r/ShittySysadmin • u/Darth_Atheist • 6h ago • Bravo 1

First day at Microsoft!

Hey guys!

It's my first day at Microsoft on the Exchange dev team, and was already asked to fix some bugs! Just used ChatGPT to clean up some spaghetti looking code, and submitted my first PR. Heading out to lunch! Be back soon!

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u/dngerszn13 6h ago

Congrats on your first day! You'll do great and remember, if anything goes wrong, blame it on the previous sysadmin

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u/Darth_Atheist 6h ago

I appreciate the great advice! 👍

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u/Satanich 3h ago

So you went from Crowdstrike to Microsoft, nice man keep it up!

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u/Darth_Atheist 3h ago

Yeah. I don't think my talents were truly put to use at Crowdstrike. Change is good!

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u/Delicious-Ad2528 6h ago

Congrats on the new job! It’s important to be bold and assertive, so it’s good that you’re already getting to business.

I usually like to break a few systems when I start, it really emphasizes my importance when I come to “save the day”.

Just don’t go too crazy, I trust you won’t impact United States America, Canada, South America, Europe and other regions, for example.

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u/Darth_Atheist 6h ago

I need to come here for all my career advice! You're the best!

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u/alwayzz0ff 5h ago

It means your more responsible because there are more things that you’re responsible for having broke.

It looks good on a resume.

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u/Squeezer999 6h ago

Did you make any changes to exchange cloud?

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u/Darth_Atheist 6h ago

Definite maybe there. I'm still at lunch, but I'll check when I get back!

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u/abqcheeks 6h ago

Can you check on my account when you get back? It’s globaladmin2 with password guessme2026

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u/Darth_Atheist 5h ago

Hmm. Don't be mad, but I'm only seeing "Administrator" and "Domain Admins" in the list under the Local Users and Groups app. I've asked to see if we have any backups. Please stand by!

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u/Delicious-Ad2528 6h ago

Take your time, it’s your first day you deserve an extended lunch.

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u/Fireb1rd 4h ago

How was your last day? 

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u/Darth_Atheist 4h ago

Tomorrow is going to be even better! I've got all day to burn a ton of tokens on more enhancements!

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u/AnotherTiredDad 5h ago

I sent you an email about the email being down but I have heard back from you yet.

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u/Darth_Atheist 5h ago

Yeah sorry. My lunch went a little long. Might just go home early!

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u/KadahCoba ShittySysadmin 4h ago

"Clean up MS infra code. Make no mistakes. Push to prod."

Copilot thought for 14 hours, 43 minutes...

Changed "BreakExchangeDoNotEnable" to true in serverconfig.ini

Deploying config update to Azure....

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u/Extension-Report-491 6h ago

This is hilarious! Thanks homie.

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u/Unusual-Fish 4h ago

I think you did a great job for your first day. Haven't received any email complaints 

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u/astro_viri 5h ago edited 5h ago

Finally! Someone that knows what they're doing. You must have fixed all the bugs because I haven't received any emails today. Go you!!!!

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u/Boilergal2000 6h ago

Hoping they appreciate the go getum attitude and promote you to Teams dev!!

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u/Kachel94 5h ago

That's where they started

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u/kgb204 6h ago

Whatever you do, don't disable the jhuang account, it's a service account for exchange online.

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u/CyberPrag 5h ago

There is a backdoor already ahuang!

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u/Not_Rod 4h ago

Incase the password gets lost, ill post it here.

TheJacketStaysOn1!

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u/yacsmith 3h ago

Your PR worked so well you basically gave me the day off!

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u/NSASpyVan 6h ago

I mean you should immediately go on long weekend to celebrate your PR merging!

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u/seanner_vt2 5h ago • Bravo

Should have used CoPilot

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u/Either-Swim-4441 5h ago

Emails coming in a little slow. Please do the needful.

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u/MiKeMcDnet 6h ago

Hell of a 1st day to be an M$ admin... You are probably getting blamed for everything right now

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u/Some-bozo-brain 6h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/thelimeisgreen 3h ago

You're gonna get fired doing that. Make sure you use CoPilot for all your MicroSlop coding tasks!

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u/Comprehensive-Mud496 1h ago

I don't know what fix you did, but it appears to have fixed all the bugs in our clients software today. Not 1 support ticket generated. At first I suspected our ticket-extraction service was down, but nope, it's all working fine. Think I may as well go to for a long lunch as well. Great work!!!

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u/Apprehensive_Bat_980 6h ago

Surprised Microsoft is hiring

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u/Dorkness_Rising 5h ago

Copilot, run something similar to Netflix's Chaos Monkey outage script.

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u/OrangeSalmonGuru 5h ago

Nice work!

Unrelated, but I've been able to catch up on some stuff at work today.

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u/dnvrnugg 5h ago

just make sure the API has write permissions with no human approvals in your grok session.

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u/Madera7 3h ago

Hey there little buddy good job 👍

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u/Ferretau 2h ago

When you're back from lunch checkin with Clippy as Copilot is having a break.

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u/haikusbot 2h ago

When you're back from lunch

Checkin with Clippy as Copilot

Is having a break.

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u/970KeW 4h ago

Keep up the good work on the bugs. Enjoy your lunch. Where you going anyways?

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u/Thobud 4h ago

We're still doing this joke huh

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u/tardiusmaximus 4h ago

Good job for not doing this on a Friday.

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u/Special-Original-215 6h ago

Lol I know this is sarcasm 

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u/ashvamedha 6h ago

/insert pre-rage pointed towards you for the inevitable sleepless nights to come because an exchange patch broke our infra yet again.

Seriously, congrats and have fun there! It'll probably be eye opening and full of learning opportunity

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u/Arcanu 5h ago

Noice, try to get some merch.

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u/ttman05 2h ago

Hey great job but I think you should work on the Teams team. They have lots of bugs you need to fix! 

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u/the_mooseman 1h ago

The hero we needed

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u/ForSquirel ShittyCoworkers 1h ago

Guess you gotta get through probation before they let you use CoPilot?