Investigating search index corruption on Windows Server
I am experiencing an issue with search index corruption on file servers. Can anyone provide assistance with investigating this issue? Thank you.
How to migrate unmanaged disks to managed on production SQL cluster
Hello, I have to perform migration of azure disks from unmanaged to managed on our production SQL servers, which are in availability set with the sql firewall windows server in it as well. This is still in planning process, but i think i need some…
How can I offline Windows Live Sign-In Assistant 6.5 install on Windows 2022 Server
How can I offline Windows Live Sign-In Assistant 6.5 install on Windows 2022 Server Dear all, I'm attempting to install Dynamics CRM 2015, but I'm facing an issue during the prerequisite check – 'Windows Live Sign-In Assistant 6.5' won't install. I've…
Libcurl Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability
%windir%\System32\curl.exe Version is 8.8.0.0 %windir%\SysWOW64\curl.exe Version is 8.8.0.0 libcurl's ASN1 parser code has the GTime2str() function, used for parsing an ASN.1 Generalized Time field. If given an syntactically incorrect field, the parser…
Unable to Target User Group in GPM Editor, option is greyed out
Trying to recreate Group Policy to map drives for specific user groups (on a new WinSvr 2022 Essential) When have GP editor open (and go to User Config, Preferences, Windows Settings, Drive Maps, create or open an entry, go to the Common tab, select…
Office applications turns white after inactivity in RDP
Hi everyone! We have a RDS farm with multiple RDS Session Hosts, running Windows Server 2022 Datacenter and Office 2021 LTS. When logged in via RDP, the content in different Office applications disappears after a few seconds of inactivity. Sometimes it…
Updaing Windows Defender 2
Hello! Please one more question on updating WindowsDefender: Here's the settings of my Defender: -SignatureScheduleDay is set to 8 - Never : nevertheless the signatures are being updated daily at random times - NOT at 01:45:00 as seen above so Q2: Is…
Storage Spaces Direct - Can't Remove Physical Disk from the pool in order to able to use it by operating system
Unable to remove disk from S2D I have a virtual lab /virtual box/ windows 2019 server environment Lab setup: 1 Domain controller windows 2019 Datacenter server 3 windows server 2019 Datacenter each of them member of the domain,…
Administrator Account
Hi All If I disable the group policy listed below, can any locally created user still log in to any of the member servers(i.e during troubleshooting if any server is moved out of the domain or any issue with the member server)? How will it behave for…
security policy processing
Hi I want to understand the below 3 GPOs and its impact on applying them on windows server. Please guide me. Configure security policy processing: Do not apply during periodic background processing is set to Enabled: FALSE Computer…
query on timestamp
Our vulnerability scanner tool has detected the following vulnerability on windows servers: ICMP Timestamp Request Remote Date Disclosure. It provides the following solution: Filter out the ICMP timestamp requests (13) and the outgoing ICMP timestamp…
Devices: Allowed to format and eject removable media
Hi All i have the below GPO setting set to Administrators & Interactive Users. I believe recommended setting is Administrators. is it safe to remove interactive users as i am not sure please guide me. Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows…
How to generate WSUS reports for installed update from three years back??
Hi everybody we have a compliance requirement to maintain logs for installed Windows patches for a certain number of years. Do we have an option to export WSUS reports for certain years? For example, generate WSUS reports for installed updates on certain…
How to install Microsoft store to my Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC? It is NOT pre-installed when I setted up new OS.
Last week, I installed Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC to my laptop. For better gaming performance. For the 3 days, I did not realize that there is not Microsoft Store in my OS. Now i want to install Microsoft media player. But there is no MS store.
Using gMSA for Task scheduler and Service account scenario?
Based on: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/service-accounts-group-managed I'm trying to implement the gMSA for the following scenario: Task Scheduler account Service account (Failover Cluster, SQL Server, ADFS,…
Multi-Provider Router (MPR) notifications
I need help on two GPOs. If I disable the policy below, will there be any impact besides issues with mapped network drives? Policy: Enable MPR notifications for the system --> Disabled Location: Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative…
Windows NTP Client
Hi All on my PDC i have below registry by name NtpServer and it is pointing to a Linux appliance which is my NTP server. Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters(NtpServer) I have the ask to enable/disable the…
Install CPU number 2 on a HyperV server
I have a Windows 2019 server where a HyperV is installed. When the HyperV server was installed, the physical box was with one CPU. I have subsequently installed one more CPU in the same specification as the first CPU. I also installed the same…
Renewing Powershell Self Signed Certificate from CA
Hi Everyone, We're going to change ours Self Signed Powershell certificates, we have an AD Certificate Services in our domain, we've created custom Self Signed Powershell certificates for code signing, then we've distribute the certificates via GPO.…
Refs on Win 2022 and Win 2019
Hello, My Windows Server 2022 is crashed and i rebuild the OS using Windows Server 2019. Then i have issue with one HDD where when use Windows Server 2022 the HDD formatted using Refs. Now This HDD detected as RAW on Windows Server 2019. Trying to plug…