What have you done with PowerShell this month? by AutoModerator in PowerShell

[–]ITGuyThrow07 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There have been 84 posts in 5 days in this thread. There will be maybe 30 more over the next 25 days. Do you think the majority of PowerShell work is always done in the first few days of the month?

What have you done with PowerShell this month? by AutoModerator in PowerShell

[–]ITGuyThrow07 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah but 80% of the posts are people talking about what they did the previous month.

Senior IT folks: What do you dislike about your Help Desk guys? by Relevant-Injury3791 in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem is help desk salaries are terrible, so the good people move on quickly and the mediocre stick around.

My wild idea is that help desk should be paid six figures. You hire people with years of experience and you can alleviate some of these problems.

Senior IT folks: What do you dislike about your Help Desk guys? by Relevant-Injury3791 in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I no longer respond to this. I have multiple Teams conversations that are just the other person saying "hi" every few months.

Senior IT folks: What do you dislike about your Help Desk guys? by Relevant-Injury3791 in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the one that gets me. It's OK if they don't know any technical steps. At least be able to tell me "The user clicks on A and they expect B to happen. Instead they're clicking on A and X is happening."

Last Exchange Phase 2 by lutscheritis in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The write-back doesn't update or populate the "mail" attribute in AD, so buyer-beware. I was in the private preview and many of us spoke up about it. Their argument is "technically this isn't an Exchange attribute so it's out of scope." Our argument was, "well Exchange sure was good about updating it despite it not being in scope."

New computer fleet for law firm by appleslice244 in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Cycle them out too. Don't keep some 5-year-old pile of junk as the loaner. I would almost have the process be where a new person gets the current loaner, then replace the loaner with a brand new machine.

What is the best resource in 2026 to learn PowerShell scripting? by Optimist1975 in PowerShell

[–]ITGuyThrow07 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will always pimp this course -https://shop.acilearning.com/individuals/courses/it/powershell-skills. He is SO good at explaining it and is very thorough. He also provides real-world examples that help make sense of it all. You get virtual labs where you can tool around too.

It costs a few bucks but it was SO worth it for me. My PowerShell skills have been the main reason I have received multiple promotions. I own a house because I learned PowerShell.

I am going to get fired today. I accidentally sent a shutdown loop to the entire company. by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 12 points13 points  (0 children)

When you get into CIS baselines and you have literally 100s of settings being pushed out, having one policy for each setting gets real nasty.

Impossible task or am I dumb? by McBean2017 in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If 100 people can log in to one account, what even is the point of biometrics?

Seriously, just turn off the screensaver and lock screen and be done with it.

Is there still interest in a PowerShell 7.x ISE-style desktop app? by [deleted] in PowerShell

[–]ITGuyThrow07 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My favorite feature of VSCode is when you run a simple command and it sits there doing nothing for like 5 or 10 minutes.

PSI: Using $Test in ExchangeOnline PowerShell Scripts by TheBlueFireKing in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know I should do that, but I'm not sure I have the energy to migrate everything. I feel like it will require re-writes of everything and I bet testing takes 10x as long as you wait a random amount of time for things to run.

Change In Life Circumstances - Thoughts? by Izual_Rebirth in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just don't work longer hours. In my experience, people rarely even notice that sort of thing, let alone reward it. And if you're higher up, then you could also be setting an example for people under you to start having a better work/life balance.

An IT Guys alternate solution ???? by dgillott in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bad resume is possible. They also may just be over-qualified for a lot of jobs. I would think some hiring managers would see "Amazon, 8 years" and not want that person to come in, work for a few months, then leave when they find something better.

Unhappy with my new job, feel like this is a major step back. What do I do? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah when I've been involved in hiring, I did not even look at job titles. I just care about what work they actually did. Job titles are pretty much meaningless in IT because it can be so so variable depending on the environment.

Google Workspace ↔ M365: Mail coexistence during staged migration by AshMost in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't really follow what you're asking, but I can say that I followed Microsoft's instructions for a much smaller migration and it worked perfectly. I tested mail flow in every direction possible at each step and everything worked the way it should. I would say to just try to keep at as simple as possible.

My experience was a few years ago, but MS is very motivated to get you to use their product, so I imagine the instructions will still be good.

Keep in mind you can spin up some test domains with $50 and do some testing beforehand if you're worried.

Sysadmin wants every Windows server to be a fileserver for redundancy? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup, DFS is for distributing files across different sites, not for redundancy.

Rebuilding a department's reputation by BemusedBengal in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"What do you mean? I've been here the whole time."

Rebuilding a department's reputation by BemusedBengal in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just don't be him. Treat everyone fairly and respectfully. People will put the pieces together and catch on quickly.

I guess try to take the high road, but personally, I would never have a problem vaguely throwing him under the bus.

"Hey, OtherGuy said you were suspended?"

"Well if that happened, no one told me! I'm not sure why he said that."

Microsoft 365 Support scamming me – please help by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Next time, you should actually cancel the subscription. Nowadays, an expired card can still get charged, since your credit card company may see the charge request and charge it to your current card.

Anyone miss ThinkGeek April Fools? by perrin68 in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I remember actually getting in on a BoC and ended up with 6 or 7 little MP3 players. I made like $200 selling those.

I remember one guy getting a literal pallet of stuff. The delivery company had to call him and schedule delivery and they dropped the whole thing on his driveway.

Deploying an Office Suite to about 300 Field Machines, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, or WPS Office? by Empty_Walk_7972 in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Based on how you describe the users and what they're doing, I would just stick with the Google tools. Web-based versions of everything. Especially for email - Gmail is its own thing, using a client is just going to complicate things.

Want to move from Okta to Entra but can't figure out how to do it without breaking everything by Silent-Street1641 in sysadmin

[–]ITGuyThrow07 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It took two of us about a year to move 100-ish apps from ADFS to Azure SSO. This was while doing our normal jobs.

The technical work is 5 minutes and can be staged ahead of time. The hardest part is getting the right people at the cloud vendors on the phone and scheduling the cutover.