Having time wasted in a meeting rather than getting to do work.

I generally see no benefit from choosing not to virtualize. Perhaps one could make the argument that you're adding a bit of administrative overhead for "just one VM." I find such overhead to be insignificant.

Practicing using at and configuring cron / anacron jobs.

Trying to unravel how we're using Maas360 and how that interacts with a on-prem / cloud hybrid Exchange environment.

I cannot imagine the misery I'd be in if I were addicted to coffee.

Annual business tax and registration tasks.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Had to rescue my old roommate and her BF who locked themselves out of her apartment at 3:30am.

Did you use rd.break?

Estimating costs for possible music ensemble recording project.

@G-I-Jones said in New VM keeps turning off:

@EddieJennings said in New VM keeps turning off:

You've likely checked for this, but are there events in the Application logs that talk about a bugcheck around the time of the shutdown, or does a C:\Windows\Memory.dmp file exist that was created around that time?

There were no events about a bugcheck around the time of the shutdown. Something I do find curious though, is the fact there isn't a %SYSTEMROOT%\MEMORY.DMP file at all.

You usually only see it if there was a bugcheck, blue screen, and then it's not 100% of the time -- at least in my experience. So I was curious if on the off chance there was one that you could investigate.

You've likely checked for this, but are there events in the Application logs that talk about a bugcheck around the time of the shutdown, or does a C:\Windows\Memory.dmp file exist that was created around that time?