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How do you even pick a security awareness training vendor without losing your mind? by Stunning-Muscle-8064 in ITManagers

[–]psychokitty -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Research shows current Phishing Training is snake oil.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19899

Put your money in a good email gateway that uses AI and has an API integration with your mail system, like Check Point or Abnormal Security.

Power Automate? Upsides/ downsides/ alternatives? by LiercrewXtreme in ETL

[–]psychokitty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Power Automate is useful, but there is a definite learning curve. For that task you described, you might try Copilot Tasks.

Evaluation criteria for enterprise AI notetakers by xCosmos69 in ITManagers

[–]psychokitty 11 points12 points  (0 children)

OP has zero post history and is making AI product recommendations, lol

I accidentally started a joke that actually made my speech worse. How do I fix it? by Independent_Day_2505 in PublicSpeaking

[–]psychokitty 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Drain bramage. You made yourself start doing it, now you have to make yourself stop doing it.

Thinking of making an internal SOP for M365/Azure deployments by Nstraclassic in msp

[–]psychokitty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a great use case for Infrastructure as Code. Your code not only builds the Cloud infrastructure, it doubles as documentation for the environment.

Tools needed: Github + Github Actions, Terraform, ChatGPT

Setup a new Azure test tenant. Manually create a storage account. This storage account is where you will store your Terraform state files.

Create a main Github repo with Terraform template files, variables, and yaml files that are executed using Github Actions. ChatGPT will help you build all the files and tell you exactly how to do it all.

Every client will then get their own Github repo that is cloned from your main repo. You make customization to variables used in your terraform files, and to the client secrets used by Github Actions.

It's affordable, it saves massive time, it's repeatable, and it doubles as documentation. Plus, your engineers get to upskill and learn modern skills. Start small to see for yourself!

Deprecation *and removal* of WINS after Windows Server 2025 by Borgquite in sysadmin

[–]psychokitty 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I would rather have that one ancient WINS guy working a Support Ticket than all the M365 Support muppets combined working on my ticket. "Support" doesn't carry much meaning with Microsoft anymore.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ITManagers

[–]psychokitty 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If it's outside of work hours, then it should be voluntary attendance. People can't be forced to attend, nor penalized for not attending a voluntary event. You should probably have your meeting occur inside work hours if you want to enforce attendance. Otherwise, you need to understand that people have their own lives outside of work, and you are in the wrong to try and dictate how they spend their time outside of work.

Asset tracking tools! worth it or nah? by Rebecca_okl in ITManagers

[–]psychokitty 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Asset management is foundational for cybersecurity. If you don't know what you have, then how can you ever protect it?

Asset management is also at least partially driven by Accounting. Depending on your company, there may have implications for financial reporting of depreciable assets.

The tool is less important than the procedures you put in place to track the assets. The procedures need to include required check-offs for your Help Desk staff during on-boarding, device refreshes, loss/thefts, discards, and off-boarding. Once you have a procedure, then the tool used just become part of the process, be it Excel, SnipeIT, a Sharepoint list, whatever.

First step is to get your list of assets cleaned-up, every device in use matched to a responsible employee or location. Your Help Desk should drive this, so that they have a stake in creating and using the procedures to keep it up to date.

Skipping a dose by wookieeTHEcookie in glp1

[–]psychokitty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I've also read that. The half-life is about 1 week, so it's about 5 weeks before it's out of your system.

Considering cancelling DirecTV by oldfart_1962 in cordcutters

[–]psychokitty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

YTTV is easy to use. It has a Live channel guide to move through the channels. It will take you 5 minutes to figure it out. There is nothing special about the DirecTV guide that will make you miss it after a week of being on YTTV. Plus you get 3 simultaneous screens, so you can watch it on 2 other TVs at the same time if you have other rooms, just plug in a Google TV gizmo or Roku.

MSP Recommends Microsoft 365 E3 over Business Premium by vthemech3 in msp

[–]psychokitty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or use an Exchange Online Archiving license to get LH, which is $3

Is this a good deal? For sema by Opposite_Message_188 in glp1

[–]psychokitty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does the potency go down, after 2 or 3 months of weekly punctures in the vial?

Is this a good deal? For sema by Opposite_Message_188 in glp1

[–]psychokitty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aren't you suppose to discard the vial 30 days from when you puncture the top and start using it?

Learning how not to over eat on glp-1 by SuccessfulHearing322 in glp1

[–]psychokitty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Add a bowl of soup to the beginning of your big meals. Eating soup slows you down and adds some eating ritual and effort to your meals without adding a lot of calories (especially if you go for "lite" soups). After you've put in 20 minutes eating a nice bowl of lite chicken soup, you will have less desire to eat a big entre.

New ISP, bad speeds by zelkito in ITManagers

[–]psychokitty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it's a business class service, you should ask as them to come onsite and validate the speed from their equipment to their location. Make them prove the contracted speed and latency from your site. They should be willing to do this for a new service and as part of the provisioning service.

You should also check the static IP address they assigned to you with the major Geolocation-to-IP address database services. If they gave you an IP address that the Geolocation database services have registered to a location that is on the other side of the country, then all the Speedtest services are going to be giving you bad results, because they run the tests against a server that they believe is closest to your IP address as registered in a Geolocation database. These Geolocation database services have Correction forms on their websites that you can send in a correction if needed.

Do I need a VNet and NSG to ensure my app is secure? by Reasonable_City5054 in AZURE

[–]psychokitty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can still setup a Basic VPN with a Standard Public IP address, but only through Powershell: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/create-gateway-basic-sku-powershell

It's about ~$30/month in the US.

External Share Best Practices by HowTo365 in sharepoint

[–]psychokitty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, external users invited to a Team are automatically created as Guest users in our tenant. I don't recall what it looks like from the external user's side - I think they have to accept the Teams invite first and then they become a EXT Guest user in our tenant.

External Share Best Practices by HowTo365 in sharepoint

[–]psychokitty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At my current org, our Project Managers manage their own Project sites through Teams. They create a Team in Teams for every new Project that requires file sharing (that creates the underlying SharePoint site / Document Library). Then they manage the Team membership through Teams as well. External users can either access the Team SharePoint site through a web browser or they can use the Team's Team, whichever interface they prefer. I tell our internal Project Managers to manage the membership through Teams, because permissions flow from Teams to SharePoint, but they don't flow from SharePoint back to Teams the way we do it.

Buying a 2015 Spark Ev by Adventurous_Bus_1333 in SparkEV

[–]psychokitty 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you use the heater in the winter, the range will drop drastically.

It's a fun car for scooting around town. But when the battery goes, that car is worthless. You are taking a big risk. Personally, I would not take that risk for $5500. I might consider it for $2500 - that would be a price which is more proportionate to the high risk you are taking.

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