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What is a piece of software or hardware that still leaves you traumatized to this day?

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What is a piece of software or hardware that still leaves you traumatized to this day?

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Does the Highest Ranking IT Person in Your Company Report to the CEO?

Posted by Likely_a_bot@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 248 comments

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If your IT is a cost center (technology supports your business) it is often going to report to COO or CFO. If it is a profit center (technology is your business) then often it is CEO.

Those of you who have no trouble finding jobs, what do you think makes you stand out?

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It is networking. When you find people you jive with make sure you foster the relationship. Besides it giving you opportunities (and sometimes you giving them opportunities) it is just great to have people to discuss technologies and other topics with. And you don’t try to connect only when you need something. You need to keep the relationship solid.

Microsoft needs a wake up call

Posted by wildflowersinparis@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 259 comments

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I have this feeling their leadership lives in a bubble. They don’t understand that the people in the trenches, that rely on MSFT stack, are tired of all the MicroSlop. Stop trying to bolt AI on everything and instead build products starting with AI. And I have no doubt their aggressive AI push is a factor in all their outages. And yet they are still near the bottom in the AI race. Sorry if the truth hurts.

How are you guys detecting mouse jigglers (USB + non-USB)? Management is asking

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Instead of trying to figure out if someone is at their computer and clicking stuff, tell your leadership to track effort. Did they remediate 100 incidents last month or upgrade 10 servers etc etc. there is no jiggler that does your work for you. And if leadership doesn’t know how to track effort that is a much bigger problem.

Why do system administrator get paid less than software developers ?

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Because a sys admin job is more stable. When economy (or a sector) is doing well they spend a lot more in project so need more software developers. Usually everyone wants more at the same time so they have to pay more to compete. When economy tanks, you fire a ton of software engineers as no more project money. But you still need to system admin to keep the infrastructure running, patch devices, deal with outages and so on. It is more an operational role. So you do want stable and less pay or unstable and higher pay.

I just need to vent

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One big massive ERP covering all related horizontal departments? Does it connect to a database to hold data? Or maybe he wants an MS Access back end. Or non at all (hidden sheets). And I assume it has a ton of VBA. And everyone accesses this on a shared drive of course. Just thinking through this makes me cringe

CEO retired. How do you politely say "no" without burning a bridge?

Posted by oaomcg@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 2436 comments

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I would not burn that bridge. The help you are doing could help you in so many ways in the future. If possible even see if you could get coffee or lunch with him for career advice. You are possibly sitting on a gold mine of advice and connections

Just caused my first massive outage

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Breaking stuff is inherent in this job that is why you have backups on top of backups. Before you make a change make sure you have two ways to reverse it or recover (or have high availability or redundancy built it)

40k a year for first sysadmin job

Posted by LeftZookeepergame401@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 483 comments

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It is low. I would ask for more. If you need the job, take it to start building work experience. Learn as much as you can (jump at all opportunities) and in two years you can find a job paying you a lot more.

Best password vault for corporate use?

Posted by Zaphod_The_Nothingth@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 199 comments

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I don’t see them creating an end user password manager. A lot of inherent risk involved and they are pushing everyone towards passwordless options

Best password vault for corporate use?

Posted by Zaphod_The_Nothingth@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 199 comments

security scanner flagged our staging database as critical vulnerability. its literally not accessible from internet

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I knew it was going to happen, but not this soon

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Law firm asking for access to user's mailbox

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You need a subpoena/court order/search warrant from a judge and then you use your own tools to give your own lawyers whatever it is they want. Your lawyer then decides what of that goes outside the company.

Forced into management. I hate it. Advice from peers?

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

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Can you split the position where you are principal engineer (or architect) and the other person is Ops Manager that does all the reports, vendor reviews, power points, etc. Some people love that stuff over doing work.

Has there been any actual shift from cloud to on prem?

Posted by TKInstinct@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 309 comments

How do you guarantee a laptop gets returned after offboarding?

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You don’t need their contact info. HR should be the ones to contact them. If they don’t in your next committee/governance call have a section showing laptops lost. When they ask you can explain why and let them decide if they want to lose money or not

What's an undervalued SaaS you use?

Posted by Darkhexical@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 134 comments

Do you give software engineers local admin rights?

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Accounts with Never Expiring Passwords

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Why don’t companies invest in security?

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Security is what a business calls a cost center. It does not make money vs a revenue center. And you can spend an astronomical amount in cyber security tools to still get compromised due to social engineering or from a managed support partner who you learn later has resources offshore with virtually no meaningful controls.

Is it normal for sysadmins to own tickets on vulnerability reports?

Posted by _TR-8R@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 116 comments

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Information security usually just reviews scan results and prioritizes vulnerabilities. They rarely have access to actually remediate. It be dangerous to have the person monitoring also fixing. The remediation goes to whoever maintains/patches/upgrades the machine with the vulnerability.

Do you do morning stand/catch ups?

Posted by the_thirsty_badger@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 175 comments

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Daily Stand Ups work best with no Scrum/Project manager taking up all the air asking for more details on stories and progress updates. Take out any non technical leads (so it is only developers talking to each other) and you have a high value morning meeting.

Has anyone left ServiceNow for another ITSM and/or ITAM solution?

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The harder you work, the more they will take you for granted

Posted by paperlevel@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 343 comments

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I have a slightly different take on this. I feel you have good people who hide problems by working nights and weekends to fix them. Saying you worked nights or weekends does not mean as much as them not getting their email or password reset right away. IMHO. Do good work. Do quality work. And let problems rise up so they see the light of day. And then work together to address them in a way that does not result in getting burned out.