|
Here's my situation. I have Skype, and in addition to the normal window, I get this other stupid window that says "Sorry, we didn't recognize your sign-in details. Pleas check your Skype Name and password, then try again." But that doesn't matter because I am signed in with no problem and can make calls. (I only make toll-free calls to the USA, so I don't need to put up any cash.) And I can't close this stupid window.
So I go to Skype help, and through a bunch of screens it tells me that I need to get a Microsoft account, so I set one up, and it sends me an E-mail confirmation, which I do. So then I get to a Virtual agent window, and after a few back & forth messages, it gets me to Microsoft support, where it logs me in, but then wants a mobile phone number to send me an SMS. The problem is that I don't have such a mobile phone number (I use Magicjack), and I see no way to get around this other than to click around in which case I go in a giant loop and get back to the same damn screen asking me for a mobile phone. 
I don't how to contact Microsoft without getting past this step.
UPDATE: I dug around a bit and came across a phone number for Microsoft assistance for disabled folks, so I guess I did the equivalent of parking in a handicapped zone and called. I learned that going through the options, if I choose the dropdown list option for account problems, I get the option of doing chat.
modified 3-Jul-17 14:00pm.
|
|
|
|
|
I got to write some actual code today - whipped up a quick WPF app that discovers available AD groups, finds users in the selected group, and then finds all groups in which the select user is a member.
I had to do this because we wanted to prune unnecessary users from the AD groups within our sphere of influence, and our IT department refuses to provide the info we needed to do so.
In any case, it was good to get back into actual development instead of having to do Qlikview crap...
EDIT =============================================
My boss sent an email requesting removal of certain individuals from our groups this morning. She just got an phone call from an irate IT guy asking "how in the world" we got the names of the users in our groups. She laughed somewhat maniacally, and hung up on them.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-
When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 3-Jul-17 12:46pm.
|
|
|
|
|
sounds like your company 'organisation' isn't. (IT is a service dept., they shouldn't have refused the earlier request.)
Sin tack
the any key okay
|
|
|
|
|
I have yet to encounter an IT department that sees itself as being in a service role.
Our database group has a dozen SAs, but absolutely NO database developers. That means it's up to the various customers to craft SQL jobs (and their subordinate SSIS packages), or stored procs, or UDFs.
I stared open-mouthed at the head of the department when he stated this. I think I'm the only one in the organization that knows how to develop a SSIS package.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-
When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
|
|
|
|
|
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: She laughed somewhat maniacally, and hung up on them.
I like your manager already.
I find that some people in IT departments like the power of control and get upset when they get circumvented by developers. They don't realized that all the fun little tools that they get to play were, in fact, created by developers. For sh*ts and giggles, you should dig into Windows Management Instrumentation classes so you can read back a list of programs running on the Admin's workstation*** along with a whole cornucopia of information they like to think is locked down.
*** if they have RPC enabled, which most users do
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
|
|
|
|
|
Last time I poked the bear, I got "officially" reprimanded. I think it went on my permanent record (the one they always told you about in elementary school). I have zero f*cks to give.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-
When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
|
|
|
|
|
And now there is some IT weanie burrowing into AD doco trying to find a way to shut you down... again.
I find having to circumventing their little tyrannies really irritating so I now escalate the the issue.
My standard response to any request for a solution is the requester is to get access to the source data before we accept a requirement. I have a project that has been waiting 20 months for IT to supply the data for it.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
|
|
|
|
|
I have an SSIS package that contains a C# Script to get all users and groups from Active directory and saves it to SQL Server for integration with other data.
|
|
|
|
|
Looks like you got a date!
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
|
|
|
|
|
Is hearsay a job description for interpreters?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
Hear! Hear!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
|
|
|
|
|
It describes "journalists" perfectly; both what they do, and what they purvey. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
|
|
|
|
|
some journos more into heresy than hearsay
Sin tack
the any key okay
|
|
|
|
|
When I got back the cat didn't know a zloty from a forint, and turned up its nose at the kielbasa I brought home.
I split up with my girlfriend. The cat went AWOL.
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
|
|
|
|
|
Let me just get this straight: When you came home, your wife had a polished p.... Eh, nevermind! Too much info anyway! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
-
The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
-
I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 4-Jul-17 2:36am.
|
|
|
|
|
Persianally I feel this thread won't really go anywhere, but as long as you are Havana good time single, that's fine!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
ha ha ha .. bad, bad cat ... probably he did not want to dance polka, either ...
|
|
|
|
|
Did you say he went APOL??
... such stuff as dreams are made on
|
|
|
|
|
BillWoodruff wrote: When I got back the cat didn't know a zloty from a forint, and turned up its nose at the kielbasa I brought home.
I split up with my girlfriend. The cat went AWOL.
c'mon man, don't leave us all hanging.
Finish the story: what happened to the kielbasa?
Sin tack
the any key okay
|
|
|
|
|
With all the double entendre's in this thread, do think it wise to ask that question?
Software Zen: delete this;
|
|
|
|
|
Hi All,
The subject line relates to an earlier post I made in the depths of misery and confusion. While I am still in the PUB it looks like Chucking out time is approaching, I got offered a role and excepted, they are keen on my skill set(?) ![Jig | [Dance]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif) do the happy dance!
|
|
|
|
|
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
|
|
|
|
|
|
Quote: and excepted,
I hope you accepted rather than excepted! Good luck!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
|
|
|
|
|
yeah, true have even started drinking yet spel no good, me engineer
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
