Re: [NTSysADM] signoff

2017-03-02 Thread Richard Stovall
I sure hope so. I am so sleepy right now... On Mar 2, 2017 4:05 PM, "D R" wrote: Uh, are you giving all of us permission to Sign Off and go home? Daniel Rodriguez On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Brown, Ken F. wrote: > > -- Daniel Rodriguez

[NTSysADM] Off-topic (Was RE: AWS East Outage)

2017-03-02 Thread Frank Ress
Webster, Mention of Gallipolis made me wonder. Just a fun story below – read at your own risk. I.e. if you don’t want to waste the time, delete this now. FWIW, my sister married a guy from Gallipolis. His grandfather was one of those guys who was buddies with everyone in town. He started

RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

2017-03-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
Yes, I remember. I’ve had similar things happen at some of my clients as well. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 3:56 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East

RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

2017-03-02 Thread Webster
MBS, Do you remember the project I was doing in Gallipolis, OH back in January 2010? It was like 10 degrees with a wind chill of 10 below. Some female went into the datacenter and decided it was too cold in there so she yanked the cover off the A/C system and turned it off. About 30 minutes

RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

2017-03-02 Thread Joey Smith
On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, Kennedy, Jim wrote: > So the facts are out. Short version, basically someone fat fingered a > command and deleted a bunch of really important servers. > > > https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ Loosely translated: rm -rf /AWS/storage/east #RGE resume generating event

RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

2017-03-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
Every vendor of a maintained OS releases patches on a regular basis… None of them are immune. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Lundy Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 3:53 PM To: NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL]Re:

RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

2017-03-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
I was in an NDA call last week regarding some upcoming changes to a particular vendor's anti-malware product, and was introduced to the term "link detonation". -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Calvin McLennan

[NTSysADM] Re: Office 365 licensing question

2017-03-02 Thread Sean Chapman
Out of curiosity what is the problems between E1 and E3 you speak of as we are just now in the process of migrating and trying to decide how many people need E3 vs E1 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com on behalf of Jonathan

Re: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

2017-03-02 Thread Kurt Buff
"To err is human - to really screw up you need a computer!" Kurt On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Kennedy, Jim wrote: > So the facts are out. Short version, basically someone fat fingered a > command and deleted a bunch of really important servers. > > > > > >

RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

2017-03-02 Thread Damien Solodow
Wait, you mean there are more important things than how old your “last booted on” number is? DAMIEN SOLODOW IT Engineering Lead 317.447.6033 (office) HARRISON COLLEGE From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim Sent: Thursday, March 2,

RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

2017-03-02 Thread Calvin McLennan
I'm much more unnerved by the term 'blast radius' Cal -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: March 2, 2017 3:36 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East

Re: [NTSysADM] signoff

2017-03-02 Thread D R
Uh, are you giving all of us permission to Sign Off and go home? Daniel Rodriguez On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Brown, Ken F. wrote: > > -- Daniel Rodriguez drod...@gmail.com

Re: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

2017-03-02 Thread Kevin Lundy
Impressive in some regards.Kind of reminds me of that story and picture from a long time ago where a University found a running Novell server inside of drywall. On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > OMG. > > > > “we have not completely restarted

RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

2017-03-02 Thread Kennedy, Jim
*Nix FTW. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 3:39 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage OMG. “we have not completely restarted the index

[NTSysADM] signoff

2017-03-02 Thread Brown, Ken F.

RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

2017-03-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
OMG. “we have not completely restarted the index subsystem or the placement subsystem in our larger regions for many years.” That sentence scares me. But perhaps it shouldn’t. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim Sent:

RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

2017-03-02 Thread Kennedy, Jim
So the facts are out. Short version, basically someone fat fingered a command and deleted a bunch of really important servers. https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: Thursday, March

RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] IISlockdown

2017-03-02 Thread David McSpadden
ahh. I get them intermixed. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Lundy Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 12:47 PM To: NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] IISlockdown URLscan is baked in - but still not the

Re: [NTSysADM] IISlockdown

2017-03-02 Thread Kevin Lundy
URLscan is baked in - but still not the configuration settings. On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 11:51 AM, David McSpadden wrote: > Thought it was baked into the IIS now? > > > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Kevin

RE: [NTSysADM] IISlockdown

2017-03-02 Thread David McSpadden
Thought it was baked into the IIS now? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Lundy Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 11:45 AM To: NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] IISlockdown Notice: This email is from an outside source.

RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

2017-03-02 Thread Melvin Backus
That’s probably what caused the problem to being with. All that conversion and somebody missed a decimal point. -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com]

RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

2017-03-02 Thread David McSpadden
I believe it was an US-Converted-Metric S-ton IMHO. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Richard Stovall Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 7:05 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage Is that a

Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

2017-03-02 Thread Richard Stovall
Is that a metric S-ton, or the other kind? The is a difference. On Mar 2, 2017 2:38 AM, "Don Ely" wrote: It is pretty trivial if you're setup correctly, but the setup takes an S-Ton of work and testing... On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:30 PM Michael B. Smith