wait, they didn't tell me to keep quiet. did they forget? did I? oh no

It was going to be a one time thing, but I will be looking into those suggestions tomorrow morning once I get in, right now I'm running around like a chicken with it's head cut off with Office 365 needing reactivation everywhere. I was able to narrow down for this issue to a couple of culprits for my problems. Thank you Sénior 🙂

@technobabble said:

Thanks @scottalanmiller

No problem 🙂

Is this trial software?

I liked Office 2010 a lot. Office 2013, not so much. It's fine, but not great. But I know that it is just a first step on their road to pure JavaScript in a browser, so I appreciate the technology that it is enabling.

I think they took a photo of my butt for this.

I just added this server as a trusted site in IE and it worked

Yeah, we're trying to take a more holistic approach to security. Whether virus, malware or phishing, we're trying to be the one-stop place for security reputation for processes, IP address and URLs.

Not much call for AC yet.

Blame the British then 😉

@Carnival-Boy said:

I was thinking more about controlling rules in Exchange. If HR need to be involved to get something enforced then I may as well forget it.

Then why the concern? If management and HR think it doesn't matter then it should definitely not concern you. Not IT's place to make those kinds if calls.

@Carnival-Boy in that particular case, I would guess that that was an accident. Service providers and vendors do have to be careful as their accident "blast radius" is often larger than in house IT is. But to be fair, we see internal IT people accidentally post rather a bit of stuff when looking for help online or using KB systems that are hosted publicly or whatever.

Publishing tickets without an air gap process, though, that is pretty idiotic I must admit.

I've been using Clonezilla for 4+ years.. it's easy and fast. it has some caveats, but you can read about the requirements if you're doing anything more than restoring to the same (or same size) disk as you started with.

@scottalanmiller said:

We are about to subject a non-tech user to their first time seeing Windows since Windows 2000 and it will be 8.1. This will be exciting.

You sir, have an interesting view of excitement!! 😉

Cool, thanks.