Cunning Sys-Admin pranks?

RedvGreen · 4 Dec 2013 at 23:09

Pranks for Active Directory (Server 2012) ?

In our office we have ongoing pranks with each other, but am looking to up the game a little.

We've done all the usual swap monitors, wireless mouse, printscreen desktop, closing explorer.exe and shutdown -f scripts but wanting something a little tastier.

We have a custom office domain setup which is sporting server 2012 AD to which I have domain admin, however, without getting malicious (resetting passwords etc) what prank things can be done fairly simply and reversed quickly (or with a reboot), if needed to?

My level of competency with AD is purely from the routine Sys-Admin side used to maintain our lab, so not an expert in AD by any stretch!

LizardKing · 4 Dec 2013 at 23:30

upside-down internet is all you need

Caged · 4 Dec 2013 at 23:36

Deploy a scheduled task to run cozpop.exe on login

Hellsmk2 · 5 Dec 2013 at 00:06

Editing the hosts file is always a nice simple and annoying one.

Schnippzle · 5 Dec 2013 at 01:33

Not specifically AD 2012 but.... edit the Message of the Day on VMware VCenter to something error related. Quite funny to watch an IT n00b see a "VCEnter Update Manager remediating updates across hosts, click ok to continue" message of the day and think it's an actual message

V F · 5 Dec 2013 at 01:44

Is this what boredom brings?

Caged · 5 Dec 2013 at 02:01

Schnippzle said:
Not specifically AD 2012 but.... edit the Message of the Day on VMware VCenter to something error related. Quite funny to watch an IT n00b see a "VCEnter Update Manager remediating updates across hosts, click ok to continue" message of the day and think it's an actual message

The joke's on you for giving someone access to vCenter who would get tricked by that

d_brennen · 5 Dec 2013 at 03:03

Long, long time ago, I remember *someone* changing the Windows XP logon sound to various dog barks and cat meows with workstation volume on maximum. Was hilarious when everyone logged in on Monday. Less so on Tuesday

hamesy · 5 Dec 2013 at 09:44

d_brennen said:
Long, long time ago, I remember *someone* changing the Windows XP logon sound to various dog barks and cat meows with workstation volume on maximum. Was hilarious when everyone logged in on Monday. Less so on Tuesday

If I was still in my old job, I would have done that in a heart beat