Questions tagged [automatic-updates]
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Can't seem to disable Java Automatic Update
I'm just tweaking out my new Windows 7 laptop and wanted to disable the automatic Java updating (and thus kill the silly jusched.exe background process), but I can't seem to get it to actually turn it ...
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Windows 2008: WinSXS directory growing uncontrollably, blocking server
I run a (remotely hosted) virtual Server with Windows 2008 Server for a client.
Initially, it had 10 GB of space.
During the course of a few weeks - during which nothing was done on the machine ...
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How do I change the Software Update server address on a client Mac (to use my own server)?
Now that I have started the Software Update service on my Leopard Server, how do I change my client Macs to check for updates on it?
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Building a WSUS server: where to start?
Rather than having all of my computers go out to the internet and download their Automatic Updates, I am seriously considering building a WSUS server. That is, a Windows Update server. I have read ...
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Update management for Adobe Acrobat Reader
Does anyone know of a good tool for managing updates to Acrobat Reader?
I've just noticed that there is yet another security update, and I'd love to find something as good as WSUS to manage it.
Do ...
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Good practice for managing package updates for lots of CentOS servers
As part of my job I manage a few tens of CentOS 5 servers, using puppet for the main set up. About half of our servers have a standardised set up for hosting various django sites, while the rest are a ...
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Prevent Server Restart after Windows Updates
we have a number of servers in our office, as a small hosting company, and these servers are critical to business, ... web server, mail server, db server, etc.
On a semi-regular basis, when the ...
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Block specific Windows update hotfix
I'd like to leave Windows Automatic Updates enabled but block a specific patch from being installed that is causing us problems.
Is this possible? Anyone know how to do that?
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Do Windows/Automatic updates happen when a PC is sleeping/standby?
Mostly interested in doing it on some Win7 laptops, a lot of people seem to believe its not possible. However I can't find any definitive Microsoft documents detailing it either way:
This old ...
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Number of important Windows Updates
For Microsoft Server OS's, is there a location in the registry or possibly WMI that stores the number of pending Important Updates?
My inventory software supports wmi and registry keys. Trying to see ...
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Windows Updates taking a long time to install
I manage a WSUS server for a large number of servers in a shared environment. Recently I noticed that despite the scheduled install time configured via the local gpo of many servers, they were not ...
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Visually impaired people and windows updates
I have what may seem like a strange question, however I believe I have identified a real need for something like this and would like to know A. If anyone else has suggestions, or B. if anyone has ...
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Is it possible to install Mac OS X Server on a Mac Mini without hacking it?
I'd like to have a Software Update Server (SUS) for my clients.
Since this service would not be critical, redundancy and availability are not an issue for me.
Given the fact that SUS is only ...
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Windows 7 Permissions for installing Adobe Reader and Flash Updates?
Is it possible to give users the permissions in a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain to install Adobe Reader and Flash Updates on their Windows 7 machines? Or are they just stuck with calling on the ...
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How to disable Amazon EC2 instance yum automatic nightly check-update?
A server running on my EC2 instance (Amazon Linux AMI) falls over every night. I watched processes and this happens, every time, minutes after this command runs:
/usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/yum --...
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Can dd-wrt do a firmware autoupdate?
I need to get a new company router but am looking for a secure but low cost solution. My first idea was to get a 20€ TP-link router and flash it with DD-wrt, but the latest firmware is a year old and ...
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How can I prevent Terminal Server Users from restarting the server after an Automatic Update?
We have a Windows Server 2003 terminal server, and our IT department does not want to disable Automatic Updates. The problem is, when an update gets applied that requires a reboot, users get a popup ...
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Fully automated software deployment and update system [closed]
My office has about 120 Windows clients.
We need a way to deploy and update free/downloadable software like Flash, Firefox, Skype etc..
This means that we want our clients to always have the latest ...
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Server 2016 - update reboots
We have recently started to install Server 2016, and seem to be hitting the 'we're going to reboot this server when we feel like it' brick wall. With preview five this was easily rectified using the ...
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Automatic Reboot at specific time if Automatic Upgrade requires Reboot
I have setup automatic updates and it updates automatically. However, there are updates that require a restart and I know
Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true";
will set it to reboot. ...
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What are best-practices for running Windows Update on a Hyper-V server with running VM's?
I have four VM's running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 box - not 'core.' What is the best way to install Windows Updates on that server? Do I need to shut the VM's down first in case it wants a reboot? ...
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Non-MS program updates in a domain
I have an AD domain and I don't want my users to have admin privileges on their local computer. I have WSUS for Windows updates and stuff but what about Firefox, Flash and other third party program ...
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Debian unattended-upgrades does not upgrade all packages
I have installed the Debian unattended-upgrades package. It upgrades most, but not all packages. If I execute apt-get upgrade after it has run, a few more packages will be installed.
Here's my /etc/...
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Automatic updating of newer JRE on GNU/Linux
How can a GNU/Linux machine be set up to automatically update a newer version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE)? The difficulty is wanting to use a newer version of Java (Java 7, at present) and ...
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Automatic Updates occurring unintentionally
My boss and I were sitting in our server room today when we all of a sudden heard one of our servers go into hyper-speed, indicating that it was restarting. You can imagine the immediate "oh crap" ...
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Is there anyway to stop Windows 7 from executing the forced restart after an update? [closed]
Is there anyway to stop Windows 7 from executing the forced restart after an update? This is not the restart that happens with Windows Update; this is the forced restart that displays a dialog with "...
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Restart Systemd unit after dependency
I have a web application that is started by systemd. It uses Postgresql as database, so it rely on it. Here is the unit file of my web application (I have remove the un-relevant/sensitive parts):
[...
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Setup a server to host Windows updates for all LAN devices
Background: I have a really slow internet connection (the highest download speed I've seen on it is 3.5Mbps, though I only pay for 3Mbps), and Windows 10 does updates all the freaking time. Like, so ...
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Secure yum-cron.conf configuration and prevent them from getting auto-updated
The last CentOS upgrade from December 3, 2015 rpmsaved the /etc/yum/yum-cron.conf file and replaced it with the new one on bunch of the servers I manage, which had previously been configured with the ...
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Will critical security updates get applied even with "auto minor version upgrade" disabled?
RDS offers an "auto minor version upgrade" setting, described in the docs, which causes AWS to automatically upgrade your database engine from time to time:
If you want Amazon RDS to ...
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Server 2012 Windows Update not working
We have a windows server 2012 box that is hosted remotely. I've been trying to install a security patch and the windows update component appears to be corrupted. The error code i'm getting is ...
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how to cancel an automatic restart in windows server 2012 after installing windows updates
Here's the thing - the "shutdown -a" option doesn't work, there is no "Restart Later" button, just a countdown timer of 15 minutes and no way to cancel it.
What should I do? I read somewhere that if ...
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Automatically download, but do not install, upgrades
Running debian stable, I know I can use unattended-upgrades to automatically download and install upgrades.
However, running debian unstable, I would be extremely reluctant to automatically install ...
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What's the best solution for updating in a small environment
I'm looking for a solution to updates -
I really need all my flash and Java updates to be installed automatically as soon as they are available.
Microsoft Updates
pro - updates all versions and ...
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Automatic Restart of Windows Server 2012R2 after Windows Update
I have a Windows Server 2012R2 which is set to have the Windows Updates Scheduled at a certain time.
However, this week, I received a 15 minute countdown from the moment I signed in instead of ...
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Automatic Updates on Production Server
Seeing as there have been more and more exploits recently with shellshock etc. Have the opinions of people changed in regards to having automatic updates on production servers?
And what would the ...
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How do I automate complex software distribution?
Our customer has solution that includes several products that cooperate with each other. When we update any part of the solution we have to provide administrator’s guide for every operating system (XP,...
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Offline Server update
I have 3 machines that are completely shielded from the internet (Air gapped). I have a LARGE list of KBs from Microsoft that I need to download and install (Something like 200). I can NOT put the ...
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Make Windows Install all Updates on a Certain Day
I would like our servers to install all available updates every Saturday. I set the "Configure Automatic Updates" group policy. I then configured it to "Auto download and schedule the install." Then, ...
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Windows Update error 0x80072EE2
I use Windows Server Update Services to manage updates for my SBS 2003 R2 domain. My clients are receiving error code 0x80072EE2 when they try to scan for updates. In typical microsoft style, there's ...
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Update ubuntu automatically
I have just started learning web server administration. I have noticed that I get this update message very often on Ubuntu:
xx packages can be updated
xx updates are security update
When I see it I ...
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vCenter Server automatic update
Is it possible to update vCenter Server 5.5 (Windows platform) to 5.5u2 with vSphere Update Manager or any other automatic/oneclick way ?
Is there any way other than downloading full iso ?
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Concern about "apt-get update" in production server
I have a server which is getting a bit outdated as I haven't updated it since a few months. I wanted to try cron-apt but first wanted to do it manually, so I issued a
sudo apt-get update
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Most efficient way to install Windows Hotfixes on a isolated computer
I have a standalone W2K3 machine which I need to update with microsoft hotfixes. I also have a clone of this machine which I can connect to the internet.
What I'd like to do is:
a) Run some tool on ...
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Domain controller and local computer different timezones for automatic updates
If the Windows domain controller is in PST time zone and the local computer is in the EST time zone and automatic updates are scheduled for 1:00 AM via group policy, will the local computer install ...
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Server 2012 (NOT R2) stuck checking for updates
I've done all this to resolve the update issue.
1. Catroot rename
2. softwaredistribution rename
3. change how to update settings
4. WU diag troubleshooter cab
5. registered numerous DLLs
6. Ran SFC /...
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How can I automatically update Debian Squeeze?
I want my VPS to be always up-to-date with latest updates. Is there option to enable automatic updates with apt-get or some other way?
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Nginx and automatic updates
I'm on Ubuntu 12.04.1 with unattended-upgrades configured for automatic security updates, and I installed Nginx by first adding
deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ lucid nginx
deb-src http://nginx....
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Windows Unattended: Hide the "Windows Updates are Disabled For This Computer" Message?
In autounattend.xml I can set <ProtectYourPC>3</ProtectYourPC> to disable automatic updates. However, after installing, Windows still complains loudly that updates are disabled.
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How do I make unattended-upgrades email me every time it runs?
How do I get unattended-upgrades to email me every time it runs, even if there are no packages that need updating?
When there are upgrades they are applied and I am emailed, so the configuration is ...
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