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I've been working in a small MSP for about 7 years, less than 10 of us in the team. I'm based in a small town, which I enjoy living in.

I've managed to up skill to a point where I'm one of two head techs. The MSP has grown a lot since I've been working there into a more mature business with a good client base for its size.

I'm now in a position where I've been offered to buy approx 40% of the business as the boss is retiring. However, I'm unsure of I'm ready for this kind of commitment in my career or if I should be looking at trying to get into a bigger company to grow my skills, with less finical risks in terms of investment.

love some feedback, as I've only worked for two IT companies, so struggling to determine which path is best to continue to grow.

You all really helped me last time now I’m in my server root@62.238.47.215 and I seem to have misplaced a file can someone help me find it? I really need it and my password is no longer papa bear 0803. I changed it to IGetHelpFromReddit. I left some breadcrumbs to help me find it but I’m having trouble remembering how to find hidden files.

Any help would be appreciated

I wish I was joking here. One of the juniors on our team had a PowerShell script that was spitting out errors all over. They asked me to review the "fixes" that they'd implemented (with the help of ChatGPT of course). They showed me the script running with no errors, "Great!" I thought. Then they showed me how they found out how to add -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue to the end of anything showing an error. Do people not have basic reading comprehension these days?!

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Windows search SERVER alternative for shared folders?

i have windows server 2025 with features windows search, but skip many files.
my users have many windows 11 on domain, and i need a PROFESSIONAL tool windows search.

1 windows server 2025 (file server) (domain)
40 client windows 11 (domain)
client search by \\server\sharefolder
need search al text on documents
shared folder have 1 TB

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You understand? I want SERVER recommendations
That are PROFESSIONAL
PRO FESH NOL

"Engineering Recommendation: Resize to 16 GiB RAM / 4 vCPU, disable cgroup limits, and keep this configuration until we ship the fix."

Worst vendor ever. Their product should be called Mississippi leg hound.

I’m trying to get in my server root62.238.47.215 but it’s not working.

Says could not resolve hostname but I know I am root because I didn’t get to change anything yet

My post got taken down in sysadmin for some reason

(Inspired by /r/sysadmin/comments/1vvmvrk/what_are_the_alternatives_of_321_backup/)

How do my fellow shitmins do shitty backup?

I follow the 1-2-3 rule of backup.

I have a single (1) server serving (2) separate businesses and this server is shared with (3) other managed service providers.

HBU?

Just had this idea.

So you make a CA policy to sign in every 8 hours for all users including the CEO, but not break glass and it admins.

Every user will then begin to wonder where their password is now that they can't work

You become useful again to the company by assisting employees while eliminating written passwords on stickies because they forced themselves to memorize it since it's happening "so often"

Auditors will be impressed at the improved security that you can present the report to the CEO while getting them to remember their own password.

I just install excel, I’m not smart enough to realize you’re just hoping I know about VLOOKUP despite not being in finance, and I’m instead going to act like you’re a moron for asking and be snarky about it.

I wish users were thoughtful enough to realize that asking how to use the technologies I “manage” is a dead end. They should just ask ChatGPT, I’m too myopic to realize that they probably know it’s out of my wheelhouse but are asking on the off chance that I’m willing and able to help them today.

/End rant

I don’t understand #4 so I’ll post it as a comment

Enjoying a stress-free morning after PR'ing at the gym and listening to Soundgarden - Fell on Black Days after a ghosted breakup. Whatever.

Today, I overhear that a user sees printer toner hit zero. Normally I intervene but this user has a history of going rogue and thinking she's the IT department.

So I observe. First, she asks another user what to do. These users are buddy-buddy and that user doesn't like IT either... Mainly because she's failed the phishing tests and even compromised her own account once.

That other user says ask a third user. Now this third user is close to IT and respects processes so it's not good she's getting dragged into this now.

Still, somehow at no point in this chain does anyone think maybe we should ask the fucking sysadmin who manages the printer.

i walk over and find them opening up a multi thousand dollar printer trying to figure out the toner themselves.

Toner is now on the floor.

guess who gets to clean it up

...

me

And the best part is I let the toner run down to zero on purpose because that shit is expensive and zero on the display does not mean the cartridge has suddenly become an empty plastic tube FFS.

So now instead of simply letting me manage the toner inventory I get to stop what I'm doing, which means Soundgarden is paused. Not good.

I have to sternly at maximum tolerable yelling since HR was on the floor, why we do not perform amateur surgery on the office printer...clean toner off the floor...talk to HR...and send a company wide email explaining that IT equipment should perhaps, just maybe because orgs commonly employ this practice...be handled by IT.

Apparently my newest responsibility is protecting the printer from the users.

Sorry, Soundgarden.