Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question A Windows Server 2012R2. It only serves the local net: file server and a SQL database. … Read more
I have been building my own Control Panel (mostly hobby) where I control hosting packages on my webservers, mailaccounts on my mailservers, DNS records etc. I also use this to monitor my servers. I don’t have a lot of servers so updating them is not that big a pain (now I just log in through … Read more
I have a windows 2003 server with multiple updates downloaded and ready to install. I want to stop one of the updates installing but there doesn’t appear to be any option, just the install button. Answer You can select which update if you select custom For cancelling update that are installing, in Windows server 2003 … Read more
I’m trying to make a Windows Server 2012 r2 test box automatically update and reboot in the same way 2008 servers do. I cannot use the ‘Always automatically restart at the scheduled time’ GPO (detailed here ) at the present time, so instead I want to manually add the relevant registry key. All the online … Read more
I’m currently have Windows server 2012r2 and it’s getting updates from WSUS automatically (download,install,restart). my question is how could i tell when the restart is going to happen? our policy is that this is happening in the weekends but i don’t know which weekend because every server has it’s own update progress, one could be … Read more
We have a customer that our manufacture shipped some (4) PCs to a customer with a Windows Enterprise 1607 edition on them. The customer found a virus and want to run Windows update on these systems. As I test, I ran Windows updates on the same OS. After about 3 hours it, was stuck on … Read more
We have a Windows 2008 standard Terminal Server which runs our business management software, which itself requires local admin access to run. When Automatic Updates are available users are presented with the option to restart, and it only takes one user to restart to take the whole system offline for everyone else. We’ve disabled notifications … Read more
salt stack is being used with bit bucket. there are 2-3 of us who push updates to it occasionaly. I was wondering is there a way where salt stack can get the latests changes from bit bucket then highstate? if so how would you go about doing so. Answer If bitbucket supports something similar to … Read more
I need to unblock the installation of Internet Explorer 9, after using the Internet Explorer 9 Blocker Toolkit in a GPO. In a way the unblocking does work, after disabling it in the GPO, but the update/installation in Windows Update stays as an Optional Update, and I need it to be installed automatically. How can … Read more
I’m creating a windows build which will be deployed onto hardware which will perform one single function. Consider a kiosk type deployment and the kiosks are connected over 3G. We’ll be building and deploying 100’s. I’m using Windows 10 lOT Enterprise (Win_10_IoT_Enterprise_2016_LTSB_64Bit_English_X21_12007), I don’t want all updates to be downloaded and installed because I don’t … Read more
