Patch Tuesday Megathread (2025-03-11)
Hello r/sysadmin, I'm u/AutoModerator, and welcome to this month's Patch Megathread!This is the (mostly) safe location to talk about the latest patches, updates, and releases. We put this thread into...
View ArticleDell is changing naming convention for OptiPlex and failing in so many ways.
Not sure if it was not clear, but the OptiPlex branding is going away as well as Latitude, XPS, Precision, Inspirion, etc. as it was mentioned in...
View ArticlePrice of laptops already up $300-400 per device
I made a post a while back, but then deleted it, however, I just figured I’d bring up this discussion point to see if anyone else noticed the increase in equipment costs. Like the same model of laptop...
View ArticleEx-alcoholic-admin has put his email in every alert, system, login...
I just started in this new job and this is my best guess of what happened. Looks like this dude thought if he puts his direct email in all alerts and puts every login in his direct "name@company.com"...
View ArticleCertificates via mmc vs Certificates via remote desktop services.
Hello,I am trying to automated certificate renewals but need some help understanding between mmc and remote desktop service in windows. I wrote a powershell script to set the...
View ArticleAT&T Business Fiber wrecking site-to-site VPN
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQOenr-K-n3NUAt4__UjWKp92YSaW1DmcV3j9r_MjscMow65qX4Thk1R339jvhViMw0wIpzbZfYZK5R/pubSan Diego (AT&T) to Edmonton (Rogers)Happens every afternoon over the...
View ArticleRDP without a VPN client
I have a client that wants to have a 5 user RDP server but with no VPN client to do deal with. Is there a solution out there for this, like a hosted portal to login to and then establish the RDP...
View ArticleEntra Connect Sync errors
Ripping my hair out on this, looking for guidance I just defederated a clients 365 tenant from GoDaddy. They have 3 domains, all managed now, I switched over the MX records away from their proof point...
View ArticleStuck in a conundrum career wise
I went from help desk to Jr sysadmin. Great right? Issue is, at my nsp we are so siloed I'm not learning much from my senior guys as they don't want to give up some knowledge so I can learn aside from...
View ArticleBest Practice for Network Segmentation
I have a DHCP server with multiple nics; nic 1 IP 10.1.2.10, nic 2 IP 10.1.3.10, and so on. each nic is connected directly to a switch which is in it's own vlan and from there a port in that vlan is...
View ArticleDDoS protection on 100x100fiber circuit
Not sure if this question is for this group but hope someone can chime in.I am located in Canada and i remotely manage few of our offices in the US. I need to renew our contract with Spectrum (Charter)...
View ArticleFree PDF Compression software?
Hey everyone, after that FBI advisory, we're looking for any local software that's free and allows a user to compress PDFs. Does anyone have any recommendations? I've tried converting pdfs to word,...
View ArticleAm I Getting Fucked Friday, April 4th 2025
Brought to you by /r/sysadmin'Trusted VARs': /u/SquizzOC and /u/bad0seed with Trusted Telecom Broker /u/Each1Teach1x27 for Telecom and /u/Necessary_Time in Canada.PMs are welcome to answer your...
View ArticleCritical Vulnerability: CrushFTP CVE-2025-31161 Auth Bypass and...
TL;DR: CVE-2025-31161 is a critical severity vulnerability allowing attackers to control how user authentication is handled by CrushFTP managed file transfer (MFT) software. We strongly recommend...
View ArticleMS Support is just the best!
I have a coworker that was setting up the brand information to set up SMS in teams. While entering in the information, his browser autopopulated information for a sister company. He caught his mistake...
View ArticleWhat makes good documentation?
So over my 5 years on the job I’ve evolved to a pretty well rounded sysadmin. However, one of my biggest flaws is by far documentation. I think my biggest problem is I don’t know what good...
View ArticleAt a high level, what are the habits of the best of the best sysadmins?
Not to be confused with "Network/DevOps Engineers that do sysadmin work too" - I mean really. There is a class of sysadmins who are incredibly good at what they do, so if every sysadmin out there...
View ArticleCISA Warning - TDoS
Anyone else get this that works with 911 PSAP’s? This was very cryptic and didn’t give much info:“CISA was informed by a trusted third party of a “potential” TDoS threat to PSAPs nationwide within the...
View ArticleI accepted the offer
I took the offer and I start soon. I was laid off 5 months ago and was a technical helpdesk manager. Started off as a technician and moved my way up, the usual story. I decided I don’t think I want to...
View ArticleHow do you guys handle OneDrive files when an employee leaves?
This is something that I'm handling manually. I go to the M365 admin site, pull up the user, go to the OneDrive tab and get a link to open up their OneDrive. I click that link to go to the OneDrive...
View ArticleHow many of you are really backing up Office 365?
I mean, Msft backs up 30 days. Do you really need to back something up that no one accesses? I get it if you have compliance policies in place, then you need to have/test backups, but otherwise, I...
View ArticleWhy did the Linux admin go to therapy after being forced to do Windows support?
man whoami submitted by /u/keyborg [link] [comments]
View ArticleMy New Jr. Sysadmin Quit Today :(
It really ruined my Friday. We hired this guy 3 weeks ago and I really liked him.He sent me a long email going on about how he felt underutilized and that he discovered his real skills are in...
View ArticleWeekly 'I made a useful thing' Thread - April 04, 2025
There is a great deal of user-generated content out there, from scripts and software to tutorials and videos, but we've generally tried to keep that off of the front page due to the volume and as a...
View ArticleHow to remove the deleted os 's grub boot loader
I want to try dual boot (windows and kali) But accidentally i crash the Kali os ! Then, again i try to install that ,it raises grub error! Some one tell how to remove the deleted os grub submitted by...
View ArticleHPE Simplivity / few questions
Hi, anybody here with SimpliVity experience? Few questions: - is SimpliVity still based on custom build card to manage storage? - still available only on VMware only? submitted by /u/imadam71 [link]...
View Article'Culture' Every time I hear it, I want to throw up on someone's shoe!
<channeling George Carlin here> "We assume a kind and respectful attitude to all""We harbor an environment where questions are welcomed.""We don't eat the babies of our enemies."You're supposed...
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