@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

Once again, stepping into the role of Network Admin. I'm curious to know what are the new ideas / tools of today or is the daily tasks still the same. Any resources are welcome. Whenever I do a job, I'm passionate about it and would like to show my best.

What are some great free tools out there? What are some bare necessity tools you think an Admin for today's network world should have in their bag of network weapons?

Thank you for your time, input and tips,
Mr. Wright.

Are you asking us how to do your new job?

@gjacobse said in Poll: Enforce Default Browser:

@nadnerb said in Poll: Enforce Default Browser:

@gjacobse said in Poll: Enforce Default Browser:

@nadnerb said in Poll: Enforce Default Browser:

Nope. We let them pick from 3.
The chosen 3 are GPO controlled.

Which three? Just to make certain -

Edge
Chrome
Firefox

What I expected - Thanks

It's very environment specific. You will have to look at what is installed and used in the environment to determine what you may or may not enforce or update.

Found it best to not enforce a browser, but ensure the major ones are up to date, or force updates on existing installs to patch security vulnerabilities.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Disable the Windows print spooler to prevent hacks, Microsoft tells customers

The third serious Windows print flaw in 5 weeks prompts new Microsoft warning.
Microsoft hit yet another snag in its efforts to lock down the Windows print spooler, as the software maker warned customers on Thursday to disable the service to contain a new vulnerability that helps attackers execute malicious code on fully patched machines.The vulnerability is the third printer-related flaw in Windows to come to light in the past five weeks. A patch Microsoft released in June for a remote code-execution flaw failed to fix a similar but distinct flaw dubbed PrintNightmare, which also made it possible for attackers to run malicious code on fully patched machines. Microsoft released an unscheduled patch for PrintNightmare, but the fix failed to prevent exploits on machines using certain configurations.

What an earth is going on at Microsoft. Too busy with UI changes to get the basics sorted/working

What is going on with companies that would intentionally continue to deploy this crap in a "business"?

Yeah really. Especially crap with 7 year old privilege escalation vulnerabilities that was totally open for anyone to find at any time...

https://github.blog/2021-06-10-privilege-escalation-polkit-root-on-linux-with-bug/

@dustinb3403 said in The Failure of Windows as a Service:

@stuartjordan said in The Failure of Windows as a Service:

Like I've said in the past, this is where it is going towards, first business then will be consumer:

https://global.techradar.com/en-ae/news/microsoft-launches-windows-365-a-new-way-to-experience-windows-10-and-windows-11

Yeah this is Desktop as a Service with a facelift. I literally see no one moving to this. Even the most entrenched businesses will fight this migration.

This isn't something you "move to". It's meant to compliment or fill a niche need of a functional environment.

Of course they are going to market it with billboards and fireworks, you have to look past that.

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

National Food Strategy: Tax sugar and salt and prescribe veg, report says

Sugar and salt should be taxed and vegetables prescribed by the NHS, an independent review of the food we eat has suggested.
The report, led by businessman Henry Dimbleby, said taxes raised could extend free school meal provision and support better diets among the poorest. England's National Food Strategy also wants GPs to try prescribing fruit and vegetables to encourage healthy eating. Boris Johnson said he was not attracted to extra taxes on hard-working people. The prime minister added he would study the report, and promised the government would respond with proposals for future laws within six months. Meanwhile, the food industry warned new taxes on wholesale sugar and salt could lead to higher food prices in shops. Ian Wright, of the Food and Drink Federation, which represents manufacturers, said: "Obesity and food is very much about poverty, and we need measures to tackle poverty and to help people to make choices they need to make."

Since when has solely taxing something unhealthy made people stop ingesting it? Nothing good will come from this, at all. It's just a ploy.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@obsolesce True,, but I also make others aware that I have my own personal copies of said code as well. Sanitized to remove all company information, of course.

I write everything to take parameters to completely avoid that.

But what I meant was that it depends on if it is you or the company you work for who owns the code you write.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

GAH!

I'm also for doing things the 'old way' in a lot of cases,.. but JEEZ... Move forward with how you create / disable / deal with accounts in AD/O365... Insanity!!!!

It depends on who owns the code, you or your company.

@mario-jakovina said in Non-IT News Thread:

@obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews the closer you are to the equator, the worse the rise in sea level. No idea the time line though.

Probably because all the spinning pushes it out there.

What spinning? Dumbass round eather’s thinking shit spins.

You mean flat-Earthers?

No.
Flat-earthers know that Earth is flat.
Dumbass round-earthers think that earth spins

Oh that's right. Earth only spins if it's round spherical... otherwise everything else revolves around earth which is stationary.

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews the closer you are to the equator, the worse the rise in sea level. No idea the time line though.

Probably because all the spinning pushes it out there.

What spinning? Dumbass round eather’s thinking shit spins.

You mean flat-Earthers?

Another example from Azure that I've been using the last year or so:

Azure Blob URL: https://cloudforth.z5.web.core.windows.net/
CustomURL: https://cloudforth.io

This is what I'm paying for:

And this is how much it costs me per month:

@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:

@obsolesce I saw that pop up in my DuoLingo account

I figured it would be much easier to get now than in later tiers. I only needed over 1k for the week to win. But I purposely gave myself a 100% lead over 2nd place so nobody would feel like trying.

@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

@JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example

Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1

Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?

Got it!

@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

@obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

We'll technically it might cost you $0.02 a month to host a static site on Azure/AWS. It costs me $0.01 a month for my static site on Azure because the storage costs. But it's totally free on the others I mentioned.

OK that should a lot better will have to look more into their offerings, I just assumed pricing was a bit hight then that. Like Vultr etc etc

I thought static as in literally static html pages. If you are talking about WordPress and PHP pages, that won't work on anything I mentioned, unless you have something running somewhere else that converts them to static HTML pages and pushes them to there.

@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:

@obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:

They have a legendary level now

Doesn't seem to exist in Spanish yet

Maybe because Swedish lacks all the other stuff the major languages have such as stories and all that.

@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

@obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

You can do that for free at Gitlab, GitHub, AWS, Azure, GCP, etc...

Why wast time and resources doing it at home?

I tried WordPress free hosting, but to use plugins you have to pay

Never heard of Gitlab before until Jared mentioned it. AWS / Azure wasn't aware of any free teirs after trial periods have finished, but will look closer see what I can find.

We'll technically it might cost you $0.02 a month to host a static site on Azure/AWS. It costs me $0.01 a month for my static site on Azure because the storage costs. But it's totally free on the others I mentioned.

@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

@pete-s said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

I think it would be easier to just setup a $5/month vultr instance. From what you say, there is no real reason why it has to be hosted at home.

But that will cost me this is only to host a few static pages.

You can do that for free at Gitlab, GitHub, AWS, Azure, GCP, etc...

Why wast time and resources doing it at home?

They have a legendary level now

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

The Windows 11 insider build is surprisingly unpolished and unfinished

Windows 11 looks to be a decent upgrade, but not one to lose sleep over missing.
Microsoft made early Windows 11 builds available via its Windows Insider program the week after its first major announcement, and we've spent quite a few hours kicking the tires. When Windows 11 publicly releases, it's likely to be a fine operating system—but right now, it's an unpolished, unfinished mess. Of course, this isn't a surprise—Windows 11 is still only available in the Dev channel of the Insider program. The three Insider channels are Release Preview, Beta, and Dev; Dev roughly corresponds to a software alpha, and Microsoft itself describes it as "the newest code," with "rough edges and some instability."

How can that possibly be surprising. It has "Windows" right in the name. Windows 10 has been out for years and is totally unpolished and unfinished. Updates STILL don't work, at all. It's buggy as hell as if no one at MS has ever tried to use it themselves (actually, they probably don't.)

The title should read "Totally As Expected, Windows 11 Insider Build is Unpolished and Unfinished"

In my testing, I did not experience any of the issues in that article. Other than that, title is just for clicks.