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[–] genuineparts@infosec.pub 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Worked, after hours from home, on a Windows Server and fixed and issue with the Database on there. After doing so i thought I'd go to bed and shut down the machine... only I hadn't yet left the RDP connection and shut the server down by Accident. Had to drive to work and start the server up again.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Accidentally shutting down a Windows server is impressive. They have that "why are you shutting down?" dialogue to prevent this scenario.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

And there are ways of having that entry removed from the list of options entirely, and not just shifted to the drop-down menu. Makes it harder to physically shut down, but its absence can be a WTF big enough for you to realize which machine you are working on.

I don’t bother doing that to VMs, which can be trivially restarted, but their Hyper-V hosts? You betchya I do it to those.

[–] genuineparts@infosec.pub 3 points 5 months ago

Oh I was totally on autopilot and selected "Maintenance (Software)" because that is what I did... and I discovered the brainfart two seconds too late.