My company is moving to Windows 11, I had one of my service desk teammates tell me that for an IT support person I'm very critical of change

Before Windows 11 I was critical of change because every change came with no new training for my team and a giant email to the company explaining very lazily about the changes and with the same text at the end of every email.. "Any problems call the service desk".

Now we've lost active directory.. Now I'm in a position where an incredibly incompetent IT security have restricted our access to intune and Entra and then the business wants me to still perform my daily duties as normal.

Upside is that same IT security is getting removed in the next few weeks.

Probably to be replaced by someone else even worse.

I just want to learn how to use Entra and Intune.. Everything Microsoft touches turns to shit.

Active directory just worked.. It was built when people at Microsoft actually knew how the operating system worked.. None of those people are still at Microsoft..

the fucked up thing is this GDID thing apparently also show up for VM. So that would mean any VM and even a Quebe?

Fuck microsoft

Hacker

Uses windows

He got what he fucking deserved

why would a hacker use windows?

Something this article glosses over is the fact that Microsoft knew all of the web URLs he was visiting. I don't know if that's because he was dumb enough to sign into Edge with his Microsoft account or if they were collecting that a different way, but the GDID wouldn't have been nearly as useful without that info.

Don't forget the unique identifier of Edge and Chrome.

Does MS track what you do in Edge and Windows, yes. Does Google track you in Crome and any app of theirs, yes. Does Apple track everything you do on their devices, yes. Does meta, twitter, all social media sites track the fuck out of you, also yes.

Year of the Linux desktop anyone?

We thought china was better

Goym Device ID

ELI5?

The complaint quotes a Microsoft representative describing the GDID as “a persistent, device-level identifier designed to uniquely identify an installation of a Windows operating system on a device, either a physical device (e.g., a mobile phone or laptop) or virtual machine, across certain Microsoft services and scenarios”

A Global Device ID (GDID) is a permanent, unique digital fingerprint that Microsoft automatically assigns to your computer when you install Windows or sign into a Microsoft account.