RE: [mssms] MS Office x86 or x64

2018-01-11 Thread Dam, Bryan
At our org we had some PowerBI/Excel stuff that required more memory than the 32 bit version can use. I never saw it personally but supposedly users would actually get prompted by Excel that it needs more memory and they should use the 64 bit version. In our switch to Windows 10 the decision

RE: [mssms] RE: Confused - Spectre / Meltdown

2018-01-09 Thread Dam, Bryan
My testing this afternoon would seem to confirm that the Memory Management keys are not needed on Windows 10. At least as far as the detection script is to be trusted. The result of the script was the same whether the keys didn't exist (the initial state) or if they were set to enabled. If

RE: [mssms] Upgrading Config Mgr

2017-12-19 Thread Dam, Bryan
Yea, we’ve just done that twice in the last two months to get to SQL 2016 without any problems on the ConfigMan side of things. I mean … what’s your disaster recovery plan if you can’t reliably restore the database to a new server? Bryan From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [mssms] Upgrading Config Mgr

2017-12-15 Thread Dam, Bryan
> Best practices from the Microsoft PFE was to do a site migration as opposed > to attempting to just moving the database to a new cluster. Say what now? Tell me there’s more to it than that. Moving the DB isn’t particularly hard. Just did it twice in the last couple of months to move to SQL

[mssms] RE: Upgrading Config Mgr

2017-12-12 Thread Dam, Bryan
Yes, you can skip the 1706 release and go straight from 1702 to 1710. I'd highly recommend going that route as well. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 1:08 PM To:

[mssms] RE: Servers Reporting False Patching Compliance

2017-11-30 Thread Dam, Bryan
Reporting False Patching Compliance It does show the one server I have been working on the most as scanned successfully with today’s date and time. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Dam, Bryan Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 11:53 AM To: mssms

[mssms] RE: Servers Reporting False Patching Compliance

2017-11-30 Thread Dam, Bryan
I'd look closely at the scan times and states (Scan 1 - Last scan states by collection) to verify that clients have successfully scanned for updates. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Chris Carbone Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 10:41

[mssms] RE: Weird status message for server patching

2017-11-29 Thread Dam, Bryan
, and another right around 1GB. Is this because WSUS is still trying to download the Win 10 updates? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Dam, Bryan Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 8:12 AM To:

[mssms] RE: Weird status message for server patching

2017-11-28 Thread Dam, Bryan
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[mssms] RE: Weird status message for server patching

2017-11-27 Thread Dam, Bryan
That suggests an issue with your WSUS/SUPs. Make sure the WSUS IIS app pool (WsusPool) is started. Then review this: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/configurationmgr/2017/08/18/high-cpuhigh-memory-in-wsus-following-update-tuesdays/ Note that the hotfixes there aren't silver bullets. WSUS