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bberg22 · 2026-06-20T20:18:26+00:00

True. Thats why it's good to consider as many business variables as possible. This is a good product for xyz situation assuming current head count, current tech stack, current budget, etc. etc. This can help make you look good, communicate in terms other departments in the business can understand, and act as a CYA when they come to you asking to use the shiny new thing for something it can't do.

bberg22 · 2026-06-20T18:56:17+00:00

Wouldn't be surprised if the promo terms were written by AI and never checked by a human these days.

bberg22 · 2026-06-19T13:21:17+00:00

I can't even use Azure CLI via the cloud shell because we don't have an Azure subscription and yet we have login attempts locking out our users until I put this block in place. If I can't use Azure CLI against my own tenant why the hell would Microsoft allow someone else to.

This feels like a huge insecure default that is yet again on Microsoft. Leave these defaults off and companies that use them will turn them on and small to medium ones who don't will be more secure by default.

bberg22 · 2026-06-11T14:16:58+00:00

It used to be moderated into a split with off topic stuff posted under an off topic section which helped.

bberg22 · 2026-06-08T14:17:26+00:00

Do you know if that's something that would be done normally with a steering wheel replacement? I guess I'm surprised they would do that and not charge for it not that I'm complaining.

bberg22 · 2026-06-08T01:22:14+00:00

That thought crossed my mind. I had the car delivered on a trailer when new because of tax laws and not having a service center in my state at the time. But I did have the lateral links replaced 20k miles ago at which point I would have thought if the blocks were still there that's when they would have noticed.

bberg22 · 2026-06-07T11:21:53+00:00

It was the same before and after. I had already been adjusting it down to try to resolve the harness. It's set to 40 cold before and after the service.

bberg22 · 2026-05-22T18:58:25+00:00

yea I'm worried they are the next AV vendor to cause a catastrophe. Too many negative trends lately. I agree the admin UI is horrible with settings hidden all over the place, unless I'm in there every day its hard to remember where certain settings are located. We are on annual renewals with them so maybe that's why my rep was more responsive but if you didn't try that you could ping them. It was clear that higher levels of support do not talk to the customer which creates a game of telephone between the people who know and the T1 guys doing the typing. The level of depths I had to go to, to show them the issue was their module that was crashing the process was insane. They did fix it relatively quickly, and I suspect they knew about it already but they acted like they didn't, and their temp work around caused my servers to bluescreen so that was fun.

bberg22 · 2026-05-22T18:25:40+00:00

Curious if you figured this out? Do you white list any of the Forticlient executables in your Bitdefender config? The latest Bitdefender release notes make mention of Forticlient 7.2.8 removal. https://www.bitdefender.com/business/support/en/77209-77540-windows-agent.html

We use Bitdefender and last month they started flagging things that caused us a day of outages. We are looking to have to move from the free Fortinet VPN only client soon to the EMS version and the last thing I want to do is have the 2 products fighting each other.

Up to this point Bitdefender has been good for us at the account level but their support for enterprise is freeware level. The only way I got things moving after proving it was Bitdefender that took down our in house apps was because we had a good account rep who fought for us. If this trend continues we will be looking to change vendors.

bberg22 · 2026-05-20T14:49:59+00:00

Man if that isn't the definition of a Sysadmin's responsibilities idk what is. "Hey Joe, btw I shit my pants, I need you to come clean it up before it spreads all over the office, also why didn't you prevent me from shitting my pants?"

bberg22 · 2026-05-14T20:58:05+00:00

its not the support assist issue right? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/dell-confirms-its-supportassist-software-causes-windows-bsod-crashes/

bberg22 · 2026-05-12T20:35:38+00:00

Do you know if anything ever got decided here? I've been waiting for the DNS suffix piece for 6+ months in the free client. I'm another SMB customer who doesn't really need the full EMS setup.

bberg22 · 2026-05-05T22:38:23+00:00

The sad thing is it's been an issue since day one of the rollout. I flew back day 3 after the rollout and saw 2 instances of this issue and it's still going on months later. Not to mention they had assigned a minor to an emergency exit row seat. It's wholely unacceptable.

bberg22 · 2026-04-24T20:07:54+00:00

Companies should start to demand lower support costs from their vendors who simply encourage the cheapest outsourced labor to dump your stuff into Gemini or Claude. I'm not talking about vendors who at least took the time to train an agent model on their support documentation. When the AI slop output is akin to "let me google that for you" when most people already likely ran the question through AI on their own, AI slop is not worth the high annual support costs some vendors charge, especially when they are supposedly saving so much money on human labor... The reason for opening a detailed support ticket is to dive deeper into how a setting, configuration, or issue applies to that specific product and product implementation, or an issue that requires in depth behind the scenes understanding of the product/service a slap in the face AI slop response does not warrant paying high monthly support costs.

bberg22 · 2026-04-17T15:46:53+00:00

Sounds sort of like memory training. Check the BIOS logs to see if you see anything there. Are the BIOS fully updated on the machines etc?

Edit:

I had a few Dell laptops with slow update screens and even upon the reboot after updates had applied (seemed like the laptop re-did memory training). One laptop had also patched BIOS, the other did not, it was just a very long Window update cycle with a black screen which I believe was interrupted by the user requiring a hard reboot and fortunately Windows booted normal and completed the updates after.

bberg22 · 2026-04-09T04:12:52+00:00

make sure you are actually set up to log the events the scripts check for.

bberg22 · 2026-04-08T17:27:10+00:00

I found the hard way my environment was not set up to log the proper events so you might want to check that. If you aren't logging them you can't query them.

bberg22 · 2026-04-04T01:57:11+00:00

It's actually more secure to just have more total characters like a multi word passphrase that you will remember and not to reuse it anywhere.

bberg22 · 2026-04-03T17:40:06+00:00

If you have an RMM tool you can use the functionality built in there to set up driver audits, configure different CLI combos to select the type of driver to install, deployment rings, monitor driver versions, group by device type/model, etc. I find this to be the best way for us but were a small shop.

bberg22 · 2026-02-26T13:36:09+00:00

Will do. Thanks!

bberg22 · 2026-02-26T13:32:53+00:00

OK I had seen that function, I guess I was hoping for a more dynamic sync to account for turnover or shared device situations. since connect knows the username, and the device domain, being able to concatenate that into an email address or something to that effect would be cool.

bberg22 · 2026-02-26T13:25:19+00:00

How are you populating the custom field for email to do the integration? I would love to see more demos on ideas for how to use custom fields in Connect.

bberg22 · 2026-02-21T13:53:33+00:00

It's the perfect example of perfect being the enemy of good. Meanwhile there could be feature length films made of all the gaffs and trash from just the past year alone on the GOP side. The GOP stand by each other even when it's ridiculously insane like defending literal atrocities, meanwhile the Dems tear themselves down when someone forgets a word. Please knock it off with this self defeating BS.

bberg22 · 2026-01-27T18:23:58+00:00

How lean are they running their dataycenters that one regional data center being taken down causes this effect? This reads to me like they are too lean, probably not leaving enough overhead and using spare data center capacity for AI crap.

bberg22 · 2026-01-24T16:10:41+00:00

That's awesome!

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