It was 11:47 PM on a Friday. Sarah, a senior infrastructure engineer, was two hours into what should have been a routine P2V migration. The source machine: an aging Windows Server 2008 R2 box running a critical line-of-business app. The destination: a shiny new vSphere 7 cluster.
She had done this a hundred times.
She closed her laptop, leaned back, and stared at the ceiling. It was 11:47 PM on a Friday
She opened gpedit.msc and checked: System > Device Installation > Specify digital signature verification for device drivers. It was set to "Block." Even test-signed drivers were rejected. a senior infrastructure engineer