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Linux

Using xonsh shell with pyenv on Ubuntu 18.04 – and a few errors I had getting source-bash to work ?

When I heard about the xonsh project – https://xon.sh I thought it sounded great, as I really enjoy the python language and am much more comfortable using python to write scripts than I am using bash. I also find the bash syntax very confusing, and am never sure of the right way to write a […]

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Powershell Systems Administration Uncategorized WSUS

Fix for Windows Server 2016 Stuck at “Downloading 0%” from WSUS server – UpdateServiceUrlAlternate Registry Key

I ran into an issue recently with our Windows Server 2016 servers not installing their updates. Instead, all our 2016 servers would get stuck with the message “Updates are available. Downloading updates 0%” however they would never actually download the updates. These servers were configured to our WSUS server, which was also a Server 2016 […]

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Systems Administration VDI

VMware User Environment Manager (UEM) Profile for Autodesk AutoCAD 2017 in VDI

In our Horizon View VDI environment we use UEM to manage some application’s user data. I used the Application Profiler included with UEM to create this profile for AutoCAD. One issue that we we have with AutoCAD is that it will reconfigure when launched by a new user. We tried to capture a default profile […]

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Ergonomics

Experiment: Using the Colemak Keyboard Layout For Two Weeks

Recently I have been investigating using better, more ergonomic computer equipment. To this end, several months ago I purchased an ergonomic keyboard, the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. During my investigation of keyboards, however, I came across a lot of discussion about alternative keyboard layouts, and their various pros and cons, and have decided to […]

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Powershell SCCM Systems Administration Uncategorized

How to Opt-In and Detect to Microsoft Update for other Microsoft products using Powershell

Update 2021-10-07: Updated broken links. Update 2018-03-25: Updated the script to make it more easily runnable from the command line (thanks Grant for the suggestion). I’ve also made the script available from on my Gitlab repo. To run the script from the command line, download it from the Gitlab repo, and then execute like this: […]