RipRapRob

When did users forget what sign out means?

Posted by Willsbond@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 187 comments

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For many Users restart = I'll shut down my computer and (re-)start it, that's even better, right? Try turning off Fast Start-up for the Users.

Sick of seeing the letters "AI" everywhere

Posted by segagamer@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 227 comments

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Had one salesman telling me we could have their AI solution answering our Support Calls. Super easy to setup, little training of the AI. Great. I then suggested we called their Support so I could experience it live, instead of the demo he had prepared. Lots of excuses and explanations. I declined their offer.

Outlook can not send and receive mails

Posted by povlhp@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 20 comments

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Service Health says: > Impact is specific to some users located in Germany, attempting to load, send and receive emails in the Outlook desktop client or Outlook on the web. Those of you that are affected, are you('r users) located in Germany?

I Fucking hate Microsoft

Posted by ThePunjabiGaming@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 278 comments

My sys admin sucks

Posted by RestOtherwise6574@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 422 comments

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> Runs campaigns against other IT staff who know more than he does (not very hard) talks shit about them for months and they eventually get fired. Sounds like incompetent Management.

Weird job requirements?

Posted by daryld_the_cat@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 137 comments

Anyone else experiencing problems adding an Exchange Online mail account to Outlook?

Posted by RipRapRob@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 5 comments

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I can see Microsoft has reported Issue ID MO1009364 > Some users may experience issues with multiple Microsoft 365 features or services Exchange Online is mentioned under 'Affected services', but I can't see how.

Secure score dropped 30% after adding a test machine to Defender for Endpoint. What do?!

Posted by cisco_bee@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 7 comments

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I can confirm something similar, although the precise details elude me: As I recall it, we activated a license that gave MS365 Defender new capabilities. Result: Defender checked for more things, the theoretical possible score grew, so our actual % fell. I'd expect it should be reversable by changing back, but I have no experience to share: Our percentage fell much less than what you are experiencing.

Do electric air dusters work well and worth it over compressed air cans?

Posted by Eldereon@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 82 comments

Has anyone used the new “get help” successfully VS old SARA

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Has anyone used the new “get help” successfully VS old SARA

Posted by Ragepower529@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 17 comments

Has anyone used the new “get help” successfully VS old SARA

Posted by Ragepower529@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 17 comments

Has anyone used the new “get help” successfully VS old SARA

Posted by Ragepower529@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 17 comments

Has anyone used the new “get help” successfully VS old SARA

Posted by Ragepower529@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 17 comments

RipRapRob@reddit

Are you sure it's been discontinued? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=100607 >If you use this tool in automated workflows, it's important to note that the tool expires every 90 days and an updated version needs to be used. Are you downloading the latest version, or a version you've downloaded previous?

What has been your 'OH SH!T..." moment in IT?

Posted by VNiqkco@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 791 comments

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Worked at an MSP. Quiet Friday. Decided to spend time making a PowerShell-script that could setup Conditional Access, so we didn't have to do it manually for our customers. Found out the easiest way was to make new policies in the GUI, and then extract the settings with PowerShell, so I had the input for the PowerShell that would setup Conditional Access. Used our own Tenant. And why not improve security on our own Tenant in the process? Made a policy to block Legacy Authentication. Want to make an exception for my own User? Nah, never going to use Legacy Authentication. Report only? No, I know what I'm doing. 🤡 Soon after, no-one could logon to our own Tenant. Including Microsoft Partner Center, greatly hindering our ability to service our Customers. Fuuuuuuck! 😨 Sweating for a few minutes. More fucks and oh shits. So desperate I briefly even considered contacting Microsoft Support. Wait, maybe I can still access our Tenant thru PowerShell? YES! Made a script that disabled all Conditional Access Policies. Sigh of relief when we were able to logon again.

What's the dumbest thing you've had to do, because you're boss said so...?

Posted by corruptboomerang@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 659 comments

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I was managing an IT Team, but on paper, my Manager - let's call him Dave - was Manager for all of us. HR decided to do an Employee Satisfaction Survey. So my Team asked me, why the Survey asked "Do you get the information from Dave you need..." etc, instead of "Do you get the information from RipRapRob you need...", since they got all their information from me. Told HR it was an error that Dave's name was on, but was then told by HR, that Dave had insisted that since HE was their Manager, his name should be on the Survey. I told Dave that it was a mistake: He had NO direct contact with my Team. But he dismissed it, and the Survey continued. As expected, Dave got a REALLY low score. So HR told him to do something about it, call a series of meeting to get to know the Team, give them information on a regular basis etc. Dave ask me to set up the meetings. 5 minutes before the first meeting, Dave asked me, if it was necessary for him to participate, and told me to do the meetings on my own. I canceled the meetings. Dave was let go, not long after.

Office 365 Apps / Long Paths

Posted by Heazyuk@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 3 comments

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Try this: Lets say, that you have a path like: C:\FOLDER A\FOLDER B\FOLDER C\FOLDER D\FOLDER E\FOLDER F\FOLDER G\Long ass filename.txt Open a CMD NET USE X: "C:\FOLDER A\FOLDER B\FOLDER C\FOLDER D\FOLDER E\FOLDER F\FOLDER G" Now you should be able to access a new drive X: that contains the content of files in FOLDER G i.e.: X:\Long ass filename.txt

Exchange Office 365 - emails from our own domain suddenly getting flagged as spam/phising

Posted by WoTpro@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 3 comments

Alright boys I fucked up

Posted by Twistygt@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 77 comments

Ransomware Recovery

Posted by taemyks@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 126 comments

Air gapped network 45 minutes fast

Posted by bballlal@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 165 comments

Does anyone else feel like Windows 11 is major improvement?

Posted by Ok-Rub-8001@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 732 comments

Ban crowdstrike posts!

Posted by Hexnite657@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 145 comments

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Posted by PoliceTekauWhitu@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 89 comments

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> “When you look at software, it’s a very complex world and always staying ahead of the adversary is certainly a tall task,” > “These sorts of things, obviously you try to understand and mitigate them and, in some cases, you have a weird interaction,” > “We’re just trying to sort where that negative reaction was.” https://youtu.be/9oRi7Rwrf3M?si=Fok1J6U4QSu-n50Z

Why do users hate upgrades?

Posted by zrettqM@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 665 comments

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There is a difference between constant change, and using the same UI (OS) for years to the point where you can do things without thinking, and THEN it changes.

Coworkers screams “Huzzuh” every time he solves an issue.

Posted by ClarkTheCoder@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 449 comments

Does anyone use New Outlook?

Posted by Standard_Text480@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 442 comments

What is your SysAdmin "hot take".

Posted by MembershipFeeling530@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 801 comments

Fuck any company whose chat support doesn't offer the ability to copy/paste or print the whole transcript after the say they'll do something, promise to email you the transcript, don't, and then ultimately don't do what they said they would in the first place.

Posted by LarvellJonesMD@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 75 comments

Quotes - Aaargh

Posted by DaithiG@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 10 comments

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> Fortinet is okay but they can absolutely brick your network if you don't maintain licenses. That sounds pretty wild, please expand on this.

Am I supposed to be “system engineer” or “systemS engineer”

Posted by chathobark_@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 110 comments

Why Microsoft? Why? - New Outlook

Posted by Constant-Coat5656@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 1015 comments

Teams is splitting from M365 effective today! Can you afford it?

Posted by BMCBoid@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 155 comments

Teams is splitting from M365 effective today! Can you afford it?

Posted by BMCBoid@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 155 comments

I just had to clean blockages in a vacuum cleaner

Posted by pyhnux@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 183 comments

Dear software marketing departments - if your website has no screenshots of what the frontend actually looks like there is 0 chance I’m doing a demo.

Posted by FruitbatNT@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 146 comments

Are changes made via PowerShell logged to Azure AD Audit Log?

Posted by RipRapRob@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 4 comments

Microsoft Enabling Stronger MFA September 15th, 2023

Posted by Based0ne@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 122 comments

Microsoft Enabling Stronger MFA September 15th, 2023

Posted by Based0ne@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 122 comments

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I'm pretty sure, this only disables the CAMPAIGN that prompts Users to change MFA method: Microsoft will still remove SMS and Voice as an option so Users that hasn't changed their MFA method by then, will still be forced to do so.

How do you verify DHCP DNS Registration

Posted by gaz2600@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 25 comments

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You have to explain a little more, because I don't understand your question. Are you asking how to verify that the DNS a computer is using, is one provided by the DHCP server vs. a setting on the computer itself?

SQL emails fail to send

Posted by OkYogurtcloset9535@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 4 comments

Microsoft Purview terrifies me

Posted by UniqueArugula@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 307 comments

Interviewing for my new boss

Posted by Exotic-Start-5039@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 49 comments

User inflicted outage

Posted by Battle-Crab-69@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 179 comments

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We had a similar incident. User told me, they'd tried 'everything' to get the Internet and Site-2-site VPN back. So we had to send someone onsite (me). 1 hour drive. The Firewall had been reset. Someone had managed to press the reset button while the device was starting up. Me: "Have you reset the Firewall?" Them: "Yes, I said we tried everything before contacting you". Restored the backup of the FW's configuration, and since their ISP had fixed the problem with their Internet Connection, they had their Internet connection back. - And for those saying that no users should have access to the Firewall: Ideally yes, but welcome to the wonderful world of managing SMBs.

Barracuda asks users to immediately replace all physical ESG boxes after recent 0-day

Posted by execthts@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 201 comments

Understanding MFA

Posted by brianitc@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 20 comments

Understanding MFA

Posted by brianitc@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 20 comments

How would you write a company wide email about how users should submit tickets? [Serious]

Posted by SplitttySplat@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 63 comments

I cant be the only one having difficulties finding competent hires? right?

Posted by PlebPlebberson@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 237 comments

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The quality is low and generally very uneven. I had one send an application, not mentioning Microsoft 365, despite this being one of the (few) things we mentioned in the job posting. So I wrote him back and asked if he had any experience working in Microsoft 365 at all, and if so, which Admin Centers (Exchange Admin Center, SharePoint Admin Center etc). He answered that he had experience in M365, but that it really didn't make sense for him to list the Admin Centers he had experience with, because he was such a fast learner that we practically didn't have to spend time training him.

One server, 2 NIC, 2 Internet-connections - Getting "Warning- Multiple default gateways are intended to provide redundancy to a single network"

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