Query on Access
Hi All This might be a stupid question, but I would still like to ask: Is there any recommendation from Microsoft to restrict the number of Global Admins and Domain Admins? Specifically, in an organization, how many Domain Admins or Global Admins should…
White bar on top of the screen Windows Server 2016
Greetings, One of our customers is using a Windows Server 2016 RDS and one of the users is having an issues where once in a while a Whitebar appears on top of the screen... This only happens when the Windows are maximized, when you make the Window…
How to set Control Flow Guard on Windows 2016?
Hi, I'm having some issues on Windows Server 2016 on getting/setting the runtime enablement of Control Flow Guard. The exploit protections are not available on 2016 and also the powershell does not correctly work on it. I found an empirical way of…
How to decommission an AD CA with active templates
I have been asked to decommission an old CA in my domain. There are about 8 domain controllers with old certificates in the cert store, along with active LDAPS2 and ldaps 2.1 templates. We need to keep only the root CA, but I see certificates for old CAs…
Domain users got Black Wallpaper after deploying it using GPO (Server 2019)
Hello, I'm Tanveer, recently tried to deploy a common wallpaper using Group Policy Management (Server 2019) console for our specific domain users, but unfortunately all of them got black wallpaper. I followed the answers from Q&A in "Microsoft…
Rollback plan for migration from on-prem SQL server 2016(2 node AG Cluster) to Azure SQL MI Business Critical
Hi, Actually migrating from on-prem SQL server 2016(2 node AG cluster) on Window 2019 Server to Azure SQL Managed Instance Business Critical node. Configured DMS replication and syncing the db, will do until the cutover. This process includes upload of…
Event Log service is not starting |Error 13: The data is invalid
Hi folks, I am trying to start Windows Event Log service on of my Windows Server 2016 machine, but it is not starting up and throwing below error: I already have tried removing the contents of winevt\Logs but no luck. Rebooted server twice with no…
window 2016 Extended End Date till Jan 12, 2027 but build version 14393.3866 failed to install patches due to EOL
Hello All, I could see for windows 2016 servers mainstream support is ended but having Extended End Date till Jan 12,2017 based on the below link also trying to patch on build version 14393.3866 unable to install cumulative patches getting failed…
Windows Server 2016 stuck in endless cycle of Preparing Windows into Restarting
How can I resolve an issue with my Dell Poweredge R530 running Windows Server 2016 that is stuck in an endless loop of "Preparing Windows" followed by restarting? I have tried several workarounds, including Startup Repair, Safemode, Safemode…
Possible to make a domain user a local admin on a server?
We have an AD domain user (not a domain admin), and we want to give that user admin rights to one server that is joined to our domain. We don't want to give the user domain admin rights, or admin rights to other servers. I know how to make a domain…
Restrict the simultaneous entry of a user in Active Directory
** Hello Is it possible in AD to prevent a person from logging in at the same time with a user & password? I want to prevent 1 person from logging in to 2 systems in Active Directory at the same time. I want to log out of the previous system and…
HLK ApiValidator test Error: xxx.sys has unsupported API call to "ntoskrnl.exe!KeGetCurrentIrql"
hello: Environemts: Windows SDK version: 10.0.22621.0 HLK: Windows 10 22H2, it is running the server 2016 . I am developing the kernel mode driver for Windows 10 and trying to pass the ApiValidator. I can pass the ApiValidator in VS2022 environment.…
Disabling SMBv1 on Windows 2016
We have a 2016 DC that we need to disabled SMBv1 on. When following the article below whether I remove the feature via the GUI or disabled it using Powershell, I am not able to save any GP changes. I get access denied. As soon as I enable SMBv1 again…
Windows 10 & 11 version in wsus
ello all, we have in wsus two computers groups Windows 10 with all current workstations, and the group Windows 11 here are new computers that came to us with already installed Windows 11, so far so good. Now we allowed in windows 10 group & windows…
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ADPrep Execution Failed
Hello. I have a virtual machine named V-DIR-SRV01 and it will not promote to a domain controller. It is running server 2022. My pre-existing dc (P-DELL-HYPVSR01) is running Server 2016. I receive this error: ADPrep execution failed -->…
Server 2016 Updates [HRESULT = 0x80070002 - ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND]
Hi, Updates on Windows 106 Servers are keep failing and CMS log show this error [HRESULT = 0x80070002 - ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND] I have done following Sfc /scannow DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth Run…
Azure VM can't send emails to smarthost port 587 IIS Virtual SMTP Website
I use SMTP server service of Windows 2016 to send emails I have created a machine certificate Certificate is found by IIS 6.0 Manager -> Virtual SMTP server I have changed the port to 587 according to …
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How to stop auto renewal of services or stop auto debit ?
I WANT TO STOP AUTO RENEWAL OF SERVICES OR STOP AUTO DEBIT FROM MY BANK ACCOUNT.
Problems with DNS policy
Hi, community. I made a DNS policy for subnet, zone scope and added record type A. My A record, made above, resolving on client from subnet, it's OK. But while policy enabled, that client can't resolving other records in domain. Appears error: ***…
Add Network Location for FTP with Multiple Usernames at same domain
I need to add Network Location for FTP with Multiple Usernames at same domain is this possible? and what is the steps to do that since after i added the first username and password for the second one it open the same location but without asking for…