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You had one job to do Ron. Go to that attorney's office at lunch and down a 2011 small business server, put more RAM in and bring it up, all in an hour.
So I showed up, they all went to lunch I went start, shutdown and then it happened.
Installing Update 1 of 76
Don't tun off your computer.
That was 2.5 hours ago and it's 61 of 79.
Look M.S., you and I know this is a server OS. The least you could have done was consider other people's time and reputation and give us admins the option to not do it right now as when they come back from lunch they are going to expect to be able to get at their files.
This happened to us last year when we were to just down and up the server for trivial matters and ran into 176 updates.
I am now connecting to all of the servers in our care and A. Disabling the Windows Update Service and B. creaming c:\windows\Software Distribution
I am so mad I could cry. I feel like grabbing my dog and riding the rails to who knows where.
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Postpone updates, you get bitten.
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why?
I visit sites with internal servers that haven't run update for a long time - disabled for good, one since 2012 that one runs 24/7 and at very most gets shut down once a year for building power maintenance or similar external reasons only.
It works, leave it alone, no shutting down for updates, NO FAILED UPDATES because there aren't any, no incompatibilities introduced by updates - heard a lot about that too.... (oh, and virus scans on demand only)
better than 99.995% up-time.
(None of those clients has ever regretted that advice I gave them to do that.)
Yeah I know laughing at the idiots fighting update issues is cruel, but apart from that ... am I doing something wrong? Name it!
(Please no MS evangelism bullshit, 99% of the reasons ms and the flocks of ms-lemings give for "always updating" and always full time virus scans are complete and utter bullshit.)
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Whoa, just being practical. If you don't want 76 patches at once, patch often. Same thing applies to Linux. That's all.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Same thing applies to Linux
A perhaps minor difference being that you decide when.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well, I assume it wasn't your elephanting decision to not have redundant servers, but now you could recommend them that idea.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Ron Anders wrote: I am so mad I could cry. I feel like grabbing my dog and riding the rails to who knows where.
Now picture when it fails on update 75 and decides to roll everything back.
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You kick puppies too, don't you? 
Software Zen: delete this;
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LOL
It's harsh...but I only said that because I've been there.
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Ron Anders wrote: I feel like grabbing my dog and riding the rails
Well at least that would be fun and interesting.
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Just switch the power off. It'll be be fine. Most likely.
They've got backups, haven't they.
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So I have this web app hosted in Azure.
The only way to log in to the app is if I add you to my Azure AD.
Did a quick test with another email and found that I had some access to the Azure account.
I invited myself as a guest and I could even invite others through Azure AD!
Even worse, when I added myself as a regular user I was able to assign AD groups to myself.
Apparently, Azure has some options to let users and guest users invite others, which are on by default.
And the restrict access setting is off by default! 
If I ever get a personal and private invitation from Microsoft I'm bringing all my friends and family because apparently that's what they expect 
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The curse of the Azure Bonds !
https://classicreload.com/curse-of-the-azure-bonds.html
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That's so much pixels I can't even read the text 
Perhaps this one better stays in the forgotten realms
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That's fantastic news 
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How many of the "killer applications" that I started my PC life with - the really original, useful, amazing ones - do I still use?
None.
Remember "Brief - the Programmers Editor"? Gone.
Xtree? (XTree Gold, Pro, Gold Pro, Gold Pro Ultimate Wonder CuresBaldnessAndScurvy Edition included)? You couldn't live without it, but ... despite a couple of (pretty poor) Windows versions it died a death.
1-2-3? Nope.
Wordstar? Dead.
Samna Word / Ami Pro / Lotus Word Pro? (The best word processor ever created) It lost out to the MS Office juggernaut: Roadkill.
Got anything you started off with still in regular use?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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No, not any.
Plenty of Windows adaptations of far older UNIX tools, though.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I also used Brief - I miss it now and then - XTree, Wordstar and I still have a floppy disk of Norton Utilities - even though my main machines no longer have a floppy disk device!
I tried Norton Commander for a while but didn't really like it.
Ghost - I think it was called that; for low level disky things - gone now.
I wrote some utilities myself for various things, floppy disk backups, disk hex editors, early messaging and a sort of email over TCP/IP (before internet, just on the office network) - all gone now; I can't even find the floppy with the source code!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Ghost is still around although I don't think they've updated any of the code.
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at least two for me:
Visual C++ => Visual Studio
Netscape => Firefox
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I remember buying Visual C++ V1.0 myself, with my own money! Two foot thick shelf of books and a similar pile of pound notes ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The one we had came on CDROM and we had to scramble to find someone with a portable CDROM drive. Install took freaking forever (the joys of 2x CDROMs)
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