The user experience on fresh installations of Windows and Edge is terrible and we get to the bottom of why. Unfortunately the reason isn’t exclusive to Microsoft’s offerings – it’s a pattern that we’ve seen from numerous companies, even Mozilla. Plus why it’s a bad idea to power your server on and off regularly.
 
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Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google
 

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We were asked about powering a home server on and off regularly.

 
 
 
 


 


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2.5 Admins 159: Dirty Install

2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every week we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.

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It’s our episode 200 free consulting special. Jim and Allan answer your questions about hard drive availability, USB-C robustness, ZFS performance on a VPS, cold storage with a 2.5″ form factor, how we gained our level of knowledge, disk enclosure issues, and monitoring Windows servers.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/25a
 
 
 
 
 



 








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2.5 Admins 200: Even more free consulting

How to prepare for your loved ones to have the access they need if the worst unexpectedly happens, Joe’s weird issues with wireless access points, and dealing with email accounts that shouldn’t exist.
 
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News/discussion
After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo
EAP225 AC1350 wireless access point
 

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We were asked about dealing with email accounts that shouldn’t exist.
 
 
 
 
 
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Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/25a
 
 
 



 








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2.5 Admins 199: Rest In Parity

Microsoft is tightening up SMB security in Windows which might break access to your old NAS, a Cogent root-server mysteriously goes out of sync without them spotting it, and protecting hard drives from electromagnetic pulses.
 
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Installing Windows 11 24H2 might mean binning that old NAS
A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why
 

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We were asked about protecting hard drives from electromagnetic pulses.
 

 
 

 
 
 
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2.5 Admins 198: SMB Pulse

Linux kernel developers were infected with malware for 2 years, another nail in the coffin of proper federated email as Exchange Server moves to a subscription model, followup on zfsbootmenu and IPv6, and learning unfamiliar topics.
 
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Linux maintainers were infected for 2 years by SSH-dwelling backdoor with huge reach
Exchange Server SE to debut just before 2019 support ends
Newbie struggling with zfsbootmenu
 

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We were asked about learning unfamiliar topics.
 

 
 

 
 
 
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2.5 Admins 197: Exchange Money

Microsoft’s new Copilot+ feature will record everything you are doing on your computer for some reason, but it will only work on new Arm hardware for now. Plus Apple’s weird iOS bug that restored deleted files and photos, and sharing files over the Internet from a NAS on your LAN.
 
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Allan was on Linux Dev Time
 
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New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC
Microsoft’s “Copilot+” AI PC requirements are embarrassing for Intel and AMD
Apple needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos
 
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We were asked about sharing files over the Internet from a NAS on your LAN.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.
 
 
 
 
 



 








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2.5 Admins 159: Dirty Install

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