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Batch File to Automatically Install List of Drivers without User Interaction

At work, one of the tasks I am responsible for is resetting computers to their factory settings and installing the updated drivers. Lenovo makes this easy with their System Update tool, but Dell and other companies require you to install drivers…
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Any audit trail of when Windows Server 2008 Automatic Updates settings are changed?

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine that keeps on rebooting even though I tell it not to do so after automatic updates are installed. I am certain that no group policy is applied to this server to produce this result, and yet, it keeps changing…
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How to safely update a server script, which can be anytime started by cron

I have a server script that is started by cron every 10 minutes and does some operations with database, so it can be running for several minutes. So as you see, the probability of overlapping the update process and script work is quite high while I…
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Flash Plugin - How to disable automatic updates on a computer that is offline?

Note: This is only marginally related to another question I asked earlier about Adobe Reader, and only because I am trying to achieve the same basic effect for a different piece of software on the same machine. I have a computer that is currently at…
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Plesk Updates Overwriting my PHP.ini

This may be more relevant on stackoverflow, if so please migrate it :-) I have had to disable automatic updates in Plesk on my Windows server as everytime an update is installed, my php.ini configurations get wiped and I have to re-configure PHP. I…
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Why could the Automatic Updates form be disabled for administrative user in Windows Server 2003?

I have a scenario where I have two Windows 2003 servers on an active directory domain (same organizational unit), and a single domain user is being used to log into each server via Remote Desktop (the user is a member of the administrators…
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automatically create subdomain, virtualhost and etc when add user

there is the way, how to automatically create the subdomain, virtualhost for apache, sharing configuration (samba), etc when I add a new user? I want it's work like the web hosting service, when we registered, domain create automatically?? how to do…
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Update KB951847 (3.5 SP1 and Family Update) fails on Windows Server 2003 repeatedly

We have a Win2K3 server that is perpetually stuck on the following update: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update for .NET versions 2.0 through 3.5 (KB951847) x86 It fails every time, and I'm at a loss on…
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windows server automatic restart problem after updates

I had my servers configured by group policy to download updates and notify for install. Unfortunately it seems microsoft did publish a recent update on the 2nd of course which cause the servers to install only this update. This update required a…
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Is cockpit using a different time zone for automatic updates?

I have configured the cockpit web console on my fedora server to automatically install updates at 04:00 every day. I am in the CEST time zone, so 02:00 UTC. It also makes the server reboot after installing the updates. The behaviour I expected was…
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apt-get upgrade vs unattended-upgrades under ubuntu 20.04

unattended-upgrades seems to skip certain upgrades, e. g. google chrome upgrade. A subsequent call of apt-get upgrade then finds and installs the ugrade. Does this mean, I must schedule apt-get upgrade in addition to my unattended-upgrades config if…
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Group of Ubuntu Servers being updated every tuesday at 7am. What triggers the update? It's not unattended-upgrades, It's not a cron job

I am responsible for 5 Ubuntu Servers that all get ALL of their software updated each Tuesday at 7am. I am struggling to find out how this happens. Security updates are applied each day through the unattended-upgrades process, but this is only…
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Do pending system updates hamper server performance?

We recently had a production SQL Server max out its CPU to the extent that all we could do was reboot it. When it came back up, system updates were consuming 48% of CPU. Updates had been pending for weeks. My gut instinct has been for a while that…
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Ubuntu 18.04 server - can unattended-upgrades cause MySQL to crash?

Quick overview of the company product I'm working on before I ask my question: We have a server running a pretty much stock install of Ubuntu 18.04 and a vision app. The main purpose of the server is to run the vision app. The vision app logs data…
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Which update scheme is better for an unattended Ubuntu server

I'm in a situation where I have to deploy an ubuntu server for a Client (they do not have a Sysadmin), and it will serve as an HTTP API backend for an app. The catch is that after the deployment they no longer allow me to have remote SSH access to…
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