New Here? Come Say Hi! - (Optional)

[asyrewicze]

Welcome!

If you’re new, feel free to introduce yourself! You don’t need to provide a resume or anything, just what you're comfortable with.

Some Ideas:

• What kind of environment you work in (solo / MSP / enterprise / homelab / student)
• One thing you’re currently trying to figure out or improve
• (Optional) How you found SysAdmin Weekly

Lurking is totally fine too 🙂

Reminder: If you haven't taken a look at the Discussions README.md you can find it here!

[F1phreek]

Hey, everyone! I've been listening to the podcast for a while now. I found it by searching "sysadmin" on Apple Podcasts. It appears Episode 9 was the first I listened to.

I work in a law firm as an application engineer. I package and deploy applications from SCCM and Intune, patching, maintain servers, etc. Not quite a sysadmin, but do sysadmins exist in large employers? I was more of a sysadmin at my last job as the only IT guy in a company of 75 people.

Github is certainly an interesting choice for a discussion forum. I've never really used github but I did have an account (my browser remembered). This feels old-school cool, like the internet in 2009. I'm part of a sysadmin Discord already and its really helpful in moments like today. "Anyone else's Exchange just take a shit?" In two minutes there were a dozen of us discussing it then MS posted the status update. I also think a positive of this forum could be that its more "serious". Less memes would be nice.

I'm a massive fan of Formula 1 and ready for 2026 testing that starts next week. =D

[asyrewicze]

Welcome to the group! Glad to see you here!

Man.... law firm IT. That takes me back. During my managed services provider days I remember..... not fondly.... having to support a law application called Abacus. If was one of those applications that if you looked at it wrong, it would fall over.... like Exchange 5.5. =D

Also, good observation about SysAdmins existing in larger employers... I'd say they exist, but they are certainly more siloed than in smaller orgs. I think it would be fair to say that the "Jack-of-all-trades" SysAdmin doesn't exists AS often in larger words.

Yeah.... using discussions boards in 2026 has me feeling a bit nostalgic, but there was a defined design philosophy I'll have to go into more detail about on a future episode of the podcast!