Kerberos Failures Due to Time Drift
Hi support team We’ve been running into a recurring technical issue across multiple sites in our AD forest. Several clients are intermittently failing Kerberos authentication, throwing KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW errors. From what we can tell, this points to time…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Business
Troubleshooting Automated DNSSEC ZSK Rollover Failures / Requesting Manual Override Procedure
We are currently experiencing an issue with our automated DNSSEC key management on our internal corporate zones. Environment/Context: Internal DNS zones configured for full DNSSEC compliance. Key rollover orchestration is handled by an automated…
Windows for business | Windows Server | Directory services | Active Directory
Admin prompt when trying to change IP settings under network configuration.
After upgrading from Win10 to Win11, our techs that are placed in the Network Configuration Operators group via GPO can no longer change their IP settings without getting an Administrator credentials prompt. Since they are not Administrators they can no…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | Directory services | Active Directory
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | User experience | Other
Windows 11 25H2 Devices Experiencing Servicing State Inconsistencies with Cumulative Updates
I'm looking for guidance on a Windows servicing issue that has been affecting a subset of devices in our environment for several months. We manage approximately 3,000+ Windows 11 25H2 devices, and this issue is only occurring on a portion of them,…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | Devices and deployment | Install Windows updates, features, or roles
On-premises MFA for Active Directory and RDP without relying on cloud services
Hi, We're planning to add MFA to our on-premises Active Directory environment. Most users authenticate directly against Active Directory, and our administrators also use RDP to manage Windows servers. Since part of our infrastructure is isolated from the…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | Directory services | Active Directory
frequent “Access Denied (0x00000005)” on shared printers with Windows 11 + WHFB (Kerberos ID 208 errors)
I’m a Level 1–2 IT technician at a company currently deploying Windows 11 devices enrolled in Intune with Windows Hello for Business (WHFB). Since this rollout, we’ve been experiencing an intermittent “Access Denied” (0x00000005) error when users try to…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Enterprise
Remote Help Unattended Guardrails
Our facilities team uses Intune Remote Help to maintain unmanned logistics dashboards across our warehouses. Since these machines don't have a physical operator to accept an incoming connection, what explicit tenant security policies must be enabled to…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | User experience | Remote desktop services and terminal services
I have an intact copy of my system drive with Win10 active that will not boot. Inaccesible boot device
Can I rebuild the boot manager from scratch on this drive from an Install disk? The system drive is intact and passes all tests. But BCD rebuild has just not helped rectify problem. Keep eventually getting inaccesible boot device and cycles of restart,…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | User experience | Other
Windows Activation Issue with Original OEM Product Key
Hello, I am a staff member at a public university, and I am trying to activate Windows on our university computers using the original product keys that came with each device. However, I have been unable to activate Windows with these original keys. I…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | Devices and deployment | Licensing and activation
Will SCVMM 2025 be able to use and manage SDN Network Controller deployed as native Failover Cluster resource
Building out our new Hyper-V environments. We will use Windows 2025 Datacenter hosts/cluster, with SCVMM 2025 management. We want to use SDN and everything points to deploying native on the failover cluster, but it doesn't look like SCVMM 2025 will…
Windows for business | Windows Server | Storage high availability | Clustering and high availability
More advanced filtering for SQL Server Management Studio Object Explorer
This is a question and likely a feature request. It there any way to get more advanced filtering in SQL Server Management Studio Object Explorer? When dealing with large numbers of objects such as Databases, Table, and Stored Procedures, it is painful…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | User experience | Other
What is the alternative tool for RSAT for MAC machine?
Hi, We want to install powershell active directory , for that we need Remote Server Administration Tools, Since it is available only for Windows, what is the alternative tool which we can use for RSAT?
Windows for business | Windows Server | User experience | PowerShell
Intermittent SMB over QUIC Disconnects Despite UDP 443 Being Allowed
Hello everyone, We're seeing an issue where remote users can access SMB shares over QUIC initially, but the connection is lost shortly afterwards without any obvious network interruption. Since UDP port 443 is already open and routing appears to be…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Business
Unable to Install KB5099538 and KB5094123 on Windows Server 2019 (Build 17763)
I am running Windows Server 2019 (build 17763) and have been unable to install the following cumulative updates: June 2026 Cumulative Update (KB5094123) July 2026 Cumulative Update (KB5099538) Both updates fail to install, whether attempted via Windows…
Windows for business | Windows Server | User experience | Other
Windows Update Error 0x80073712 on 4 of my Windows Server 2025 PC's
I upgraded 60 servers in my environment from Windows Server 2022 to Windows Server 2025 back in March. Four of those servers have given Windows Update Error 0x80073712 on each monthly security update ever since. I have tried running all of the…
Windows for business | Windows Server | Devices and deployment | Install Windows updates, features, or roles
Users in trusted partner forest intermittently failing to authenticate against resources
Hello, Im having issues with users in a trusted partner forest intermittently failing to authenticate against our resources and the system doesnt seem to let them through consistently. Those users we have intermittent connection issues with. Ive already…
Windows for business | Windows Server | Directory services | User logon and profiles
How to find MS locked screen image that changes daily
Sometimes I forget to or don't have the chance to right click on the image details for my lockscreen image, but I want to know what today's image is. How do I find that after my machine is unlocked?
Windows for business | Windows 365 Business
Security for Notes window
We have users with limited security to most screens. I am trying to find the task that allows a user access to the Notes window. They get the usual message about insufficient security to access this window. All POWERUSERS can get to the Notes window.
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | User experience | Other
Oops, broke our system rollback! How to fix a broken password lock out in Active Directory?
Hello guys, our automated backup system rolled one of our secondary application servers back to an older version. Now it seems the local administrator password on the machine is completely out of sync with what our main server thinks it should be, and…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Business
Enterprise root CA certificate is nearing expiration
We've an enterprise root CA certificate that is nearing its expiration date. No trust chain should be broken for existing issued certificates when we renew it. When we look into renewing the root CA, we want to ensure we follow the supported procedure…