SYSADMIN really belongs in hardware, networking, windows and linux, shame we haven't got a dedicated area purely for job based general sysadmin stuff but I've chosen here as mine is mostly Windows based work.
Ok, so 2 months ago my company made 4 people redundant and merged the 4 jobs into one, that was blogging/social media, SEO/PPC and a load of other things that I was doing, IT and backend programming.
I was kind of looking forward to the challenge, but to be honest, it's getting mundane because it's all IT work, and not interesting stuff, printers, phones, scanners etc I've so much to do, documents and procedures for everything as nothing was written down, audits on all hardware and software, even sorting out a massive box of cables, mice and laptops because they are all messed up and some aren't working.
Tech director has run me through remoting to our server desktops for maintenance which I find more interesting and I'm learning SQL/Powershell to start so I can look at taking more bits over from him.
But, what skills do you think a sysadmin really needs? What should they be aware of? What hints and tips can you share? Fast ways of setting up computers? windows commands? networking tips? ways of documenting things?
Thought it would be good to share our collective knowledge in one place and link to them in the first post.
Ok, so 2 months ago my company made 4 people redundant and merged the 4 jobs into one, that was blogging/social media, SEO/PPC and a load of other things that I was doing, IT and backend programming.
I was kind of looking forward to the challenge, but to be honest, it's getting mundane because it's all IT work, and not interesting stuff, printers, phones, scanners etc I've so much to do, documents and procedures for everything as nothing was written down, audits on all hardware and software, even sorting out a massive box of cables, mice and laptops because they are all messed up and some aren't working.
Tech director has run me through remoting to our server desktops for maintenance which I find more interesting and I'm learning SQL/Powershell to start so I can look at taking more bits over from him.
But, what skills do you think a sysadmin really needs? What should they be aware of? What hints and tips can you share? Fast ways of setting up computers? windows commands? networking tips? ways of documenting things?
Thought it would be good to share our collective knowledge in one place and link to them in the first post.
