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Something like saltstack is not in the same league as point and drool windows solutions.

• dijit 4y ago
  Is there something you can’t do? Or are you assuming sysadmins don’t learn their tools. Arguably learning the idiosyncracies of proprietary management tools is harder long-term as there are myriads of edge cases and they get replaced with completely new tools quite often. Exceptions are SCCM maybe, but people are avoiding that as much as possible IME.
  • nikau 4y ago
    Most Windows compliance tools are seen as a tick in a box so ease of use and low effort deployment is often the most important thing. I'm sure you could achieve similar results with Salt but it will be some bespoke contraption requiring a lot of engineering effort where you cant just hire new staff off the street to maintain it.
    • dijit 4y ago
      Tell me what you need and I’ll tell you how hard it is. I’m sure certain things are a tick of a box, with salt it’s usually 3-5 lines of yaml. It’s not like you’re writing a management system by hand in a general purpose programming language.
      • nikau 4y ago
        where I work there are controls to block USB media devices, they block certain software publishers (eg. cant run firefox), all sorts of annoying things.