Unfortunately Group Policy isn’t bullet proof, Microsoft has a history of sneaking in “features” like this as part of an update, but without any corresponding policy to disable it.
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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 months agoBusiness is entrenched. There’s no getting away from them.
Look at the VMware fiasco, companies will continue to pay their extortionist prices because it’s still less than paying for, and risking transition.
d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s also a moving target. There isn’t one simple ‘turn off the ads’ group policy. It requires repeated research and effort by the IT team playing wack-a-mole with this stuff.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
As I understand it, most companies are making transition plans away from VMware. A lot of contracts are multi-year, and transistioning your virtual infrastructure is one hell of a project if you have any amount of complexity to your infrastructure.
It’s also one of those types of projects that is likely to be pushed down in priority whenever there’s fires to fight. The price hike is absolutely insane, but in the balance of things it might be better business sense to keep paying while you investigate alternatives and migration plans.
marx2k@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s what our company is doing right now. Currently using VMware vcenter. We’ve started talks with IBM/redhat about open shift virtualization. I have to maintain redhat ansible automation platform, automation hub and a redhat openshift containerization cluster.
Based on how absolutely terrible it is to maintain those and how absolutely terrible redhat support is, I keep trying to talk my company out of their current talks with redhat openshift virtualization.
It doesn’t help that redhat’s tech team keep fucking up answers in their meetings with our team about their platform and our questions about feature party with vmware
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They are not. Other vendors are just as expensive as the new VMware pricing. Only options for cheap VMs is going with a solution that most 3rd parties won’t support.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Things like HyperV and KVM are free. We use one of these solutions at my company.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 6 months ago
KVM doesn’t have the support that VMware does. Hyperv is missing a lot of features.