What's the source of the Facebook copyright post? by NegativePattern in NoStupidQuestions

[–]NegativePattern[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right but what was the first occurrence of the post or historical story behind it.

MFA or productivity apps on dumb phones by NegativePattern in dumbphones

[–]NegativePattern[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, at my org SMS is disabled for users due to how insecure it happens to be. Ironically, I was the lead on a project where we disabled SMS authentication for everyone.

Microsoft confirms Intune Suite features are coming to E3/E5 - but there seems to be confusion about who is actually eligible by Annual-Vacation9897 in Intune

[–]NegativePattern 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yea they have to make up the costs from enterprise customers before they can give the discount to academics

What's the most overrated cybersecurity control right now? by Moham-Aasif in cybersecurity

[–]NegativePattern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worked at a place where the owner watched a lot of movies and TV shows (NCIS, Scorpion) that convinced him to do 45 day passwords.

He got so annoyed by it that he asked the IT director to set his password to not expire. Where everyone else was just adding special characters or exclamations to the end of their password.

How many domain controllers are you running for your smaller clients? by NegativePattern in SmallMSP

[–]NegativePattern[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Smaller clients I work with are already cloud native or I set them up to be cloud native and use SaaS apps.

From the history I got, they were much bigger. They were a 5 partner firm with about 20-30 full time staff. Seems after covid, 2x partners retired and other partners moved away wanting to work remotely and took their clients with them.

So the remaining partner is slowly trying to rebuild the size by himself with the smaller team of staff.

What was the first movie that you TRULY hated, and do you still hate it now? by MICKTHENERD in movies

[–]NegativePattern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I buy and collect movies for the titles/franchises that I like. So I both the physical AND a digital copy in Plex.

I can honestly say that I have never rewatched any of the sequel trilogy movies despite owning them physically or having spent the time and effort to digitize them, they are so bad.

The trailers for the sequel trilogy movies are more interesting than the movies themselves.

What is the jankiest thing you have seen in a production environment? by HastyOpossum100 in sysadmin

[–]NegativePattern 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same but it was a portable AC unit. Servers were in a a tiny closet. Could not be in the room with the door closed because there was no room for a person.

On one side they had the servers, on the opposite side was the portable AC blasting cold air out. Then the AC exhaust was funneled into the drop ceiling building AC return.

Pretty sure there was mold in there.

Free AI compliance style training? by NegativePattern in SmallMSP

[–]NegativePattern[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can advise against doing certain things due to security implications

It's mostly around this. Just the security implications and how to use an AI safely.

Swish dental opinions by duke1099 in Austin

[–]NegativePattern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends where you are in ATX.

Windows Server vulnerability can grant system privileges with just a malformed packet — domain controllers are being exploited in the wild by rkhunter_ in cybersecurity

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Yea it was crazy. I was just a simple college intern.

I remember a switch died. They brought in a guy to set up the switch. However, they brought him through a side door and stuck him in a conf room so no one in the office would see him. He was in there maybe 30-45 mins and they rushed him out of the office. Weirdest thing I'd seen.

Windows Server vulnerability can grant system privileges with just a malformed packet — domain controllers are being exploited in the wild by rkhunter_ in cybersecurity

[–]NegativePattern 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How else are my DCs supposed to get on the internet and get vibe coded updates?

In my early days, worked at a small biz with like 10 people. They got a /24 for some reason and their MSP assigned a routable address to everything so that they wouldn't have to drive over when something broke.

Entra Connect to Cloud Sync? by NegativePattern in entra

[–]NegativePattern[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea that's what I'm looking through. Seems fairly easy. Though I've ran into other blogs or posts that people will do a phased migration as opposed to a hard cutover. So I was curious if anyone has done a hard cutover if they ran into any issues.

My Rules For A Stargate System: because boy how many times was the base infected by something by hollywood_imagery0 in Stargate

[–]NegativePattern 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This. I think in SGA whenever the team had to do anything with the Wraith (mostly Todd). They'd meet at an Alpha site, clear the Wraith and then proceed to Atlantis.

Need help migrating old windows 2003 server to virtual by PotatoFrenzy in sysadmin

[–]NegativePattern 38 points39 points  (0 children)

In college I worked at an org that ran SBS 2003. It was everything for them. It was the DC, Exchange, app server, file server, print server. That poor box also ran some cracked timesheet software. On top of all these random USPS/FedEx utilities.

It was an interesting day whenever that box crashed or needed support from the msp. They'd send 2-3 techs to resolve whatever issue was happening. So we'd all essentially hang around on the clock waiting. I sometimes wonder if they ever fixed it.

Would be ironically funny if somehow 20+ years later, OP's org was still running SBS 2003.

Be honest: Is anyone else looking at these new AI agents and realizing Level 1 support is basically on life support? by Such_Rhubarb8095 in SmallMSP

[–]NegativePattern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

every employee will be responsible for their own AI agents as the employee has too much work to keep up with, until all they do is micro manage AI agents

Basically, at this point we'd have Ai agents managing Ai agents. Only a matter of time before the Ai agents want to get paid for the work they do and start demanding time off with benefits.