u/kuebel33

This is a last ditch effort. so apologies if this doesn't belong here. I'm an IT manager for my company and I have been trying to find a contact in NAVY IT for what feels like months at this point, to get them to whitelist our domain so they can send and receive email from their us.navy.mil emails to our companies gcc high tenant.

I have spoken to 3 different Navy IT help desks (NESD, DMDC, NMCI) and all of them try to push me off elsewhere. To make this worse, I have no OID number or any kind of affiliation with the Navy. Some of my companies users do though, so all I can do is call help desks and try to talk to someone, but I have no actual way to open tickets. They've told me I have to have my users that also have us.navy.mil email open the tickets, so then my users just get pushed around to other contacts when i've had them try to open a ticket.

I had a rep for one of the help lines try to send an email to our domain and they even see that it's not being allowed from the Navy's side. They can't even send the email out. They initially thought as a work around the senders could change the sensitivity to uncontrolled general but that doesn't work either (had the same IT rep try that while I was on the phone with them), so the Navy IT has even seen this, but somehow no one can get me to the correct IT folks to actually request a whitelist of our domain...

Thanks for any assistance.

We're migrating from vmware to hyper-V and we have multiple citrix environments with mas agents and fips vpx's that need to be migrated.

Currently each environment has it's own HA pair. I was thinking about trying this route:

Set the primary to stay primary, Breaking the ha pair, turn off the secondary (with the understanding that during the rest of this process we will not have redundancy). Then deploy a vpx in hyper-V (possibly using the same NSIP, since hte other one is off), make sure it's on the same firmware version as the remaining vmware vpx. Then add this new hyper-V vpx to the vmware one to creat a new HA pair. do the fips sync with this new vpx and iron out anything else that pops up, test that its working, fail over/fail back etc. Once that appears to be good to go, set the intiial primary to secondary, and the new hyper-V vpx to stay primary, break the ha pair again, and spin up a 2nd hyper-V vpx, then repeat that process.

I get that this is a round about way of trying to do this rather than just standing up 2 new vpxs in parallel then cutting over to them, but I'm thinking if this process works, then I save myself the headche of reconfiguring everything, dealing with needing to get new certs, potentially new gateway urls, punching network holes, etc). I've done the paralell setup in the past and it's fine, but I'm going to have to do 4 at once for this migration.

Would this work or am I not taking something in to account here?

I was recently interested in getting back into Marvel card collecting after a couple decades and saw the topps chrome 2026 Marvels released July 1st. Are they basically out of print now/no more restocks anywhere (for cost I mean)? If so when would we get news about next years if they do another run of them?

Edit: Sorry, I meant to specify that I'm talking about buying boxes.

Edit: i was just able to get 2 megaboxes from Dicks of all places.

how can i test which strand is bad, if it is a strand? do i just leave the first 8 ft on and see if it blinks wildly with nothing else attached, and just keep going down the line attaching strands to make sure they dont freak out? find the bad one and replace

Anyone happen to know the release date for Burn in Thailand?

Thanks in advance.

Really wanting to get off of Citrix with all the changes the past few years, but looking for option that can still be used for fedRAMP compliance if anyone knows of any off hand.

I understand Parallels RAS isn't fedRAMP certified itself, but just curious if anyone has used it in their own fed RAMP environment and able to keep it secure enough to maintain certification status via your own process, policies, procedures, and boundaries.

I'm really looking to get off of Citrix.......any other alternative suggestions are welcome.

I just beat rhabadom or whatever.. got to him unexpectedly and put him down, but now i guess I have 2 choices of where to go, across a bridge or down a path? being as this is the first time i put him down, which way should i go?

Recently saw They Will Kill You. Movie was not what I was expecting at all. Definitely gave some Evil Dead 2 / Army of Darkness vibes. If you get a chance and want to scratch the itch, and see something new, it might do it for you….at least until Burn releases!