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I’ve been exploring Pässler PRTG on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (Microsoft Imagine Premium) for the past couple of days. While the system is impressive and on the border of being overwhelming, it lacks complete IPv6 support. The web interface is IPv4 only, and the NetFlow v9 collector only understands IPv4. PRTG can do PING, SNMP, […]

Updates to Trend Micro OfficeScan last week resulted in four cases of BAD_POOL_HEADER and STOP 0x19. Reboot to safe mode, uninstall Trend Micro OfficeScan, reboot, and reinstall Trend Micro OfficeScan. One additional positive outcome was the firmware update we conducted simultaneously.

If you run into error 30174-4 while installing MS Office and related software, try running a full repair of the product from the Control Panel.

After installing Autodesk Revit 2017 on a student’s laptop, the software started whining about missing msvcr100.dll. This was solved by repairing Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4, both x86 and x64.

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C♯ and mono are both a blessing and a curse. Most documentation, FreeBSD-specific or not, on the internet are more or less outdated. Maybe I was looking in the wrong places. It was really frustrating. Soon this will be outdated too. Start by adding lang/mono. Then add x11-toolkits/libgdiplus.

… Windows machines try to request two URLs (www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt and ipv6.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt, the former over IPv4, the latter over IPv6) to ascertain whether a given network is routed to the Internet and if there is a captive portal in the way (NCSI stands for “Network Connection Status Indicator”). Ref.: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/ See also: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/networking/2012/12/20/the-network-connection-status-icon/.

Et virus definerer jeg som et uønsket program som installerer seg uten mitt samtykke, sender data til en fjern server, har uønskede funksjoner, og er vanskelig å bli kvitt. Altså det samme som Windows 10. Ref.: http://www.digi.no/bedriftsteknologi/2016/03/17/er-du-blitt-tvangsoppgradert-til-windows-10#comment-2576121180.

KB3146449 is another update one should avoid installing. From its own description: Updated Internet Explorer 11 capabilities to upgrade Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 And: This update adds functionality to Internet Explorer 11 on some computers that lets users learn about Windows 10 or start an upgrade to Windows 10.

A couple of KBs, KB2977759 and KB2952664, related to the dreadful Appraiser stuff, appeared in our WSUS instance this week. The former just made it on my list of KBs one should avoid. Both was promptly declined. The list encompasses: KB2952664, Compatibility update for upgrading Windows 7 KB2977759, Compatibility update for Windows 7 RTM KB3022345, […]

Earlier this week Microsoft released another batch of Windows updates. Among them are KB3123862. As usual, the title displayed by Windows Update gives no clue to what this update actually does: “Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3123862)”. Clicking on the More information link reveal the following: Updated capabilities to upgrade Windows 8.1 and […]

Category: Microsoft

Pässler PRTG 17.3.32.2478

`BAD_POOL_HEADER` and Trend Micro OfficeScan

Error 30174-4 while installing MS Visio Professional 2016?

`msvcr100.dll` missing?

FreeBSD has mono

Network Connection Status Indicator (NCSI)

Windows 10 – et virus?

Ad for Windows 10 camouflaged as a security update, how low can one sink?

KB2977759 and KB2952664 now available in WSUS

Another bad KB? KB3123862