Unanswered Questions
4,060 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Unexpected and unexplained slow (and unusual) memory performance with Xeon Skylake SMP
We've been testing a server using 2x Xeon Gold 6154 CPUs with a Supermicro X11DPH-I motherboard, and 96GB RAM, and found some very strange performance issues surrounding memory when compared to ...
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connect to tightVNC in a windows container
There are plenty of resources online about using VNC with a linux container, but none that I can find for windows containers, so I thought I'd give it a crack.
I can get the tightVNC server to start (...
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How to export Cisco AnyConnect preferences and certificates to another PC
I have two computers (PC and MAC) connected to different organization VPNs. I want to be able to connect from MAC to the same VPNs set on PC. So I need to export VPN list and certificates, etc to my ...
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Azure AD Connect Password Sync
Windows 2012 R2, fully updated/activated
Roles: ADDS, ADFS
Installed Azure AD Connect latest version (only software installed other than updates)
Other applicable services: Office 365 (Business ...
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Office 2013 Slow to Open/Save with Folder Redirection
We recently deployed folder redirection for a few individuals in the office. We are using a DFS Namespace share on a Server 2012r2 VM. We are redirecting Desktop and My Documents only. Clients are ...
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DNS and Active Directory configuration for a branch office
We've got a branch office with no on-site services at the moment, and we'd like to change that. The biggest goal is to setup some file servers but faster logins and DNS resolution will be welcome as ...
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Configure Windows RAID-5 "drive failed" timeout?
Background
When a hard-drive controller detects an error, and needs to remap a sector, the drive normally becomes unresponsive for the seconds (or possibly minutes) it takes to try to complete the re-...
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Joining a server to AD via AWS cloudformation
I want to use cloudformation to automatically join new instances to AD.
When I googled this it looks like many people just use scripts in there cloudformation templates and pass in credentials- I don'...
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Hyper-V Manager - Use HTTPS with WinRM
I've successfully configured WinRM on my Hyper-V server to use HTTPS. I am able to connect to it and execute commands from my client PC by using the same local username and password on both (they are ...
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msi for Web Deploy 3.6 for Hosting Servers... where to find?
On Win2012-R2
The Web Platform Installer offers an option (that I need...): "Web Deploy 3.6 for Hosting Servers"
I would like to get this into my dsc script, but cannot find the discrete msi(s) on ...
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Safe to change NTFS ACLs on an active file system?
We're adding a lot of new groups to the permissions on our companies shared drives. Some of the folder trees can contain millions of files and TBs of data. As is, changing the ACLs on these folders ...
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How do I get as much debugging info as possible out of the Network Policy Server (ias) service?
We are trying to authenticate a client on remote vpn, through a Meraki Z1 teleworker appliance. The Z1 is sending a proper request, the Network Policy Server (ias) service is apparently ...
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What are the minimum permissions to read the WMI class 'MSSerial_PortName'?
I am configuring a local application user (part of BUILTIN\Users) on a Windows 7 kiosk. The kiosk has a special USB device running on a virtual COM port. The user needs permission to read the WMI ...
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How do Windows DFS referrals work for laptops away from the office?
How do Windows DFS referrals work for laptops away from the office?
[Edit 2014-11-26] I already understand how sites are defined by subnets, etc. But what I want to know is what happens to users ...
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Win32/.NET applications and browsers (but not CURL) suddenly unable to make HTTP requests on AWS VM
Environment: AWS / Microsoft Windows Server 2019 VM
A few .NET applications are running on a VM (as windows services), which make various HTTP requests. One of these is also using MQTT (via MQTTnet) ...
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Powershell Remoting not working
I have PSRemoting working on 90% of my servers. But there are a handful that I'm not sure what's going on with them. Server 2016.
Most of them are Hyper-V hosts, but not all.
Enable-PSRemoting -...
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RDP session Flickering - Only one user
So, This is a tricky one.
I use a system where users connects via VPN to a Terminal Server on an other site. It is working fine for everybody but one user. For this user the screen is flickering/...
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Windows server 2012 r2 network speed to computer is limited to ~30mbps
We have recently installed Windows Server 2012 R2 in our school.
I noticed, that bandwidth to one client is somehow limited to around 30mbps.
This server is gateway to internet.
When we had UNIX ...
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Enforce minimum wait time for network connection
We are currently using multiple HP ProCurve V1810-48G switches in our environment which we believe are causing issue with GPO based software installations. This problem surfaced after installing SSD ...
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Windows Server - PerfNet event 2004
I´m using a SharePoint 2013 on a WS 2012 R2 Server.
Everything is ok except for one error:
Error PefNet Event 2004
Message: Unable to open the Server service performance object. The first four ...
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Set CMTrace Font
Might be a bit of a long shot but I was wondering if anyone knew of, or could speculate on, a way to change the default font of CMTrace. It seems to use some Sans-Serif font. I'd like to change it to ...
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Access to message queuing system is denied MSMQ?
My problem is a little confusing. I have 2 servers (Windows Server 2008 R2) with MSMQ installed and I want to use Server B to consume a MessageQueue on Server A. When I try to Receive it always ...
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Group policy issues
We are having an issue on one of our clients relatively new sbs installs.
The domain consists of a single SBS 2011 server with 4 Windows 7 clients and 3 XP clients. Most of the time everything is ...
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How to make a disconnected drive?
kind of a weird question but how do I make a drive go from a OK state to disconnected state using net use? I do not want to delete it.
I am testing a script but the annoying thing is that to test the ...
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View free space on offline mapped network drive
We provide all of our users with a mapped network drive (H:) which we have re-directed my documents to. Using FSRM on the file server, each user is restricted to 5GB of disk space.
Windows ...
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Powershell: How to read secure strings from textfile with windows service
I saved credentials of my vSphere environment to text files with the Powershell ConvertFrom-SecureString. I want to use this credentials in my powershell script using the following command:
$...
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Windows Server sometimes has wrong date
Having a Windows Server 2016 (hosted at Amazon AWS EC2) that is running successfully for years.
Since some month I'm experiencing that the Scheduled Tasks (e.g. a task that is configured to run daily) ...
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File locked only for Developer that tries to deploy
Our Developers work with VisualStudio 2017
They use a Post-Build PowerShell function that I wrote, to publish the application to the correct destination.
Sometimes (1 out of 100 times) they get the ...
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How to make UAC ask for username and password every time?
if i start a CMD with elevated rights the UAC asks for the password of my current user, which is only a normal user. So i need to switch the user under "weitere Optionen" (more choices)
If i start a ...
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Adding windows capabilities to Windows server core running in docker
I am running the microsoft/windowsservercore:1803 in docker:
docker run -it microsoft/windowsservercore:1803
inside it, I start powershell and run the Get-WindowsCapability cmdlet and get the ...
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Manually trigger Root Certificate Update on Windows
Is there a way to manually trigger a Root Certificate Update?
I'm troubleshooting a problem with a certificate that keeps disappearing from the Certificate Store. I think this is related to Trusted ...
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WSUS Error 8000FFFF
Two issues with our WSUS
Some of our Servers (2008r2/2012r2) and Win 7 got error 8000FFFF when installing security updates from WSUS. For most of servers and desktops are just working fine.
From ...
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RDP file transfer via command line on Windows?
I'm making some automated deployment software leveraging Chef and Python for my internship. Unfortunately, the environment is completely airgapped aside from me being able to initialize and RDP ...
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Newly installed programs in Server 2016 can't be clicked from the start menu
I created a new instance of Windows Server Datacenter 2016 on AWS (Version: 1607 OS Build 14393.321). When I install a new application and try to click on it from the start menu it does not work.
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How is TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV supported on Windows Server?
According to the last SSL Labs report, everything is green on my server, except support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV.
Not currently possible with IIS it seems
I've read everywhere that this is not ...
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How do I fix a non-starting "Microsoft Key Distribution Service"? (not to be confused with Kerberos KDS)
The Microsoft Key Distribution Service is not starting on my DC (kdssvc.dll) and when I look at the event log under Microsoft\Kdssvc, I see the events:
Event ID 4001
Group Key Distribution ...
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Is it possible to prevent users from removing jobs from the print queue?
I need to log all printed documents with their contents. I've enabled "Keep printed documents" in the relevant printers' properties. Now, I'm trying to prevent users from removing jobs from the ...
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How to clone the OS disk and keep both disks plugged in?
Here's the situation: A Windows RAID 1 has partially failed. The broken disk was replaced with a new disk. The old two disks do not have Advanced Format (bigger sector size). The new replacement disk ...
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Installing MSA (Managed Service Accounts) using Windows deployment tools
I have to install several new application servers (2012R2) for a project which will run IIS and MSMQ. I need to script the complete install, so I need to be able to change permissions on IIS ...
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Force Windows to use only TCP for DNS lookup
I have a broken (badly configured) VPN network that I cannot change. The remote gateway will route all UDP traffic for port 53 to a special DNS service. But I need to use a different DNS server also ...
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Automatically refresh credential after password change
Lets say we have around 300 Windows XP machines on our ActiveDirectory domain that are used for processing something. Each has an account which is patterned on the machines name. As these are ...
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Does psexec support input redirection?
I am trying to control a remote Python script, which reads commands from stdin, via psexec 1.98, but I need to redirect psexec's input since psexec itself will be launched from another program. ...
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Getting 10mb/s speeds on a 1gb network
I'm at a loss and I've scoured the internet for answers, but none of them seem to work. I have a TP-LINK TL-SG108E 8 Port Gigabit Easy Smart Switch, a desktop, a laptop, and my new Synology 918+ that ...
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windows server 2008 R2 Standard - Stop Anonymous Logon
On Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard ED. We have tons of ANONYMOUS LOGON logged under Event Viewer
How to stop this ? How to disable ANONYMOUS LOGON ?
Copy of messagge:
An account was successfully ...
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Process Managment memory-leak in Windows Server x64?
After clean install and boot of OS Windows x64 I launched cmd.exe (any other exe) and closed it. Then I launch rammap.exe (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ff700229.aspx). On the 2nd ...
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OpenVPN client works everywhere but Windows 11
I have a VM hosted in Azure running OpenVPN. I have been using it for a number of years without issue. I recently got a new computer with Windows 11 on it and can't figure out why it loses internet ...
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Windows MTU can no longer be set higher than 1500 Bytes?
For some time we have been using jumbo frames on several computers without problems.
But suddenly I am no longer able to increase the MTU on some computers to more than 1500 Bytes.
netsh returns error ...
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How to use Windows 10 OpenSSH ssh-agent service with Cygwin?
I'm using the Visual Studio Code Remote - SSH extension on a Windows 10 laptop to access a bunch of Linux development servers. I followed these instructions to set up the Windows built-in ssh-agent ...
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Enable IPv6 IP forwarding on Windows by default
I'm running Wireguard on a Windows server, connected to multiple peers.
Peer A <-> Server <-> Peer B
In order to allow peers to ping each other (Peer A wants to reach Peer B), IP routing/...
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Microsoft Hyper-V: Terminal Server best practice?
We have an environment with maybe 150 users. The users have thin clients and connect to various terminal servers. We just replaced all of the old server 2008 terminal server vms with nice new server ...
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