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TIL: Holding the CTRL key in Windows Task Manager stops the process list from jumping around
Hello everyone! I recently learned a trick that solved a annoyance in Windows Task Manager for me that I had ever since the Windows 2000 days. When Windows Task Manager is open the processes in the list keeps "jumping" based on how they're sorted. This makes it frustrating sometimes to find the proc…
I'm not burnt out. I'm just bored and annoyed all the time.
I was the very first employee at a brand new MSP back in 2012. Had an associates degree and 2 years experience doing support for a couple of websites when I was hired. It was just me and my boss working out of a client office where he was the CTO before he started this company. Now we have about 150…
Microsoft finally added a way to change the organizer of existing Teams meetings
For years, if a meeting organizer left the company or changed roles, there was no way to transfer ownership of an existing Teams meeting. For recurring meetings, this was a major pain. The only option was to recreate the meeting. After months of hearing 'it's coming,' the new cmdlet is finally here …
[UPDATE] IT Admin turns into all IT
Hey everyone! I made a post about 9 months ago in here talking about the stress of a new position and not knowing what to do: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1ow4b9f/it_admin_turns_into_all_it/ It's been a little over a year now, and wow. The changes made and the suggestions from all of y…
Anyone ever change their Microsoft tenant' name? How did it go?
My org is a full-on Microsoft shop with most users on E5 licenses. We use nearly everything MS has to offer. E.g. Intune, full security suite, virtual machines, virtual networking linked to on-prem, many SSO connectors, many enterprise apps, major development projects in function/logic apps, power B…
Finally my first big fuck up at work
So… I think I just got my first real IT fuckup And it is bad. I’m still early in my IT career, mostly doing end user support. Right now, I am the only IT guy in this building. Our IT team supports three sites and we are 3 helpdesk and an IT manager who doesn't get her hands dirty, the rest of the IT…
Messaging delays in Microsoft Teams again?
Curious if anyone else is seeing any message delays in Teams, similar to what happened on 6/22 (https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1ulp265/teams\_message\_delays\_this\_week/). Not seeing anything in the Service health page yet. I'm in NA, North Texas area. to r/sysadmin
Just heard this new saying
"never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway" Not sure why but this saying goes sooo hard for those who know What's your favorite IT saying? to r/sysadmin
TIL: Windows 11 Pro OEM silently blocks SetupComplete.cmd and DISM online driver-add
Building a zero-touch imaging pipeline (FOG + PXE) for ~350 devices across 5 campuses. Spent weeks stuck on why post-imaging automation never fired — turns out on OEM-licensed Win11 Pro, windeploy.exe detects the OEM channel and silently skips user-provided SetupComplete scripts. No error, just noth…
My company was recently acquired... now what?
TL;DR: after almost 9 years in this position, the small manufacturing company I work for was acquired by a large multi-national and my current position is likely going to be phased out. What do I do next? I'm 25+ years into my IT career and I've been the lead Systems/Network Admin here for almost 9 …
Thumb Drives Moving Between companies
Yearly we have a tech from a machine manufacturer come out to calibrate some Equipment. It takes them a few days and for those days they are using the workstation that is connected to the machine to operate it. Recently we implemented Threat Locker so his thumb drive with his maintenance software wa…
Zscarler Anyone?
We're starting to look at moving to Zscaler and wanted to get some feedback from people actually using it Anyone Anyone? Currently We have site-to-site VPNs between offices, FortiClient EMS for remote users, a hybrid on-prem/M365 environment, and only a handful of applications that are still hosted …
Transition to IT Director from sys admin
Hey all, long time lurker, first time poster. I've been presented with the opportunity to move into a director role at another company. This will be a pretty big change for me, as I don't have real life management experience. I've spent the last several years at my current company, becoming the sort…
Recommended cloud backup solution for a 4TB Synology NAS?
Hello everyone. I'm new to these role. Management wants me to check for a backup solution for our company NAS (synology) Right now, the NAS is the only copy that we have for the company data, which is around 4.1 TB. My plan is to recommend this setup: Original data on the NAS A local backup on an ex…
Is social media platform security within SysAdmin domain?
It seems that marketing/social teams don't manage platforms to the extent that SysAdmins might, so we were tagged in to make improvements (enforcing MFA, migrating from personal accounts to business addresses, revoking access for departed employees, upgrading business tenants for more logging and co…
Adobe/O365 not playing nice together
I have several users now who are complaining about Adobe and Office 365 not playing well together. The programs are freezing, to the point they show up as not responding, Adobe is crashing. In the past when I've had these issues, some of the fixes have been: Install Creative Cloud (bleargh) and ensu…
Moving 600k/mo transactional emails from SendGrid to self-hosted Postal?
Sending about 600k transactional emails a month (no marketing). SendGrid is mostly fine, but their suppression list is killing us. Users incidentally mark a receipt as spam; later they complain when they don't get critical stuff. Our tools can't inject SendGrid's override headers. Thinking of dropin…
Is this a good answer to what your biggest weakness?
I'm going out for an infrastructure engineer role. The job actually reads like it will be a really good fit but it's more linux-oriented than my past organizations. I've used Linux across my career and I've used Linux at home since 2011. I'd really like this job because it's more in the direction of…
Issues with ManageEngine Endpoint Central OS Deployment
Does anyone else use this feature through Endpoint Central Cloud? We have a local PXE server with the OS Deployment components installed that was working fine as of 7-2-2026. However, when we came back to the office on Monday, 7-6-2026, it was no longer functioning. We can PXE boot to the server jus…
move linux saas to new host
I have a linux host on Vultr that hosts a SaaS app. Single machine hosts everything including DB. Apache, MariaDB, redis, php. I need to setup a new host and move everthing to the new host. Users access using app.mydomain.com. Vultr does not allow to transfer main ip from a current host to another h…
Block entire top level domain from teams calls
We have been getting an influx of spam calls from specific top level domains (.top, .sk, etc.) , from various accounts and domains. Can we block these teams calls/chats without disabling all external access? From what i see wildcards are not supported. For email a rule has already been setup. to r/s…
Any tools that will securely erase/shred selected files/folders on SSD?
Is there any Windows software tool that will securely shred/delete selected files/folders without recovery possible on modern SSD? I know the manufacturers might have tools that will securely wipe the entire drive eg Samsung magician but I'm trying to find a tool, if one exists, to securely erase se…
New outlook auto archive emails
Hi, I have an issue here where users on the new outlook, their emails are being auto archive after a month I checked the user flows and rules and don't see anything Any ideas where I should check to r/sysadmin
VMware alternatives for Metro Clustering?
We use shared storage across sites with synchronous replication at the SAN level, with hosts at either end sharing a single cluster. We can live migrate VMs and active storage volumes on the fly in this configuration. We have been reviewing VMware alternatives for reasons obvious, however whilst the…
New admin, needing content
I have recently transitioned from the level two support role into a systems administrator role and looking for some baseline things to review whether it’s documentation, (e)books, courses etc. A little about our environment, a Microsoft house with intune/entra some EPM with BeyondTrust with AD group…