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Invalid Password after promo/depromo a Server 2025 DC.

We're having netlogon issues after promoting a Server 2025 DC. Depromo helped, but occasional 'password invalid' problems continue. Possibly related to the RC4 encryption issues. Need a method to troubleshoot from here.

Windows for business | Windows Server | Directory services | User logon and profiles
asked 2026-01-27T05:23:03.61+00:00
Karker, Bradley- GA 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-01-27T10:47:33.65+00:00
Harry Phan 30,960 Reputation points Independent Advisor
7 answers

Remote desktop lock after 60 seconds

Hello, we have some strange problem after upgrade to win 11 24h2. When we connect to remote destop using password everything is ok but when we use first time yubikey it works fine and when we close remote desktop connection using "X" close…

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asked 2026-01-05T09:17:37.1966667+00:00
Tomasz Głodek 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-01-18T14:37:22.67+00:00
VPHAN 43,155 Reputation points Independent Advisor
3 answers

Permission problems with windows folder share

Hello! I'm having problems with shareing my hdd on my windows server 2025. I've set up the permissions so that my share user can acces the drive and the share but every time i try to log into the share from my other pc it just says you don' have…

Windows for business | Windows Server | Directory services | User logon and profiles
asked 2026-01-03T00:16:14.7633333+00:00
Vencel Vajk Orosz 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-01-04T02:09:43.4933333+00:00
Harry Phan 30,960 Reputation points Independent Advisor
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Local Sign-In Option Missing on Domain Controller

Hi Community, I had previously attempted to rename my domain controller from TBBD-Ops-Desk to DC-01, but the rename did not persist. I have since reverted the hostname back to TBBD-Ops-Desk. After this process, I noticed that the local sign-in option is…

Windows for business | Windows Server | Directory services | User logon and profiles
asked 2025-12-29T18:45:36.27+00:00
Moazzem Hossain 80 Reputation points
answered 2025-12-29T19:14:21.8133333+00:00
Marcin Policht 107K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
45 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

With Server 2025, how do you avoid NTLM authentication for a RDP session originating from a non domain workstation ?

In order to reduce complexity, I am using a test domain consisting of a single domain controller ON PREMISES and a single user, the domain administrator. There is a single role installed: Remote Desktop Gateway. None of the other 5 RDS roles are…

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asked 2025-12-06T19:48:13.38+00:00
Serge Caron 65 Reputation points
answered 2025-12-29T15:19:45.63+00:00
Serge Caron 65 Reputation points
3 answers

I get an error "Unsuccessful authentication" on my Windows 2016 server with local and domain accounts

When attempting to log into my member servers, I'm getting the error "unsuccessful authentication". I'm unable to find anything significant pointing me to the issue. Please Advise troubleshooting steps and resolution options.

Windows for business | Windows Server | Directory services | User logon and profiles
asked 2025-12-24T04:14:58.5466667+00:00
Josh Reinmann (joreinma) 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-12-26T06:09:28.5566667+00:00
Quinnie Quoc 11,835 Reputation points Independent Advisor
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Observe exact username for 4624 events

Hello, I am trying to identify why the exact username for a specific 4624 Logon event does not show the exact username logging into the server. Instead it only shows the system account. I have the Computer configuration "Audit logon"…

Windows for business | Windows Server | Directory services | User logon and profiles
asked 2025-12-17T16:53:50.3733333+00:00
Guest User 0 Reputation points
edited an answer 2025-12-18T22:06:23.7733333+00:00
Don Varnau 19,915 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
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Roaming profiles not creating user folders

I have created an AD and pointed the user profiles to a shared location and the first 2 accounts created worked to make the user folders when i signed them in for the first time. Now the rest of the accounts are not creating the folders when i sign the…

Windows for business | Windows Server | Directory services | User logon and profiles
asked 2025-12-15T20:08:24.5466667+00:00
John Williams 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-12-15T20:47:48.7466667+00:00
Domic Vo 32,305 Reputation points Independent Advisor
3 answers

SP2019 + Workflow Manager (HTTP Unauthorized)

We are running SharePoint Server 2019 with Workflow Manager 1.0 (CU4). Recently, all SharePoint 2013-style workflows stopped working. The error we are getting is: "Activity in progress Retrying last request. Next attempt scheduled after 20/10/2025…

Windows for business | Windows Server | Directory services | User logon and profiles
asked 2025-10-20T12:44:20.3366667+00:00
Radim Trncak 5 Reputation points
answered 2025-11-10T12:46:46.3933333+00:00
Radim Trncak 5 Reputation points
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Need help setting up passwordless sign in with nfc cards for new users after previous admin left

Passwordless sign in was deployed by previous IT admin that quit and left no paperwork or documentation. I am trying to find how he set it up and how to add new employees. I have found a Kerberos server and AAD connect info .... currently half the…

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asked 2025-11-07T19:38:12.39+00:00
Ezra Aston 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-11-07T20:21:51.9333333+00:00
Finn Dang 955 Reputation points Independent Advisor
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Windows Hello Business not working after DC upgrade to 2025

Hello, we upgraded all DCs to Win Server 2025 and after that update the domain structure from 2016 to 2025. It was a mix of 2019 and 2022 DCs. All of them were updated via inplace upgrade to 2025. Everything went smooth and after the update everything…

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asked 2025-07-30T13:23:04.9166667+00:00
Robert J 20 Reputation points
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some users can't login to an adfs 2022 server but can on 2012

Hi, Since I migrated a secondary domain controller from 2012r2 to 2022, users can not longer log in. It works fine if they log in to the primary server in 2012. Perhaps there's a setting to change in ADFS authentication. On a workstation, when I ping…

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asked 2025-10-14T12:13:56.25+00:00
Mika01450 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-10-14T14:58:15.33+00:00
Joseph Tran 4,095 Reputation points Independent Advisor
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Remove read permission in many groups

Hello every one In our file server, we have too many folders and subfolders. Each folder and subfolder, have too many groups with write permission. How can we remove the write permission from all groups in every folder and subfolder (keeping only read…

Windows for business | Windows Server | Directory services | User logon and profiles
asked 2025-10-09T11:59:20.7933333+00:00
Zenith Works 20 Reputation points
accepted 2025-10-09T12:02:22.4166667+00:00
Zenith Works 20 Reputation points
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How do I add administrator access to a user profile on a laptop configured for work using microsoft business license?

I have recently setup a laptop for one of the new joiners but to add additional software I need a user with an administrator profile. None of the prompts I have followed when asked Microsoft how to do this have worked as it doesn't give me the option to…

Windows for business | Windows Server | Directory services | User logon and profiles
asked 2025-08-11T07:13:24.9366667+00:00
Graham MacGregor 5 Reputation points
answered 2025-09-24T15:34:42.5+00:00
Harry Phan 30,960 Reputation points Independent Advisor
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Windows Server 2025 would not let me log in after promoting it to domain controller

When we do in-place upgrade a domain controller to Server 2025, or promote an existing Server 2025 VM to a domain controller, it is then not possible to log in to that VM. All you get when you attempt to log in is "The username or password is…

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asked 2025-08-15T15:47:40.76+00:00
John Ekpenyong 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-09-14T18:12:57.6933333+00:00
Domic Vo 32,305 Reputation points Independent Advisor
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User getting old network drive mapping, but I can't figure out where it's coming from.

We have a Windows Server 2022 AD environment and have user accounts with login scripts defined on the Profile tab of the AD object. These logon scripts contain non-persistent drive mappings. Clients are Windows 11 24H2. A couple of weeks ago we removed a…

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asked 2025-09-02T20:09:39.5366667+00:00
Joe Grover 646 Reputation points
answered 2025-09-02T20:59:58.5933333+00:00
Harry Phan 30,960 Reputation points Independent Advisor
2 answers

Domain with mandatory profiles, PCs on 24H2 sometimes have extremely long login times.

Hello, first of all sorry for maybe using the wrong tags, but I couldn't find what's fitting. Kontext: I am in the midst of pushing new images to my client PCs with windows 24H2. they are on a domain and as a school we use Mandatory Profiles (FSLogix has…

Windows for business | Windows Server | Directory services | User logon and profiles
asked 2025-08-05T12:25:24.45+00:00
LRSL-Admin 36 Reputation points
commented 2025-08-21T00:44:24.7066667+00:00
Edwin Qu 15 Reputation points
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How can we restrict copy option on shared folder?

There is a shared folder available for users as read only, but there are files which they can copy from it, need to restrict copy function on shared folder

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asked 2025-08-02T05:46:58.5466667+00:00
Vijay Khamat 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-08-06T06:52:30.62+00:00
Kate Pham (WICLOUD CORPORATION) 825 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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im using a laptop that is joined to a workgroup/domain. i would like to unjoin or unlink it to the domain . it was my fathers laptop , unfortunatly he passed away. i only know the password of the laptop i dont know the admin account or other users .

Im using my fathers old laptop from work , he passed away last year and im still using the laptop. so i dont have have full control/access on the laptop . i cant download an apps or install then due to user account control. i need help on how to unjoin…

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asked 2025-05-29T23:19:22.56+00:00
morena lenoge 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-05-30T09:47:23.86+00:00
Chen Tran 12,770 Reputation points Independent Advisor
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Windows Server 2025 Essentials - Workgroup user limit

Hi Everybody I need to setup Windows Server 2025 Essentials on a File Server. I dont need Active Directory, only WorkGroup. Does Workgroup also have a 25-user login limit?

Windows for business | Windows Server | Directory services | User logon and profiles
asked 2025-05-09T13:23:54.6933333+00:00
Jacques Rossouw 45 Reputation points
commented 2025-05-15T11:47:22.86+00:00
Mateusz Rudyk | cc group 0 Reputation points