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I automated some billing functionality for our billing department that has fortunately not broken yet. Knock on wood.
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What web task do you still do manually because automation keeps breaking?
Posted by EasyMarionberry5026@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 28 comments
How to deal with Power Users
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This reminds me of a ticket I got one time from a database administrator who broke his own Access database. He put in a ticket for us to take a look. I was like, dude, you're the DBA admin. What am I supposed to do? Fortunately, we had a file share backup of the Database, and he just lost a day's worth of work.
How do you handle BIOS passwords?
Posted by Significant-Army-502@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 138 comments
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We use Dell Command PowerShell provider to provision standard settings and set the password. It can be all be scripted quite easily.
Is having Local Admin a bad thing?
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What happens when said device falls off the domain and no domain admin user has credentials cached to the device? It’s foolish to not have a local admin account. LAPS has been a god send in our environment.
I'm having a hard time learning to "love" a Mac environment.
Posted by justsonmeguy@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 71 comments
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What MDM product are you using to manage the devices? Powershell is not your friend here; you'll need to get accustomed to bash/zsh.
How do I convince my boss to use a password manager for the company instead of a word doc.
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I would look into KeePass. Just store the database on a secure share. It maintains a versioning history and is free for Enterprise use.
Adobe illustrator- slow performance when run as standard user; super fast when run as admin… WTH
Posted by h20wakebum@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 57 comments
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Check for corruption in the user profile. Look into running the Adobe cleaning tool. Create a secondary user profile login to Adobe CC, see if the slowness is profile specific.
First month as a SysAdmin... Deployed a Computer, It's not connected to the domain and the User can't get in ... I think I F****ed up
Posted by One_Stranger7794@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 311 comments
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Looks like you have this one figured out. We changed how we did deployments during the pandemic, and for any new hires, we would have them do a remote session to cache credentials on their new device before shipping it out. Maybe something to try next time.
How are you deploying massive installers?
Posted by Normal-Difference230@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 100 comments
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It may be easier to update your creative cloud deployment instead. You can allow users to install any of the creative cloud apps without admin rights. I deployed this recently and only had to update an xml file.
Those who have gotten out of IT completely, or at least got out of the technical side, what do you do and how did you do it?
Posted by dropofRED_@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 312 comments
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I made the change to Systems Analyst work. Way less stressful and no more front line BS.
Can someone explain to me why we even use print servers?
Posted by Far_Paint5187@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 404 comments
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I would take a look at your GPO. If the printer is only set to map once you have a problem. Google CRUD
What's your daily driver web browser?
Posted by blackout-loud@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 781 comments
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Chrome but that likely changes when UBlock Origin stops working. Have a lot of Tampermonkey scripts too and I’ve never tested those in another browser.
How many of you have supervisors who don't understand your job?
Posted by kudatimberline@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 171 comments
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I work for three medical doctors, and the amount of overexplaining I have to do sometimes is trivial.
High School CS Teacher here, my IT locks down our computers, citing Python as a security risk. Would WSL be a safer option in their eyes?
Posted by hexcodehero@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 232 comments
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Wonder why your IT unit is so bent out of shape. I manage deployments of Python, R, and Anaconda for several labs at a Big 10 University. We isolate all paths to the user profile and haven’t had any issues for a couple years now.