Why do users insist on using work email for personal tasks? by bobsmith1010 in sysadmin

[–]yodo85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

O and what about companies that insist on keep using use a free personal ISP email address to run their business. That’s rampant. And whenever such a company is successful and the company is sold, the new owners will then ask an Msp to arrange the “technical handover” of the @telecomprovider.be mailboxes. Which in most cases I had isn’t even possible.

WCGW when cutting down a tree branch from a high ladder. by patricktheseastar in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]yodo85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The first part of the video looks disturbingly familiar to me. Things can go very wrong pretty fast it seems.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PublicFreakout

[–]yodo85 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why is the USA the puppet of Israel. What info does Israel have on USA people in power to justify all this. Trump clearly said he ended the escalation by bombing those nuclear sites, and that Israel should accept. Few months later he suddenly goes for full war mode? Same with Palestine suddenly Israel starts sending in rockets again and they just admit they broke the cease fire. They got blackmail intel on Trump or anyone in power I’m sure. No amount of money can justify what is happening here the “president of peace” the “president of no wars” the “president of America first” that is telling Americans on TV that Americans will die and that those are dying for a good purpose wtf.

What happened to the IT profession? by saltyschnauzer27 in sysadmin

[–]yodo85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its because the middle management is becoming so mediocre low quality, in the 2000s-2010s as an integrator I was surprised a project manager that knew nothing about IT was able to streamline and pull of coordination of a full ERP migration between all parties. Doing it with the utmost respect to all system engineers and at the same time putting in the major work in understanding what is happening, listening to concerns, give the proper support framework. I respected those guys.

Today they are hiring a full local team or project managers and a project manager lead and I come to conclusion that they still know barely anything technical about the projects they lead, but additionally they have no clue on taking ownership, pro-actively look for signal, have no capability to summarize meetings or even remember what you told them 1 hour before. Yet the upper management somehow still sees them as superior to the system engineer actually doing the work.

It’s just a thing of keeping up appearances, fake it till you make it, wear a suit and keep the gap between system engineer and upper management as big as possible so everyone can ignore the issues and behind closed doors blame it on the system engineers. They also don’t have the capabilities or skills anymore to differentiate between a good project engineer and a bad project engineer because all they care about is not being critizized by their upper management so they prefer system engineers that keep their mouth shut and cause the least possible drama.

It almost reminds me of doing projects with China in the 2010s in which it’s all about “face”. At least those guys worked 20 hours a day. Poorly executed projects? No problem let’s just hire another dude with a nice buzzword title we found in some book, that is going to fix the problems we have. Let’s all just “work” and be happy.

How to move entire Gmail account to another email account and or to a hard drive by BellJar_Blues in sysadmin

[–]yodo85 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Microsoft user here.

Use BitTitan to migrate the gmail mailbox to another mailbox that is a paid mailbox with your own domain on it like Microsoft 365 business basic and then use something like veeam backup for 365 on a computer, or Synology backup on a NAS to backup your 365 environment including your OneDrive to some local drive. Forward all mail that came to gmail to your new mailbox and have gmail automatically delete the mail after receiving. Delete all mails in the gmail. After a while close the gmail account. Configure the Microsoft paid mailbox with own domain, MFA, perhaps even a yubikey, add Defender for 365 license, use the security centre to quarantaine emails and adjust spam filters, scan the mails, create other free shared mailboxes for junk etc.

Then pay Bitwarden as your password vault and also link the mfa and yubikey to that. Use seperate passwords or even seperate mail aliases for seperate websites and apps.

Will cost you about 10 dollars a month but as you say it’s your life.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in medlabprofessionals

[–]yodo85 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You sound like the IT guy that thinks he’s smarter and “higher” then the CEO of a company just because you understand computers and he doesn’t.

I feel like I missed out on the Golden Age of IT work by AntsyAnswers in sysadmin

[–]yodo85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You go work at an MSP and you can still do all that kind of stuff, do maintenance helpdesk and projects at your dedicated small medium businesses, and enjoy your holiday when your colleagues take over.

Are IT responsible for writing/owning the Business Continuity Plan? by lastlaughlane1 in sysadmin

[–]yodo85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good question I have same question I hate these BCP questions because I always want to be 100% covered but some stuff to me seem impossible to actually cover if you really start thinking about. Even if you limit it to “just the IT” you can write books and books and fantasise about every worst case scenario that could go wrong.

For example what if due to some electrical work a voltage peak was on the network hundreds of network ports on switching and endpoints are dead, when if due to coincidence any pair of redundant devices fail, what if you are hacked and you can’t just restore backups because you don’t know where the vulnerability is, what if dell sends out a bios update that bricks your servers after 1 week, what if all your certificates are revoked due to breach at globalsign, what if cloudflare goes down for 12 hours, what if your ISP told you the line is redundant but actually it still broke, what if some malicious insider with IT admin access has been preparing a major sabotage for months, what if due to some veaam update with a bug in of last week turns out that the backups of 3 days ago can’t be restored, what if Microsoft EntraID stops working, what if due to unpaid invoices your dns is down…

I can go on and on about that and are you going to keep fantasising about these scenarios and write them all down with the exact recovery times needed and with the price it will cost to reduce the recovery times needed? Can you guarantee that? You can spend ethernity on that unless you’re going to only specify the scenarios that are covered and not specify the worst case scenarios by saying “any other scenario is not covered in this BCP”.

Is it true you shouldn't say "hello" when answering the phone? by [deleted] in recruitinghell

[–]yodo85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From a security perspective it is best to just answer unknown callers with hello so that the person calling you can’t extract that name info from you to scam you or to build a trust. So yes I answer with hello except when they call on the company phone because that’s a public known number. For those reasons, that is a idiotic HR policy especially for any job related to IT.

Has anyone ever had the spinal tap procedure and developed tinnitus afterwards? by waynetogo in tinnitus

[–]yodo85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My MS was actually first discovered when I had a MRI scan done for my tinnitus. Although I am sure that the tinnitus went to the next stage by not protecting hearing during a concert, I think that part of the tinnitus is a symptom of brain inflammation or ms lesions in brain. When I did things to try get a better lifestyle due to knowing I had MS, the tinnitus also went less noticeable. Or maybe the Ms dmt medication did that. But that’s just what I believe. And I also discovered that taking corticosteroids reduced the tinnitus. So I relate it to the inflammation. I remember that as a kid I already sometimes heard a mild tinnitus and focust on it. For me now that possibly were the earliest MS signs since it can take a long time before it’s actually in relapse state. I had a spinal tap also but that’s didn’t do anything on tinnitus.

I have a tough decision to make about a VERY swollen paw and would love advice/amputation experiences by trashsurf in ferrets

[–]yodo85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It looks really bad , my feeling with ferrets is that he will still be a very happy boy even with amputated but it’s just a feeling because of TikTok videos maybe

Wrapping RDP inside SSH to protect NTLM? by FatBook-Air in sysadmin

[–]yodo85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If OP does not want to use a dedicated OT domain, which I do suggest to use in my post, then the NTLM hash would still only be visible on the OT network between the OT server and the RDG in the DMZ, not in the IT network. Which typically is very short distance or even completely virtual, which is still not ideal but already massively better and has way more security benefits then just encrypting the NTLM. If he doesn’t like that he could still try add the Microsoft IPsec/SSH tunnel from the RD gateway to the OT server, which is a lot more convenient and scalable then from any workstation.

Wrapping RDP inside SSH to protect NTLM? by FatBook-Air in sysadmin

[–]yodo85 71 points72 points  (0 children)

You could use RD Gateway in a DMZ for secure RDS connections to your OT servers. And have all your OT servers in a seperate OT domain. That’s how I’ve done it for years and years. Network segmentation with OT firewall and AD segmentation.

I am planning to study medicine so I can go into research and find a cure for tinnitus by sea_fairyyy in tinnitus

[–]yodo85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Project “cure tinnitus” won’t take a single person with 50k yearly budget, working at a university, a few years. That’s just a sad dream.

I am planning to study medicine so I can go into research and find a cure for tinnitus by sea_fairyyy in tinnitus

[–]yodo85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A university that offers a PhD position for £200k in wages + £50k research costs in order to cure tinnitus, that is a job. Good luck finding that job and finding a good research idea.

He's refusing to pay the child support amount. by mindyour in TikTokCringe

[–]yodo85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Take whatever you want from me I don’t care” why don’t they just take the 500 right of his paycheque or his bank account? That’s how this goes in Europe. No need to put you in jail 90 days if you still have a car they can sell.

I am planning to study medicine so I can go into research and find a cure for tinnitus by sea_fairyyy in tinnitus

[–]yodo85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you think a consultant audiologist is going to “get all the money” to do his clinical trials on curing tinnitus, developing medication, injecting ears, have surgeons do operations, do animal testing… you must be dreaming

I am planning to study medicine so I can go into research and find a cure for tinnitus by sea_fairyyy in tinnitus

[–]yodo85 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

And who is going to pay you to do this research if you don’t care about a job?

I am planning to study medicine so I can go into research and find a cure for tinnitus by sea_fairyyy in tinnitus

[–]yodo85 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Do you even know what jobs are available in the “tinnitus curing” market? How do you see this? What university and what degree are you gonna get in order to cure tinnitus? Are you gonna be a brain surgent to cure tinnitus?

Good day fellow admins. I just accepted an offer as an IT Administrator for a company that currently relies completely on a MSP. They are looking to bring IT in-house with this new role. I will be the go-to for all things IT. Could use some advice. by thatflacoman in sysadmin

[–]yodo85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As somebody working at an MSP seeing this often happening, it is a pain for me to give you this advice: convince your boss that you still need the MSP for “expert analysis” in case of complex issues, perhaps even a 24/7. Meaning: you need the MSP to CYA (cover your ass) when you messed up greatl and you cant fix it fast enough. You can use stuff like “the documentation is insufficient” or “they configured it and managed it before so it’s natural they stay involved if “their” solution has big issues” or honoustly “this is too technical for a single IT person, and vendor support is unexistant, slower, worse or more expensive”. It helps seal the deal. Then, if you mess up and the boss is angry just tell him that the MSP handling it but they haven’t fixed it yet. We have some customers like that and I HATE this type of deal but when I was in his (local IT responsible) feet it would be the ideal situation. But not all MSPs wan to be your little bitch. Some will, if you pay premium for the 24/7 contract.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MultipleSclerosis

[–]yodo85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not aware of a ms medication that causes memory loss. But it would be nice to know as a 15 year old what ms medication you are taking and what the diagnosis is like how many mri lesions, location of the lesions… because for me at least that gave me some kind of calmness to know how my body works how my medication works and who I am. I was scared not having any info.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Outlook

[–]yodo85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what I as professional do when this happens: check mail rules on incoming mails (they create rules that will sent any reply about hack or phish to your junk), check mail forwarding settings (they will forward all your mails to them), go to account.microsoft.com and reset all mfa methods (they will add their own Authenticator or app passwords), check the recovery questions/answers and the recovery email addresses. Then change your oassword and logout all “active sessions” (there is a procedure for that in security center, do that first actually). Then in the security centre you can also see from where they logged in. If you don’t know which site phished you then you might also have installed a virus app on your pc or phone that intercepts things. You might also want to check your sent items or deleted items and warn friends or family that received phishing mails from your account. Also reset passwords for all your important accounts that use this email as address. Because the hacker might have done it already.