SYSVOL not syncing
I had a situation where there was a domain controller that was not networked properly for much longer than the tombstone is allowed. I demoted that domain controller, removed it from the domain, changed the name of the server, re-joined it to the domain…
PDC Emulator Unavailability
I have a case scenario where around 100 systems will be integrated with single active directory with 2 domain controllers and I need to ship 1 domain controllers and all the 100 systems to site for productions. I will retain the second domain controller…
System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch - OSD building PC's but not adding to console
I have several pc's being built with a sccm task sequence. The pc's are getting bitlocker and being added to the domain and installing software as far as I can tell. They are not being added to system center console. The only change was three domain…
Execute Application
Hi after I've done generic application cluster and OU permission, how do I execute the application on user PC via powershell or cmd? Thank you. Cluster command Line C:\Program Files\iVMS-4200 Station\iVMS-4200\iVMS-4200 Client\iVMS-4200.exe …
WSUS for SCCM post configuration failing on server 2019
HI I was installing WSUS in Server 2019 for SCCM primary site server, post installation tasks failing wit below error, please check. Log file is located at C:\Users\svc_ust_Srvsccmsql\AppData\Local\Temp\WSUS_PostInstall_20200915T120401.log Post install…
List of machines which are not communicated with kms server in last 180 days
With the sccm how can we identify when machine last time commnucated with kms server and when licence expired..we are using kms server to activate the window license key and machine should be communicated within 180 days with kms server to keep windows…
Converged Networking without RDMA enabled Network Cards?
I'm looking at a problem we've had appear over the last 12 months or so on a Hyper-V 2016 cluster running on DL360 Gen 9 servers, where all of a sudden we are getting event ID 252 and message: "Memory allocated for packets in a vRss queue (on…
Restart VM VDI remotly
Hi Guys, I have create a script to reboot VM (VDI) remotely. This script works with my admin account but I would like to have the script run weekly and require a more secure account. I though that the Hyper-V administrator account would let me do this…
Converting from Basic Disk to Dynamic Disk Server 2008R2
I'm running out of room on my 2008R2 server (it will be upgraded soon). It has a Basic 2tb disk now. If I add another disk group and change them both to Dynamic I can safety expand the 2tb disk to whatever I disk I added? I just don't want to delete the…
Break a Server 2012 r2 2 node cluster
I have a Windows 2012 r2 two node file server failover cluster that has a iSCSI volume attached with file shares. I was wanting to get rid of the cluster and just have one server take care of this. Are the steps simply, destroy the cluster and take one…
Allow login to app using IIS only for some users
I have an app, e.g. SL. It's running on Web Server using IIS. SL has it's own authentication method. I don't want that any user with SL account be able to login. I want only those accounts that have Windows Authentication. My goal: 1. create…
Outlook showing full email account
I am being advised that my Email account ref fdlovatt@btconnect is full but the total of all subfiles total less than 02GB. Can you please advise as to what should be done
Real-Time Active Directory (AD) Authentication attack
How do we protect against this attack : https://www.armorblox.com/blog/blox-tales-credential-phishing-attack-performs-real-time-active-directory-authentication/
Trying to speed up SSRS report with multiple stored procedures
I have a report which displays data for each store, and store-specific subreports. Within the subreports there are 10 stored procedures for each of the 10 components of the report. So because each subreport is store-specific, the 10 stored procedures in…
Windows Server 2019 Core - RDS Connection broker
Hi, Im trying to install the RDS Connection broker role, onto an Windows Server 2019 core, but the installation fails. According to the documentation, the license and broker roles, should be available in the core version of Windows 2019. …
Log Analytics agent for Linux + Collectd, misaligned TimeGenerated timestamps in Azure
Hello, I have both the Log Analytics (OMS) agent for Linux and collectd installed on a on-prem Ubuntu VM. I'm sending various on-prem metrics, mostly ping and snmp, to Azure. Collectd sends its data to the OMS agent on port 26000…
UWP - ListBox with 2 Columns with Border causing huge Peformance Issue.
UWP - ListBox with 2 Columns with Border causing huge Peformance Issue. <DataTemplate x:Name="TestTemplate"> <Border Height="30" Margin="0,0,0,-12" …
How to update status with match charachter when length portion key signature is bigger than portion key ?
I work on SQL server 2012 I face issue : I can't update my status to match character where signature key start = portion key start or end signature =end of portion key and length of signature key portion is bigger than or equal portion key . as…
DNS MX Records in O365
Hello In our DNS Domains in Office 365, we use the option "dns online services". We are going to integrate our O365 environment wih a third-party spam filtering. How can we modified the MX records to point to the third-party Spam…
User cannot answer to mail in Exchange 2016 OWA
Hello everybody, At a customer's site, there is an Exchange 2016 OWA user who cannot answer to e-mails from within OWA. OWA shows the strange message "Error: The message cannot be sent because your device is not connected to the internet. Try again…