Troubleshooting Windows Server components
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This section contains advanced troubleshooting topics and links to help you resolve issues with Windows Server. Additional topics will be added as they become available.
Troubleshoot activation
- Troubleshooting Windows volume activation
- Guidelines for troubleshooting KMS
- Slmgr.vbs options for obtaining volume activation information
- Resolve Windows activation error codes
- KMS activation known issues
- MAK activation known issues
- Guidelines for troubleshooting DNS-related activation issues
- Rebuild the Tokens.dat file
- Troubleshooting ADBA clients
Troubleshoot startup and restart
- Advanced troubleshooting for Windows startup
- How to determine the appropriate page file size for 64-bit versions of Windows
- Generate a kernel or complete crash dump
- Introduction to the page file
- Configure system failure and recovery options in Windows
- Advanced troubleshooting for Windows boot problems
- Advanced troubleshooting for Windows-based computer freeze
- Advanced troubleshooting for stop error or blue screen error
- Advanced troubleshooting for stop error 7B or Inaccessible_Boot_Device
- Advanced troubleshooting for Event ID 41 "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first"
- Stop error occurs when you update the in-box Broadcom network adapter driver
Troubleshoot AD forest recovery
Troubleshoot AD replication
- Troubleshooting Active Directory Replication Problems
- Virtualized Domain Controller Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Domain Controller Deployment
- Configuring a Computer for Troubleshooting
Troubleshoot AD FS
- Troubleshooting AD FS
- AD FS Troubleshooting - Auditing Events and Logging
- AD FS Troubleshooting - SQL Connectivity
- AD FS Troubleshooting - Claims Issuance
- AD FS Troubleshooting - Loop Detection
- AD FS Troubleshooting - Certificates
- AD FS Troubleshooting - Fiddler
- AD FS Troubleshooting - Fiddler - WS-Federation
- AD FS Troubleshooting - Claims Rules
- AD FS Troubleshooting - Integrated Windows Authentication
- AD FS Troubleshooting - Azure AD
- AD FS FAQ
- AD FS Help Diagnostics Analyzer
Troubleshoot AoVPN
Troubleshoot DFSR
Troubleshoot DirectAccess
Troubleshoot disk management
Troubleshoot DNS
- Troubleshooting Domain Name System (DNS) issues
- Troubleshooting DNS clients
- Troubleshooting DNS Servers
Troubleshoot failover cluster
- Troubleshooting a Failover Cluster using Windows Error Reporting
- Cluster-Aware Updating - Frequently Asked Questions
- Troubleshooting cluster issue with Event ID 1135
- Having a problem with nodes being removed from active Failover Cluster membership
- Nodes being removed from Failover Cluster membership on VMware ESX
- IaaS with SQL AlwaysOn - Tuning Failover Cluster Network Thresholds
Troubleshoot DHCP
- Troubleshooting guide for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Basics
- General guidance to troubleshoot DHCP
- How to use automatic TCP/IP addressing without a DHCP server
- Troubleshoot problems on the DHCP client
- Troubleshoot problems on the DHCP server
Troubleshoot FSRM
Troubleshoot guarded fabric
- Troubleshooting Using the Guarded Fabric Diagnostic Tool
- Troubleshooting the Host Guardian Service
- Troubleshooting the Host Guardian Service
Troubleshoot multi-site RAS
- Troubleshooting Enabling Multisite
- Troubleshooting Adding Entry Points
- Troubleshooting Setting the Entry Point Domain Controller
- Troubleshooting Web Probe URLs
Troubleshoot Nano Server
Troubleshoot OTP authentication
Troubleshoot QoS
Troubleshoot Storage Spaces Direct
- Storage Spaces Direct troubleshooting
- Storage Spaces Direct health and operational states
- Collect diagnostic data with Storage Spaces Direct
- Storage-class Memory (NVDIMM-N) Health Management in Windows
Troubleshoot SDN
Troubleshoot RDS session connectivity
- General Remote Desktop connection troubleshooting
- Clients can't connect and get the Class not registered error
- Clients can't connect and see No licenses available error
- User can't authenticate or must authenticate twice
- On connecting, user receives Remote Desktop Service is currently busy message
- Remote Desktop client disconnects and can't reconnect to the same session
- Remote laptop disconnects from wireless network
- Poor performance or application problems during remote desktop connection
Troubleshoot shielded VM
Troubleshoot software restriction policies
Troubleshoot storage migration
Troubleshoot Storage Replica
Troubleshoot user profiles
Troubleshoot WebProxy
Troubleshoot Windows Admin Center
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