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enter-pssession not working over Wireguard

I have multiple computers in a LAN and a Windows Server 2012 R2 in another city. They are all in a Wireguard VPN. I can use SMB file shares, PSexec, RDP and such things, but can't make WinRM enter-...
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"Unknown token received from SQL Server" errors since recent Windows Updates

I posted a question to Stack Overflow about this error when it started occurring for our older Delphi 7 applications on Windows 10. It is now happening on Windows Server 2012 R2 systems that had these ...
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Why would Windows 10 workstation give "Connecting" popup when saving file to network?

We have our main file server "Files" on a Windows 2012 R2 server which works fine for nearly every workstation. A couple however, both of which are Windows 10, are having an issue when ...
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UDM Pro Site To Site VPN with Domain Issues

I have 2 UDM Pro firewalls setup with a IPsec site to site VPN, the settings are the same for both VPNs (obviously the destination IPs are reversed for each unit) I can ping traffic with IP addresses ...
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Windows AD CA Code Signing Cert Request for Wrong User

I am having an odd problem with a Code Signing certificate request from my Windows 10 workstation. We have a Windows Server 2012R2 CA setup with the Code Signing template and everything works fine if ...
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Widows 10 Active directory user profile desktop not responding after restart and login in outside domain network

Windows Server 2012 R2 active directory profile has been configured in windows 10 pro-64-bit laptop and was working fine early days and recently noticed when we restarted the laptop in outside domain ...
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Some fonts not installed on Windows Server 2012 R2

When I install the .ttf file for the font Bahnschrift on Windows 10 all fonts in the font file become available. Installing the same font file on Windows Server 2012 R2 only 1 font becomes available. ...
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SCCM deploys Defender updates but not Office 2016 updates

I'm just pulling my hairs out at this SCCM issue, it seems to push out Windows Defender updates just fine but not Office 2016 Pro Plus (not O365) updates. I've checked that our boundary group is set, ...
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Convert server 2012 R2 to Windows 10 [duplicate]

I have a server machine, with regular desktop hardware that I have obtained from my company. It is currently running Windows Server 2012 R2. The intention is to use it as a media server, connected to ...
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Can I turn a computer into a network switch/router?

I have 3 computers that I want to connect via 100Gbe network connections. 2 of the computers/servers are equipped with Mellanox ConnectX-4 single adapters and one computer is equipped with a dual ...
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How to find reason for network problems

In our company network we experience severe lan problems. Every now and then, applications that need a stable connection to the database server crash with a "lost connection error". The clients run on ...
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Change WMI Security Descriptor programatically not working

I'm trying to change the Wmi Security Descriptor of a about 100 hundred Computers with Windows 10 Pro/DC 2012 R2. I found that the following approach can be used in my case : msdn Executing the steps ...
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Windows10 not able to download update from WSUS

W10 client Updatelogs: 2018. 09. 03 14:37:18.8871861 3044 3312 Misc Got WSUS Client/Server URL: http://xxx-wsus.xxxx.local:8530/ClientWebService/client.asmx"" 2018. 09. 03 14:37:18....
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Access denied connecting to a share using Windows 10

On a Windows 2012 R2 computer a folder is shared, let us call it 'SharedFolder'. A Group called 'AccessSharedFolder' containing me has Read-Access to this folder on NTFS Level. Shared Level is: ...
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Applying Group Policy By Subnet

Is there a way to apply a group policy by subnet? I have three sites/offices - Washington, Texas, and California. When we (IT) puts a new desktop on the network and add it to the domain, the ...
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enable offline files for all the PC which are part of Security Group

I'm setting up a Home Folder to be available offline per device The Drive which this folder will be connect to will be H: This is What I have done. Create a Group Called Offline Devices, Add All ...
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How to install/update an application with gpo without restarting the terminal

I have an application that requires regular updates applied through GPO. This application does not require restarting the PC to install or update. How can I create a GPO to install this application ...
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Server 2012 R2 Essentials Search not working on "Shared Folders"

On Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, the built in shared folder named "Shared Folders"(located in "C:\\DFSRoot\Shared Folders") that contains a virtual folder(Not sure what the proper name is as it ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard WSUS appears to limit to exactly 100 clients

I found information on Stack Overflow about this issue, though the number of clients was 12, there. Read Here. However, despite the fact that I don't suspect duplicate SUSClientIDs, I ran the ...
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How connect MS remotedesktop client 10 with Windows 2012 R2 RDS?

So far my clients (Windows 7) connect via Remotedesktop connection (mstsc.exe) to our Windows 2012R2 RDS infrastructure. Mac's use the MS Remote Desktop from Mac App Store, which works great too. ...
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Setting a specific Icon to be shown on system tray via GPO

I've been using at my office the application called SLACK and I'm having some problem with it, every time we get a new update the icon tends to hide and I want it to be shown on the system tray on all ...
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GPO to Allow Auto-Updates at Specific Time

I'm inexperienced w/ network administration. I just wanted to make sure this GPO looks correct for what I'm trying. Our server is Windows Server 2012 R2, and our workstations are a mix of desktops ...
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Unable to shadow Windows 10 VDI session from 2012 R2 Virtualisation Host

I have deployed a test VDI setup on 2012 R2 remote desktop services, and when I attempt to shadow a session on one of our Windows 10 virtual desktops, I get a message that says; "The computer name is ...
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Server 2012 R2 VDI number of standby VMs

We are currently testing a Windows 10 VDI deployment built on server 2012 R2 remote desktop services. In a pooled VDI deployment, it appears that the deployment actively keeps 2 VMs running ready for ...
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Unable to access port 8080 externally (Windows server 2012 r2)

I have developed a web-service on Visual Studio 2015 and using MySQL DB on Windows 10. I want to deploy it on IIS. So I installed it on my Windows Server 2012 R2 by using How to Install IIS on Windows ...
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Reinstallling WSUS After full removal failure

I am running 2 servers on Windows Server 2012 R2. One of them is running a WSUS Server. The server running the WSUS server can search for updates and it Shows it needs to download and install updates. ...
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windows-10 How to permit application execution instead of error "This app has been blocked by your system administrator"?

When trying to run an EXE I'm getting the error "This app has been blocked by your system administrator". How can I configure the Software Restriction Policies to allow the user to install the ...
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User account control Windows - Run as administrator broken

So far, this issue occurs on 3 different systems. Windows 10, Server 2012 and Server 2016 (I suspect this is also the case on windows 8 as server 2012 is basically the same thing but not used it). ...
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I cannot seem to find a physical machine, trying to look virtually instead

Long story short, we can't find one of our machines that are on the network It has a computer account but no DNS entry (ageing is set to just over a month), can't ping it, can't c$ onto it, can't ...
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WSUS Windows 10 Updates not working

I know this is a well known issue, but I've tried everything I can find online and I still can't get 1607 or 1703 to deploy to my Windows 10 clients using WSUS on Server 2012 R2. Originally I ...
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WSUS and issues pushing Win 10 1703 Update and Win 7 Upgrades

I am in the process of testing roll outs of Windows 7 to Windows 10 upgrades using WSUS, as well as rolling out the creators update to our Windows 10 machines. I am testing with three machines - a ...
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Configure NLA to not use client-side credentials check

Situation: Using a Windows 10 workstation, that's in the domain OFFICE, I initiate a RDP connection using smart card logon and certificates to a RDS gateway in a foreign domain REMOTE. The foreign ...
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Restrict each client to one session per user?

I would like to restrict each client to one session per user. Currently I have group policy set to allow for an unlimited number of sessions per user however I cannot set group policy, as far as I ...
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Faulty GPO Deployment Over Wifi

We are experiencing a strange behaviour in our environment. I'd be glad if anybody might have some fresh ideas to help me with. Scenario: We created a new Print and Documents Service on a Windows ...
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What does "Security" mean in a GPO for Inbound Firewall Rules?

My environment is Windows Server 2012 R2 AD DCs with Windows 10 Pro clients. I have small, simple GPO which sets up Inbound Firewall Rules in: Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Windows ...
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Prevent Temp user creation in windows

Windows creating temp profile every time when I login to the PC. The pc has more than one user. I am facing this problem in many Windows 10 and Server 2012 PC's. The temp profile creation is not found ...
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Active Directory Administrative Center Crashes when updating object

DSAC.exe crashes every time we try to update a user object. It will crash in every system we try it on including the servers running Active Directory. It happens on Windows 7, Windows 10, and Windows ...
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RemoteApps over DirectAccess. Login Failed?

In our company most of our employees are mobile, so we have a DirectAccess environment setup to allow for access to the internal network remotely. We also have a RemoteApp setup so we can easily ...
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No logon servers available to process your request

Edit: I've added new info in bold I've got a Windows 10 Pro machine fully updated (Anniversary edition + 1607 update) joined to a Windows AD Domain (on Windows Server 2012). This is a new install ...
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Single Computer not Accepting Domain Credentials after being added to Domain

I have one computer that refuses any domain credentials. This computer is running Win10 and my DCs are Server 2012 r2. After adding this particular computer to the domain it will not accept any ...
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Server 2012 - OpenVPN 2.3 64-bit - very slow (10mbps only to clients)

I am aware that there are endless threads about OpenVPN being slow, but none of them helped. I copy-pasted countless arguments into the VPN configuration files on both ends and I am still clueless. ...
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How do I view the version of Windows 10 on a remote computer?

From Windows Server 2012 R2, I'd like to view which workstations on my network have been updated to Windows 10 Versions 1511, 1607 and so on. Just to clarify, 1511 and 1607 are the numbers that I'm ...
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How to properly remove for all users preinstalled Windows 10 applications?

I would like to properly remove for current and future users the toy applications not required for work Microsoft preinstalled : Candy Crush My problem is I either nuke everything and we don't even ...
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How to specify user permissions for managing a Hyper-V machine on a LOCAL host?

I have UserA. Working on ComputerA. I have setup a Virtual Machine on ComputerA under Hyper-V called ComputerA-VM. ComputerA runs Windows 10 Pro. ComputerA is part of domain.com managed by a ...
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Name resolution for Synology servers sometimes not working

I'm not really sure if this is a Synology issue or a Windows issue. I'm running all Windows 10 Pro machines on a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain. With somewhat disturbing frequency (let's say 5% of the ...
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How do I successfully deploy shared printers via GPO? Windows 10 Pro + Windows Server 2012 R2

I keep getting a GPO error 0x80070bcb on my Windows 10 Pro clients when trying to install a Brother shared network printer. Apparently this error means it can't find a driver (or can't install it). ...
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GPO shows applied under user settings, but contains only computer settings

I am having a spot of trouble with my policies and applying them on my Windows 10 machine. I have several GPOs applied at the top of domain level, some contain only computer settings, some contain ...
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Driver installation not working when deploying printers via GPP

I'm trying to deploy printers via Group Policy. Posts around the internet suggest using the Group Policy Preferences approach (User/Preferences/Control Panel Settings/Printers) is the preferred method....
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Setup a server to host Windows updates for all LAN devices

Background: I have a really slow internet connection (the highest download speed I've seen on it is 3.5Mbps, though I only pay for 3Mbps), and Windows 10 does updates all the freaking time. Like, so ...
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GPOs fail to apply; reason: Inaccessible, Empty, or Disabled; Server 2012 R2 and Windows 10

I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain. Yesterday, a computer’s (running Windows 10 Pro) network drive stopped working. After further investigation (gpresult /h) it appears ALL group policy objects ...
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