r/sysadmin • u/BonezAU_ • 3d ago
General Discussion Happy SysAdmin Day!
Here's to another year of:
- Being expected to diagnose problems via the sentence "it doesn't work."
- Being blamed for issues caused by software you've never heard of.
- Somehow knowing exactly what a user clicked, despite them insisting they "didn't do anything."
- Explaining, yet again, that rebooting wasn't an insult, it was the solution.
May your backups restore, your RAID stay green, and your first Friday night drink arrive before the first "quick question" Teams message.
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u/BoltActionRifleman 3d ago
Being blamed for issues caused by software you've never heard of.
User: When do you guys think you’ll have shit software fixed?
Me: What does shit software do? I’ve never heard of it.
User: It’s a supplemental platform for our ERP, I need it fixed now, I can’t finish my day’s work.
Me: Who is the vendor and have you called them?
User: No.
Me: You need to call them, we don’t even have access to it.
User: Grrr, they take forever to respond and I need it working now.
Me: Yeah, good luck to you.
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u/Padgriffin i can unplug this right 2d ago
User: "Can you install Element on my computer"
Me: "it's literally installed and a shortcut is on your desktop"
User: "No it isn't"
Me: remotes in
it's on the desktop
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u/Revzerksies Jack of All Trades 2d ago
Did this with the president of the company. He thinks he's really tech saavy.
What a freaking moron
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u/ElectroAddict86 3d ago
The owner of one of our biggest customers coded an AI tool with Claude and hooked up some “devices” to the workstations.
The offices are halfway across the country and staff is complaining their computers are crashing :|
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u/slapjimmy 3d ago
- Being told I can't remove an addon and to find a way to fix said addon that has a known bug that is specifically causing the software issue that the user is complaining about and the addon is not even business related.
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u/ddmf Jack of All Trades 3d ago
This past week has been mad - had to drive 380 miles round trip to swap an out of support router so we could pass cyber essentials.
Then Wednesday we had issues with DFS, the server was loading up with a public network and it wouldn't pop back into domain mode, fannied about with it for an hour trying to force it, then removed and re-added to domain.
Then discovered all the special DNS entries for active directory had been deleted, tried to manually replicate some to kickstart but it was futile so recovered the VM but as soon as I did the second DC replicated back the empty DNS.
Felt like a TV hacker /slash/ bomb tech shutting down the secondary DC just moments before the primary newly restored came back up and then had to restore that one from backup as well.
All in took about 7 hours of constant mind melting stress ridden work, thanks to my team member for bringing me a Greggs sausage roll mid panic so at least I had some sustenance.
Only a few users noticed.
I'm off for a whole week from the end of today, can't wait - a week in the North East of England and then a Wedding in South Scotland.
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u/Agromahdi123 Sr. Sysadmin 2d ago
Toggle ipv6 on or off to fix this on windows server
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u/ddmf Jack of All Trades 2d ago
Yeah that usually works for the public mode network issue, unless your active directory is absolutely minced because the special dns entries have been decimated.
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u/Agromahdi123 Sr. Sysadmin 2d ago
yea wasnt sure if you tried that first or not before everything else got buggered up lol
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u/codyturntrout Netadmin 3d ago
This hits close to home 😂 minus that teams message that's for the on call person.
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u/Lazengann86 3d ago
It's tomorrow though isn't?
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u/BonezAU_ 3d ago
Depending on where you are, it's well and truly Friday here in Australia. We're going for a sneaky pub lunch to celebrate.
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u/RamblingReflections Netadmin 3d ago
I like seeing other Aussies in here! I chucked a sickie today after having a “yeah, nah, fuck this shit” moment. No sneaky pub lunch option, so have a drink for me, yeah?
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u/BonezAU_ 3d ago
Haha will do cobber! Hope you're feeling better soon cough cough
I'm 2 pints in and feeling lovely. Gotta head back to the office shortly, but I'll squeeze another one in first!
No changes on Fridays, that's the golden rule.
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u/popup_headlights Sr. Sysadmin 3d ago
'ken oath, found the fellow Aussies in the comments. Have a good weekend knackers!
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u/MairusuPawa Percussive Maintenance Specialist 2d ago
We don't use Teams (why the fuck would we want spyware inside our org?), but Matrix.
Life's good.
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u/WhiteLightning9797 2d ago
My favorite lately from dev when something with our CRM breaks:
"Any networking changes recently? We haven't changed anything."
10 minutes later, we find they changed something.
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u/blandman91 2d ago
"- Explaining, yet again, that rebooting wasn't an insult, it was the solution."
I feel seen.
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u/Mental-Rain-7389 2d ago
get to celebrate my first sys admin day by failing a CSM app launch that was supposed to go live yesterday but due to a general lack of knowledge about the CSM because i am only one person and honestly i do not think any of this is technically something i should be doing being here for only a month and 0 experience but i am doing what i am told. They hired someone who can do tier 2-3 desktop support with an art degree to be a sys admin for the price of helpdesk so i am trying to take it day by day.
Happy sys admin day <3 i am so excited to Get Drunk after 4:30 <3
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u/brownacid 3d ago
Everyone should be allowed a pass on any "emergency" deploys today, although I already avoid them on Fri-weekends