Workaround for 0x80248015 when trying to do Windows Updates on Server 2003

by

If you’re like us you probably noticed this patch Tuesday that a bunch, if not all, of your Windows 2003 servers are not able to load the Microsoft Update page. When trying to load the page the error 0x80248015 is displayed. After some Googling I’ve pieced together a workaround that will get you some updates … Read more

Palo Alto firewall displays “Session timed out” when you try to login

by

If you are getting this error message read this article first BEFORE you try to rebooting your firewall. I ran into this problem recently with a Palo Alto PA-200 series firewall. I tried to login via the WebUI and would get the error “Session timed out”. I could SSH into the firewall and the internet … Read more

Error 0x80240030 when running Windows Update

by

Recently while trying to run Windows Update on one of my Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controllers I received error 0x80240030 when either trying to install the updates it said were available or trying to check for updates. It looks like some how my Internet Explorer Proxy settings got buggered (We don’t use a proxy on … Read more

Unable to use grep to search logfiles output from Powershell scripts

by

I recently had to do some PowerShell work on a Windows server which outputted some log files for later review using the “Start-Transcript” function. Later I went to review the logs looking for some specific information. I transferred them to my CentOS 5 Dev system to begin analyzing them with grep. Every time I ran … Read more