Most people are never going to check the links no matter how much you ask them to, and even if they did they wouldn’t know what to check for. But the tool Microsoft give you to check a link before opening it is that awful URL rewriter, which prevents the small minority who would check from being able to.
Similarly those flashing cmd windows are usually automatic update processes that Windows has no way to hide. Even some drivers that MS distribute through Windows Update do it. We could turn automatic updates off, but then nobody would update their software.
IT is rough because you’re often stuck between a rock and a hard place. On the one side you have users who don’t want to change their behaviour, on the other side you have industry leading vendors, that the SLT insist on using, that make it impossible to do the right thing or put the right thing on an Enterprise plan that the budget won’t permit. Then to top it off, there are usually compliance and insurance breathing down your neck forcing you to implement questionable best practices from the 90s, so you just have to do your best to limit the damage.
Most people are never going to check the links no matter how much you ask them to, and even if they did they wouldn’t know what to check for. But the tool Microsoft give you to check a link before opening it is that awful URL rewriter, which prevents the small minority who would check from being able to.
Similarly those flashing cmd windows are usually automatic update processes that Windows has no way to hide. Even some drivers that MS distribute through Windows Update do it. We could turn automatic updates off, but then nobody would update their software.
IT is rough because you’re often stuck between a rock and a hard place. On the one side you have users who don’t want to change their behaviour, on the other side you have industry leading vendors, that the SLT insist on using, that make it impossible to do the right thing or put the right thing on an Enterprise plan that the budget won’t permit. Then to top it off, there are usually compliance and insurance breathing down your neck forcing you to implement questionable best practices from the 90s, so you just have to do your best to limit the damage.