2.5 Admins 290: Tired of Tracking

About this episode

The episode discusses issues with Microsoft Authenticator, vehicle tracking technologies, and managing ZFS storage.

Microsoft Authenticator will delete Entra credentials on phones that aren’t running stock ROMs, Jim’s nightmare experience trying to get a user back into their MS account, tracking vehicles via tire pressure monitors, using a ZFS pool in a degraded state , and keeping cold ZFS storage dataset snapshots in sync.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Fast Dedup for Proxmox   News/discussion Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones Jailbreak/root detection in Microsoft Authenticator Jim Microsoft MFA rant Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking   Free consulting We were asked about purposely using a ZFS pool in a degraded state , and keeping cold ZFS storage dataset snapshots in sync.                 Automox Turnkey Results Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

People in this episode

Host: Jim

Topics covered

• Microsoft Authenticator
• ZFS
• vehicle tracking
• MFA issues
• endpoint management

Keywords

• Microsoft Authenticator
• Entra credentials
• ZFS pool
• tire pressure monitors
• MFA
• endpoint management

Sponsors

Automox

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft

Products: Microsoft Authenticator, Entra, ZFS, Proxmox

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