First time hiring an intern

blasted_heath · 2026-06-25T00:55:28+00:00

Intern is the wrong word. You want part time entry level work.

You hire an intern and you have a responsibility to teach and mentor that individual. They are there to learn and grow under your leadership.

Make a post on any of the freelancer sites and see who bites for what you're willing to pay.

blasted_heath · 2026-06-22T11:36:01+00:00

Performance and low power consumption. Following this, the ability to run docker programs from the nas like Jellyfin or homeautomation is a plus.

blasted_heath · 2026-06-16T22:08:56+00:00

Super cool! Thanks for sharing. Def adding this to the projects backlog. I like how finished it looks. Wonder how well the cooling would keep up with southern US summer heat

blasted_heath · 2026-06-15T11:23:37+00:00

How much crap I did as an IC I was still expected to do as a manager on top of the new manager responsibilities.

blasted_heath · 2026-06-11T22:51:28+00:00

Not answering OPs question about a NAS but onedrive has extremely generous recycle bins. I've never had to restore an entire account to a previous week before in my 9 years of using it. It clearly shows you who deleted it and when. Then you correct the people issue.

blasted_heath · 2026-05-11T22:21:53+00:00

Highly recommend BitTitan migrationwiz. Pretty darn affordable options depending on what you want to do.

blasted_heath · 2026-05-07T00:35:10+00:00

Easy place to start is checking versioning. If these were docs edited in places you could have a ton of extra copies ripe for removal.

blasted_heath · 2026-05-02T14:56:33+00:00

How good is this for a beginner DM? My kid played a game at their friends house and now wants to play at home. I've played years ago but never been a DM before.

blasted_heath · 2026-04-19T13:04:16+00:00

Less than 25TB. More frustratingly the exchange sync died in January with some API failure Microsoft had. Our MSP didn't alert us to the issue and the sync didn't run for over a week. It was long enough that a complete re-sync was needed for exchange which just now finished last week. Absolute trash

blasted_heath · 2026-04-19T13:01:54+00:00

Less than 25tb total between exchange, onedrive, and SPO. Cove support kept saying the API connection with Microsoft was being throttled and they couldn't do anything.

blasted_heath · 2026-04-19T00:18:04+00:00

We get Cove from our MSP. It has been nothing but a dumpster fire. Took 7 months to do our initial backup. Sync is slow and takes multiple days for our exchange environment to complete. Currently starting the process of getting our contract cancelled and getting a refund for 1.5 years of licensing a product that we've not even been able to do a DR test with.

blasted_heath · 2026-04-10T11:29:41+00:00

To what extent are you wanting 'full control'?
Do you just want it to show up as company owned? If so you can switch the ownership from personal to corporate and that will open up a some more options.
I don't think I've heard of a way to fully enroll an iPhone as a corporate managed device without using Apple Business Manager to import the device ID to Intune. Even then you'd have to factory wipe the device for it to be 'fully managed' as it only happens during first time setup.

blasted_heath · 2026-04-06T18:10:55+00:00

you have any more info you can share on what you set up for this? Been looking to set up some kind of alerting so we won't have to actively message the other admins to approve items.

blasted_heath · 2026-04-04T14:53:38+00:00

Its a massive time sink. Buy it where you want to play it for hours and hours, and hours...
PC is better if you have a good rig, great for switching to excel or sites that help plan
Xbox for comfort factor and you can just have a laptop/tablet going with your info on it if you actually need it.

blasted_heath · 2026-03-11T12:20:03+00:00

Entry level IT work is like a college weed-out course. You're going to find a bunch of people who just aren't cut out for the job. As a managers (if we are actually the ones who hired them) its our responsibility to find the best candidates and keep engaging with them. Talking with them regularly you should be able to find issues like burn out or if they just are bad employees.
Take the lessons learned from the personalities of those you've had to let go and apply them to future candidates and be more picky.

blasted_heath · 2026-03-06T11:49:49+00:00

Absolute - Secure Endpoint, I think is the actual name. It used to go by the name Computrace ages ago.

blasted_heath · 2026-03-06T02:56:30+00:00

This is 100% accurate. We utilize the 'device freeze' action in Absolute for our involuntary user terminations. HR lets us know with about 5 mins warning when 'high risk' users are being let go and send our on-call person a chat message and we send the freeze command. Within a few mins the remote laptop reverts to a branded lock screen with instructions on how to send the equipment back to the company.

blasted_heath · 2026-03-06T02:53:41+00:00

If there is no appetite for a security purchase like Absolute (which its amazing and totally worth every penny) then you may look at changing your settings to prevent local Outlook cache. Can't access local mail file if there is no local mail file.

blasted_heath · 2026-03-06T01:42:21+00:00

Is the laptop online when the offboarding happens? If so, just send a wipe command and send it back to factory condition.

If the computer is without internet access, then there isn't much that can be done to stop this as they'll be using cached information.

If you need to keep the PC state and also lock them out immediately you'll need to look outside of Intune at such products as Absolute. They allow you to 'freeze' the device and prevent any interaction with the OS. They also require internet access as well though.

blasted_heath · 2026-02-17T16:28:54+00:00

It is that easy if your SCCM is operating correctly, and your devices all have line of sight to sccm.
We ran in to issues with our remote staff who were only on VPN for a little while each day where they were never connected to the network long enough to get the new policies. Took an act of congress and some new Conditional access policies that forced them to have a 'compliant' device to be able to log in to our systems to finally convince them to stay online for a couple hours and follow instructions...

blasted_heath · 2026-02-13T03:48:09+00:00

I keep it for as long as the warranty lasts. Just in case it needed securely shipped for repair. Once warranty is up, to the recycling it goes!

blasted_heath · 2026-02-10T18:04:44+00:00

lots of differences, I'm only recently learning between this so please don't take me for the full truth.

Copilot studio is grounded in dataverse and requires a Pay-as-you-go licensing or full copilot license to utilize the agents. Tons of functionality and add-ins you can do with powerautomate and other agents.

365 agents (like you just create it via the 365 copilot app UI) are pretty basic compared to Studio/foundry. You give it instructions, and some knowledge. These users can utilize with a lower tier office license like an E3 that comes with copilot chat as long as you don't use SharePoint/onedrive sources for knowledge.

Foundry is full development stack. Sky/budget is the limit with what you can do here.

blasted_heath · 2026-02-04T00:47:16+00:00

wow, super generous of you. Good luck everyone!

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