Friday, February 20, 2004 - Posts

Automatic updates registry hack - get your loved ones to patch and autoupdate Windows

Automatic Updates

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"RescheduleWaitTime"=dword:00000003
"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000000
"NoAutoUpdate"=dword:00000001
"AUOptions"=dword:00000004
"ScheduledInstallDay"=dword:00000000
"ScheduledInstallTime"=dword:0000000D

 

copy the Automatic Updates snippet above and save as .reg (Registry file) . Mail it to all your loved ones.

It will download and install patches automatically at 1 PM everyday

DISCLAIMER:  This applies only to versions of Windows which have automatic updates installe like W2K SP2 + SUS, W2K SP3+ and XP SP1+. I deny all responsability, liability etc etc ...

some posts about automatic updates

http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/stefandemetz/archive/2004/05/07/13102.aspx
http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/stefandemetz/archive/2004/05/11/13358.aspx

 

 

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unusual .NET stuff at steve maine's blog

Will Yukon be idiot proof ? A tale of a forgotten DB

In one of the last gigs I stumbled upon an orphaned SQL Server db.Everybody used it, but nobody managed it. It had hummed along non stop over a full year on a cluster, without giving problems. A minimal maintainance plan had been setup  when it was created, then it was "forgotten" by the admins. It had reached the size of about 70 GB without anybody noticing, filling up 4x36 GB RAID disks. Now diskspace was no more. And it started throwing fits.
The users noticed, the technical people were called. And then they noticed.Nobody had tenderly cared this "little" app since it was born, not even to notify by mail, pager or net send of incumbing problems.

The question: will Yukon force the creator of a db to create some minimal monitoring alerts/auto-partitioning/auto-indexing?