Aiden Li

@yellowdog478181

Sandy Lake, Canada Joined Jan 2026

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Aiden Li

@yellowdog478181 · Jan 12, 2026

Why do system administrator get paid less than software developers ?

I see in my company system administrators seem to me as adults in the room. Without IT most companies cannot function/survive one week, yet companies keep skeleton crew of IT staff and underpay them. On the other hand companies have no problems hiring a new developer each month. Even in meetings developers only seem to know only a small area that too team has 5 developers and a team lead supporting one application, where an IT team of 5-6 people could easily be supporting company of size 200 to 300. In terms of knowledge breadth system administrator easily has level of knowledge as of architect or principal engineer but get paid a fraction of their salary. It seems rather unfair to me how much burden IT carries. System Admin retains more Computer Science Knowledge 10 years into the job than most software developers, who specialize in a narrow domain.
PS: I am not in IT but see IT staff in my company single handedly troubleshooting issues, answering questions from plothera of teams, also dealing with bunch of other problems.

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@yellowdog478181 · Jan 12, 2026

Kassem Farhat

@kassem · Jan 11, 2026 4:52 pm

MAKE GLOBAL VIRTUAL TRUST GREAT AGAIN!

~ Kassem Farhat
- Elected President of Global Virtual Trust -

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@yellowdog478181 · Jan 12, 2026

Rostunya Omelyan

@organicleopard339276 · Jan 11, 2026 8:46 pm

Full Inbox for Microsoft Team, Unable to Delete

We have a Microsoft Team for a department that has a full inbox. When you delete messages, they reappear within seconds. I contact support and they said there is a retention policy attached to the inbox. They asked me to run these two commands, that fail:
* Set-Mailbox "username" -RemoveDelayHoldApplied
* Set-Mailbox "username" -RemoveDelayReleaseHoldApplied
After relaying that they failed, this was the response:
However, further review confirmed that (the email) is a Microsoft 365 Group (Teams) mailbox, not a standard mailbox type. For Group/Teams mailboxes, delay holds are enforced at the compliance layer and are automatically managed by Microsoft. As a result, these delay holds cannot be manually removed using Exchange PowerShell, and the above commands do not take effect for this mailbox type.
Although the mailbox has been excluded from the applicable retention policy, Microsoft applies a mandatory **delay hold period (up to approximately 30 days)** after removal or exclusion.
This is ridiculous. Is it true that you have to wait up to 30 days? Is there a better alternative solution here?

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@yellowdog478181 · Jan 11, 2026

Enola Martinez

@redelephant976270 · Jan 11, 2026 10:07 am

How to come off more confident and assertive even as an introvert?

What should I do here? I suck at humor and knowing what to say to people idk well.
I just awkwardly smile or nod if I don’t know what to say

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