Microsoft Baseline System Annihilator.

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

Microsoft should, in great big red font, place on the page for Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer:

WARNING: Don't run this from an important server!
Scanning your domain may cause the scanner box to explode.

But no, that little bit of trivia is buried in the KB. I started a scan only to get paged a couple of minutes later about the file server vanishing from the network. Oddly enough, it works just fine on the print server, and these boxen are identical.

Comments

[wyrdlinks.livejournal.com]

There is a $DEITY! I was gonna run that over the weekend! Now that I know, I'll throw together a simple low-end server to run it from.

Thanks for that!

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

You can also run it from any 2k or XP workstation, just make sure you are logged on as the domain administrator

[drnazo.livejournal.com]

I just noticed that you used the word boxen.

You kick ass sir.

these boxen are identical.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Apparently not. :-P

off time

[irishmasms.livejournal.com]

you would think a good microsoft sysadmin would realize that they should run such Baseline Security Analyzer in the off hours, when there is minimal usage by LUsers.

Oh yea, what was I thinking.

Re: off time

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

Excuse me. If that was intented as an insult to my abilities as a sysadmin, let me tell you that I would LOVE to run sweeps and such on off hours, but the IT dept above me does not allow remote access to these systems. This is a HIPPA compliant facility, being a hospital.

And I'm not getting paid enough to come in there in the middle of the night.