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I've used www.directdeals.com in the past. I thought it was sketchy at first but tried purchasing Volume licenses from them back in the day and the contracts actually showed up on the official Microsoft website. I tried the normal licenses later and had issues initially where the keys didn't...

tried... nope. I think some of those are pre-packaged installers, but ignoring those sources, is there anything that can/should be done for other non-patched programs that don't have patches? Like is it very risky to try replacing the dll with a dll that is up another layer in the patch...

the program files\windowsapps\ folder seems to be a special hidden OS folder that even admin doesn't have regular access to. I guess I can go into it, but I'm not going to mess with it at the moment and just ignore those items. what about all the other ones? Is this something everyone just...

I love it! "For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes." :flail:

Is there any sane way to deal with the security recommendation from M365 Defender to patch Openssl on client devices? It is by far the largest negative score impacting "issue" I have and the OCD side of myself just wants to clear as much of it up as possible. Looking around, it seems like...

Just sent you a PM with something that should look familiar :biggreen:

TIL... I have Monoprice mice... At least the handful of cheap ones I got as disposable spares for people. I think I'd rather not have a mouse. It works ok on a sheet of paper, but not directly on any desk... time to find a mouse pad

@CPX what specific KB do you need?

You can download the media through the MS site at Here . The key to activate it and set the version is available any number of ways such as direct from M$ or through an online reseller or your local big box store. I make a USB install media and keep that handy for a while. Pretty much the...

we were fortunate enough that they just asked for pictures of windows genuine stickers on desktops... most these days don't even have anything unique on the stickers anyway. I still went around and took a bunch of pictures of computer cases with stickers and that was good enough for them. The...

That works in theory for smaller shares, but with 100's of thousands of folders and files it becomes an issue for syncing.

I guess you can't forget about the "Sonos Argument" about the risks of implementing a new program. You don't really go into much detail about the scale and scope of this VB6 program, but there are definite risks for changing as well as staying the same. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is...

and... I caved. While the price increase is really frustrating, the incremental costs from going to anything else is way more... and I chickened out on Hyper-V... we had issues with it in the past that I chalked up to attempting to use sub-par shared storage (which we now have excellent...

yea... I wasn't expecting to be required to ultimately need 192 cores costing a total of ~33k/year in order to have a system with a secondary site doing pretty much what I've been able to do with 96 cores at what now would be roughly 3.5k (which used to be less than 1k)... of course that doesn't...

they were pushing 32 core single sockets with 512GB ram and 2x 15TB nvme drives per node. Hardware price was pretty reasonable IMO, but excluding the hardware and hardware support, the subscription for NCI starter bundle software was over 50k for three years for three nodes making it over 100k...

well... got pricing and waiting on clarification. I don't know what the vSAN licensing cost is for Broadcom and I'll accept that maybe my vCenter license isn't exactly feature parity with the Nutanix starter bundle, but with discounts, their per-core license cost to us was literally 669%...

I'm hoping it was just a green sales engineering confusing recommended with required, but I guess I'll find out tomorrow. I get that a single machine is obviously a SPOF and that carries its associated risks which we can weigh the cost/benefits if technically able. I'm just assuming the all-in...

last time I tried pricing it, doing VMs, that came out to be over 4k/month for VMs or ~2.5k/month for dedicated hardware, but the break-even on the cheapest way there still was about 15 months when compared to local hardware. There is some VM sprawl I can probably clean up and maybe some other...

the ability for a single node to function would be nice, but I get that this is of course complicated by the whole shared nothing and redundancy required thing... It would have been nice if there was a "no redundancy" option if you wanted it. while not ideal, two-node clusters are certainly...

I did ultimately get a response. I'd like to think this is mostly sales growing pains as they are likely busy. I met with one of their engineers and even gave them their sizing calculator files they needed... well it wasn't enough for them yet and so I have yet another call setup for Wednesday...