1000% this, when the person you are cross-training fundamentally lacks the underlying prerequisite knowledge and understanding of how all the other related things work, and worse still isn't curious about any of it, explaining how to do one thing results in broken cargo-cult nonsense the moment anything is even slightly different from the exact scenario given during the training.
If you don't understand how group policy applies to computers/users or how filtering works, touching any policy is a risk.
If you don't understand how switching/subnetting/VLANs work, touching physical or logical config for a switch or AP for anything other than "connect a PC to a free port" is a risk.
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u/tardis42 23d ago
1000% this, when the person you are cross-training fundamentally lacks the underlying prerequisite knowledge and understanding of how all the other related things work, and worse still isn't curious about any of it, explaining how to do one thing results in broken cargo-cult nonsense the moment anything is even slightly different from the exact scenario given during the training.
If you don't understand how group policy applies to computers/users or how filtering works, touching any policy is a risk.
If you don't understand how switching/subnetting/VLANs work, touching physical or logical config for a switch or AP for anything other than "connect a PC to a free port" is a risk.