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One of the most irritating aspects of Windows servers are Windows Updates. Simple software updates require a full reboot of the machine, keeping these servers a pale shadow of their Linux/BSD-based counterparts.
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While my foray back into Windows-land hasn't been all bad, it has been mostly bad. Take, for instance, the following error I encountered.
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I've been looking into changing our DHCP range at work, and stumbled onto this gem of a windows issue.
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Upon logging in to our backup server this morning, I was alarmed to find our last backup job stuck with a status of "Loading Media". Our backups are backup-to-disk, so there wasn't any media to load. I quickly checked the filesystem, and it still had an enormous amount of free space. So what was holding up our backups?
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