Honestly, I would find another job, unless your current task is just to keep everything running until they hire a new SysAdmin. You are being setup for failure. You are doing the job of at least two people if this is all hosted locally and nothing is documented.
Don’t worry about the scripting or programming anything just yet. Get a handle on keeping everything running.
Are you in charge of the corporate firewall too?
The quick and dirty daily tasks I see you needing to do are (in no particular order):
- check the nightly backups
- check the exchange queues to make sure they are processing
- check the SQL backups
- check the AV server for alerts if anything failed to scan or update
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