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Azure VM's reboot and are unavailable with black screen seen in Boot Diagnostics
Is anyone else having this nightmare with their VM's failing to restart in Azure? Support have been no help and will only help once I have a crash dump file which is very hit and miss unless I enable full crash dump on all our servers. The issue is the…


How to Upgrade NPS Extension for Number Matching
Hello, I'm trying to Upgrade the NPS Extension for Number matching to Version 1.2.2131.2. what are the necessary steps to take. How do I back up before installing the newer version? How do I upgrade that? I know the MS doc said to uninstall and…


DFSR event ID 4004, Error 9075
I have two Windows 2012 servers, SVR1 and SVR2. Initialy SVR1 was PDC, and SVR2 DC. Then due to NTDS database errors on SVR1 that caused Azure AD Sync to stall, SVR2 got promoted to PDC and SVR1 was demoted and removed from the AD. When the problem with…


Frequent crash of Windows Server R2 due to ntoskrnl.exe
We have a frequent crash on our Windows Server 2008 R2 (our exchange server) due to ntoskrnl.exe with different error strings (BAD POOL HEADER, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION). Tried the usual scans/checks (sfc, memory checks, etc.)…


Windows Server CSP licensing
These CSP subscriptions are 8 core packs, which aligns with the license guidance, but the CSP link above is also talking about perpetual licensing in the same guide, which I know is eligible for on-premise use. I struggling to locate anything which…


Virtual desktop for small business in different locations
Using Azure for my small business is too expensive. I am looking for the cheapest solution to create a virtual desktop. I have an employee at a different location and want to set up a low cost virtual desktop. This virtual desktop should include data…


In windows server 2016 we created a lock screen image is not working
Hi team, I created a gpo in sever 2016 for windows lock screen image was not working.


Is log on as a batch job required for gMSA accounts?
I am looking for the definitive answer on this one. This article says you have to add the account to the "log on as a batch job" privilegie https://woshub.com/group-managed-service-accounts-in-windows-server-2012/ The creator of this forum…
gMSA and "log on as batch job" privilege to run a scheduled task not mandatory ?
Hi folks, I was definitely sure that a gMSA needs "logon as a batch job" to run a scheduled task. But I've noticed on one of our servers that a scheduled task launch by a gMSA was running fine although the gMSA was missing this privilege ! …
How to fix “The system cannot find the specified path” error in windows 2008R2 Server
Dear Comunity User I have problem with administrator blocking issues in windows 2008R2 Server. open command prompt and windows batch file blocked because of error message : Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the…
Restoring GPO from Backup does not restore it completely ?
Hi, I have tested this several times, I make a GPO backup and restore it in a different machine and the backup does not restore the GPO completely. In particular the Network Manager List - Network Name Value is not restored, however, when I check the GPO…


Losing DNS resolution with two healthy Domain controllers and Pi.Hole
Hello everybody. We have a domain managed by two Domain Controllers, both on Windows Server 2022 virtual machines , running on different hosts. Those DCs are also DNS Servers and DHCP Servers. Each DC / DNS server points to the other local DNS server as…


Specify source service for specific classes of Windows Updates breaks installation of .net 3.5, languages, optional features...
Hi, Since configuring the new Windows Update Policy setting "Specify source service for specific classes of Windows Updates" I am experiencing issues installing certain windows features. .net 3.5 framework fails with 0x800f0950 languages…
Serveur Windows 2019 redémarre chaque lundi
Hello, For some time I have had a problem, which has already been mentioned on the forums. I have a Windows Standard 2019 server, with the Hyper-V role installed on it. In my Hyper-V manager, I created two servers. An ActivDirectory server and a Files…


Is it possible to provide a value in MOF file to overwrite that from CIMWin32 provider?
Dear experts, I want to overwrite a value in Win32BIOS . By default it is not possible , then I create/compile mine MOF file to generate a new Win32_BIOS class to provide the value in instance . The flaw is I can't fill other fields with real value. Is…


How does deduplication unoptimization process affect real-time access to shares?
Hello, We will need to do unoptimization process on a dedup enabled volume on Windows Server 2019 in order to completley disable deduplication and solve some issues. We are planning to go to the complete process that involves unoptimization, garbage…


Windows update and WSUS registry configuration randomly deleted from domain clients
I'm the sysadmin in a small company with around 70 domain computers all running Windows 10 22H2 (but it happened ever since we migrated to W10 3 years ago). We have implemented WSUS a long time ago and we are managing updates using it. Since about a…
SCVMM 2022 Windows Server 2022 Bare Metal Provisioning Error
Hello, we recently updated our SCVMM manager from 2016 to 2022. Now we want to add new hypervisors by using the bare metal provisioning from the fabric. We have a physical hardware profile with a server 2022 vhd which was syspreped (OOBE + generalized).…


WBEM_ConnectServer API ,return error code 0x80010111,how to resolve
WBEM_ConnectServer API ,return error code 0x80010111,how to resolve
How to detect suspicious sessions
I'm using sql server and there are many sessions running during off hours. and unable to view the Log. Would like a method or the program will record the session during the time it is running.

