"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." - Scotty Trying to provide globally available, replicated service that meets eve

"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." - Scotty Trying to provide globally available, replicated service that meets every and all needs 24/7/365 is basically making Active Directory about 600x more complicated than it would be otherwise. It's basically impossible for a service that complicated to meet the uptime of... installing Windows Server 2019 on a VM and patching it monthly. (Bear in mind, if I know when my business is not affected by an outage, I can do it without being disruptive. Microsoft, by definition, cannot. Every moment is critical since their customers are everywhere.) There are types of businesses to which the former might be a necessary solution, but most would be better off with the latter. It'll be really interesting when people start realizing the cloud is mostly just a scam to get people on subscription revenue streams, and not actually providing any greater reliability or less management overhead than what they had before.