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Inventory

12 articles

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The reporting stack nobody owns

Every estate has a reporting layer that grew instead of being built. How to inventory it, what it costs, and the rebuild pattern that actually holds.

#reporting#inventory#decomposition

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The Java 8 deadline nobody circled

Temurin now lists Java 8 as available until at least December 2030. The cliff is not coming, and the bundled JREs in your appliances were never going to take the updates anyway.

#java#eol#inventory

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Debian 11 runs out on Monday

Bullseye's Long Term Support ends August 31st, five years after release, per Debian's own lifecycle page. The OS inventory has it in two places nobody lists: the base images and the appliances.

#debian#eol#inventory

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The batch job nobody knew

The estate's most dangerous resident is scheduled, unowned, and load-bearing. Finding the batch layer before it finds you.

#inventory#batch#risk

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The inventory always surprises

Nobody has ever handed us an accurate list of what runs. What two weeks of walking the floor finds, and why the surprise rate never drops.

#inventory#legacy#discovery

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Pricing the standing stock

What the estate costs to keep is the number nobody has. Licenses, infrastructure and people-hours, counted the way an appraiser would.

#inventory#cost#licensing

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SQL Server 2016 has ninety days

Extended support ends July 12, 2026. The one-week triage for anyone starting late.

#sql-server#eol

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The server under the desk

Every estate has one. Finding the unracked, unpatched, load-bearing hardware before its retirement finds you.

#inventory#shadow-it#risk

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Retirement wave planning

The systems are not retiring. The people who understand them are, on a schedule HR already knows. Planning for the knowledge exit, not the technology one.

#inventory#people#risk

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Name an owner

One name per system. Not a team, not a committee, a name. The cheapest control in the whole modernization toolkit.

#inventory#ownership