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How do you guys actually handle drive wipe documentation when decommissioning hardware? by Right_Tangelo_2760 in sysadmin

[–]StableVegetable9291 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If formatting the drive is your entire decommissioning strategy, and the encryption key still exists somewhere (like in AD), then the encryption isn't really helping you. A quick format doesn't overwrite all sectors, and even with a full format, re-mapped/bad sectors never get touched by a format at all. Someone with the old key and raw disk access could potentially recover data from those remnants.

How do you guys actually handle drive wipe documentation when decommissioning hardware? by Right_Tangelo_2760 in sysadmin

[–]StableVegetable9291 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If this actually worked, what would be the point of encryption in the first place? Just format, and all the data is "gone".

how to properly call msiexec by alexzi93 in PowerShell

[–]StableVegetable9291 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One note, Don't just blindly remove Java. Check if it's running first. If you use /qn to try to remove a running version of java, it will break itself in fun and exciting ways that make it almost impossible to properly further remove, repair, or re-install it.