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Nutanix claims it has poached 30,000 vmware customers
We have fully moved off of vmware to proxmox, not surprised Nutanix is also getting a ton of business including some F500 companies.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/04/nutanix-claims-it-has-poached-30000-vmware-customers/
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LOT and had the vision, leadership, and skills to manage the department as well as to report up to leadership and the board. The technology at the new company is average at best, and we'd be taking steps backwards to integrate. And the timeline is 12 to 18 months. I've never managed a project that lasted more than a month.
I'm scared shitless at what's ahead. At my age, the market is meager, especially for 50 yr old IT guys. My dad worked in technology and got laid off in his mid fifties, and never worked professionally again.
Thanks for reading if you got this far.
The TL/DR is: After 30 years in the trenches and meager to modest upward movement, I'm getting a big promotion and I'm terrified I can't do the job.
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Can someone smarter then me explain Dell's latest model naming?
So they changed everything a year or so ago with Latitudes and I figured it out. Latitude 3000 series became "Pro", 5000 series became "Pro Plus", and 7000/9000 series became "Pro Premium". Dumb but ok.
Then they changed the Precision line and things got worse. 3000 series became "Pro Max", 7000 series became "Pro Max Plus", and the 5000 series became the high end model above 7000 with the "Pro Max Premium"
Today I get a email for the new "Dell Pro Precision 7 Series 14 Laptop". WTF is going on in Dell marketing land and why did they go backwards and meld the old and new names or am I dumb and missing something? It even has a new model number of PW714260 which seems to add stuff and not match the others (a 16" Pro Plus is like PB16250, a 14" Pro Premium is PA14250, a 16" Pro Max is MB1650, etc).
Can someone explain what this is and where it fits in? It looks like it's a brand new model and they are already abandoning the new naming but only partially? https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/dell-pro-precision-7-series-14-laptop/spd/dell-pro-precision-pw714260-laptop/xcto\_pw714260 which is part of the entire "Precision" or "Pro Max" lineup: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/scr/laptops/appref=precision-product-line
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i hate sharepoint
we at work almost only use sharepoint. it is made by microsoft so it has to be shit and it is.
We make our documentation in word templates, and upload them to sharepoint. now this has a whole shit ton of problems, naming some of them:
\- gets uploaded as a binary blob in the database so no proper searching in the content of the file
\- no version control, can not see who edited what on what document
\- every document has diffrent styling or is made on some diffrent template
\- make new documentation, use the shitty word program to write it, upload it some where, convert to pdf, upload it again
\- "This file has been checked out by user x". User x is not present. So file stays locked. I have to upload a copy.
i want a proper solution that supports markdown, so we all have the same styling, same format, version control, and more.
God forbid we use a non microsoft product. gods forbid we use a good foss solution hosted on our own servers to kind of make like wiki pages
every time i have to write or get documentation my blood start to boil and i get very anoyed.
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Need Help: All M365 Global Admin locked out after hack - Microsoft support has provided no comment / communication in 24h+
I need urgent help. I along with other admins have been locked out of our Microsoft 365 tenant for 24 hours now and Microsoft support has completely failed me.
Here's what happened:
\- A tenant was hacked yesterday (he had turned his own MFA off somehow..)
\- An admin re-enabled MFA / Conditional Access policy forcing users to use and join requiring domain-joined devices to sign in.
\- I double checked all my devices are domain joined. They were so agreed to let the admin apply the MFA applied the above.
\- This locked me out as as well as the other 2 Global Administrators
What I have tried:
\- Called Microsoft 80+ times (mind numbing)
\- Automated system forces me to website -> Website requires login -> locked out so thats useless
\- Figured out how to game AI phone to get through to Agent.
\- Submitted support ticket 24+hrs ago
\- Just submitted a new ticket as maybe the engineer cant figure out how to opperate a phone.
\- Zero contact across alt 5 email addresses and 3 phone numbers. I have no missed calls, no emails in spam, junk, across 4 outlook/hotmail/gmail domains..
\- dsregcmd /join - fails
\- Registry keys CDJ and WorkplaceJoin both not working
\- Azure CLI install attempted - failed
\- Mobile app login - fails
\- All browser workarounds - fails
\- I have made an alternative Azure email, with the temp Biz trial to try and get support faster, this has also yielded nothing.
I am based in Japan. My business is completely dead for 24 hours. My Account was supposed to be the breakglass account but evidently not.
We own our MSOFT outright so not thru a provider.
Does anyone have a direct Microsoft escalation contact, MVP contact, or any way to get this CA policy disabled from outside the tenant? I am desperate. Any help appreciated. Thank you.
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Ivanti users be warned
I'm done with Ivanti.
My client notified Ivanti two months ahead of time that they were not going to renew their Ivanti Patch for Microsoft, but were interested in exploring other Ivanti solutions. The renewal rep replied saying, "Sorry, but our EULA requires 90 days notice." Then they pointed to the statement in their email signature that read:
Please Note: If you decide to downsize or cancel your renewal, please let us know prior to 90-days before expiration as outlined in the EULSA your organization has agreed to - *https://www.ivanti.com/company/legal/eula* Once the renewal is expired, a reinstatement fee will be applicable, hence please provide a PO/signed quote well in advance before expiration.
Customer was clearly put off by the terse reply so they stopped evaluating any new Ivanti solutions. The customer is now expired and Ivanti has invoiced, and is threatening legal action if they don't get paid.
I can't believe Ivanti would blow themselves up over a few thousand dollars.
If you are an Ivanti customer, you might want to tell them that you "don't plan to renew". At least you'll have something in writing if you choose
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Have you noticed the Windows Server market shrinking?
Hi all,
Firstly, I would like to say that I am not a sysadmin but a network engineer. I am currently working in a new company for the last 2 years now and the strategy is cloud-first. This means minimal on-prem footprint and if anything can be SaaS, it will be SaaS.
This got me thinking, with all the containerized platforms, Kubernetes clusters and cloud Identity providers, is the Windows Server market shrinking? I have seen a significant reduction on Windows Server VMs in our estate.
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IT Surveys and Vendor connect - I started charging $500 per vendor call.
For the last few years I’ve been getting spammed non stop with these “IT surveys” offering $50 or $75 gift cards, sometimes they get fancy and throw in $100.
It always starts the same. “Quick intro call.” Then somehow that turns into “we’d love to connect you with a vendor.” And then you find out the gift card only happens if you sit through their sales pitch like a good little lead.
And even then, sometimes they don’t pay unless you chase them like you’re in collections.
My favorite is when they conveniently forget to mention that the payout is tied to the vendor call. Yeah sure, totally not misleading at all.
At some point I just got tired of this nonsense. It’s a complete waste of time dressed up as “research.”
So now I reply with a simple policy. $500 per vendor call. Upfront.
Funny thing is, most of them disappear immediately. Some still email with "please reply" subject - which now makes it obvious they didn't read my actual reply - it's an automated CRM message on their end.
Amazing how that works.
These firms are getting paid real money for these leads while tossing us lunch money and hoping we don’t notice.
Nah.
If you’re going to take my time, you’re going to pay for it. Otherwise, keep it moving.
Anyone else just done with this crap or still collecting $75 gift cards like it’s 2012?
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Think Microsoft Last
My 25+ year journey from Microsoft fanboy to Microsoft hater is almost complete.
A couple of the most recent things:
Autopilot works maybe 40% of the time. I thought it was just me, but looking at the posts here others find it to be a piece of crap.
We had an issue with an internal system that sent ourselves a ton of mail (not outbound, not relaying off M365, only receiving). That triggered a block of outbound mail. Okay, I get it. Went through help document, says to contact them. I did, guy said it should be resolved at midnight — nothing more they could do. I asked to escalate call, hangs up on me. Eventually calls back and after 5 attempts to talk to the escalated agent he says — have to wait 24 hrs, nothing they can do. Great, no outbound email, no business, no help. Wait 30 hrs, still not fixed. I tried calling, on hold for an hour with no indication of how long to wait. Give up, submit another ticket they call back go through a verification process to make sure we weren’t hacked and an hour later turn it back on. The original agents were wrong, it was never going to resolve itself.
You might say it’s my fault… I didn’t call the right number, I’m an idiot for not fixing autopilot, okay… well, I am not an idiot. It should not be my responsibility to navigate their broken garbage. I would have paid the per incident support except I could not figure out how. You cannot do it with an m365 account… why? I don’t know… f you, that’s why? So I setup a non-m365 account (per their recommendation) but that ended up in a login loop. Why? Because f you stupid customer.
They hate me, their process is in effect hostile to customers. It’s like I don’t pay them, except I do — a lot! They treat my OS like I am not a paying customer and they can just fill it up with ads, hijack my browser, put AI everywhere…
It’s just this pile of barely working garbage. I am so tired. So from now on, Microsoft will always be my last choice.
https://redd.it/1sew33p
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Microsoft Managed Conditonal Access Policies Deleted
Hey all,
Walked in this morning and during the routine morning tasks, I noticed that it appears that two Microsoft Managed Condtional Access policies were deleted:
Microsoft-managed: Require phishing-resistant multifactor authentication for admins
Microsoft-managed: Block legacy authentication
As best as I can tell, it appears that the "Microsoft Managed Policy Manager" SPN deleted the policies and this leads me to believe that this was an intentional move by Microsoft, however I want to confirm if anyone else is seeing the same thing. Did I miss a notice about these going away? I googled around a bit but couldn't find anything.
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The Architect’s Curse or a Solo Architect’s Reward: Being tossed like a used tissue once the system is stable.
I’m currently sitting here realizing that in the corporate world, being "too good" at your job is a liability.
I just finished a ground-up build that should have taken an entire department. I functioned as a one-man team, developing a full ecosystem from absolute zero:
• Advanced Ticketing Infrastructure: Custom-built and scaled for complex workflows.
• Comprehensive Asset Management: A proper, granular system covering every hardware/software node.
• Manual Craftsmanship: No lazy AI shortcuts here. Every line of code was hand-written and customized one-by-one to ensure "A-grade" stability and performance.
I poured my life into this setup. I was the architect, the coder, and the deployment lead all rolled into one. But now that the foundation is rock-solid and the "setup" phase is over, the corporate machine has decided I’ve served my purpose.
It’s the same old story: they use you like a blood-sucking straw to drain every bit of specialized knowledge you have. Once the system is self-sustaining, they treat you like a used tissue\~toss you out, say "bravo, you're the best," and hand the keys to someone else.
How do you guys handle the mental toll of building a "masterpiece" only to be forced out the door the second it's finished? Is there any way to avoid being the "disposable builder" in this industry?
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Took a pay cut but love my job
non profit and I love my boss and coworkers.
make enough to pay my lowish mortgage but have rideshare to pay some debts that are in collection due to being unemployed for 9 months.
took pay cut but man reminds me of how I loved my old job. but im back to help desk and I dont mind at my old ass.
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How do you guys handle projects?
Gonna be real here.
I started out at my current employer as a desktop technician doing the hands on work. Changing out mice/keyboards/monitors while also reinstalliing end point software, etc.
I have since transitioned to a true SysAdmin/Infrastructure role but I keep running into a problem...
How do you guys judge what a "timely" manner is for a project? Or is that just made up management speak and when the task is done its done and you don't really worry about it?
For context: I am currently working on setting up a new VM for our Solarwinds. We are not reusing the old DB so I'm building EVERYTHING new. Alert triggers, email alerts, adding back in all of the nodes for monitoring...custom property values...everything.
So I am now thinking, what is a *reasonable* pace/timeline? I'm trying to change my pace/habits to be a bit healthier than what I do now as I try to better manage myself, my workflows, my jobs duties, and the like.
https://redd.it/1sebzfk
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365 Logon Issues
Unable to logon to 365 Admin portal. Downdetector shows widespread reports. FYI.
Microsoft 365 down? Current problems and outages
https://redd.it/1se98sd
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Risk of BitLocker/boot issues with Secure Boot updates on outdated UEFI firmware?
Hi all,
I’m managing \~1,600 endpoints in a constrained environment (WSUS-only, no budget for additional tooling like SCCM/Intune or third-party patch management).
We have a mixed hardware fleet, and a significant number of devices are running outdated BIOS/UEFI firmware. With the recent Windows updates that touch Secure Boot / UEFI trust chain (e.g., DB/DBX updates, revocation lists, etc.), I’m concerned about potential mismatches between OS-level updates and firmware state.
My main questions:
If Windows applies updates that modify the UEFI trust chain (e.g., Secure Boot DBX updates) but the underlying firmware is outdated, can this lead to BitLocker recovery being triggered due to PCR measurement changes?
Is there a realistic risk of rendering systems unbootable if firmware does not properly support or reflect these updates?
How tolerant is BitLocker to these kinds of changes in practice (TPM + Secure Boot measurements drift)?
Any known edge cases where outdated firmware + newer Windows cumulative/security updates caused boot failures or required manual intervention?
Given that we don’t have centralized firmware management, I’m trying to assess the real risk before broadly approving updates in WSUS.
Any insights, especially from people who’ve dealt with Secure Boot DBX rollouts or similar scenarios at scale, would be very helpful.
Thanks!
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wildcard certs and .local domains
We have hundreds of devices from drac, ilo, ucs, storage appliance, printers, network devices that all have self signed certs managed by a very very small team. If our internal domain we use is a .local is there any real risk to using a wildcard cert and applying it to all these devices? Cert would be kept in our PAM and securely stored.
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Promoted and Terrified
A little about me.
Recently turned 50. And I've been in IT for almost 30 years. I started right out of college working for a gigantic MSP doing the most basic of "IT" work at the time (birth of the internet, all that) at a very large electronics company. The work environment was toxic with heavy turnover.
After a couple years there, I went to a startup of 20 people where I was the sole IT person. The user base was very technical (actual engineers, mechanical, electrical, design, computer, software) and I took direction from a couple of the senior engineers, but was mostly left to my own devices. After 10 years there we had grown to about 100 people and got acquired. A couple years later my career felt stagnant, and the culture had changed significantly, so I put out feelers.
I landed at a large sales and service corp with a 40% pay raise, better title, and career path. I lasted three months. I had my head around their large infrastructure, but their culture was "turn and burn" and my introvert nature didn't impress enough people. They needed a BSD (big swingin'......) to fill the role and as much as I tried, that's not me. They shitcanned me, which was one of the lowest moments of my life.
I was out of work for three months before landing my current job. The manager that hired me took advantage of it and gave me a lowball offer, which I had no choice but to accept. My manager was awful but the job and the people were great, so I hung in there about five years before putting out feelers. I got a few offers, but took myself out of the market when a parent got sick.
Fast forward a few years, I'm still here, and the company is doing well, and got a massive capital investment. One of the terms, though, was that we had to turn around the IT department. My manager was still here, the tech was aging, our users were unhappy, leadership is unhappy, and my manager was far from having the skill set to turn things around. Leadership brought in a consultant.
The consultant changed my life. He was a retired CTO from a fortune 500 company. He had come up through the ranks and retired early, and did some consulting gigs on the side to "stay in the game." He was tasked with making a plan to turn around IT. He turned over every rock, uncovered every skeleton, and interviewed people at every level of the company. When he and I talked, I gave it to him straight.
Leadership then hired the CTO after his short consulting gig was done. He immediately promoted me to manager, on the same level as my old manager, and would report to the CTO. And over the next five years we kicked a lot of ass. Needless to say, our investors were very happy. And he eventually had to fire my old manager.
Which brings us to today. The company has done well and was acquired by a much larger company. The CTO, who I loved and had grown to be a friend, told me before the deal even closed that he "knows how these things go, they won't need two CTOs" and that he'd be let go. He was right. They whittled away his authority until he was mostly inconsequential, and he left for another job. I'm happy for him, to be honest.
Before he left he gave me and the people that report to him huge salary increases and promotions, knowing that the new company that bought us would have to absorb all of it. He was clever like that, and wanted to reward us for our loyalty. Also knowing he left IT in a good place and that we'd have to take over most of his roles.
They told me I'm going to be promoted to Director. This is a huge career step for me of course, and as others have said in this subreddit, when a promotion is offered, you take it. And I am. I have history at the company, I have a lot of social and political capital, I know the inner workings, and the new company needs someone to manage the IT transition.
But...I'm terrified of what's ahead. I've lost a lot of sleep in the last few months, and have started seeing a counselor. I don't have the technical skills that I used to have. The CTO did a
drowning in vague "PC is slow" tickets even with decent monitoring in place
We've got solid RMM and Intune setup, patching is current, and hardware isn't ancient on most machines. Yet every week I still get a pile of "computer is just slow today" or "everything lags" tickets that take forever to troubleshoot because there's no clear smoking gun in the usual logs.
Resource Monitor and Event Viewer usually show something minor spiking at the exact wrong time (AV scan overlapping with OneDrive sync, or a policy refresh hitting during peak hours), but by the time the user reports it the moment has passed. It's just frustrating, takes up a lot of my day.
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How many IT support needed for 200 user org?
I've been given a task to identify how many IT staffs (support) we would need for our org to move away from 3rd party support in future (not now but may be after like a couple of years in future as the business is growing).
I suggested 1 for 50 staffs as it sounds reasonable. so 4 for 200 staffs.
2 L1.
1 L2
1 L3. would this be a good plan?
could you help me with the best plan?
I don't want us to be short staffed and struggling because of me.
For better clarifications, almost all of the users are non technical sales guys. So i suggested min 4.
Context: just replacing current MSP in future so that we get better and quicker support inhouse. Might have to help out development team as well sometimes regarding Azure, AWS etc. But mostly it's just to replace current MSP who does onboarding, off boarding, windows/Mac Support.
br,
Update notes:
After going through the comments, here is my take
1. Find more L2/L3 and pay then good
2. Find people who can automate stuffs
3. 3-4 would be sufficient after automation if one falls sick or leaves.
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Anyone read this 49 day SSL expiration thing and think they would rather just retire?
The idea that some random group of folks decided that SSL certificates need to expire every 49 days and that everyone else is supposed to go along with it is probably the craziest thing that has happened to technology in the past 20 years. If the technology itself is inadequate then change the technology itself.
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Is anyone even staying onsite for the whole work day anymore?
I go into the office 1 day a week, 4 days remote. I’ll get in around 11am, go to lunch from 11:30 - 1:00 and leave at 3:00 to beat the traffic home. Doesn’t seem like a lot of people are staying the whole day anymore. I’ll login earlier in the morning for a bit before heading in.
Anyone else notice this?
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Larger Orgs, how bad has your MS support gotten since the layoffs?
We used to receive excellent support. We're an org of about 25k users, around 40m-50m M365 service contract.
As part of that, we get an assigned engineer we meet with on a weekly basis. We also have an assigned account admin who attends all meetings and keeps us aware of changes.
Immediately after the recent layoff, we were told our assigned engineer was changing roles. He was an excellent resource with a ton of experience and we had him assigned for years.
We were also told our account manager would change.
We were initially assigned a young woman with zero real world experience. After 3 weeks, they told us she is changing roles and assigned us someone else. This time it was a young man with a lot of certs and zero real world experience.
Our newly assigned account manager never attends meetings and is hard to get in contact with.
These meetings went from brainstorm sessions and useful assistance, to something completely useless. Just some dude taking our questions and putting them into CoPilot and sending answers back, something we can obviously do ourselves.
I also believe these people are assigned a bunch of clients, overloading them with work and they couldn't even do a good job even if they had the skills, because they cut these teams to razor thin margins.
If we pay 50m and get this level of service, I can't even imagine what small businesses are dealing with. Just curious if other larger orgs are seeing the same bullshit.
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All anyone delivers is Ai crap these days
Working in corporate IT I noticed this year all new employees seem to all give me stuff unedited out of ChatGPT. Completely unedited with the little spelling, punctuation and off formatting here and there. Assumptions that are inaccurate. Not tied to how the org is configured or our standards. But from a high level it all looks good and I guess it gives people more LinkedIn time. But if your SME you quickly realize 20% of this engineering doc is just wrong and wordy to look good. I spend most of my time feeling like an editor for a genius level middle schooler with absolutely no frame of reference. Please review and fix your Ai slop, line by line, word by word.
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CEO gave a new hire admin access to everything on day one because he "trusts him"
New VP of Sales started Monday. Before the guy even finished his first coffee the CEO came over and told me to give him admin to Salesforce, HubSpot, shared drives, all of it. I said we have a process for this, standard access first and he can request more through us. CEO gave me this look like I was wasting his time and said just give him what he needs.
So now I have a brand new employee with admin to basically everything because the CEO personally vouched for him. Cool. If that account gets phished next week the blast radius is going to be fun to explain.
The part that really bugs me is there's no winning this. Push back and you're the guy who slows the company down. Don't push back and when something goes wrong it's still your fault for not securing it.
Anyone figured out a way to handle this that doesn't make you look paranoid?
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Claude now connects with Microsoft 365. Would you allow it in your tenant?
Anthropic recently introduced a native connector between Claude and Microsoft 365, allowing users to analyze data from Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams.
From a security and access perspective, here’s what I’ve observed so far:
* It’s read-only (can’t send emails, create/edit files, etc.)
* Uses delegated permissions. only sees what the signed-in user already has access to. If a user can’t access a SharePoint site, Claude can’t either
* On data handling: In lower-tier plans, training can be disabled manually. In enterprise plans, training is disabled by default
While Microsoft Copilot is \~$30/user/month, Claude is: Free to \~$20/user/month (basic to higher tiers)
So naturally, users are going to ask for it.
As an admin, would you allow this integration?
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IT support by day, trail escape by weekend - anyone else surviving like this?
Five years in IT support and I swear if I didn't have mountain biking I'd have lost it completely. There's something about spending 8 hours dealing with "have you tried turning it off and on again" and then hitting a proper technical descent on Saturday morning that just resets your entire brain.
Living in Malta, I'm lucky enough to have some genuinely decent trails within 20 minutes of my front door. Mistra Valley to Wardija is my go-to loop when I need to just disappear for a few hours. Started on a absolutely trashed hardtail and honestly those were some of my best rides. Finally upgraded last year but I still think back to that scraped up bike fondly.
The contrast is almost comedic. Monday to Friday: fluorescent lights, ticket queues, users who somehow deleted their own backups. Saturday morning: dust, limestone, the sound of tyres on loose rock, maybe a quick stop for photos if the light's decent. Sunday: bike maintenance, washing chain lube off my hands, dreading Monday.
Anyone else in a similar boat where the trail is basically your therapy? What's your weekend escape route that keeps you from going absolutely feral at work?
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About to give up a pretty cushy gig.
Well, cushy-ish. NHS Position. About £45K a year. Support Entra, Intune, AD, Basic L2 Switch Stuff, Cisco Telephony, Teams Telephony, some bespoke systems plus about a dozen other things and supporting 10,000 users in a team of 6 System Admins (Of which I am one), 10 Service Desk members and 8 Hardware Technicians. I started as nothing more than a Cleaner at this place, went to the Service Desk, then Hardware and now an Admin.
Despite the workload, I love my job most of the time. I get on with everyone except my immediate manager (Although I get on with all three of her Managers), actually hang out with some of my colleagues outside of work hours and consider them my friends and 90% of the time, when there's a problem, I know the fix immediately.
Despite all that, I do need to leave the job. My girlfriend of five years, who I met at this job and we actually managed to keep the relationship under wraps this whole time (There have been issues with workplace relationships in the past in the department) broke up with me.
It wasn't so bad before but now she works closely with the IT Department and I have to see her every day. It physically hurts just to see her. There's no WFH option, there's no changing offices. Even I told the higher ups, there's not really anything that would change since there's no other office either of us could work from. Plus, the higher ups are "Mens men" where if I brought this up, they would look and treat me differently because of the fact that my "Feelings" are affecting me.
I've always wanted to move back to London so have started looking for jobs there. Except it's really dire out here in the UK for us Sysadmins. Even then, 45K in London is not the same as 45K elsewhere. I'm happy to live in a small shitbox sharing with 5 other flatmates but it's still hard to actually find decent jobs there that fall within my skillset.
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Windows 12 - FujiFilm knows something we don't? (See image)
Tuesday randomness trying to download a driver and saw Windows 12 on FF's driver list.
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what’s the smallest thing that’s ever taken down something important for you?
was just thinking about how it’s never the big scary change that causes issues, it’s always something dumb like a cert expiring, a full disk, or one random service not restarting
feels like 90% of the job is just tracking down tiny things that somehow break very big things
curious what the most minor cause of a major problem you’ve seen is
i want to hear some horror stories- can be cathartic lol
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Best Veeam alternatives?
We are done with Veeam, and their ~~lack of~~ support. Their support teams are clueless and slow to respond. Our account manager doesn't care.
We've had problems with s3 storage in our environment going on 6 months now with no resolution from Veeam. SOBR tiering jobs fail, backup files get locked for no apparent reason which causes other jobs (tape, etc) to get stuck until someone notices (NBD usually). Checkpoint removal failures daily.
So.. what are the alternatives these days?
EDIT: We have made a few changes to registry at Veeam's request.
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication
"CheckpointRemovalParallelism" = dword:00000020 (32 decimal, default 64)
"S3VerboseLoggingMode" = dword:00000001
"S3RequestTimeoutSec" = dword:00000258 (600 decimal, default 120)
The s3 storage is on-prem at main DC and DR site (DR site has 10Gb dedicated fiber site-to-site for data replication). We test @ 900-980MB/s to each appliance.
We have multiple buckets, but each is limited to max 2 jobs. Most backups target local disk and then are copied to s3 via backup copy jobs. With Veeam 12, Windows Failover Cluster jobs do not support backup copies properly (not cluster aware so the copy duplicates shared storage for every node in the cluster). Tape jobs run strictly off local disk backups (we are not pulling data from s3 to write to tape).
We can't just rebuild the server - we have immutable storage and we can't purge an offsite location every time Veeam decides to have a bad day.
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