Are the newer models faster? I always found the UI slow, but my nas is probably a decade old at this point.

qua, instead of QA

The hero mentality props up the villains. They will never learn or improve if you keep saving them.

We built an automated pipeline, so yeah they will.

Very significantly different performance requirements. The client communication needs tuning for fast UI response. Unified comms (zoom, teams, etc) need to be redirected to avoid bottlenecking through the server. usage patterns aren’t very well distributed (everyone logs in at 8) which means you can’t over subscribe as much.

It’s very different than a server workload.

Source: I run 80k of these.

Still sounds like an NCSI issue. You might have active probing disabled or it’s not working.

As I understand it, IAC is not about managing devices. When a IAC created device needs an update, you update the config, blow away the device, and build new.

Ansible and puppet manage devices. If you need a change, you send the package or config or reg key. You can’t blow away a device and build identical, like you can with IAC. At least not easily and without lots of careful group management.

That said, IAC is changing fast and I may not be up to speed on all the features of those tools. We’re an MECM and intune shop, with a bit of jamf on the side.

Sure. We manage about 110,000 endpoints with it at the office. It’s just not infrastructure as code.

This is the answer for such a small group of machines. Have chatgpt write a script that runs X on every device in a list. Then have X be the install from a network share.

I’ve never heard of IAC on Windows desktops. IAC is about consistent building of cloud resources. These are individual physical devices and probably aren’t all being flashed and rebuilt with every deployment.

Not free though

Next week’s news: broadcom increases the price of VMware licenses ten fold and halts all feature development.

Source: they did it to Symantec. Broadcom is where tech goes to be milked to death.

Check out Nitro Pro. We switched around 25k users to it after adobe jacked our licence cost by 30%.

Fuck Adobe.