That train sounds cool.

I know you said open source and free, but PatchMyPC is cheap if you have WSUS or Intune already. Otherwise chocolatey is the closest to your request.

Side note, you can use psexec to span a power shell as system to work with it interactively to understand what’s going wrong. I’m guessing you either need to import a module or make sure the correct powershell version is being invoked.

Lemmy isn’t ready for a dedicated sysadmin community yet. It needs to reach critical mass in another community like technology first, much like how the sysadmin reddit community did.

The reddit sysadmin community is pretty great and i see no reason to abandon it.

Hypervisor. The hypervisor doesn’t need to know much about application needs. It can perform compression/deduplication for the VM, and you can therefore add more memory to the VM and prevent it from using additional swap and CPU to perform memory management.

The other benefit if assigning more memory instead of using guest compression is that the hypervisor can use a memory ballon when it needs to reclaim memory, forcing the VM to decide what will stay in memory and what will be sent to swap.

The concepts of storage are similar. If you need to encrypt data at rest, it’s usually better to let the hypervisor or SAN handle it. Letting a VM perform storage encryption would work, but would eat up CPU cycles and prevent the hypervisor from performing compression, deduplication, and in some cases knowing what space is used but empty.

Storage compression is similar, you want the hypervisor to handle it since it can compress block of data that are the same across the environment. If you have 1000 machines all running the same OS with many of the same applications installed, then you’ll have a lot of opportunity to save space. You can use these same ideas when it comes to memory.

It’s probably IPsec, not ssl.

Enterprise grade firewalls should be cert, MFA or SAML. I wouldn’t expect a simple username/password in use today.

It’s not more or less secure than the same setup on an in-house firewall.

It’s a hosted vpn.

Have a similar issue in my industry. Microsoft went to a conference in my industry and straight up asked everyone there which vendor plugins are slowing down the transition and said they will be contacting those vendors directly.

Yeah those com addins are usually the problem with outlook stability. Simply moving to modern addins improves Outlook classic significantly.

Outlook classic is on life support. Next October Exchange Online drops support for it.

It’s built on decades of code. It allows plugins to directly affect the UX. It still uses I explore at times.

I switched to new outlook and while it has its own significant issues, at least it’s not spaghetti code. It also runs on top of Edge, which allows Outlook devs to ignore a lot of backend code, and makes the UX pretty consistent across platforms.

Sounds like the organizer was in a different timezone.

It might have intel amt or vpro already, which is out of band management.

You mean azure hci?

It’s going to be Nutanix.

Why would boot times matter?

Truenas appears to recommend ecc. That may dictate what board to buy.

Supermicro.

What memory do you need? Storage systems usually like ecc.

The UI isn’t a priority item most of the time. The services tor NAS provides are.

I mostly use Photos Mobile, Drive. These are asynchronous applications so responsiveness isn’t really a consideration.

Smb/nfs were always as fast as the drives for me, even in their much higher end enterprise equipment, although I had 8Gb or more of memory in those.

For me the math just didn’t work out. Maintaining a 2nd nas offsite wasn’t worth it, their cloud service was cheaper.

It’s Linux under the hood.

Since the cpus are weak (compared to desktop/laptop hardware) they barely use any energy.

I bought a Synology years ago and it served me well. I bought a newer model that was smaller, two drives.

I like that I don’t need to think about it. It has a simple offsite cloud backup that’s pretty cheap, or you can set up your own. It supports docker and the software packages it supports are good enough for me.

I still treat it like it’s my own money.

Did small Nutanix deployments a while ago, and liked it enough to go all in on vSAN for the datacenter about 7 years ago.

No regrets. Great performance, no san storage, no San network. Easy to manage on dell readynodes.

Going to go all in with Nutanix next round. Same costs but it’s not Broadcom.