If you find the need to change the loaction of where WSUS stores the updates, you must be a member of the local Administrators group on the WSUS server. You also need to create the new path for local WSUS update storage prior to using WSUSutil.exe. Open CMD and navigate to the directory that contains […]
If you need to find the location of where WSUS saves its downloaded content. This can been achived with the help of regedit. Look for the registry at: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Update Services\Server\Setup in the value “ContentDir”.
Bluetooth is turned on, but no device are being found, as in the below image. Open terminal and enter the following command. service bluetooth restart
This has been covered many times and can easily be found using google, but this is how I go about it. First, download chrome and select the .deb package. I saved the package to Documents. Open Terminal and type “cd Documents” “dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb” You will end up getting some errors in terminal, don’t worry […]
By no means these are the correct GPO settings to have, but these are what I have configured on our environment for PCs (not servers), and so far seems to be working fine. Windows Update policy location Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update Configure Automatic Updates: I have selected Auto […]
I have been setting up WSUS for our environment, and need our devices to check in and update more frequently with the server wile I completed some testing. And these are the commands I have found useful. Open a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges. Type in usoclient StartScan Other Switches for usoclient StartScan – Used To […]
Policy’s work in a top down approach. Policy’s applied at the top are inherited down. You need to stop inheritances before you can apply a policy to a group. Let’s say we want to replace the Exceptions Policy in Batley, We first need to de-tick “Inherit Policies and settings from Parent group” (This stops inheritance, […]
On some of our local site servers, I have come across issues with SEP where the definitions are out of date. When you try and run a live update, it claims that its already running. If left updates would stop. Normally, this could be resolved by a restart of the server, but if you don’t […]
You will no doubt come across the need to allow a specific client full access to all USB/Devices wile keeping the policy applied to the remaining clients on the network. And to allow this, In Active Directory, we have created a new organisational unit under each Computer organisational unit and called it “Enable USB” Now […]
To Add a Device to the Hardware Devices list Before any device can be blocked or unblocked, it needs to be added to the device list. Policy’s >Policy Components > Hardware Devices > Add a hardware Device One thing to consider when adding devices to the list is the naming. Naming needs to be clear […]
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