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.

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

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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Microsoft 365 Principal SRE here. I can provide some context. At approximately 21:40 UTC, an engineer deployed a routine configuration change to Azure Front Door that inadvertently redirected our authentication traffic to a SharePoint site last updated in 2017.

We immediately initiated a rollback, but the rollback pipeline requires MFA approval through Microsoft Authenticator, which is currently waiting for a Conditional Access policy evaluation from the same infrastructure we're trying to restore.

We have a break-glass admin account, but unfortunately its password is stored in a OneNote notebook on the affected tenant. Our on-call engineer attempted to bypass the issue using PowerShell, but the required module was deprecated last Tuesday, and its replacement requires a P2 license.

We then opened a Sev A ticket with Microsoft Premier Support. They responded asking us to run sfc /scannow and provide a screenshot. The prolonged recovery is primarily due to our change advisory board requiring a Teams meeting to authorize the rollback.

The meeting organizer is stuck in the lobby, and the only person authorized to admit him was laid off in June. Current mitigation involves migrating affected users to Microsoft 365 E5, which should resolve the issue from a revenue perspective.

We have identified the root cause as customer misconfiguration. Next update in 30 minutes, assuming someone can get Outlook working

sorce : https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/s/fhLHjvw4Sg

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.

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Guys, I sort of messed up.

I finally got my dream job at my dream company. I've loved this company ever since I was a little kid, always wanted to work for them. I finally got past the technical rounds with this company and they hired me about 6 months ago.

The best part is shortly after I started a few of my coworkers on my team have left in the past few months, so I've been able to absorb more and more responsibility, and even have been promoted twice.

Problem is most of my resume and the work I've been doing at this company has been mostly AI generated. I don't even fully understand the work I'm doing and I also cheated using AI on the technical interview to get the job. I was basically willing to take any salary to get in the door.

Without going into too much detail our company is having like a huge outage today and I don't have the ai tools I normally do the work with. I have a lot of executives super mad at me right now, because they want me to fix this shit, but like I don't even know what the fuck I'm doing, and all of my team that built it took exit packages months ago and left behind little documentation. I just keep rebooting servers and shit but nothings working.

I really need to get this thing back up and running. The little documentation my coworkers left behind, said to try SFC /scannow, I've done that like 3 times now and nothings working. Any other ideas? So many people are BIG MAD at me now and they're saying I'm going to lower the stock price if I don't fix it. Please help, my stock doesn't vest for another 5 years.

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?

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.

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