What is the minimium ports require for Active Directory user authentication?
HI everyone, Hope you can help... I have a server running in DMZ as a standalone windows server. THere are no ports open for Active Directory/domain communication. Now I need to set up a domain admin account to serve as a service account on that…
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Can we stop DLing updates for 2004?
I deliberately check for updates prior to gaming. Windows says I need none. My internet gets real patchy and then it says that I need to restart to install yet another update for 2004. How do I stop auto updating 2004, I want off the train!
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ODBC Data Source Administrator Error Operating System is not configured to run this application
I have been using the ODBC Data Source Administrator tool for several years now. Today it stopped working and gives an Error with the message: "The Operating System is not currently configured to run this application". Attached is the screen…
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My GPO(Group Policy Object) is being blocked by my ACL
Hi all, I can't seem to find a way to allow my GPO to pass through my core router(which has ACL running). I was able to determine that the cause of this was the packets were being blocked by the ACL because if I remove the ACL on the VLAN, the GPO takes…
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Unable to remove Child Domain Name from AD domain and Trust 2016 snap-in
Hi Experts Need help! We are already Removed and Cleanup our Active Directory Domain After Decommission of old AD version. Some of them are child domain and we successfully decommission all of them . Currently we have the Ad 2016 version , we…
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Anonymous Logon being logged when changing passwords
So I have a Windows Server 2016 domain and whenever changing a password in Active Directory, even when creating a new account, anonymous logon is being written to the logs (event 4738) even though I'm logged in with a domain administrator account. It…
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Terminal Server RDS Farm OS upgrade from 2012 to 2019
Hi, We've RDS farm running with Windows Server 2012 R2. We have to migrate/rebuild the Server OS on ConnectionBroker and Front-End server to 2019. Could someone please provide an idea/procedure how to do the OS upgrade without downtime. Regards, …
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Getting VPN error 806 with Windows 10 client and Windows 2019 Essential
My VPN server is configured on the AD Server. Small business (6 persons) but need to connect via VPN (PPTP) and some PC works and some doesn't, so i'm gessing that the Router and the Firewall are not the problem since some PCs are able to connect. Any…
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(Autopilot) How to check there is an active autopilot on notebook without intune?
Hi, We are looking for a way to do the check on autopilot windows is doing in OOBE mode after connect to network but only then in windows. The problem is our own image is skipping all the OOBE settings for faster deployment, we got here an notebook…
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Shared printer not working after upgrading to win10
Hi, After upgrading win 7 to 10, i am not able to install a shared printer and getting error "Windows could not connect to the printer. Check the printer name". Both the pcs have windows 10 Pro. Thanks.
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Creating a simple web site
I need to create a very simple web site on a Windows Server 2019 Server for pure test purposes in a lab environment. I need just a static page with "Hello world" or something like, so that when I type http:\server_ip_address I can see the…
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Folder Redirection - Use Offline Files ONLY on Primary Computer(s)
Hi, I set up Folder Redirection on Windows Server 2019 and it works perfectly. Now I need to set up something like that: Folder Redirection should works on every domain computer where user singed in, but only on primary computer for this user files from…
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How to set up a Windows Server as a domain controller
I am a scientist in a biology lab and we have a computer running Windows Server 2019 Standard which we use for our computational work. We had been using the default Windows Remote Desktop setup which allowed up to 2 simultaneous connections, but this was…
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Windows Server 2016 Standard all updates apply successfully except the Cumulative Updates. Most recent failure is KB571694
I apologize in advance if this has been addressed before. This server installs all updates but always fails on the cumulative ones. The most recent failure involves 2020-08 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2016 for x64-based System (KB571694) …
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hyper-v network managementOS checked or not ?
Hello, I would like to understand better how hyper-v network works. I have 8 NICs on my hyper-v server 4 * 10 Gbs and 4 * 1 Gbs 2*10 Gbs are reserved for datacore 2*10Gbs are reserved for cluster (csv / live migration / heartbit) 4*1Gbs are…
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Gruup membership and trust relationships
Let me ask a theoretical question about domains and trusts. Imagine 2 domains member of different forests. domain1.local trusts domain2.local pc1.domain1.local is member of DOMAIN1. user1@domain1.local can logon on pc1.domain1.local because…
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Network speed - differences between hypervisors
We have windows 10 1809 VMs build both on hyper-v and vmware ESXi hosts. Hosts hardware is the same - HP ProLiant G9. I am trying to figure out why network speed (copying files over network) is more than 2times slower on vmware ESXi than on hyper-v.…
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How to find ISCSI target LUN - by cmd or powershell or...by ...whatever?
Hi, I wonder what is the way to find out Iscsi Target's LUN? In a command like Iscsicli there are options to include this parameter, but... how to get it? GUI or cmd/powershell? Anyone? Reference: …
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Dynamic Access Control: Settings for "Device Claims"
Hi, I try to combine together all requrements for "Device Claims". From what I could see 1) There have to be Windows 8 not below 2)Kerberos setting in Group policy Plus I presume DC running 2012 +. Are there any other…
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RDS Gateway prompts for credentials (externally) works fine internally
RDS GW secured by Azure App Proxy, I am able to see the apps but when launching I get prompted to login to GW. see pic This is puzzling as I can use RDSGW internally fine.