GroundZero3

For the last couple of days ive been fighting clients not reporting their update status to WSUS. After some digging around and playing with the WSUS Client Diagnostic Tool. I think I finally figured it out.

All my clients were showing up with this error:

I found this fix that cleared it up. Supposedly it has something to do with SP1 breaking...

Anyone who is an application/server engineer knows the pains with upgrading third party software on a physical machine. Issues such as crashing, blue screens, software incompatibilities, data corruption can occur leaving prolonging the downtime of a server (and in some extreme cases a total server install/backup) This is a huge inconvenience to network admins and users, and this is where virtual environments really shine. Running ESXI in our environment there is a tool called vmware converter...

I work for a large organization that has about 22 remote sites running Windows XP and server 2003 (we are not moving to Vista at all). Windows Update has never really been a huge priority in our network because of our small staff and the amount of computers we have will be a management nightmare. With the recent virus attack of conflickr I have taken it upon myself to setup our WSUS infrastructure over the last couple of weeks, and surprisingly it has gone fairly smooth. Our first attempt at...

After 1 year, 6 months, and 3 days I finally finished the CCNP

No simulations where I had to do anything really.

I am glad its over, but being the overachiever I am im asking myself what is next. Maybe something dealing with Vmware or perhaps my Masters. Ill be taking a couple of weeks off and enjoying not using my brain. Things are going to be picking up at work very soon so that will be entertaining.

While I was taking my ISCW, I got 4 questions into the exam when I was presented an authentication simulation. It wanted me to setup the Console and AUX to use the Local database for authentication and to setup the VTY to use a TACAS+ Server. Simple enough, so I clicked on the computer that would be my console and a really small console window popped open. Hit enter several times and nothing came up. Hit the space bar a few time and the return a couple more times, nothing. Started typing a...