I deal with QB.
Not only does it require a dedicated user to run as a service, the username used changes with every version release.

This one i havent bothered removing the old user that was used for 2015 version.
It also downloads the entire qb file to client computer every time someone logs in. And back again when they quit.
It also has default install options that cant be changed, like running QB Web Connector on windows login for every use with the application installed. Have to actually disable this for each user's desktop as there is no option to not include it in the QB client installer.
Then there is the backup issues, like me needing full admin access to qb data to do backups. The auto backup feature rarely works, backing up during work hours kick everybody out.

This is interesting.
https://newrepublic.com/article/150506/universal-basic-income-future-of-pointless-work

Wow. Definitely not doing that if I have the same problems as you.
Ill just go around and install the upgrade manually.
Not even sure why MS still has WSUS, it is nothing but problems unless you spend hours a week fixing and maintaining it.

FFXV for a few hours yesterday
This game looks incredible. The combat is so far really really good, almost like Witcher 3 but with some ai teammates, combos, techniques, magic.

Isnt this 10s of millions of computers affected? I think just about every single pc and server on my network is on this list:

6th, 7th and 8th Generation Intel Core processors
Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 and v6 processors
Intel Xeon Scalable processors
Intel Xeon W processors
Intel Atom C3000 processors
Apollo Lake Intel Atom E3900 series
Apollo Lake Intel Pentiums
Celeron N and J series processors

@penguinwrangler He's certainly not demeaning blue collar jobs.
He is demeaning the useless paper pushing jobs that don't do anything.
Like half of the people at any given office get paid to do.
You know, the paper pushers who do paperwork, then push that pile of paper (real or electronic) down the line for someone else to do more paperwork and then they push that on down the line. The people who have jobs simply because that the boss wont automate, find out that they go to weekly cult meetings together. The people whose entire existence is to do nothing but show up and collect a paycheck. the one that needs constant validation after completing the most menial task.

Something to do with me being logged in before and during their maintenance yesterday. Is fixed now.

This story doesn't make any sense.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-mexico-observatory-closure-stemmed-from-fbi-child-porn-probe-documents/ar-BBNzOMQ?ocid=spartanntp
11 day closure of a science lab because a janitor was using their wifi for cp.
Seriously makes no sense, and just fuels thoughts of some sort of coverup.

You can do this with powershell
https://oitibs.com/convert-ova-to-vhdx-for-hyper-v/
There are many blogs/guides, here is one.

Vultr scheduled maintenance on NJ ten hours past due and still ongoing...

Upgrade your PHP. Usually these don't show up in my daily CERT emails, this one is probably easy to do.

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2018/01/09/MS-ISAC-Releases-Advisory-PHP-Vulnerabilities

This is the kernel update to fix the Spectre/Meltdown.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0008

edit: Only affects PV installations

Got it
I added to fstab
x-systemd.automount instead of _netdev but still wouldnt work
and enabled this service
systemctl enable systemd-networkd-wait-online.service
and the share is mounted on boot.
In fact, i can now remove x-systemd.automount and replace with _netdev again and it works.
So i just had not enabled this service.

@tim_g It was 500 dollars. Bought in 2013. Still not getting a fix, that is the problem. Dont give a fuck how fast it is. Same with the Xeons in the server room.
This is the largest chipmaker in the world, they wont even make out a fix for over 2/3 of their customers. This would be like GM having antilock brake problems for 15 years on all cars, and only giving recalls out to cars sold in the last 3 years. total bullshit.

@danp I have as well.

Someone dumped a bunch of money in there while i was sleeping.
Last stretch goal is close.

There are also the Starter GPOs in Group POlicy that have configurations for secure setups for each windows version.

Run out of space while coalescing is a snapshot thing.
How many snapshots for this vm right now?
If it says zero, i think you mention this then you have some orphaned vdis and that should be the problem.

on my nc 12 server
cat /var/log/apache2/access.log
shows me all the web requests as well as username making them

edit: debian 9 NC server

@black3dynamite I am working on that now
I think something like
grep ncusername /var/log/apache2/access.log | grep PUT
^This one shows up when using NC sync client and editing/saving a file
grep ncusername /var/log/apache2/access.log | grep DELETE
^This one shows up when deleting things from Windows Explorer and then the sync client sync the change to NC.

edit, these arent quite right yet but a good starting point i think.
You dont know the username in this case so
grep dav /var/log/apache2/access.log | grep PUT
This will return all log entries of all users who have made changes with the sync client. It makes a log entries every file change, so the result list will be quite long.
You would need to glance at the results and look at the users that shows up the most i think. After hours this would lead you to the culprit.

edit: PUT is the function used when saving a changed/edited file.
grep dav /var/log/apache2/access.log | grep PUT
This gives you a list of user and files edited in current access.log using the NC sync client. With this you can change your next query to use a specific username that shows up a lot, like my first examples.

If you want to find the # of edited files in access log add | wc -l to the end which will give the number of files changed. change the username based on results from previous query. When you see a huge number returned that would probably be the person.
grep ncusername /var/log/apache2/access.log | grep PUT | wc -l

But all this seems like much work(and still not quite right) compared to getting NC to put this info in the Web UI.