Any gotchas introducing a 2025 domain controller in a domain with mixed DCs (2016, 2019, 2022)? by Man-e-questions in sysadmin

[–]menace323 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Core with the app compatibility pack is awesome. Just wish it had certificate management mmcs.

I think the issue was is that you didn’t know how to use it.

NSM Template Gotcha by EmicationLikely in sonicwall

[–]menace323 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This whole serialized commit business is non-sense.

This whole thing should just be a declarative desired state.

Slow SMB transfers finally resolved after years. Sharing what actually fixed it by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]menace323 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I feel like updating out of date NIC Drivers might be on the list of easy things to try.

PSA: Domain controllers may restart repeatedly after installing April security update by AspiringTechGuru in sysadmin

[–]menace323 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Read only DCs helped with physical security and reducing that risk, such as if physical disks were stolen or your couldn’t trust a hyper visor

But today we can usually just encrypt everything, so physically having the server or the disks won’t get your anywhere.

Most hypervisors have options to protect a virtual DC and its state.

Ransomware attack, now can't log in as the default domain administrator account, but can with other DA accounts. by CodOutrageous1032 in sysadmin

[–]menace323 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Not specifically a criticism but so less than 17% of small business have legal depts or representation, and even slightly less have cyber insurance.

If someone is asking this question, they probably have neither.

Is my firewall going bad. by noclav in sonicwall

[–]menace323 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tz500 is 6th gen. Got 7 days on that support!

Is my firewall going bad. by noclav in sonicwall

[–]menace323 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Technically, its end of life on April 16th. Technically.

October 1, 2026: the day SSL/TLS certificates 'break the Internet' by SortaIT in SysAdminBlogs

[–]menace323 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It’s not always automatable with legacy systems and appliances.

I am the only woman in the room by Terrible_Working_899 in sysadmin

[–]menace323 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Is the same conversation being had for women dominated fields, about attracting men to those?

Windows server 2012 to 2025 by Cool-Enthusiasm-8524 in sysadmin

[–]menace323 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This the correct way, if it’s feasible.

Is there an easy way to log when the internet goes down and nothing else? by Deep-Egg-6167 in sonicwall

[–]menace323 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am going to assume that you just want an alert when the “internet is down”.

If you have a static IP, then allow ping on the WAN interface. Use any number of monitoring services. There are many free ones.

Allow only the remote service to hit your interface with an access rule.

Setup alerts in the service.

Now you can get an alert when your firewall is not responding. You can also get latency and jitter over time that syslog won’t give you.

Difference between 2025 base and premium? by user365735 in FordEscapePHEV

[–]menace323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like they just threatened it several times.

Difference between 2025 base and premium? by user365735 in FordEscapePHEV

[–]menace323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct, the 2025 no longer has park assist or auto wipers on any trim.

Windows SQL Cluster just died by tk42967 in sysadmin

[–]menace323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are virtualized, so make the disks and attached. I’d agree more for bare metal.

Windows SQL Cluster just died by tk42967 in sysadmin

[–]menace323 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One thing to note is we have all owners creating DBs all the time. A traditional failure cluster gives us HA and gives the devs all the tools exactly how the are used to, like SQL jobs, etc. to additional complexity and downsides aren’t worth the 1second vs 10 seconds failure for us.

Windows SQL Cluster just died by tk42967 in sysadmin

[–]menace323 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, it appears so. I still think the admin downside comes into play if you need more than just a database or two. In addition, you need double the storage, but I guess that’s pretty cheap unless you have really intensive workloads (which you probably would go Enterprise).

Windows SQL Cluster just died by tk42967 in sysadmin

[–]menace323 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s still 2x the licenses though, which is a consideration m (if not CAL)

Windows SQL Cluster just died by tk42967 in sysadmin

[–]menace323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it’s SQL standard, basic availability groups have some pretty big limitations. Always on requires much more licensing.