Leaving current sysadmin job. How would you handle my situation?
I've decided to take a new job (yay!) which means I will be leaving my current position. I've already decided that I'll give my notice this coming Monday and then be gone after two weeks. My situation...
View ArticleAny PearsonVUE/Prometric Test Site Administrators here?
There isn't really a sub-reddit for something like this, so this is the next logical place for this. I work a in a testing center/training center as an instructor, but I'm also basically an...
View ArticleMounting centralized NAS server with NFS . Need to forbid users from doing...
Hi, long history short: we have a bunch of linux servers. lots of users work with linux Desktops. They use them as testing servers. All the infrastructure has the Authentication services linked by...
View ArticleSysadmins, what is your morning routine?
And by morning routine, I mean pre-work. Do you leap out of bed at 6 am and check the servers? Do you get up at 5:30 and do a full exercise regimen before an hour commute? Sleep in til 9 and wander in...
View ArticleSysadmins of reddit - what are the message size limits on your mailservers?
I was just having a lenghty conversation with one of "my" users about message size limit on our mailserver (and why sending large files via e-mail is not that great idea) and it got me wondering what...
View ArticleOn the road to becoming a SysAdmin... Any suggestions or helpful ideas/tips?
Hey there, I'm curently in school to become a SysAdmin, I don't know alot just yet. What books, websites, anything! would you guys recommend? Any advice would help, I'll gladly apreciate it :) Thanks!...
View ArticleHard drive failure stats?
Does anyone here have any real world SATA drive failure stats? submitted by mntgoat [link] [5 comments]
View ArticleHelp identifying cause of network traffic
I'm trying to find out what the heck is going on here. Scenario is two servers, both windows 2003. Using Wireshark I've been able to see a very large amount of traffic hitting one server, from the...
View ArticleExchange 2003 ->2010 CAS install... OWA login issues
This is a bit complicated and I hope I explain it well. Long story short, we couldn't test our setup in a lab and we're attempting to "test" in our production environment. Essentially, the cutover to...
View ArticleWhat are some time-saving tips that every Linux user should know?
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View ArticleIs YG-NET a legitimate organization?
Greetings, We've just received an email from YG-NET stating an a HUNDI company tried to register domains with them using our name. A Google search comes up with a respectable looking site but I'm still...
View ArticleAny thoughts on desktop notification systems?
The thought popped up in my head on whether or not desktop notification systems would be useful in any particular environment. Just something lightweight you could deploy using group policy over the...
View ArticleIs Active Directory for dummies a good start?
I work in a startup, and I've been shouldering the responsibilities of the IT department. As of late, I've been spending a lot of time fixing people's computers after they've installed something that...
View ArticleI'm looking for a utility that will let me change administrator passwords...
Anyone have anything for that? I don't have many specifics on it, but I know I'd like to be able to put in a range of hostnames and have it set the local admin passwords on those machines. Thanks for...
View ArticleBest way to enable individual standard users to burn CDs on domain-controlled...
One of the companies we manage has a user that needs to burn cds. Her computer runs Windows 7 and is on a domain. I've tried modifying the 'locally logged on users only' thing as described here, but to...
View ArticleCD Organization / Catalog Suggestions
I am doing some Spring cleaning and I keep coming across several "one-off" CD/DVDs that really don't have a place. Aside from sticking a bunch of discs on a spindle/binder and stacking them somewhere,...
View Articlecolleague personality clash or maybe it's him!?
Hi, I'm working in a job on and off for the last 4 years. I left after 2 years and as I was leaving I got a guy I went to college with a job as my replacement. Long story short after 6 months I ended...
View ArticleOpen source IT support ticket system? Preferably with customizable questions...
Can you send the exact error message (i.e. screen shot) by email? A) • Can you provide an exact and thorough example that I can use to recreate the problem? A) • When was the last time <it worked/it...
View ArticleWhat is the proper ratio for IT personnel to standard employees?
The company I work for has around 100 employees, 3 of us (incl. me) are IT folk (one of us leaves consistently half way through the day, but he is an owner so he gets to do whatever he wants). I'm...
View ArticleT1 T3 Cable Fiber
Right now I am getting raped by an ISP contract that was signed before I was hired, soon to come to an end. Another problem, recently several locations have complained about mail clients locking up or...
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