The advice, which is specifically for virtual machines using Azure, shows that sometimes the solution to a catastrophic failure is turn it off and on again. And again.
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Well then obviously you could opt to restrict safe mode on laptops only, or laptops and desktops allowing you to get your server infrastructure up quickly so at least the back end is running properly.

Ffs.

Servers with KVM access, could have it compromised, letting bad actors enter safe mode.

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If your RMM gets compromised then you have much larger issues.

Doesn’t need to be fully compromised, but it isn’t unusual for the access credentials to some portion, to be stored on an easier to compromise system. Disabling safe mode on a server, prevents stuff like a single compromised laptop, from becoming a full server compromise.

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