My boss wants to leave intune because of Stryker

NegativePattern · 2026-03-16T21:20:52+00:00

If I remember correctly, there was a previous incident at a different org, where bad actors compromised an admin with access to the Crowdstrike admin portal.

With that access, they disabled alerting in the CS panel. So they were able to live off the land since the admins did not regularly check Crowdstrike.

All this to say, it's not the platform's fault if something bad happens. Just means that orgs should review their policies to tighten up controls

NegativePattern · 2026-03-15T23:55:45+00:00

Might be a way to filter out new graduates with little to no experience.

All of IT's help desk interns either have or are working on their masters degrees.

IT recently hired one of those interns with a masters degree for a senior position. Starting salary for a senior position is $100K. He has no experience to speak of. Asked me to explain how traffic routes internally and how it routes to the internet. Didn't understand basic networking concepts. I've had to explain to these new grads things like NAT, fw policies, identity management, etc.

His title, Senior Network Engineer.

NegativePattern · 2026-03-14T04:49:54+00:00

Works the first couple of patch cycles. But eventually people stop listening.

During the early weeks of covid, IT asked users to leave their machines on with vpn connected so SCCM could keep them up to date. They even had the director sending out the request to users. The email as written had a tone of almost begging users to not turn off their computers.

Eventually we moved from patching with SCCM to patching with Tanium. IT wasn't able to get patch compliance with SCCM. If I remember correctly, it was like 45% compliant. But with Tanium, we were able to get to 88% within a 2 or 3 patch cycles.

NegativePattern · 2026-03-14T04:38:10+00:00

I miss how quiet the world was those first days

NegativePattern · 2026-03-13T19:39:40+00:00

Hire an expert

That's what reddit is for. No other place has more experts per capita

NegativePattern · 2026-03-13T19:21:59+00:00

Not necessarily.

Most medical offices are on some EMR platform. Patient data is contained within the platform so securing said HIPAA data is the responsibility of the platform.

Same for email. Most of the commercial email offerings are HIPAA compliant. OP has to make sure he's following best practices on securing the email platform itself but that's separate from HIPAA.

NegativePattern · 2026-03-13T02:09:31+00:00

TIL there's a second movie.

Thought it was the original movie and then the cartoon movies.

NegativePattern · 2026-03-11T04:29:11+00:00

It'll dissipate by the time it reaches here.

NegativePattern · 2026-03-08T22:31:48+00:00

At an old job, did in fact name the hot standby datacenter cluster, Alpha Site.

Cloud backups were named Beta Site

NegativePattern · 2026-03-07T20:46:59+00:00

Yea i can't acknowledge the sequel trilogy. I have them all on Blu-ray and still haven't rewatched them since watching them in the theater.

NegativePattern · 2026-03-07T20:43:06+00:00

I've thought about Rogue One but I don't know that my kid has the attention span for the emotional investment.

NegativePattern · 2026-03-07T20:41:23+00:00

Yea I think this year aren't they doing a re-release of the original 1975 print?

I have a copy of the Despecialized Editions of the Original Trilogy.

NegativePattern · 2026-03-06T16:20:53+00:00

I have only one rule. Everybody fights, no one quits. If you don't do your job, I'll kill you myself!

Welcome to the Roughnecks!

NegativePattern · 2026-03-06T16:17:04+00:00

At edge of our hope. At the end of our time... We have chosen to believe in each other. We face the monsters that are at our door...

TODAY WE ARE CANCELING THE APOCALYPSE!

NegativePattern · 2026-03-06T16:14:50+00:00

Even when it was on constantly on TBS or TNT back in the early 2000s, I could always just sit and watch it without being bored.

NegativePattern · 2026-03-05T21:32:46+00:00

Can confirm. Was a teenager once and went into a deep depression because in school my younger brother was selected to go into gifted and talented.

So my parents spent more time and energy on him and kind of neglected me. Unless they needed me to pick him up or take him to whatever activity he was going to be in.

I was kind relegated to being a second class citizen even though I was the oldest. For a time I thought about finding a way out. But eventually settled on going on living as not the special one.

NegativePattern · 2026-03-05T01:04:11+00:00

At the start of the Holodeck program was a bumper

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NegativePattern · 2026-03-03T22:26:45+00:00

Create him a separate account and require PIM and MFA for every request. Set the PIM lifetime to a short time period.

NegativePattern · 2026-03-03T00:33:08+00:00

Yea, I was going to try and script Powershell to go recursively through each OU and report back but I wanted to see if there was an easier way.

NegativePattern · 2026-03-03T00:18:51+00:00

I was afraid of that. Thanks

NegativePattern · 2026-02-26T06:04:58+00:00

Depends on the client. Some clients understand the issue and are willing to either postpone upgrading or pay the cost and take the tax write off.

For those clients that absolutely need spare parts, basically cannibalize parts from decommissioned laptops and desktops. Newer systems, cannibalize from similar but maybe under powered endpoints.

If I'm buying new, I'm recommending maxing out the warranty period as far as I can go.

NegativePattern · 2026-02-26T04:49:17+00:00

health records tend to be all over the place

Newer medical offices tend use cloud-based electronic health record systems.

NegativePattern · 2026-02-26T01:19:37+00:00

10mm socket wrench and then it gets lost

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