Jeremy Stroebel - All Things Tech in SMB

Since the beginning of Windows 10 in our company I have been stumped by failing Windows 10 Feature Updates... It got the point (after spending 80-120 hours) that our upgrade process for Windows 10 to Windows 10 builds involved formatting the machines and reinstalling all software.  Needless to say, this was a major headache. Since the release of 1709 for Semi-Annual Channel, my machine has failed to update multiple times and I decided I would submit myself to the pain and suffering of attempting to resolve it yet again.   Windows update would show an error code of 0x80070057.  Most of the advice online says to reset windows update, delete SoftwareDistribution, etc.  I've tried all of that 100s of times before, so I went to find the setuperr.log file in the hidden directory on C. In that log file I saw a bunch of errors (some below): 2018-01-30 01:11:49, Error                 CONX   0xd000003...

Yesterday at the Indianapolis CUGC meeting, Liquidware presented on their ProfileUnity solution.  Questions came up about Autodesk software in FlexApp and brought up an ongoing conversation about how to make this work both in FlexApp and with Portability/ProfileDisk. Here are the issues I have encountered and how to resolve them or work around them. Multiple Year Versions of the Same Product - FlexApp As an architectural design firm, we utilize Autodesk Revit as our primary design software.  The model files from Revit are essentially single file databases which undergo a schema update when upgrading to newer versions.  Autodesk has decided against spending time to develop a solution for saving back to older versions, so once a file is upgraded it can no longer be opened in an older version.  This means we tend to keep a couple different versions of Revit installed to minimize the need to upgrade files mid project and to work with consultants that may not be on t...