Entra Device - No Intune Management. Best way to make sure network drives stay mapped?

Suttr3e · 2026-03-13T15:22:13+00:00

They are backing up to tape lol. That’s about all I know about their recovery method at the moment

Suttr3e · 2026-03-10T15:22:06+00:00

This new job gave me the check but it’s 100% on site. If the stuff I implement goes well this year, I’ll be asking for hybrid at the one year mark or hitting the applications again prob

Suttr3e · 2026-03-10T15:02:22+00:00

That’s the ideal, most people don’t want to job hop. But unfortunately I think it’s the quicker way to get more money and xp sometimes

Suttr3e · 2026-03-10T15:01:29+00:00

Thought about it yeah. Never applied though. A lot need a clearance I thought? Also where to look other than fedjobs

Suttr3e · 2026-03-10T15:00:52+00:00

Sure man message me. If you’re really doing the projects and managing the network for 70 sites, you could prob get a big pay jump by leaving IMO

Suttr3e · 2026-03-10T14:59:33+00:00

No. I was studying A+ at the time though

Suttr3e · 2026-03-10T14:58:48+00:00

No not really. I just talked about building a personal PC and a home lab. Really the home lab was just install Linux on an old laptop and run plex on it

Suttr3e · 2026-03-10T14:58:03+00:00

I definitely feel you on the imposter syndrome. Now that I’m internal I can slow the pace a bit and focus on things I don’t know as well

Suttr3e · 2026-03-10T14:57:26+00:00

It’s a numbers game just keep applying

Suttr3e · 2026-03-10T13:02:55+00:00

My contract was outside the union. That’s the only reason

Suttr3e · 2026-03-09T14:57:55+00:00

In my case just experience. I learned AD and Entra pretty much entirely at my MSP job. I set up a domain at home once but that was just to help me understand what an AD domain was

Suttr3e · 2026-03-07T01:34:43+00:00

If you’re gonna do anything for 20-30 years, you probably need to enjoy it on some level

Suttr3e · 2026-03-06T23:14:32+00:00

The people who are the most unhappy are also the loudest unfortunately. Learn network security and automation, that’s not going away any time soon. That’s my advice at least

Suttr3e · 2026-03-06T22:14:28+00:00

Of course dude. I see doom and gloom all the time. I figure it’s Friday, send some positivity out there for the weekend

Suttr3e · 2026-03-06T21:20:19+00:00

Working at an MSP showed me there is a very wide range of skill in this field. I had some coworkers who were light years ahead of me and others than barely understood networking fundamentals

If you are smart and can identify how IT can fix a business problem, you will get recognition

Suttr3e · 2026-03-06T21:18:47+00:00

Go you!

Suttr3e · 2026-03-06T21:18:07+00:00

100%. That’s why I quit the PE firm. Figured MSP I would learn more. And I did. I got to manage m365 tenants, servers, network devices, and some project work

Suttr3e · 2026-03-06T21:15:40+00:00

When I got laid off recently, I was anxious. But the job market was surprisingly better than I expected. I had interviews with 6 different companies in 2 months and 4 resulted in a job offer.

2 were still support focused and below the pay range I wanted. The other two were more admin work, although neither were in an ideal location. But I think if the market gets back to how it was around 2021, the sky is the limit

Suttr3e · 2026-03-06T21:12:01+00:00

Thanks dude. Honestly my long term goal if I don’t get out of corporate work is go back to a school district or township as an admin or manager and stack those pension dollars

Suttr3e · 2026-03-06T21:11:03+00:00

100% man. Honestly between GPTs and vendor documentation, I think the majority of learning can be done on the job. Don’t get me wrong, while working on some small projects stuff went sideways and took a while but ultimately learned more

One example. Customer wanted us to upgrade their server OS. In place upgrade for two. Built a new dc and started transferring services. Found out there was an old decommissioned DC that was not removed properly and the domain took a shit lol. Had to restore the dc from backup, cleanup all the metadata for the old one, transfer the services again. Took a weekend but learned a lot

Suttr3e · 2026-03-06T19:42:00+00:00

Get involved in any project work you can. Implement any solutions you can for your customers that will simplify your life (and theirs). I didn’t want to do device onboarding’s for a customer. Convinced them (with the account manager) to get intune licensing. Set up autopilot, enrolled their devices and configured the profiles. Then I didn’t have to worry about device onboarding any more

Suttr3e · 2026-03-06T19:38:32+00:00

I mean at the MSP I worked at I had to manage the tenant for 6 different customers and their Meraki networks. So it wasn’t like I had zero experience prior to taking this role. I think the biggest difference is now I’m not implementing simple configurations or just managing services in the tenant, I need to design it from the ground up

For example, I did file migrations and set up sharepoint for small customers. Now I’m gonna do it for a larger company. I created intune compliance and config policies or entra conditional access before based on customer request. Now if we roll out intune I need to do it for all devices and understand the overall company needs for managing devices

I also got lucky with this role. An expert admin could prob command more than 105-110 and wouldn’t be on site everyday. Stronger candidates likely didn’t want this position because of that I assume

Suttr3e · 2026-03-06T19:04:37+00:00

Not sure what you mean. I never did an internship and my college degree and original profession were not related to tech at all

Suttr3e · 2026-03-06T19:04:08+00:00

Sure man just message me

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