not appear unless you refresh explorer, immediately visible in PWSH, will appear once the hang has cleared SMB copy operations appear frozen or stop updating. Explorer in general feels hung. What I've found: Closing the Explorer window connected to the SMB share sometimes restores normal behavior, restart explorer.exe resolves 100% of the time. WPR trace show Explorer stuck on directory notifications for roughly 61-62 seconds . explorer.exe**,** DirNotify, Result: 0xc0000120 (I/O request canceled) - Duration ~61 seconds At the same time, the SMB path shows: STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT**,** 0xc00000b5 - Duration roughly 61 seconds Work around I've found: I found an old Microsoft KB discussing (from 2006 ;) ): Setting NoRemoteChangeNotify = 1 appears to stop the issue. It brings a new issue that explorer.exe will not automatically refresh anymore for smb mapped drives. Shocking to me that a browser spawning an explorer.exe process (guess for file moves/renames) would result in a smb mapped drive IO timeout. And further shocking this would only happen after the move to 24H2/25H2. We also enforced the latest CIS benchmark policies for SMB, which includes a 60 timeout, I suspect that maybe that timeout is what is resulting in the IO timeout. But that doesn't feel like the true cause here, maybe just the configured time for SMB to say "okay I give up", unless maybe the old default timeout was a lot lower. Been in the trenches on this issue for ~ 2 minutes now. Working with Microsoft (aka MindTree), and that hasn't proved a lot of success - 90% of our calls has been to collect logs, then they wait 2 days to tell me the logs were cut off/etc. Output from Get-SMBClientConfiguration: ```PowerShell get-smbclientconfiguration AuditInsecureGuestLogon : True AuditServerDoesNotSupportEncryption : True AuditServerDoesNotSupportSigning : True BlockNTLM : False BlockNTLMServerExceptionList : CompressibilitySamplingSize : 524288000 CompressibleThreshold : 104857600 ConnectionCountPerRssNetworkInterface : 4 DirectoryCacheEntriesMax : 16 DirectoryCacheEntrySizeMax : 65536 DirectoryCacheLifetime : 10 DisableCompression : False DisabledSMBQUICServerExceptionList : DormantFileLimit : 1023 EnableBandwidthThrottling : True EnableByteRangeLockingOnReadOnlyFiles : True EnableCompressibilitySampling : False EnableInsecureGuestLogons : False EnableLargeMtu : True EnableLoadBalanceScaleOut : True EnableMailslots : False EnableMultiChannel : True EnableSecuritySignature : True EnableSMBQUIC : True EncryptionCiphers : AES_128_GCM, AES_128_CCM, AES_256_GCM, AES_256_CCM ExtendedSessionTimeout : 1000 FileInfoCacheEntriesMax : 64 FileInfoCacheLifetime : 10 FileNotFoundCacheEntriesMax : 128 FileNotFoundCacheLifetime : 5 ForceSMBEncryptionOverQuic : False InvalidAuthenticationCacheLifetime : 30 KeepConn : 600 MaxCmds : 50 MaximumConnectionCountPerServer : 32 OplocksDisabled : False RequestCompression : False RequireEncryption : True RequireSecuritySignature : True SessionTimeout : 60 SkipCertificateCheck : False Smb2DialectMax : None Smb2DialectMin : SMB311 UseOpportunisticLocking : True WindowSizeThreshold : 8 ``` submitted by /u/LaDev [link] [comments]

We have been with Azure but the mandatory content filtering makes it unusable for our use case (student writing - anything where they mention violence is rejected). Microsoft aren't accepting applications for managed relationships, so we're SOL there. Hoping to move over to Bedrock but before I go through the effort of setting it all up - does Bedrock enforce mandatory content filtering on models? Edit: Just for clarity - Azure has separate guardrails that sit over the top of the model. These are the problematic ones. The models themselves are fine for the use case. submitted by /u/Plane_Garbage [link] [comments]

So I am new to the DevOps field and my job is to deploy an app on premises. Now the problem is that the material I have read, such as: "Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery" by Yevgeniy Brikman "Road to Kubernetes" by Justin Mitchel focuses mainly on cloud based deployment, which I do not want to use. To clarify, I already have the necessary servers, but for privacy reasons, I would prefer not to disclose too much about the setup. Does anyone have a beginner friendly book recommendation that explains how to deploy an application on premises? I also need to use Kubernetes and Docker, and I already have learning material for both, so the recommended books do not need to explain them in great depth. Thank you for you time! submitted by /u/District-Longjumping [link] [comments]

Current setup: • SharePoint sites host all our active project data. • I use a Business Premium license with OneDrive for Business Plan 2 as a dedicated “Archive User.” When a project wraps, I move its data to this account. It’s currently sitting at 5.8TB (max capacity 7.5TB). Leadership has view-only access so they can reference past projects without being able to modify anything. • A Synology NAS backs up both the SharePoint sites and the archive account (best M365 backup option out there for the cost, hands down). With the OneDrive for Business Plan 2 is being discontinued, and I need somewhere to hold this volume of archive data going forward. I have looked at Azure Files — but I’ve heard horror stories about remote/WFH users having trouble accessing files reliably. We are 100% remote with every random ISP involved. Any advice on where to move this archive data, or how others are restructuring their “archive user” setup now that Plan 2 is going away. submitted by /u/DickBalczak [link] [comments]

We are reviewing secure enterprise voice AI for a financial services contact center, and the post call data lifecycle is slowing down the security review. The team wants to know where raw audio is stored, how long transcripts remain available, what gets copied into backups and whether support stafff can access recordings during an incident. There are also questions around redaction. Card details and identityverification answers may appear in the same conversation as normal account information so retaining or deleting the entire call is not always a clean decision. We have received security certifications from vendors but those documents do not fully explain what happens to one customer call from the moment it ends until every copy is deleted. What retention and access requirements are financial institutions setting before approving a voice AI pilot? submitted by /u/Same_Log2406 [link] [comments]

I'm mostly a hw guy, I make things talk nice to each other. ddi/vlans AD soft AD joins via ipam/A records DUTS/SUTS. I am now in the "learn AI cuz your not getting all the ppl we laid off bucket" How do I explain this learning curve to some one that manages a cafe and cafe staff. Help peez submitted by /u/Civil_Army_5457 [link] [comments]