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Thoughts on 14 Inch vs 16 Inch as Sysadmin Laptop

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Funny. I just recently switched to small-portable-longBattery because I realized the days of needing a powerhouse with every port and plenty of storage to have every thick client known to IT installed with dual boot to Linux just in case and a copy of every os/firmware/driver - is over. Not sure how I feel about it but alas… this 3lb thing with a cellphone sized charger is way lighter and I love it.

What's the best industry to work in for IT?

Posted by Bubba8291@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 176 comments

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You sound like a good public servant :) I don’t know if local govt/utilities industry is good lol I’m often expected to keep the train running without any coal but… I’m proud of the work because of the people it serves.

What do you guys carry in your go bag/work bag?

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What do you guys carry in your go bag/work bag?

Posted by jakgal04@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 89 comments

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Lock pics made me lol. I’ve also had to pick more locks than I care to admit. This always leads to people being amazed/grateful and then it gets awkward when they ask why I know how to do it… 😅

Help me become a hero!

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I don’t have advice because I was you not long ago. I was allowed to replace all missing staff at least but… I want to go back to fixing stuff and being the actual hero. I do nothing but meetings, invoices, budget, timesheets, hr, legal, and endless more mindless unengaging junk. Occasionally I get to go clean up a giant mess one of the guys made which feels refreshing but those events tend to be stressful also. I can’t say if I would or wouldn’t do it again yet but it’s been hell at times. Ive cried. God speed friend.

24/7 Hotspot Suggestions for Ambulances

Posted by Less_Gap5218@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 134 comments

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Cradlepoint for sure. It’s used in many types of applications and work great for fleets. I’ve specifically used them in emergency vehicles (law & fire).

(For fun) I wonder sometimes how some people becomes engineers or managers

Posted by rayko555@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 33 comments

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We are guilty of not informing the larger user base if the projects scope is not supposed to impact operations. Basically, be it a windows patch or a whole new virtual cluster, if they aren’t supposed to notice then we don’t warn them. Otherwise they’ll find ghosts just because you said they might be there.

Anyone using Copilot for M365? What gains does it bring you?

Posted by colne-valley@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 114 comments

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Thank you for asking because I’m right there in this same situation with 365 and people asking about AI. I wonder if copilot can summarize all the great ideas in this reddit post so I won’t have to open it at my desk later and take notes. Oh and, if it could set itself up securely and self deploy that would be cool. Oh and, I’d like it to train the few users who think they need AI. Oh and, somehow force me to remember to use it instead of doing things how I always have.

How tidy is the cable management under your user’s desks?

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It's too hot in here

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People moving things that had cords going to the wall and then wondering why they don’t work 🤦‍♀️ That’s when I “accidentally” ran out of UPS, surge protectors, and extension cords until Amazon delivers next Wednesday. Then we’ll get them on the deployment schedule and should be able to pencil them in the following Monday. May even promise a non existent chance we’ll try to squeeze them in Friday.

Been working doing IT for 3 years now learning on the job for a church.

Posted by -Ikarusnet-@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 21 comments

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I’m not religious but never really considered the IT needs of a modern mega-church until I worked with someone who was heavily involved with theirs. Lighting, sound engineering, displays, broadcasting to tv/internet, marketing/outreach, accounting, huge public events, schools, staff, etc etc. Pretty intense!

The sys admin urge to quit and...

Posted by LAKnerd@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 722 comments

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I work on cars as a hobby as have had this thought 1000x. I also wish I could go to medical school and move into that career. Unfortunately, neither of these pan out financially without making sacrifices :/ I wanted goats before I knew it was a joke so must be a thing lol. Still on my legitimate list of future hobbies altho I’m not sure I could make a living from it.

Are there ANY UPS's that will power back up upon utility power restoration after battery depletion?

Posted by TT_Vert@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 137 comments

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This is from memory and it’s early 🙃 Smaller ones are SMT1500xxxx and SMT2200xxxx. Mostly the 2200s. Battery packs for these are pretty affordable but I don’t have to service them often. The bigger 4u ones have a slightly different model number. I think it’s like SUA5000xxxx. Those require a 240v service I think. We had to have electricians come put in some 30amp circuits for us on those.

Are there ANY UPS's that will power back up upon utility power restoration after battery depletion?

Posted by TT_Vert@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 137 comments

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Huh… I have two cyber powers in one rack at one site. I didn’t buy them. That site has a massive full building generator tho and rarely goes fully powered down. All the rest are unconfigured 2u and 4u APC units and those sites lose power many times a year. They all power back on right away no problem.

The most incorrect error message

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For M$ it’s: Something happened :( I had an application that would pop up empty dialog boxes titled Error. This one half COBOL half .net software would pop up errors that said “CBL/CFG [randomStuffThatWasntHumanReadable]” and even developers told me they don’t know what they mean. I’ve seen some funny ones similar to “you shouldn’t see this message” type errors. Once after an update to a web application, some html that, we learned, was supposed to be a comment, wasn’t a comment… the code writer was clearly having a bad day because the expletives describing the non-functional code was displayed on screen to users.

Does anyone have a 5-10 minute video on artificial intelligence that could be played in the beginning of a meeting to get boomer executives up to speed with the opportunities and risks presented by the technology?

Posted by AppearanceAgile2575@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 149 comments

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Most people seem to accept my “remember when the Google search bar … and how we were all … this AI is kinda … we’re reviewing how we …” speech lol. I feel like the last decade of new stuff has made me an expert in calming the executive buzzing from sales buzz-words. Not without a fair amount of stress though lol.

Fun things to do with Android tablets

Posted by DaCozPuddingPop@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 40 comments

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I’ve turned a screen into a virtual daylight window thing. Not sure if that would work on a tablet screen to be honest. Can the digitizer be pulled apart? Hmm. Well, on monitors you can peel it apart, remove the films, power the backlights, and it’s a nice daylight “window” lol. If you put a frame and a cross across the front it looks like a four-pane window when on the wall of a windowless room.

User folder spelled wrong

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

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I’ve dealt with lots of name changes due to people getting married. If it’s a sensitive user or there is some other reason we don’t want to deal with a new profile, we go the path of renaming. Log in as an admin, change the folder name, go into registry and edit the profilepath for that user to the new folder name, reboot, user logs in and no issues. I have not done this on windows 11.

Public Wifi deployment, VLANS, physical vs logical segmentation

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I worked for someone who was like this. The industry required it for certain things but this person was a bit overboard. Almost fell into the same trap myself after a decade of doing it haha. Near same instance as yours: I was wanting modern wifi and started suggesting an entirely physically duplicate network to put APs everywhere blah blah. Thankfully the people I’ve hired at this new place had some gentle suggestions for me, ha. Basically the ideology that got pounded in my head: if they plug into the same thing then they *could* talk, and that’s not secure. It was compared to putting water and sewage through the same pipe and trusting voodoo magic deities to only put the clean water in your cup (bleh) Reminds me of how you described that person. In my case, it was not worth arguing and everyone else believed it. In a way I benefited from having a large budget and a very simplistic flat network to deal with.

We don't need no stinkin time change! Hats off to David Mills, the father of NTP.

Posted by HappyDadOfFourJesus@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 35 comments

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Early in my career I supported a bunch of stuff that broke when DST started/ended. Mix of no configured ntp, stuff too old for ntp, or completely offline networks. It got to a point where I dreaded the time change lol.

Generators…

Posted by Independent_Bed_5797@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 107 comments

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We had a span where we were losing power often and had all sorts of issues with equipment through the whole building when the transfer would happen. Whether it was to generator or back to grid power, always issues on the transfer. Not just IT stuff failed either. We cured our problems by upgrading to several 30 amp circuits with larger UPS units. They fixed the rest of the building by switching electrician and generator maintenance companies lol. They found a bunch of bad and replaced a lot and we’ve been good since.

Why does vendor support never read the submitted info?

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Yea I’ve definitely put more effort into creating a ticket than it was worth. One backup system I was using had an easy way to auto send them a diag file and you just give the link. Knowing this I did it ahead of time and included it in the ticket. They ask for a the diag file with a link to their Kb on how to do it, and ghost me for a day. Ugh.

Management have signed off on a CCTV upgrade without consulting IT

Posted by the123king-reddit@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 138 comments

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I’ve been there for cameras and access control lol. On one they were shocked we couldn’t just string an Ethernet cable 150ft thru the air into a concrete structure without hiring someone. Another one was a tool purchased that required 4 servers, a large sql instance, a bunch of tablets, and signed certs. I had to add an AP for the tablets to make their life more convenient too. Anyways, blew their budget hitting them with all those costs haha.

Trying to figure out how to get Coaxial or Fibre to a Warehouse in Sacramento

Posted by yanni99@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 43 comments

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As I started reading paragraph 2 I was thinking, “Comcast pretty much always sends me $30k quotes for anything they’re nearby” so I laughed when that’s what you got 😂

Emails sent from US delivering as originated from Hong Kong

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I used to have a barracuda email filter that would block emails that had the wrong character set, regardless of the originating server IP. Took me a bit to figure it out because it was an outside sender having the issue. The senders outlook would randomly choose some kind of international character set due to junk that was pasted into their email signature. They changed an outlook setting to force a US character set and it stopped.

"It's probably a firewall issue".

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This is one of my least favorite phrases. Especially when it’s an internal software for a handful of internal users. Having to convince support their own product doesn’t rely on internet is frustrating.

Jr. Sys Admin - Disciplinary Actions

Posted by Shakur95@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 166 comments

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Sounds like your ship is ran a bit differently but if one of my people came up and said ‘hey I realized those outages we’ve had were because I was doing network scans for XYZ reasons’ … I’d have laughed and been like probably shouldn’t do that again then 😉 Then we’d figure out the why.

Jr. Sys Admin - Disciplinary Actions

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The fact you’re being reprimanded means you must have been honest about what happened. Good on you for that. I’ll then assume your post includes accurate details so imo: sounds a tad harsh. A proper mgr/director would at least recognize this is partially the fault of not having good procedures for the team in place. Also… a /9 internal??

So, you're a pro in networking, backups, ... But what's your setup at your home ?

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I used to be like a 7-8 but now I dont even call my isp when the internet isn’t working lol. When our printer stops working, wife buys a new one. I’d rather be working on cars, golfing, drinking, ir just about anything other than

Local Police want permanent access to our cameras.

Posted by changework@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 1135 comments

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I have direct experience with this flock system and that is not at all how any of the law enforcement agencies I’ve worked with deploy it. Not saying they can’t/dont don’t do this but that’s not how I’ve seen it done. Regardless, hell no to that!

Do you think the Jira "ticket request by email" function is a good idea for you or not?

Posted by DesignerAd2062@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 68 comments

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It was the best way to get user adoption for us. This was a place that previously had to fill out a long and cumbersome form which wasn’t really enforced so users would email/call whoever they wanted and it was pretty inefficient.

Do you 'study' for certs at work/how do you fit it into your day? Does your work pay for them?

Posted by One_Stranger7794@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 229 comments

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I have my people do it on the clock and have them block out time for it. I have the org pay for the test too. My justification is that we could spend 5k per person to go to a worthless conference or get them this cert that will actually make them better. Also helps when I try to get them raises lol.

SQL Pronunciation

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What should you do while a vendor works in your data center?

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I’ve had to do this numerous times. I usually bring my laptop with intents to do some busywork. Often times I end up chatting with the techs and learning as much as I can. Not going to lie and say I haven’t just sat and texted my wife tho. Either way, I bring a coat lol.

Someone dug up 50' of underground fiber that feeds one of our offices this morning. Happy Sysadmin Day.

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I’ve had fiber services by a backhoe several times! One of my favs wasn’t a backhoe but a dump truck that forgot to put their bed down before pulling out. Yanked down quite a few poles with fiber, telecom, and power haha. Not a good day for that fella.

Windows Server Shutdown

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My assumption was that reboots are generally scheduled/automated and if you’re doing it manually it’s because something unplanned happened. Thats true for me sometimes lol.

Happy 25th Sysadmin Appriciation Day!

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Happy Sysadmin Day to you all!

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Oh **** I forgot it’s the last Friday of the month. For some reason my head had last day of the month so I thought it was next week. I let half my crew take the day off too. Guess I’ll feed them today and feed the rest Monday 😅 Thanks for the reminder, from another manager

What are your investigation tips for decommissioning an old server?

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I’m sure other comments were much more thorough but if it were me… Check for shares, printers, IIS, SQL, installed applications, services, user accounts. Quick browsing of disks to see what files/data is there. Basically anything that isn’t standard OS stuff should stand out. Then it’s time for the scream test! If you can trust it to reboot then go with a shutdown. Otherwise, leave it on and find a network way to make it inaccessible.

Swag Freebies Giveaways: Is it company property or yours?

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We can’t take big items but lunch, hats, shirts, etc are fair game. We once got an iPad and HR freaked out lol. We ended up using it for FaceTime interviews waay back before Covid.

Have you ever reached 0 tickets?

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One time ours locked up and support couldn’t fix it and instructed I deploy a new vm and restore the database. I stood up the new one and got it online, clean and fresh but zero data of any kind. My staff half-begged I don’t restore the database so we can “forget” a few of the tickets 😂

Finding out another engineer is fired before he is

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Ladies' Apparel

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I hoisted a lot of 4u servers in/out of racks before I ever learned these were a thing. I hired a young person that just came from a data center job and he was perplexed we lifted them manually. I was perplexed no one had ever tried to sell me a server elevator. Now I don’t even have a need for it so still never got to use one 😅

Does your company make you do timesheets?

Posted by Hefty-Amoeba5707@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 196 comments

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Yea, and it’s in excel and it gets printed, signed, scanned… several times 💀💀 Thankfully I’m salary and it’s just straight 8s unless I use leave. Still a pain tho.

Do you let your Help Desk add users and groups in AD?

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Let’s talk about PC naming conventions

Posted by WorkFoundMyOldAcct@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 873 comments

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I think you could drop the cpu, model, and os from your name. I don’t like putting usernames in there as it becomes a pain when someone moves up or leaves. We keep it simple and it’s usually dept-title-number. So FIN-DIR is the finance director. LEGAL-ASST-1/2/3/etc is the legal assistants. It doesn’t work for all departments. For some we eliminate the title and just do DEPT-NUMBER.

Active Directory Users and Computers: ADUC pronunciation

Posted by kelvinator300@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 229 comments

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I was taught the quacking version so I say “a duck” lol I’m always looking for funky ways to pronounce things tho so, to take inspiration from your pronunciation, I’ll refer to it as “A Dookie”

I agreed to fix a bad av job this week

Posted by EndlesslyEphemeral@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 203 comments

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I’m in the not IT camp so I pay an AV company to handle the stuff. The type of places that setup church theaters or legislative chambers do good work in that arena.

How can you tell if a company's IT practices are outdated?

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I’m not sure but when all the people under me quit, they fire the boss, offer a promotion with a “pls save us we will do anything you say” vibe … that was pretty good time to save a sinking ship.

How do you combat the hazards of working a sedentary job?

Posted by dj_daly@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 172 comments

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I stand all day now and have to worry about feet issues. I also wear boots which doesnt help lol. Seems easier than dealing with the back and shoulder pain I used to have tho. Also had to get an ergonomic mouse because elbow pain from excessive exercises. I’m only mid-30s lol. Takes a toll for sure.