Ram rant...
Just a rant on how ridiculous the price hike on RAM... I ordered 128GB of DDR5 6400 for $593.59/USD on 11/10/2025. Checked it out today(12/01/2025) for another build I need to create for a specialized PC for one of my design departments. Now it's priced at $1,484.99/USD. Absolutely unreal and sad.
I can't even imagine what Dell and Synology are going to charge me for the new servers and NAS's I need for my near future upgrades... The RAM price for upgrading is going to drive me through the roof.
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Just a rant on how ridiculous the price hike on RAM... I ordered 128GB of DDR5 6400 for $593.59/USD on 11/10/2025. Checked it out today(12/01/2025) for another build I need to create for a specialized PC for one of my design departments. Now it's priced at $1,484.99/USD. Absolutely unreal and sad.
I can't even imagine what Dell and Synology are going to charge me for the new servers and NAS's I need for my near future upgrades... The RAM price for upgrading is going to drive me through the roof.
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What temperature is your server room?
What it says on the tin. We have a mildly spacious office-turned-server-room that's about 15x15 with one full rack and one half-rack of equipment and one rack of cabling. I'd like to keep it at 72, but due to not having dedicated HVAC, this is not always possible.
I'm looking for other data points to support needing dedicated air. What's your situation like?
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What it says on the tin. We have a mildly spacious office-turned-server-room that's about 15x15 with one full rack and one half-rack of equipment and one rack of cabling. I'd like to keep it at 72, but due to not having dedicated HVAC, this is not always possible.
I'm looking for other data points to support needing dedicated air. What's your situation like?
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Best phishing simulation tools
We’re reviewing our internal security stack and one of the things on the list is tightening up how we handle phishing awareness. I know everyone has different environments, user bases and tolerance levels for “gotcha” tests, so I’m curious what’s actually worked for you in the real world.
What phishing simulation tools have you had good (or terrible) experiences with?
Did any of them actually change user behavior long-term, or did they just annoy people?
How important are things like automation, reporting or integrations with M365/GSuite in your setup?
Would love to hear what you’ve run into before we commit to anything.
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We’re reviewing our internal security stack and one of the things on the list is tightening up how we handle phishing awareness. I know everyone has different environments, user bases and tolerance levels for “gotcha” tests, so I’m curious what’s actually worked for you in the real world.
What phishing simulation tools have you had good (or terrible) experiences with?
Did any of them actually change user behavior long-term, or did they just annoy people?
How important are things like automation, reporting or integrations with M365/GSuite in your setup?
Would love to hear what you’ve run into before we commit to anything.
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The tech industry is dead and Wall Street is feasting on its carcass
Have you noticed how every path into the middle class mysteriously disappears the moment regular people start using it? IT was one of the last ladders that truly anyone could still climb. You could learn the craft, bust ass, build a career, and maybe even build some wealth for yourself and your kids. And right on schedule, Wall Street showed up, smelled money in a place they didn’t control, and tore the whole ladder off the wall.
They didn’t misunderstand what they were doing (they never do). They saw an industry that actually innovated, an industry run by people who understood their tools and did things differently, efficiently, focused on merit. And they reacted like the parasites that they are. Hijack it. Drain it. While they walk off with the cash.
Then, along comes AI. Not as an actual revolution. Not as anything real. Just a prop. A lights-and-smoke financial trick to tell investors. A magic word that lets executives fire whole teams while saying they are “innovating.” And the sad part is they believe it. They honestly think hype is worth more than working systems. They think a slide deck about “AI transformation” contributes more value to a company than the engineer who actually knows how the systems fit together.
Remote work made the whole thing worse. I love working remotely too, but let’s tell the truth: remote work gutted the entire junior pipeline. You cannot train a new generation of engineers through Slack and Jira. You cannot replace the moment a senior looks over and says, “Stop. Don’t do that.” That is where people learned this job. That is where skill was built. Those moments are gone. Seniors kept the comfort. Juniors got pink slips, replaced with chatbots.
Leadership decided mentorship was too expensive and hand-waved it away because AI was supposed to fill the gap. Spoiler: it won’t. And in a few years, when the remaining seniors are burned out or laid off, there won’t be anyone left who actually knows how to run the infrastructure that by the way holds the modern world together.
Which brings us to the MBA and PE geniuses who think they run this industry. These are people who reboot their laptop by yanking the power cable out, but somehow they believe they should redesign global infrastructure. They talk in buzzwords which they barely understand. They buy whatever SaaS vendor has the shiniest marketing. They strip out whole infra teams and call it “efficiency.” They replace everything with contractors and chatbots and then congratulate themselves for “disruption.”
Meanwhile the actual systems, the ones running entire economies, are held together with baling wire, duct tape, and tribal knowledge. Cloudflare knocks out a third of the internet for an hour and everyone acts surprised. Surprised? You could see this coming a mile away. This is what happens when you fire the people who know how anything works and hand the keys to people who think uptime is something that comes from a SLA some sleezy account exec sold you.
There is only one way this ends. Failure. Real failure. Not a red light on a dashboard. Widespread, grinding collapse in the companies and industries that have been hollowed out for short term profit. And the people who caused it will do what they always do. Cash their checks. Blame the people they replaced. Walk away untouched.
When it finally hits (and it will), remember who's responsible. Remember who took an innovative working industry and fed it to private equity vultures to be feasted on. Remember who profited. I'm talking about the investors and boards who bought thriving startups, promising to nurture and mature them, only to force feed them to flesh eating zombies. They made out like bandits, with the generational wealth that belongs to the people whose blood sweat and tears built this industry.
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Have you noticed how every path into the middle class mysteriously disappears the moment regular people start using it? IT was one of the last ladders that truly anyone could still climb. You could learn the craft, bust ass, build a career, and maybe even build some wealth for yourself and your kids. And right on schedule, Wall Street showed up, smelled money in a place they didn’t control, and tore the whole ladder off the wall.
They didn’t misunderstand what they were doing (they never do). They saw an industry that actually innovated, an industry run by people who understood their tools and did things differently, efficiently, focused on merit. And they reacted like the parasites that they are. Hijack it. Drain it. While they walk off with the cash.
Then, along comes AI. Not as an actual revolution. Not as anything real. Just a prop. A lights-and-smoke financial trick to tell investors. A magic word that lets executives fire whole teams while saying they are “innovating.” And the sad part is they believe it. They honestly think hype is worth more than working systems. They think a slide deck about “AI transformation” contributes more value to a company than the engineer who actually knows how the systems fit together.
Remote work made the whole thing worse. I love working remotely too, but let’s tell the truth: remote work gutted the entire junior pipeline. You cannot train a new generation of engineers through Slack and Jira. You cannot replace the moment a senior looks over and says, “Stop. Don’t do that.” That is where people learned this job. That is where skill was built. Those moments are gone. Seniors kept the comfort. Juniors got pink slips, replaced with chatbots.
Leadership decided mentorship was too expensive and hand-waved it away because AI was supposed to fill the gap. Spoiler: it won’t. And in a few years, when the remaining seniors are burned out or laid off, there won’t be anyone left who actually knows how to run the infrastructure that by the way holds the modern world together.
Which brings us to the MBA and PE geniuses who think they run this industry. These are people who reboot their laptop by yanking the power cable out, but somehow they believe they should redesign global infrastructure. They talk in buzzwords which they barely understand. They buy whatever SaaS vendor has the shiniest marketing. They strip out whole infra teams and call it “efficiency.” They replace everything with contractors and chatbots and then congratulate themselves for “disruption.”
Meanwhile the actual systems, the ones running entire economies, are held together with baling wire, duct tape, and tribal knowledge. Cloudflare knocks out a third of the internet for an hour and everyone acts surprised. Surprised? You could see this coming a mile away. This is what happens when you fire the people who know how anything works and hand the keys to people who think uptime is something that comes from a SLA some sleezy account exec sold you.
There is only one way this ends. Failure. Real failure. Not a red light on a dashboard. Widespread, grinding collapse in the companies and industries that have been hollowed out for short term profit. And the people who caused it will do what they always do. Cash their checks. Blame the people they replaced. Walk away untouched.
When it finally hits (and it will), remember who's responsible. Remember who took an innovative working industry and fed it to private equity vultures to be feasted on. Remember who profited. I'm talking about the investors and boards who bought thriving startups, promising to nurture and mature them, only to force feed them to flesh eating zombies. They made out like bandits, with the generational wealth that belongs to the people whose blood sweat and tears built this industry.
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Who's about to have an end-of-year change freeze?
Starts next week and I can't wait. Everyone else in the company will be on vacation and just a skeleton crew for most departments until mid January. So sick of Friday night deployments where we basically roll the dice on if the latest enhancements will work then spend all weekend troubleshooting. Only time of year I get to relax!
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Starts next week and I can't wait. Everyone else in the company will be on vacation and just a skeleton crew for most departments until mid January. So sick of Friday night deployments where we basically roll the dice on if the latest enhancements will work then spend all weekend troubleshooting. Only time of year I get to relax!
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Question for the mods: what's acceptable?
I made a post this afternoon about the state of the IT industry. I am critical of remote work, which was a secondary point to my post. My primary criticism is of Wall Street influence. I am also critical of Private Equity influence. But secondary mentions of remote work seems to have been a bridge too far.
My post was removed. Messaging the mods was blocked via primary means. One mod replied via chat but my other attempts to engage were met with alerts "no DMs accepted - from you". I appreciate that this is a ultimately a private message board. I also appreciate that I critiqued remote work, which is extremely controversial amongst a majority of /r/sysadmin subscribers. Y'all have strong opinions and I salute you for defending them.
But I broke no rules. I was polite and thoughtful in my replies. And yet, the thread was removed, and the mods radio silent, nonetheless. Simply for discussing a professional opinion, informed by decades in the industry, which seemingly doesn't align with the mods' preferences.
I had a net 400 upvotes in an hour. 80% upvoted. Removed.
Absent any other explanation, this is obvious and apparent narrative control. Anyone who doesn't regurgitate the /r/sysadmin party line that remote work is better than in person: boom, banned, ignored. Silenced.
If you're pro remote work and anti free expression and debate, today is a great day for you. If you believe that robust debate makes us stronger, well, this is evidently not the sub for you.
So how long do you think it will be before this thread is locked by the gestapo? FWIW they truly do believe they're doing the right thing, stifling discussions!
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I made a post this afternoon about the state of the IT industry. I am critical of remote work, which was a secondary point to my post. My primary criticism is of Wall Street influence. I am also critical of Private Equity influence. But secondary mentions of remote work seems to have been a bridge too far.
My post was removed. Messaging the mods was blocked via primary means. One mod replied via chat but my other attempts to engage were met with alerts "no DMs accepted - from you". I appreciate that this is a ultimately a private message board. I also appreciate that I critiqued remote work, which is extremely controversial amongst a majority of /r/sysadmin subscribers. Y'all have strong opinions and I salute you for defending them.
But I broke no rules. I was polite and thoughtful in my replies. And yet, the thread was removed, and the mods radio silent, nonetheless. Simply for discussing a professional opinion, informed by decades in the industry, which seemingly doesn't align with the mods' preferences.
I had a net 400 upvotes in an hour. 80% upvoted. Removed.
Absent any other explanation, this is obvious and apparent narrative control. Anyone who doesn't regurgitate the /r/sysadmin party line that remote work is better than in person: boom, banned, ignored. Silenced.
If you're pro remote work and anti free expression and debate, today is a great day for you. If you believe that robust debate makes us stronger, well, this is evidently not the sub for you.
So how long do you think it will be before this thread is locked by the gestapo? FWIW they truly do believe they're doing the right thing, stifling discussions!
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Changed DNS records over a week ago. Global propagation checkers say 100% complete, but clients still see the old site?
This is driving me insane.
We migrated our company website's to a new host over a week ago. I updated the A records and the CNAME at our registrar to point to the new server IP.
About 2% of our client base is emailing us saying they are seeing a "Page not found" error.
When I check whatsmydns.net or DNSChecker, every single location shows the new, correct IP address. It’s all green checks.
Troubleshooting so far:
I've asked clients to clear their browser cache (Ctrl+F5). No luck.
I asked one client to run nslookup and they are indeed getting the old IP returned to them.
I lowered the TTL (Time To Live) to 300 seconds before the switch, specifically to avoid this.
The old host has been fully shut down, so they are just hitting a dead end.
Is it possible their local ISP DNS is caching the record for over a week? That seems insane.
How do I fix this now, and more importantly, how do I prevent this zombie DNS in the future?
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This is driving me insane.
We migrated our company website's to a new host over a week ago. I updated the A records and the CNAME at our registrar to point to the new server IP.
About 2% of our client base is emailing us saying they are seeing a "Page not found" error.
When I check whatsmydns.net or DNSChecker, every single location shows the new, correct IP address. It’s all green checks.
Troubleshooting so far:
I've asked clients to clear their browser cache (Ctrl+F5). No luck.
I asked one client to run nslookup and they are indeed getting the old IP returned to them.
I lowered the TTL (Time To Live) to 300 seconds before the switch, specifically to avoid this.
The old host has been fully shut down, so they are just hitting a dead end.
Is it possible their local ISP DNS is caching the record for over a week? That seems insane.
How do I fix this now, and more importantly, how do I prevent this zombie DNS in the future?
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Looking for help reducing a PDF file size
I’ve got a large PDF that I need to make smaller for emailing. Nothing fancy, just a quick reduce without losing quality. Any tools or tips that’ve worked well for you?
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I’ve got a large PDF that I need to make smaller for emailing. Nothing fancy, just a quick reduce without losing quality. Any tools or tips that’ve worked well for you?
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Phishing attempts are getting sophisticated
Long story short: right as we’d finished negotiating our CRM renewal and were about to sign, "our CRM" emailed saying we had to pay ASAP or our account would be deleted by end of week. It landed with an old admin, got forwarded to the new owner, and his first thought was: “Why isn’t there an in-app notification for something this big?” He looked up the “account manager” on LinkedIn (not a real person), checked headers and domains, spotted a few subtle inconsistencies, and flagged it as phishing.
But for real, the timing from the phishing attempt was too convenient for it to be a coincidence...
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Long story short: right as we’d finished negotiating our CRM renewal and were about to sign, "our CRM" emailed saying we had to pay ASAP or our account would be deleted by end of week. It landed with an old admin, got forwarded to the new owner, and his first thought was: “Why isn’t there an in-app notification for something this big?” He looked up the “account manager” on LinkedIn (not a real person), checked headers and domains, spotted a few subtle inconsistencies, and flagged it as phishing.
But for real, the timing from the phishing attempt was too convenient for it to be a coincidence...
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Microsoft Defender Admin portal issue
It seems the security console is not loading properly. Wondering if there is an outage with this at the moment?
Thoughts?
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It seems the security console is not loading properly. Wondering if there is an outage with this at the moment?
Thoughts?
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Unlocker from MajorGeeks contains Babylon RAT
Got hit with thousands in AWS charges from crypto miners this morning. Spent hours figuring out how they bypassed my MFA.
It was Unlocker 1.9.2 from MajorGeeks! Babylon RAT bundled in keylogger, credential stealer, the works. My whole pc was compromised thanks to it.
Windows defender nor Malwarebytes didnt pick it up back then, and even now only Malwarebytes detects the installer.
Hash:
This has been known since 2013. Still up. 1.8M downloads.
Hope nobody else falls for this, had pretty excruciating hours at the bank today.
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Got hit with thousands in AWS charges from crypto miners this morning. Spent hours figuring out how they bypassed my MFA.
It was Unlocker 1.9.2 from MajorGeeks! Babylon RAT bundled in keylogger, credential stealer, the works. My whole pc was compromised thanks to it.
Windows defender nor Malwarebytes didnt pick it up back then, and even now only Malwarebytes detects the installer.
Hash:
fb6b1171776554a808c62f4045f5167603f70bf7611de64311ece0624b365397This has been known since 2013. Still up. 1.8M downloads.
Hope nobody else falls for this, had pretty excruciating hours at the bank today.
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Need to decide on making a change.
I am 24 years into working in IT and federal contracting. I have hated aevery min of working in IT for well over the last 14 years. Now I am 50 years old, 4 kids with one in college and the rest still in K -12. I have been laid off twice this year because of this administration's BS, and I cannot stomach the job or the customer anymore. I am looking at trades now. Hard to imagine getting into a trade at 50 years old and making less money. But I rather make less and actually enjoy what I do with my life for once. Just a bad situation all the way around. I am so sick of interviews and applying for these IT jobs. The requirements that companies are looking for. You need to know a dozen different things for one Sysadmin job, and the crap keeps changing every year. IT was the biggest mistake of my life, and the years I will never get back because of it. AI can have this. The future of this feild is going to put so many out of work.
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I am 24 years into working in IT and federal contracting. I have hated aevery min of working in IT for well over the last 14 years. Now I am 50 years old, 4 kids with one in college and the rest still in K -12. I have been laid off twice this year because of this administration's BS, and I cannot stomach the job or the customer anymore. I am looking at trades now. Hard to imagine getting into a trade at 50 years old and making less money. But I rather make less and actually enjoy what I do with my life for once. Just a bad situation all the way around. I am so sick of interviews and applying for these IT jobs. The requirements that companies are looking for. You need to know a dozen different things for one Sysadmin job, and the crap keeps changing every year. IT was the biggest mistake of my life, and the years I will never get back because of it. AI can have this. The future of this feild is going to put so many out of work.
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I wasn't allowed to swap out APs until I finish OSHA Training for 10 hours.
We had a whole project on swapping out old UniFi WiFi 5 with Meraki Wifi 7 which will be mounted in the ceiling.
I pulled out a ladder and was told to get down from it by HR. Not because I was being dangerous but because I wasn't "ladder trained".
Now I have to take a 10 hour training course and was told this has to be done outside of my normal salaried working hours of 50 a week.
CFO has informed me that HR is allowed to make that requirement. Now I'm burning through my nights so I can get this yearly goal finished.
https://www.oshaeducationcenter.com/osha-10-hour-training-construction/
My users work in construction, they simply picked the same one that the others take. I wouldn't care if this could count towards my normal hours but taking courses doesn't count towards increasing shareholder value.
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We had a whole project on swapping out old UniFi WiFi 5 with Meraki Wifi 7 which will be mounted in the ceiling.
I pulled out a ladder and was told to get down from it by HR. Not because I was being dangerous but because I wasn't "ladder trained".
Now I have to take a 10 hour training course and was told this has to be done outside of my normal salaried working hours of 50 a week.
CFO has informed me that HR is allowed to make that requirement. Now I'm burning through my nights so I can get this yearly goal finished.
https://www.oshaeducationcenter.com/osha-10-hour-training-construction/
My users work in construction, they simply picked the same one that the others take. I wouldn't care if this could count towards my normal hours but taking courses doesn't count towards increasing shareholder value.
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renaming the domian
hello everyone
as the noscript says i have to rename our domain from tm to soc because the company was bought out this is a new job that i started 2 days ago and this is currently my task
to be totally honest i come from a linux background so really not familiar with windows eco system that much is there any best practices ? should i set up a new domain and use ADMT ? will it move the SIDs with it ? or should i just use rendom my current setup is 2 domain controllers with approx 100 users and 100 computers and approx 70 servers databases and webservers
Appreciate the help
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hello everyone
as the noscript says i have to rename our domain from tm to soc because the company was bought out this is a new job that i started 2 days ago and this is currently my task
to be totally honest i come from a linux background so really not familiar with windows eco system that much is there any best practices ? should i set up a new domain and use ADMT ? will it move the SIDs with it ? or should i just use rendom my current setup is 2 domain controllers with approx 100 users and 100 computers and approx 70 servers databases and webservers
Appreciate the help
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Crash out / vent
Microsoft. Fuck you.
You're wasting billions on AI, claiming we want it when the reality is copilot sucks ass. Its the "Edge" of AI models.
Instead of wasting those billions can you make new outlook have COM add ins? Or better yet - make the fucker be able to export multiple emails into a single PDF?
Or just fix old outlook so it doesnt crash when a stiff fucking breeze comes through?
Thanks. Fuck you.
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Microsoft. Fuck you.
You're wasting billions on AI, claiming we want it when the reality is copilot sucks ass. Its the "Edge" of AI models.
Instead of wasting those billions can you make new outlook have COM add ins? Or better yet - make the fucker be able to export multiple emails into a single PDF?
Or just fix old outlook so it doesnt crash when a stiff fucking breeze comes through?
Thanks. Fuck you.
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Why do people think its okay to upload sensitive company information on their personal GPT?
Lately I keep hearing people admit they paste entire contracts, client briefs, internal docs, everything, straight into ChatGPT from their personal accounts and random GPTs. No clue where the data goes, no company oversight, nothing. They have their own company AI accounts so its not like thats the problem, its just more "convenient" like ?????
How is this not a compliance nightmare waiting to blow up? Anyone else seeing this?
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Lately I keep hearing people admit they paste entire contracts, client briefs, internal docs, everything, straight into ChatGPT from their personal accounts and random GPTs. No clue where the data goes, no company oversight, nothing. They have their own company AI accounts so its not like thats the problem, its just more "convenient" like ?????
How is this not a compliance nightmare waiting to blow up? Anyone else seeing this?
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How am I supposed to deal with this absolute bullshit from Microsoft?
Trying to activate some benefits in Partner Centre and I get this message:
Some users, entities, and locations are restricted from using certain Microsoft services.
For this reason, leveraging anonymizing or location hiding technologies (such as VPN,
virtual machine, Internet tracking blocking, etc.) when connecting to these services is
not allowed. If you are using one of these technologies, you'll need to disable/change
your settings to gain access. If you believe you encountered this problem without one
of those causes, please wait 24 hours and try again. If the issue persists, contact our
support team and reference the below message code and transaction ID.
We will engage a team of experts that will help verify your account.
Code: 715-123160 Transaction ID: Removed
Needless to say, I'm not using a VPN, a virtual machine, or any form of browser privacy extension.
I waited 24 hours, tried again, same message.
I created an SR. No response.
I created a scheduled appointment in the SR. Nobody attended the call.
I'm losing my fucking mind with this bullshit.
Anyone got any tips?
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Trying to activate some benefits in Partner Centre and I get this message:
Some users, entities, and locations are restricted from using certain Microsoft services.
For this reason, leveraging anonymizing or location hiding technologies (such as VPN,
virtual machine, Internet tracking blocking, etc.) when connecting to these services is
not allowed. If you are using one of these technologies, you'll need to disable/change
your settings to gain access. If you believe you encountered this problem without one
of those causes, please wait 24 hours and try again. If the issue persists, contact our
support team and reference the below message code and transaction ID.
We will engage a team of experts that will help verify your account.
Code: 715-123160 Transaction ID: Removed
Needless to say, I'm not using a VPN, a virtual machine, or any form of browser privacy extension.
I waited 24 hours, tried again, same message.
I created an SR. No response.
I created a scheduled appointment in the SR. Nobody attended the call.
I'm losing my fucking mind with this bullshit.
Anyone got any tips?
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IT Conferences
With budget season upon us I have the opportunity to request funds to attend conferences next year. Work in a Microsoft shop, team of 3, located in the US, and am a generalist. I have attended Spiceworld a few times.
What other conferences have you attended and would recommend attending or skipping?
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With budget season upon us I have the opportunity to request funds to attend conferences next year. Work in a Microsoft shop, team of 3, located in the US, and am a generalist. I have attended Spiceworld a few times.
What other conferences have you attended and would recommend attending or skipping?
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We are starting to pilot linux desktops because Windows is so bad
We are starting to pilot doing Ubuntu desktops because Windows is so bad and we are expecting it to get worse. We have no intention of putting regular users on Linux, but it is going to be an option for developers and engineers.
We've also historically supported Macs, and are pushing for those more.
We're never going to give up Windows by any means because the average clerical, administrative and financial employee is still going to have a windows desktop with office on it, but we're starting to become more liberal with who can have Macs, and are adding Ubuntu as a service offering for those who can take advantage of it.
In the data center we've shifted from 50/50 Windows and RHEL to 30% Windows, 60% RHEL and 10% Ubuntu.
AD isn't going anywhere.Entra ID isn't going anywhere, MS Office isn't going anywhere (and works great on Macs and works fine through the web version on Ubuntu), but we're hoping to lessen our Windows footprint.
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We are starting to pilot doing Ubuntu desktops because Windows is so bad and we are expecting it to get worse. We have no intention of putting regular users on Linux, but it is going to be an option for developers and engineers.
We've also historically supported Macs, and are pushing for those more.
We're never going to give up Windows by any means because the average clerical, administrative and financial employee is still going to have a windows desktop with office on it, but we're starting to become more liberal with who can have Macs, and are adding Ubuntu as a service offering for those who can take advantage of it.
In the data center we've shifted from 50/50 Windows and RHEL to 30% Windows, 60% RHEL and 10% Ubuntu.
AD isn't going anywhere.Entra ID isn't going anywhere, MS Office isn't going anywhere (and works great on Macs and works fine through the web version on Ubuntu), but we're hoping to lessen our Windows footprint.
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So my boss up and quit this morning
Topic. Dude turned in his key card and such and then walked out the door. No notice to me or top management or anything.
I’m already covered on like 98% of all of the accounts thru admin emails (admin.user@domain) so for the most part I have that covered. My daily job as “IT Specialist” and global admin access to AD and all servers and emails and all things related to global access. Backups are good. Really the only real problems are anything being paid for by his credit card.
I guess my real concern is, what am I missing? It was just the two of us, me the IT Specialist and him the Director of IT. My responsibilities are “de facto” system admin, help desk, and some networking and his main duties were programming and just policy in general (regardless of how “wacky” it seemed to me).
So what am I missing? What should I look out for that my junior level experience might not think about?
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Topic. Dude turned in his key card and such and then walked out the door. No notice to me or top management or anything.
I’m already covered on like 98% of all of the accounts thru admin emails (admin.user@domain) so for the most part I have that covered. My daily job as “IT Specialist” and global admin access to AD and all servers and emails and all things related to global access. Backups are good. Really the only real problems are anything being paid for by his credit card.
I guess my real concern is, what am I missing? It was just the two of us, me the IT Specialist and him the Director of IT. My responsibilities are “de facto” system admin, help desk, and some networking and his main duties were programming and just policy in general (regardless of how “wacky” it seemed to me).
So what am I missing? What should I look out for that my junior level experience might not think about?
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Employee took a brand-new company laptop home for personal use without asking — how should this be handled?
We’re a small company that follows strict security and compliance rules (CMMC-level requirements). One of our support technicians took a **brand-new company laptop** home because his personal home computer failed. He did **not** ask permission to take it, and I’m not sure he intended to bring it back.
We discovered the missing laptop, contacted him, and he eventually returned it. The laptop was used for personal activities at home.
This is a clear violation of our policies around asset control and equipment use. We’re trying to determine the appropriate response. Should this be handled as:
* A formal written warning?
* A final warning or suspension?
* Termination due to unauthorized removal of company property?
This isn’t a one-time small mistake like forgetting to log out — it’s taking new company equipment home for personal use without permission, and we work in a regulated environment.
How would you handle this?
Would this be considered gross misconduct at your workplace?
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We’re a small company that follows strict security and compliance rules (CMMC-level requirements). One of our support technicians took a **brand-new company laptop** home because his personal home computer failed. He did **not** ask permission to take it, and I’m not sure he intended to bring it back.
We discovered the missing laptop, contacted him, and he eventually returned it. The laptop was used for personal activities at home.
This is a clear violation of our policies around asset control and equipment use. We’re trying to determine the appropriate response. Should this be handled as:
* A formal written warning?
* A final warning or suspension?
* Termination due to unauthorized removal of company property?
This isn’t a one-time small mistake like forgetting to log out — it’s taking new company equipment home for personal use without permission, and we work in a regulated environment.
How would you handle this?
Would this be considered gross misconduct at your workplace?
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