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  • I vote that both are terrible solutions in the wrong situations (as already indicated by the others).

    The hard part is getting people to use them properly!

    If ‘the business’ has some ownership of their data and its mostly officey-crap, SP is probably fine and it’s easier for them to see that it’s secured and take some ownership of it. Chances are though that lots of the business units has little dips into each others data on the fringes…

    (I’m just burned by a multi-TB file share a whole hospital uses where no one owns any of it and it’s a tangled Gordian knot. Goes back decades, sitting on a SAN that doesn’t give much visibility, just de-dupe)




  • Thanks for that - I hadn’t thought about the rest of the domain in the name.

    I was purely thinking about it from a hypothetical risk-mitigation perspective.

    As you can imagine, keeping ‘the old crap around’ in case of a need to roll back would be handy in some migrations… Assuming the same IP complicates that.

    However, I guess a machine can have multiple IPs so it needn’t be too much of a drama if it’s just a matter of moving the original IP when rolling back…








  • If you expand the applications and services part, you can drill down to a group policy specific log which is awfully verbose.

    Another thing it might relate to is if the DC that the client is talking to is busy (this is a long shot, though!).

    Once you find the pattern of gpo refresh taking ages and start to map that out (chuck the various phases into a spreadsheet, it’s complicated, you’re looking for scripts processing took a bazillion seconds - but it could be registry or any of the other components) across a few PCs, you’ll be able to validate whether its a single DC






  • (thinking about the dual-communities) I guess that’s part of the growing pains we’re seeing and will probably endure for some time.

    I’m all about merging however, but perhaps the community culture needs time to develop (or does that just make it harder to merge?). I gather the .ml instance was less windows inclined and rather happy to see that left behind in /r/… Can’t blame them, but that’s squarely where I sit, unfortunately :)