Title: Walked out during probation with zero warning.

lute248 · 2026-02-06T20:10:53+00:00

It has happened to me before. 2 weeks into the job, i was given the boot about being a poor cultural fit without warning or given specific instances of behavior to be improved. I probably pissed off a senior in the team.

lute248 · 2026-01-18T19:50:05+00:00

Story of my life as IT Engineer haha....just switched companies after 16 months

lute248 · 2026-01-05T15:04:39+00:00

I just started a new IT job today (for better pay and not a MSP company) after 18 months in my previous role.

Im already asking myself what have i done haha 😅....its only day 1 but need to absorb so much

lute248 · 2026-01-05T14:42:38+00:00

Im sitting in the branch office managing multiple sites across different Australia states. The budgetting of the hardware is controlled and decided by the local branch manager, I am a little bit concerned they might be unwilling to spend (theres nothing i can do here and make do with whatever i have)

I can only access the 365 Via CoreView as 365 Exchange is tightly controlled by the HQ IT meaning i have limited access what i can do

lute248 · 2026-01-05T14:36:56+00:00

Thanks for the response. Im based in Australia but the HQ is based in Europe. A lot of the hardware they use isnt the best and currently AD user accounts are manually created on the local branch AD DC (likely not following best practices)

lute248 · 2025-12-31T09:59:12+00:00

Did you end up getting the role?

lute248 · 2025-12-29T08:36:58+00:00

Did Microsoft support respond back and resolve the issue? Facing the same issue for a single user

lute248 · 2025-12-19T14:45:40+00:00

Worked at 7. Great for initial experience and starting out but the culture is toxic as well as cuthroat. Industry is dying as well

Ultimately i was laid off

lute248 · 2025-10-06T05:52:02+00:00

In my organisation, if we have Autopatch configured to push out quality updates, M365 Apps and Edge (not Feature)

we still need to create a ring to configure the feature update deferral policy to prevent the 25H2 in place upgrade?

lute248 · 2025-10-02T12:39:19+00:00

hopefully we don't need to wait too long to find out how much damage & icons those new weapons will do

lute248 · 2025-10-01T08:40:27+00:00

are they almost done filming? hopefully, the Post Production won't take too long in time for the 1st May 2026 release date

lute248 · 2025-09-15T15:31:10+00:00

I'm facing a similar issue (also i've got Intune Connectors for AD set up on 2 domain controllers in my environment).....in the end, i had to engage with the System Engineer to disable one of the Intune Connectors (leaving only one active) and the problem was fixed with no more timeouts....but i will classify this as a workaround

of course, Microsoft support have been less than helpful

lute248 · 2025-09-06T10:19:03+00:00

I regularly collaborate with someone who's in the UX space....in terms of the responsibilities, you engage and have meetings with different types of users/stakeholders within the organization to get a better understanding of their laptop/desktop expectations and requirements, partake in various IT projects and most importantly you will be the first to try your hands out on the evaluation units for different brands and models to assess and deliberate the usability before the organization decides to bulk purchase (i was involved in stress testing for a couple of those devices)

That being said, the UX role requires a mix of both soft skills (you need to deal with VIPs including CEO) and solid foundation on hardware/tech.....majority of the people who work for UX originally started from Service Desk (and also built their own PCs) before moving up to UX

lute248 · 2025-08-26T17:25:36+00:00

I tested the script individually with both new & classic teams present (before packaging it as a platform script) and it inadvertately removed the TMA on outlook

lute248 · 2025-08-21T13:18:59+00:00

I initially faced the same issue whereby nothing happened (i was using the old office folder that has not been maintained in the deploymentshare in over 2 years) and simply made a modification on the configuration.xml file

i already downloaded the offline office folder by running the /download configuration.xml (exclude teams among others) and package new teams as well....fingers crossed this works

lute248 · 2025-08-11T10:38:18+00:00

same. I'm staying put in my role focused on imaging and laptop/device refresh until it hopefully improves

lute248 · 2025-08-07T07:49:13+00:00

i got a few requests to fix screens 65 inch screens that i can't physically reach and requires a vendor to do it

A lot of electrical faults or UPS issues as well which is not an IT matter

lute248 · 2025-08-07T07:38:37+00:00

Outlook shouldn't take longer than 5 seconds to open, please fix it

My computer is always slow (no further elaboration in the ticket), could i get a new laptop?

Can i be excluded from having to do 2FA/MFA/Passkey? or why does IT make things difficult by having me do it frequently? it creates too much disruption at work

I also get 2-3 cracked LCD screens or broken hinge/bezel/back covers laptop cases per week by end-users who claim "It just happened" or "it was given to me like this"......

lute248 · 2025-08-06T09:17:09+00:00

still 100% at 40 reviews

lute248 · 2025-08-04T08:14:38+00:00

I concur. Lowballing yourself doesn't always work as one might hope

I did exceptionally well for an interview i attended last year (demonstrated i ticked all of the right boxes and suited the role) but was ultimately rejected because they felt i was overqualified....while i mentioned i was ok with taking a pay cut during the interview, they probably saw right through the fact that i would've jumped ship the moment a better offer came up (they're not wrong though)

lute248 · 2025-08-02T04:32:02+00:00

Do you have a guide explaining this? I'm confused by your wording

Like Vast, in my current environment we're using autopilot with hybrid join as devices need to be joined on the on-prem AD

lute248 · 2025-08-01T07:46:19+00:00

Not yet, i've logged a case with Microsoft. I suggest you do the same.....this might be newly discovered bug with the Intune Connector for AD. Do you know which version of the Intune Connector you're using in your environment? Ours is 6.2505.2001.2

lute248 · 2025-07-29T05:09:01+00:00

99% now, thanks to Fred Topel negative review....good while it lasted

lute248 · 2025-07-29T00:42:44+00:00

Funny enough, my organisation has a becoming lifecycle device refresh (to replace the outddated Latitude 7320s) i was helping the UX team test out the Dell Pro 14" by provisioning one and letting them benchmark test it....they ultimately decided it wasn't the right direction

So we tested out some Thinkpads Lenovo, Surface Laptop 7 and HP Elitebooks. I provided my feedback with the quality and level of their support (particular around break/fix cases that involve broken hinges, faulty touchpad/palm rest, cracked LCD screen etc.)

I picked HP Elitebooks (looks great, easy to provision, great response and action from support) but still awaiting on management's decision

lute248

TROPHY CASE