at, and out of those few are greenlighted for implementation. I currently have 14 projects, some of which could be done in 20 minutes, but are pending 5 meetings and approval from higher. These are no-cost, easy moves.

It drives me up a wall. Anyway, back to it tomorrow. What do you think, Reddit? Am I just burning out or is something else going on?

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Would you leave this job if you were me?

So I got nofified that I was being laid off at the end of November because my employers contract got cut by the company that subcontracted to them. I started applying to other roles that afternoon and got a hit later that day. By Friday afternoon I had gotten notified I got the job and have since accepted the role and put in my intiial paperwork.

Since that time I found out that the company that subcontracted to my company is likely taking back everyone that they can and rehiring them for our same roles. I'm not an admin but I'm an AV tech / Deskside Support person who does remote work from the office. The new employer sounds great, it's a nice little tight nit group and they seem like a fantastic place to grow. It's a Service Desk role that they want us to be field techs and versatile. Basically, networking, service desk, probably some systems administration and whatever else.

Problem is that the new role is paying terribly, I make 70k here in Boston and I'd have to go down to $28.50/h for the contract and when I convert then it'd go up to 65k/y. I'd be struggling hard for a long time financially. It's a better role overall and what I actually want to do but I'd be on a shoe string budget. I did the math and if I picked up a part time job and worked 24 hours after work I could do it and have some money to save and carry myself better.

I need advice from other admins, would it work better if I took the other lower paying job and got the experience and did all the part time work to make ends meet or would it be better for me to stay at my current role and make more but do less technical work and stagnate? I'm working on certs but I feel like I might not be fast enough and might fall behind.

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Website Host Change, Now Can't Access Subdomains from LAN?

TLDR; After a website refresh (Hosted via External Vendor) sub-domains unreachable from the LAN.

We had a relatively standard DNS records change request for a new website overhaul, which included CNAME records for each sub-domain, and typical @ A record IP change. The old site did not use any CNAME records for the subdomains.

The website name is the same as the internal domain (Wasn't me.) but we are using ad.example.com for internal resources.

On our internal DNS servers, we have a forward lookup zone for example.com which includes an A record pointing to the new website host IP, that works fine. Attempting to get to subdomain.example.com hits a browser error "This site can't be reached".

nslookups for subdomain.example.com return "Can't find. Non-existent domain", the nslookup for example.com externally returns the new site IP, whereas the nslookup for subdomain.example.com externally returns a round-robin list of IPs.

I've tried mirroring the CNAME record changes, and adding an A record for subdomain.example.com to point to the IP of the new site, no change.



Please reddit hive mind, share some words of (kind) wisdom!

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LDAP keeps breaking and we have no idea why

So, we have LDAP set up on several copiers throughout the company so users can scan to their email. We also use it on our SonicWall for user authentication against AD as well as few other appliances on the network. I'll get a call from a user that the copiers aren't pulling up any results, go to check using the LDAP tools in the copiers web interfaces, and confirm the issue. Then within 10-15 minutes, it resolves itself, and everything works again.

The AD server isn't going down, resources aren't getting tied up, and there's nothing running that shouldn't be. This only started happening recently, so I was thinking maybe an update was to blame, but nothing comes up in any search results.

Server is running Windows server 2019 standard, if that helps. It is also used for DNS, DHCP, and primary domain controller

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admin.microsoft.com

For the past two days now when attempting to access admin.microsoft.com I am getting the error message:

We are sorry, something went wrong.

Please try refreshing the page in a few minutes. If the problem persists, please visit **status.cloud.microsoft** for updates regarding known issues.

I have tried inprivate browsing as well, has anyone else had this issue?

Only work around so far is going to https://admin.cloud.microsoft/?#/homepage directly.

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Thickheaded Thursday - October 09, 2025

Howdy, /r/sysadmin!

It's that time of the week, Thickheaded Thursday! This is a safe (mostly) judgement-free environment for all of your questions and stories, no matter how silly you think they are. Anybody can answer questions! My name is AutoModerator and I've taken over responsibility for posting these weekly threads so you don't have to worry about anything except your comments!

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Monitoring WFH employees?

My company removed WFH around 18 months ago and quickly realised it would cause problems. They quickly tried to "fix" things by giving each employee 1 flexible wfh day per month, that doesn't carry over, and must be aproved by management with good reason.

I've been fighting back on this for a while and we're now at a point where management have said they cannot be sure employees are not abusing wfh privileges and not delivering work. Which is crazy because work has never not been done. I've argued that productivity increases within my team, which is a fact. WFH for my team works better than the open plan office surrounded by sales, account management and accounts.

I think they are suggesting we monitor employees RDPing in to see what they are up to. I am not a fan of this, but also never had this and never worked somewhere that does this. Is this a normal thing? Do any of you guys do this? If so, what tools do you use and how indepth are they?

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Planning replication between 4 DCs

Hy!

I have 4 DCs and I would like get answer for the correct replication path between the 4 DCs. There are 3 site:

\- HQ: DC1, DC2

\- DR: DC3

\- Branch: DC4

What is the best practise to create raplication connection under Sites and Services? Do I have to create connection object between all DCs? For example:

DC1 connection DC2, DC3, DC4

DC2 connection DC1, DC3, DC4

DC3 connection DC1, DC2, DC4

DC4 connection DC1, DC2, DC3

Thanks.

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What is your biggest perk?

I’ll start. Free underground parking and free lunches.

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Transitioning from WSUS to Azure Update Manager...

For those using Azure Update Manager (AUM) to update on-prem, domain-joined servers, are you still using WSUS in any capacity? We are testing AUM with some test servers and we removed our WSUS GPOs so they wouldn't conflict with AUM, but I'm wondering if we can still use WSUS to deliver any updates that AUM might not have. I don't know what those would be yet, but we do have PatchMyPC integrated with WSUS and that lets us update third-party apps, some of which are on servers.

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On-Prem Infrastructure admin noscript

So had an interesting question come up, and realized I don't know what the answer would be so I wanted to hit the community and see if there was a consensus.


What would we call the position when someone is a on-prem datacenter infrastructure architect/engineer? When you look for Infrastructure Engineers these days, a LOT of them are AWS/Azure/Cloud jockies who get lost the second you start talking about physical hardware. At the low end, you have smart hands who can work with physical hardware, but may not have the skillset needed to actually design and build out an efficient on-prem datacenter.

So when looking for one of these ellusive greybeard unicorn types (which can't really be unicorns, can they? everybody and their mother had a data center not too long ago before "the cloud" became the thing), How would you target your search to filter out the keyboard cloud jockies who haven't ever touched a physical switch/san/server? What job noscripts traditionally would be an indicator that they did this kind of role?



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I have troubles explaining to people things that I'm working on when asked.

Hi guys! I'm struggling with something a little strange.

I have troubles explaining or talking about the technical details of things I'm working on. I can spend hours on a task or project. If someone asks me what I'm working on, I have difficulties with getting the words out.

This leads to some anxiety during standups and meetings. This is a more recent, I don't recall the issue being this bad earlier in my career.

I have a 10 month old so I was thinking maybe it was sleep, but I'm getting on average around 7 hours of sleep now, I haven't been able to excercise like I would like to, but I'm not sure how that would have any impact on this specifically.

Appreciate any help and suggestions.

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Windows 10 to 11 Update Rollback

Wanted to share since was pulling my hair on this for a little bit. We had a handful of computers that were failing updates from 10 to 11. We found it was related to the profile list in the registry having duplicate entries and or .old entires from techs rebuilding corrupt Windows Profiles.

HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\ProfileList

Delete any subkeys where:

* ProfileImagePath points to C:\\Users\\<something>.old
* The folder doesn’t exist on disk
* Or two SIDs point to the same folder

After that the systems were updating to 11 fine.

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Today, we made it. All 2003 of our W10 deployments are now on W11.

And my CEO will never understand the challenge of this. At least I don't need to worry about it anymore.

I'm not taking credit. My desktop support manager ran the whole damn project. All I did was audit, and provide my past experiences when requested. His bonus will be in the 5 figures this year, and all of his team will be very pleased with theirs as well. Pretty much all the sysadmins and I had to do was make sure the GPOs worked, fucking strangle "new outlook" to death, and deal with the back end crap that goes from on prem 2016 office licensing to m365.

I am so damn lucky, my team fucking rocks.

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microsoft issues 1:15pm CST?

Just checking in with the community if we're alone on this issue. midwest. outlook, teams, entra, admin, azure, all seem to be having issues.

anyone else?

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Microsoft Issue/Outage – Teams?

Getting really slow responses and timeouts for M365 – anyone else seeing this?

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Azure Down

Is azure down for anyone else.

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More M365 woes. The admin panels this times it seems.

Getting authentication errors across multiple browser and tenants.

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Office 362

Really guys?

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Microsoft down - Outlook.com and Office.com not working

Users are unable to open outlook.com or office.com.

Anyone else getting these issues?

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Signs of a doomed IT department?

So there Is this company that most of its senior developer have resigned. Now the entire IT department are run by juniors out of college. Tech lead has been in the company for 7-8 years but still came straight from college. Now a single engineer is doing a ML + CV and image processing project which has been delayed many times (initial pilot testing was supposed to be summer but as of now there is still no solid dates set. There are no documentation and people are loosing access to repositories because tech lead doesn't want them even if they are competent. The entire department is basically a boy band of people loyal to the tech lead.
Now I'm confused why upper management or the board is not doing anything about it. Everyone is complaining. There is a huge backlog of tasks. They don't respond to anyone and if they do it usually ends up in a screaming match. Why would they let this continue? Am I missing something?

Edit: tl;dr, IT department is run by juniors, with big ambitions with AI, ML but constant delays and upper management is not doing anything.

Edit: this is besides my own situation in the company or whether I should leave or stay. I'm just wondering why people would burn their money?

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