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Remotely supporting as a System Administrator

Spearline Testing

We recently interviewed System Administrator, Daniel Popielnicki, about how he has adapted to working from home, the challenges he faced assisting other Spearliners, and more. One of your main roles as System Administrator is to make sure that all of Spearline’s employees are doing okay. Actually, yes!

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Mislabeled patch sends Windows Server 2022 admins on unwanted upgrade to 2025

TechSpot

Earlier this week, multiple system administrators reported that a routine security update unexpectedly triggered a full operating system upgrade. Read Entire Article What was supposed to be a standard patch ended up installing Windows Server 2025 on countless machines still running the 2022 edition.

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Future Windows versions will disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 by default, Microsoft confirms

TechSpot

Microsoft is alerting users and system administrators that Windows will soon phase out support for older TLS specifications. Read Entire Article will be disabled in upcoming Windows releases, as announced in the Windows message center. This change is only for future versions of Windows and newer Windows 11.

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Microsoft Defender flagged legit URLs as malicious

TechSpot

This time, system administrators have been flooded with security warnings regarding legitimate URL links, which were "incorrectly" flagged as malicious by the Defender service. Read Entire Article Microsoft Defender is once again turning its "security" protection against legit features.

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Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for February fixes 3 zero-day bugs and more

TechSpot

Yesterday's Valentine's Day was a day for lovers, martyrs, and system administrators, as Microsoft released its monthly batch of security updates for Windows and other products. Read Entire Article

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Why are your IT people so miserable? Log4j2itis

Computerworld Vertical IT

Do you walk over sleeping system administrators and developers when you get to the office? To read this article in full, please click here Instead of holiday toasts, do you hear screams and moans from your server room? Are your IT people sobbing inconsolably even when Amazon Web Services (AWS) is running ?

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Take your time testing these February Patch Tuesday updates

Computerworld Vertical IT

And, with this month's very light release from Microsoft, corporate security and systems administrators can take the time needed to test their applications and desktop/server builds. To read this article in full, please click here