Questions tagged [automatic-updates]
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Can't seem to disable Java Automatic Update
I'm just tweaking out my new Windows 7 laptop and wanted to disable the automatic Java updating (and thus kill the silly jusched.exe background process), but I can't seem to get it to actually turn it off.
I found the Java Control Panel applet and…
Scott Bussinger
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Windows 2008: WinSXS directory growing uncontrollably, blocking server
I run a (remotely hosted) virtual Server with Windows 2008 Server for a client.
Initially, it had 10 GB of space.
During the course of a few weeks - during which nothing was done on the machine except normal work using a web-basedt icket system -…
Pekka
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Would auto-update policies have contained the Crowdstrike outage?
A global outage was caused when Crowdstrike pushed a bad content file. That's well-covered in many other places so I won't elaborate on that.
What I'm interested in is whether company policies to delay automatic updates would have contained the…
Spencer
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How do I change the Software Update server address on a client Mac (to use my own server)?
Now that I have started the Software Update service on my Leopard Server, how do I change my client Macs to check for updates on it?
username
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Building a WSUS server: where to start?
Rather than having all of my computers go out to the internet and download their Automatic Updates, I am seriously considering building a WSUS server. That is, a Windows Update server. I have read some articles, and they have been helpful, but not…
eleven81
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Update management for Adobe Acrobat Reader
Does anyone know of a good tool for managing updates to Acrobat Reader?
I've just noticed that there is yet another security update, and I'd love to find something as good as WSUS to manage it.
Do the third-party tools like Shavlik do the trick?
Richard Gadsden
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Good practice for managing package updates for lots of CentOS servers
As part of my job I manage a few tens of CentOS 5 servers, using puppet for the main set up. About half of our servers have a standardised set up for hosting various django sites, while the rest are a mish mash of applications.
I'm gradually sorting…
Hamish Downer
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Prevent Server Restart after Windows Updates
we have a number of servers in our office, as a small hosting company, and these servers are critical to business, ... web server, mail server, db server, etc.
On a semi-regular basis, when the machines get automatic updates, they just…
eidylon
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Automatic Reboot at specific time if Automatic Upgrade requires Reboot
I have setup automatic updates and it updates automatically. However, there are updates that require a restart and I know
Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true";
will set it to reboot. But it reboots as soon as it updates. That could be at any…
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Do Windows/Automatic updates happen when a PC is sleeping/standby?
Mostly interested in doing it on some Win7 laptops, a lot of people seem to believe its not possible. However I can't find any definitive Microsoft documents detailing it either way:
This old documentation (Server 2003) says its not supported
This…
gregg
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Block specific Windows update hotfix
I'd like to leave Windows Automatic Updates enabled but block a specific patch from being installed that is causing us problems.
Is this possible? Anyone know how to do that?
taksan
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Visually impaired people and windows updates
I have what may seem like a strange question, however I believe I have identified a real need for something like this and would like to know A. If anyone else has suggestions, or B. if anyone has crossed this bridge and has pointers to products that…
Sabre
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Windows Updates taking a long time to install
I manage a WSUS server for a large number of servers in a shared environment. Recently I noticed that despite the scheduled install time configured via the local gpo of many servers, they were not rebooting for sometimes 1.5-2 hours after their…
floyd
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Number of important Windows Updates
For Microsoft Server OS's, is there a location in the registry or possibly WMI that stores the number of pending Important Updates?
My inventory software supports wmi and registry keys. Trying to see if there is a way to report that number so that I…
Matt
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How to disable Amazon EC2 instance yum automatic nightly check-update?
A server running on my EC2 instance (Amazon Linux AMI) falls over every night. I watched processes and this happens, every time, minutes after this command runs:
/usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/yum --debuglevel 2 --security check-update
Q: Where is…
haelix
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