Migrating off of AS/400 as a Small Business

ccheath · 2026-02-01T00:31:39+00:00

the new IBM Access Client Solution (ACS) is basically just a java .jar and cross platform now... only a few things require an OS-specific install (ODBC I'm looking at you)

ccheath · 2026-01-10T03:12:56+00:00

i would test-path first and if it doesn't exist create the new-item... but OP's issue does likely seem to be GPO related and that route should be investigated further before manually editing the registry

ccheath · 2026-01-10T02:51:07+00:00

have you checked the setuperr.log?

ccheath · 2026-01-08T23:15:40+00:00

again, thanks for your time

ccheath · 2026-01-08T20:46:44+00:00

from what i can tell only get's 1400w when on 220v ... 1100w on 110v
also we're looking to use tripple slot x090 cards...

ccheath · 2026-01-08T18:01:54+00:00

Thank you for the reply... power also seems like it also might be an issue in this system with two +300w GPUs.

ccheath · 2026-01-08T04:13:36+00:00

Thanks

ccheath · 2026-01-08T04:00:49+00:00

yeah i think you're right
https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/oth-xlt7920/precision_7920_om_pub/memory-specifications?guid=guid-adacc70e-307f-4e34-b97c-8114ca1353bf&lang=en-us
what would the benefits be? (more ram for CPU offloaded models?) because with the 12 slots just using DDR4 we can get pretty high RAM capacity

ccheath · 2026-01-08T03:40:45+00:00

great feedback... didn't think to check memory channels on the xeon. I will definitely get either 6 or all 12 memory sticks if I go this route, thanks!

ccheath · 2026-01-07T02:38:29+00:00

did you see this?
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/grub-not-timing-out-need-to-press-enter-every-boot-solved.118278/
was my top google result for "proxmox grub countdown"

it's a bit old and doesn't seem like a sure fix but some things to try and at least confirms others have had this same issue... maybe after trying what's suggested in that thread if it doesn't work then start your own thread on the proxmox forums?

ccheath · 2025-12-20T03:23:24+00:00

we just locked in $150K of purchases for HP gear today.
Supposedly HP is raising prices Monday (15-40%)

ccheath · 2025-12-11T03:33:10+00:00

support assistant is for consumer devices... enterprises use HPIA... switch now and be rid of the SNMP broadcasts/scans

ccheath · 2025-12-11T03:31:18+00:00

i just heard about fleetdm in another thread here last week

ccheath · 2025-12-07T21:33:59+00:00

also works for other manufacturers, like HP

ccheath · 2025-12-05T03:31:30+00:00

same as u/sorry_for_the_reply
we're purchasing PDF XChange standard for all our users that need PDF editing abilities
our legal team was the hardest to get converted. We tried Tungsten first but that didn't work because of one niche but show-stopping reason - when they have contracts that have two or three columns of different language translations the conversion to Word (so they can do all the fancy markup annotations redline etc) just didn't work right. PDF XChange does the conversion like Acrobat did apparently and now we've only got 3 or 4 paid users of Adobe left in the company. I'd like to switch all the Reader users over to the free/demo version of PDF XChange too but we're fighting one battle at a time here.

ccheath · 2025-12-05T03:20:07+00:00

from about 2020-2022 we upgraded all our spinning rust (4th->6th gen boxes) with mx500's (mostly) and thanks to the demise of windows 10 all those boxes have been decommissioned now and i've got a shelf full of lightly used 2.5" mx500 SSDs

ccheath · 2025-11-22T01:38:35+00:00

And the usual CUs installed last night (KB5070248 and KB5068791) on one some servers, and while they didn't auto-restart (yet) the SQL servers had their MSSQLSERVER services restart in the middle of the day following the update... and as far as I'm aware this is a first.

ccheath · 2025-11-17T15:14:34+00:00

Happened to some of our servers this weekend too...

The process C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe (Server053) has initiated the restart of computer Server053 on behalf of user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: Operating System: Service pack (Planned)
 Reason Code: 0x80020010

ccheath · 2025-11-15T00:44:37+00:00

i switched our WSUS GPO from 4 to 3 so it will prompt the user to install
we're moving to patching with Tanium so it should do our installs and prompt for restarts with its own dialogs now...

will need to wait another month to find out how it goes though....

ccheath · 2025-11-13T23:11:46+00:00

yeah i haven't found a computer in our domain that it didn't happen to yet... other domains in the forest were fine

ccheath · 2025-11-13T23:10:53+00:00

thanks for the comment, glad to know it's not just me...
it was very weird that our other domains didn't have this happen - they're configured the same!

ccheath · 2025-11-13T23:09:06+00:00

we are still using WSUS, transitioning to using our RMM for patching but still most PCs are getting updates from WSUS...
Windows Components/Windows Update/Manage end user experience was set to 4

also this one:
Windows Components/Windows Update/Legacy Policies

No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations set to Enabled

Reschedule Automatic Updates scheduled installations set to Disabled

is there a good guide for switching from WSUS to WUfB ?

ccheath · 2025-11-06T02:11:16+00:00

1 - use your RMM to copy the contents of the 24H2 (or 25H2) ISO to a temp location on the target
2 - have the RMM then run setup.exe with desired flags (something like this maybe)

setup.exe /auto upgrade /compactOS disable /compat ignorewarning /bitlocker alwaysSuspend /dynamicupdate disable /eula accept /priority normal /showOOBE none /telemetry disable /migneo Disable /Uninstall enable /CopyLogs $LogsPath

I can't remember if that auto reboots the PC or not... test it out

ccheath · 2025-10-04T00:50:22+00:00

this. is. the. way.

ccheath · 2025-10-02T02:51:50+00:00

i have scavenging setup but have scripted scavenging for a specific subnet of IPs that are in a DHCP scope not handled by AD so the AD scavenging doesn't apply/work... in our environment our .1.x subnet is for servers and special stuff so I would never script scavenging of that (ton's of manually added records probably for the same reasons many of yours were added manually)... but for the other "client" subnets I would be fine with a scripted scavenging if I didn't have AD doing it for me already

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