Best posts made by Texkonc

Speaking of whores, SW is down.
Zing!

We had to replace a predictive failure drive in the a Dell PowerEdge T410. Replaced it with a new Drive but OMSA was not detecting it properly as the status said Failed in OMSA, but it was showing the correct data. Drive size, Firmware, etc..

They replaced the drive back to the old one and reboot and thought it was due to the new drive being a Non Dell branded firmware drive and rebooted and it came up as Foreign. Powered the server down again and put the new drive in. Drive came up as foreign this time too. In OMSA, we cleared the foreign config.

Now the drive just says "Spun Up" and "Online" and it is not doing an array rebuild. The array just says degraded. Luckily this is just the data VD for Backups, and the OS is fine, but at same time I dont want to loose the backups.

No Dell Warranty so I cant call support. How do I save ourselves and get the drive back added to the array??

I am Remote with no idrac, can only leverage omsa.

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Mary Tyler Moore

Man... 2017 is really just more of the same.

Yup, even worse than 2016.

One person dies and it's worse?

I think Scott was lumping the election in there with it. That alone is like all the deaths of 2016.

How can I marry these two scripts?

Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select DisplayName,Database,WindowsEmailAddress,@{n="Size(MB)";e={[int]$(Get-MailboxStatistics $_.Alias).TotalItemSize.Value.ToMB()}} | Sort-Object "Size(MB)" -Descending | Export-Csv -Path C:\Scripts\MailboxStatistics-05042020.csv -NoTypeInformation

#Define a work folder for the report
$WorkFolder="C:\Scripts"
#Define # of days to search for users that have not logged in
$Days=90
#Report file
$ExportedReport = "$WorkFolder\$DaysDayEnabledUsers.csv"
#Search for users
Get-ADUser -Filter {Enabled -eq $TRUE} -SearchBase $OU -Properties EmailAddress,GivenName,Surname,DisplayName,Description,Title,Department,Office,LastLogonDate,homeMDB | Where {($_.LastLogonDate -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-$Days)) -and ($_.LastLogonDate -ne $NULL)} | Sort | Select EmailAddress,GivenName,Surname,DisplayName,Description,Title,Department,Office,LastLogonDate | export-csv $ExportedReport -nti

Goal is get User login status, Mailbox DB, and Mailbox size to give to management and to use for baseline to start cleaning up exchange accounts. I am a google powersheller not the one that builds one.
I can cleanup the columns once in Excel.

for @art_of_shred

Stumbled upon this....

Is this a separate driving class for cleaning people or mob related?

Just finished a technical phone screen, I feel it went well. Fingers crossed!

Preparing to make some counters with the offer and see if they take it. So far it seem like a great deal.

Scott said GUI. Is hell freezing over?
Meanwhile, how is it 7PM already?

Someone tried using my AMEX to buy some Australian pre paid phones. Fools were denied instantly.

A certain content filtering company has blocked a vendor for one of our customers. I white-listed the domain and submitted a request to have the domain analyzed. I got an email back saying thank you we have forwarded the request for completlywrongdomain.com to the research team.

I got a little snarky in the reply that half of my company can see, a distro. Mix up tickets much? sigh...

Outlook+Large Mailbox+Searching Broken=Headdesk

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Florida man tries to kiss rattlesnake; gets bitten
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39956904

Darwin's natural selection. Hold my beer, let me try something.

Sigh.....Things you find at newer clients when dev tried to do IT.

Finished moving our #1 customer that has still been with us since the beginning 15+ years ago to Office 365 last night. Success, only some minor kinks. Checked this morning still looking good things still flowing.

We spent a lot of time in FL at our grandparents house and for a few after being certified divers we would use his fishing boat to go out diving. Every time we asked him to help us with the tanks, he always said your welcome.

Installed Mint on my old ASUS Transformer laptop that seemed to chew on win10. Prefect for an around the house laptop to just browse the interwebs.

Having to export mailboxes to PST on a customers 2007 Exchange, you cant run the export from Exchange itself because.....
To export data from a .pst file, you must run the Export-Mailbox cmdlet from a 32-bit computer that has the following installed:
The 32-bit version of the Exchange management tools
Outlook 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) or Outlook 2007

F*** stupid, so now I have to charge more time to build a f*** 32bit vm to just export mailboxes. WTF?

In a job, rather than looking for one.