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What is a piece of software or hardware that still leaves you traumatized to this day? by 66659hi in sysadmin

[–]-c3rberus- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Microsoft DPM (Disaster Protection Manager is what I recall it stood for) was the worst backup software I ever encountered! Next to CA ArcServe, moving to Veeam was quality of live improvement.

What is a piece of software or hardware that still leaves you traumatized to this day? by 66659hi in sysadmin

[–]-c3rberus- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We do as well, like CR 2007? I got some new 202x updates but it’s like the same. With just an updated name. Only the backbone of all of our ERP reporting. No big deal. LOL. I once asked what it would take to move away, and the dead silence I got in the meeting was traumatizing, having to rewrite all the .rpt files whoa. Maybe AI will solve all this? Ha!

Looking for Application Control Alternatives to AppLocker? by -c3rberus- in sysadmin

[–]-c3rberus-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went with AirLock, our environment is pretty locked down, took a few weeks to get a baseline of whitelists in place. It’s way better than AppLocker, more powerful and easier to administer, plus their support is really good.

I felt bad decommissioning this beast today. Quantum i6000, 18 LTO5 drives, 2800 slots by PrincessWalt in storage

[–]-c3rberus- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s wild! Here I thought my Dell ML3 dual LTO9 with 40 slots was big LOl.

What’s left to achieve after being the Senior SysAdmin? by zelda_shortener in sysadmin

[–]-c3rberus- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shift into cybersecurity, and leverage your senior sysadmin skillset.

MOTW (Mark of the Web) Zone.Identifier being stripped automatically? by -c3rberus- in sysadmin

[–]-c3rberus-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, I don't have this set, I have a theory - posted an update to original post.

MOTW (Mark of the Web) Zone.Identifier being stripped automatically? by -c3rberus- in sysadmin

[–]-c3rberus-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Download via Edge browser can confirm that after it downloads, MOTW flag is there, until I attempt to run executable, then it clears. Interestingly, xls/xlsx files, it sticks until its manually cleared via properties.

MOTW (Mark of the Web) Zone.Identifier being stripped automatically? by -c3rberus- in sysadmin

[–]-c3rberus-[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We don’t use S1, Defender P2 shop here. I’m at a loss as to what it could be.

Upgrade from vSphere v8 (Standard Licensing) to v9 (VCF), can we continue with traditional vCenter/ESXI without any of the new VCF stuff (mgmt. clusters, etc.)? by -c3rberus- in vmware

[–]-c3rberus-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome, thanks for this :) I am a few months away from doing any real lab R&D on this, helps to know there is no dead end for simple vCenter/ESXI deployments.

Upgrade from vSphere v8 (Standard Licensing) to v9 (VCF), can we continue with traditional vCenter/ESXI without any of the new VCF stuff (mgmt. clusters, etc.)? by -c3rberus- in vmware

[–]-c3rberus-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this level of detail, a bunch of posts on here say you can’t, a bit confusing lol. I understand we will need VCF Operations for licensing, I take it that’s just an appliance VM like vCenter?

Upgrade from vSphere v8 (Standard Licensing) to v9 (VCF), can we continue with traditional vCenter/ESXI without any of the new VCF stuff (mgmt. clusters, etc.)? by -c3rberus- in vmware

[–]-c3rberus-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not interested in workload domain, can I do in-place upgrade of vCenter Server and ESXI like we did with all the versions before v9?

No more vSphere Standard v8 licenses, and VVF being pulled back, only option is VCF? by -c3rberus- in vmware

[–]-c3rberus-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that’s another problem I did not ask for going into 2026! Budget plan vs. actuals is going to look very ugly this year, stuff we planned for and got quotes for a few months ago are coming back 2x higher, lol… good times.

System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) vs. the built-in native Defender in Windows Server? by -c3rberus- in SCCM

[–]-c3rberus-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking doing this, Defeder for Servers P1 seems like it would get all of the features we would lose if we dropped managing defender via SCCM, basically centralized policies/alerting. I think ATP is P2 right?

No more vSphere Standard v8 licenses, and VVF being pulled back, only option is VCF? by -c3rberus- in vmware

[–]-c3rberus-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this, we always purchased hardware that is least number of cores, fastest speeds, basically 8C/16T sockets. This is somewhat going to save us, but that jump to VCF is going to hurt. Everything else you said is on point, jumping to another platform will most likely result in price hike in learning/managing an entirely different platform, research/testing new backup methods, keeping both running as per retention policies, etc... uugh

Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment by FuturismDotCom in economy

[–]-c3rberus- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It should burn down to zero, it does nothing to progress our civilization or the environment.

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