Oh I have a good one. This ingrained the practice of asking one simple question "What has changed recently?" and the practice of reevaluating the situation to avoid going "Down the rabbit hole"

This was many years ago. I was working as an on-site IT Tech going to various homes & businesses throughout the day. I arrived on-site and fixed their issues. As a good measure I went ahead and updated and cleaned temps . Lo and behold, the computer booted to a black screen with blinking cursor. I did EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING to attempt to repair the boot. Bootsector repair, chkdsk /r , + various other fixes. I was still green in some ways and did not stop and step back to reevaluate the situation. I spent 2-3 hours attempting to fix the boot on this lady's laptop with no success. Eventually I figured it out. The Hard Drive had been upgraded recently to a 320GB. Unfortunately, the laptop only had 28 / 32 bit LBA (forget which one is applicable) and the previous tech had installed this large drive without paying attention to this limitation. So once the windows update wrote data above the 137GB mark, the drive was not bootable. I partitioned the drive into 120GB partitions and defragged and voila! It started booting again

wow thats sad.

We have a lady at our office with a very nice articulate speaking voice. I finagle her with Starbucks occasionally and she updates the holiday message when needed.

@Josh The production server crashed, caught fire, and Scott had to perform another Ice Bucket Challenge on it

Thanks all. It looks like I wont have to open any ports to the controller

@scottalanmiller said in RingCentral Spamming My Users:

Yeah, a reseller vendor would be a real possibility. RC needs to watch out for that. Could be someone trying to discredit them, or someone without a concern about them being discredited.

lol. Considering their Support quality and propensity to just stop responding to support tickets, I dont think RingCentral is worried about being discredited.

@Dashrender said in Former Verizon-Now Frontier Communication....why is the review so bad?:

It's time for all cities to install their own fiber and allow the ISPs connection to that. Think of the power grid, one grid, but power/internet can come from anywhere.

The big issue with this is that you now have two people to complain at when you have issues, the city and the ISP, cause you have no idea where the problem is.

Naw, our politicians enjoy their salary from the ISPs too much to allow that to happen. Can't go around doing whats in the best interest of the citizens, it would be unheard of

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What the %^&# is going on here, I have no clue how to respond without calling this guy an asshole for even asking a question like this.

MBBS -- Magic Black Box Syndrome is now officially a thing thanks to @Brains

The sad thing is I'm infected lol

Ahh i finally have a claim to fame

@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:

@Brains I'm going to start signing things SWJ instead of SAM.

Thats not far enough Scott. We need to create a post to generate a list of quotes about SpiceWorks Jesus to include in your signature. Walking the NAS Sea or turning Water into Hardware Upgrades (im bad at these)

Hey everyone! I am having a horrible time trying to find a good device with the above qualifications for under 1k. Does anyone have any recommendations or should I just go back to a software VPN server?

We do have quite a few port forwards setup, our current RV082 is maxed out at 30 (I think), so this may be a deciding factor as well.

We have seen some peplink (availability scarce) and mushroom networks (seems good but I don't have any first hand experience) devices that seem like they will work. What are your thoughts? Thanks for the help!

EDIT: Thanks for the questions, here are the answers.

• We don't need site-to-site VPN, only client VPN.
• We would like to not have to use a 3rd part software client. We would prefer to use built-in windows connection

@momurda said in GPO - Unable To Deploy Java 10 64bit - Fails to install (1603 Error):

Try this

msiexec /i "jre10filename.msi" /q ENTERPRISE=YES

Just a long shot, obviously change it to the msi file name for java10.

I tried by modifying the MSI to enable ENTERPRISE, but I think that caused additional problems (should have used a transform). I just went ahead and deployed the newer version of 8 and kicked this down the road until January 2019 when 8 is discontinued.

Thanks for the help momurda, I appreciate it.

@jaredbusch said in GPO - Unable To Deploy Java 10 64bit - Fails to install (1603 Error):

@brains said in GPO - Unable To Deploy Java 10 64bit - Fails to install (1603 Error):

@jaredbusch said in GPO - Unable To Deploy Java 10 64bit - Fails to install (1603 Error):

Why are you trying to install Java 10 when even java.com still installs Java 8?

I'm told to upgrade Java to the latest version. If I shouldn't, I will need some legitimate reasons to push back. I really haven't followed all of the decisions regarding v9 and v10, so maybe this shouldn't be done at all? Do most of you guys deploy java, and if so, what is your official stances on 9 and 10?

Java.com shows the latest as 8 update 171

SO there ya go.

Very informative. I am sure all of the fine points you made will be more than enough information for the I.T. Director!

@momurda said in GPO - Unable To Deploy Java 10 64bit - Fails to install (1603 Error):

Didn't even know 9 or 10 existed before your post.
Usually the updater for Java will notify you going from major version to new major version.
It did so with 6>7, then 7>8.

We have the auto updater disabled since users cant update without admin credentials IIRC

@jaredbusch said in GPO - Unable To Deploy Java 10 64bit - Fails to install (1603 Error):

Why are you trying to install Java 10 when even java.com still installs Java 8?

I'm told to upgrade Java to the latest version. If I shouldn't, I will need some legitimate reasons to push back. I really haven't followed all of the decisions regarding v9 and v10, so maybe this shouldn't be done at all? Do most of you guys deploy java, and if so, what is your official stances on 9 and 10?

@jaredbusch said in GPO - Unable To Deploy Java 10 64bit - Fails to install (1603 Error):

@brains said in GPO - Unable To Deploy Java 10 64bit - Fails to install (1603 Error):

@momurda said in GPO - Unable To Deploy Java 10 64bit - Fails to install (1603 Error):

msiexec /i "jre10filename.msi" /q ENTERPRISE=YES

What does the ENTERPRISE switch do? Were you recommending I test to see if it fails installation when I run the command manually or did you want me to modify the MSI to add that value? Or create a transform (never done that before)?

Just add the switch to your install command.

It is obvious what it means from your earlier error of ERROR: LocalSystem is only supported for Enterprise MSI.

You are only allowed to install Java locally with the enterprise MSI.

That switch seems to tell it that it is the Enterprise version.

What install command are you referring to? How would I add this to the GPO or should I modify the MSI?

@momurda said in GPO - Unable To Deploy Java 10 64bit - Fails to install (1603 Error):

msiexec /i "jre10filename.msi" /q ENTERPRISE=YES

What does the ENTERPRISE switch do? Were you recommending I test to see if it fails installation when I run the command manually or did you want me to modify the MSI to add that value? Or create a transform (never done that before)?

@momurda said in GPO - Unable To Deploy Java 10 64bit - Fails to install (1603 Error):

Can you run the java 10 msi file directly with success?
Perhaps prereq software needed.

Yep. If I manually run the MSI, it installs fine.

@momurda My understanding is that 1603 errors are normally "generic" non-specific errors. I am pretty sure I covered all bullet pointed causes during my testing. There may be some Java 10 remnants in there somewhere, but the Java uninstall tool didn't find anything and I have tried applying the GPO to a machine that supposedly never had Java installed before - it still failed in the same way

@jaredbusch Could you point me to some documentation? I may have missed that part.

Hi all. I was hoping someone could shed some light on the issues I am having assisting my employee with a Java 10 Deployment through GPO. We previously installed Java 8 with no issue utilizing the same GPO. As a matter of fact, if I swap the Java 10 (64-bit) msi for a Java 8 (32-bit) msi in the GPO, it installs fine (Both MSIs are in the same folder on the file server). I have attached log files below. I acquired this msi the same way as version 8 - Ran the exe and pulled the msi from temp folder.

Please let me know if I should look in additional locations for better information.

Steps Taken

• Wiped out cached GPO
  ** DEL /S /F /Q "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Group Policy\History*.*"
  ** REG DELETE HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies /f
  ** REG DELETE HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft /f
  ** REG DELETE HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft /f
  ** REG DELETE "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Group Policy Objects" /f
  ** REG DELETE HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies /f
  ** DEL /F /Q C:\WINDOWS\security\Database\secedit.sdb
  ** Klist purge
• Ran Java Uninstall Tool
• Verified folder and file access for Authenticated Users and SYSTEM (Java 8 msi in same folder works)
• Switched between Java 10 and Java 10.0.1 - Both 64bit
• Enabled Windows Installer Logging via GPO
  ** voicewarmupx
• Recreated GPO
• Verified MSI Installs properly if ran manually

Event Log Entries

Log Name: System
Source: Application Management Group Policy
Date: 5/23/2018 12:47:18 PM
Event ID: 108
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: SYSTEM
Computer: <COMPUTERNAME>.pridedallas.com
Description:
Failed to apply changes to software installation settings. Software changes could not be applied. A previous log entry with details should exist. The error was : %%1603

Log Name: System
Source: Application Management Group Policy
Date: 5/23/2018 12:47:18 PM
Event ID: 303
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: SYSTEM
Computer: <COMPUTERNAME> .pridedallas.com
Description:
The removal of the assignment of application Java 10.0.1 (64-bit) from policy Java - <GPO Name> succeeded.

Log Name: System
Source: Application Management Group Policy
Date: 5/23/2018 12:47:18 PM
Event ID: 102
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: SYSTEM
Computer: <COMPUTERNAME> .pridedallas.com
Description:
The install of application Java 10.0.1 (64-bit) from policy Java - <GPO Name> failed. The error was : %%1603

GPO Log

Text
4016 5/23/2018 12:47:06 PM Starting Software Installation Extension Processing. List of applicable Group Policy objects: (Changes were detected.) Foxit modusGate directQuarantine <Java GPO Name> Event XML

1085 5/23/2018 12:47:18 PM Windows failed to apply the Software Installation settings. Software Installation settings might have its own log file. Please click on the "More information" link. Event XML

7016 5/23/2018 12:47:18 PM Completed Software Installation Extension Processing in 11782 milliseconds. Event XML
Screenshots of Policy

Image: https://content.spiceworksstatic.com/service.community/p/post_images/0000309870/5b05bd2c/attached_image/1.jpg

Image: https://content.spiceworksstatic.com/service.community/p/post_images/0000309871/5b05bd33/attached_image/2.jpg

Log Files:

jusched.log - https://pastebin.com/2VX3MQsR

MSIb23b.log - https://pastebin.com/HQu2wYj7

MSIb23c.log - https://pastebin.com/XLam3qVB

MSIb239.log - https://pastebin.com/ht0hmg03

The only error I can see is listed below. I haven't been able to find any results regarding this message:

ERROR: LocalSystem is only supported for Enterprise MSI

Thanks for the help!