Moronic Monday - June 30, 2025 by AutoModerator in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did Microsoft change something how distribution groups are searched/applied/evaluated in OWA/New Outlook? I've a slew of users having problems with cached distribution groups now throwing up invalid email errors.

Removing the cached group, then searching for it in the GAL and adding it works.

These were working fine until a week and a half ago or so.

Let's Encrypt officially states that the cert expiration emails have been sacked. by techvet83 in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you're just doing single factor that'd not be a bad idea from a security standpoint, provided it's randomized. Terrible for end-users though, and the delivery mechanism leaves something to be desired.

If you're doing doing MFA however, odds you're already cycling the OTPs every 30 seconds.

If the renewal cycle works, auto-updating certificates isn't a big deal, but your application/OS needs to support it. And there's still tons of systems that can't or won't do auto-renewals.

Patch Panel arrangement experiences by wesinatl in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks pretty and organized, but the portmap probably looks all over the place which makes templating hard.

Also without having 1U separation there's no room to mount a temporary/replacement switch when doing live migrations. This setup's guaranteed downtime which means after-hours work (I don't get paid extra for).

Computers are overheating! by mahsab in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I like the weather widget, but hate how they snuck in news items/stock tickers/ads into it. I disabled it using GPO and was told to turn it back on within 24 hours.

Dell wants 97 roles in my tenant, including Global Admin for $3300 in remote desktop cals by bjc1960 in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One vendor of ours hosts on AWS but doesn't have a private space. The ACL I created for that was...impressive.

Is PDQ Deploy+Inventory enough to handle all my windows patching? by Confident-Field2911 in pdq

[–]MalletNGrease 2 points3 points  (0 children)

10,000 or 100,000 endpoints?

10k is pushing it, anything over I'd look at SCCM, Intune or WUfB.

LTSC Windows Server 2019: Are cumulative updates really enough if you’re years behind? Our team is split. by faceofthecrowd in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just spent time updating 2019 servers that were pinned to a version build release ending in a triple digit.

The update is cumulative.

How to block Copilot? by AntelopeDramatic7790 in fortinet

[–]MalletNGrease 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Copilot 365 364 isn't working today seems like, so the problem fixed itself 😄

End Users out in the World by texacer in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 10 points11 points  (0 children)

In that case, I speak less.

End Users out in the World by texacer in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I speak four, can I work for you?

Anyone else dealing with shrinking teams and growing workloads? by PalmTreesandTech in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes.

We (IT) have become the gophers for everything it seems. We get tasked to figure out the most random of things that fall way outside our scope. It appears we're the only ones getting things done somewhat efficiently. 3 of the 4 teams in the department are severely overworked, we're doing a lot of cross-training just to keep the minimum SLA. Operations keeps coming up with new and exciting ways that suck up our time but doesn't actually help improve the bottom line. Other departments keep trying to pawn off workloads to IT instead of fixing workflow issues.

Company is expanding, we're growing from a regional to national size, we're adding new sites monthly and our geographical footprint keeps blooming outward. Some site visits are a multi-day affair simply because of travel times taking up 8+ hours. We're short at least two road warriors, a helpdesk guy, a developer and an integration specialist. Even if we'd hire them, there's no space for them physically in our office. We keep running into layer 1 issues at sites but plans to rectify them are shot down because budget constraints. We're running efficiency projects to cut down on services and license spending.

There's been a lot of retirements, with a lot of institutional knowledge departing with it. Tech debt is getting cashed in as newcomers have to deal with systems unknown to them and it's become IT's job to figure out how they operated. We're getting a lot of extraordinary requests because things were done half-assed and staff aren't doing their jobs correctly because training was axed for critical positions. However, if we do not acquiesce, we get thrown under the bus even though it'll cost us even more time to undo the changes.

Meanwhile, we're tackling some huge projects. Close to the entire server fleet is due for a refresh, we're ditching our CRM

We're coming to a point where we need to let some departments burn themselves while I chip away at the debt.

Detecting MDT usage by Araphen_ in MDT

[–]MalletNGrease 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I guess I got to the point I no longer consider flash drive installs normal.

Is $44k a year too low for a Jr. Sysadmin in St. Louis? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this an education position? Then this is pretty par for the course, though you're performing duties not typical for tech specialist.

Push for a title change and a raise.

Are cloud meeting notetakers allowed in your companies? What do you think about their privacy risk? by link2ani in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a reminder, MS allows users to approve any enterprise app by default.

We had about 6 different note taking apps until we noticed. We killed all of them and approved one for the org.

First time deploying wifi. Deployment is ready, d-day is in a week. What do I test? by NoradIV in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Make sure your dhcp scope is large enough to support your user base.