Classic Sysadmin / IT Misdesigns
If you are doing / not doing this stuff, you should reconsider your position as a SysAdmin / IT Director
- Adding public DNS servers to domain joined systems
- Not having any Windows update restrictions on workstations and just leaving auto update.
- Not doing updates on servers for YEARS.
- Not using GPOs
- Not using MDT, or any automated deployment.
- Abusing the email as a ghetto collaboration system, so that mailboxes burn 50GB in a few months
- Not using VMs.
- Not using ticketing.
- Using excel files for password management.
- Not using DNS and just hardcoding IP addresses everywhere.
- Don’t know any security, so they often get hit with ransomware because their client machines, DCs and backups are all mixed together.
- RDP-ing everywhere because they never heard of RSAT.
- Not documenting anything
- Default passwords. Printers, cameras, specialized equipment.
- Implementing flat networks without any segmentation because “VLAN's are hard”.
- Loose firewall rules, not auditing firewall rules, not providing detailed comments within firewall rules.
- EVERYONE GETS LOCAL ADMIN
- Not implementing monitoring or syslog servers.
- Not using password management. Not setting up self-service password reset