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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...

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Moronic Monday - March 31, 2025

Howdy, /r/sysadmin!It's that time of the week, Moronic Monday! This is a safe (mostly) judgement-free environment for all of your questions and stories, no matter how silly you think they are. Anybody...

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One user wouldn’t stop moaning about the cloud… so I’m sending him back to...

Let me give you a bit of background. We’re fully Azure, devices are Intune joined, deployed with Autopilot, and all user data sits neatly in OneDrive and SharePoint. We use Cloud Drive Mapper to map...

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Does Salesforce always run like shit or is that my personal experience?

We don't use Salesforce here, but a large number of our vendors use it for their support portals. It seems like they are always incredibly slow, or often times never actually load and I need to come...

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Reclaiming Domain Through ABM

My company uses iPhone but they never used managed appleIDs, I'd like to reclaim the domain so we can better manage all of them (not to mention eliminate another password for the end users to forget)....

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Chromium browsers not working with Cloud App Session Policies... sorta

Either my google-fu leaves something to be desired or I have stumbled across an issue which no one has deemed it worth posting about.I have a client which wants to prevent users from downloading files...

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Robo Shadow

Hi all, just wondering if anyone has had or used robo shadow? It seems really good for being a free product and the professional version is only 20 pounds per month. Does anyone else use it here? The...

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Apple Issue: connecting Macbooks to Organisational network via JamfConnect

Hi all,Been stumped with a JamfConnect issue on organisational Macbooks. Our organisation currently have roughly 150 Macbooks that are managed via JamfPRO, and use JamfConnect integrated with Microsoft...

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30 min with the sales team….what would you teach them?

Hey all, I have the stage for 30 minutes in a few weeks to get some quick wins with the sales team. Most of the sales team are long term guys in the construction sales industry so I need to keep it...

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Is Unpkg down?

I am getting 520 Status Code response and my packages are not loading.https://unpkg.com/swiper@8/swiper-bundle.min.cssGET520strict-origin-when-cross-origin submitted by /u/ardicli2000 [link] [comments]

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New Outlook and shared mailboxes automapping

Hi, We are preparing for a switch to the new outlook in our tenant. We heavily use shared mailboxes but the delegation rights to these mailboxes are done on security groups. Is there any way to...

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How do you bridge the gap between helpdesk and sysadmin?

Hey everyone, first time here.So, as the title implies, just how? What exact skills would I need to learn in order to break into sysadmin role?I have some 4 years of experience working in IT helpdesk,...

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Block boot from USB?

Our security guy is thinking about locking BIOS to ensure people cannot boot their USB in and reinstall the machine(s). I understand bios locking can be tricky and I'm at all sure how would one do that...

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Expanding My Windows Server Admin Skills – Lab Setup & Suggestions

Hey fellow sysadmins,I’m working on expanding my Windows Server administration skills and setting up a proper lab for hands-on learning. I have 4 years of experience in IT support, EUC, Office 365, and...

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AT&T Doing away with email-to-SMS. Anyone have another solution?

Yesterday, we received an email from AT&T stating that they would be doing away with their ability to send emails to phone numbers and have those emails get routed into text messages. It appears...

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Microsoft Forms Ownership – No API, No Admin Access, No Hope?

So here I am, trying to clean up after a leaving employee. You know the drill: disable account, reassign licenses, redirect mail, export OneDrive, yadda yadda.Then comes the cherry on top:"Check if...

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Preventing Users from Using Breached Passwords in Active Directory

Hi everyone,At work, I'm trying to find a way to prevent users from setting passwords that have been previously breached. One approach I'm considering is configuring the Active Directory controller to...

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First Time Sys Admin

So after 7 years of fighting through multiple help desks and passing a few certs, I finally landed a Sys Admin job. Is it normal for your boss to just very rarely respond to you on questions, there be...

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How do you get over a demoralizing mistake?

For the last half year, I've been a solo IT guy in a business of about 30 people. I ran the helpdesk for 4 years while my boss steadily increased my responsibilities and access, then in September he...

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New Client has no domain/entra, entire product based on Access... help me...

I think I failed today. I was working with someone who wanted help setting up win server to do some sort of weird thing with scripts and running MS access... Like, it has a file watcher that triggers...

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What is a sign your licensing is too complicated?

When a third party company actually holds a three day seminar on how to sort out your licensing, that's what."Independent experts show you how Microsoft licensing rules and agreements really work – and...

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Bait and Trap Is Terrible Ticket Management Practice and Needs to Stop

<rant>I get pinged along with a couple other folks early this morning on Teams. We get told there’s an issue at a customer site and they need help figuring out what to do to restore a downed...

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Senior IT Support specialist wants promotion to Jr Sys Admin

I am the senior sys admin here and I have been working with this guy for almost 6 years.He was already promoted once and I guess the salary at his position is maxed out and he wants a title change and...

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The bathroom door is broken

In one of those amazing, is this really something you come to me for moments... Just had a VP come by my office "Hey, the bathroom door lock is broken. What do I do?"Me "Um, go to the bathroom on the...

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User explains why they fax between offices

User called because they couldn't send faxes to a remote office (phone line issue - simple enough of a fix). I asked why they're faxing when they all share a network drive. User says "the fax machine...

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Admins who create all AD users in the default users OU with no...

It's just so common and fucks with my tism to see AD with no sense of Organizational Hierarchy. I mean if you have a company with 5 people sure, but places with 100+ even 1000+ users what is your life...

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Agile is such a joke.

The theory is good but nearly every place I've worked they just want to track individual's work. Especially on the operations side. Like managers telling me to just put a feature in and add a few...

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