Hey sysadmins! Do you want to automate more, but get bogged down in the time and complexity of bulletproof PowerShell scripting? After a period of skepticism and reading a lot of negative opinions on Copilot, I finally decided to try it out for myself. I discovered that you can’t simply allow it to go off …
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Software licensing is a special form of awful that nearly rises to the frustration level of dealing with printers. Windows Server licensing pushes it even further. Virtual machine licensing in Windows Server takes it to an extreme. This topic has a lot to unpack, but I want to scope specifically down to the subtopic of …
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Gatekeeping is one of the worst ills of the technology world. Someone with no authority finds an arbitrary reason to tell you that you’re not a “real” something, or they use it to try to shame you. For reasons that I certainly can’t explain, many people in tech love jumping on the bandwagon and gatekeeping …