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  • Very few people WANT a war in Ukraine. But as China keeps adding dashes to their map, it’s pretty clear there’s a reasonable chance to be an even bigger war around the corner, whether we want it or not.

    The Ukraine war woke the west up from its slumber, and it has allowed us to put the old stuff stuff cluttering our closets to good use, as well as test some new weapons concepts, and to get ourselves ready for the bigger conflict on the horizon.

    If we are really lucky, China is looking at Ukraine and having second thoughts about kicking the hornets nest at all, saving a lot of lives on both sides.

    If we are not that lucky, then Ukraine has allowed us to be much better prepared for the coming conflict.

    So am I glad Ukraine happened? Not a bit. Can I see the silver lining thru the clouds? For sure.


  • I think it’s been made pretty clear between Andor and Ashoka that the Old Republic, the Empire, and the New Republic are all essentially the same bureaucracy at their cores, just with different leadership and priorities at the top.

    It’s really showing the banality of evil…people continue to do their jobs and following orders of whoever the current bosses are. By and large, they can’t directly see whether their own actions are used for good or evil, the paperwork must continue to flow regardless.

    That’s why there isn’t a ton of chaos when one galactic government supplants the next. Setting up an all-new galaxy-spanning bureaucracy is extremely hard, why not just do some loyalty oaths and let the existing machinery keep on chugging along.









  • Tanium has some common apps pre-packaged and regularly updated, you could just setup an ongoing deployment for those to automate keeping them up to date with minimal work on your part.

    If you need to update something not on that list, you will need to make an upgrade package yourself with the updated installer or files.

    Whether this is actually easy or not really depends on the app vendor and the software. It’s usually straight forward, but not always. But that’s the case with literally any software deployment solution.

    I have one app in particular who’s install and config essentially un-automateable. But it’s a shitty LOB app that was written in the 90’s to be intentionally obtuse to prevent privacy, hopefully that’s not an issue in your case.


  • We are using Tanium, just put the agent on the servers and you are good to go…build your packages and set up deployment jobs.

    It also handles Windows patching, and can do system inventory, among other features.

    It’s also great for software deployments to you remote workforce systems that are rarely/never on the corporate network.

    And seriously, you want a domain. GPOs are incredibly useful for pushing out a huge variety of Windows config changes extremely easily.