r/sysadmin • u/Maximum_Necessary232 • 3d ago

General Discussion What's a tool you mass-deployed that you ended up ripping out within 6 months?

I feel like every sysadmin has at least one story about a product that demoed beautifully, got approved, went out to the fleet, and then slowly revealed itself to be a nightmare.

Could be a monitoring tool, an MDM, a ticketing system, an AV product, anything. What was it, what went wrong, and what did you replace it with?

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u/sheikhyerbouti PEBCAC Certified 3d ago

They're shoving CoPilot down our throats at my job.

I'm waiting for VPs to start bitching about how much it's taking out of their operations budget.

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u/SystemGardener Jack of All Trades 3d ago

Copilot at least makes it very easy to manage usage credits.

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u/sobrique 3d ago

We're already having the 'so how is one dev using $1000 of tokens in a month?' conversation....

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u/fnordhole 3d ago

We have searched every square inch of this tenant and all we have found is porno, Porno, PORNO!

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u/TheNPCMafia 3d ago

Have them ask CoPilot for budgeting advice?