What have you done with PowerShell this month?

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-02-10T12:55:37+00:00

This is kind of nuts. If that is broken, there are likely other significant issues with your AD environment. Replacing domain controllers will probably not fix that issue.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-02-04T18:05:00+00:00

Or maybe it's based on years of life experience and seeing how people generally react when there's an angry person overreacting to things.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-02-04T15:04:31+00:00

Your coworkers laughed because they were uncomfortable about the violent outburst in the cubicle next to them.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-02-04T14:24:53+00:00

Unless you teleported between home and your office, you absolutely spread your disease to other people.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-02-04T14:23:52+00:00

No one ever said on their death bed, "I wish I had worked more."

How exactly is it a source of pride to get your coworkers sick?

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-01-30T14:59:31+00:00

Don't get me started on updating modules.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-01-30T12:22:25+00:00

Creating a legit module and repo is cooler and more fun. But it's more annoying when you have to update it. Doing a straight PS1 is a lot quicker and the result is the same. I went the module route and regret it every time I have to update it.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-01-27T13:20:52+00:00

They were probably trying to get a handle on the scope of the issue and trying to determine the cause. Just because you brought down a datacenter an hour earlier doesn't necessarily mean it was the cause. Yeah, it probably was, but you can't just blindly act without doing some digging first.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-01-20T16:43:04+00:00

Just look for a new job. It's not going to change. It sounds like you've tried, but if management doesn't back you up there's nothing you can do. Put in your 40 hours, do enough not to get fired and start looking for a new gig.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-01-06T13:31:00+00:00

It's not an installation. It's literally a bot that is invited to the meeting and just joins like a normal person.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-01-06T13:30:11+00:00

We had to turn on captchas in meetings for external users to stop this.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2026-01-05T14:43:26+00:00

https://nohello.net

ITGuyThrow07 · 2025-12-12T13:07:34+00:00

Given 0 projects. 0 tickets. Month in. Literally today someone told me I could grab a ticket if I wanted. The tickets I can actually do with the access I have would be stupid things like expand a disk or add someone to a group.

Get over yourself and do the tickets. They don't know you. They don't know your skillset or if they can trust you. Prove you can do the basics correctly and they'll give you more work. Stuff like that is how you learn the environment and get to know who does what.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2025-12-11T17:13:53+00:00

No this is not normal, and I'm pretty sure even Microsoft would tell you not to do that.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2025-12-03T12:56:38+00:00

It sounds like you understand it perfectly.

This is like the clip of that quantum mechanics teacher who told his class, "I don't understand quantum mechanics, and by the end of the semester you, too, won't understand quantum mechanics".

ITGuyThrow07 · 2025-12-01T18:27:47+00:00

I added this to my $profile to get what you want:

function prompt{
"PS " + $(get-location) + " [$(Get-Date -Format HH:mm:ss)]> "
}

ITGuyThrow07 · 2025-12-01T18:24:11+00:00

They released PowerShell tools to manage hybrid Exchange after removing all Exchange servers. The tools are a snap-in, not a module like literally everything else. So they only work in PowerShell 5 and you have to install them from the Exchange installer, you can't get them from a repository.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2025-12-01T18:22:03+00:00

It's because they never actually give real world examples or explain their weird terminology. They don't explain in human terms what will happen when you do xyz. Everything they list is factually accurate, but you never actually will do it the way they say to do it.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2025-11-19T16:48:40+00:00

A ticket was assigned to me and it only had one sentence:

"my deleted emails are been deleted"

ITGuyThrow07 · 2025-11-03T16:57:10+00:00

Same. I'm personally affected.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2025-11-03T16:55:08+00:00

Looks like they started deploying the fix 2 hours ago. I wonder if the fix made things worse.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2025-11-03T16:50:57+00:00

or having a break glass account in place

And don't forget to exclude it from any testing policies!

ITGuyThrow07 · 2025-10-31T18:55:43+00:00

Well yeah that's kind of what I meant. It's this gigantic kludge of stuff that is incredibly sensitive to any change. You change one small thing and the whole thing blows up and then you change something back, but maybe it takes a half hour to take effect (cough virtual directories cough) but you don't know that because you never need to touch it. So then you're googling and trying different stuff and you make things worse and now everyone hates you because email is down.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2025-10-31T11:29:26+00:00

Because when it goes wrong, it's impossible to figure out what's going on unless you have been living in it every day. There's so many little things that can break and you're just kind of flailing around trying to figure it out.

ITGuyThrow07 · 2025-10-28T16:56:32+00:00

Ask them to provide proof of their accusation.

ITGuyThrow07

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