Posts made by Drew

I'm fairly certain Matt is saying he's grateful for people returning or selling their mistakes to him at a discounted price.

Yes, I can download updates. The question is how is it intended to work and is it working as intended.

JasonNM I posted to imgur because I was having issues trying to upload directly to Mangolassi

Yes, WSUS\GPO does tell the computer to check it for updates. The option for that box only appears when you have this setup.

The option can be used when newer updates exist and your WSUS administrator hasn't approved them yet. In previous versions in windows it was just clickable text. "Check online for updates from Microsoft Update"

Yes, it does seem to be a bug. I was hoping to see if anyone else has seen this or if it has been acknowledged\confirmed anywhere.

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Sure. Here are the two screens. If you check the box on the first screen. When it starts looking for updates the next screen will show the box unchecked.

We have WSUS in our domain with GPO pointed to the WSUS server.

In previous versions of windows you could click the text "Check online for updates from Microsoft Update" to bypass your server and look at the newest updates from Microsoft directly.

With Windows 10 there is a check box that says the same thing. If you check the box then click check for updates it says checking for updates and displays another check box that says the same thing but now the box is unchecked.

This behavior seems strange and I'm not sure from past updates, but I may have had to check the second box for it to actually check Microsoft's update server for updates. I haven't found anything searching for the specifics of how it works yet. Anyone have any insight on this?

Thanks.

What sort of backup tools do you see people using in XEN environments? Is there a Veeam \ Unitrends \ VDP equivalent?

Great Post.

I've often seen people over at spiceworks blindly put down anyone suggesting RAID 5 as an option when brought up in SSD discussions. They've learned RAID 5 = bad period not RAID 5 = bad because of the above reasons.

I'm guessing this isn't exactly what you're referring to but I thought I'd add my experience anyway. I guess it depends on what you mean by "perfectly healthy". One manufacturer might consider a drive perfectly healthy while another might not.

Certain arrays will look at bad blocks to decide to preemptively to stop using a drive and switch to a hot spare if the number of bad blocks has reached a certain percentage and then they will send you a replacement drive. The number of bad blocks that constitutes a drive that is perfectly healthy vs impending failure varies.

I've contacted a vendor before and sent diagnostic logs on arrays that were going to fall off support to analyze drives that hadn't necessarily crossed that line but might raise a few flags to see if I could get some drives replaced.

As for replacing drives that show no signs at all of failing but just replacing due to being a certain age. I've never done this.