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[–] AGD4@lemmy.world 92 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (14 children)

Y'all joke, but when that 'task' is run through process monitor, we see it's trying to overwrite a DLL in system32, create a directory at root of %systemdrive% or cache some data in the Program Files application itself, instead of utilizing ProgramData or Appdata properly.

When applications fail these simple practices and demand local admin, they shouldn't touch your network.

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I've worked for two organisations that distributed licences for users. Being able to prove, under scrutinisation, that your general requests do not need to be questioned for that level. Anything above your level of liberty in the data governance would be checked—though 99% of the time you already know this and explain in full detail on the request to help.

It worked perfectly and I don't know why it's still not the norm.

In a 'wet cement' org structure, often the specialists in an area know far more about what's going on than the juniors gatekeeping. If you aren't buddies with the person on top, you join the queue and a 5 min job becomes 6 months and several meetings; if you don't already botch a dodgy workaround before then.

Edit: I'm in year 3 of getting the Oracle SQL add-on allowed to direct query, read only, in Excel. My current workaround is to use the IDE to export to CSV, store on SP, then PQ that... And, yeah, I have write access in the IDE even though I keep telling them that's bad... Apparently, that solution is more secure. I've spoken to the CIO about the concerns and how it breaks the fundamentals of our data governance framework. The new infrastructure architecture gets it, but has to spin the better way of doing things as a "trial" which has taken 6 months to approve and counting...

[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Reading your comment at night does feel like a horror story

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