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Our internal windows patch server appears to be acting up. Last Friday I wasn't able to get any of the MS patches to install (they either stall out at 0%, or fail and schedule a retry a month from now); it's still not working this morning. The patch tuesday load are all past due; WTE they fix the server and all the patches install everyone who didn't have the patches installed is going to be gifted with a forced reboot and howls of anguish will echo from the walls as a result.  I've emailed the helpdesk about the problem hoping that will get me on the list of people who get a 'we fixed it' email, and that the warning it provides will mean that my voice doesn't join the chorus. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Never miss an opportunity to tell your IT guy how to do his job, especially when things haven't been working for a month.
Open up %windir%\windowsupdate.log and look for an error code. Googling it should give you a pretty good idea what's going on, at least on your end.
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Not really. Per check for updates cycle I get 3 failures like this:
2015-10-19 12:54:01:686 1052 27f4 Agent Bundle contains no deployed children and thus is invalid.
2015-10-19 12:54:01:686 1052 27f4 Agent Update {65CDB5FE-D1E6-4B76-AC06-2486E1E6ED82}.201 is not a valid bundle. Not returning it.
..which suggests that something might be messed on their WSUS server; but the Software Center tool they use to manage patching has 6 installs at 0% (these look to be patch Tuesday items), and 14 that fail over to a retry in just under a month from now (these appear to be updates tied to installing a service pack for office 2010). I don't have any way to map the GUIDs to KB items; but Google is first showing (mostly sketchy looking) pages from 2013, so WTE those are I don't think they're any of the current set of updates. The invalid bundle warnings first appeared on Friday, the GUIDs in question were showing up without error as far back as the top of the log (sept 30).
The log file has nothing about trying to download anything that I can see.
OTOH I'd assumed something was wrong with the WSUS server already based on my not getting a reply. They tend not to send out "we know, you're the NNNth person to report it" type emails for something that's broken sitewide (unless it causes a work stoppage in which case the entire company gets an email); while if the problem was believed to be on my end I'd've expected a tech to've remoted into my PC within an hour of my email to sanity check the basics.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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WSUS tends to randomly fail. We've fixed that at our company by giving it it's own virtual sandbox on the HYPER-V Server, which seems to work well. Sometimes it still has it's failovers, but that is our own fault for using MS products.
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This's been out since at least Friday afternoon; which probably means it's something more serious than a reboot needed faceplant.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Then it's most likely FUBAR and they'll ned to re-install it 
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After poking them with a stick again this morning I finally got a response. The tier 1 tech thinks it's software center on my PC that's puked all over itself not something at their end; but escalated the ticket to someone more senior who hasn't gotten back to me yet.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Think of a sentence where the use of the word panoply doesn't come off as pretentious and contrived.
I can't.
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 19-Oct-15 7:07am.
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Could this be due to the fact that your statement lacks the full panoply of panoplieness? 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoply[^]:
"Thus "panoply" refers to the full armour of a hoplite or heavy-armed soldier, i.e. the shield, breastplate, helmet and greaves, together with the sword and lance."
IMO it's not contrived, but is it pretentious?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I ordered a batman panoply for Christmas.
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Pa-No-Ply, Pa-No-Pla life goes on brah
La la how the life goes on
![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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"I filled my dish with small pieces of layered wood that had been glued together, and served my pan o' ply for dinner."
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Gold.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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We didn't have monopoly, so we played panoply, but, then we had a terrible argument about whether or not we both committed suicide after the last time we played, since that ended in a draw.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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If anything, I learned a new word. Thanks. 
I am fairly certain, I will have no need for it, for the remainder of my life. 
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Panoply, the Greek Mythology version of the old standard.
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Panoply is how a two year old would pronounce Penelope.
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"The use of panoply comes across as pretentious and contrived."
There you go.
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iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Panoply.
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I got a collection of skillets at the house and when I stack em up they make a panoply.
New version: WinHeist Version Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye-
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I tried, I really did. However all I could come up with was a panoply of contrived and pretentious sounding sentences from my cornucopia of best practise sentences.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Asked my dad to get me a new flag, saw him comming towards me and shoutet: "Pa no ply of Mexico, i wanted the one of Canada" !
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
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Chris Maunder wrote: Think of a sentence where the use of the word panoply doesn't come off as pretentious and contrived.
There is a panoply of poo in my cat's litter box. Time to clean it!
Marc
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