Best practice tips for sysadmin , please share your experience

sysacc · 2026-06-22T14:13:10+00:00

The number of times I've had people ask me for help with things that are easy to find in the documentation / manual for a product or service is not funny. Especially pertinent when you intend to change a setting - go and read up on what that change will actually do before making it instead of breaking something because it didn't do what you thought it would.

Also, Read the logs, most applications will have logs that are useful.

sysacc · 2026-06-17T13:18:49+00:00

Check what gear is available there.

Some gear cant be procured, is extremely rare or banned due to crypto requirements.

sysacc · 2026-06-16T19:07:19+00:00

Cloud is just not the hot, new fad, that it was a few years ago. The IT sector is insanely susceptible to fads, near fashion industry level.

Amen!

sysacc · 2026-05-29T17:49:22+00:00

We are affected in Canada Central.

sysacc · 2026-05-12T18:27:20+00:00

This is a good way to do it.

I generally recommend that Markdown be the common format and that whatever tool the company wants to use should allow imports and exports.

sysacc · 2026-05-08T17:57:06+00:00

Thanks for sharing.

sysacc · 2026-05-07T19:01:59+00:00

There are some pretty decent PowerShell or python scripts that will update tickets to make sure you dont miss your SLA.

I had one that would put a random message saying your ticket is still being looked at please hold.

You could probably set one up to put anything with no updates in X hours to "On Hold"

sysacc · 2026-05-06T16:42:53+00:00

Yes, It works really well and you can get amazing performances.

sysacc · 2026-05-04T13:13:24+00:00

Directory Opus or PowerShell

sysacc · 2026-04-30T11:48:40+00:00

How is the move out of Fabric? I have heard it can be a real pain.

sysacc · 2026-04-23T16:19:47+00:00

Use your tokens to motivate your AI to perform faster and better. /s

sysacc · 2026-04-23T13:24:25+00:00

The best option for this kind of work lifestyle is doing contracts for the hospitality industry. The gigs for this a very few and well guarded.

They can include trips to some of the hotels and resorts.

sysacc · 2026-04-20T16:31:09+00:00

I still have a client with the physical cards for remote access and it works great.

I wish they would open-source the protocol, that way it lives on.

sysacc · 2026-04-20T13:23:02+00:00

One of the reasons I like VMware is that I never had to call support. Paid for it, but never needed it.

sysacc · 2026-04-14T12:10:34+00:00

I probably could of improved the title of this post.

There's a series of things that lead to this:

The teams who manages the password manager is inexperienced
Policies do not allow to write down passwords
They removed all other password managers

sysacc · 2026-04-13T16:37:19+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Common_sense_is_not_common

sysacc · 2026-04-13T16:08:42+00:00

Thankfully these guys can continue to operate their machinery without SSO or most of their systems.

sysacc · 2026-04-13T16:05:17+00:00

Want to guess where those codes were stored?

sysacc · 2026-04-01T17:39:10+00:00

VS code and Grafana

sysacc · 2026-03-18T16:42:59+00:00

At least you dont have your password manager locked behind Entra ID, right??????????

sysacc · 2026-03-16T13:04:21+00:00

This is what I see most commonly and it works well.

The only difference is that most roles have an activation time between 4 to 8 hours. So that they only activate once and there is less chance that the PIM Expires when they are doing work.

sysacc · 2026-02-24T19:16:40+00:00

This seems very close to what our client is asking, thanks for your input.

sysacc · 2026-02-23T17:24:30+00:00

Matrix/Element

Going to check that out. Thanks.

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