The Random Admin
Welcome to the random admin – a hub for system administrators passionate about teaching and leveraging technology to support local businesses. Explore our diverse topics. In my journey, I’ve gained insights into mental health, integrating it into my work to foster unexpected growth in others. At the random admin, I merge mental health and IT through engaging stories, offering a unique blend of knowledge and self-understanding.
SSH with Powershell
Recently I went over how to get information from the Unifi Controller. Now I want to show you how to grab information from the unifi device itself. In this example, we are going to use SSH with Powershell to pull some basic information from an unifi AP. SSH with...
Auto 365 Licensing with Groups
I was working with a client a few months ago, and they needed me to set up auto licensing. The idea is that the helpdesk right-clicks on a user and clicks copy. That user will get all the groups inside the template user. This also includes licensing for O365. Believe...
It’s Ok to be you
Our American society is driven to force people to mask up and be something else. This is very true in IT. In IT, we are told we need to have a decade of rust experience, even though it isn't a decade old. Impossible standards are always around us, forcing us to...
WordPress for Free
Today's post is a formula that you can use to get a decent server and install WordPress on it. This is the setup for this site, and it works like magic. This is a self-hosted WordPress for free. Oracle Always Free Teir Oracle offers an always free tier for servers....
Uncover Starred-Out Passwords
I was inside my unifi controller a while back and the new update had starred out the radius password. The documentation had yet to occur on the radius password. So, I used a simple HTML trick with my firefox to change the stars to clear text. This is how you can...
Slow ADUC on VPN
Like in my last post, I have been in IT for many years. Every place I have worked at and even when I worked at an MSP, I have always seen the Active Directory Users and Computers take a really long time to load. Often times be very slow while on VPN. I was finally...
Multi-Account Containers
I have been in IT for a little over 10 years and have tried various browsers and plugs/extensions. Some are extremely useful, and some, are not so. I abandoned Firefox for a while because it was not compatible with the required software. Recently I have returned back...
Find Forwarding Rules
Not too long ago, I needed to do some rule auditing for forwarders in a client's exchange online. They believed someone had a rule in their exchange account that was forwarded to a spammer. They believed this because new employees were receiving emails within a few...
Burnout In IT and How to Avoid it
For years, I thought Burnout was equal to weak. Boy was I wrong. Burnout is a real thing and it changes how you see this world. Burnout can take a good worker and make them the worst worker. That's what it did to me. What is Burnout and How do you avoid it? What is...
