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Had a clash with executive over my phishing test methods

Posted by AH_Josh@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 679 comments

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A lot of this is clearly embellished. At the end of the day - why make trouble for yourself with this... Training them to think through emotional situations. People don't care that in depth and you have to work around that and frame it far differently.

anyone else's job scope just quietly doubled without anyone officially telling you? looking for real world experiences and advice

Posted by HonkaROO@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 141 comments

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I've been at this since 2014 and it's normal. Just make sure come review you express it as a structural shift and not just added responsibility. The thing about doing what we do is - getting up to speed. You may have never been trained or done it but you should have the base knowledge to get up to speed. It's one of the harder parts of our job. We're the trash can for a lot of - someone needs to own it. There is more expected of us in regard to figuring stuff out because we keep everthing running.

Boss wants to know why I'm "wasting time" moving services around. Brother, I just cut our monthly costs by 60%

Posted by jimmy5853@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 44 comments

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Not being a jerk, but you sound green. Most of us understand when something isn't the most efficient. We just know better than to touch it and make more work for ourselves long term.

Best way to move data between user profiles?

Posted by Frosty2992@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 21 comments

What brand would you choose if you could redesign your network?

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What brand would you choose if you could redesign your network?

Posted by kuhlimuhlimuh@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 195 comments

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isco is awesome but you're right - they nickel and dime the hell out of you. I have a used Cisco 10gb / 25gb switch I got off Ebay. It's a f-ing beast, but I also don't pay any of the subscription stuff.

Best way to move data between user profiles?

Posted by Frosty2992@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 21 comments

Need help with calendar and office 365 shenanigans

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Office 365 Classic Outlook "Empty Auto-Complete List" not working.

Posted by Bubbly_Drummer_6629@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 18 comments

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For Outlook Desktop (Microsoft 365 / 2019 / 2016 / 2013 / 2010): 1. **Open Outlook**. 2. Click on the **File** tab in the top left corner. 3. Select **Options** from the menu. 4. In the **Mail** category, scroll down to the **Send Messages** section. 5. Click on the **Empty Auto-Complete List** button. 6. Confirm by clicking **Yes** when prompted. This will delete all entries in your AutoComplete cache. Alternatively, you can also clear individual email addresses from the AutoComplete list by: 1. Start typing an email address in the "To" field. 2. Use the arrow keys to highlight the unwanted email address. 3. Press **Delete** on your keyboard to remove it from the AutoComplete list.

Is there something tech you never touched?

Posted by Abject_Serve_1269@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 367 comments

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Yeah I use SQL to support things. I bubbled up to the top early in my career because I would solve SAAS issues by looking through the database and then also writing SPs to streamline things. I'm not top tier SQL Man, but I can hold my own and think creative enough. I took an SP someone here wrote that was running for hours and hitting the CPU hard by simply introducing a temp table.

M365 Admins: What did you that got you a great performance review?

Posted by ibteea@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 11 comments

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I've never had a job where I just do 365. I've owned it in three orgs to to bottom, but it was just one other system I owned. So it alone didn't get me a good review. One thing that was a big benefit to me was - I had a LAPS policy that was always hit or miss. MS came out with a more standardized way to configure the policy in Intune so I switched to that. Before, the menu under radom devices wouldn't show the local password menu item despite the device showing it successfully pulled the policy. I keep ours fairly clean and make sure everything is done the same. I also wrote a script to pull active employees and their details from the HR system API and sync any mismatch with Entra.

365 admin down for anyone else?

Posted by Designer_Airport8658@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 24 comments

NETWORK SOLUTIONS = CYBER TERRORISTS!

Posted by AITechSux@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 32 comments

Vent: I left a user’s mailbox unlicensed by accident for more than 30 days.

Posted by Old-Track3080@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 238 comments

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

Posted by 66659hi@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 1668 comments

Non-technical staff using Claude Code - how are you handling the security risk?

Posted by Ok-Painting-3603@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 50 comments

I'm burnt out further than I have ever been.

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