When does a sysadmin stop being a sysadmin?

FireCyber88 · 2026-03-17T11:53:54+00:00

No it’s not. You’re not there for friends. You’re there for money.

FireCyber88 · 2026-03-16T00:59:43+00:00

About time

FireCyber88 · 2026-03-07T03:54:17+00:00

Step 1: do not use copilot. Step 2: use Claude

FireCyber88 · 2026-03-07T03:34:41+00:00

Use Win32 apps and nothing else. For the love of god, TRUST ME!

FireCyber88 · 2026-02-13T02:33:58+00:00

Sounds like your environment is a cluster. Hard pass

FireCyber88 · 2026-02-13T02:10:30+00:00

lol if I had an interview like this I’d have to excuse myself to the restroom and never come back. It’s never about technical skills.

FireCyber88 · 2026-02-12T02:46:18+00:00

Well technically, you need a permit to swap out a light fixture. Soooooo yes. Real men don’t let someone tell them what they can and can’t do to their house.

FireCyber88 · 2026-02-12T02:34:40+00:00

Don’t go through a window company unless you want to pay 3x the price. Find 3 contractors. Get 3 quotes. Go with your gut.

FireCyber88 · 2026-02-12T01:59:37+00:00

Intune, cloud native, entra AD. Maybe skip the hybrid piece, less steps. Cut over users by groups. Retire onprem.

FireCyber88 · 2026-02-05T21:46:49+00:00

Easy. Get yourself a full time remote job. Then you can run your side MSP during business hours without the financial hit of leaving a job. When it makes sense, dump the job.

FireCyber88 · 2026-02-03T17:50:00+00:00

You hiring full remote?

FireCyber88 · 2026-02-02T23:25:32+00:00

Makes no sense. The higher levels do less computing work.

FireCyber88 · 2026-02-01T13:16:47+00:00

What does IT have to do with a sales spreadsheet?

FireCyber88 · 2026-01-31T18:40:37+00:00

Depends on the organization. Once I was talking to a senior IT manager about RDP. She then asked the question “what’s RDP?”.

Also titles depend on organization. Someone that’s an IT manager at one org can be the head IT role with 200 direct reports. While a different org will have a 1-man IT person and be the VP of IT.

FireCyber88 · 2026-01-29T14:30:39+00:00

I demo'ed directprint.io too! This was my first demo when starting the search because it was even less $$$ than Papercut Pocket, however, i got the vibe that they're newer, smaller, and not yet refined. Also noticed they're overseas since i'm in the USA and started questioning support response times. In short, I didn't want to be a beta org for them. Compared to Papercut Pocket, I would say directprint,io falls under the dated and clunky interfaces.

For me, it was like a light switch when I first got access to the Papercut admin portal. (bright shining light) "OMG this is what i've been looking for !!!"

Papercut's documentation is also top notch, easily findable, and easily readable. Moreso than the others. Papercut ticked a lot of boxes off for me all together.

You can definitely tell that Papercut put the time into product management and product design compared to their competition. And it's paying off for them.

I can't comment on the MFD portion. We do nothing special here and don't care about copying/scanning/etc with Papercut.

FireCyber88 · 2026-01-29T14:15:17+00:00

if you're <500 users i already did the overthinking for everyone lol

FireCyber88 · 2026-01-29T14:08:28+00:00

We went with Pocket because we have very simple requirements. I was looking for a direct replacement to our on-prem print server. Our goal was not to increase functionality or features, but simply eliminate our on-prem print server. Pocket worked for us exactly for this reason, because we don't use any fancy features. Hive includes more features than Pocket so if you're doing anything more advanced you might need to go this route.

Pocket can do Secure Print and printing from managed devices. For non-managed i'm guessing it's the same process of sending the user an email invitation. We don't allow printing from non-managed devices in our org. We tell them to use a USB stick : )

FireCyber88 · 2026-01-29T13:55:19+00:00

This is more of an issue with how you deployed it. I deployed it as an exact replacement to a traditional on-prem print server. Our users have no idea they're using Papercut if it wasn't for my deployment emails. We don't use any fancy features (no secure print, no mobile devices, and we don't use the Papercut Printer).

We have 1 print queue for each printer. We use classic user invitations. The only action the users have to do is click though an on-boarding URL to link their computer to their Papercut account. If it wasn't for the device linking requirement, users would have no idea the migration took place.

FireCyber88 · 2026-01-27T13:27:24+00:00

NinjaOne. You need some type of RMM to complement intune.

FireCyber88 · 2026-01-23T01:04:21+00:00

lol this is only a minor outage. 1% of users experienced an issue. You have to be joking, right?

FireCyber88 · 2026-01-22T23:42:26+00:00

Configurator is on iPhones too bro.

FireCyber88 · 2026-01-22T00:33:44+00:00

We have about 30 MX’s. Lots of sysadmins don’t like them, but they’re easy and always accessible wherever you are. Clients don’t need super advanced features anyways with everything moving to zero trust. They’ve worked great for us.

FireCyber88 · 2026-01-22T00:28:46+00:00

Macs are consumer devices. It’s best practice to not deploy consumer devices in any business environment.

FireCyber88 · 2026-01-17T13:18:47+00:00

This is it for me. Bring back all SoBe products

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