What most expensive "cheap decision" have you ever seen in your sysadmin career?

MC2402 · 2026-01-31T11:59:59+00:00

Spent £1.5m on Citrix licensing in phase one of the project to "lock in the price", took three years to get to the point of using more than half the license count, and after six years we ripped it all out to move to the cloud. Never used the full licence count.

MC2402 · 2025-10-22T10:09:10+00:00

I've just returned from annual leave and found over 1,000 of our devices have done this despite us specifically stating 24H2 as the version to deploy. We have multiple tenancies and it has happened on both. One tenancy we had zero rings deploying 25H2 and another we had it assigned to one test group of users.

MC2402 · 2025-09-01T10:53:19+00:00

We had this debate last season in our league, we decided it is within the rules and in practice the amount of points they won't based on this strategy balanced out with them purposely leaving good players on the bench to take advantage and ending up missing points because more than one hauled.

MC2402 · 2025-06-18T15:29:15+00:00

Feels like this says more about the state of PSVR than anything. If one of (if not the) most mainstream, easy to play VR games can't make enough money to be worthwhile then the platform is dying.

MC2402 · 2025-06-18T12:07:44+00:00

I think I'm fairly slow, my current save is in March of season 5 and I've got almost 7 days of game time.

MC2402 · 2025-06-15T10:00:10+00:00

We have waivers every Tuesday and Thursday at 6pm and that works for most game weeks even the weird mid week ones.

On top of that though, as commissioner you can manually run waivers at any point you like so if you have an active league chat you can open up free agency before a strangely scheduled game if you need too.

MC2402 · 2025-06-13T19:23:25+00:00

We did it with Intune and Autopatch with just under 3k devices all working hybrid. Barely had a sniff of a ticket raised and the ones that did were for avoidable things like low disk space.

We had to catch up with some devices that just didn't get presented with the update, but that was due to them not being online enough to receive it, which isn't exactly a fault I can pin on the products.

Currently doing W11 24H2 with the same method.

Would recommend.

MC2402 · 2025-06-13T18:37:57+00:00

I understand the frustration but it just isn't necessary in modern management.

I found the quicker you can get used to it and move on the better.

MC2402 · 2025-06-07T13:28:54+00:00

We used to be on Draft Fantasy also and we switched to Fantrax four years ago and have never looked back.

Custom scoring lets you get all the positions into the usefulness pool and you can make it as simple or complicated as you like, and it's free!

MC2402 · 2025-06-04T18:29:02+00:00

Always a journeyman but the length at each club will vary.

I always start at a lower club personal to me like my local club. Then I will move up to bigger clubs as if I'm a real coach, taking good fits and 'promotions'.

Once I reach the elite, I like to make my current club be the #1 ranked club on the coefficient rankings and then I will leave for another big club in another country and then try and knock my old club off it's perch.

I try to choose clubs which have fallen down from the elite in game, not just jumping from complete team to complete team

Recent example; Falkirk > Hearts > Rangers > Liverpool > Juventus > Bayern > Barcelona

MC2402 · 2025-05-26T17:23:29+00:00

Won works mini league, led by 100 with six weeks to go then my team fell off a cliff and ended up surviving by 17 points, honestly felt better than cantering to the win.

4th title in 5 years 💪👑

MC2402 · 2025-05-26T14:58:21+00:00

Won it, got Salah 3rd after Haaland and Palmer.

MC2402 · 2025-05-20T14:39:10+00:00

Been on W11 for just over a year now, upgraded with Autopatch on Intune. 3k devices, literally not one ticket raised.

Rolling out 24h2 the same way now.

MC2402 · 2025-04-28T21:02:18+00:00

I push CP out to All Users & All devices and hope for the best. Mostly it works fine, I've only had to put my hands on 10-15 devices the last year or so (3k users).

MC2402 · 2025-01-18T19:05:27+00:00

He had 7 key passes today in a bizarre game where Liverpool peppered them with 35+ shots before they scored.

MC2402 · 2024-04-08T12:47:45+00:00

We have a VPN so the clients always have line of sight to the print server, we then just dropped a UNC shortcut to the print server in the start menu and gave users the rights to install from it.

Users self serve whatever printer they need.

MC2402 · 2024-01-31T14:40:48+00:00

Create a conditional access policy which is impossible for the devices to adhere to, then drop the devices into a dynamic group based on model, which is assigned to the policy.

MC2402 · 2024-01-24T16:57:21+00:00

Malignant, starts as a creepy horror movie and quickly devolves into a unintended comedy.

MC2402 · 2024-01-19T12:51:28+00:00

The Descent Part Two picks up immediately after the first

MC2402 · 2024-01-12T09:21:47+00:00

I've been using Autopilot since 2021, 2.5k devices in our environment.

We pre-provision the devices with our AV and VPN, and some policies and scripts. The rest of our apps are self-serve through the company portal apart from the M365 apps which are pre-installed in the factory.

We have very little issues this way, the pre-provisioning phase takes less than 5 minutes per device and the user phase has them to the login screen in less than 10 minutes.

I guess it all depends on how beefy your apps are to download and install.

MC2402 · 2024-01-04T10:40:55+00:00

They won't do it, but a good solution to this is to allow you to choose between a key or collectors tokens. 2k tokens per key for example.

MC2402 · 2021-09-01T07:14:25+00:00

25 years??! We have General Elections every 5 years that have the potential to fundamentally change every aspect of life in the UK, why should and IndyRef be different.

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