I decided to download Tailscale and tested it on my phone, everything works fine. I also tried it on a college computer, and it worked well there too, however, just today, the session kept freezing and then unfreezing, which hadn't happened before. If I were to set up port forwarding and connect via a public IP address, would the result be the same?

One of the teachers mentioned that he has RDP exposed directly to the internet.

City admin

Dammit team, you should’ve had these systems upgraded years ago. Now it’s your ass on the line to make sure we get the systems upgraded by Monday. Or guess what? You’re fired! Now put down that beer and get to work.

Before I start I want to say I feel personally attacked that reddit suggested I crosspost this here 👀 😂 Might as well..., but this was a random breakfix small business that randomly calls us once or twice a year

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Friday the 13th, keep your guard up boys and girls..

I just went to a local site to drop a part off and someone in the office jokingly said to me that their computer just started running updates as if it was my fault

Upon closer Inspection on the dell micro there was a blue screen up that said updates were in progress, and to not shut the computer down

the font looked off, so I hit ctrl+alt+delete and noticed we were on a desktop with screen connect running, I immediately unplugged the network cable, the screen locked again sure enough they were connected with Wi-Fi as well, so I powered the machine down and removed the Wi-Fi card and rebooted to see what was going on..

After reboot, the ability to shut down restart or use task manager was removed by Group policy, apparently, after I unplugged the network cord they noticed and immediately started trying to lock the machine down while I was using it..

Reloaded the machine they were back up and running within 20 minutes with all of their data migrated..

I only wish I had time to clear userdata, clear credential manager, throw a wallpaper up with the middle finger on it and let them reconnect before i wiped it.

Stay vigilant.. they are

I’m so sorry guys.

Edit: Rolled back physical config to match running config and we are back! Everyone agrees the “Modernization Plan” upgrades to the ATM circuits on the IBM 360s were rushed.

Edit2: This is r/shittysysadmin. The point is I did not type the above command. In April. As we discovered yesterday.

Just started a new job working on ATC systems.

I pushed a small change as they said they were getting too many communication.

Seems to have worked well.

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oh no i cant get to my 25,000 spam messages oh nooo

Copilot said we should reboot all the servers so patches are consistent, I said yes. Some of the servers had disk space problems so I had Copilot delete some stuff, that shouldn't be a problem right? I did them a favor, but every seems mad, what gives?

and wanted to know if any of you are showing up armed before I sign up

It was me...

One of Microsoft's incident cause statements said the outages was a result of "a server was overloaded by requests...".

I was about 2/3 through my script to remove 14k members from a 43k member distribution list. Have no fear! I have about 6k more members to remove and I just started the script again.