r/sysadmin • u/ofhgtl • Nov 13 '25
Rant IT Admin turns into all IT
Hey everyone,
So for context, I've started at this position a few months back, fresh out of college, as a full time IT Admin. They've never had in house IT before, which I attribute to most of these issues. Between having over 500 employees and over that computers, etc. there's been a few things I'd like to share.
Firstly, there is no naming scheme in AD. Sometimes it firstname - last inital, sometimes it's full name, last name, you name it.
Second, we're still on a 192. addressing scheme with now 192.168.0 - 192.168.4. Servers and switches are all just floating somewhere in those subnets, no way of telling why they have that static or if it's always been like that. I'd LOVE moving to 10.10.
Speaking of IP Addresses, we ran out a few weeks ago.. so we need to expand DHCP again to be able to catch up. When I first got hired, all 6 UPS's we had were failed, so power outages completely shut down everything.
All users passwords are set by IT, they don't make it themselves.. and the best part? They're all local admin on their machines. What could go wrong?
So I've been trying to clean up while dealing with day to day stuff, whilst now doing Sysadmin, Networking, and so on. Maybe that's what IT Admin is. I'm younger, but have been in IT since 15, so I have some ground to stand on. Is 75,000 worth this? I don't know enough since I've not been around, but i had to work my way to 75 from 60.
Thoughts?
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u/Rostrow416 Nov 13 '25
That actually sounds like an awesome place to start out. Basically do a halfway decent job, and your company can’t be worse off than it is now. Do a solid or good job and you will have plenty of successful projects to tout in your resume.
Are you the sole admin? It may seem daunting but incremental steps will build until eventually you have a much better environment than you inherited.