What Are You Doing Right Now
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I'll be virtualizing my Sage server this weekend, which will grant me an additional VM (since the Server standard license will move to my hyper-v host). Methinks this will be an opportunity to create a WSUS server.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'll be virtualizing my Sage server this weekend, which will grant me an additional VM (since the Server standard license will move to my hyper-v host). Methinks this will be an opportunity to create a WSUS server.
Why do you need a WSUS server?
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'll be virtualizing my Sage server this weekend, which will grant me an additional VM (since the Server standard license will move to my hyper-v host). Methinks this will be an opportunity to create a WSUS server.
A lot of people like them, but I generally do not. In theory they save bandwidth, but unless you have a lot of similar boxes they don't. WSUS provides a lot of opportunity for things to go wrong and things not to get patched when they should. If you are really going to be monitoring patches all the time, WSUS is great. For normal SMBs, I think it's a terrible thing to install. The majority of places that I see uses WSUS to break patching (they want to avoid patches) rather than to enable it.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'll be virtualizing my Sage server this weekend, which will grant me an additional VM (since the Server standard license will move to my hyper-v host). Methinks this will be an opportunity to create a WSUS server.
Why do you need a WSUS server?
I was thinking the same thing. If you haven't had it by now, why now?
FYI, If you're on Windows 10 (and maybe older OSs, not sure) MS has indows Update for Business
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-manage-updates-wufb -
@scottalanmiller I actually ran a WSUS server for around 4 years. Only 8 workstations were at that site.... but..... satellite internet, only had 2GB/month before it went to 56kB/sec speed. Anything I could do to stave off for a day or two the pain was worth it. Not that the latency on that older satellite system ever made anything "fast"!
So far, that's about the only situation where I'd think WSUS would make sense.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'll be virtualizing my Sage server this weekend, which will grant me an additional VM (since the Server standard license will move to my hyper-v host). Methinks this will be an opportunity to create a WSUS server.
Why do you need a WSUS server?
I was thinking the same thing. If you haven't had it by now, why now?
FYI, If you're on Windows 10 (and maybe older OSs, not sure) MS has indows Update for Business
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-manage-updates-wufbI was just going to post this. It's only Windows 10 but basically obsoletes WSUS in the SMB.
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The goal is patch management for our servers. Right now the process is me RDPing to the servers, install updates, restart as needed.
Before I show too much ignorance I'll see if there is a thread about good patch management strategies, or start one myself.
Side note: ML has now become my preferred reading source when in line at Chick Fil A.
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Just learned that there is a copy path button in Windows explorer.... this changes everything. Now I just need to find a keyboard shortcut.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The goal is patch management for our servers. Right now the process is me RDPing to the servers, install updates, restart as needed.
Before I show too much ignorance I'll see if there is a thread about good patch management strategies, or start one myself.
Side note: ML has now become my preferred reading source when in line at Chick Fil A.
You can use group policies to set it up during your maintenance window.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Side note: ML has now become my preferred reading source when in line at Chick Fil A.
If yours is like the one near me, you'll have time to catch up on a thread or two while in line, lol.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The goal is patch management for our servers. Right now the process is me RDPing to the servers, install updates, restart as needed.
Before I show too much ignorance I'll see if there is a thread about good patch management strategies, or start one myself.
Side note: ML has now become my preferred reading source when in line at Chick Fil A.
Why not just set them to automatic or manage via GPO? WSUS is not the standard path to good patch management. WSUS is good for two things.... patch caching in certain scenarios; and patch avoidance or delays.
Patch caching rarely matters today, especially in the SMB. And SMBs should not be doing the latter.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just learned that there is a copy path button in Windows explorer.... this changes everything. Now I just need to find a keyboard shortcut.
Shift + Menu key (next to right-ctrl), a
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Where is everyone today, it's so quiet!
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Although the post count is pretty high. Maybe it just seems quiet.
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I'm having no issue keeping up while still working.. it's pretty slow.
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Been a busy-ish day here. Everything is happening in short spurts.
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I have visitors here, so have to do the whole "Dog & Pony" show around here. Shake a few hands, kiss a few babies.
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Writing user resistant instructions for using their computers.
Next up is how to get signed into outlook.
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Throwing my hands in the ay-yurrr, waving them like I just don't cay-yurrr....
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@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Throwing my hands in the ay-yurrr, waving them like I just don't cay-yurrr....
