Tag Archives: update

Windows: List remaining “pending moves” from an update

Hi,

outstanding file movements can be shown with Sysinternals pendmoves.exe or via the registry key

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PS D:\>  Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager" -Name PendingFileRenameOperations

Michael

Windows: Update builtin openssh to the latest version

Hi,

when you have install openssh by

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PS D:\> Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name OpenSSH.Client~~~~0.0.1.0

then the installed version will never get updates.

Some older version (8.x.x) might have scp performance issues and therefore an update makes sence :-).
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VMWare vSphere: Update VCSA Appliance from command line

Hi,

I will show you how you can update a VCSA Appliance from command line rather then from webfrontend.

I assume you have configured a proxy server when you do not have a direct internet connection.

Login to the appliance at the console or by ssh.

First of all check the state of the lookup service by lsdoctor

Run the lsdoctor tool to recognized some certificate issues. Certificate issues are often the problem when an update fails.

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Command> shell
root@vCenter [ ~/lsdoctor-master ]# python lsdoctor.py -l
2021-12-13T12:52:04 INFO generateReport: Listing lookup service problems found in SSO domain...
2021-12-13T12:52:04 INFO generateReport: No issues detected in the lookup service entries

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Windows: Manage applications with winget

Hi,

winget is a new tool from microsoft which acts as a package manager like apt, zypper or yum.

Installing winget (latest version on 26.01.2021 is 0.2.3162 Preview)
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Windows: Windows Update error STATUS_SXS_TRANSACTION_CLOSURE_INCOMPLETE

Hi,

a possible solution of an Windows Update Errors 0x8007371B.
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