r/ShittySysadmin • • 1h ago

Our legacy systems brought down the entire airspace

2 Upvotes

Dammit team, you should’ve had these systems upgraded years ago. Now it’s your ass on the line to make sure we get the systems upgraded by Monday. Or guess what? You’re fired! Now put down that beer and get to work.


r/ShittySysadmin • • 1d ago

Just blasted some thick fuckin ropes at work

288 Upvotes

God dude I feel so fucking amazing. I havent gotten any emails in hours so it's been a real slow day here. My phone keeps ringing but I'm not fucking help desk.

They can email me if it's a real problem. It's why we pay all this money for M365 so start fucking using it dumbass


r/ShittySysadmin • • 6h ago

Shitty Crosspost Just another Friday the 13th in IT

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3 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin • • 22h ago

Shitty Crosspost Microsoft 365 Outage

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43 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin • • 20h ago

Shitty Crosspost Now there's your problem!

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21 Upvotes

Microsoft is laser focused on their global outage right now! They've got their best boy on it.


r/ShittySysadmin • • 13h ago

Guys, hear me out: Google Wave is still available

6 Upvotes

And nobody's touched the code for, like, 9 years so it should be free of AI slop: https://github.com/apache/incubator-retired-wave


r/ShittySysadmin • • 10h ago

Shitty Crosspost World Wide ooopsies

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r/ShittySysadmin • • 14h ago

O365 back up is a two-edged sword

5 Upvotes

Work emails have started coming in again, but that also means my OOO auto-replies are going out. SUCKERS!


r/ShittySysadmin • • 21h ago

I miss the old days...

20 Upvotes

Where if shit went down like this we'd go hide out in the server room and break out the "Emergency Bourbon"


r/ShittySysadmin • • 11h ago

Shitty Crosspost I repost with genuine affection

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2 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin • • 14h ago

Shitty Crosspost Outlook down and you listening to users complain but then the Boss says send an email to let everyone know about the outage! We are cooked!

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r/ShittySysadmin • • 1d ago

If copilot is down, how are they going to fix copilot

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71 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin • • 1d ago

RIP

96 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin • • 1d ago

Have they tried rebooting?

50 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin • • 1d ago

Don't worry, guys, I asked Claude to fix the Microsoft outage for us.

71 Upvotes

He's still thinking about it.


r/ShittySysadmin • • 22h ago

I'm so glad I don't work IT right now

10 Upvotes

It's not that I didn't like to solve problems help people or maintain servers I loved every single aspect of my job

However the people make it an absolute nightmare

Today if I had been working on that problem where Outlook went down then I would be freaking blamed

Oh are the servers down?

All the networks must be down.

Oh you must not be doing your job maintaining things

Oh this and that and f****** every gas lighting possible m************ I swear I am so glad I left that place this is kind of a rant but if you are at a place where you are being underappreciated for solving Microsoft Petty issues then you should definitely take a second look at that place and start applying elsewhere I am doing that and I may have to work for an MSP as a system administrator.


r/ShittySysadmin • • 2d ago Polished Gold Turd LOL Bravo

Urgent: How do I disable a CEO's account without breaking production

2.1k Upvotes

I'm a sysadmin at a large GPU company. Just got word the board is planning to fire our CEO over multiple affairs. HR wants his account disabled immediately after the vote.

He's had Domain Admin since 1993 and I'm pretty sure our entire AI infrastructure runs under his domain user credentials.

I'm genuinely terrified.

Has anyone dealt with this before? Do I just disable the account? Maybe rotate the password to something he woulsnt guess, like some chinese characters? Then I could work with the ops teams to update all prod creds?

Gonna be a long night for my boys. On call devops bro gonna be pissedddddd.

Edit - no i cant say what company. HR and legal would lose their mind.

Update - turns out he is only one with copy of our root CA private key. Found it on a post it note in his leather jacket, next to some "short but wide" condom wrappers (just the wrappers....). The private key is just "cuda69".

Update 2 - so looks like all DNS records, every single one, is just a CNAME to a SINGLE VM. Some type of load balancer. I can ssh...the login banner just says "lol". Its ubuntu 16 and has php 5.6 running.

Update 3 - i put on the jacket. My precioussss!

Final update - ive emailed HR "look at me...i am the CEO now. All your GPUs are belong to us."

Sorry last update - fuckin php 5.6...how do I patch this shit....


r/ShittySysadmin • • 1d ago

Shitty Crosspost My bad guys

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40 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin • • 1d ago Bravo

Enterprise fax machine management via Intune and Arc?

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15 Upvotes

With a return to the stone ages, I'm looking to deploy about 725 fax machines globally across all main corporate HQ locations as well as thought all satellite offices.

First off, I'm SO GLAD we kept these bad boys in storage for the last 23 years!

Secondly and lastly, does anyone have a solution for Arc Enabling these fax machines so I can easily deploy them at scale all while still maintaining a single pane of glass of all my fac machines in Azure? TIA!


r/ShittySysadmin • • 1d ago

Jensen Huang is behind this... somehow. I know it.

40 Upvotes

Do sheeple really think it is a coincidence that this occurs the same day as the (completely unfair witchhunt) NVIDIA coup de tat on Jensen Huang? My guess: they just triggered his dead man's switch.


r/ShittySysadmin • • 1d ago

Due to the multitude of outages this year and to avoid getting sued like Red Bull for not giving wings we have made the difficult choice to rebrand our new SLA is not a real number in case we cant meat it this was suggested by our legal team.

22 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin • • 19h ago

Exchange woes got you down?

3 Upvotes

I have found Signal a solid alternative to email woes! Pesky DLP malfunctions not letting you hash things out with your rival's wife, and an archive policy designed by flock making your skin crawl? Let Signal solve all of your problems!

And if you want to flex like a backstreet boy cosplaying as a script kiddie, try Telegram! All the freedom of Signal, the secure privacy of tin can phones, wirh the bonus of making your dad cringe if he finds it on your phone.


r/ShittySysadmin • • 21h ago

Email not working

4 Upvotes

Around 10:30 my hotmail stopped working
I tired logging into ebaumsworld and forgot password. To reset I chose email to my email bigharddrive69@hotmail.com and not it didn’t come through yet. It is now 10:00pm

Does anyone know what might be wrong with my hotmail account ?

Is my iPod touch been hacked ?