I've been teaching at a small private middle school in a West African developing country for about two years. I originally studied software engineering, and although I'm still…
I'm an IT manager at a UK school and currently handle most of the IT work, apart from first-line support, which is covered by a full-time technician. The…
I'm wondering how much easier it becomes to move between IT infrastructure roles after gaining solid experience in one of them. Moving from help desk into system administration…
I'm trying to understand how much easier it becomes to move between IT infrastructure roles after gaining solid experience. Moving from helpdesk into system administration seems difficult because…
I'm looking for a public, sanitized example of a real or realistic business IT environment that shows how the whole system fits together. Ideally, it would cover the…
I'm looking for a public, sanitized example of a real or realistic business IT environment that shows how the major pieces fit together. Ideally, it would cover the…
I'm a recent Computer Science graduate who started my career in desktop support at a large multinational manufacturer. That role gave me experience with Windows troubleshooting, hardware, basic…
I'm a recent Computer Science graduate who started my career in desktop support at a large manufacturing company. That job gave me experience with Windows troubleshooting, hardware, basic…
I've moved most of our infrastructure to the cloud, and the VPN is the last major piece before we can shut down our current headquarters. I didn't get…
I'm a general IT specialist supporting more than 2,500 users across multiple countries, and I'm struggling with infrastructure problems that I don't have the authority to fix. Several…
I just started an IT role at a dealership and discovered an extremely fragile environment. There are roughly 60 workstations, ranging from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, along…
I've been working in Level 1/2 support at an MSP for about a year and want to move into IT for the mining industry. I'm especially interested in…
Our organization operates across six sites, but IT staff are permanently based at only two of them. I often need local monitoring data, internet speed tests, network diagnostics,…
I'm looking into how to encrypt data at rest in our environment, ideally keeping everything on-premises. We're thinking about using BitLocker on our file server VM, but I'm…
In my organization, we manage two separate domains (Domain A and Domain B). We were previously using Windows Deployment Services (WDS) with custom boot images, but we faced…
I'm curious about the transition from managing server rooms to using colocation services. While I know cost is a big consideration, it seems like not having to stress…
I'm the sole system engineer at a family-owned business, and I've been tasked with setting up a server at our new second location. This server will mainly be…
I'm currently managing a network with two main VLANs: 'external', which contains publicly accessible systems secured with firewalls, and 'internal', which has the majority of endpoints behind NAT…
I'm working on a project as an IT infrastructure engineer, and I've been approached by a DevOps engineer with a unique request. The engineer wants to set up…
I've been working in IT for a decade and am currently a Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer. I'm looking to enhance my skills and certifications to stay competitive in…