In working on my Windows 10 Update notification issue the past few days, I’ve been digging into Task Scheduler, and noticed that quite a few of the Windows Update tasks have “custom triggers” on them, that can’t be edited in the Task Scheduler. Ok, what does that mean?
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Ok, so funny update to my post yesterday regarding Windows 10 update notifications. End of the day today and me and a buddy were talking while closing down for the day, and as he’s talking, I see his Windows 10 computer suddenly prompt for updates OUT OF THE BLUE. I think he was taken by surprised when I pushed him aside and rushed over to see if that was really the case,and sure enough, his computer was prompting. Why it waited until 5:15 I’m not sure, but I’m thinking it could be due to the “Active Hours” setting.
UPDATE 3-4-2020: Confirmed, that setting seems to have brought update notifications back to life for the entire organization!
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On the business side of things, it seems that when Windows 10 checks in with a WSUS server (internal Windows update server), Windows 10 does not notify users when updates are available. I spent a solid day working on this, thinking that perhaps I did something in a group policy somewhere that caused it, but lo and behold, even taking a freshly imaged Windows 10 1903 computer, with only a (new) WSUS group policy still didn’t work properly.
Continue reading “Windows 10 Update Notifications: Broken”Teletype Fun with Arduino
Trying to get some new posts going as I’ve been slacking lately, but for a good reason; I’ve been crazy busy! One project that someone turned me on to was one found on Hackaday; specifically this project: https://hackaday.io/project/2836-arduino-teletype
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