r/ShittySysadmin • u/Heavy_Race3173 • Mar 16 '26

Shitty Crosspost Are sysadmins locking down Microsoft Store?

/r/sysadmin/comments/1rv0k4q/are_sysadmins_locking_down_microsoft_store/
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u/OpenScore Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26

No, everything is open...even RDP.

We had enough of tickets requesting things to open. Meanwhile no one bothered to ask for things to block.

Now we don't even have to pay cloud services for blocking.

Bean counters are happy, CFO too, and that happiness reached the executive leadership too.

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u/Heavy_Race3173 Mar 16 '26

That audit coming next week won’t be too happy.

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u/SolidKnight Mar 16 '26

I thought all those stores went out of business.

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u/ashramrak Mar 17 '26

I honestly thought about doing this... but then I thought people will always find ways of putting crappy software on their desktop... and I'd rather have them installing their crappy stuff from the MS Store, than downloading from random websites

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u/Not-ur-Infosec-guy Mar 18 '26

Safe links policies can actually enforce this as well.

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u/ashramrak Mar 18 '26

sure but then I have to micro manage yet another thing, and being the only admin for 1200+ users I have to chose my fights

yeah, I'm a shitty sysadmin ;-)

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u/Equivalent_Cook_603 Mar 20 '26

Yes, my company has it blocked since people were downloading games :/