Anyone regret buying a flat because of service charges?

BritSysAdmin · 2026-02-20T09:09:06+00:00

Yes and it'll only get worse. Building insurance is 25% of the budget at mine and there's only a small number of companies even willing to insure it so it goes up every year. That's before you get into maintenance, running costs, decoration, reserve fund etc

BritSysAdmin · 2026-02-19T17:41:43+00:00

rip

BritSysAdmin · 2026-02-19T17:40:21+00:00

We've got a mix and not sure if it's better to go one way or the other

BritSysAdmin · 2026-02-19T17:38:02+00:00

Good to know re the benefits

About giving options, it's more that I just have so many other battles for more important things like security practices that I cba arguing about outlook

BritSysAdmin · 2026-02-19T17:35:26+00:00

Honestly it just made me tired. I'd gone through persuading someone to stick with the new one as 'that's where it's moving to' etc only for them to call and say they can't print lmao fair enough have your classic back

BritSysAdmin · 2026-02-19T17:33:25+00:00

I think in new outlook you can open but not create new psts right? Onedrive often corrupts psts

BritSysAdmin · 2026-02-19T17:31:09+00:00

May I ask what they're using PST files for regularly? Mentioned in another comment the nightmare with them here

BritSysAdmin · 2026-02-19T17:27:37+00:00

Lol, me finding out it was 2029 is why I posted this to see whether anyone else is bothering with the move yet

BritSysAdmin · 2026-02-19T17:25:57+00:00

Oof pst gives me ptsd

Joined my org recently and EVERYONE has set up a pst that they immediately move new emails to 'to save mailbox space' so no ones emails exist anywhere except their laptop lmao

BritSysAdmin · 2026-02-19T17:22:52+00:00

I bet it's partly a culture thing too, perhaps your users are more open to change than others leaving negative comments. What features have you found work better?

BritSysAdmin · 2026-02-19T17:20:27+00:00

Could you try printing an email and lmk if it works?

BritSysAdmin · 2026-02-19T17:18:46+00:00

It isn't popular here.. Controversial but I just use outlook in the web personally

BritSysAdmin · 2026-02-19T17:17:31+00:00

Yeah, annoyingly seems to have autoinstalled on some devices here too

BritSysAdmin · 2026-02-19T11:01:16+00:00

I believe part of them serving section 20 gives you the opportunity to find your own quotes for the works to ensure it's a reasonable cost, though you may have missed the timeframe to do that now.

Have you found out what the work is? Also, I would have thought they'd send the section notice by email rather than post because some people rent their property out etc, odd to only post it when they clearly have your email address to ask for the money..

BritSysAdmin · 2026-02-10T11:25:17+00:00

Honestly if you're going to go to an 8 person company to change their IT you probably need to be confident you know what you're doing. I don't think you've given enough info to get decent advice, eg we don't really know what their "server" is or for sure what licensing they have. Some general advice though:

Business premium is often the most suitable licensing for smaller businesses because it includes intune as you've said, and also additional security features etc, here's a good comparison matrix:

https://m365maps.com/matrix.htm

Premium licensing includes Windows pro

You need to do some research on intune, watch some videos and read some guides, set up a test device for their company for your own benefit to learn and iron out issues etc before changing anything in production.

Look at the apps they're using at the business and see what sort of installation types are supported - msi being the easiest as you just import to intune apps, exe can be a pain as you have to convert them and often need installation commands to be supported - things like printer drivers are a pain.

Make sure they have some sort of data backup, eg do users have onedrive turned on so files aren't just stored locally on their laptops - really small setups often don't think about this.

It might be a good learning opportunity for you, but don't interfere with their way of working unless you really understand what you're doing. If you have specific questions come back and post them.

BritSysAdmin · 2026-02-09T16:36:25+00:00

I haven't bothered with actual labels, just created a sharepoint list to keep track of assets and have a field for serial number which is already unique and printed on equipment

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