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It has been a pretty stressful week.

Starting off the week with normal work, i finally managed to got most of the problem of syncing SCCM and WSUS of my virtual machine off. Turns out to be a problem of ports not reporting correctly. Just needed to adjust port number for the 2 components to communicate properly.

I have also obtained the correct type of cabinet file for WSUSUtil.exe to import the updates correctly. On Tuesday i took 2 syncs, which lasted 4 hours straight. On Wednesday morning, the updates were in and SCCM can finally see the updates in it's Software Updates library.

Now it is just a matter of uploading the content into my virtual machine and attempting to push a patch to a target.

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Speaking of Wednesday, that was the start of the Hackathon that was supposed to happen 2 months ago.

It is hard to be describing the event in full details. All i can really remember was the stress and lack of sleep. I can at least describe yesterday: Our pitching day.

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I went up with my team; who unanimously voted me to present in the morning. Went and gave my best, stuttered pretty badly (by my standards, my teammates said i was great). I was shot for our visualization style by one of the judging panelist, who commented that using interactivity made focusing on the data really confusing.

And thus i went back to my desk anticipating a loss and end, began to work on my virtual machine once more, only to be told suddenly that we made it into top 10.

I couldn't believe it.

 ...and so the team gathered again and i am once again pushed to be the presenter, with our part conveniently ordered as the last presentation. I was really nervous but i felt i presented way better in the second run.

Looking at everyone else's presentation, i really wondered what the standards of the rest were when we made it into top 10.

I just left once the presentation was done.

It was overall a really stressful 3-days. Reminded me of my FYP presentation a lot.

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Ah well, there's that.

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