Windows Server Core Licensing Calculator
Hi everybody, Currently, I have a 20-core server, and I am planning to buy a license for a Windows Server from a retail store. They advised me that it is very difficult to understand. Can you help me with how to calculate and choose a license for a…
long term technical planning measures
What data would be useful for measuring and assessing how well an organisation/IT section is implementing the concepts of long-term ‘technical planning’, specific to windows-based workstations and servers? I was thinking some possible ‘red flags’ that…
IIS Shared Configuration ignoring configured username
I'm trying to set up IIS Shared Configuration and get some strange results regarding the configured user-account to connect to the shared configuration. It seems, the given account is completely ignored and only the actual logged in user account is used…
Environment variable problem on NT Kernel 10 (or above)
When there were accounts A and B, we set JRE as a user environment variable in A and installed a service that requires JRE. After that, the service changed the logon account of the service to the local service account and confirmed that the service was…
Banner user logon
Hello I need that when a user logs in to the computer, a banner with the date of the last login will appear. I have to take this configuration to Azure AD. How can I do it? Thanks
Microsoft Server rejecting connection when installing Entra ID sync on domain controller
I've created a new Server 2019 domain controller for Entra ID sync as my other domain controllers failed to load the Entra ID sync software properly, local authentication issues with the sync service and gMSA account. The new domain controller is only…
CVE-2013-3900 WinVerifyTrust Signature Validation Vulnerability
Hi All https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2013-3900 To remediate the vulnerability CVE-2013-3900 is to add the below registry values. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Cryptography\Wintrust\Config] …
kb5037782 vs KB5008223 on win server 2022 v 21h2 .. is there is a conflict ?
i have win 2022 21h2 and kb5037782 failed with error installation failure : windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80071ab1 i noticed that there is a conflict between kb5037782 (security update 2024) vs KB5008223 (security update …
Windows server 2022 can not update patch from Windows server 2022 WSUS
Dear, We have encountered a tricky problem. Our server is Windows Server 2022,One of the servers is WSUS. Our client workstation can update pacth from WSUS Server,But our server can not update from WSUS Server. In the WSUS console display other server…
Fault tolerance of PKI infrastructure
Hello, the infrastructure has a Root CA and an Issuing CA. However, after it was installed, I did not pay attention to its condition. As it turned out, it was necessary to update the certificate for the Issuing CA. But unfortunately, over the past time,…
Windows Server 2019 lsass.exe crash Faulting module kerberos.DLL after 2024-04 Cumulative Update
Hello, after applying latest updates we encounter a lot of VM reboots initiated by crashing lsass.exe. The update we applied: 2024-04 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2019 for x64-based Systems (KB5036896) we even tried the respective Out-of-band…
Windows server Updates
I have win server 2022 21h2 (hardware hp & vm )and kb5037782 failed with error installation failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80071ab1 I noticed that there is a conflict between kb5037782 (security update 2024) vs…
Windows Server 2022 - Outlook 365 - IMAP - Search body not working
This behavior occurs on 3 different windows servers with Microsoft Outlook 365 and different email accounts in IMAP. Searches in Outlook do not return results relating to the body of the message but only relating to the subject, sender and…
Windows Backup failed to get an exclusive lock on the EFI system partition (ESP) - Symantec Endpoint Protection
Hello everyone. I have 30 odd Windows 10 & Windows 2019/2022 Servers that get this error randomly when performing a Bare Metal backup using Windows Backup to internal and external hard drives. Error: Windows Backup failed to get an exclusive…
Windows Server 2022 Backup intermittently fails with error "Failed to get an exclusive lock on the EFI partition. Access is denied."
Windows Server 2022 Backup intermittently fails with error "Failed to get an exclusive lock on the EFI partition. Access is denied." Happens on various live and test systems. I believe this must be a bug relating to Server 2022 as all our…
Recommended tools and metrics to monitor a Red Hat server
Hello, I am currently managing a Red Hat server and would like to improve its performance by monitoring key metrics such as CPU usage, memory consumption, disk I/O, and network traffic. Can you recommend any tools or provide tips on how to set up and…
How to log or audit for any weak cyphers, encryption, or hashes in use?
How can I activate or run an audit on my Windows Server 2016, 2019, and 2022 Application, Web, and Database servers to verify if any weak cyphers, encryption, or hashes are in use? I'm about to apply the following enforcement using the Group Policy…
How to browse and delete files under C:\System Volume Information\DFSR\Private directory ?
How to force delete the below file from my DFS replication staging area? C:\System Volume…
virtual SCSI target disks you created are not showing up in the Disk panel of the Windows Server Manager
virtual SCSI target disks you created are not showing up in the Disk panel of the Windows Server Manager .
Windows Server 2022 Hyper V network disconnection question
I was using Windows Server 2019 and then installed Windows Server 2022. Hyper-V is configured and used, and the NIC configured through teaming is assigned to the Guest VM in Hyper-V as a virtual switch. I used it in Windows Server 2019 without any…