What Are You Doing Right Now

EddieJennings

I win! (f0 r3@lz this time)

Found this in our Windstream T1 contract.

Within "Addendum to customer service agreement"

Auto Renewal:
The following shall be inserted in lieu of sentence two 2) of CSA Section 1. Term and Renewal:
Upon expiration of the Term, this Agreement will automatically renew for successive month-to-moth terms (each, a "Renewal Term") until terminated or cancelled pursuant to its terms.

The original sentence two: Upon expiration of the Term, this Agreement will automatically renew for successive one-year terms, (each, a "Renewal Term") until terminated or cancelled pursuant to its terms.

I'm sure there will be other gotchas to find as I look at how to leave them, but discovering that made for a nice Monday morning.

DustinB3403

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Made it halfway before it started to have errors, but still chugging away.

I've never encountered errors while using DD, what can you do when this happens?

I told it to fill zero's on the destination anytime it had something unreadable on the source.
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdf bs=64K conv=noerror,sync status=progress
The conv switch is the magic here.
noerrror means do not stop on error.
sync means to fill zeros in the destination on read error. The point of it is to keep the file allocation table correct.

Thanks for the explanation.

scottalanmiller

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Got my morning caffeine syringe from my dealer and I'm dicking around with a vultr instance until I have to go to a meeting.

Vultr seems to be the topic of the day.

hobbit666

Wondering how powerful/useful I can make our Zabbix server when I reinstall ready for our RasPi we have for the display TV.

DustinB3403

I'm this guy today

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dafyre

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Wondering how powerful/useful I can make our Zabbix server when I reinstall ready for our RasPi we have for the display TV.

It can do a lot! I had mine done up with a network map and a slide show that rotated out various pages / items we monitored at my last job.

scottalanmiller

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I win! (f0 r3@lz this time)

Found this in our Windstream T1 contract.

Within "Addendum to customer service agreement"

Auto Renewal:
The following shall be inserted in lieu of sentence two 2) of CSA Section 1. Term and Renewal:
Upon expiration of the Term, this Agreement will automatically renew for successive month-to-moth terms (each, a "Renewal Term") until terminated or cancelled pursuant to its terms.

The original sentence two: Upon expiration of the Term, this Agreement will automatically renew for successive one-year terms, (each, a "Renewal Term") until terminated or cancelled pursuant to its terms.

I'm sure there will be other gotchas to find as I look at how to leave them, but discovering that made for a nice Monday morning.

This is what your legal department is for. If you don't have one, whoever signed this acted as teh attorney and is responsible for reading it and noting these things.

Grey

Fixing this:
http://i.imgur.com/Qxenicj.png
In case anyone is wondering how, here are the steps I use:

Do:
Net stop wsusservice
IISReset /Stop
IISReset /Start
Net start wsusservice
Then (if that fails):
C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools>WsusUtil.exe postinstall

Also, you can check the application pool for wsus and increase memory if you have a lot of clients. Details: https://www.404techsupport.com/2016/03/21/iis-wsus-private-memory/

Also, while writing this, I fixed the reset server node error and my wsus is running fine now.

dbeato

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fixing this:
http://i.imgur.com/Qxenicj.png
In case anyone is wondering how, here are the steps I use:

Do:
Net stop wsusservice
IISReset /Stop
IISReset /Start
Net start wsusservice

Then (if that fails):
C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools>WsusUtil.exe postinstall

Also, you can check the application pool for wsus and increase memory if you have a lot of clients. Details: https://www.404techsupport.com/2016/03/21/iis-wsus-private-memory/

Also, while writing this, I fixed the reset server node error and my wsus is running fine now.

Not fun It happens a lot for Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016 WSUS....

Grey

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fixing this:
http://i.imgur.com/Qxenicj.png
In case anyone is wondering how, here are the steps I use:

Do:
Net stop wsusservice
IISReset /Stop
IISReset /Start
Net start wsusservice

Then (if that fails):
C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools>WsusUtil.exe postinstall

Also, you can check the application pool for wsus and increase memory if you have a lot of clients. Details: https://www.404techsupport.com/2016/03/21/iis-wsus-private-memory/

Also, while writing this, I fixed the reset server node error and my wsus is running fine now.

Not fun It happens a lot for Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016 WSUS....

It has to do with the database, as far as I can tell. There are several scripts out there for handling database cleanups, including one by Microsoft that's included with the application, and I've yet to find one that truly works perfectly.

dbeato

@Grey Yes, I usually use AdamJ's WSUS Cleaner script with powershell.

Grey

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey Yes, I usually use AdamJ's WSUS Cleaner script with powershell.

I've been using that one, too. It's not great. It consistently throws errors and over-use tends to bork the database, requiring the postinstall option to get things rolling again.

jt1001001

@EddieJennings Definitely document your experience with leaving them. Our contract is up Feb 2018 and Myself, our COO and our carrier services guy all want to leave them and port our numbers (and we have a LOT of numbers) out from them

black3dynamite

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fixing this:
http://i.imgur.com/Qxenicj.png
In case anyone is wondering how, here are the steps I use:

Do:
Net stop wsusservice
IISReset /Stop
IISReset /Start
Net start wsusservice

Then (if that fails):
C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools>WsusUtil.exe postinstall

Also, you can check the application pool for wsus and increase memory if you have a lot of clients. Details: https://www.404techsupport.com/2016/03/21/iis-wsus-private-memory/

Also, while writing this, I fixed the reset server node error and my wsus is running fine now.

Not fun It happens a lot for Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016 WSUS....

It has to do with the database, as far as I can tell. There are several scripts out there for handling database cleanups, including one by Microsoft that's included with the application, and I've yet to find one that truly works perfectly.

Happens all the time with WID Database or SQL Server Express/Standard?
Because I wonder if using SQL Server would work better?

Grey

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fixing this:
http://i.imgur.com/Qxenicj.png
In case anyone is wondering how, here are the steps I use:

Do:
Net stop wsusservice
IISReset /Stop
IISReset /Start
Net start wsusservice

Then (if that fails):
C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools>WsusUtil.exe postinstall

Also, you can check the application pool for wsus and increase memory if you have a lot of clients. Details: https://www.404techsupport.com/2016/03/21/iis-wsus-private-memory/

Also, while writing this, I fixed the reset server node error and my wsus is running fine now.

Not fun It happens a lot for Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016 WSUS....

It has to do with the database, as far as I can tell. There are several scripts out there for handling database cleanups, including one by Microsoft that's included with the application, and I've yet to find one that truly works perfectly.

Happens all the time with WID Database or SQL Server Express/Standard?
Because I wonder if using SQL Server would work better?

If you're willing to license a full SQL server for WSUS, then you'd probably be best off spending the money on a 3rd party solution, like ManageEngine, to handle patching.

black3dynamite

Dealing with another water leak again at work. This will be the second time in one year.

Grey

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Dealing with another water leak again at work. This will be the second time in one year.

Is it in your server room?

dbeato

@black3dynamite WID is a SQL Database too, that is why the PowerSHell scripts to cleanup usually use SQLCMD command as well.

black3dynamite

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fixing this:
http://i.imgur.com/Qxenicj.png
In case anyone is wondering how, here are the steps I use:

Do:
Net stop wsusservice
IISReset /Stop
IISReset /Start
Net start wsusservice

Then (if that fails):
C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools>WsusUtil.exe postinstall

Also, you can check the application pool for wsus and increase memory if you have a lot of clients. Details: https://www.404techsupport.com/2016/03/21/iis-wsus-private-memory/

Also, while writing this, I fixed the reset server node error and my wsus is running fine now.

Not fun It happens a lot for Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016 WSUS....

It has to do with the database, as far as I can tell. There are several scripts out there for handling database cleanups, including one by Microsoft that's included with the application, and I've yet to find one that truly works perfectly.

Happens all the time with WID Database or SQL Server Express/Standard?
Because I wonder if using SQL Server would work better?

If you're willing to license a full SQL server for WSUS, then you'd probably be best off spending the money on a 3rd party solution, like ManageEngine, to handle patching.

Using SQL Server Express will not work has an replacement of WID?

black3dynamite

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@black3dynamite WID is a SQL Database too, that is why the PowerSHell scripts to cleanup usually use SQLCMD command as well.

But isn't it a limited embedded version of SQL?