Just got a new job doing sysadmin (adjacent) things. Is this a good stepping stone?

Posted by Resident-Olive-5775@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 4 comments

Background: I have a few years of Helpdesk under my belt (Lvl 1 + 2, plus some light networking (3 years)) and recently got offered a job as a M365 Specialist. They need someone to help migrate from another cloud service over to Azure, as well as migrate a lot of on-prem stuff to Azure too. They’ll give me all the normal permissions for managing and editing information, groups, policies, etc. within Azure as well as creating documentation for the Helpdesk guys while also being a go-between for them (Helpdesk) and the back-end engineers. They also have an InTune project they’ll be implementing soon and plan on having me work on that as well. How much actual sysadmin experience do you think I could get in this role, and is it a decent stepping stone for me to come out of Helpdesk/Desktop Support? Also, any suggestions for resources to help sharpen my skillset while in this role? (For clarity I did not have permissions to edit anything in Azure as far as groups or policies due to that being another departments responsibility.)