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Outlook email delays
Anyone else seeing lots a delayed incoming emails from outside your org?
We seem to be having lots take 20-30mins to come through or not at all.
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Ransomware hitting SMBs in 2026 feels way more targeted than before - anyone else seeing this?
okay so maybe I'm just paranoid but something feels off this year
been dealing with SMB clients for years and the ransomware stuff used to feel kind of... dumb? like someone clicks a weird email, boom encrypted, pay up. annoying but at least you knew what happened.
lately it feels like the attackers actually did their homework before touching anything. had a client get hit last month - 28 employees, accounting firm - and when we dug into it they'd been sitting in the network for like 3 weeks before doing anything. three weeks. just watching.
and the double extortion thing isn't even news anymore, it's just assumed at this point. encrypt your stuff AND threaten to leak it. some are even throwing a DDoS on top now just to pile on the pressure while you're already panicking. genuinely feels like a franchise operation at this point, not some guy in a basement.
the thing that gets me is my clients still think they're too small to matter. bro you have 28 employees and QuickBooks with 10 years of client financials - you're literally the ideal target, not too small, not big enough to have real security.
anyway curious if others are seeing the same shift or if I'm just having a bad run - entry points still mostly phishing and exposed RDP for you guys or something changing there too?
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Can we do something about the non-stop "I built a tool" threads?
As above. Perhaps made a weekly thread for people to post them in?
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This judge is what's wrong with users and how IT staff are treated
100% the judge was probably clueless and had no idea what he was doing.
Then he gets annoyed with the IT guy and asks someone to find out who the IT guy's supervisor is.
I don't want to link the story, but here is the headline.
texas-judge-nathan-milliron-caught-on-camera-berating-it-worker-after-helping-him-with-computer-glitch
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Interested in becoming system admin. what can i do to accelerate my learning?
Hi all, I am interested in the work of system administration. I want to become system admin (and eventually cloud developer or devops professional). I want to learn the skills and actually pursue this path of mastery over system administration/ network administration/ cloud engineering.
I know i should start with a help desk job first. I don't intend to skip help desk roles. But i want to accelerate my learning while on my spare time. what can i do to learn this craft while i am at home. What list of skills that i should learn, what concepts/fundamentals to learn.
I am a CS major, learnt a bit of theory about OS and networking, currently running linux as my daily driver and learning about things like virtualization, shell scripting, containers, etc. i have experience with golang and python for programming languages.
Thanks in advance.
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OpenAI Codex passes branch names directly into shell commands without sanitization. If your devs use Codex with GitHub, read this.
BeyondTrust disclosed a critical command injection in OpenAI Codex on March 30. The branch name parameter was passed directly into bash during container setup. A semicolon in the branch name gave arbitrary code execution and exfiltrated the GitHub OAuth token.
The automated variant is worse. An attacker creates a malicious branch via GitHub API, replaces spaces with ${IFS} to bypass GitHub naming rules, and any dev who runs a Codex task against that branch leaks their GitHub token silently. Zero clicks needed.
Affected: ChatGPT website, Codex CLI, Codex SDK, IDE extension. OpenAI patched it Feb 5, 2026. P1 Critical.
If you have devs using Codex connected to org repos, worth reviewing what branches they are targeting and whether those OAuth tokens were scoped correctly.
Full technical chain here: https://blog.barrack.ai/openai-codex-command-injection-github-token/
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Broke the prod today
Today was my first time breaking the prod, it's nearing midnight but at least it's fixed now.
First time doing anything with GPOs, we mostly have devices under control via Intune and I'm more used to do stuff on cloud than on on-prem. But we do have AD as our backbone for some legacy stuff (important later) and we had a ticket from security to investigate if NTLM could be blocked in favour of more secure protocols. No problem, got the policies running in audit-mode for a while now and Event Viewer didn't show any audited blocks, so all should be good, right?
Mistake number one. I didn't remember that Event Viewer doesn't include audit logs by default as that would fill up the disk real fast. I did think about possible ways NTLM could still be in use and did setup Kerberos auth for my RDP so that I'd still have access to the servers in case all goes wrong. Well it did, I created the GPO, assigned it and my default RDP client stopped working. Ok, I must've missed something, time to roll back.
Mistake number two. I assumed by removing the GPO, all the values that were configured would go to a disabled state. Yup, they didn't. But I got my RDP working with the Kerberos, and thought my client RDP problems were because I left it in the audit mode and my Linux machine sometimes works a bit differently in audit scenarios than Windows. So I confirmed from a colleague that uses Windows if he can use RDP ok and he did. So all good and I'll take a closer look another day.
Mistake number three. I wasn't aware that RADIUS protocol is dependent on the NTLM. Our colleagues in warmer countries are using legacy protocols for VPN auth and I wasn't aware at all that this would brick their authentication too. I got a call in the evening that something's wrong and they have scheduled stuff to do that they now can't because they can't access the VPN.
Panic mode on, I start to troubleshoot what could still block the authentication after I've disabled the GPOs. Group policies are not distributed anymore, that's good (in hindsight I should've created new opposite policies, but at that time I was just happy they won't mess up the settings anymore). Ok what kind of damage could the policies do, I start checking firewall rules, policy rules and in a reasonable time get the domain controllers back to a working state by modifying the registry values that are doing the NTLM block. RDP starts working for the DCs normally again. Great, I'll just repeat the same for the RADIUS server. But no luck, nothing I do there helps, RDP doesn't work, RADIUS auth doesn't work and I've checked every policy and related reg value at least twice by now.
Finally after some hours of troubleshooting I find that the Domain Controllers had one more policy assigned that wasn't seen in the registry. They still had a policy assigned that disabled all NTLM on the whole domain. That must be it! Disable it for DCs, check RDP and it works! Ask to check the VPN connection and it works too!
I've now successfully wasted four hours of everyones time, but at least it got sorted and I've now learned a thing or two today.
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A Tale of a Major Outage Caused by Me
In light of some of the recent posts about making a mistake, I’ll share one of the most impactful errors I made in my career (30 years).
I had inherited three multi-TB Windows file servers from a previous company’s IT team. They needed to be migrated as part of a geographic office move across town. For context, this was hundreds of millions of small files - xls, doc, txt, the usual.
We stood up a new VxRail cluster in the new office and started replicating data using SecureCopy. This was something I had done many times before. The network connection between the two sites was slow. It took about 30 hours just to do the initial sync on the largest server.
Cutover weekend came. My team executed the migration. Spot checks on the file shares looked good.
Then the offshore team came online.
Tickets started coming in. A few at first. No big deal - we expected some noise. Within a couple of hours, we had 60+ tickets and countless emails.
Due to a bug in SecureCopy, permissions on all files and folders didn’t come across. Annoying, but fixable. We exported ACLs from the original servers using icacls and imported them on the new ones. About six hours later, permissions were corrected.
That should have been the end of it.
It wasn’t.
Tickets kept coming. Some users were working fine. Others couldn’t open files at all. Files showed the correct size, but on disk they were 0 bytes.
WTF?
At that point, we started doing targeted folder recoveries just to get critical teams operational. Payroll was the biggest concern - they were at risk of not being able to release checks for APAC region.
Then I found it. The smoking gun.
The original file servers had Windows deduplication enabled. No one realized it. Especially me.
There’s a checkbox in SecureCopy to rehydrate deduplicated files during transfer. I didn’t select it on any of the jobs.
By the time we figured this out - about two days in - we had a mess. The new file servers were now a mix of:
Fresh data created over the past two days by unaffected users
Dedup pointer files with no underlying data to reference
In other words, partially functional systems with silent corruption.
I eventually worked out a solution. It literally came to me in a dream. I was working 18 hour days to resolve this. It was a complex SecureCopy job, but before moving forward, my director and VP wanted a full review.
We got on a Teams call, cameras on. I walked through what happened and the recovery plan.
My VP came up through operations. He had questions. He made suggestions. I pushed back on them all and explained why they wouldn’t work.
At that point, he approved my plan but said he had one more question.
In my mind, I was thinking, "Here comes the axe...time to polish off the old resume."
He leaned in closer to his camera, smiled and said, "Tell me. How does it feel?"
I was taken aback. "What? What do you mean?" I said.
He says, "To not be perfect. How does that feel?" And then he starts laughing.
Obviously the look on my face gave him what he wanted.
He said, "You've worked for me for 5 years and on every project or task you've done, you have always been perfect. This is the first time something major has gone wrong. How does it feel?"
And that is how a good leader handles a shitty situation.
We talked through the issue, identified a plan to resolve it, and got through it.
He was very clear though, what would happen, if I made that same mistake again.
Mistakes happen, learn from them and don't be dumb enough to repeat them. When you get into a leadership role, remember that and support the people you lead and let them know it's okay to not be perfect.
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How painful is ERP really?
I’m a sysadmin for a small logistics firm. We’re starting to outgrow our system. Too many tools, too much manual effort, and too many points for things to go wrong.
Of course, now my boss is talking about this whole ERP thing. I’ve heard too many tales about timelines going through the roof, budgets going crazy, and people wanting to pull their hair out halfway through. So yeah, I’m a bit skeptical.
Still early days and really don’t know which direction to go in for our type of business.
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Adobe Express Photos bundled with Adobe Reader
Just a heads up since I just noticed this now on Monday morning, but Adobe has bundled Express Photos onto Adobe Reader, so if you have auto updates it's gonna install this shit which will try to highjack your print screen button and most likely start sending all your screenshots to Adobe for them to use for whatever current AI bullshit they have going on. Absolutely disgusting.
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What is your biggest time waster in IT???
For me, it is repetitive admin work. What about you? I have been paying more attention lately to where my time actually goes during the workday, and the results are a bit frustrating. It is not the complex technical issues that eat up most of my hours those are expected. It is the small, repetitive tasks that slowly drain time without you even noticing it. Things like updating records, assigning tickets, following up on the same issues, checking device statuses and doing routine admin work over and over again. None of it is difficult, but it adds up fast.
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Just watched our prod database crash and burn because no one was monitoring it. Why do companies still do reactive IT?
So this morning everything went to hell. Database server started throwing errors, users freaking out, and it took us 3 hours to even figure out what died. Turns out the disk was 100% full from logs no one cleared.
We have zero real monitoring in place. Like, alerts??? Nope. Dashboards? Forget it. Employees only report when shit hits the fan.
Feels like every company I worked at pulls this. Spend thousands on fancy hardware but skip the basics.
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Worst thing I ever witnessed in IT in 20+ years
Had a call with an ERP provider recently. He does his little screen share, and we invite an AI note taker so we can show the demo to our colleagues afterward (it has the full video recording). Their owner shows a demo of Odoo (they deploy Odoo Community edition) in a demo instance, and then, in a series of questions from our side, he wants to show something on another instance and opens a Google Sheet (with about 100+ rows in total) and scrolls through the full file. The Google Sheet contained links to all dev, staging, and LIVE environments (all running on HTTP - no SSL! even on PROD!!), with the full ROOT password next to each row. Many instances from different clients are shared on the same server (same IP). So not only did he expose all of it live, but he also showed us that they have 0 idea about any security practices. A rogue employee or that Google Sheet getting compromised, and all of their instances are gone. You can imagine no backups, also. Of course, the company was recommended by a senior in our company (I know a guy) which we already assumed where it would go.
Had to share. Happy Monday.
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Is "Hands-on Hardware" (Racking, Cabling, DC Ops) still a core skill for every SysAdmin?
Hey everyone,
I’ve been thinking about the evolution of the SysAdmin role lately. With everything moving to the cloud or being virtualized, I’m curious about the consensus here regarding physical hardware.
Does a SysAdmin’s job still explicitly involve working in Data Centers, racking servers, and managing physical Racks/Cabling?
To the veterans and those in the field:
• Do you consider "Hardware/DC Ops" a mandatory skill set for any "real" SysAdmin today?
• How often do you actually find yourself in the server room versus managing everything remotely via IPMI/iDRAC/SSH?
• If you’re starting out now, should you still focus on learning physical infrastructure (server components, UPS, cooling, cabling standards), or is that becoming a niche for "DC Technicians" only?
I'd love to hear your experiences and if you’ve had to do much "manual labor" in your current or past roles
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Network admin vs sys admin
Can someone explain the difference because iam proper lost. And maybe is there any overlapping in skills??
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How do you mass change out cell phones in the age of MFA & Conditional Access rules?
EDIT: Apparently we missed something in testing and per comments we should not have to reset auth methods. We will retest adding a additional authenticator method through aka.ms/mfasetup when setting up the phone and see what happens.
Original: We are about to change out 180+ cell phones in the next couple weeks. About 30 iPhones and 150 Android. The Androids will be setup by IT staff over the weekend, the iPhones will be done individually as people stop in the office. Main reason for this is almost all the Android phones are for field technicians and they need to be ready to go once they stop in.
We deployed Intune last year so everyone added the company portal (android) or downloaded the management profile (iOS) manually. Once that was done we enabled conditional access policies allowing only hybrid joined or compliant devices along with blocking legacy authentication and unknown or unsupported devices. We already have require MFA for all admins and all users enabled. All working correctly.
So now we are going to do the 150 Androids but some of the people will not be able to stop in to pick up their phone for a few days or even weeks. We have a procedure but it doesn't seem like the best but I can't figure out a better one. Here is what we have done on a couple tests phones:
Require re-register MFA in Entra for the user
Add a temp password to the account
Setup the phone as a corporate device scanning our QR code from Intune
Use the temp password of the user
Register MS Authenticator
Intune takes care of the rest, pushes all the apps, applies all the policies
This works how it should but now the user is left with a cell phone that cannot get by MFA. Granted it should keep working if they have authenticated with MFA anytime lately but maybe they just went past their 90 day verification. In which case they either need to come in to swap the phone or we have to disable MFA on their account until they do.
Is there a better procedure?
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Anyone else noticing a quiet wave of layoffs hitting IT again?
Not talking about the big headline layoffs from a couple years ago. I mean the slow, quiet cuts that don’t make the news.
Feels like over the last few months, more and more posts are popping up. “Position eliminated.” “Restructuring.” “Cost optimization.” And it’s rarely the overstaffed teams. It’s sysadmins, infra guys, people who’ve been holding things together for years.
What’s weird is the messaging.
On one hand, companies are pushing AI, automation, cloud efficiency. On the other, they’re cutting the exact people who understand the systems that all of this runs on.
I’ve seen cases where one experienced admin gets replaced by a mix of tools and… hope. Documentation is outdated. Tribal knowledge disappears overnight. Then a few months later, things start breaking and suddenly there’s a scramble to hire contractors at 2x the cost.
Also feels like expectations haven’t adjusted at all.
Teams get smaller, but uptime expectations stay the same. Security expectations increase. Compliance gets stricter. And somehow it’s supposed to work with fewer people and more complexity.
Not saying every company is wrong. Some places were definitely bloated. But a lot of these cuts feel short-sighted, especially in infra and ops roles where experience actually matters.
Curious what others are seeing.
Are layoffs hitting your org or are you being asked to “do more with less” lately?
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Have the opportunity to get about three months pay in exchange for voluntary resignation
TLDR: company offering to pay about three month's pay (mix of severance, PTO, etc). Mental health is trash due to job and been wanting to leave anyway. Should I take it without another job lined up?
So, my company is offering people the chance to receive severance in exchange for voluntary resignation. In my case, it'd work out to about three months pay, inclusive of PTO, in one lump sum.
I've posted about this company before on my profile; currently on mobile so not gonna link it now. Basically, I've been looking for a new job for the past few months, as I am currently underpaid, overworked, and my mental health has been the worst it's been in a long long time. Bad enough that I've reached the point where I know I need to leave before I start behaving irrationally.
I have basically nothing in savings, live in a HCOL city, have cut down my expenses to the bare minimum, and would have three months, assuming I took the offer, before my cash ran out. Considering I've almost quit a few times in the last few months due to just being sick and tired of this job, this severance package seems like a good opportunity to finally take time to work on my mental health, get a non-IT job if necessary to cover my bills, and really just have the opportunity to rest for once.
I know that ultimately this decision is mine to make, but I was wondering if anyone else has ever done the same and been successful?
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Is "AI-powered" just the new "cloud-enabled" in terms of meaningless vendor marketing?
Every tool in my stack has added AI something in the last year. Our ticketing system has AI summaries. Our monitoring platform has AI anomaly detection. Our endpoint management has AI recommendations. Every renewal pitch deck has an AI slide now.
So far the actual impact on my day to day is roughly zero. The ticket summaries are wrong often enough that I read the full ticket anyway. The anomaly detection flags the same things the threshold alerts already caught. The recommendations are generic enough that I could have Googled them faster.
What's getting to me is the pattern underneath it. None of these AI additions reduce the number of consoles I log into. None of them eliminate a workflow. None of them mean one less person needs training on the platform. They're all additive. A new tab, a new sidebar widget, a new button that says "generate" on a screen I was already on.
It feels like vendors figured out AI is the cheapest possible feature to add (call an API, display the result) while making zero changes to the operational model that keeps you locked in. The complexity of the platform is the retention strategy. If an AI could actually operate the tool on your behalf through a standard interface, you wouldn't need the dashboard at all, and suddenly switching vendors gets a lot easier. No vendor wants that.
Am I being too cynical here or is anyone actually seeing AI features that reduced their operational workload rather than just adding a generate button to the same interface?
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Deep Remote, Remote work
I’m currently transitioning from a traditional office/metro setup to a semi-remote property in Washington. We’ll be 20 minutes outside a small town (pop. 5k) on a forested ridge overlooking a lake. It’s the dream, but as an Infra admin, the connectivity "single point of failure" is giving me anxiety.
For those of you who made a similar jump to the sticks:
How was the transition? Did you find the lack of "office energy" or local tech peers a hurdle?
Redundancy: I’m starting with Starlink and chasing grants for fiber, but what is your "Plan C"? LTE/5G failover? High-gain antennas?
Power: With heavy tree cover and WA winters, how are you handling uptime? Is a whole-home generator a "day one" requirement or can I get by with a massive UPS for the rack?
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New level of burntout - Healthcare IT
I have worked across many kinds of jobs and offices doing support as a Sysadmin but working at a hospital is a whole new level of hell.
I did not know there were worse customers than Apple customers with limited technical abilities until I stepped into working at a hospital. Apparently, my experience is the norm as far as the entitlement and the terrible way it is to be treated. I have seen how doctors and nurses treat our environmental services staff and then in the same instance only just barely treat me with marginal more respect because I can answer a question about their personal device we don't support.
It's a terrible time job hunting now anyway. I just hate this feeling of dread and despite being hired as a sysadmin have spent the last 9 months resetting passwords because the volume is so high and there is no accountability or policy yet for users to enroll in self service mandatorily.
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Found a way to practice on the real Microsoft server and network stack for free because Azure pricing is genuinely ridiculous
One of the biggest frustrations when I was trying to get hands-on with Microsoft's stack was that you simply can't practice the actual tools without paying. Azure costs are absurd, Sentinel and Defender XDR licenses aren't cheap, and free tiers don't give you the real environment.
I work in a SOC using both daily, and recently I became a Microsoft Student Ambassador. When I joined I found out about Applied Skills a section of their Learn platform that gives you a real Azure environment, hands you a scenario, and evaluates what you actually configured. No multiple choice, no memorization tricks, no way to fake it.
I did the Defender XDR one. Even with daily production experience, I ran into things I hadn't set up before. Worth the few hours. There are labs for Azure Monitor, Sentinel, Defender XDR, secure storage, Azure networking, GitHub Actions pipelines and a lot more I haven't gotten to yet. You get a badge on completion good for LinkedIn if you're into that kind of thing.
Catalog of labs is here (Azure, security, networking, data):
`learn.microsoft.com/credentials/applied-skills/?wt.mc_id=studentamb_506171`
The link has my ambassador tag on it just to be transparent. I don't get paid or anything from it, just metrics. I genuinely think this is something a lot of people don't know about and it might actually help and its free so why not.
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I understand it now
After working 7 months as a system administrator, I can see why other admins can be jaded and blunt.
1. Helpdesk sending tickets with no tier 1-2 troubleshooting
2. No proper documentation for services when crap hits the fan
3. The queue is always a dumping ground for other area's messes
4. Clients not using the damn ticket system for request
5. The massive headache for trying to get you to handle a service you don't support.
Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy the learning aspect of the position, but it feels like I'm stuck in a black hole sometimes.
Sorry for the rant, Happy Monday to my fellow admins.
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Sudden Bitlocker issues
Over the last week we have had 6 device randomly boot into BIOS and then require a bitlocker recovery key. The first 5 were all ASUS devices but its now happening on Lenovo as well. Anyone else experiencing this?
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Want to move from Okta to Entra but can't figure out how to do it without breaking everything
On Okta for six years, works fine. CFO noticed we're paying for Okta and already have Microsoft E5 and wants to know why we need both. Fair question except moving 2000 users and 80 apps from Okta to Entra without breaking things doesn't seem doable.
Each app is configured with Okta as IdP. Changing that means touching SAML settings in 80 different places. Some we control, some are vendor SaaS where we have to open tickets and wait. User MFA enrollment doesn't migrate so everyone re-enrolls. Groups and policies get rebuilt manually in Entra. Apps using Okta APIs for provisioning just stop working.
Running both during migration means users have two identities and we're managing the same access in two systems which is worse than staying put. Phased migration makes more sense but then App A is in Entra trying to talk to App B still in Okta and I don't know how to handle those dependencies without custom federation.
Consultant said six months and $200K. CFO thinks that's ridiculous for switching SSO providers. Doing it ourselves means months of after-hours work and probably breaking auth for critical apps at least once. Has anyone actually migrated IdPs at this scale without massive downtime or am I missing something obvious?
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Why Is It Always DNS?
Prod down.
App looks fine.
Server looks fine.
“Can’t be DNS…”
It was DNS. 😭
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DXC Technology workers go on strike in Australia
https://www.crn.com.au/news/2026/partners/dxc-employees-to-take-industrial-action
DXC provides support for government and big banks in Australia.
Actual union action from IT workers, even in Australia its unheard of, I dont even know anyone in a union here.
Whats everyones thoughts?
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I made a fatal mistake. Concerned about my future in IT
Throwaway account.
I made a very fatal mistake on Friday afternoon. Yes I know the no changes rule but since I thought what I was effecting was dev I made a decision that probably cost me my job and my own trust in myself.
I have done restores before using veeam but I encountered a DNS issue of a tried to resolve to a dev database. I should have just checked DNS manager on our domain controllers to see if it existed, but I was advised by my manager to edit a host file on the veeam server. While looking at a list of IP's from our NAC software which included production, dev and qa my brain fucked up and placed the IP of production and then I edited the host file with the name of dev. I was asked to do this restore by a Linux and DBA admin and I have done it before successfully so they trusted nothing would go wrong. The restore started and within 5 mins people weren't able to work and then I realized my mistake. My heart dropped past my stomach. My hands began to shake. I knew it was over at that point. We do have a cloud instance of the database but we have never really did a switch over. The plan was mainly theory. We are a small group of admins that are pulled in every direction. My infrastructure manager has been pushing to more DR meetings but these things always keep pushed back. Other things need focus. I was helpdesk only a few years ago and a lot of admins left because of conditions because of our head of IT.
I am going to say the downtime was maybe 5 to 6 hours. If I had to guess I probably did half a million in losses. We are still running on the cloud instance.
I got a call from the director of HR yesterday that I was terminated. A lot of people in my dept are fighting management that this was a mistake and that letting me go will bring down the depts productivity.
I wear any hat that is asked of me. I always say yes to helping others. I look into issues and do research on what's the best forward for efficiency and security. I enjoy doing IT sysadmin. People say I have talent for it but now I want to crawl into a hole and die. I'm so embarrassed. One of the CEO is "looking into" keeping me because they are very understanding people. I have no certs. Just experience. I don't know what I'm going to do. I feel burnt out. I feel like I don't have a single/two focus like the other admins. Once you become the guy, you can't stop being the guy.
I don't feel like I'll be ever to work in IT ever again now. The market sucks. The jobs are shrinking. My fear of AI of overtaking everything makes me doubt my future. I feel so dead inside now.
Has anyone else went through something like this? If I do get my job back, will there a target on my back? I don't think I'll ever feel secure.
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Workstations for Construction Company
I have a requirement to buy new workstations for our design department which works on construction applications like AutoCAD, SketchUp, Revit, Lumion, Staad along with Adobe Suite. How should I size the hardware spec for these workstations? Like processor cores, ram, graphics card? Current workstations have Intel Xeon Gold 5218 processors, 128 GB ram and Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000 graphics cards with which users are facing slowness. Looking for advice to solve the slowness complaints.
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How to showcase your skills?
Other than certifications / years of experience, how can a system admin, cloud engineer, devops roles showcase their expertise in their portfolio?
I believe that certifications and years of experience are not an accurate representation of someone's skill in a field. We can have two with same certifications and same years of experience (on paper) and there can be cases where one person knows more, has put more time, experimented more than the other person. In such cases, how can this person showcase that skill to others in their portfolio?
So, can our career progression be accelerated by showcasing our expertise in some way. Or do we have to rely on certifications and years of experience to progress our career?
Thanks in advance.
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