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They already had group policy for structured administration. What Windows was missing specifically was a non-GUI way for that unstructured "get in there and fi
by slededit 8y ago
They already had group policy for structured administration. What Windows was missing specifically was a non-GUI way for that unstructured "get in there and fix the problem" work flow. Structured workflows may well be better for you, but quick and dirty has a lot of appeal.
Sometimes you just have to give people the candy they want - even if its not good for them.
- mycall 8y ago> "get in there and fix the problem" work flow Isn't this an anti-pattern considering the cloud tenants of treating machines as cattle not pets?
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- slededit 8y agoWindows had this problem much earlier with every employee getting a PC on their desk. They solved it with Group Policy and domains. That still works well. SSH and Remote Desktop solve a different problem. It may not be the one you have - but some of us just need to log into the machine because we have needs that don’t fit into some predefined workflow. Or we have so few boxes it’s not worth it. Consider SSHing into a large build machine for compiling as an example.
- donavanm 8y agoCloud is irrelevant. Its scope and repeatable results. A decade ago I had these problems with owned facilities, owned hardware, and dedicated internal teams. But it was thousands of hosts, multiple datacenters, and thousands of internal users. My personal break point is/was “a few hundred” hosts. Below that bespoke management can scale at a reasonable human:resource ratio. Above that you need too many people, and then you cant control or inspect the rate of change or variance.
- snuxoll 8y agoGroup Policy can't manage Exchange, Active Directory, etc - prior to the introduction of Powershell you were at the mercy of what was provided with the RSAT and RDP for anything else.