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/r/ShittySysadmin

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Lokking for a license based alternative to explorer.exe

Hi everyone.

My boss wants me to change the colour of the Windows taskbar or taskwindow or taskWord or something, I have tried nothing and I am all out of ideas on how to do it, but since we pay for a lot of things it can not hurt to pay for one small program more.

So since it is only for my boss I think it should be always online and licenced per user per month as is the norm NowA-Days, my boss plays a lot of games and streams a lot from his desktop so it MUST be swanky / pretty / something that 100% of viewers MUST find aesthetically pleasing.

Any ideas?

11 Comments
2023/12/05
16:56 UTC

31

Best backup solution?

Our org has some crazy budget constraints, so we've had to get creative to get our 3-2-1 rule in place.

We've created 7x M365 Family subscription, filled them with dummy accounts on one of our spare domains, and linked them all as OneDrive shortcuts to the OneDrive of our Backup Admin 365 account.

With all the accounts set up and linked, our backup admin basically has a 35TB OneDrive for under $100/mo, which covers us quite well.

Curious to know what everyone else uses?

29 Comments
2023/12/03
22:29 UTC

29

People don't know how to right click cut paste anymore ?

10 Comments
2023/12/03
19:07 UTC

51

AI IS COMING FIR OUR JOBS!!!

IF YIU DONT THINK THAF THEY ARE GOING TI REPLACE US WITH AI YOU ARE DUMB!!!!!!!!!! SHREAD THE DOCS! MAKE THEM DEPENDENT ON YOU TO SECURE YOUR JOB! ITS THE ONLY WAY!!!!!

42 Comments
2023/12/01
19:22 UTC

20

Oracle DBAs are like minded people - /r/ShittyDBA

3 Comments
2023/12/01
06:39 UTC

25

Most of the jobs that we do as a sysadmin in a large company can be done by another intern

9 Comments
2023/11/30
14:29 UTC

21

Posterity - Rule 4

/r/rShittySysadmin does not mean /r/ShittyContent

Hence as a display of "unlimited POWAH ™ " of becoming a mod I have instituted rule 4 - the posterity rule.

Being a ShittySysadmin its unlikely to be enforced as that requires actual "admin"ing and I am better at the "ShittySys" part.

6 Comments
2023/11/29
14:57 UTC

25

I have an idea! Lets require our users to remember 24 character passwords!

17 Comments
2023/11/29
02:03 UTC

140

I saw a cert renewal request - I cancelled it since we already did this last year.

An actual email.

24 Comments
2023/11/27
20:30 UTC

12

My brain is dumb

I keep asking my boss for HDMI cable since I use alot of it for the job I do but he keeps looking at me oddly.

I swear it's my brain thinking cat 5e ok, HTML ok, HDMI that's right.

14 Comments
2023/11/27
16:38 UTC

84

Advice on hotswapping server RAM

Tryna to hotswap some RAM my network engineer lead suggested to on our largest clients rack. Anything I should be privy to?

Edit: Cannot disrupt 500 day uptime or my family will get beheaded

48 Comments
2023/11/27
12:07 UTC

68

What festive changes are you going to make to your environment this year?

Personally I've done the following:

  • Changed the login sound to "12 days of Christmas" (full length).

  • Created a rule in Exchange to append a randomised Christmas gif to every Email.

  • Added a modified desktop background of animated fairy lights and snow. Only 50% GPU usage!

  • Advent calendar is used for peoples passwords. Every day a user's password will be something Christmas related!

Any other ideas?

19 Comments
2023/11/26
21:36 UTC

18

I'm getting questions like this. Please advise.

6 Comments
2023/11/26
21:14 UTC

38

My device got hacked when I installed a sketchy .exe file. No I'm not in IT now help me!

16 Comments
2023/11/26
17:12 UTC

17

My mom says that Windows is like Swiss cheese and if I use it we'll be nipples deep in fondue.

6 Comments
2023/11/25
07:02 UTC

18

i think i found lot of friends in comment section

8 Comments
2023/11/24
16:30 UTC

22

Did you know? You can use this simple trick to save thousands in license costs!

10 Comments
2023/11/23
17:32 UTC

31

REJECT CHANGE, HATE IMPROVEMENTS, RAGE AGAINST THE MICROSOFT

As a Sysadmin it's your DUTY to do both of the following things AS LOUDLY AND OBNOXIOUSLY AS POSSIBLE:

  1. Complain about the lack of improvements and tweaks to systems from devs attempting to eliminate issues or provide additional functionality.

  2. Complain about any improvements, citing that the changes are worse and that nothing should be changed and everything was fine as it was thank you very much.

This post bought to you by /r/sysadmin

7 Comments
2023/11/23
09:19 UTC

24

A total new kind of use with Proxmox

8 Comments
2023/11/22
19:28 UTC

48

Our off site IT guy is complaining that we "lost" 40k worth of gear, but it was all junk that didn't work anyway.

17 Comments
2023/11/22
03:03 UTC

16

Out-IT'd by a user today

5 Comments
2023/11/22
01:05 UTC

18

What do you think of OSS (Open Source Software) in an enterprise environment?

17 Comments
2023/11/21
14:01 UTC

64

All of our desktops and laptops are running on SSD. Boss wants me to defrag all of them.

20 Comments
2023/11/20
02:52 UTC

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