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Stuck in a really weird situation. Org was purchased a few years ago. Spent several years here as a Director focused mostly on Infra and eComm, have been working to get more rounded on all things including ERP. Although that’s been a fight on its own.

New org has no idea what to do with me and the only offer is to specialize on an Infra focused role. Albeit, one on a much larger scale. Worried that budget season will hit and my role will be “terminated” (not the worst thing). Though I’ve been assured my job is safe.

Would you take the specialized role which is somewhat of a step back, but has a bigger scale? Or would you keep trying to round out your experience with the full stack of IT

Has anyone found that their perpetual license “expired”?

Our install was working fine. We are in limbo on moving monitoring systems and are still using the perpetual license to monitor some of our landscape.

Noticed we hadn’t seen any alerts and see all our sensors paused and a note saying our license expired. License shows it switched to freeware version.

We are still running version 24.3.98.1210+, the maintenance has expired, but we still had a valid perpetual license.

Forcing us to go from a perpetual to subscription license with a 2x increase on a 3yr term is a great way to make an unhappy customer.

It’s been a few years since I was on the market for a new job and this time, I’m looking for a director level role.

What is everyone using these days to advertise themselves and find actual jobs? Indeed still relevant? LinkedIn? Dice still a thing?

Getting ahead of a bleak outlook after my current org was acquired.

Roads going to IAH C and D are crazy backed up. Add some extra time if you’re catching a flight tonight.

Spent the last 24 hours in a hospital room with family. No TV or anything. Poor family member had to raw dog life in pain for hours until I could get them a charger for their phone.

For those who have had an enterprise agreement with Cisco for Collaboration, Security or some other platforms, what has been your experience on the renewal?

I have a collab EA expiring next year, trying to budget for it. We are likely only going to extend for one year, but I want to know what to expect with the uplift. We’ve stayed flat as far as users go. Anyone have a % they’ve seen?

Been using Spotify on my AW for a while, but a few months ago, it’s gone downhill.

Lately, all my Podcasts have switched to Dutch language commercials, while playing on all other platforms, it’s fine.

I’m also having crazy issues with Audiobooks on AW, where they just refuse to continue to play for more than 10 minutes or start from Chapter 1 when I’m 30+ chapters in.

Uninstalled, signed out, restarted. Only thing I’ve not done is reset my AW to factory settings.

I'm probably dumb, but has anyone done something like this before?

Use case is a Active/Passive pair of Azure FortiGates with a ELB/ILB to handle traffic. This will serve as both the SDWAN termination for branch traffic in to protected resources, and as the firewall for exposed internet services like web servers.

I am trying to build out a "DMZ" type zone where we force all traffic to hairpin in the FortiGate, but I'm not sure this is even possible. All NIC's on the Azure FortiGate must be in the same VNET, and aside from running individual NSG's, I can't seem to block the inter-VNET and VNET to VNET traffic. I want to avoid needing NSG's as much as possible.

Ultra 2 that I’m using for marathon training picked last night to only charge to 79%. Ran 14 miles with Bluetooth and cell streaming which works great, but drained to 39%. Another 12 miles and it would be close to dead.

Wouldn’t it make sense to analyze fitness/activity and optimize around anticipated efforts to ensure capacity is there? Seems like this should be a simple thing to manage.

I won’t change how I use this. It’s being used for its intended purpose. Just annoyed and I don’t really want to have to keep disabling optimization to ensure it’ll be fully charged.

We deployed Zerto last year and used it to fail over VM’s to Azure as part of a DR test, and while we moved DC’s. That part worked great.

Fast forward two months and Zerto has been nothing but a disaster. Failure after failure, dealing with terrible support and disinterested developers.

All our tier 1/2 services are essentially stuck in Azure until Zerto can figure this out. However, this is killing our budget.

Looking to take the nuclear option and migrate using an alternative. Aside from doing a VHD to VMDK migration, which would require downtime, are there any other good options for this? Other option would be to redeploy all apps, databases and file services to new servers. (I don’