How to I remove and/or reset an administrator password from a standard/local account?
I was given this laptop from my late relative who said I could keep it for myself. He already had an account created for me on the laptop with my own password. Everything was fine until I was unable to install certain applications/updates I needed…
How to generate WSUS reports for installed update from three years back??
Hi everybody we have a compliance requirement to maintain logs for installed Windows patches for a certain number of years. Do we have an option to export WSUS reports for certain years? For example, generate WSUS reports for installed updates on certain…
Mixed OS WSUS implementation
Hi Gents I have a task where we will upgrade the existing downstream WSUS from Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2022. we should synchronize the new downstream configured on the new Windows OS to the existing upstream installed in the DMZ on Windows…
Assistance Needed: GPO for DNS Suffix Registration Not Applying
Hello, We are working on creating a Group Policy to automatically enable the option "Use this connection's DNS suffix in DNS registration" when users log in to their domain accounts. We have created the GPO for this setting and tested it on one…
Replicate DNS Zones Between AD integrated server and standalone
I am trying to create a secondary DNS server to act as a failover to my primary DNS server. The primary server is AD integrated, the secondary is not. Zone transfers is set to name servers tab. When trying to add the secondary server to the name servers…
I have a server in a collection where the SCCM client is functioning correctly, but patches are not installing. They do not appear in the Software Center, yet SCCM shows the status as compliant. How can we troubleshoot this discrepancy?
I have a server in a collection where the SCCM client is functioning correctly, but patches are not installing. They do not appear in the Software Center, yet SCCM shows the status as compliant. How can we troubleshoot this discrepancy? FYI: Updates are…
DHCP Log File Paused
================= Hi, I have couple of DHCP servers on Windows Server 2019 OS. By default log files are copying under C:\Windows\System32\DHCP and with 10MB file after enabling the auditing. Now I have changed the log file size to 100MB but the…
Unable to install IIS on Server 2019 DC error 0x800f081f
I`m getting this error: I tried the following commands: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17763.3650] (c) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Administrator.WIN-ONA542MGLKP>dism /online /enable-feature…
In ADUS on Windows 11 the Bitlocker recovery tab is missing
Ever since we upgraded to 11 for our techs to start testing, the bitlocker recovery tab does not show up in AD. I cannot find the option for it on the PC itself. It does show up on the DC, but not the PCs that we have RSAT installed on. This is only…
Immersive Control Panel doesn't work and Settings-DCOM-Error
Hi all community, We have a problem on each enterprise domain controller with 2019 serve version. When we want to launch "Settings", the window just flash and disappear immediatly. So Impossible to go on settings panel and his…
DNS Policy for a Stub Zone
Hi, I have a DNS zone for xyz.local on a Windows 2022 server. I also have a zone for abc.local on another Windows 2019 server. (2 separate domains) I need to have xyz.local zone as a stub zone on Windows 2019 server but there is a catch. All A records in…
W2K22 Azure VM with hotpatch - When is the actual update being installed? How to schedule reboots?
Hello, From what I understand, the W2K22 Azure VM Hotpatch images will follow this schedule: My question is about the "Planned/Unplanned Baselines" schedules and planning a high available service (File Server) reboots: If the…
Enabling Windows Firewall logging only without enabling the profiles?
I'm looking for information on the ports and protocols that the Windows server currently uses as a baseline before enabling the Windows Firewall profiles. I aim to enable the built-in firewall on each of my Production Windows Servers without causing a…
cannot log in after computer name change setting up active directory server 2022
I recently installed server 2022 and configured AD DS in the domain "GP" on two computers named CPCS-Server-01 and Server-02. I finished adding Server-02 as a second DC. When looking at the two, I wanted the server names to match so I changed…
How to Fix BSOD error on my Windows Server 2008R2 SP1
Hi, I am using Windows server 2008 R2 Sp1, for my Email server Lotus Domino 8.5. previously everything was working fine, due to server failure I created a new VM and Install new windows server 2008 R2 Enterprise. and then same mail server Lotus Domino…
Using gMSA for Task scheduler and Service account scenario?
Based on: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/service-accounts-group-managed I'm trying to implement the gMSA for the following scenario: Task Scheduler account Service account (Failover Cluster, SQL Server, ADFS,…
Is there any software that converts an OS-installed GPT to MBR?
Hi. I did convert Windows 2008 R2 to Hyper-V VM using StartWind Converter. ( Source Physical Server is Windows 2008R2 on UEFI. ) But, VM isn't booting. The reason is UEFI and 2008R2 cannot be mixed on Hyper-V. MS Doc says Generation 1 is BIOS base and…
Windows 2012 R2 DC to Windows 2022 DC Migration
Dears We're planning Domain Controller migration from 2012 R2 to 2022. We have 2 DCs 2012 R2 that must be migrated on 2 others DC 2022. We'll keep the same IP of old DCs because of dns dhcp settings on all of our devices We do not have this patch…
WinRM not not listening on Default Port
I am having some trouble with the default WinRM listener not wanting to use HTTPS port 5986. Everything appears to be configured correctly: Winrm get winrm/config Config MaxEnvelopeSizekb = 500 MaxTimeoutms = 60000 MaxBatchItems = 32000 …
Client updates from an offline WSUS server not working
Hi, I am a newbie to WSUS, please pardon me if I have missed some basic configurations. I have a WSUS server configured in hyper-V. This server is disconnected from the internet. I have another WSUS server which is connected to the internet and is able…