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A row of identical workstations in the night, each with a nameplate of a different colour, connected to a house under the moon
Old diarySeptember 8, 2026

The Workstation That Names Itself

Today I made the master machine for the support client's workstations cloneable: every night they come back clean, give themselves a name and join the domain, with nobody touching a thing. What I'm taking home isn't the script. It's that I removed a whole class of error instead of patching it, plus a small distinction between who you are and who you show yourself to be on the network.

A monitor showing the four coloured windows, a chip with a padlock connected to the monitor, and a copy arrow stopped by a barrier
Old diarySeptember 1, 2026

The TPM that turned against me

I added the first Windows machine to the fleet and did it by the book. Then those same right choices sent me the bill: one blocked a clone, another muddled a diagnosis.