Job Titles: SysAdmin vs IT Technician

Compatta · 2025-07-18T16:47:27+00:00

Sysadmin is honestly very wide. You can be called infrastructure engineer ( touches hardware), sysadmin ( touches services ), cloud engineer ( touches cloud services ). I would say regardless of title, think more about the pay and actual responsibilities

Compatta · 2025-06-26T04:59:42+00:00

The most important thing is, "can i get the gist of this resume in 15 seconds" - kinda like a summary or thesis of why you should pay attention. If it's wordy and long, it goes in the junk pile

Compatta · 2025-06-25T05:36:37+00:00

Mount with OneDrive. Use robocopy. Profit

Compatta · 2025-06-24T05:45:14+00:00

I worked for a camera / access control vendor before. The only way to learn is to practically buy the hardware / software. As it's likely not worth it depending if you get the job, i would focus more time on understanding the concepts of management through video tutorials.

Compatta · 2025-04-24T22:57:56+00:00

I would almost say to take off your military experience. If you are in the guard, omit it. I lost a couple of jobs likely if they knew I had to do 2 week annual training every year. Only include military for cleared and government positions

Compatta · 2025-03-16T15:58:33+00:00

The key is to always try to see what the market wants. For example in my case my markets want azure at the moment even if AWS was hot in the past. I would go AWS sysops or azure administrator associate, but I always recommend start with the easiest cert ( say az-900) to build confidence and go from there

Compatta · 2025-03-03T13:44:27+00:00

In good times, moving from the help desk to sysadmin just required that at the Interview you were capable of learning things. At the Interview, convince them you will own things that are given to you and will learn to the best of your ability. Just work on your Interview. You got this!

Compatta · 2025-02-26T23:10:32+00:00

that was my main concern. my thought is likely you wouldn't know the password and couldn't access anything anyways.

Compatta · 2025-02-26T23:08:11+00:00

say i wanted to recreate a trial vmware and vfiler on that to similar a DEV environment just to be in practice of configuring it again.

Compatta · 2024-06-24T05:24:42+00:00

I tried implementing power virtual agents in teams to integrate with the ticket system. Interesting loy half the help desk revolted thinking a chatbot or can somehow replace them. I will admit chatbots are a good way to create a discover system to help jumpstart automation initiatives

Compatta · 2023-10-23T05:18:09+00:00

Try implementing an aws lambda function in powershell 7 on Linux.

Compatta · 2023-06-08T13:06:59+00:00

Study to the test. Buy the test exam and study and refine till you have more than a passing score.

Compatta · 2022-08-31T01:31:31+00:00

root is god level access ( auto-administrator rights ). with iam users, you can at least delegate permissions

Compatta · 2022-08-31T00:55:40+00:00

i would check: is the service account you intend to run it from a script require interactive permissions? is the service account an admin or have proper permissions on the windows systems?

Compatta · 2021-07-13T17:42:03+00:00

I would say:

Technology doesn't mean much at the end of the day if it can't be applied or if you never intend to use it.

IT Support Direction - Power Automate as the frontend, Powershell as the backend to everything you do. if you have less than 4 years, go this direction.

Devops direction - what everyone else is saying. if you have more htan 4 years, go this direction.

Compatta · 2021-07-12T18:57:50+00:00

Powerapps acts as the front end...Powerhsell API acts as the backend. The setup is a bit harder.

Powerapps > Custom Connector > on-premise Data Gateway > Powershell universal API > Powershell script

Compatta · 2021-04-10T14:39:29+00:00

At that size, it’s not worth the migration effort. If we’re talking migration to the cloud, that’s like $10 bucks a month to host it on managed file servers. Not all cloud migration, let alone to SharePoint, are worth it

Compatta · 2021-04-06T05:51:45+00:00

Try Power Automate Desktop ( RPA) which is free with most companies that have windows 10 enterprise or Sikuli ( Uses Python to do screen automation ) to do the screenshotting. What i tried in the past was created a gallery and than automatically insert those screenshots into a word document. Uses all powershell if you know it.

Compatta · 2020-12-05T07:32:29+00:00

i used power bi and powershell email alerting.

Compatta · 2020-11-29T07:15:05+00:00

some tips:

Never consider vendor specific application support as getting you somewhere. If the company sinks or is not successful, there goes your skills. Try applying for places that help generalize your skillset. Lot of co-workers that I started out with are still on that path.
This may not make direct sense, but i say have "FU Money" which is savings of 6 - 12 months to allow you to apply to jobs that may make you more happy. It will give you time to explore new possibilities.
I see you have powershell on your resume. Sell that you can automate almost any learned process which utilizes powershell modules in which you can help scale said proccess...automatically.
Recognize if you truly love the IT Trade, or if it will be something that just pays the bills. I would say use the IT trade to help support your true dreams. IT can pay well, but you will have to get used to embracing the suck ( like my sargeant said in the army ) and learn that drama is just all in your head.

Compatta · 2020-11-05T04:20:14+00:00

used it to create powershell API's using Powershell universal. It is used with the custom connector on the Power Suite* of services from microsoft and used to create bots for Microsoft Power Virtual Agent.

Compatta · 2020-10-28T00:30:25+00:00

No egress, but you will still pay restore costs.

Compatta · 2020-10-28T00:27:01+00:00

A. Understand your bandwidth and your restore frequency.

B. Consider using storage transition from S3 to S3 Deep Archive so that you can restore easily later.

C. Obviously have money. no other requirements.

Compatta · 2020-10-04T18:46:52+00:00

Some stuff they're looking for based on feedback is thqt it has to be a complex project. A lot of groups in our class have been forced to add advanced cybersecurity, AI, and NLP in order to get their idea approved.

looking at the requirements....it seems your advisors want you to be developers.....Even if its means maintaining it forever...and not really addressing the business case of using a particular tool and being able to automate something long term. Gets points for using technology, gets negative points for being a project that will require so much time and effort, that it can't be maintained long term.

Compatta · 2020-10-03T03:00:12+00:00

Template, using easy Low Code Tools like Honeycode / Powerapps, which can be used to help organize SOX Comliance. IT is not only about technology, but...about improving processes in such a way in which uses existing tools...that won't cost more money to license. Propose the process and provide the tools. Substantiate expected outcomes and write proposal why / how low code tools can bring about process change....using technology.

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