r/sysadmin

Right out of college I started working at a major insurance company helping them prep for Y2K and worked my way up as high as one could go without being in management. I loved digging into the details and figuring things out. I worked overtime and volunteered for any project. As the years went by and we were sold...

Not unique to our field, but I genuinely really enjoyed this job. It was fully remote, paid well, my boss was a true sysadmin in that as long as I got my work done he didn’t care how I spent my time. I had near full autonomy. Minimal meetings. It was 14 months of the IT job I’d always dreamed of. My boss resigned...

We bough several new servers last month. Today I racked over $60 grand (USD) worth of hardware. Probably closer to $70 Grand... It was only 3 servers.... 5 years ago, it was only around 20k. It's crazy.... Now to throw down with the boss on not putting VMWare on them. As much as I can anyway

Basically the title - nobody in my small team can use RSAT tools (any of them, from ADUC to WSUS) on their management workstations immediately after the 2026-10 CU reboot. I'm just wondering if it is something we're doing in combination with network security or if it was just another F-U from MS.

OK. That's not entirely true. We allow Salesforce's ~13,000 users to send emails out of Exchange Online. We also temporarily allowed some accounting software used by three people at a company we acquired, while we wait for them to onboarded onto SAP. And we allow Power Automate to send emails through Exchange...

My employer has recently decided to hire a new IT support person for our helpdesk; I found the position on indeed and was surprised to see the top of the pay range is about $10k more than I am currently making. I have taken every challenge on headfirst and really grown our current IT department. However, I do not...

This is just a warning incase you guys haven't seen it yet: [https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/released-october-2026-exchange-server-security-updates/4563014](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/released-october-2026-exchange-server-security-updates/4563014) **Update October 15,...

And there was much rejoicing (yaaaaaaaay) ...

For context, boss says he needs two backups of all data prior to a certain date and post a certain date. We are on premium. Tried to explain that I’m not sure this is possible. We currently don’t even pay for a backup tool! (Requested multiple times) Don’t even know how to begin approaching this.

Our shared host went down for 6 hours during a clients sale, no root access, no backups even the support took like 3 hours to reply. Told my partner we should move onto our own VPS and run it ourselves but he digressed. he used HestiaCP as a middle ground, still one box + babysittin it solo tho, so I spun up a test...

I have used tools to get recommendations for AD hardening, but not as clear cut for Entra. What have you used for that that have been helpful beyond Entras built in advisor?

My boss got the email from Verizon yesterday afternoon that makes it official, they're shutting down vtext totally on 3/31/27 and they say that "some senders may lose access to legacy email-to-text prior to that date." We use their email to text for a lot of our notifications and alerts. Does anyone have an...

With increasing discussions around digital sovereignty at my workplace, I'm wondering whether fellow EU sysadmins have ever attempted a PoC for an IT environment that avoids US technology altogether. Has anyone successfully identified viable alternatives for components such as: * Endpoint operating systems (e.g....

Forgive me if this is a stupid question and feel free to flame me. I have been aware of MS trying to get rid of NTLM for some time. But I got thrown into Radius recently and I'm still learning it. I'm trying to figure if this update will kill my use case. We use Absolute Secure Access with Radius. The machine...

Hey everyone, Running into a frustrating issue with the Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent (GPA / EAA client) on macOS. Whenever I authenticate via our IdP (`whr.login.go.akamai-access.com`), the client authenticates successfully, but the Quick Test in Diagnostics fails at the **Configuration Check** stage with...

Curious to hear other people's experiences I'm at a point in my career where the compensation is decent, and I have enough experience that I wouldn't want to move somewhere just for the sake of moving. However, I'm starting to question whether staying in my current position is the best long-term decision. The...

Hybrid join devices - we removed all office related settings from GPOs and configured those via config.office.com. I can see cloud policies entries in registry but they don’t seem to apply or they apply only when I remove office keys from registry but then will stop applying when I do a gpupdate. Things like macro,...

We have encountered cases where users who have installed the October 2026 update fail to connect to our company Wi-Fi, which uses Aruba access points. So far, our workaround has been to forget the company Wi-Fi network and reconnect by entering the user credentials again. According to our vendor, there is an...

Title pretty much says it all. Spiceworks cloud is awful, and i'm looking for a free, modern alternative to what Spiceworks Desktop has. My main problem is that even though i managed to save the executable, Spiceworks Desktop makes connections to a now shut down server, as well as calls to their spiceworks...

My team is currently looking for a replacement for GoPrint. All of IT and most of staff are tired of it. A team member found and started looking into WEPA Print Away. I guess their system consists of print kiosks. Students would sign in via computer, mobile app, etc and release print jobs kind of like PaperCut or...