What Are You Doing Right Now
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Downloading Windows 10 1903 to setup a VM for IIS based web developement
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Trying to figure out why 25% of our office 2019 installs fail.
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to figure out why 25% of our office 2019 installs fail.
To give you something to do.
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@JaredBusch lol ugh
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to figure out why 25% of our office 2019 installs fail.
MS inclusive job security.
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@scottalanmiller Very true
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Time to play with graylog
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to figure out why 25% of our office 2019 installs fail.
install in a master image once and then it either works for everyone or is borked for everyone
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@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to figure out why 25% of our office 2019 installs fail.
install in a master image once and then it either works for everyone or is borked for everyone
That's good if you are going to re-image for every software release. Which is feasible, but extremely heavy.
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Reinstalling Cisco AMP on XenApp server golden images.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to figure out why 25% of our office 2019 installs fail.
install in a master image once and then it either works for everyone or is borked for everyone
That's good if you are going to re-image for every software release. Which is feasible, but extremely heavy.
You mean heavy looking at the image size or looking at the IT overhead?
Image size, my W10 image with a bunch of apps is smaller than my W7 image with nothing installed, even after running all of the crap removal tools and dism image cleanup stuff that I could find.
From an overhead / maintenance point of view I've moved to using MDT + VirtualBox for our W10 image. This way it rebuilds the image from scratch every time. Been doing it this way for about a year now and haven't run into any problems. Takes about an hour from pxe booting the VM against the deployment share until I'm capturing the new image against our FOG master server. From there it automatically gets sync'd to the FOG storage nodes at our remote sites. This way there's no old update or version cruft that follows from month to month and when we want to test a new windows version or software I can copy the whole task sequence and play with it before changing the baseline / benchmark.
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@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You mean heavy looking at the image size or looking at the IT overhead?
As in overhead... deploying a new full image for app installations.
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Automating certbot. . . because
https://blog.chef.io/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/automate-all-the-things-300x224.png
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@DustinB3403 I haven't needed to manually renew any of my web servers in years now. It's great.
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@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
From an overhead / maintenance point of view I've moved to using MDT + VirtualBox for our W10 image. This way it rebuilds the image from scratch every time. Been doing it this way for about a year now and haven't run into any problems. Takes about an hour from pxe booting the VM against the deployment share until I'm capturing the new image against our FOG master server. From there it automatically gets sync'd to the FOG storage nodes at our remote sites. This way there's no old update or version cruft that follows from month to month and when we want to test a new windows version or software I can copy the whole task sequence and play with it before changing the baseline / benchmark.
This part isn't bad. Making the baseline is pretty easy and totally sensible. It's needing to roll that baseline out to every machine to do the install. If it is one app, once a year... trivial. If apps go at different times to different people, and there are many of them, it's a problem.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 I haven't needed to manually renew any of my web servers in years now. It's great.
Yeah. . . I'm doing it because I had too. . . because of reasons. . .
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Automating certbot. . . because
https://blog.chef.io/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/automate-all-the-things-300x224.png
Found out my Employer's Certificate Supplier is supporting Certbot now... for an additional fee, of course.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
From an overhead / maintenance point of view I've moved to using MDT + VirtualBox for our W10 image. This way it rebuilds the image from scratch every time. Been doing it this way for about a year now and haven't run into any problems. Takes about an hour from pxe booting the VM against the deployment share until I'm capturing the new image against our FOG master server. From there it automatically gets sync'd to the FOG storage nodes at our remote sites. This way there's no old update or version cruft that follows from month to month and when we want to test a new windows version or software I can copy the whole task sequence and play with it before changing the baseline / benchmark.
This part isn't bad. Making the baseline is pretty easy and totally sensible. It's needing to roll that baseline out to every machine to do the install. If it is one app, once a year... trivial. If apps go at different times to different people, and there are many of them, it's a problem.
Yeah, we try to avoid app installs once the HW has been deployed so that possibility didn't come to mind.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Automating certbot. . . because
https://blog.chef.io/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/automate-all-the-things-300x224.png
Found out my Employer's Certificate Supplier is supporting Certbot now... for an additional fee, of course.
Eh. . . so you're not using them any more right?
