Cooleb09

Intune is not fit for purpose.

Posted by Hobbit_Hardcase@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 321 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

> You got a bad support tech I have never interacted with anyone from MS (or the fake MS contractors) I would consider to be even an average support tech TBH. Didn't bother chasing the esccalation any further after that, jsut FWDed it around the team for groans and lols. We still use Intune as a solution, because as long as you can accept atleast 10% of the platform being 'wrong' on any given day, its a decent low cost and 'first party' product for managing offsite/remote windows devices.

Intune is not fit for purpose.

Posted by Hobbit_Hardcase@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 321 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

Yes I do. Some thumb sucker with a v- email asked for some logs, responded that the device recieved the correct payload from Intune, and therefore the fact that it didn't apply was "caused by misbehavior and inconsistency of Windows operating system processing the policy." whihc was not covered under their support. On the call they basicaly said that Intune only supports sending the config/CSP data to the device, and that applying the config or anythign else that is meant to happen is not their problem/outside supprots scope.

Intune is not fit for purpose.

Posted by Hobbit_Hardcase@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 321 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

SCCM is only better if eveyrone is on prem, and you have a whole team setting up & maintainging dedicated SCCM infra, disitrbuion systems, etc. The Third parties for windows land that truly comepte with SCCM/Intune are, what Ivanti? Yeah's in the shitty MSP spaces there's the kaseya shit and what not, but for internal I don't think anything much else has been relevant for a while.

Intune is not fit for purpose.

Posted by Hobbit_Hardcase@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 321 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

Some AI (Anonymous Indian) with a V- in their name. I think they were trying to explain that since Intune had deployed the CSP to the device, the device not being configured correctly was not an Intune problem (rather a windows problem), but it came accross as stupid because it was being filtered through 2 braincells competeing for third place.

Intune is not fit for purpose.

Posted by Hobbit_Hardcase@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 321 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

I have a response from MS 'Support' that configuring Windows Devices with Intune is not supoported. Its a slwo, buggy, poorly reporting piece of shit. Unfortunately there isn't a lot that is 'better'.

Coreutils in now available on windows

Posted by Lower_Fan@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 66 comments

June 2026 Microsoft 365 Changes Admins Should Know

Posted by KarthiV@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 26 comments

Implement more AI so we don't have to hire people all while we stack the C suite

Posted by american-soundtrack@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 156 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

Nah, go watch some body worn camera footage on youtube. Plenty of times you just have social trash being violent and non cooperative, and an officer injury could have been avoided if the person had been tazed/made compliant sooner.

Implement more AI so we don't have to hire people all while we stack the C suite

Posted by american-soundtrack@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 156 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

Preach Everyone wants to say 'fuck the police' but really we all just want to feel safe. Spend enough time watching body worn camera footage and seeing them having to deal with the dregs of society acting like dangerous and beligerant todlers almost makes you wish for more police brutality.

Why are developers some of the most IT inept users?

Posted by sccm_sometimes@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 782 comments

Microsoft admin centers - I can't be the only one bothered by this on a daily basis

Posted by Jaymesned@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 112 comments

Microsoft admin centers - I can't be the only one bothered by this on a daily basis

Posted by Jaymesned@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 112 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

Preach And the only project that conssitenly tries to un-fuck this mess (SystemD) gets flak for being too 'all encompassing'. And so many open sourceb projects are jsut half baked garbage, or no-one can be bothered writing docs, or the open-source (core) bit is just cucked and you need to pay the equivalent of a comerical product anyway for an 'enterprise' version to make is useable in a business setting. Or it was good and then someone bought it (perforce/puppet). And then there's all the distro's like Debian etc that fuck with upstream stuff so bad in the interest of carrying their own tehcnical debt forward, that not only do things not work right, you can't even rely on the upstream docs or forums/git issues for help. And of all the virtualisation projects for linux... none of them has solved the shared storage problem (no you'r scuzzy 3 node Ceph cluster with single digit IOPS that shoots itself in the head trying to rebalance itself every time a node goes out doesn't count). VMFS was a pretty damn nice magic bullet for anyone running FC or iSCSI storage.

Lenovo devices BIOS password - how

Posted by Steus_au@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 16 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

When we spoke to them, you had to order with factory set password, and then they have a script published that sets it during autopilot. TBH Dell has a much nicer bios automation tool (now intune integrated, although RBAC is broken) + can't brick devices.

MS 2025 user CAL

Posted by mailliwal@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 17 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

Server CALs aren't an issue for 90% of users now that everyone just buys E3 TBH. RDS CALs are going the same way for orgs that adopt AVD + multisession windows client aswell.

Need Help: Admin Deleted our Primary DNS Zone when they meant to Refresh it

Posted by Krazie8s@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 79 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

Blindly restoring a DC will cause issues, and make the headache worse My point wasn't that it couldn't be done, just that it's an easy way to foot-gun yourself. There are good ways to recover the data from backups (restore the DC with no network access, export the zone data, re-import into the healthy DC), but someone who's posting here for actual advice may not realize that there's more to it then 'press the button in the Veeam console'.

Need Help: Admin Deleted our Primary DNS Zone when they meant to Refresh it

Posted by Krazie8s@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 79 comments

Consider the Microsoft Licensing changes before you renew

Posted by notapplemaxwindows@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 43 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

And all the other things that 'windows for business' breaks in Intune and one devices + all the parts of business premium that don't work because of license glitches.

Microsoft Support feels completely useless nowadays

Posted by pedrosmundo@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 185 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

Our last Intune ticket, I got a response from the MS support drone, that configuring Windows devices wasn't supported with Intune. A simple 'go fuck yourself' would have atleast saved me the hassle of getting them logs.

How do you handle HEIC/HEIF photos from iPhones on Windows 11 in enterprise environments?

Posted by pck-grb@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 109 comments

A third vulnerability has hit the kernel

Posted by NoDistrict1529@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 125 comments

Yellowkey - a Bitlocker bypass method

Posted by DaveTheAllrighty@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 398 comments

Lost my sysadmin, now I'm solo. Could use some advice

Posted by Intrepid-Flamingo-55@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 220 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

Mikrotik is pretty good if you know your networking and don't mind being cyber-bullied in Latvian. They are also designed/made in Eu. Having said that I do like the [anti-tik memes](http://mikroshit.com/).

24 7 support at scale sounds great until your team hits its limits

Posted by Such_Rhubarb8095@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 35 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

> 24/7 support with global coverage done by 12 people? I'm afraid I must ask you to tell your management to stop drinking anti-fouling paint ment for ships on the daily, as it's CLEARLY affecting their ability to think. > > TBH that head count could totally work, depending on org size and support requirements. Global support doesn't mean thousands of users, there are a few orgs with smaller headcounts that happen to have bodies all over. 12 FTEs spaced out is 3 drones & a supervisor on each of 3 8 hour shifts 'following the sun'. Depending on load on the super, either one of them (probably based on time-zone favoritism) gets to be manager, or get an extra body for that. If your average ticket volume can be handled by n-1 team members you're set Now if your ticket queues overrun that team size... yeah need more FTEs, or less support intense business services.

Consumer tablets are driving me insane in warehouse environments.

Posted by TheDryShaving94@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 54 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

I mean if it's one department its better TBH. If the person engineering the solution raises their own quotes... its not a procurement fuck up if they buy the wrong thing.

Consumer tablets are driving me insane in warehouse environments.

Posted by TheDryShaving94@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 54 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

TBF procurement should be sourcing based on an engineering approved spec. Its not their job to pick what is required, its their job to source as cheaply as possible what is specced.

Balling on a budget

Posted by R4LRetro@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 103 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

Eh We nearly drunk the Orange koolaid, but went all in on Hitachi Vantara instead. Honestly it lets us forget we have storage systems to look after 99.9% of the time, which is a success.

Which hypervisor do you prefer? XCP-NG vs oVirt vs Proxmox

Posted by TimeAlternative7919@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 96 comments

SMB Header Signature for Tagging in Firewall.

Posted by Ok-Host3374@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 6 comments

Why is ITSM pricing so hard to figure out before you've already wasted an hour on a sales call?

Posted by PetalAndPrism@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 34 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

> FOSS and all its BS Are there any viable FOSS options? Last time we looked all of them were missing core features like SSO/SCIM etc and those were requiring enterprise licenses. Unfortunately, most FOSS webapps are really just for home-lab and not for actual prod, making them not really viable options.

Using alias names in a post NTLM world

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Open source DDI - SpatiumDDI

Posted by mzac23@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 5 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

RemindMe! 6 months. If this project lives and doesn't disappear into vapourware, it could be a great option for those of us too poor for Infoblox.

Best way for Macs to access Windows Server file shares?

Posted by OneSad1993@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 33 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

Yeah, except SMB on mac has been broken for years and performs poorly with windows servers. IIRC samba has a 'fruit' setting you can enable that helps.

Learn to Speak

Posted by theMightBoop@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 454 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

I think we like to think that way, but we all know those people who are kind of useless but consistently fail upwards or coast because they can play office politics/socialite well. Its easy to be jaded when you're better technically but you see such types surpass you because they just 'play the game' better.

BeyondTrust PRA Alternatives

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France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

Posted by cdoublejj@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 364 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

> but I think for ease of managing that many desktops, Microsoft still probably has the best solutions available. > > If you side by side Puppet and Intune for reliability, reporting, functionality etc you will find MS to be severly lacking. + so much easier to Git-Ops.

Bad IT decisions causing a corporate meltdown

Posted by n3rdyone@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 266 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

> There’s nothing inherently wrong with migrating to the cloud. The fault lies in legacy programs that are not optimized for the cloud along with bad planning. Migrating to the cloud when running such legacy programs is the business requirement is poor decision making.

Bad IT decisions causing a corporate meltdown

Posted by n3rdyone@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 266 comments

Need Help: All M365 Global Admin locked out after hack - Microsoft support has provided no comment / communication in 24h+

Posted by TECHN0B@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 158 comments

All anyone delivers is Ai crap these days

Posted by Maxwell_Perkins088@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 229 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

Depending on context, that may not be stupid. Defining what a PoC is, what it is meant to achieve, limitations/concessiions, success criteria, responsibilities etc is all important.

Windows 10 officially hit EOL 6 months ago - still supporting clients who never upgraded. Anyone else?

Posted by cmitsolutions123@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 404 comments

Worst thing I ever witnessed in IT in 20+ years

Posted by JohnWellPacked@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 313 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

Generally its people who don't give a fuck just send 'all the files' to the computer weenie because figuring out which is which takes too much effort or care.

Nutanix hit us with a 75% quote increase with a one day notice before expiration... so that project is dead. VMware is out and we were looking hyperconverged... Any other alternatives?

Posted by junon@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 497 comments

We're Moving To The Cloud, And Already We're Spending 500k A Month... I Can't Help But Wonder What We Could Have Got For On-Prem For 6+ Mil A Year...

Posted by Photo-Josh@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 396 comments

Heads Up: Critical (9.3) Vulnerability in NetScaler ADC

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SecurityOnion Crash Course Part 1 AKA, what the hell is that?

Posted by HanSolo71@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 16 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

That's cool. I think the main one we were looking at was just the [Defender integration](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/integrations/m365_defender) so we could pull device events from Microsoft, instead of pushing out *another* agent and managing firewall rules for ingest from roaming laptops.

SecurityOnion Crash Course Part 1 AKA, what the hell is that?

Posted by HanSolo71@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 16 comments

Cooleb09@reddit

As someone who seems quite knowledgeable on it, what's swapping from Elastic to OpenSearch like RE plugins - There are a few we played with in a lab and identified as required for a deployment (before realizing the license issues), however we can't find many plugins for OpenSearch and definitely not coverage of the services we'd need to connect to. Can Elastic plugins be used, or it does the community follow the Opensource 'if you want it functional write it yourself' attitude.

SecurityOnion Crash Course Part 1 AKA, what the hell is that?

Posted by HanSolo71@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 16 comments

HR data error gave an intern Global Admin and I didn't catch it until they'd been using it for a week

Posted by Curious-Session4119@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 19 comments

Inherited a legacy desktop app with no API and a SOC 2 audit coming up. anyone dealt with this

Posted by executivegtm-47@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 14 comments

Active Directory Users and Computers

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