MrJoeMe

Copilot is down.

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Begin browsing instantly: Chrome can now launch when Windows starts.

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Who are these people

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After a year of using Windows Server 2025, I'm finally throwing in the towel

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MrJoeMe@reddit

I've also noticed some very strange oddities with 2025. UAC seems to be one of them. Many times running an app prompts for UAC, but the screen never shows. Disabling UAC from GUI doesn't fix this as it still prompts for UAC, but no screen shows. Disabling UAC via regedit and rebooting fixes the issue, but UAC issue comes back after updates. 2022 has definitely been more rock solid.

Dell Desktop Price Increase

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MrJoeMe@reddit

New here? Seriously tho, our CAD spec laptop is up $500. Servers are 3x more and have random delivery dates from 1 month to "order is confirmed".

Hey /r/Sysadmin! What do you use for your home router? 2026 Edition

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Dream Machine. Does everything I need. Have a Dream Router 7 at my parents' house. I'm a GUI baby, so Ubiquiti just makes everything so easy to manage. Meshing and sharing services is simple.

I understand it now

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MrJoeMe@reddit

Same. I have a lot of frustrations with our helpdesk manager that is supposed to be our gatekeeper for tickets before they get pushed up the chain. 

I understand it now

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Why do so many sysadmins forget about DKIM/DMARC/SPF when setting up third party services?

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MrJoeMe@reddit

My opinion is there a lot of companies out there that have a lone ranger IT person that doesn't quite keep up on latest security or technology. Or the company has a shoestring IT budget and it shows. Or the company has so much red tape that nothing gets done. Too many people in IT department and no one wants to put their neck out to make changes.

Security Hole

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MrJoeMe@reddit

Sorry, I was late to dinner and rushed. Second question: https://blog.admindroid.com/restrict-user-access-to-azure-ad-to-prevent-data-exposure/

Security Hole

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Price Increases & The AI Bubble - How do you handle breaking the news to big wigs?

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MrJoeMe@reddit

All of our manufacturer contacts tell us prices are going to continue to go up. Storage manufacturers have alloted their 2026 production and are dipping into 2027.

OVH raises prices. My new offer is 55.1% higher starting April.

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OVH raises prices. My new offer is 55.1% higher starting April.

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MrJoeMe@reddit

That is insane. I've actually seen the heatsink ones cheaper. I assume because the data center doesnt want to deal with removing it.

OVH raises prices. My new offer is 55.1% higher starting April.

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"My husband who works in IT says..."

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Checking in before imaging fifty workstations

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MrJoeMe@reddit

We bought this: https://www.stratesave.com/html/sidchg.html Works a treat. No loss of data, doesn't mess up profile, computer will stay domain joined. Just run it. It will reboot a couple times, done.

Maybe a little OneDrive Sync bug?

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How do you deal with imbalanced workloads on your team?

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MrJoeMe@reddit

Echoing this. I had a stellar year closing about 1,000 tickets a week for 2 weeks. Won an award for it too. Lotus Notes server went down and basically all we did was log the call, tell the user it is being worked on, and closed the ticket. Month later was laid off "randomly". That is how they did it in big corp to avoid lawsuits.

Has anyone here succesffully enabled Teams SMS with a requested number pool in GCC?

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MrJoeMe@reddit

Not SMS, but I have had Microsoft tell me apps like Walkie Talkie are available in GCC. Even though I could never get it to work. All the options are there, but it just doesn't "click". Later MS tells me it isn't supported.

BitLocker lockouts: how common?

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MrJoeMe@reddit

Dell and some other laptop vendors used to have the drives encrypted and bitlocker in a pending state. From what we saw as soon as a user signed into a Microsoft account, the recovery key would save to that account and Bitlocker would be fully enabled. This burned us a few times when the laptop failed and we couldn't recover anything from the drive.

Fuck GoDaddy

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Fuck GoDaddy

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MrJoeMe@reddit

We put a hard no to allowing anyone have access to DNS records. We will change records at client request. If client puts up a stink, we get a paper trail going so when it breaks, they get the blame.

how do others deal with missed renewals?

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MrJoeMe@reddit

That is super annoying, especially when they call our client that early. Trend Micro used to be the worst, one of the many reasons we dropped them.

how do others deal with missed renewals?

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MrJoeMe@reddit

I assume license renewals? We used to be horrible at them. Several years ago we put all of them in our PSA. Now we might miss one every couple of years, and it's usually caused by something out of our control.

Need to find new nameservers

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4 Windows Server 2016 Dell Hosts inaccesible_boot_device after latest Jan 2026 update

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MrJoeMe@reddit

Do you know what update was applied causing the headache? Do you use the same RMM, Backup system, or any other similarity besides Dell and win 2016?

In 12 months, we won't need our on-prem infra. Any advice?

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MrJoeMe@reddit

I echo this. Currently moving some clients back to on-premise storage solutions due to cost alone. Email I would never have back on-premise. Very happy to outsource that headache.

In 12 months, we won't need our on-prem infra. Any advice?

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MrJoeMe@reddit

I love this game. Had 800GB of data in a share that hasn't been modified since 2015. Consisted of mainly Christmas pageants and sermons. Marketing said they use it often enough to keep it. I felt otherwise and removed access. It's been a year and no screams. Management signed off on dumping it.

What is an actual IT automation that actually paid off for you?

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MrJoeMe@reddit

I have a habit of this, and it helps my life/work balance. I still get the occasional WHY DIDN'T YOU RESPOND TO MY EMAIL!?!?!?! I know you got my OOO.

What is an actual IT automation that actually paid off for you?

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MrJoeMe@reddit

We implemented CIPP in 2024 and it was a gamechanger for us. It impacted every part of our business. Sales, Help Desk and Account management. Sales is able to pull accounts and licensing for reviews. Offboarding and onboarding of client employees is easier. MFA management and password resets. Implementation of best practices and standards across all of our managed tenants. $99/month for everything. Learning curve isn't bad. We tried to implement Microsoft Lighthouse before CIPP and found it clunky and lacked many of the features CIPP has. Lighthouse requires all users to have Azure AD Premium P1 or better, which not all of our clients have with their use-case.

For those of you who work in large corporations, how long does it take to provision hardware in datacenter?

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Our official stance is 60 days. Usually, it is well before that. However, we have had hurdles with hardware procurement or a service turn up that has delayed it to 60 days or a little after.

What are your thoughts on the AI Bubble timeline?

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Just priced out a Dell server I purchased in Jan. 2024 and the price went up 85.7%

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Just priced out a Dell server I purchased in Jan. 2024 and the price went up 85.7%

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Just priced out a Dell server I purchased in Jan. 2024 and the price went up 85.7%

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I don't know the exact details. We had a quote for a server and by the time we got a PO from our client, vendor wouldn't honor the quote, the price went up $3,000. Even though it was only a week between the quote and order. That was a tough call back to the client. Luckily they were pretty understanding.

Biggest fuck up you made?

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Need sysadmin perspective

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prevent dell command update from updating itself?

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GA- Tenant *Poof* Gone

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MrJoeMe@reddit

"That or some CA rule that's locking everyone out (country control possibly?)" Instantly my first thought. Seen it too many times.

Family business dilemma: Is there a better way than giving employees 2 phones?

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MrJoeMe@reddit

Run into this often. We give the employee the option. Either we install Teams or a Voip app on their personal phone, or you get a work phone that is locked down to work apps only. Do still get pushback with either option, so we have it in the employee on boarding that one of the two options is required for employment.

GoDaddy deleted paid M365 accounts because users switched email to Google Workspace?

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GoDaddy deleted paid M365 accounts because users switched email to Google Workspace?

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GoDaddy deleted paid M365 accounts because users switched email to Google Workspace?

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MrJoeMe@reddit

Kick Godaddy out of the O365 tenant. Super easy to do and the client doesn't lose anything. One powershell command and they are gone. 

What’s your game plan if you get hit by ransomware?

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Not to brag or anything but I only got 3 tickets

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MrJoeMe@reddit

81. Manager, so I'm not working every ticket, but gotta keep an eye on them. Probably 10 that I am working, and those are waiting for equipment.

Corporate Phishing emails-Exchange Online-Shows the email is being sent by the receiver

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MrJoeMe@reddit

We lock this down by default. One of my clients got a similar email. Sure enough, we forgot one. We verified all of our other clients and they were good.

Bonded or Insured?

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We are bonded through our state. We have cybersecurity insurance that covers our systems. We have 2mil of EO coverage. Also insured if one of our employees gets hurt, hurts someone, or physically damages something at a client.

Where is everyone at with migrating to Server 2025?

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Getting off the hybrid-exchange clusterfuck train

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