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Nov 29, 2021
Nov 29, 202111 min read227 views
Solution for Reverse Engineering Linux Config Deltas Via System-wide Diffing
For many years it was my main work to reverse engineer software installation and configuration for hyper-scaled deployment automation and for OS provisioning for Windows. Early on it was evident that for OS and software provisioning it was extremely ...
11 min read227 views
Oct 16, 2017
Oct 16, 201716 min read2.1K views
Logging and Error Handling Best Practices for Automating Windows Update Installs (MSU) with wusa.exe (And For Logging Any Called Process)
Automation of Windows Updates is generally done by calling wusa.exe against a .MSU file. When wusa.exe experiences a failure the messages are typically obscure and hard to diagnose. The underlying error messages, however, are frequently easy to under...
16 min read2.1K views

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