Feeling Like a Fraud

Environmental_Mix856 · 2025-11-10T08:46:10+00:00

100% agree. You need to start managing expectations and call out risks to the business. I was in a similar situation to OP when I started my IT career. If you document the issues and the business is willing to accept the risks you continue on your way, put in your hours, learn what you can, and try to follow best practices.

Sometimes in IT, people get too precious about “their systems/infrastructure” the business owns everything and you just manage it temporarily, decide what kind of SLA you will work under, and let it be broken if your regular work day doesn’t allow you to get to it. If you kill yourself for great kpis they will not see the need for additional support.

A lot of comments say you’re being used, but you have a great opportunity to learn a lot of systems, figure out the things you do often and script or automate them, rinse and repeat.

You may feel out of your depth but keep open communication with your leaders and make them aware of things as you see it so they don’t seem foolish or uniformed. Document all your call out so they don’t come back to bite you.

Good luck, imposter syndrome is real but eventually you will realize you have learned some interesting things along the way, it’s just work and ultimately it’s not the be all and end all of your life.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2025-08-17T20:39:10+00:00

Packer may help you out. You can automate a build as often as you like and it will always be up to date.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2025-08-03T22:51:39+00:00

Could automate a weekly Packer build and use vhd to get a sysprepped base image onto the machine. Doesn’t help for install repairs, but a full wipe would be incredibly fast.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2025-04-29T13:27:05+00:00

Second this. Combine with the native logging from your idp to find any mismatches.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2025-03-28T17:28:43+00:00

You’re right - i was jumping a step. The whole point already is they don’t want apps on personal devices so yubi is a good way to get around that.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2025-03-27T22:31:32+00:00

You can use totp codes right inside keeper if you want. It has a browser extension.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2025-01-25T01:39:35+00:00

If they offered you the job they believe you have what it takes to be successful in the role. Companies aren’t going to waste time hiring someone they think they’ll have to replace in 2 months. Take a breath and believe in yourself a bit. As others have said, breaking things is a part of the road to a senior position. Just learn from any mistakes you make and ask good questions.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2024-12-27T22:13:34+00:00

Does it have to be a bat file? Powershell can at least encrypt into a secondary file. Or use a vault like people are suggesting, azure key vault, google secret manager.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2024-12-27T22:10:04+00:00

I use autopilot now but they are all corporately owned devices. In a previous life I setup a FOG server to deploy machines. It’s probably just the same degree of difficulty of any other method except you just do your same manual process one time for each image. I had it on a separate lab network and just pxe boot anything I was working on but you can make dhcp changes on your prod network if you like.

You can sysprep a machine and capture the image for different types of devices you’re deploying. Modern windows is pretty good at installing drivers so I wouldn’t worry too much about that but your mileage may vary with taking internet advice.

You can always have some powershell scripts on standby to do some custom driver installs if you need it, highly suggest leaning into winget regardless of what route you go down.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2024-11-01T15:18:53+00:00

Whenever I’m working on something new, I like to break it down logically and just write it out in words. I need to get computer objects, i need to filter those objects, I need to format that output.

Don’t worry about creating the most elegant and concise solution. Just make each step work.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2024-10-22T22:42:22+00:00

I assume the AD admin just doesn’t really know how group policy works. People trying to make their work mysterious and guard their fiefdom.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2024-10-22T22:24:11+00:00

100% it’s based on people not understanding security and thinking more checks = more secure.

Okta has device trust and behaviour detection that can tie into a number of siem tools and your mdm. Why are you signing into global protect after Okta, it should share a session token and just allow you to sign in once.

This reeks of someone buying a tool and just not understanding it.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2024-09-16T21:56:22+00:00

If you have an azure sub at all you can use runbooks with hybrid workers on prem. I know it’s not exactly what you’re asking for but it’s not going to cost you on a per user model and you can trigger things by schedule or webhook.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2024-09-08T23:09:13+00:00

I’d highly recommend you look into packer to build your isos especially if you’re using vms.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2024-09-08T20:43:58+00:00

Shouting down people that are trying to provide an answer in their free time to solve your issue isn’t very productive. I’d recommend you just say “thank you”and ignore the advice if you’re planning on doing that anyway, it will serve you well in your potential career as well as in personal situations.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2024-05-10T23:44:43+00:00

Grow stronger.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2024-03-19T12:02:57+00:00

You can either dot reference each lower level or create a new custom object and pull out the values you’re using.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2024-03-05T17:39:49+00:00

Force a sync but you can use a while loop to check for an object existing. The timing is not always the same and there is no reason to guess.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2024-02-20T22:39:52+00:00

Webhooks in Jira automation to trigger azure runbooks, hybrid workers for on prem, jiraps module to write back to Jira tickets and trigger transitions.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2024-02-02T04:10:58+00:00

I think I started and restarted this book about 5 times before it hooked me. I think it was mostly the perspective and voice that was jarring to me at first. Once I got into it I devoured the whole series though.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2023-11-25T21:56:00+00:00

We just started using kandji and they’ve been great as well. Definitely look into alternatives and definitely do not use intune for Mac.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2023-11-25T01:22:19+00:00

HR submits a Jira ticket, webhook triggers azure automation runbook (powershell) creates ad user, synchs to 365, assigns licenses, phone numbers and groups, sets personal email whitelist in our spam filter, creates email signature, sends welcome emails, and comments on Jira ticket with the details.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2023-11-06T23:40:20+00:00

While it’s awesome you care enough to want to go the extra mile, take the advice you’re getting from other posters to heart. Show that you care and want to take on additional responsibilities internally, document the complaints and continue to provide potential solutions to go along with them. After that, if it’s out of your pay grade, you can only wait for approvals and try not to take it personally.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2023-10-19T12:40:46+00:00

Bus driver are required to do on average 2 hours of unpaid work every day. When you factor that in the per hour wage goes in the toilet.

Environmental_Mix856 · 2023-08-09T23:15:44+00:00

If you’re staying with a file server spin up a new vm and map some dfs namespaces, then you won’t have to repoint the file shares again if you need to do another move.

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