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[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Lots of windows apps behind Remote Desktop vms at my workplace too.

Do you have to maintain licenses for Windows XP and such? What a sorry state of affairs.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

Nah for a single vm i just use the ol' pro key.

Fun fact: it will still validate on m$ servers

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[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 1 point 9 months ago

That’s wild! I thought you’d have to block all packets headed to MS or the WAN entirely.

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