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Just a quick fyi for anyone using Intune to distribute firewall rules with the "Endpoint Protection > Windows Firewall" profile for the first time....

Hello friends. Work email is crushing me. The ticketing systems, plural, email me on everyone's tucket. (Because some people only work tickets via email and others through the web interface.)...

Hello everyone, I hope I came to the right place to ask my stupid question. I'm currently working in a company that stuck way way back in time. I'm talking some people are still working in DOS level back in time. There is some revamping of this in progres, but it's going to be a long run....

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So I have been a part of this community for a while and it seems pretty quiet. I know Lemmy is not as big as Reddit so this community will always be much smaller but I kind of miss the activity on r/sysadmin. Infinity for Reddit still works for view only so I have been scrolling though posts on Reddit as some of the stories and...

I have created a new Samba community on lemmy.sdf.org...

The location of VMware Security Advisories (VMSAs) has changed on May 6, 2024. They are now available from the Broadcom Support Portal. The legacy VMSA URLs still work but are now redirected to the portal, for example:...

Samba is amazing, Windows server is a lot less so. The problem with Windows server is that it takes tons of steps to do basic things. On Samba I had Samba tool and it was very nice and friendly. On Windows server you have a ton of different management panels....

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I received the below message. It states Skyline Advisor Pro can’t be activated after 4/1. This doesn’t look good for the Skyline program. I’ve been using it for a long time and between log assist and the recommendations, i’ve found it very helpful. I have the Dell integration in place but I haven’t really used it much....

Basically what it says in the title. I did a lot of searching in Internet. I think small form factor computers are mt best bet. But I still feel they are costly for my purpose....

Debian has less complexityand is very stable. It has a nice wiki and a Debian system can run for a few years on unattended upgrades....

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If you are on call and you receive a call at say 3:45 am and you resolve the issue by 4:30 am. Is it then worth trying to go back to sleep to wake up for work the next day or should you just stay awake and power through it?...

I manage hundreds of servers at work. They each have a BMC (remote power on/off, reset, KVM, etc) and we need to use those features frequently. I’ve been using a Google Docs spreadsheet to track their URLs, what each box is used for, specs, etc but it feels like a dynamic web app would be better for this purpose. Does anyone...

I read someone was trying to get Samba AD working in a container and now I am curious what else you guys are working on....

I’m looking into building a new remote management with mesh VPNs but it may turn out not to be practical.

I’ve been seeing a lot of doom and gloom about VMware. The cutting of services and licensing changes of the cost of core offerings are huge issues. Is anyone planning or budgeting to change to another hypervisor? If so what?

About a year ago I introduced Rustdesk as an experiment. For those who don’t know Rustdesk is a piece of software that allows remote access. You can use the public servers or you can use your own private server....

I was wondering how often does one choose to make and keep back ups. I know that “It depends on your business needs”, but that is rather vague and unsatisfying, so I was hoping to hear some heuristics from the community. Like say I had a workstation/desktop that is acting as a server at a shop (taking inventory / sales...

So I recently discovered that the camera NVRs are majority insecure. This lead to my company failing to get PCI compliance which wasn’t all that unexpected. However, this leads to the awkward situation of me comparing mesh VPNs. I’ve been playing around with netbird but I’m looking for a more polished solution....

Has anyone used sunshine/moonlight for low latency remote desktop? I’ve used it for remote gaming but I since I’ve had good experiences I though it might be testing for work....

It’s the last Friday before the New Year. Like myself, many of you will be starting their on-call rotation....

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I wrote this a Christmas or two ago and thought it would be nice to share to any of us out there dutifully on call....