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    • GreyG
      Grey @dbeato
      last edited by

      @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.

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      • jt1001001J
        jt1001001 @EddieJennings
        last edited by

        @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

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        • black3dynamiteB
          black3dynamite @Grey
          last edited by 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:
          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?

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          • GreyG
            Grey @black3dynamite
            last edited by

            @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:
            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.

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            • black3dynamiteB
              black3dynamite
              last edited by

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

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              • GreyG
                Grey @black3dynamite
                last edited by

                @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?

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                • dbeatoD
                  dbeato @black3dynamite
                  last edited by

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

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                  • black3dynamiteB
                    black3dynamite @Grey
                    last edited by

                    @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:
                    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?

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                    • black3dynamiteB
                      black3dynamite @dbeato
                      last edited by

                      @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?

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                      • black3dynamiteB
                        black3dynamite @Grey
                        last edited by

                        @Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @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?

                        Its in some of the classrooms and conference room.

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                        • dbeatoD
                          dbeato @black3dynamite
                          last edited by

                          @black3dynamite Yes, it is.

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                          • EddieJenningsE
                            EddieJennings
                            last edited by EddieJennings

                            Bah. Vultr is out of the $2.50 instances for Atlanta 😞

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @EddieJennings
                              last edited by

                              @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              Bah. Vultr is out of the $2.50 instances for Atlanta 😞

                              Those are very hard to come by in any datacenter.

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                              • EddieJenningsE
                                EddieJennings @scottalanmiller
                                last edited by

                                @scottalanmiller Miami has some.

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                                • dbeatoD
                                  dbeato @EddieJennings
                                  last edited by

                                  @EddieJennings NY/NJ had some last time I checked.

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                                  • black3dynamiteB
                                    black3dynamite @EddieJennings
                                    last edited by

                                    @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    Bah. Vultr is out of the $2.50 instances for Atlanta 😞

                                    $5 or $10 instances not bad.

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                                    • EddieJenningsE
                                      EddieJennings
                                      last edited by

                                      And so the adventure begins. FreePBX instance on Vultr is installing and voip.ms account has been created 😄

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                                      • DustinB3403D
                                        DustinB3403 @EddieJennings
                                        last edited by

                                        @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        And so the adventure begins. FreePBX instance on Vultr is installing and voip.ms account has been created 😄

                                        I've been considering doing this at my home lab. . .

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                                        • EddieJenningsE
                                          EddieJennings @DustinB3403
                                          last edited by

                                          @DustinB3403 This is learning to configure and testing for me / seeing if this can be a good solution for the company for which I work.

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                                          • DustinB3403D
                                            DustinB3403 @EddieJennings
                                            last edited by DustinB3403

                                            @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @DustinB3403 This is learning to configure and testing for me / seeing if this can be a good solution for the company for which I work.

                                            The answer is of course, yes it would be a great solution for your company. The trouble comes in with getting the company to decide what features they require.

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