Windows 11 25H2: Hypervisor detected and VBS running despite Hyper-V, VBS, Credential Guard disabled
(Edited) Windows 11 Home 25H2 (Build 26200.8655) I am trying to completely disable VBS and the Windows hypervisor because VirtualBox is running in Hyper-V mode (green turtle icon) and performance is significantly reduced. I have already disabled: …
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | Storage high availability | Virtualization and Hyper-V
WindowsStore.admx — Inverted semantics for "Disable all apps from Microsoft Store"
The Group Policy setting "Disable all apps from Microsoft Store" defined in WindowsStore.admx has inverted Enabled / Disabled semantics compared to its display name. Current behavior: Enabled → DisableStoreApps = 0 → Microsoft Store…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | Directory services | Deploy group policy objects
Entra Connect Password Writeback Fails Due to RPC Filtering
Cloud password resets fail to sync back to on-prem AD. How can we restrict RPC ports for AD Sync without breaking password writeback?
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | Directory services | Active Directory
Windows 11 - File Explorer - Problems with Naming/Renaming Folders
To the Esteemed Engineers of Microsoft, Permit me to extend my warmest congratulations on the invention of a File Explorer so temperamental, so whimsical, so utterly possessed by the spirit of mischief, that it has turned the simple act of naming a…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | User experience | Other
How to provide any feedback???
I have attempted numerous ways to request troubleshooting help and to provide feedback on MS Windows and apps, but I am running into issues every time. The "Feeback Hub" app doesn't appear to exist when I search for it, so that's out. Then when…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Enterprise
Shielded VM Key Storage Provider (KSP) – TPM 2.0 Communication Lockup
Hi all, A Shielded VM fails to power on with the error: “The Virtual Machine Subsystem failed to decrypt the VM state.” Further diagnostics indicate that the host Key Storage Provider (KSP) has lost communication with the physical TPM 2.0 module. What is…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | Storage high availability | Virtualization and Hyper-V
Migration of active directory MNDC from 2012 to 2022
Hi I am planning to migrate our Active Directory Server from Windows Server 2012 to 2022 and I would like to ensure a smooth transition, especially since we have several applications link like Sophos Firewall, icewarp mail solution etc that are linked to…
Windows for business | Windows Server | Directory services | Active Directory
Miracast connectivity issue "Couldn't connect."
Hi, we are currently excperience a issue with miracasts in our company. We are experiencing an increasing number of issues with Windows + K (Miracast) within our organization. A few months ago, we started migrating our devices from SCCM to Intune.…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | User experience | Other
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) State Database Synchronisation Failure
Hi all, Our SDN Network Controller cluster is currently reporting Service Unhealthy. Following a brief network partition, the state databases across the 3 controller VMs have fallen out of sync and failed to recover automatically. Could anyone advise on…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | Networking | Software-defined networking
Windows Autopilot device deregistration – PC locked to previous tenant
Fui encaminhado pelo suporte Microsoft Consumer para o Suporte Comercial/Empresarial. Caso de referência 7108045681. Preciso de assistência com Windows Autopilot device deregistration de um computador adquirido usado que permanece registrado no tenant da…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Enterprise
How to calculate S2D usable storage overhead for a 10TB 3-way mirror?
I need to provision a new 10TB 3-way mirror virtual disk on an S2D cluster, but it fails with "Not Enough Storage Capacity" despite showing 40TB of raw free space. If anyone knows how to calculate the usable storage overhead and reserve…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Enterprise
ReFS Event ID 133 corrupted metadata allocations
For this we have event log output for Hyper-V Event ID : 133 Volume : ?\Volume{d2b3c4d5-e6f7-890a-1b2c-3d4e5f6a7b8c} Hostname : INTERNAL.DOMAIN.COM\HYPERV-HOST-01 This volume: Backup volume on Hyper-V hosts has corrupted metadata allocations For server…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Enterprise
How can I resolve the IPAM cross-domain permission issue ?
I’m encountering an issue while executing Provision-IpamServer. The command fails to deploy the required GPOs in child domains within our multi-domain forest and returns an Access Denied error. Could you please guide me on how to assign cross-domain…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Business
Defender reports libssl vulnerabilities in numerous Windows components for months
Microsoft Defender has flagged around 25 vulnerabilities in Openssl 3.4.4, 3.5.6 and 3.6.1.0 ranging from Low to Critical, affecting Microsoft OneDrive and Microsoft Photos. These vulnerabilities have been live since April-June, and I can't find a single…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Business
Balancing storage after drive upgrade in S2D
Hey We recently replaced several 2TB capacity HDDs with larger 8TB drives in our Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) cluster. After the upgrade, the new storage space remained unallocated, which has led to capacity starvation across the cluster. Even though the…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Business
I got this option: save your secret key to Azure AD
when i wanna enable bitlocker on disk D,After i set unlock password, the next step shows: How do you want to save your secret key ? There are some options below. save your key on Azure AD(A) save your key on U disk(U) save your key in File(F) print…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | Directory services | Active Directory
Issue to the shared path
Hi, To the shared path (by Samba), I repeatedly got the issue below and I put the correct credentials
Windows for business | Windows Server | Networking | Network connectivity and file sharing
Cluster communication audit and recovery
Hi I have a question about restoring cluster communication after a firewall configuration issue. Recently, a perimeter firewall rule change inadvertently blocked UDP port 3343 between cluster nodes. This caused node eviction and triggered split-brain…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Business
Windows AIK Certificate Enrollment Fails with 404 Not Found (Pluton TPM / MSFT-KeyId)
System Information text OS Name: Microsoft Windows 11 家庭版 中文版 Issue Description When attempting to enroll a Windows AIK certificate using the command certreq -enrollaik -config "", the request returns an HTTP 404 Not Found…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | Devices and deployment | Other
I want to adjust storage job priority levels which will speed up storage rebalancing in our S2D cluster.
Is relying on the default auto-rebalancing jobs fast enough, or is there a way to increase their priority also, meaning that when we replace failed HDDs, the cluster will rebalance faster to avoid the localized high disk utilization we are seeing?