Windows VMs won't start because the GuestAgent extension can't be found
Hi, I have a bunch of Windows Server 2019 VMs and they were working fine just yesterday, but this morning none of them can be started. Provisioning state becomes "failed" and the error message is "No version found in the artifact…
remotewebaccess.com Anywhere access broken on Server 2016 Again?
Last year a similar issue occurred and by manually applying the registry edits from these two threads most seemed to resolve their issues: …
WSUS Sync failure
SBS2011 WSUS 3.2.7600.226 WSUS sync has started to fail over the last few weeks, initially intermittentl, now I cannot get it to complete at all. Update source is Microsoft Console error: Unable to resolve the specified upstream server name. …
The Windows Server Essentials Service cannot synchronize the user password to the online identity repository
Hi there. Recently. I have the below error coming up on multiple 2016 essential servers when doing password changes via the Essentials Dashboards. I can confirm that passwords are not syncing to 365. I have tired disabling 365 integration.…
How can we allow the installation or update of the printer drivers with Group Policy Objects without the user being administrator after updating kb5005033?
The update kb5005033 broke the GPOs I use to install/update printer drivers on my domain. Now users are prompt to enter the credentials of an administrator to install/update their printer driver. I have more than 400 computers use by as many users in…
DNS Passed But Errors on New Domain Controller
I had an old domain controller, that had been original for the domain, fail without opportunity for proper demotion. I cleaned up AD/DNS/etc... on remaining DC which is running Win Server 2008R2. Migrated DC/Domain to 2008R2 level and then promoted a new…
FSLogix and Windows Search Issues in Server 2022
Hi All, There are quite a few archived forums regarding this issue, however I am hoping someone can help. I am using FSLogix with Windows Server 2022 Remote Desktop Services. The environment is simple, with two session host servers and a file server…
Work Folder (Arbeitsordner) Error/Fehler: 0x8007017c - The Cloud operation is invalid (Der Cloudvorgang ist ungültig)
Hello everyone, unfortunately synchronization is no longer possible. Setting up the new user profiles and setting up the new work folder on the server was not successful. Synchronization is currently no longer possible. The problem occurs with both…
Printproblems after update KB5010359
Hi All After updating my windows 2016 printerserver with KB5010359; clients with windows 10 cannot print to the spooler anymore . Nothing comes into the spooler . The client says the printjob cannot be created. Removing the KB5010359 makes everthing…
Since Sunday, 02.06.2022, SenseNdrPktmon maximum size warning occurs on all virtual machines
Hello, Ever since Sunday, the 6th of February, all of our Azure virtual machines have been reporting the following warning: The message is: The backing-file for the real-time session "SenseNdrPktmon" has reached its maximum…
Window Server 2012r2 entered recovery mode after power suspension
Dear All, I got a Huawei 2288H v5 server running Window server 2012r2. Whenever the machine is recovered from power suspension, it could not boot normally but entering a 'bluescreen', as shown. We tried to upgrade the RAID controller firmware but it…
KB5010794 installation
We are running a Windows 2012 R2 Domain and ran into the boot loop issues with KB5009624. We uninstalled the update to resolve the issue, but now we would like to apply the out-of-band fix. Do we have to install KB5009624 again before KB5010794, or can…
Proper rule to create
Hi, I have already created rule below netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="NETRule8/04/2021 14:16:37_1" dir=in action=block remoteip=5.188.1.1-5.188.255.255 but such IP 5.188.206.246 is still creating bad activities on Email server…
Are the problems with remotewebaccess.com domain and Dynamic DNS service?
Using Windows Server 2016 Essentials setup with the standard (Microsoft provided) <server>.remotewebaccess.com domain for remote access - for the past few days DynDNS has been failing. Are there wider issues with supporting services? If I…
Cipher Suites in windows 16 is showing TLS 1.0 and not the correct TLS 1.2
My security report is felling because because is showing these Cipher Suites. I need to disable or remove each one of them. This is showing in ports: 853, 9999 Can you please let me know what to do to disable these Suits in windows 16 Evidence …
Losing NTFS File Permissions
We have one file that is causing us some problems with permissions on our file share server. The user is running Windows 10 1909 and Office 2016. When goes to save a particular Excel spreadsheet, it makes her the owner, and erases all permissions the…
Windows 11 22H2 - Cant connect to a RDS server after update
Hi, I have several clients on Windows 11 , and after the update 22H2, they were not able to log to our RDS servers I tried to log to the server using the private IP, it worked It is still not working when I try to log to the public IP I…
New Router can't connect to network shares VPN
The routers are handing the VPN tunnel. Site A has the DHCP, DNS, domain controller, active directory, network shares, etc. Running Windows Server 2019 and windows 10 computers. Site B is just a remote office running Windows 10 computers. …
Unable to upgrade machines to Windows 11 using WSUS.
We are rolling out Windows 11 to our offices. We are using WSUS and having issues where many machines are not showing as applicable for the Win11 upgrade. The machines are of the same brand, model and specifications. When I run 3 different eval…
Migrating Win 2011 SBS to Win 2019 Std when Exchange is not an issue.
Hello All I have a Win SBS 2011 server and Exchange has been moved to MS 365 so I do not have to worry about moving Exchange from the SBS 2011 to the 2019 server. Should I go thru a migration or just start fresh on the 2019 server . If migration path…