Cain Manor

I spent the last week in Central Oregon, taking a workshop from Jeff Jessing, of Nature Revealed Photography. I didn’t get a ton of sleep, but I did get a few wonderful photos, and learned more than I could have ever guessed. The photos are available HERE.

On our ESX server, we deployed a bunch of Windows 2003 clients from a template, using the “Guest Customization” feature. When you do this, you get a new SID, but you don’t get a new SUSClientId. Since all the clients have the same SUSClientId, only one of them can talk to the WSUS server at a time. Looking around the internet, I found many different suggestions on how to fix the issue. I should say I found many suggestions for which reg key to delete. In the end, I only had to delete one. It worked for all ~37 of my machines, but it took two passes. Your mileage may vary.
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Today was a beautiful day, and I was only riding one way. I had to take my road bike home – it had been there since the datacenter outage…

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