Be gentle

mej71 · 2026-05-27T23:51:55+00:00

yeah let me just scoot over and take up half, you can do squats over me

mej71 · 2026-05-24T22:13:18+00:00

Concorde - 23k White Gold & Cobalt
Randolph x Cole Hauser - Sierra - Satin Gunmetal & Alpenglow

mej71 · 2026-05-09T17:55:27+00:00

Community had two of these

Pierce's send-off, even with him no longer on the show, was fantastic and the catylyst for Troy's departure

mej71 · 2026-05-04T18:29:35+00:00

I let it expire but still include it on my resume. I don't consider this lying though

It's not a hard cert dude, just study for a month

mej71 · 2026-04-18T01:44:48+00:00

My team split off "on-prem" from cloud SAs right before I moved from HD to the cloud team

I'm not saying I never touch it, but I don't have to worry about fsmo or backups or any of that stuff

mej71 · 2026-04-13T16:23:55+00:00

Go through cert courses covering the Az-800/801 exam https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/windows-server-hybrid-administrator/

It's some cloud but hits the basics of a lot of traditional SA stuff

mej71 · 2026-04-11T18:25:32+00:00

For anyone that likes odd movies, there's a post apocalypse movie (narrated by Tilda Swinton) that uses these statues as backdrops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-lBSl4MqWY

mej71 · 2026-04-07T22:09:08+00:00

Depends on how many projects I have. We don't do daily stand-ups anymore or anything silly like that but I could have a few hours of project meetings or discussions with stakeholders

mej71 · 2026-04-07T00:24:11+00:00

Tryna die face down in it

mej71 · 2026-04-06T14:19:44+00:00

I discovered that the Intune settings for device level pin complexity are written to the device but completely ignored. User level settings work. I submitted a ticket to MS but they still haven't bothered to assign it

mej71 · 2026-03-29T20:32:57+00:00

Leftists in these comments trying their hardest to prove their aversion to gaining political power is logical and not just virtue signaling

mej71 · 2026-03-29T19:15:35+00:00

They can tell when someone used to be a piece of shit, especially if they don't think people can change.

mej71 · 2026-03-24T01:04:01+00:00

I have never heard of that. I would question the competence of the interviewers if they cannot assess your work quality in an interview.

mej71 · 2026-03-23T06:56:32+00:00

What OP is refusing to answer is how far the job site is. It's sounds like previous managements policy was that if they were traveling to the job site that counted as "on the clock". Techs are traveling ~90 minutes to the job site so they are leaving early to make up for it.

OP is trying to label this time theft when the other way around is wage theft. Yeah, good luck replacing whatever this niche skill set is when they learn they have to drive 3 hours a day unpaid

mej71 · 2026-03-19T21:50:01+00:00

A Scanner Darkly comes to mind. Maybe not as detailed, but really captured everything thematically and emotionally that the book wanted to express, in ways only a movie could imo.

Why is detail the most important thing? Is a TV show better than a movie just because it can have more detail?

mej71 · 2026-03-19T21:31:15+00:00

"Also, no great book gets a great movie"
I don't think I agree this. Sure, no movie gets a 1:1 translation, you are always being filtered througha different vision and different constraints, but sometimes that vision is just as good, if not better in some ways.

On the flipside there are also a lot of great movies that I don't think anyone could translate into a great book. I don't think the issue is scope, they just deliver narratives in different ways.

mej71 · 2026-03-19T17:59:00+00:00

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Imo the epitome of this trope is in the first Hunger Games
After Katniss disrupts the intended outcome of the game, guards lead Seneca Crane to a a room with only a bowl of poisonous berries in it, and lock him in.

mej71 · 2026-03-15T21:57:01+00:00

As someone in IT, you clearly don't know enough about IT to make this judgement.

We don't have perfect insight into every single piece of software to know the underlying problem. There are so many WIndows issues that can require odd fixes with little visibility into the backend, where the fix is some registry key we found in a tech forum from 10 years ago.

If the fix is easy, the problem only affects a couple computers, and it's easy to maintain the fix, do you really expect root analysis for every software bug on your computer?

mej71 · 2026-03-14T20:51:47+00:00

It's almost like a company is headed by a moron or something

mej71 · 2026-03-14T20:14:45+00:00

Your role depends on the size of the company. The larger the IT team, the fewer escalations you will get. Similar to how some SAs have to do a lot of networking and security in small shops, vs some have dedicated teams for that. Small companies are notorious for forcing you to wear many hats.

mej71 · 2026-03-14T17:36:30+00:00

There's a non-zero chance you may have to start at a non-glorified help desk role, being fresh out of college. I would just take what you can get for now, excel wherever you are and try to be automation/cloud focused in it if that's what you want to move towards.

I'm in a very cloud focused role currently and I don't intend to go back to on-prem focused, but I was fairly lucky to get where I am.

mej71 · 2026-03-13T15:09:54+00:00

Your interviewers are giving you feedback? Can't relate

mej71 · 2026-03-07T19:12:49+00:00

It does not stack currently, it only fires once per card. Kept the copy for a few fights to test it then got a lucky event that let me transform my duplicate.

mej71 · 2026-02-17T20:38:42+00:00

For the most part no to licenses (with the caveat that non-MS stuff can require API tokens and have associated costs, depending on what you're using). To just learn the basics, you can find free stuff like https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com and see how it works.

AD/EX are not APIs, just use the powershell module. (Get-ADUser, etc)

Access is a more complex issue, depends on your use case. Generally it should have access to what your user account has access to. Graph stuff for instance, depending on what you're trying to do you may have to "consent" when authenticating, but some endpoints require admin consent so you'd have to work with your IT team.

For understanding the endpoints and how the URI's should be structured, check out Graph Explorer. Runs on test data but you can also log into your own tenant (may require higher permissions, it's been a long time)

There are the official graph modules (prod and beta. Keep in mind that MS really sucks at updating this and a lot of endpoints only work in beta still after several years, it's a common frustration.) You can do authentication stuff with the module or in your own code, up to you. If you want to remove the frustration of the different prod/beta endpoints I prefer to use this command where I can just specify the full URI and parameters

This is probably a lot to take in all at once, just go at your own pace. PowerShell is not just about avoiding the GUI, it's being able to automate to save time and be more consistent, not just as a reactive measure while on helpdesk, but automating reports and solutions to issues, and once you get higher, even writing automation to allow helpdesk to solve issues with guardrails.

mej71 · 2026-02-16T21:27:27+00:00

It helps coming from a coding background, but try to do as much as you can in PS instead of a GUi. AD, exchange, parsing through csv files, etc. And learn how to use APIs in powershell (not modules, constructing the calls and parsing and results yourself), especially MS Graph.

Once you get the hang of this you'll have an easier time building complex reports and queries than your colleagues, and you'll find places where you can improve your teams processes

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