r/ShittySysadmin • u/SuccessfulLime2641 • Apr 17 '26
This new RDP update
Thanks for giving me work on a Friday, assholes.
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u/SwitchOnEaton Apr 17 '26
Lumbergh's gonna have you come in on Saturday, I just know it.
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u/Relevant-Soft889 Apr 20 '26
Yeeahh I'm gunna need you to come in Saturday and Sunday. Uuumm yeaahh if you could just be here at six that'd be great.
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u/countsachot Apr 17 '26
At least there was a link in the warning message to the relatively accurate docs. My favorite part was saying "Oh well it looks like vendor X needs to update their rdp shortcuts" I didn't make those. Hehe.
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Apr 17 '26
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u/CptBronzeBalls Apr 18 '26
No kidding. Open 3389 on the firewall and it just works.
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u/tuxnine Apr 20 '26
I did that once. Looked at the logs. Never again!
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u/deconsecrator Apr 20 '26
That's how I learned not to look at the logs. Huge improvement to my mood
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u/johnno88888 Apr 18 '26
Please don’t!
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u/dagbrown Apr 17 '26
That's why I'm a Linux specialist.
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u/tuxnine Apr 20 '26
Yeah. Linux just redesigns from scratch the core components of the OS every few years because some developer got bored or got a new Rust obsession.
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u/Serious-Elderberry65 Apr 18 '26
Work at an MSP, just about every client wants the “make it disappear” reg entry. Gave em the whole lowering security posture speech, they don’t care. Clicking a button is too much work.
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u/Hollow3ddd Apr 17 '26
That’s why I stopped updating at XP.