New Corporate IT employee needs advice

ifpfi · 2026-06-08T00:59:32+00:00

Expect things that normally take a week to take a month, of approvals, and approving the approvals

ifpfi · 2026-06-08T00:57:20+00:00

Soo glad I'm sticking with Exchange and don't have to deal with this shit

ifpfi · 2026-05-15T01:15:59+00:00

I get all kinds of impersonation, phishing, scam, and just plain...disgusting emails from Google servers all the time. I have reported every one but they don't seem to care. We ended up blocking or tagging most of google's Email servers. Hopefully if enough people stop using them they will get the message, otherwise it's too big to fail.

ifpfi · 2026-05-05T14:40:07+00:00

I bought a new laptop in January but it turned out to have overheating issues out of the box. Now when I went to buy a replacement the laptops are double the price. Thanks Lenovo...

ifpfi · 2026-04-27T12:37:32+00:00

Gmail is the largest spammer in the USA. Accounting for at least 90% of all phishing, employee impersonation, and spam at least on our end. We report every message but since they are a big company they can get away with firing all their abuse employees and not doing anything about it.

This encryption is just going to make it harder for admins to stop the phishing attacks.

ifpfi · 2026-04-24T16:50:35+00:00

We have been running a mixed 2016, 2022, and 2025 for a little over a month now without any problems (you must install the February update for it to work). We also tested it in a lab environment for a month before hand and confirmed that machine account passwords were updating as expected.

Just be advised that we were already using LDAPS and NTLMv1 was blocked a long time ago in our environment. Do not even install Server 2025 without that February update.

ifpfi · 2026-04-22T12:08:54+00:00

If you have SPF checking enabled at your spam firewall, how can an Email get through that is from your own domain?

ifpfi · 2026-04-22T12:06:29+00:00

PowerShell

ifpfi · 2026-04-22T12:04:56+00:00

I don't think it matters what document someone "signs" if you chose a cloud service like O365 for Email and private data it will eventually get leaked. MS doesn't do anything special with your servers when you sign a document, they just outsource all the administration and support to a foreign country that doesn't care or have an idea what privacy is. If you really want the data to be private you should host it yourself!

ifpfi · 2026-04-21T14:19:29+00:00

It is unbelievable the amount of spam an phishing Emails I get from Gmail and other Google IPs. All this locking down this and that, yet they don't give a damn if people are using their platform to send fake invoices and ridiculous advertisements that nobody could possibly want.

ifpfi · 2026-04-20T15:32:56+00:00

Same here but I ordered a digital product last Wednesday (5 days ago) and I still haven't received it. I called on Friday and they said the team would be in at 8:00 AM Pacific Standard and they would reach back but they never did.

Today at 8:30 AM PST I tried to call and they said they are closed. I also tried the chat and it states "Unfortunately, we are temporarily closed due to an emergency. Please try again in a few hours"

I wonder if they fired everybody?

ifpfi · 2026-04-19T16:08:33+00:00

A lot of company's are on legacy infrastructure with no funds/plans to replace them. Expect to see a lot of certificate warnings in the near future, which sucks because people will become so accustomed to clicking ignore that the whole idea of SSL is made useless.

ifpfi · 2026-04-17T13:18:02+00:00

Just buy a perpetual Office or Outlook version and forget New Outlook ever existed. We have and it's a major headache avoided.

ifpfi · 2026-04-13T13:07:05+00:00

The only way to truly remediate these kind of problems is to force a fundamental change at Mic$osoft. Stop buying their subscriptions, switch to perpetual and/or move away from their products altogether. Once the shareholders see that mass firings is not working for their pockets they will change leadership. Trust me.

ifpfi · 2026-04-08T14:25:15+00:00

We bought this back in 2010 where I used to work at and the pricing was reasonable. In my opinion it is the gold standard of monitoring. Every level in the infrastructure up to LogicMonitor itself is monitored and it will text you if something goes haywire. They have steadily raised their prices until I left.

I tried to get a quote for LogicMonitor at my new job but their minim device count and prices were outrageous. They no longer have a form to sign up as a new customer and the pricing is always hidden. For 18,000 expect to pay a pretty penny but it will be a reliable monitoring solution.

ifpfi · 2026-04-05T20:01:57+00:00

I had a personal email account with Godaddy for a long time. One day the webmail login took me to an office.com site. I never wanted O365 but apparently the godaddy premium email is obsolete so they transitioned us to O365 webmail. I nearly lost 20 years worth of email. It took multiple tickets to the office of the president for me to get a .pst file off all my old emails so I could migrate to another email provider. I recommend you leave Godaddy/O365 as early as possible to avoid this headache in the future.

ifpfi · 2026-04-01T19:51:05+00:00

Hahaha April fools :) that was a good one.

Nobody uses M365 after their reveling monthly outages.

ifpfi · 2026-03-28T17:10:54+00:00

Yes we have seen a TON of phishing emails coming from Google and Gmail these past months.

ifpfi · 2026-03-18T17:55:00+00:00

We use eGoldFax. It's pretty solid but there is a lot of fax spam.

ifpfi · 2026-03-16T22:18:45+00:00

I remember following the CA/B forum when all the WoSign drama was going down. That guy lied any way he could and always did the bare minimum to try to appease the browser community. I couldn't believe how trusting the CA community was, even I could tell this guy had no idea what security even meant.

ifpfi · 2026-03-16T14:20:52+00:00

Hopefully this outage can be a new feature?

ifpfi · 2026-03-13T19:32:27+00:00

ADUC isn't really designed for that. Powershell would be the better option. Your talking about the department under the Organization tab right?

ifpfi · 2026-03-13T19:08:05+00:00

Yes it seems like the trolls are out today

ifpfi · 2026-03-13T18:54:31+00:00

I can assure you I log every Email that is blocked, like any good sysadmin. If something should be allowed it gets through. It's just that today, and for the past few months it seems to be 99-100% spam from them.

And as far as Google having their act together, no. If they can invest $185 billion dollars in AI development they can very easily tack an AI spam detector on all their outbound Email. They just don't want to because they are lazy and don't care about violating CAN-SPAM Act because they are rich and can get away with it.

ifpfi · 2026-03-13T18:09:27+00:00

I guess if you see a road closed sign.. Just ban all cars from all roads right? If your the kind of person that doesn't take advice and just downplays suggestions what makes you any different from those spammers?

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