[…] and have been using various Linux distros as my main os for almost 20 years.

Matey. Get into any company that has linux junior positions. You already have more experiance in linux than 90% of the average (windows) Sysadmin.

For realzies now. Most will look weird at you if you ask them to edit a file in the shell or using a server VM that runs without graphical interface.

Get into a linux junior position and get started.

Learn lots and lots. After a few years moneywise you might be back your old job as experienced chemist.

TIL. Nice

Darn thats High-Res. Nice!

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/release-information

Windows 10 21H2 LTSC recieves support until 2027 December.

Nah you dont need a special image for the touchscreen and stuff. Check the advanced update settings for optional downloads and also give the surface app in the microsoft store a shot. It actually is not terrible for troubleshooting.

Other than that: Create your own custom image if you deeply wish to. Here is the help doc:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/surface/download-drivers-and-firmware-for-surface-09bb2e09-2a4b-cb69-0951-078a7739e120

A few more titles that you will hate, but actually describe your role. You are in no sense just a senior developer.

You are an

• Architect
• Solution Architect
• Project Manager and Team Leader
• Service Manager

Which one fits best, you have to decide. But i would put this up on my resume if i had your responsibilities.

Omg I knooowwww that feeling of being scared of a jump and especially that hill going down.

As she descends and screams in fear… well I also have done that many times while skiiing. Know that feel. But darn. That enlightment when the jump is over and you recognise that your skiis are stable again. Darnnnn. Pure happyness. Thanks for sharing this awesome clip :D

I guess the following are the modt liked:

https://alternativeto.net/software/teamviewer-quicksupport/

https://alternativeto.net/software/teamviewer/

Maybe even windows remote help tool if you got a AD with microsoft accounts. (For fat clients - thinclients mostly have VNC or you could at least look at what they do by opening their RDP session)

Cute lil fella :3

Yes. Yes it does :D

Schlop schlop schlop

You were ready for reading the manual. Darn good that you’ve made it without passing that line. Once you pass it you never come back to being sane again, you know?

:D

Holy moly Networking Class… I’m getting flashbacks to my time when in the Simulated Cisco Environment we tried the SPT out and yes you are right. It takes a short but nonetheless weird amount of time for it to timeout.

Thanks for giving me the updates. If I or somebody else ever has similar symptoms maybe they will find this thread :D

I gotta say I think I would never had targeted SPT as the culprit. Though to be fair I only use dumb switches in my homelab and at the corp, the Networking department gatekeeps the nice stuff a bit :3

Anyway, I’m happy you found out and were able to fix it. <3

I know this is stupid to ask but can you test setting up servers fresh from a .iso? No template, no domain join, no nothing that would create any predefined settings. If the issue doesnt persist, maybe there is a legacy gpo or something that forces it for domain recognition before allowing other network traffic. Or something completely different but we gotta corner the problem in with troubleshooting.

And also maybe create a script that’s being fired at bootup. The script could write the timecode and the “ipconfig /all” and “route print” into a textfile every few miliseconds.

This would create large logfiles but might help. Since if you are even uncapable of pinging local adresses with IPv4 adresses, maybe the network stack just simply doesn’t load fast enough.

Also some additional info might help with cornering it in such as:

• is it only occuring on Virtualized Machines?
• what Hypervisor is being used?
• are there more than one kind of hypervisor brand? (For e.g. Vmware and Hyper-V)
• is the problem also ocurring on Bare Metal Servers? (Windows Server OS being installed directly on the Server without usage of Virtualisation)
• is your Domain Forest an old one, that you didnt create initially - or another way of asking: could there be GPO’s or Templates that have settings in them, that you dont know about?
• did you already try to connect two servers together by directly connecting them to each other and sniffing the NIC output via Wireshark? Maybe you can use this to parallel Check the behaviour of the bootup script with the Routing Tables and IP-Settings. Maybe somthing sticks out weirdly enough to catch your attention?

Thanks for this. Was a pleasant read and a good mood lifter after recieving an emergency call for a useless alarm in the monitoring ^^

Argh good god. Ansible. Another topic that I wanted to dive in recently. It seems to be more and more used in all kinds of environments. Gotta get my fingers on it and get to know my way around in it.

Sadly oVirt has also reached EOL it seems. There hasnt been an update for it for eternities. oVirt is actually pretty nice in some aspects but yeah it has some weird bugs. Running a prod environment though is actually possible if you have enough hypervisor in a cluster then even patching runs quite smoothly. Autobalancing also works nice.

The only thing I haaateee about it is the awful one-time consoles.

The fact that Windows Server .iso’s dont have the needed drivers to recognise a virtual drive is also not the best for a productive environment with many windows servers. Its possible, yes. But it brings a little headache at the beginning of setting everything up with it. After all you only need to mount em manually a few times. Only so many times, as you create a fresh VM-template for your environment. After that it isnt any hassle anymore.

Gawd I am MELTING of cuteness!

Well thats weird. Maybe try the nightly build, they have additional features and patches. Maybe its a weird bug that got patched with this version or it is a random problem that occurred whilst the installation.

Well thats because as soon as you search you are actually using a website. If the website doesnt support darkmode or was someday configured to be whitemode, then it will always show up bright. If the website doesnt support darkmodes: use the newest install that comes in a few days the 120 version. Or switch to the nightly-installation where you can already now install plugins/extentions. Then install the darkreader extention. Done. Ezpz