Sysadmin

I just stumbled across this on Newegg and it looks like a nice board for desktops in rugged environments

I'm confused about protecting backups from ransomware. Online, people say that backups are the most critical aspect to recovering from a ransomware attack.

But how do you protect the backups themselves from becoming encrypted too? Is it simply a matter of having totally unique and secure credentials for the backup medium?

Like, if I had a Synology NAS as a backup for my production environment's shared storage, VM backups, etc, hooked up to the network via gigabit, what stops ransomware malware from encrypting that Synology too?

Thanks in advance for the feedback!

cross-posted from: https://bolha.forum/post/199189

I need indications of email servers that accept relay transmission.

The MX will point to the Microsoft Exchange server, but emails that do not exist on the MS server will be relayed to this secondary server.

I just registered another domain name that doesnt support whois privacy and I would like to hide my actual details.

How have you done this? Post office box?

From The Hacker News

Personal rant: AI is definitely NOT ready for production.

The University of Michigan says in a statement today that they suffered a data breach after hackers broke into its network in August and accessed systems with information belonging to students, applicants, alumni, donors, employees, patients, and research study participants.

I'm so absolutely sick of it.

I'm new to Windows deployments, and I need some help. I've gotten as far as setting up a new system from a Windows 11 image downloaded from MS, configuring it/installing software, and then running sysprep. I made a WinPE boot thumbdrive, but I'm stuck at capturing the Windows image part. Part of my problem is that I'm trying to make this in a VM. Is that more trouble than it's worth?

Is there an easier way to do this? I've seen people saying I can use Linux tools like Clonezilla, which sounds good to me, since I'm very comfortable with Linux-- but I read that might cause problems. One thing mentioned was licensing.

I would be deploying these images 100% onto Lenovo machines that we purchase from CDW, so I'm not sure how licensing would work. Is the license tied to the MAC? Will they auto-register once I boot them with the new image?

Thanks for anyone that takes the time to help me understand this :)

Oct 17 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O) is preparing to bring Amazon.com (AMZN.O) as a customer for its 365 cloud productivity tools in a deal worth over $1 billion, news site Insider reported on Tuesday, citing an internal document and a person familiar with the matter.

The e-commerce giant has committed the amount for over five years and to secure more than one million Microsoft 365 license seats, according to the report.

Microsoft, whose shares gained nearly 1% in extended trading following the report, declined to comment. Amazon did not respond to Reuters' request for comment.

Amazon is expected to start setting up the new systems in early November, the report said, adding that the company currently uses a local, on premise version of Microsoft's Office products.

Reporting by Yuvraj Malik in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila

cross-posted from: https://derp.foo/post/323269

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

Hey guys,

We are struggling with our Azure joined machines used by multiple people during the day. Each time they log on to a new machine we get a helpdesk call for us to set up OneDrive / Sharepoint libraries synchronization in the client.

We know Intune can do this but Intune settings can take up to 8 hrs to propagate by which the user has already called us. This takes too long.

I've made a support call with Microsoft which has been open for a month now with what I think is a fairly straight forward question but they keep telling me they' re discussing this with their team.

Is there a scenario that sets these settings instantly that minimizes helpdesk calls? Or is this made for 1 user per device scenario's? Apart from reinstating on-prem DC's and whatnot ;)

Hope you guys can point me somewhere because Microsoft doesn't seem to..

I keep a machine around just for gaming, and I run windows on that. Periodically it needs to be refreshed from a clean install. And it's laborious work.

What are people's recommendations, for installing Windows Enterprise headless, triggering some sort of system configuration to install steam, drivers, games, networking config?

Ideally I'd like to use some declarative configuration language, but I'm open to options. My least favorite approach is to simply image and known good drive, and then have to apply updates to the known good drive. Periodically, creates more maintenance overhead.

From ItsFOSS

We may all be in trouble

We're about to roll out 365 to all our users. Exchange Online mailboxes, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint.

What solutions for backing up and restoring the data are you experienced with, and would recommend?

We currently use Veeam for VM backup, but their solution is a totally different product, not integrated with VBR. So since a separate product would have to be licensed and installed, we aren't necessarily locked in to using Veeam for that too.

Thanks in advance.

We are facing constant problems with the desktop apps in O365, wheter it's RDS servers that somehow are Azure joined by a user from login 1001 errors to modern authentication Windows that automatically disappear or other generic error 1001 logon bullshit. We have a tome of registry bullshit with shit like EnableADAL to deleting the AAD appx folder from the user profile and/or reinstalling it through Powershell and so it goes on.. usually dicking around with these settings will make it magically work for a few weeks..

The amount of time this costs us and our customers is truly staggering, are we the only shop facing this?

One of the more interesting uses of AI is to power natural language interfaces.

Basically this means plumbing them in to reporting layers so that the AI can figure out what it is you're asking and create appropriate queries for data stores, execute them, and then present (and possibly interpret) the results.

Imagine an ELK stack that you're shipping all your logs into. As well as getting some pretty graphs for management to coo at you could also just ask an AI interface connect to it: "Tell me who authenticated with $platform last Friday, in a table ordered by the number of authentication attempts" and it would just return that.

Kinda tempting, huh?

Well this link is to a SANS Internet Storm Centre Diary where they look at doing that from an Incident Response point of view.

The short version - your job is safe. For now.

But I think it's a good read simply because it gives us ideas about how we could use AI, and a pointer at what's likely to work. The fact that multiple models were tested is particularly interesting...

What do you think?

I feel kinda bad about feeding google with data. Is there some name server I can point my servers to that upholds my privacy and does not run analytics on the requests it gets?

Hi all. I’m trying to choose a configuration for my home storage. Speed is not a priority, I want a balance of stability and performance. I was thinking of making a raid 6 array with an ext4 file system for 4 disks of 2 TB each. Asking for advice, will this configuration be optimal?

Note - I am going to make a raid array based on external usb drives, which I will plug into the orange pi