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Munki “Managed Software Update” installation sporadically hangs on “Running package scripts…”
I'm trying to run Munki's "Managed Software Update" to install software on a bunch of workstations. On most of them, it completes successfully.
On some workstations, however, it hangs on the ...
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Solaris host no longer boots after pkg update: intel_iommu0 generated fault event
I've just been doing some regular maintenance on my Solaris 11 box. I issued a pkg update command to be told that I needed to update pkg. This I did, and rebooted into solaris-1.
I then issued ...
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how to upgrade or update the currently installed php version?
my current version of PHP installed in my ubuntu 11.04 box , is PHP5.3.5, now how to update it into the latest stable PHP5.3.8 version?
this tutorial didn't work for me
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How to update Adobe Flash from command line?
Something I can stick in a shortcut or, ideally, run silently and remotely using psexec (from Sysinternals).
A WSUS server is out of the question. Machines needing the updates run Windows XP as ...
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How do you manage software's local forks?
As a system administrator, I often have to modify programs for my company.
Example:
We're using an web interface to manage our local DNS.
After downloading and extracting the tar.gz file from the ...
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Batch Updates to Numerous Server 2008 Machines?
We run a lot of machines that are hosted in various datacenters (takes out the LAN based options) and we are finding the need to change Administrator account passwords for RDP (we use the same ...
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Custom Firefox Updates on a Private Network
We have a network where, due to a SaaS piece that is used to manage the school, we cannot allow Firefox to update until the SaaS piece notifies us that they support the newest version.
This mean ...
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Lion 10.7 Software Update Server can not connect to Apple
Having an odd issue ever since updating my server from SL to Lion.
Software Update Server can not connect to apple to retreive new updates.
Here is the extremely non informative log:
Aug 17 ...
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Does (or can) Novell ZenWorks prevent an executable from updating itself?
I am a developer of an educational software product, and I have noticed a large number of support calls from customers that use ZenWorks. Our application automatically updates itself when a new ...
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Safe to have /.svn/ folders on live site? (How to remove them but retain svn update capability?)
I'm doing svn update to update the code for my php website, but it leaves .svn/ folders all over.
I think its dangerous to leave those files publically readable, but its very easy to update the ...
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If install SQL Service pack 4 on SQL2005 instance do I need to install also earlier SPs
I am little lost in touch whit few SQL servers regarding to their updates.
Now I want to update these serves and I see that now is actual SP4 for SQL2005 databases.
My question is:
If I skip SQL ...
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Apple Software Update Server for Windows
We have just added a few iMacs to our system and we've found that they all want to download about 1.6 GB of updates... not so great when we only have limited monthly bandwidth!
All of our Windows ...
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Pulling application updates from closest server?
Setup:
6 Major Sites with Server 2003/2008 DCs doing DHCP/AD Integrated DNS, each on their own subnet.
All connect back to datacenter through a 3 mbps WAN
ERP server running in the datacenter, ...
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Mac OS X silent software updates on a schedule w/ forced reboots if necessary
I am in charge of about 40 Mac OS X computers on a predominantly PC network. The systems are running about an equal mix of Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6.
We are instituting a new policy of forcing OS and ...
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Updating windows from a central system
I want to setup a central system (server) which will directly update windows from the internet. The other (client) systems will connect to the central system (server) and
update their copy of windows ...
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How to remove items from the “download queue” in the Software Update service (OS X Server)
This is the first time I've used an OS X Server (Snow Leopard) and I'm having trouble with the Software Update service.
When I first set up the Software Update service in the Server Admin I made the ...
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How do large companies handle software updates for users without administrative rights?
I just started working for a small-medium size company doing IT support. Maybe 150 or less users.
Right now every user has administrative rights to their own machine. This allows them to install ...
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Why does Mac OS X Software Update not work when machine uses Active Directory?
My company's IT department is mostly a Windows run operation and in order to become more secure, they are altering the way that the Macintosh computers login to our internal network so that they use ...
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How to make Mac OS X Snow Leopard Software Update to use a custom Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server
I have my Mac OS X 10.6 server, and iI have enabled software update, but now I need my Macbook Air and iMac to update from this server.
I have tried to read about it, but I can't find it, I hope ...
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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?
