Nollij

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Nollij ,

Hyper-V is discontinued, at least as a standalone hypervisor. It's only available as an additional role on a full OS.

IOW, it's a replacement for VMware Workstation, not ESXi, and certainly not vcenter.

Nollij ,

The standalone Hyper-V Server was last released for server 2019. Not only was this leaner than Server 2019 w/ the Hyper V role, it was available for free.

Nollij ,

Certainly some. But unless there’s been a massive change in circumstances or character (e.g. named in a criminal case, or turned against their supporters), you’re unlikely to get results. The same people that voted them into office would have to vote them out. This goes against the entire premise of the incumbent advantage.

Nollij ,

You’re giving up your sleep, and by extension your health, to make someone else richer.

You should be pushing that you get the entire day off. And when your manager denies it, and they will because this doesn’t sound like a one-off emergency, insist that you need to call them and wake them up each and every time. If it truly is an emergency, they will be glad that you are keeping them in the loop. When it’s not (and it almost never is), they need to champion your need to make it stop.

Everyone involved needs to feel the pain for the harm they are causing.

Nollij ,

Proxmox is missing a lot of enterprise features. If you run a virtualized data center, it’s really not going to cut it. OTOH, if you are a small operation with just a handful of virtual servers, it might be “good enough”.

The obvious alternative was Hyper-V, but it looks like MS is already killing it to force people into Azure.

When you look at enterprise-level hypervisors, there really aren’t a lot of options.

Nollij ,

(Not OP) There is some truth to it, though. Profitability and stock price are, at best, loosely related. There was a time (possibly right now; I didn’t bother to check) where Tesla’s market cap (total value of all stock) was higher than the entire rest of the automakers combined. This is despite the former having only a fraction of sales, revenue, profits, and even projected sales of most of their peers. Much of this is a gold rush/pump-and-dump cycle, where earlier investors expect to profit from later investors.

That being said, I acknowledge your main point that it’s the perception of (future) profits that generally drives stock prices. Tesla is an exception. Most stocks move on more traditional drivers, such as value and growth.

I don’t see how forcing people back to the office will drive profits, though. Office space is expensive. At my employer (pre-COVID), it was over $500 per employee per month. That was the grand total for rent, HVAC, networking, etc. It was second only to salaries in terms of expenses. This is in a city that is regularly featured in the lists of most affordable places to live in the US. Is there some study (esp Gartner, since that’s what the suits blindly follow) that shows higher productivity in office?

Nollij ,

Rosewill is just Newegg’s brand. They also sell some stuff on eBay and Amazon.

The model to look for is RSV-L4500U

Nollij ,

I presume your alarms are wired into the main electrical system. Are they also connected to each other using the red wire? This is typically used so that if one alarm detects fire/etc, all of the others start alerting as well

Nollij ,

As a practical matter, the only real need is to make sure there isn’t too much stress on the cables. Tape, Velcro, a bit of cardboard, etc are all valid approaches. Temperature could be a concern, but probably not

Windows deployment

I’m new to Windows deployments, and I need some help. I’ve gotten as far as setting up a new system from a Windows 11 image downloaded from MS, configuring it/installing software, and then running sysprep. I made a WinPE boot thumbdrive, but I’m stuck at capturing the Windows image part. Part of my problem is that I’m...

Nollij ,

Everyone suggesting WDS or MDT is overlooking something very important- both are being phased out, and have limited or no support for Win 11.

If you are building a new workflow, you should not build on these tools. You should build on something supported going forward.

Thick/captured WIMs are generally not recommended anyway due to their higher maintenance needs. What are you trying to do in the first place? There are probably better approaches to solve that instead of capturing an image.

Nollij ,

What’s your endpoint management/MDM? It sounds like your org has about 500 PCs, which means you definitely need something to manage them after deployment. That’s where I would start.

If you don’t have an MDM, you need to push upper management that you do. Intune or PDQ are probably right for your size. Each comes with strings and complications, but they will save you a significant amount of time and money in the long run

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