Who to contact at microsoft to report malicious activity
We are seeing attacks on our Azure hosted website coming from ip addresses in China and Singapore. It looks like an automated vulnerability scanner. It has been going on for a couple of days. They seem to be enumerating our various sub domains. How do I…
I'm trying to enable my VPN and it keep telling me file metadata optimization is already in progress.
I have been dealing with hacking for sometime now and have tried to figure out how to go about fixing it all. I am not a technician and do not know if my pc is even secure as it came with Windows 11 but now keeps saying that I have windows 10 installed…
Key Management Services (KMS)
Hi All, I have a KMS Host VM running on Windows Server 2016. This VM is hosted on Azure. However, I am unable to activate Windows Server 2022 servers using this KMS host. Windows Server 2019 and 2016 are activating successfully with this KMS host. When I…
Intermediate certificate renewal in environment with NPS
NPS and certificate renewal We have two-tier PKI solution, NPS server and few thousands of WIFI clients authenticating with user certificate to network using NPS server. Now we must renew intermediate certificate. We tried to do it step by step to be…
Using gMSA for replacing the Task Scheduler service account?
What steps should I follow to change the current Task Scheduler service account from using the regular AD Account in the format of CORP\service.account to a gMSA? When I try to change it manually by double-clicking on the task, it prompts for the…
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The benefits in setting 'Password expiration policy' to 'Set passwords to never expire (recommended)'?
What will be the safeguard or the additional safety control we must deploy when setting the user password never to expired? Because I have seen multiple recommendations from the below sources advising to set the password to never expired. CISA:…
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Can't Recieve SMS Code! Why can't i have the code?
Alright, here the problems -How can i verify my identity if i can't even get the SMS Code? -How can i add alternative email if you guys didn't even send the SMS Code? -How can i add another protection meanwhile this whole system telling me to verify my…
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Third Party Certifcate
Hi All i was referring the below article, i want to raise a request using HashAlgorithm sha256 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/active-directory/enable-ldap-over-ssl-3rd-certification-authority is the below syntax correct and…
Query on LDAP
Hi All, I want to generate an LDAP CSR request. I have the following text file, which I will save with the .inf extension (i.e., ldap.inf). From the command prompt, I will execute the following command: certreq -new ldap.inf ldapcsr.req Once I have the…
How to fix memory integrity to turn on
my memory integrity won't turn on. I went to device manager and found no yellow exclamation marks next to anything. It keeps telling me to resolve any driver incompatibilities and scan again.
Active Directory Domain User Profile Issue.
Dear Windows Support, Good day! May we seek some advice regarding Active Directory Domain User. please see below inquiries. User A login to a domain member workstation, but user B name appears in the windows upon login. Upon login in the web…
Online Responder (OCSP) request with hashAlgorithm SHA256, response unauthorized (6)
Hi! We faced with the problem of OCSP role on Windows Server 2019 (I also tried to rise the same role on our test Windows Server 2025 with the same result). We started updating our old Cisco devices to a new firmware and our remote vpn spokes lost their…
Defender for Cloud - Vulnerabilities Extensions
Hi All, I have enabled New Microsoft Vulnerability Management from Environment settings - Under Subscription - Under server plan. We have Plan 2 license. But i don't see any extension getting installed under server VMs. Please suggest on how to confirm…
How do I get access to my account back after a hacker has setup 2FA with an authenticator app?
Okay i need some Help, my old account had been hacked and it still can't access anything both my computer and to my laptop, LIVE chat has done nothing Except just freaking loading and Calling Microsoft doesn't work, this hacker as set up 2FA so i can't…
Defender for O365 - Quarantine Notification
Dear All, We are facing a problem in Defender for O365 quarantine email notification in which we have a created a custom quarantine policy which provides access to users for "request release". Once user request, we dont see it in Exchange…
Windows Defender Firewall Remote Management not working after upgrading to Server 2025
Windows Defender Firewall no longer allows remote management after upgrading to Windows Server 2025 (Server Core edition) on any system. It was working on Windows Server 2022 before the upgrade. I'm receiving the error below. All the suggestions do…
Re-apply "All Application Packages" and "All Restricted Application Packages" permissions to Windows folder
Hello, I need to re-apply the group\user permissions for "All Application Packages" and "All Restricted Application Packages" to all workstations and was hoping to do this via Group Policy (Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows…
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Vulnerabilities CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082
Hello Team, We have exchange server 2019 with CU14, we have detected Vulnerabilities CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082 in our environment as remediation for this we tried to install SU KB5019758 as this is not compatible with CU14 we are not able to…
Server 2022 Eval - IIS TLS Session Resumption
I have read through many forums and the process as I understand it is this -> create DWORD key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HTTP\Parameters named EnableSslSessionTicket with value 1 -> create session ticket key…
Windows passwords salting
Dear Team, I would like to know whether the windows passwords are slated or not and how windows machines (client or server) stores the passwords in the database and where it is stored (work group computers and domain joined computers). Regards, Mowlee