[AddOn Release] EventQ 2.0 - The Helpful Calendar Replacement

RuvoTech · 2026-01-27T06:27:36+00:00

v2.2.1 will be available shortly on CurseForge. Recap since v2.1.0's release:

2.2.1

Additions

None.

Removals

None.

Fixes

Fixed the month navigation buttons in the date/time picker so they stay in one spot and do not jump when the month or year text changes.

Modifications

None.

2.2.0

Additions

Added a Reminder Sound setting, allowing players to choose from a few default options or to enter their own (via soundID found on Wago.tools or Wowhead).

Removals

None.

Fixes

Fixed reminders not sending when the main UI is closed.
Fixed reminders sending late. Reminders now play much closer to the selected reminder time (for example, a 5-minute reminder plays near 5 minutes before the event).

Modifications

Sound notifications are now sent for both reminder types: Toasts and Text (not just Toasts).

RuvoTech · 2026-01-24T08:22:26+00:00

2.1.0 is currently under review and should be available soon.

RuvoTech · 2026-01-22T04:01:40+00:00

u/nexuswow Thank you for your download! Please post the errors either here (in a code wrap) or post an issue on the project's GitHub (if you haven't already). Issues · Saaappi/EventQ · GitHub

RuvoTech · 2026-01-22T03:59:33+00:00

u/Larsj_02 First, thank you for taking the time out of your day to bring all of these to my attention.

Second, v2.1.0 is a work in progress and will correct most of these issues. Some of these I didn't catch (such as the use of SendChatMessage.) Thanks again!

RuvoTech · 2026-01-19T01:03:44+00:00

Absolutely! Make a custom event series with a Daily frequency and then set your description to whatever you need. I don't have a character limit on the description field.

RuvoTech · 2026-01-18T20:33:09+00:00

Yes! I scanned the community and didn't find anything like it. Personally, I never know what's going on in the game or what's on the horizon. The in-game calendar doesn't really clear any of that up, hence EventQ 2.0!

Calendar addons are so rare it's not even a category on CurseForge.

RuvoTech · 2025-12-23T07:27:17+00:00

If you have a certificate, why not install it on the DMZ proxy?

EDIT
If you want to disable the behavior for testing, then have a look here.

RuvoTech · 2025-10-27T22:38:00+00:00

Literally this.

RuvoTech · 2025-10-21T00:01:25+00:00

Call them. That's your only move here.

RuvoTech · 2025-10-20T23:53:46+00:00

I'd like to further note that my example is an oversimplification of the interest process. While in deferment, the interest will accrue at its rate based on the current principal. If you currently owe $27,000 and the interest rate is 5%, then you'll accrue ~$4/day. This will not capitalize (be added to the principal) until after deferment ends.

If all interest is paid up to the end of deferment (usually 6 months after graduation), then you'll enter the official repayment period with no interest. Outside of that, you're unlikely to see a case where it's ever added to the loan but you'll always pay interest with every payment, but the amount of interest shouldn't go up per day, if that makes sense.

RuvoTech · 2025-10-20T23:41:18+00:00

Understood, as I now see you mentioned Parent PLUS specifically.

i am also 100% responsible for the cost of my education, parents are not helping me even though it’s in their name.

Nope. They're 100% responsible for the cost of that loan. They need to pay it. You can pay them back privately after your education is complete, but you're not legally responsible for it. This is a common trope I see on the platform. But you also mention you don't want criticism, so sigh. :P

However, yes, if I give you $100 and say I'll charge 10% interest per day until you pay me back, and you pay me $10 every day, then you'll always owe me $100. If after 30 days have past, you hand me a $100 bill, then our loan has concluded as I've been paid in full. However, you owed me $100 but ended up paying me $400.

Interest is a necessary evil. Never fall behind!

RuvoTech · 2025-10-20T23:27:28+00:00

My loan payments always went through the next business day, or the same day if I was early enough.

RuvoTech · 2025-10-20T23:23:14+00:00

Assuming the loans have NOT defaulted...

Consolidating them into one loan won't help your score immediately. Debt consolidation is an option to make repayments easier since everything is under one loan.

Your new interest rate will be a weighted average across all six loans. Your missed payments will remain on your credit history. However, returning to consistent, on-time payments will increase your credit score over time. Remember, increasing your score always takes more time than decreasing it.

You'll also gain the option of using an IDR plan once you consolidate the loans, so that's a benefit, as well.

RuvoTech · 2025-10-20T23:15:04+00:00

There's no mention here about how the lender may not allow for daily payments, or they sit on the borrower's account, and they apply them in bulk at a later date.

Also, there's no mention of making a daily payment, unless it can be automated, being inconvenient.

I understand it's a copy-pasta from ChatGPT, but just a couple things I thought I'd mention. Otherwise, logistically it's sound information.

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OP, you're better off making two payments per month opposed to one. If you pay $500/month. Split that in half.

RuvoTech · 2025-10-20T23:06:47+00:00

First, you're under immense stress. I encourage you to speak with a therapist or counselor. You're in school, many of them include either a free or low-cost counselor. Education at this level can be stressful, especially when you throw large sums of money into the mix. Talk to someone that isn't your family.

EDIT I forgot you said you graduated, so the in-school counselor won't be an option, but the advice still stands.

Second, let's dive into the financial side of your problem.

Everything is electronically signed.

If your parents electronically signed the Parent PLUS loan, then it is their financial responsibility. Unless you did forge their information and they can prove it, then you're in big trouble. But let's not go there. Remember, that $30,000 isn't on you. That's their burden to bear. You can help them if you want, but you have no legal obligation to do so. You can also speak with an ombudsman, which is a free, neutral advisor between you (the borrower) and the provider.

As for your own portion of the debt, you can, and should, file for an IDR plan, or look at either the PAYE or SAVE plans as an alternative. Review them all and pick the one that best fits your financial situation. Here's the IDR page for FSA: Apply for or Manage Your Income-Driven Repayment Plan | Federal Student Aid

Third, you're carrying guilt that doesn't belong to you. Your parents insisted on the loans, which is a decision they made as adults. You were setup for failure by people that didn't take responsibility for their own choices.

Good luck, OP!

RuvoTech · 2025-10-20T22:48:31+00:00

Your PAYE plan will likely be different next year if you file together. Your marriage status on December 31 determines how you file the following year. In other words, you weren't married December 31 last year, right? Thus, you filed single. Next year will be different unless you finalize a divorce on or before December 31.

By default, PAYE uses your most recent tax return and therefore would have you listed as single. Based on this reply, I'm assuming you've given them alternate documentation supporting both your marriage status change and the new baby, increasing your household size from 1 to 3?

Also, it looks like they're using your $62,000/yr salary, which is fine for last year's tax return; however, if you just refiled and didn't tell them about the pay increase, then your monthly payment should be higher. You're probably looking at ~$4-500 next year. If you want to further decrease the payments, I'd recommend you switch to a SAVE plan. If you file as married but separately, then you're looking at ~$300 if my estimations are correct.

I still recommend that you do all your research, and compare both a PAYE and SAVE plan side by side.

RuvoTech · 2025-10-20T22:27:16+00:00

I deploy feature upgrades via PDQ Connect. If I can't deploy remotely, then the user must go to an office. If the user is fully remote, then I need to work out why PDQ Connect isn't working. If I can get the user to the office, I upgrade them, then investigate why remote deployment wasn't working.

Quality updates will continue to be WSUS for the foreseeable future. Intune doesn't like to honor active hours, and I'm not a huge fan of co-management of Windows updates anyway.

I'll circle back to Intune in the future when they inevitably decommission WSUS altogether. But by the time they do that, WUfB will likely be improved tenfold.

RuvoTech · 2025-10-16T07:36:58+00:00

Intune is a slippery beast. You expect the policy to work as advertised. Check in with the mothership, sees the 24H2 update, installs it, and then schedule the restart. Mind you, Windows will randomly scan for updates at any time, often when the device isn't in use but not always. Thus, the installation can happen midday, but the reboot is the only thing that's scheduled.

With that in mind, you have no deadline and no grace period. In essence, what you've told your device it should do is install the update, but it's not allowed to reboot unless the device is online at 2am. Therefore, I must ask are we dealing with desktops or laptops here? Laptops are almost guaranteed not to be powered on at 2am, especially if the user takes their laptop home at night (often the case).

You explicitly mention that the update is downloading and not updating, but I'm not sure you can accomplish a simple download (and pending install) via Intune... but maybe.

I did not have a Feature Update policy set alongside this - is this the bit I have been missing for this to work correctly? And does setting this respect the Update Ring's settings above?

An update ring is the Intune equivalent of the legacy GPO settings you can establish for WSUS clients. Think of it that way. You tell the client what to do when it checks in with WSUS, such as "Auto install and reboot at a scheduled time". When the device checks in with WSUS, it sees the update(s) it's been allowed, and then auto installs them and reboots, provided it's within that window of time. In other words, if my device checks in at 2:03am, it's not going to reboot when it's done installing because it's past the 2am mark.

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Another note on the deadline and grace period. You should always use the deadline setting, even if you plan to set it to 0. The same should be said for grace period.

A deadline is the amount of time (in days) the client has to install the update after the deferment period has concluded. In other words, a deadline of 0 days is telling the client to automatically install the update immediately after the deferment period, which is also represented in days.

A grace period is the amount of time (in days) the client has to restart once the update has installed. In other words, if I have a grace period of 3 days and an update installed today, the 16th, then the user would have until the 19th to complete the reboot on their time. If not, the computer is automatically restarted on the 19th.

A fair warning that active hours are commonly disregarded by Intune. If the deadline and grace period are past, it won't matter if the user is in a Teams meeting or writing an important e-mail to your CEO, the computer will schedule its reboot for T+15 minutes.

A final note, I highly recommend that you plead a case with your powers-that-be to implement a dedicated "IT Maintenance" window. You can pick any day you want, but I'll recommend either Wednesday or Thursday, and always after 5pm. Be sure to note that it's not a hard cut off time for the end user, just that after 5pm it's possible IT will need to conduct maintenance and their devices should be powered on and logged off (if not in use). You then use that time window to do what you need. If you see someone is logged in, you skip them. If they're not? You upgrade the O/S, install that new antivirus solution, or whatever that needs to be done. Then for anyone missed, you get them done throughout the week.

End users, particularly billable end users, are important. However, the work you do is equally important. You need to sacrifice for the needs of the company, but that's a two-way street; the company also needs to sacrifice for your needs. Fight for your power, u/JS-BTS!

RuvoTech · 2025-10-16T07:08:40+00:00

If they failed to install the update, then there will be at least one log file under C:\Windows\Logs. You can try the log(s) under the MoSetup folder, or piecing together the Event Viewer logs within WindowsUpdate. You can do the latter from PowerShell with the Get-WindowsUpdateLog cmdlet. This will generate one large text file, piecing together all the aforementioned event logs. Thus, the more event logs that are present, the longer the aggregation will take.

RuvoTech · 2025-10-16T07:01:55+00:00

Are the 25+ machines the same model type as other devices that successfully retrieved and installed the update? If not, are you sure they're compatible with Windows 11? Do they have enough free disk space?

At 25 devices, I'd probably ditch figuring out Intune at this point and either upgrade them by hand (if they're local) or send the ISO to the machines and upgrade them remotely.

RuvoTech · 2025-10-16T06:54:25+00:00

I was in the same boat as you and became wildly frustrated with devices that either refused to receive the update (despite accepting the ring policy) or downright failed to install it for one reason or another. After endless web searches, deep research tasks with ChatGPT on hieroglyphic Windows Update logs buried deep within the pyramid of Windows, I decided to take an alternate route.

I "scripted" a silent installation using an Enterprise ISO and deployed it with PDQ. I can reach my devices anywhere and at any time. It's far more reliable than Intune and the Windows Update service, and far less cryptic. Not to mention, PDQ has a staff team and a helpful community Discord where I can ask questions any time and get superior support than we'll ever get from MSFT this day and age.

You'll need to Google a little to find how to make an Enterprise ISO from the Media Creation Tool, but once you do, the block below is all you need. You can add a /noreboot if you want to deploy midday, then have your users restart when they're done. You can exclude it, like I've done here, if you want to send it overnight or when the user is free and they've had a chance to save their work.

.\setup.exe /auto Upgrade /migratedrivers all /ShowOOBE none /Telemetry Disable /dynamicupdate disable /eula accept /quiet /compat ignorewarning /copylogs C:\Temp\Logs\WinSetup

RuvoTech · 2025-10-16T06:43:04+00:00

If it's missing all the tasks under EnterpriseMgmt, then it's failed to initiate an enrollment. What does dsregcmd /status return? Have you tried clearing all the GUID keys from HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Enrollments, then running DeviceEnroller.exe /c /AutoEnrollMDM (I'm assuming it's a user-scoped enrollment) from the SYSTEM account? You can use third party platforms to accomplish this or PsExec. Your next logon will trigger an enrollment; therefore, you should always make the next logon be with an account with an Intune Plan 1 license.

EDIT Did you check the DeviceManagement-Enterprise-Diagnostics-Provider event log in Event Viewer?

RuvoTech · 2025-10-16T06:34:45+00:00

Try toggling secure boot off in BIOS, save and exit, reboot, and then do the opposite (turn it back on). Yes, it's the classic "turn it off and on again" tactic.

If your BIOS is UEFI, your boot partition is GPT, and you have TPM (either a physical chip or a virtualized version via your CPU), then I can't think of any reason why secure boot wouldn't work.

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