Techguyyyyy

Secure Boot 2026 and Bitlocker - Tearing my hair out šŸ˜”

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My company executives thinks it can replace 100 percent of our help desk teams with AI agents.... This year.

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I think having a level 1 service desk agent is actually attainable. Help desk jobs still need to be in place but you also need content creators to feed all the information the AI is delivering to your users via your service system (service now, Jira, etc). Iā€™d say having an agent can certainly allow companies to decrease certain staff but definitely not eliminate everyone

Suggestions on how to increase my AI token usage

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The premise of your post is something a lot of companies are doing. At my firm, we are always pushing directors and managers to THINK of operation tasks and other daily workflows that could benefit from AI. The companies who donā€™t use AI will be the ones who donā€™t exist but there is a strategic transformation path that you need to develop and follow. Basing someoneā€™s performance off token usage is stupid though. Thatā€™s not a strategic path. Thats a budget disaster.

Question about PatchMyPC

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Itā€™s a no brainer with the auto packaging. Obviously the only caveat is there will be certain software you still have to package if PMPC does not support it.

Are we understaffed?

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It seems viable tbh. Our helpdesk is notorious for leaning on easy tickets like password resets and other very simple tickets. Youā€™ll ask them what they did all week and 10 out of 30 tickets are something that takes less than 5 minutes to solve and close. Iā€™m much more interested in having our helpdesk do more critical work.

Are we understaffed?

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Iā€™d argue this model is becoming quickly outdated because AI is forcing teams to work with less people. Iā€™m not saying OP is staffed appropriately but we are in new times and there is no perfect formula. All I can say is executives are pushing for teams to reduce staff while being able to do more while leveraging AI. The quickest way I can see that happens is most service desk/help desk teams will be automated at some point and end users will depend on agents to answer their questions.

A chat with the boss

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A lot of exec positions work 12+ hours a day so Iā€™m not surprised about 14 hours. Whatā€™s funny is the people who are so dead set on working 8 hours and then complaining because the CTO is ā€œmaking so muchā€. And ā€œi donā€™t make enoughā€. This is a big reason why.

Work Phone - Can I give it to my gf?

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Enterprise Search for large file server shares needed

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What does the future look like?

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Win10 ESU 3 Year License

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You have to wait each year to renew. The price gets more expensive each year as well. think year 3 is 15-20% more than year one. Year 2 is 10-15% more than year 1. Why are you not planning a migration to windows 11?

You can install Microsoft store apps by bypassing the windows store being blocked on "Work PCs" using winget

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What's the latest on the end of MECM?

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Most Dangerous phrase in our Industry?

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How do I talk some sense into my boss?

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This problem is as old as time. C execs getting involved in things they donā€™t know or understand. Most are pushing to use Intune as itā€™s included with E3/E5 but what they all fail to realize is that a proper sccm environment with an engineer to manage it far outweighs any other RMM tool and Iā€™m not sure itā€™s even close. Not to mention, a lot of people know SCCM whether thatā€™s a vendor or direct hire.

CFO wants to know why our IT costs doubled when we went remote

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If your CFO doesnā€™t understand basic economicsā€¦ I think he may have a bigger problem on his hand. IT costs are expected to go up every year for the most part.

Entire IT department axed in one morning, still processing this

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Why canā€™t Microsoft just build SCCM in the cloud?

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Sccm is god tier over intune. The only people who are looking to move from sccm to intune are c suite people who have no idea what they are talking about and want to save $.

Leadership wants all departments implementing "Agentic AI", even my Infrastructure team.

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death of the desktop?

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Have you factored in how much it costs to support 2 desktops with the software licensing? That usually drives costs up a lot as opposed to having 1 laptop.

Document Management System that lets me do it my way

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Well imanage is managed by folders but within the ā€œfilterā€ options, each user can collapse the folders within a matter and just look at all the documents like you are explaining. Itā€™s as if the folders donā€™t exist. As long as the documents are named in a sequential order, I donā€™t see the issue.

The shameful state of ethics in r/sysadmin. Does this represent the industry?

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The shameful state of ethics in r/sysadmin. Does this represent the industry?

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Iā€™m not going to talk politics with you because thatā€™s a waste of my energy and time. The president of any country does not represent the people, they are there to run the country. Thats a massive difference.

The shameful state of ethics in r/sysadmin. Does this represent the industry?

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Howā€™s everyones win11 upgrade going?

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We are forgoing the win 11 project this year and instead going to pay for extended licensing for 1 year. We have the win 11 project slated for early 2026.

Can't get Terraform to see AVD network security group

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I guess it depends on your workload. It could be an overkill. As long as you understand Azure then AVD follows the same dynamic. Itā€™s all virtual architecture. Nerdio just gives you the tools instead of you having to develop the whole thing from scratch.

Can't get Terraform to see AVD network security group

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Sysadmin salaries

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Haha that is going to be the narrative no matter where you end up. IT is a cost center at the end of the day but if you provide a certain value to your company, which IT does then you should be paid for it. A lot of companies donā€™t care to pay IT but there are a ton of companies who do care. In my opinionā€¦ look at hedge funds, law firms, bio tech or some other finance gig. Itā€™s not for everyone but it pays a good amount

Sysadmin salaries

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You work in an environment that does not value IT. You could probably be around 90k+ doing private sector work at a mid size firm or biotech company.

Back to on-prem?

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If cloud prices keep going up 10% every year, I donā€™t see how it would be sustainable. I could absolutely see a time when people go back on prem for a lot of systems but not all. I personally donā€™t think exchange email on prem is necessary. Itā€™s probably the only thing that should be cloud.

Am I losing my mind?

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I would say if you are NOT using AI then yesā€¦ you are losing your mind. Itā€™s not gospel but itā€™s very efficient if used correctly as a tool, which it is.

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

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

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I donā€™t understand how this isnā€™t the most popular way to go about it. Itā€™s literally the most practical for efficiency and cost optimization lol

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

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I am very jealous. our operations person has no prior experience and basically got the hat handed over because nobody was wearing it. Every conversation is just this person gaslighting the audience, the classic over promise, under deliver. Every single time. Has absolutely no idea what change management is lol

What are the biggest headaches you are dealing with as a sysadmin or network engineer . Trying to get a better sense of what challenges are common in the industry...

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Transforming workflows including going from physical files to all electronic, educating the firm on info governance/ and getting everything on prem into the cloud or cloud hosted solution. Basically teaching the firm how to elevate efficiency and operate in the amlaw 200 space specifically around technology solutions.

Good luck to the Spanish and Portuguese sysadmins

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iManage Cloud Admins - How do you handle archiving closed files?

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iManage Cloud Admins - How do you handle archiving closed files?

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If you want to pm me I can give you some ideas. High level, we use Activ Nav (info gov tool) to scan all of our repositories which can find data based off usage. For any archive files we use GDSI tool called DMSync. With this tool you can archive files to 1 KB, effectively making the cost against your storage $0 for those files. The best part is a file stump stays in place so the file is still searchable from end user perspective. You just need to right click and restore it get it out of warm archive. Most law firms task this with IT and itā€™s nearly impossible to tackle that without stakeholders including some sort of IG policies. Working with your GC could help. If you want to get more advanced, start thinking about your hot, warm and cold storage data policies. Understanding your OCGā€™s is solid baseline.

How are cleared IT pros handling the remote job drought?

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One thing to also be aware of is that small/mid size companies typically follow suit of their larger peers. When fortune 50/100 companies invite employees back to the office then itā€™s almost guaranteed that perspective will flow their the company chain. Obviously, some companies will have full remote staff because I think it actually attracts certain talent but collectively I think we are going to be living in a hybrid world (3 days office 2 at home) for most companies by 2030.

How are cleared IT pros handling the remote job drought?

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To be totally honest, being fully remote is so incredibly unhealthy. Nobody talks about it, but if you look at the science behind it. Your immune system, mental stability and everything in between will be shot if you worked a majority of your life with no human interaction (some physical). Going to the office 1-2 or even 3 days a week really isnā€™t that bad.

What do you use for patch management?

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Oh how asinine are the computer/phone checks at borders

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Oh how asinine are the computer/phone checks at borders

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Hey, another butt hurt guy. Iā€™m happy to share that I have not worked for the U.S. govt in 5 years. So sorry to tell you but there is no opsec issue here. Anything I share is declassified or open source. Go back to your level 1 tickets along with the other guy above. You guys are either jealous or braindead. Either way, I got time to laugh at you guys.

Oh how asinine are the computer/phone checks at borders

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Oh how asinine are the computer/phone checks at borders

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LOL. Iā€™ve served in the intelligence community for 15 + plus years in places such as Somalia, Libya, Afghanistan and more. Now I work in different areas but still carry my security clearance. I appreciate your little kid comment though and your naive judgment.

Oh how asinine are the computer/phone checks at borders

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Got my dream job.

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Oh how asinine are the computer/phone checks at borders

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Help me understand where AVD falls within the world of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS!

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I have an AVD/Nerdio environment setup at an am law 200 firm. What I can tell you is this; as the customer youā€™re responsible for all of the things you would be doing in Citrix. For example, installing windows updates, maintaining a golden image, updating applications, creating VMā€™s etc. nothing necessarily changes in terms of Microsoft doing any of the management for you. I guess you could call it an IaaS if you had to choose one. The thing to take into consideration with AVD is the resources (VMā€™s) are owned by Microsoft. So if you have 50 users who need a VM, Microsoft is essentially leasing the VM to your users BUT itā€™s not guaranteed unless you purchase a reservation through Microsoft for VMā€™s in which case Microsoft will guarentee you have a VM(s) to use. I wouldnā€™t read too much into this unless you have a massive company but itā€™s important to understand at the minimum.

Help me understand where AVD falls within the world of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS!

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