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3 Dec
2010

Blocking .wwf attachments

Some idiotic german 'invented' a way to 'save trees… Read more'. By converting your attachments to .wwf format - a special .pdf format that blocks printing. While this may be a great feature to block printing of contracts etcetera if you're running a malicious company, most people simply don't want

Linux, Windows | 4 Comments » | Tags: Exchange, Postfix, Sendmail

2 Aug
2010

Remove “standby” from shutdown window

I recently discovered that one of my most annoying users has found another way to frustrate the WSUS update process: First, she simply didn't shutdown the computer when she went home. Now I've installed a psshutdown script on the SBS Server that forces a shutdown every evening, she found out… Read more

IT, Windows | No Comments » | Tags: acpi, GPO, hibernation, shutdown, updates, Windows, Windows Updates

19 Jul
2010

Useful VPN Services

Say you're living in China, and you have no web freedom whatsoever. Or in the Netherlands, and your favorite linux distro download site… Read more has been blocked by the corrupt "elite". Then having a tunnel to outside the country could be very useful. I found two VPN services that seem very

IT, Linux, Networking, Windows | No Comments » | Tags: privacy, vpn

31 May
2010

Move your WSUS contents

The virtual machine running my WSUS got a little stuffed. So I decided to move the WSUS data to a fileserver, where the price per MB is a lot lower. To move: "C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools\wsusutil.exe" movecontent [newpath] [logfile] For example:

&quot;C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools\wsusutil.exe&quot; movecontent \\fileserver\wsusdata$\ c:\wsusmove.txt&hellip; <a href="http://www.geeklab.info/2010/05/move-your-wsus-contents/" class="read_more">Read more</a>

Of course this very

IT, Windows | 1 Comment » | Tags: WSUS, wsusutil

31 May
2010

How to move your SUSDB (WSUS)

WSUS 3 by default stores its metadata in the "Windows Internal Database". According to wikipedia, this is an embedded version of SQL Express, which ships with Win2k8, Sharepoint Services and WSUS.

So, how move this datastore around?… Read more

As with a regular SQL Server datastore, you can detach and move

IT, Windows | 1 Comment » | Tags: database, SQL Server Express, Windows, windows internal database, Windows Updates, WSUS, WYukon

13 May
2010

KB974417 install fails – working solution! – updated

(This article is an update to this original page from march.)

This article is an update to this original page from march. If you can't get these instructions to work, you may try the old instructions.

I recently installed a new Microsoft WSUS… Read more server. Most of it went

IT, Windows | 10 Comments » | Tags: KB974417, KBsomething, updates, Windows, Windows Updates, Windows XP, WSUS

18 Mar
2010

Windows update: Install at night

In order to keep my users from getting windows update messages, I try to install any client updates at night. I have a few tricks to make this possible:

1: Boot up at night

Most computers can boot up automatically at night, using Wake-On-LAN… Read more. If your computer or its

Windows | No Comments » | Tags: scripting, software deployment, updates, Windows Updates, Windows XP, WSUS

18 Mar
2010

Schedule Windows server to reboot or shutdown

Yesterday, I installed an update on a Windows server that could not be rebooted during the day. To apply the update, I scheduled a reboot of the server in the evening. © GeekLabInfo… Read more

Windows | No Comments » | Tags: reboot, scripting, shutdown, sysinternals, Windows

17 Mar
2010

KB974417 install fails – working solution!

Please read this updated article instead.
This page remains available for archiving purposes.

I recently installed a new Microsoft WSUS… Read more server. Most of it went just fine. Except for a few updates that weren't needed according to windowsupdate.com, but were required according to WSUS. Especially KB974417 was pretty annoying.

Windows | 53 Comments » | Tags: KB974417, KBsomething, updates, Windows, Windows Updates, Windows XP, WSUS

23 Feb
2010

Share one VPN connection

My personal Linux laptop is a real spider in the web. It's got OpenVPN connections to the office, to the datacenter, to serveral family members, etcetera. I love it. But sometimes, there are some tasks that Linux simply can't do, like running a vSphere client. For those situations, I use… Read more

Linux, Networking, Windows | No Comments » | Tags: openvpn, route, vpn

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