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 | 29
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 | 48
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 | 43
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
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
Dear sysadmin: This is how you stay relevant Sysadmin blog Your business's flexible friend On-Prem15 Sep 2016 | 44
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
Surviving Hurricane Katrina: A sysadmin's epic DR (as in Didn't Realise) odyssey On-Call 25 days of refugee sex and guns in odd places On-Prem12 Jul 2015 | 49
Blurred lines: How cloud computing is reshaping the IT workforce Sysadmin blog DevOps, meet SecOps Devops07 Jul 2015 | 37
That man told me to stuff a ROLE up my USER ENTRY! Something for the Weekend, Sir? Don’t get feudal with me, sunshine On-Prem27 Jun 2015 | 45
SPICEWORKS FAIL: Are we ready for ‘social’ network administration? Analysis Still more questions than answers Security23 Jun 2015 | 25
The insidious danger of the lone wolf control freak sysadmin He's got your back... along with your passwords, your contacts and your work On-Prem17 Jun 2015 | 82
Are YOU The One? Become a guru of your chosen sysadmin path Deeper than training, knowing yourself On-Prem17 Apr 2015 | 15