Angy_Fox13

It's always worse.

Posted by Alzzary@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 305 comments

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Knowing MS keeps us paid but you're completely right they've been going downhill constantly since the early 2000's. It always shocks me that still, to this day, there's not been a real challenge to their dominance of offices across the globe.

New job as an internal IT Manager, but EVERYTHING is managed by an MSP

Posted by ThatAJC88@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 242 comments

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You're the IT manager of YOUR environment. The MSP works for you. Make them give you domain admin access and make them do it yesterday.

What was your first job in IT?

Posted by HoosierLarry@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 283 comments

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ISP helpdesk. So long ago I had to learn dial up modem initialization strings.

Price of laptops already up $300-400 per device

Posted by Ragepower529@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 187 comments

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When you talk prices you need to say where you are in the world.

Senior IT Support specialist wants promotion to Jr Sys Admin

Posted by Double_Confection340@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 325 comments

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Everything else aside....speaking as an old timey MCSE....Certs are "over": overpriced, overrated, and overvalued. Give me the guy who on my team who can just figure stuff out on his own because that Azure cert will be outdated info before you're even done your course.

What exactly do I need to purchase Server CAL licenses for?

Posted by Izual_Rebirth@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 58 comments

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Why do you need to buy CALs? To give Microsoft even more money, that's why. In reality they aren't necessary to make anything work or work better. The only time you'll ever get checked for this is if they audit you (which has happened to me 4x in 25 years).

Vendor support is pissing me off these days

Posted by literahcola@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 183 comments

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Remember when you'd call vendors and get people in Washington (Microsoft), or in Plano (McAfee), or in Carolina (Lenovo), or in Toronto (vmware)? I could go on..... Those days are long gone. Not only will companies not pay wages in our dollars any longer the next step will be to replace people they are paying in rupees with AI. If your question is not in their flowchart you're screwed.

Broadcom is officially the mafia now.

Posted by NoTime4YourBullshit@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 585 comments

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I guess that we were the only people whose cost went down when broadcom took over. BUT this is only because we bought our vmware licensing thru lenovo OEM with our servers and did not realize how badly they were ripping us off.

Anyone else experiencing problems with Outlook (Microsoft 365)?

Posted by MatthiasVD123@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 616 comments

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My outlook just reconnected but exchange admin centre is still giving errors.

Anyone else experiencing problems with Outlook (Microsoft 365)?

Posted by MatthiasVD123@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 616 comments

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Yeah us too (GTA), teams is still up.

Anyone else experiencing problems with Outlook (Microsoft 365)?

Posted by MatthiasVD123@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 616 comments

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My hotmail is still up (Canada) but o365=down.

What is the level of computer literacy that you expect your end-users to have?

Posted by big-booty-bitchez@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 373 comments

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-1 don't even know how to restart the computer and lie when you ask if they already tried that.

Why is DP standard on all business PCs but HDMI on all monitors?!

Posted by zoenphlux@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 580 comments

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Probably because he works at a "large global company" and does not want to order or ship thousands of cables separately.

Veeam enshitification

Posted by Casgrain@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 117 comments

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our vmware pricing actually went down significantly when broadcom took over so your results may vary.

AI x Sysadmin

Posted by Bubba8291@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 33 comments

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When they make it so AI can do some of the things we do they'll no longer need as many people like us. You should not be supporting this technology.

What backup strategy do you employ at your workplace?

Posted by Hot-Difficulty-9604@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 93 comments

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you could but why would you want to? I have not seen a ticket about a tape robot not working for at least 15 years.

The amount spent on licensing is just goofy

Posted by Ragepower529@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 311 comments

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5K a month is not 42K a year.

I work for Microsoft to support "Sys Admins" who don't know how to use computers - to do their job for them.

Posted by prysmatik@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 412 comments

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The useless ones are MS support. Their primary goal is to give you the runaround until you give up on them. Perfect example...part of an email from their support today: I would like to inform you that my shift hours start from 06:00 PM to 03:00 AM IST (Mon -Friday). By any chance, there is a time zone mismatch with your availability or if you require an engineer allocated outside my shift hours I told them very clearly i'm in TORONTO and on EASTERN TIME and the dude is asking me what my availability is in some indian timezone? The IT world might have gotten better for them over there who have jobs now but it's made our IT world infinitely shittier.

Docking Stations are the new Printers.

Posted by Creepy-Editor-3573@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 635 comments

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Mostly Lenovo here too they're too expensive and often have to unplug/plug the power cord to get them to work.

Docking Stations are the new Printers.

Posted by Creepy-Editor-3573@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 635 comments

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Same with us but it was Lenovo vs Hodo (cheap on amazon). None of these are even docks (using older terminology) they're port replicators. Docks were the ones where you docked your laptop into it with the bottom port. And those were WAY better than what we've got now. We all have probly seen that.

Where my fellow greybeards at?

Posted by person_8958@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 843 comments

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I got my hotmail before MS even bought it. I got my gmail when you needed an invite. I got a commodore64 for my birthday in grade 2. Didn't have a cellphone until I was almost 30. YUp. old.

Why MS Support Sucks So Bad

Posted by Ok-Satisfaction-5043@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 106 comments

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Around here (Toronto area) if it weren't or schools using them you'd almost never see one. The schools here bought thousands of them during the pandemic.

Why MS Support Sucks So Bad

Posted by Ok-Satisfaction-5043@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 106 comments

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that's what people were saying 20 years ago too. It will never happen. Linux replacing windows, that is. Its a neat thought but that's for us smart people. NOT end users. And most people are end users.

Why MS Support Sucks So Bad

Posted by Ok-Satisfaction-5043@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 106 comments

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Our newest agreement they forced us to use only the support through our MSP (we are in Canada). Prior years we could open tickets with either one. They are a 'gold certified ms partner'. Sounds about right.

I just had an employee tell me that their personal energy ruins electronics.

Posted by WWGHIAFTC@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 1017 comments

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When I was first in IT 25 yrs ago I remember reading a study that determined computer chips can "behave" slightly differently when a person is involved than when they are just alone in a room. Maybe there is something to this....I've met several end users who seemed to have an IT jinx. I mean devices have inexplicably just worked hundreds of times when I looked at it. maybe IT workers have the reverse-jinx.

Will we ever move away from cloud?

Posted by nl-robert@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 656 comments

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Then use a mixed hybrid on prem setup, that's a nice middle ground IMO. That's what we do.

Will we ever move away from cloud?

Posted by nl-robert@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 656 comments

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They just changed the security portal page (365) again over the last couple of weeks lol.

Desktop guys expiration date

Posted by Illnasty2@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 219 comments

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I thought desktop support might max out at 65 with a highly experienced person. Ontario here as well.

Desktop guys expiration date

Posted by Illnasty2@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 219 comments

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which is why posts talking about salary should always say where the person lives but almost never do.

Desktop guys expiration date

Posted by Illnasty2@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 219 comments

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Desktop support people making 100K and are eligible for a bonus? Where the hell do you live? That's like 65K max here in Toronto, less for a new hire.

Why are so many roles paying so little?

Posted by NeighborhoodScary649@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 462 comments

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you can't really compare the salaries from the Y2K era to now. That was a golden age for IT where everyone was overpaid. Once Y2K crashed it dropped quite a lot. Posts like this you also should say what country you're from.

Replacing all computers every 3 years? Is this not the norm?

Posted by TerrificGeek90@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 1110 comments

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A lot of you work for companies are cheap on hardware 3 years is standard everywhere I've been. Sometimes you can stretch it out a bit more but batteries are going to be useless in some cases...and a lot of windows systems are going to need a format/reinstall after 3 years. We sell the 3 year old computers to the end users when they get a new pc for $100 and it's an nice perk for them to get a non useless computer for cheap. We use T series Lenovo, and lately we're only getting the AMD flavour.

Microsoft and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad change for the sake of change

Posted by narcissisadmin@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 286 comments

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I swear they only do this change for the sake of change thing so that certain teams will still have projects to work on. They move stuff around for no reason on the azure/365 portals contstantly. And why rename it entra ID when everyone knows it as Azure AD. it's just annoying.

Turns out CEO of CrowdStrike is former CTO of McAfee and a similar story happened back in 2010 when their update caused worldwide meltdown for Windows XP users

Posted by externedguy@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 86 comments

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That's why my epo has always been set to deploy dat updates 1 day late.

We may be witnessing the largest IT outage in history

Posted by the123king-reddit@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 3327 comments

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I remember it happened to McAffee once too like 15-20 yrs back in the win xp era. It does happen from time to time.

Supplier is pushing HP laptops

Posted by SkutterBob@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 509 comments

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Sales person might have a special HP sales target that gives him some kind of special reward too. I've seen it when I was at an MSP.

Moving from Data Center to CEO Basement

Posted by BabyLinuxAdmin@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 237 comments

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I priced one rack recently for a colocation it was between 3K and 5K with internet access. This was for a 1 rack cage with 24/7 access in a good data centre in the Toronto area. This was with 2 x 30 amp circuits.

Moving from Data Center to CEO Basement

Posted by BabyLinuxAdmin@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 237 comments

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Depends where this is. I could get 2.5 gig commercial fibre optic right to my house and im not in a place where a super-rich CEO would live. The line is already there all the way to my house. Backup could be commercial Starlink, a 5G connection, or a business DSL line. Most places do not have fibre lines at all though I'm fortunate they upgraded my neighbourhood.

Going 100% Cloud

Posted by Commercial_Match_520@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 208 comments

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The initial cost is scary but the unknown future costs that will never stop growing is what keeps us mixed hybrid on-prem. Companies are getting rid of perpetual licensing in order to try and force our hands.

Sole IT staff for office of 75. Am I being taken advantage of?

Posted by JUNGLBIDGE@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 404 comments

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> Plenty of jobs in the 6 figures. No, there is not. Is this a USA thing or what? I've been in IT 25 years and i'm quite good at it. I've worked at huge companies and with an MSP. I've lived through layoffs and offshoring. I've got certs. A bunch of 'em. Im an IT Manager/Sr Sys admin now and I just finally am gonna crack 6 figures this year for the first time. There are certainly not "plenty of 6 figure jobs" out there just for any IT guy to go get after 2 and a half years in the industry.

CEO is using my account

Posted by Last_Coast_9907@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 425 comments

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He was too impatient for you to just give him access to the files another way?

Would this be a pain to implement? User reset their own passwords

Posted by pepetothemoon98@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 212 comments

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> Better to have a longer passphrase users can memorize and only change if compromised. What kind of magical people do you work with who can remember a long passphrase?

What kind of sysadmin material do you hang up around your cubicle or office?

Posted by PhadedAF@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 719 comments

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I have this old horse statue someone left around the office and I put a little orange cone thing on his head as a hat. does that count?

Nonprofit IT

Posted by Itchy_Tangerine4718@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 60 comments

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They need to hire a sr systems admin you're still a newb.

What tool has helped you significantly as an early sys admin?

Posted by NSFW_IT_Account@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 619 comments

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Fluke cable tester/toner.

My coworker road raged me after work

Posted by w-4throwaway@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 222 comments

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Do you live in a country where it's very hard to fire someone?

Does anyone even like their job?

Posted by Halikocer@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 344 comments

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Yes I do. I see my wife who works in accounting they expect her to be plugging away at stuff 8 hours a day and only take breaks at break times. Being a systems admin is nothing like that. Well not where I work anyway.

Contractor from Argentina traveled to Cuba without telling anyone and then complains they can’t reach Azure

Posted by Spore-Gasm@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 435 comments

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Thank god.

Contractor from Argentina traveled to Cuba without telling anyone and then complains they can’t reach Azure

Posted by Spore-Gasm@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 435 comments

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I've got someone connected from there right now according to my logs.

Contractor from Argentina traveled to Cuba without telling anyone and then complains they can’t reach Azure

Posted by Spore-Gasm@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 435 comments

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Azure services don't just block access from Cuba by default...you have to set that up with a conditional access policy. Is that not true if you're American? Does MS actually just block this and you can't unblock it? That's crazy. The Cuban Missile crisis was what? 60 years ago? Talk about holding a grudge.