I recently made the jump into sysadmin work after a decade out of the industry and am trying to do some catch up. I am the only sysadmin for the company I work for. We run Intune and the previous admin deployed apps in a very hands on manner. When ever I trawl through forums I find people singing the praise for the Win32 prep tool but in my testing I have found everything much easier via the MSIX packaging app and have only encountered minor issues. The Win32 tool seems to be more work to get right and more likely to have issues. So my question is; What am I missing? is it there's large issue ..read more

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/ibm-buy-hashicorp-64-billion-deal-expand-cloud-software-2024-04-24/ IBM is where good software goes to die. Packer, Terraform, Vault... I'm going to miss you. submitted by /u/_DeathByMisadventure [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I was recently told that my IT Manager position is no longer needed in the company, which comes AFTER someone else was hired a year prior and slowly, but progressively began to take over duties and responsibilities AFTER I was told that wouldn’t happen. So, now I’m a free agent. My question is how long did it take you to get back on your feet with a family to support after you were told some bullshit that you’re no longer needed at a company? What were your top job sites to search for a job in the information technology industry? submitted by /u/PowerCaddy14 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

An employee is headed to mainland China for a conference and wants to know if he can bring his company laptop and use it as he would in the US. Windows w/ Azure AD and Entra SSE connecting to company data on sharepoint and OneDrive. Outlook email. VPN option is available. What would you do? Nothing? Burner laptop? Email only / no network access? VPN over GSA SSE? submitted by /u/AlfaHotelWhiskey [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Hi, Would you rely solely on the protection Microsoft 365 protection for Business mail? If yes, what level of their protection service would you use? If no, why wouldn't you do it? What are you currently using for protecting incoming mail against attacks while using Microsoft 365? If you plan to use a (or another) service, third party product or even open-source product, what would you use? I'm not specifically searching for services or products (as I can google for that ofcourse), it's more the opinions about Microsoft 365 own protection that matter and if many use other products/services it ..read more

I have one of those dogshit WGU masters degrees and it doesn't qualify you to actually do anything. The masters was based off the CEH and CISSP at the time which sounded good to me until I read both books. The fact is that EC Council and CEH are both disgraced now after a series of scandals. Everyone makes fun of them for being a joke and useless. So the CISSP is the new gold standard cert that CEH once was. The thing is though that information wise the CISSP is not actually that big of an improvement over the CEH and both of them are information that is just kind of nice to know but does not ..read more

With everyone wanting a piece of the pie from MS365, Domain names, AV, RMM, Password managers, etc etc how do you keep cost low enough to support the clients you have without breaking their budgets? I always want to explore and add on features that make sense to the software stack we have, but every time I look into them, I am always struggling if I should add it or try to make a clone of it (writing software) to do the thing that other services provides to the end customer. No one ever wants to pay for IT, so it always feels like a struggle explain to them they should keep up to a level of p ..read more

So I built some unconventional servers to deal with some Company-specific needs. I was wondering if anyone knows of any solution, similar to like i-LO for HP, where you can have a remote network interface that can manage power options for a server. Like a 3rd party device. So I don't have to drive into the office to manually power these specific servers back on when they have an issue resulting in a hard power down and don't reboot for some reason. A Wifi connected Remote Power switch or something would be nice. Any recommendations? submitted by /u/One-Custard5859 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

(That would be Adaptive Security Appliance*,* of course...) What's Going On? This afternoon, Cisco released 2 new CVEs impacting their Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD), both of which are actively exploited by UAT4356. More on CVE-2024-20353 Vendor CVSS Score 8.6 Allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to force a compromised device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. More on CVE-2024-20359 Vendor CVSS Score 6.0 Allows an unauthenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary code with root-level privileges. (Note ..read more

This looks like it's going to be a fun week. https://blog.talosintelligence.com/arcanedoor-new-espionage-focused-campaign-found-targeting-perimeter-network-devices/ submitted by /u/MrSanford [visit reddit] [comments ..read more