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Patch Tuesday Megathread (2025-03-11)

Hello r/sysadmin, I'm u/AutoModerator, and welcome to this month's Patch Megathread!This is the (mostly) safe location to talk about the latest patches, updates, and releases. We put this thread into...

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Agile is such a joke.

The theory is good but nearly every place I've worked they just want to track individual's work. Especially on the operations side. Like managers telling me to just put a feature in and add a few...

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Upgrade Azure AD connect from 2.2.1 to latest – couple questions

I have Azure AD Connect 2.2.1 running on Windows 2019. Seems like we need to upgrade this to the latest version by end of month. Our MSP suggested a swing migration. Reading the documentation it...

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PCR7 Binding Not Possible because of Microsoft UEFI CA 2011

So I have 2 workstations, same manufacturer, same OS level (Windows 11 23H2), one of them binds PCR7, the other doesn't. I've spent the last hour looking at Measured Boot Logs, and here's what I've...

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Sanity check - Legal hold tenant wide by keyword

I received a legal hold request from GC. It's to anything related to a person who worked here. So in my minds eye this is every file and email related to this person or their email address that must be...

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Sharepoint

We are using SharePoint as our “file server”. We sync the company directory to people’s machines and they can also work online but damm it! Sync issues everywhere, documents sometimes dont open,...

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SPF Record - softfail or hardfail?

I setup ours as softfail, as I believe it was Google Workspace's recommendation. At the time I also remember researching it and a number of articles had said if you setup DMARC/DKIM correctly, it's...

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Merge on prem AD with existing tenant

I'm not looking for total spoon feeding but I'm having trouble finding posts/documentation for my use case.Company currently has an on prem AD environment in addition to a Microsoft tenant for M365...

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CISA Warns of ‘Fast Flux’ Technique Hackers Use for Evasion

A new advisory by CISA warns that a stealthy technique known as “fast flux” is being widely used by cybercriminals and nation-state actors to evade detection, sustain attacks, and resist takedowns —...

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Fighting for rack space from hoarding coworkers

This is mostly a rant, but I'd appreciate advice as well.Our organization has 10 racks in a shared data center and it's tight for all the things we do. They're loosely divided between the senior...

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(From AT&T Mobile Security) Twitter/X Security Breach

(Boy, they went all out for this announcement. AT&T, that is.)In a shocking development, a data enthusiast known as ThinkingOne has released a database containing details of approximately 200...

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Microsoft fails with its SPF rules

I run a few mailfilter-systems for customers and since weeks I see many SPF errors for mails from the Microsoft network. For example:IP: 52.103.167.8 Sender: noreply@emeaemail.teams.microsoft.comIP:...

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How do you all handle SOX audits without losing your minds?

Hey folks!! I’ve been lurking here for a while and I know the pain of dealing with IT SOX audits — the never-ending screenshots, change tracking, and the scramble to show user access reviews or prove...

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Is there a name for the thing where one person has a very vague issue and...

We have one team in particular and whenever one of them has an issue, instead of contacting IT they contact their team chat. While there is a decent chance they are all having similar issues, I...

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Licensing and pricing updates for on-premises server products coming July 2025

Microsoft has officially announced that prices for all standalone on-premises server products — including SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, and Skype for Business Server — will increase by 10%...

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What was your first job in IT?

What was your first job in IT? Were you in the help desk? System admin? Multi-role? submitted by /u/HoosierLarry [link] [comments]

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Started getting IMs from users that our data center systems were unavailable...

It took Verizon 5 hours to finally get a network technician to tell us there was a fiber cut, 3 hours to dispatch a dig team and tech to patch it, and it's been 4 hours more since we've had any...

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Sense of Pride...when I recieved my Novell CNA..1998..better than my college...

Sense of Pride...when I recieved my Novell CNA..1998..better than my college diploma..what about you? submitted by /u/PowerfulTomorrow2192 [link] [comments]

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Do you use WPS Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice in your environment?

I’ve been talking to our Microsoft partner about volume licensing, and it’s shocking how much they’re charging now. We have about 100–200 workstations that basically just need to open and edit Word and...

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Is mainframe ever going to go away? When I started my career in 2007, I was...

As a unix engineer turned client server / cloud app SRE, when I started my career, I swore MF would have to go away by now. Any idea why the world is holding onto MF so hard? We just had an outage due...

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Dell is changing naming convention for OptiPlex and failing in so many ways.

Not sure if it was not clear, but the OptiPlex branding is going away as well as Latitude, XPS, Precision, Inspirion, etc. as it was mentioned in...

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Microsoft is 50 years old today 4 April 2025

Love them or hate them, they changed the world.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft submitted by /u/ZAFJB [link] [comments]

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“I like for the password to be insecure” an actual quote from my boss.

I think I might have an aneurysm. My boss likes using the same password for everything, even after being warned that doing so would make us vulnerable.Even when we make secure passwords, he does not...

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PSA : If you have Lenovo laptops on 24H2, disable your power plan...

Hi everyone.I'd been struggling with an issue for the past 2 weeks or so and I've only seen a few posts on Lenovo's forums about this. We just started migrating over to windows 11 24h2 and all our...

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Price of laptops already up $300-400 per device

I made a post a while back, but then deleted it, however, I just figured I’d bring up this discussion point to see if anyone else noticed the increase in equipment costs. Like the same model of laptop...

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Ex-alcoholic-admin has put his email in every alert, system, login...

I just started in this new job and this is my best guess of what happened. Looks like this dude thought if he puts his direct email in all alerts and puts every login in his direct "name@company.com"...

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Thickheaded Thursday - April 03, 2025

Howdy, /r/sysadmin!It's that time of the week, Thickheaded Thursday! This is a safe (mostly) judgement-free environment for all of your questions and stories, no matter how silly you think they are....

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