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Hey everyone, Any of your staff running into issues with no cellular access on their iPhones? Running into this in upper Manhattan. submitted by /u/ludwigvh [link] [comments]

I've been working at my job, starting as a Help Desk Tech, all the way up to System Admin now for about 16 years. Today I finally made my first ever mistake that brought production hard down. Was working on an unrelated but related system with a Vendor for an upgrade to that system. Part of it required me to access *THE* primary server for our workplace. Unfortunately for me, the names of the main server and this server for this vendor are VERY Similar. We needed to do a VMWare snapshot rollback after we broke something. I switched to the VMWare window, read the name of the selected server, verified it twice, then reverted to the latest snapshot. Went back to my window which had the server I was working on open, go to try to sign in... domain relationship failure. I look up at the name of the server in the upper left hand corner..... cue the swearing. Rolled back this primary server to over a year previous. I immediately tell the vendor we need to end the call, as know what the fix is now anyways for the issue we were having. Tell my boss immediately that things are down, contact the other people at work who need to know about being down, discuss our messaging options, and while doing that, started getting things restored from backup. The timing wasn't great, but wasn't bad either. We did lose data, but it was minimal. We are back up now, and while I'm still personally upset, I'm relieved that the damage done was minimal (Only a 3.5 hour outage of hard down to fully operational). But yeah, my first time bringing our systems fully down. Here's to another 15+ years before the next one. submitted by /u/Arnoc_ [link] [comments]

Hey Admin people, I made this ticketing system for property managers to handle their maintenance coordination ( not promoting ). It's a pretty complex application with dozens of context management techniques and a bunch of communication routing streams which I used to handle my properties tenant communication and leasing / maintenance requests. My dad who's an IT director came home one day and was complaining about how awful Jira so I figured id develop the same system for service desk. So far we can sync Jira, Zendesk and handle ticket clarification for MS365 password requests, access requests, and off-boarding I use at my current company (communicate with the end-user back and fourth to clarify each ticket then pick a pre-approved deterministic workflow and route to human for approval). Was looking for some thoughts and opinions on stuff like this from a professional level. submitted by /u/Clear_Veterinarian_8 [link] [comments]

I’m testing an Intune BYOD config that requires (among other things) iOS devices to have a 6 digit pin. I noticed my Apple Watch now requires a pin as well. From what I can tell, it looks like the watch is simply inheriting the policy from my phone, and there’s no way around this, other than removing the pin requirement. Has anyone else run into this? If so, did you find any workarounds? Right now my thought is just to remove the pin requirement, since we also have a policy requiring biometrics to be configured anyway. submitted by /u/cheesehead1996 [link] [comments]

Youngish kid is calling it an "Ups", but I've always heard "you pee ess". What say ye all? submitted by /u/scubajay2001 [link] [comments]

I just got an email from Google Cloud about "Sensitive actions taken in your Google Cloud organization". Upon reading it, I found that it was performed by me, so it was okay, but the notification came almost exactly 1 month after the events (the events occurred on June 26, now is July 26). Perhaps there is a bug in the GCP cron job with an off-by-1 error in the month check? submitted by /u/hao1300 [link] [comments]

I was at FinOps X this year and some of the best conversations we had were around building cost guardrails early into the dev process. submitted by /u/frugal-ai [link] [comments]

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Posting this in case anyone else runs into it after updating to WorldShip 29.0.705. Every shipment took about 40 to 60 seconds after clicking Process Shipment. WorldShip would freeze, then eventually finish and print the label. The logs showed this error: Cannot create file 'C:\ProgramData\UPS\WSTD\WSDB\TelemetryLog.mdf' because it already exists. Unexpected Error in TelemetryLog::CreateDatabase. What fixed it: Close WorldShip. Go to: C:\ProgramData\UPS\WSTD\WSDB Back up and rename only the files starting with TelemetryLog, such as: TelemetryLog.mdf TelemetryLog_log.ldf Rename them to something like: TelemetryLog.mdf.old TelemetryLog_log.ldf.old Reopen WorldShip. WorldShip created fresh telemetry database files automatically. Shipment processing dropped from about 45 to 50 seconds down to around 3 seconds, the normal time before updating. Do not rename any other database files. Only the TelemetryLog files, and make a backup first. submitted by /u/ebiil [link] [comments]

What failover options are currently available without pushing multiple vpn profiles to the users ? Basically VPN1 and VPN2 each in different datacenter locations. VPN1 should be used all the times and VPN2 as failover only. I see Microsoft is discontinuing NLB that was used as part of the cluster setup. submitted by /u/ntuner [link] [comments]

This has honestly been weighing on me for a while. We're a large company in the legal industry. Management wants me to clean up our M365 environment ASAP.specifically generic mailboxes that are still user mailboxes with sign-in enabled. The problem is I'm doing this mostly on my own, and every mailbox seems to have some undocumented dependency that nobody knows about until you touch it. How do you guys handle projects like this? Do you have a process for figuring out what's safe to convert to a Shared Mailbox or disable sign-in without breaking apps etc, or other legacy stuff? And how do you deal with management pushing for deadlines when you're trying to avoid causing an outage? Would love to hear how more experienced sysadmins approach this. submitted by /u/dukeduch [link] [comments]

We are migrating from shared mailboxes to M365 groups. I have scoured the internet for a method to do this butt everything I have tried has failed. How do I move emails in a shared mailbox to a M365 group? My last attempt was using an eDiscovery export to .PST, then opening said .PST file in classic Outlook and trying to move them to the M365 group. That fell flat on its face. Any suggestions are welcome. submitted by /u/The-Dark-Jedi [link] [comments]

Hello, We have something which opens Word Docs with ASK/FILLIN fields. Since the update to 2607, ASK/FILLIN fields stop functioning. I 100% know the change is from Version 2606: July 14 Version 2606 (Build 20131.20154) to Version 2607: July 23 Version 2607 (Build 20228.20110). I've done the testing before 2606 and then 2607 several times and every time it stops working in 2607. I can initiate the fields by selecting the entire document and pressing F9 and it will then work as expected. It just no longer initiates when opening. Microsoft's documentation does not reflect any changes to Word. But who knows if they really post everything... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/current-channel#version-2607-july-23 submitted by /u/Cranapplesause [link] [comments]

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I've been using AWS for ~15 years.. I've worked at all sorts of levels from quite junior right up to running the entire cloud platform. One problem I have seen time and again is that staff are often granted crazily excessive permissions. The two ways I have seen this play out is: - startup gives everyone admin, because hey - we're all trustworthy, right? - bigger company is doing a lift and shift with time constraints, and admin helps get over the line on time The problem is, when the time comes to tighten it up, it becomes part of processes, and going without would be too painful. The reason I ask is that over the years I've found a few ways to tighten things up, but engineers hate it. I've now devised a little PoC that gives auditable, policy based, automated way to take admin away, while also giving engineers a dead simple way to get access when they want/need it. Policies can require human approval, or be fully automated. I'm currently using it on my personal org, and find it so convenient. No admin anywhere but I can have it anywhere when I need it. Has anyone else faced similar problems, or is this just not as big of a problem as I have experienced? The tool is nowhere near production ready, it's been a toy project, but I genuinely wonder if there is a market for this. submitted by /u/Wide_Commission_1595 [link] [comments]

Lurked here for a long time. lol I'm trying to understand whether there are many mature tools available that help organizations gain visibility into "Shadow AI" usage across teams specifically which AI tools are being used, who is using them, and ideally what type of data is being sent to those platforms. This is a bit different from traditional shadow IT, mainly because outright blocking these tools is not a viable option for us. My concerns are mainly around two areas: First, the risk of sensitive or confidential information being shared with external AI services without oversight. Second, internal teams increasingly building quick scripts, macros, or lightweight automation tools using AI-generated code. In our experience, this often happens during busy periods (especially year-end), where tools get built without proper review, and we later run into maintenance and security issues. We don't want to prevent usage entirely, since these tools are clearly becoming part of daily workflows. What we need instead is better visibility, governance, and more granular control over how they are used. From my initial research, it's not clear whether there are mature, purpose-built solutions for this yet, or if this is still an emerging category. Has anyone have implemented something that actually works in practice for monitoring and governing AI usage in a business environment? submitted by /u/OriSparrow_14 [link] [comments]

Hello all, What is everyone doing to keep wasps from building nests on outdoor access points? My org is located in the southeastern USA, and we're using Meraki MR76 units with all antenna ports populated. twisted-pair cable is run throuhg a water-tight flexible conduit that terminates with cable glands on the unit/wall. We know that the wasps aren't hurting anything, but we are trying to minimize maintenance/cleaning of the gear as much as possible. Sorry if this seems like a non-problem, but you never know if someone else has dealt with a similar issue. Thanks. submitted by /u/preference [link] [comments]

I have a client thats fully cloud based with a large amount of data stored on Cloudflare R2. they want a separate backup(not tied to Cloudflare) ideally to another S3 compatible storage so we an quickly access or restore it if needed. Are there any reliable tools or services that can sync S3 buckets or handle frequent automated backups? submitted by /u/WeekendKindly4037 [link] [comments]

Has anyone gotten AirDrop to work with "Block all incoming connections" enabled via the macOS firewall (managed through Jamf)? If not, is there a secure alternative approach? We're trying to mirror our Windows default-deny-with-exceptions model on macOS: firewall enabled, policy set to "specific apps only" ( AllowSigned / AllowSignedApp = false), with an explicit allow-list of applications — e.g. adding sharingd for AirDrop. Does this sound like a sound approach, or are there gotchas we're missing (entitlements, code-signing checks, mDNS/Bonjour dependencies, etc.)? Any real-world experience — good or bad — appreciated. submitted by /u/aPieceOfMindShit [link] [comments]

Hi, I'm setting up ADBA and adding in Server 2022 and 2025 keys. I added them to one of our domains and everything worked fine. However, we have a second domain, separate forest, and that one is not working. The 2025 key says "The software licensing service reported that the product key is invalid". The 2022 key says "A security error has occurred" I'm running this from our 2016 Domain Controller, 2016 functional level, logged in as a Domain Admin/Enterprise Admin, and running the program as Administrator. Anyone know why these keys might be having issues on one domain when they worked fine on another? Info online said I should be able to use the keys on multiple domains so not sure what else the problem might be. Thanks. submitted by /u/kelemvor33 [link] [comments]