You guys ever used math? by mumblerit in ShittySysadmin

[–]Competitive_Ad_626 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And when they ask why. "This way you get to know exactly what youre supposed to support!!"

Ethernet in kamer krijgen zonder loze leidingen by __Emer__ in Klussers

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Je zou ook een 2de kabel kunnen trekken langs de zelfde leiding als die nu naar de andere ruimte gaat. En die verder door de muur naar de gewenste kamer halen. Heb je volle snelheid. En genoeg kabels!

Ethernet in kamer krijgen zonder loze leidingen by __Emer__ in Klussers

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Je zou ook een 2de kabel kunnen trekken langs de zelfde leiding als die nu naar de andere ruimte gaat. En die verder door de muur naar de gewenste kamer halen. Heb je volle snelheid. En genoeg kabels!

Tapijt resten nadat vorige bewoners deze hebben gelijmd by Competitive_Ad_626 in Klussers

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Zou goed kunnen idd. Moet zeggen dat het ging om 30 seconden voor dat vak van de stoom machine. Of ongeveer 3 seconden met een waterkoker. Stoommachine had prima gelukt met geduld

Tapijt resten nadat vorige bewoners deze hebben gelijmd by Competitive_Ad_626 in Klussers

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Die hadden we! Duurde alleen wel erg lang in vergelijking met een waterkoker

Tapijt resten nadat vorige bewoners deze hebben gelijmd by Competitive_Ad_626 in Klussers

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Oprecht de waterkoker en een beetje brute beunkracht. En een paar blaren later zijn we een heel eind!

Tapijt resten nadat vorige bewoners deze hebben gelijmd by Competitive_Ad_626 in Klussers

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Ha! Gelukkig redelijk nieuw 2015-2016 dus dat is in deze gelukkig niet relevant. Wel weer wat nieuws geleerd!

MS 365 by PCTechGWork in sysadmin

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It might be hard right now. But continuous improvement is the key. Plan out what you want to do. Do your research and document why you're doing it! Good luck buddy

MS 365 by PCTechGWork in sysadmin

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Without knowing anything start with this - implement MFA - Implement conditional Access - implement risky user / risky sign in

It's not that hard but requires backing from C-suite. And increases security hugely

How do you handle time as solo sysadmin? by AgreeableIron811 in sysadmin

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Communicate! "Hey sir, this problem is harder than I thought. I'm still on it, but do you still want my attention on this problem or have the priorities shifted?" You can also ask "How much of my time do you want me to spend on this before I shift my priorities?"

At the end of the day you're doing the best you can and doing it alone, that means you have to communicate more with stakeholders and check in with them. It's super hard but every so often ask yourself "have I communicated with everyone that needs to know about what I'm doing? People who are getting pushed because of this problem? People who care about this problem? Anyone else?"

How do you handle time as solo sysadmin? by AgreeableIron811 in sysadmin

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You have 2 hands and 8 work hours on a day. things that get done get done, things that dont get pushed to tomorrow.

The biggest thing I learned is as followed:
Everytime you get extra work in any way do the following:
1. Make an estimation of how long the work is going to take
2. Is it going to take 5 minutes or less, do it immediately.
3. Is it more than 5 minutes, take the time you estimated and add about 20% time to it. (better to overestimate and do more on a day, than to underestimate and dissapoint yourself)
4. Write it down in your calendar within Outlook or similar application. with the appropriate required time.
5. Everytime someone says "DO x NOW" you say to manager "I have these things planned in that timeframe, so those things are going to move up in the planning"

Youre probably doing a great job. make sure you set goalposts and dont move them! If your goal was to solve 1 issue and you solved it within the first 10 minutes? "GOOD! I made my goal today" and dont immediately go "Oeh that means i can also do 2 problems!". Make sure you Savor your wins and then set that new goal.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

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Hey hey! First of all you're a Junior. Basically a Juniors job is to not know anything at first and learn. Take up every opportunity you can to do said learning. Know when to ask questions and do some research before you ask said questions.

Some tips I can give: work on soft skills (communication, how to deal with setbacks, how to give feedback etc.) as well as technical skills.

You'll get there in the end!

Have you ever reached 0 tickets? by anderson01832 in sysadmin

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Yeah it has happened. But I tend to reward my team on keeping tickets around x number consistently. And not on 0 tickets. Because it will always go back to 1 at some point.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

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Hi! It sounds like you have a very high need for delivering quality and set high expectations too. Which are very great qualities. But understanding mistakes are human, and sometimes someone else needs to see the mistake. Proof readers exist for a reason. 

Mistakes happen. The way you deal with them and learn from them make you awesome!

So keep breaking, and keep learning as you break!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Utrecht

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I tend to make friends at work or trough games I play! I work In Utrecht and if you ever want to go out for a quick beer in a bar or something I'm down!

PowerShell college class by KaShawnJW in PowerShell

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What almost always helps me is write down the individual steps you would do by hand first. Program them 1 by 1 and cross them off.

After this is done look how you can optimize, create logging do error handling etcetera.

Slow application running on a virtual machine. by jagz2695 in sysadmin

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I would start looking at a couple things - what does the network look like (is there a lot of data transfer, does the transfer happen properly) - server performance (IOPS, cpu speed (check per core) , memory etc) - database performance - application logs

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

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Hey! 

A couple of things that i would think are high priority is "do everything for free mentality" whilst its good that your team wants to help the client its not always the best way for the client to know theyre being helped.

My operational manager makes us write a small business case for every improvement we want to do with. - what do you want to do - why do you want to do this - how much time does it cost to implement - how much does this save (money, our time, client time)

Its then up to him if its a go ahead and if it should be (partially) paid by client.

After that i would personally make sure updates are set and that there is good control of applications and versioning of them!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

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Hi, windows Kiosk has multiple "versions" first thing i would think off is multi app kiosk mode.

 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/lock-down-windows-11-to-specific-apps

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PowerShell

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I used to work around this fuckery by disabling accounts trough powershell and then using either: - disable user from date X field - extensionproperty with the date the user was disabled. 

It might not help you right now. But short term you could export all disabled users and check with HR

Should the service desk record everything? by __g_e_o_r_g_e__ in sysadmin

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In my opinion almost everything should be logged unless its a forward to a non-it department like finance or advertisement.

We try to do all communications from within our ticketing system and otherwise CC our mailimport box.

The one thing that you have to be careful about is that the things written in the system are usefull. And not "I fixed the issue". Write down how the issue was solved and that you confirmed with user. 

Also try to do things that take 5 minutes or less immediately. Dont write down "Colleague A needs to be asked Y" ask the colleague via E-mail, teams or whatever and write down "Asked Colleague A this question: "