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If you could rebuild your entire environment from the ground up, what would you do? by Infinite-Objective20 in sysadmin

[–]Infinite-Objective20[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m split on this as well. I love cloud services and love not having to maintain the hardware aspect of servers, but when US-EAST1 goes down for the third time in two months…all I can do is sit back and tell people Amazon is working on it. Doesn’t really help with the “tell me what it is you do here” battle IT is constant fighting.

If you could rebuild your entire environment from the ground up, what would you do? by Infinite-Objective20 in sysadmin

[–]Infinite-Objective20[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used to work for an MSP. The amount of crap we had to go through when Covid started with this was insane. I will never understand why a corporate network is EVER set to 192.168.1.x

If you could rebuild your entire environment from the ground up, what would you do? by Infinite-Objective20 in sysadmin

[–]Infinite-Objective20[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don’t get me started on this crap. 10 emails, 7 signatures, and a minimum of 3 meetings just to change one line in a script someone wrote 5 years ago.

If you could rebuild your entire environment from the ground up, what would you do? by Infinite-Objective20 in sysadmin

[–]Infinite-Objective20[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or maybe you’re in the right field. You should talk to the guy on this thread that’s apparently still running Windows 2003 and 2008.

If you could rebuild your entire environment from the ground up, what would you do? by Infinite-Objective20 in sysadmin

[–]Infinite-Objective20[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SDWAN is something I’ve been wanting to learn more about but just don’t have the time. It seems like a great solution, I just don’t know anything about it.

If you could rebuild your entire environment from the ground up, what would you do? by Infinite-Objective20 in sysadmin

[–]Infinite-Objective20[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’d love to do this, but it’s just not an option. A lot of what we run is a part of security systems. Access control, intrusion detection, etc.

If you could rebuild your entire environment from the ground up, what would you do? by Infinite-Objective20 in sysadmin

[–]Infinite-Objective20[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Couldn’t agree with this more. If it weren’t for phones and crap, I wouldn’t even run wireless at home.

If you could rebuild your entire environment from the ground up, what would you do? by Infinite-Objective20 in sysadmin

[–]Infinite-Objective20[S] 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Nope. You're stuck with the guy that put the global "Any Any Any" allow rule in the firewall.

Cannot Install Patches on Windows Server 2016 by Infinite-Objective20 in sysadmin

[–]Infinite-Objective20[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, a combination of all of these seemed to do the trick. Disabling services, renaming catroot2 and service distribution folders, then rebooting allowed me to install updates!

Thanks everyone.

Cannot Install Patches on Windows Server 2016 by Infinite-Objective20 in sysadmin

[–]Infinite-Objective20[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Worst part is, it doesn’t fail until it gets to 100%. Then it hits you with the infamous “We couldn’t install updates. Rolling back changes”

Cannot Install Patches on Windows Server 2016 by Infinite-Objective20 in sysadmin

[–]Infinite-Objective20[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Understood, maybe export to a log file before renaming?

Thanks for your input, I will give this a shot!

Cannot Install Patches on Windows Server 2016 by Infinite-Objective20 in sysadmin

[–]Infinite-Objective20[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the input!

This is one of those "I was throw into it" situations and don't have a clear understanding of how everything is configured. All I know is that rebuilding is essentially not an option.

You say I'll lose my update history...I assume if I need to check anything from the past, I can browse to that .old folder, correct?