A domain controller dies, it held every FSMO role, and there is no usable backup. It feels like the domain is gone. It usually isn’t — here’s the shape of the recovery, and the one mistake that turns a bad day into a rebuild.
Most MSPs patch Windows through their RMM — detect, push, force a reboot. Intune’s hotpatch does the same monthly security work in-memory, no reboot, honoring your rings. Here’s the case for moving Windows quality updates off the RMM and onto the platform built for them.
Hardware planning now requires more flexibility than it used to. Sometimes it’s the simple stuff — like RAM and hard drives — that ends up changing the whole game.