Sysadmin

How a cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a flash

This one weird trick saved countless hours and stress – no, really

OSes25 Jul 2024 | 89

Ex-school IT admin binned student, staff accounts and trashed phone system

After getting the tintack, IRL BOFH went rogue

Public Sector01 Dec 2023 | 56

Microsoft likens MFA to 1960s seatbelts, buckles admins in yet keeps eject button

Admins have 90 days to opt out before MFA is deployed automatically

Security07 Nov 2023 | 30

Microsoft says VBScript will be ripped from Windows in future release

It's PowerShell or something similar in the not too distant future

OSes10 Oct 2023 | 49

Florida man accused of hoarding America's secrets faces fresh charges

Mar-a-Lago IT director told 'the boss wanted the server deleted'

CSO29 Jul 2023 | 147

Sysadmins are being left out of AI implementation

Sounds to us like the beginning of an entertaining, but tragic, Who Me tale

Sysadmin Month28 Jul 2023 | 33

GitLab deploys on a Friday and ... is down for a few hours

Updated Snafu blamed on config change

Devops07 Jul 2023 | 8

The death of the sysadmin has been predicted for years – we're not holding our breath

Register Kettle We'd sure like to see a bot unpick a failed update or handle users struggling to find the 'any' key

Sysadmin Month28 Jun 2023 | 44

JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in multi-million record retention screwup

Fined $4m for Who-Me-esque mess, for which it blames unnamed archiving vendor's retention settings

CSO26 Jun 2023 | 56

Sysadmin and IT ops jobs to slump, says IDC

Brush up on your coding – more tech jobs are going to be hybrids that mix ops and software, or require AI skills

Software08 Jun 2023 | 51

AWS, Microsoft make finding important admin info less frustrating

It's 2023 and tech giants have discovered email and unified dashboards

Off-Prem04 May 2023 | 3

Ex-CIO must pay £81k over Total Shambles Bank migration

Yes, the week-long IT meltdown that sparked a multitude of sarcastic Reg headlines

CxO14 Apr 2023 | 28

Just 22% of techies in UK aged 50 or older, says Chartered Institute for IT

Why not recruit mature folk from outside industry? Why not keep experience in place for longer

Offbeat01 Dec 2022 | 147

Boffins find COVID changed the way sysadmins work – probably for the worse

Crisis mode led to more formal meetings and lists, which just make more useless work

On-Prem09 Nov 2022 | 30

VMware confirms Carbon Black causes BSODs, boot loops on Windows

Well, you can't be attacked if your PC won't start

CSO24 Aug 2022 | 11

W3C's planned transition to HTTPS stymied by legacy laggards

Timing for plan to redirect HTTP requests now indeterminate to allow for further feedback

Networks22 Aug 2022 | 41

Reg readers tell us what they wanted for SysAdmin Appreciation Day

Chateau Lafite? Unexpected day off? Unplugging users phones?

Offbeat29 Jul 2022 | 17

Rejoice! System Administrator Appreciation Day (SAAD) is nigh

What to buy your favorite misanthrope: booze, choc, sports tickets or fewer stupid users? Tell us, please tell us

Offbeat22 Jul 2022 | 34

Warning: Windows update breaks authentication for some server admins

Microsoft probes complaints of domain controller headaches

OSes12 May 2022 | 10

Microsoft runs 179 admin portals, says sysadmin supergroup

New site lists the ‘bit of a sprawl issue’ that Redmond offers the faithful

On-Prem04 Feb 2021 | 13

An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day

Don't worry if one's loitering in your garden, it'll buzz off in a while

Bootnotes31 Jul 2020 | 22

Penny smart and dollar stupid: IT jobs slashed in US, UK, Europe to cut costs – just when we need staff the most

Revenue shortfall fears have led a third of polled businesses to shed workers

On-Prem11 May 2020 | 48

Bun fight breaks out after devs, techie jump ship: Bakery biz Panera sues its former IT crowd

Lawsuits fly as sandwich shop chain grills ex-programmers, system analyst

Devops25 Feb 2019 | 46

Who cracked El Chapo's encrypted chats and brought down the Mexican drug kingpin? Er, his IT manager

Feds flipped techie and recorded hundreds of calls

Security09 Jan 2019 | 94

What the #!/%* is that rogue Raspberry Pi doing plugged into my company's server room, sysadmin despairs

Online sleuths dig into the case, with surprising success

Security20 Nov 2018 | 122

Sysadmin sank IBM mainframe by going one VM too deep

Who, me? Tried to blame it on a bug, but logs don't lie

Virtualization23 Jul 2018 | 238

Sysadmin cracked military PC’s security by reading the manual

On-Call All it took was a three-fingered salute and some autoexec.bat action

On-Prem06 Jul 2018 | 214

You love Systemd – you just don't know it yet, wink Red Hat bods

Red Hat Summit It's the anchovy pasta of Linux administration, it seems

OSes10 May 2018 | 147

Sysadmin wiped two servers, left the country to escape the shame

Who, me? Source/target mixup proved that mirroring software worked perfectly

On-Prem26 Mar 2018 | 102

BOFH: Give me a lever long enough and a fool, I mean a fulcrum and ....

Episode 5 Simon and PFY gamify the interface

BOFH23 Mar 2018 | 137

Mozilla wants to seduce BOFHs with button-down Firefox

Control. Control. Control

Security13 Mar 2018 | 25

Sysadmin left finger on power button for an hour to avert SAP outage

Who, me? Tedious Y2K maintenance made chap a bit vague, then a bit sore

On-Prem05 Mar 2018 | 131

Rogue IT admin goes off the rails, shuts down Canadian train switches

Grouchy Grupe gets a year and a day behind bars after going loco on network hardware

Networks14 Feb 2018 | 94

Sysadmin crashed computer recording data from active space probe

Who, me? ‘I’m the reason we missed seeing aliens’, jokes nervous reader

On-Prem29 Jan 2018 | 119

Funnily enough, no, IT admins who trash biz machines can't claim they had permission

Court makes quick work of techie's long-shot appeal

Systems14 Dec 2017 | 69

Azure Stack will need special sysadmins, says Microsoft

'Operator' to wrangle on-prem cloud, with paid course coming soon, natch

SaaS16 Aug 2017 | 22

Sysadmin 'trashed old bosses' Oracle database with ticking logic bomb'

Always ensure the office laptop gets returned

Security14 Apr 2017 | 68

Yee-hacked! Fired Texan sysadmin goes rogue, trashes boot business

Pays high price for 'elphaser' backdoor antics

Security31 Mar 2017 | 106

I was authorized to trash my employer's network, sysadmin tells court

Michael Thomas' appeal will send shockwaves through IT industry if successful

Security23 Feb 2017 | 183

Paper factory fired its sysadmin. He returned via VPN and caused $1m in damage. Now jailed

34-month sentence and he has to pay his old bosses back

Security18 Feb 2017 | 53

Chap scripts remote Linux takeover for sysadmins

Use this for good, not for evil. But not if you care about your penguins

OSes12 Feb 2017 | 7

Awoogah, enterprise bods: Tintri recruits Echo Alexa speechbot

Bleeding – speaking – edge of sysadmin interface development

Storage03 Feb 2017 | 14

So you want to roll your own cloud

Sysadmin Blog How hard can it be?

SaaS27 Jan 2017 | 33

Googlers reveal code they use for mass Windows deployments

Not official. Not documented. But not bad-looking, either

OSes25 Jan 2017 | 10

Stay out of my server room!

Sysadmin blog This is for computers, not your reams of paper!

On-Prem23 Nov 2016 | 123

Dropbox upgrade adds nice bits for sysadmins

POPs dropped into DCs for better performance and local peering

SaaS17 Nov 2016 | 3

Job ad asks for 'detrimental' sysadmin

Yep. That sounds about right

On-Prem25 Oct 2016 | 49

Dear sysadmin: This is how you stay relevant

Sysadmin blog Your business's flexible friend

On-Prem15 Sep 2016 | 44

Happy Sysadmin Day!

Today, it's all about you

Networks29 Jul 2016 | 24

Ex-Citibank IT bloke wiped bank's core routers, will now spend 21 months in the clink

Performance review sparks deletion, 110 offices knackered

Networks27 Jul 2016 | 82

Sysadmins: Use these scripts to fully check out of your conference calls

'Sorry, can you repeat that?'

Software07 Jul 2016 | 13

PLA sysadmin gets six months house arrest for yanking US Army docs

'Have you ever worked for a foreign army?' 'Uhhh no', clicks eager admin

Legal10 May 2016 | 35

We bet your firm doesn't stick to half of these 10 top IT admin tips

And if you're an evil BOFH type, here's how to tell if your Boss is an eejit

On-Prem06 Apr 2016 | 127

Quick as a flash: NVMe will have you in tiers

Sysadmin Blog Our man Trevor gives his first impressions

Storage03 Nov 2015 | 6

Job alert: Is this the toughest sysadmin role on Earth? And are you badass enough to do it?

(Aside from sendmail admin)

On-Prem16 Oct 2015 | 73

Attention sysadmins! Here’s how to dodge bullets in a post-Ashley Madison world

You've no time to get lazy

Security07 Sep 2015 | 69