u/ITRabbit

It's a sunny day. You just had your coffee, sit down, turn on your PC. and then you see it. Files are getting encrypted right in front of you.

If you were the IT Manager or Network Admin, what would be your first moves?

A few years ago I was working remotely as a fancy IT guy and developer at a tech company. Within the first couple of months I'd automated so much of my workload that I legit had almost nothing left to do most days. Everything that could be scripted, monitored, or scheduled... was.

One morning my manager messaged me:

>"We've noticed your Microsoft Teams keeps going to Away every 20 minutes. This shouldn't be happening if you are at your desk working."

Fair enough.

I replied:

>"Understood. My Teams will never go Away again."

...and I meant it.

Instead of arguing, I spent about 40 minutes writing a PowerShell script that launched a harmless train of processes every few minutes, like mouse clicking, alt+tabbing, and it simulated just enough activity to keep my status green. I set this to repeat every 10 minutes.

I tested it.

Available.

Five minutes later...

Still Available.

An hour later...

Still Available.

I grabbed my backpack, walked out of Starbucks, and spent the rest of the afternoon, and every afternoon thereafter hiking.

My Teams status never went Away again.

The next time I heard from my boss he was once again reviewing status times and thanked me for my dedication.

Edit: People keep asking for a copy of the script. It's on one of my githubs, the link is in the comments.

Recently a coworker granted Claude elevated access via SSH to a virtualization host (not a VM, an actual host). To perform a routine task he very well could have done himself.

He doesn’t see an issue with this. I on the other hand (with 23yrs experience) see this as a huge security breach, and don’t trust AI todo my job, (or even that it’s doing what it says it’s doing) for me. I’m my opinion it’s a tool, not a human replacement.

What’s your reaction, how would you react to this situation, or thoughts on the topic?

Sure, ask AI how to perform a task, validate that it’s performing the task you asked, and nothing else- copy/paste the commands. Great. But removing the human verification & validation element- hell no.

We were having issues with Pre-Windows Sign on with SAML - Stuck on connecting....

After investigation of logs it stops at:

(P5776-T8284)Info ( 622): Waiting for PanGPA to connect via named pipe...

This was auto deployed by our update software....make sure you guys have declined the patch!

Affected Features/Functions:

• Corrupted HIP Reports sent to gateway leading to incorrect policy match
• Reading HIP Policy and cached HIP data files
• Windows SSO credential usage failure
• Corrupted Portal Pre-logon and/or User Authentication Override Cookie (PPAC/PUAC) can lead to failure in GP Portal/Gateway authentication
• Using the cached portal configuration
• Failure in reading the Portal Config Selection Criteria (CSC)
• Ability to disable GP agent might be allowed even if disabled by admin

Link to bulletin:

https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?id=kA1Ki000000wlkCKAQ

Yo this is one of my biggest hear me outs 😭😭

I’m a 19yo female but this man has me in a chokehold. Ive never seen his face but his voice is so hot. I’m a college student who has issues with my computer like every 2 weeks and it’s always the same IT guy helping me remotely.

The last time it broke, (last week) he said “we have to stop meeting like this” and I actually felt butterflies and got a second heartbeat. The way he takes control of my computer screen is so attractive

I love u to all the IT guys out there

Edit: HE ALSO COMMUNICATES WITH MY VIA SCREEN AND HE WILL TYPE “I’m all done now :)” WITH A SMILEY FACE AWHHWHSNZIS

Also guys I’m not an old man pls stop saying that🫩🫩🫩 god forbid I yearn

Prime video down? Looks so on down detector too

Just kidding. MSP here and it turns out it was actually the fact that the two main switches are under the secretary's desk, because duh, where else would you put them? And she runs a space heater if it's below 85F in there. Turns out snagless CAT6 housing is also known as heat shrink tubing and it will squeeze the plug and eject the Ethernet cable on its own, if hot enough for long enough.

Yes, we have told her it's not ideal to do that. No, she doesn't care.

I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.