Questions tagged [windows]
Windows is the brand name for a series of operating systems from Microsoft. Current versions are Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2022. Instead of tagging a post "Windows", try to use a tag for a specific version.
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Ports open only on specific event
I've recently opened some ports (8080, 2223, 2224) to open a sftp server and a webserver-type fileserver. However I've been running into issues and haven't found a single solution since.
The problem ...
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Windows firewall will not block RDP port 3389
Windows firewall on multiple domain controllers (2016 & 2019) has suddenly stopped blocking RDP access to port 3389.
There was a GPO firewall rule to restrict access to the RDP port based on IP ...
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Samba "NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED" error when trying to image a Windows VM using Cobbler
Looking for some help with Samba on Fedora 38.
We have a Cobbler v3.3.3 server currently for testing purposes.
We have configured Cobbler and managed to import a Windows distribution as per the ...
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How to find the reason for locked accounts in Active Directory?
Help me figure out why Active Directory locks accounts who connect to the corporate network via VPN (l2tp).
Given:
local Windows Server 2022 with the latest updates + Active Directory + file storage (...
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FreeIPA subject name encoding mismatch when renewing certificate
When reading this question and answer, it seems this should be possible but I need a little more help understanding the answer.
Is there a way to change the string format for an existing CSR "...
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Windows Server 2019 RRAS lab can't make NAT and routing work together
I setup a lab, but i can't make it work.
The lab is:
network
I can access the internet via 10.0.0.254.
If i configure RRAS with static routing, i can access the other network. But i can't access the ...
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Google Credential Provider for Windows (GCPW) seems to be interfering with Windows Hello (PIN and Fingerprint/Biometrics)
I'm trying to lock down everything in my company so that everybody uses Google Workspaces to log in to their machines. I've installed GCPW on my machine to test it out.
Since I've installed GCPW, ...
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Server's Disk Queue Length is high, but Disk Bytes/sec is lower than it's capable of
I have an environment running SQL Server on a Windows VMWare platform using a SAN with SSDs set up in RAID 6, and using Veeam for server backups and LiteSpeed for SQL Server backups.
I've had a ...
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IIS locking files even when there is an App_Offline.htm present
My hosting company has just upgraded my server and moved my sites over. I develop in Visual Studio, and publish sites to a local folder, which I then upload via FTP (using FileZilla if it makes any ...
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Windows 10 / 11 USB stick in Offline mode [Resolved]
I just want to share my experience and solution for a problem that Windows 10 and 11 have with detecting USB stick in Offline and Ready Only mode.
I've came across different posts how to resolve it ...
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Windows Server: not enough space on disk (yet still plenty of free space even in the error message itself)
I've got a fileserver running Windows Server and I'm using the storage pool technology to create volumes where I store the files.
I tried to move some files from one of the volumes to another but I ...
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Unable to enroll Windows workstation in enterprise CA - DNS_ERROR_NAME_DOES_NOT_EXIST
I have a single machine, out of hundreds, that will not pull a certificate from our enterprise CA when trying to enroll it.
The CA shows a failed request with error: DNS name does not exist. ...
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Windows event id 4673 audit Failed attempt to perform a privileged operation
I am consistently receiving this error message from agents, and I am receiving a significant number of them daily from a single agent, while the other agents are also receiving the same error message.
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Create VPN server on Windows 2022 server programatically
I'm migrating VPN server from Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2022.
This time I want to create it programmatically/automatically (IaC way)?
On Windows Server 2016 is the build-in Windows VPN ...
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MariaDB on Windows 11 Pro fails due to privilege tables' file problems
About 5-6 days after each fresh installation of (the newest) XAMPP 8.2.4 on Windows 11 Pro (10.0.22621 Build 22621), MariaDB 10.4.28 on-board it starts to fail during every run:
Sometimes I am getting ...
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Do any servers support Sleep mode?
Is it possible to enable (Windows) Sleep mode on any modernish servers? Is there a specific BIOS setting I need to change to change or is it just that most servers don't support sleep mode?
powercfg /...
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Domain administrator unable to connect via remote desktop after group policy deployment
The network I administer has two virtualized Windows Server DC and a handful of Windows clients. I wanted to enable remote desktop on all computers (some had it, some hadn't) via group policy and so I ...
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Network printer shows the print server name after mapping
when we are mapping our printers to our computers from a Windows print server the name of the printer shows the print server as well (see example below). Is there a way to omit the print server and ...
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How do Windows domain clients behave if the on site domain controller is/goes offline?
If I have Windows PCs that are joined to a domain and the DC on the same site goes offline, what kind of behavior can I expect on the clients
a) when local DC is already offline when Windows boots? ...
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powershell detect login is sftp
tl;dr in powershell, how can I detect a login is specifically SFTP and not SSH or local?
On Windows 10 I have the built-in OpenSSH service running. For SFTP protocol connections, the server uses the ...
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Slow access to files on network drive from Hyper-V guest
Windows Server 2022 with Hyper-V on Dell PowerEdge R550.
On Hyper-v there is a Windows Server 2016 guest which is an Active Directory Domain Controller.
Accessing a file from Windows Server 2016 is ...
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Unable to log in linux server from windows 10 with ssh
Since a few months I can only access the server (Ubuntu 18.04) from my computer (Ubuntu 20.4). Any attempt to access from my other Windows 10 computers gives me an error.
From my Ubuntu 20.04 I ...
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Active Directory Knowledge Consistency Checker Not Creating Links Between Two Sites
I have 3 sites:
Site A: 192.168.0.0/24
Site B: 192.168.7.0/24
Site C: 192.168.1.0/24
Each site has 1 domain controller:
Site A: SERVER-1
Site B: SERVER-2
Site C: SERVER-3
In Active Directory Sites ...
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Avoid Windows folder listing with ACL
Is it possible through ACL to prevent a local user account to "dir" the windows folder ?
I tried with "Advanced security settings", but cannot change a thing...
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Logon Message Powershell Script Runs But Does Not Launch Prompt
I'm trying to setup a login prompt according to https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/desktop-and-application-streaming/generate-logon-messages-for-security-and-compliance-in-amazon-windows-workspaces/ because ...
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Windows event id 4735 but no info?
We get a lot of event id 4735 like following:
Subject:
Security ID: SYSTEM
Account Name: xxx$
Account Domain: xxx
Logon ID: 0x3E7
Group:
Security ID: ...
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PowerShell - Failure to load built-in modules due to software restrictions
Yesterday, I was working with PowerShellEditorServices to develop a tool. Internally, it uses named pipes to communicate between the client and server. They are both running locally.
At some point, ...
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amd keyid microsoftaik.azure.net does not exist
I have read all posts about this, try every solution and nothing work. To sum up, currently I have:
clean install of Windows 11 Pro (legit activation)
all updates applied
The TPM module is on and
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How to change user without closing applications running?
The problem I have is that multiple users need to RDP to a machine to check the status of an application that is running. Normally, when users login/logout, the applications will stop and the user ...
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CopSSH home path discrepancy
We've got a current system running CopSSH v4, and we're implementing a replacement solution on v7.
One of the issues we've run into is the home path that the user is presented with when they connect ...
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Redirected folders and roaming profiles issues
At the beginning:
I've been working as an extra in a new company (it's a school) for two weeks, so I don't really know the rules/configuration.
After weeks of working there, users started having ...
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How to configure a Windows Server 2022 machine to allow file sharing with a DNS alias
Machines on my company's network can access file shares on a Windows Server 2022 system using the FQDN, but they can't access them using a DNS alias. I reviewed How to configure a Windows machine to ...
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How to use Office365 with Roaming Profiles, without require user to enter credentials/activate on every pc?
What are we missing? We try to use Office365 and roaming profiles. The problem is that applications prompt the user to login (or activate) when they roam to another pc.
I have read: https://learn....
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Windows DNS Lag and Timeouts
I've recently migrated some 2012 R2 servers to Server 2022, including some domain controllers.
Everything appears to be fine except that one of the VMs is behaving strangely when attempting name ...
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Windows user profiles behind symbolic links?
We have a Windows terminal server under heavy load. We'd like to move some or all of its user profiles from the C: RAID-1, to the E: RAID-10. Is it safe to do this using symbolic links, either one ...
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Unblock virtual smart card
I've setup a virtual smart card by following this guide. It worked fine until someone locked out the virtual smart card and now it's blocked.
When I try to use it with the correct code to sign in to ...
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Task scheduler - run whether user is logged on or not
I am trying to run task scheduler on my local pc (windows 10), I have set it up to run a exe file stored on my C drive daily, but it doesn't run when I set it to "run whether user is logged on or ...
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Google Cloud VM Windows use TLS 1.2 for outgoing SMTP connection
I have a Google Cloud VM with Windows server using AWS SES to use as SMTP to send emails.
I received notification from AWS SES saying they are receiving TLS v1.1 connections from this Windows server.
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Server running MS SQL getting login request from another server every minute
I have a Windows Server 2016 virtual machine running IIS 10 and MS SQL Server 2016. Every minute I'm getting a "Login failed for user" message in the event log. Sometimes 3 times per minute. ...
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Windows Server Manager crashing when promoting to domain controller
I have a problem when promoting my Windows Server 2022 to a domain controller.
So I installed the Active Directory Tools and then I wanted to promote the server to a domain controller. As soon as I ...
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simplest way to run a tool inside a users RDP session from linux using only the commandline
I tried evilwinrm which works well to use a remote shell but smh I cannot directl ylaunch a GUI app inside of a users session.
It would also be ok to use ssh serve ron the Wndows RDS server or ...
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Windows can't reach IP host through two routes
Problem: Windows 10 can't reach an IP host behind two routers, where the path is specified in static routes.
Windows has the following setup:
Windows Host (192.168.3.1/24 for the local LAN with ...
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Allow access to local mongodb database to a different network
Is it possible to do tcp port forwarding using windows settings without having to access router settings? I am trying to give access to my local mongodb database to someone on a different network to ...
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Does a new Windows 2019 domain controller require Windows to be activated before it will function as a logon server?
I have set up a new domain controller. I believe I've done all the necessary things. DNS is synchronized, DHCP is transferred and working, and handing out the new server as DNS, also working. Is a ...
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IIS keeps using the old certificate after new one has been selected
I have had an LetsEncrypt certificate generated through Win-Acme on an IIS website. After some time, it was requested to be changed for a different certificate, generated by RapidSSL. I have received ...
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Script to cleanup Windows.old remotely
Problem:
A lot of older workstations on our networks are running out of hard disk space and I am looking for ways to stream-line the process of cleaning up some space. I understand I can use Disk ...
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New LAPS - Authorized password decryptor not updating permissions as expected
Created a new group DOMAIN\LapsAdmins. Currently empty.
Configured GPO Configure Authorized password decryptors to point to my group DOMAIN\LapsAdmins
Forced server1 to create a new encrypted password ...
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Could I enable ROCE v2 on both MCX623106AN-CDAT 100GbE NIC cards and connect each other without any switch?
Since I do not have ROCE v2 supported switch, and I am planning to connect two MCX623106AN-CDAT 100GbE NIC cards each other from two different server systems, the OS I plan to use is Windows Server ...
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How to create and manage a new DCOM object via batch or powershell
Win+R. dcomcnfg > I need to register a new dll using this tool as a COM. I can do this manually. But I have a lot of WS.
regsvr32 is not enough. The COM App need to exist in dcomcnfg
So, can it be ...
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Access is denied, with Gstreamer audio capture on Windows Server 2022
Note: I'm posting to ServerFault with this as I believe there's some sort of permissions or isolation or perhaps missing system component needed specifically for Windows Server. This is not a general ...
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