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SMS Hardware Inventory Causes Client CPU To Hit 100%

May 18, 2007

Update : Garth has reported this same problem with browser objects on his blog . "Take a look at your browse objects, do they have the same language setting as your PC? If not there have been reports of the PC hit 100% CPU if the language of a browser object is not the same as the local PC." Just when you thought it was okay to use SMS during the day again a new CPU taxing problem pops up. This one only impacts SMS sites with SP3 and clients that reference a file in the Run (auto start...  ... Read the full post or  the 2 comments. Filed under: , ,

Microsoft Releases Fix For Automatic Updates

May 12, 2007

While the article below highlights complaints posted to the WSUS product team blog if you read in the newsgroups it seems that this has fixed a number of peoples problems. They essentially lowered the priority that the process runs under so while the CPU will still show 100% used you can still work as it will hand back CPU cycles as other processes or threads request them. There is a trade off here, you can scale back the scan to only use < a certain percent of the total CPU available and extend...  ... Read the full post or  the 4 comments. Filed under: , , ,

More on eEye, Rod, ITMU, and WSUScan.cab

August 27, 2006

A long time ago I learned some very important rules of email, which also apply to blogging. Never, ever, ever, think that anything you write will not be read by your manager, director, head of HR, CIO, President, CEO, Board, wife, friends, customers, future customers, future hiring manager (Hello again!), children, those who don’t care for you, peers, NSA - you get the idea. Also never assume that what you write or say will be perceived as you think it should, or repeated in context. And finally...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , ,

Crackberry Killer Patch and Killer Phone

May 05, 2006

So the new Exchange patch may be the Killer Patch, to add to the recent problems they are having, and on top of that Nokia has released their Blackberry Killer Phone . This one has it all and Push to Talk.  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , ,