Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 & 2022 How To’s
We recently had a client that needed to wipe out their Nutanix storage and virtual machine cluster and to do that we needed to load a Nutanix ISO from a Windows server. No matter what source we selected we received this error message: The source files could not be found. Read more…
When creating a new user for one of our clients I was asked to copy an existing user what I had finished creating that user I went to see which Active Directory groups he belonged to and was shocked to find how many groups he was in. In fact, as Read more…
Very few home users think they have more than one network card but almost all do: PRO TIP: In Windows 10 and 11 Microsoft has hard coded the prioritization of a wired network card when a Wi-fi network card exists in the same machine. In corporate settings, virtually all physical Read more…
Machines in Azure has a health service sends a heartbeat notice to a management server which informs that the machine is still responding. After a number of failures do not arrive, Azure Arc reports an alert. If you want to use the Windows GUI to see how the Azure Arc Read more…
We recently had a client ask us about this error message “Due to a configuration change made by your administrator or because you moved to a new location you must use multi-factor authentication to access”: This message is telling you that the account you were trying to log in with Read more…
We noticed honeyhashx86.exe (32 bit) in Task Manager running in the background and did not recognize it. It seems too obvious to be malware but we did find more than one website which claimed it was a “Trojan Coin Miner”. They were wrong. What is Honeyhashx86.exe? honeyhashx86.exe is not malware. Read more…
Windows Update Error 0x80073712 means that there is some corruption in files that have been downloaded so you need to the old patches and possibly delete a pending updates. This is how you do it. If you still have problems there are three easy things to try: We have seen Read more…
If you’re having troubles running Windows Update or you see the error message: There is a system repair pending which requires reboot to complete. Restart and run SFC again there is an easy fix: Either in file explorer or via command line go to C:\Windows\WinSXS and if there is a Read more…
Over the years we have created half a dozen articles dedicated to cleaning up or fixing WSUS in some way. Recently we had a client that enabled driver updates in WSUS and now regrets it, so he disabled the DRIVERS category in WSUS, but the drivers that already exist will Read more…
A number of websites will incorrectly tell you that the net view command has been deprecated and no longer works in windows. They are wrong. It is not deprecated and it still works. If it’s not working for you you have a networking issue and we can help you with Read more…
If you’re trying to browse your network either at home or in a company that’s running on a “workgroup”(i.e. not a corporate Active Directory Domain network) you may receive errors like: Network discovery is turned off. Network computers and devices are not visible. Please turn on network discovery in work Read more…
To get to the point quickly, the reason why the Computer Browser service is disable because it is deprecated. The computer browser service in windows computers used to be a little program that ran on windows computers by default that would seek out other computers on the network and compile Read more…
While working on a client’s Windows 11 computer yesterday we had a rare a crash which gave us the BSOD (now the GSOD – Green Screen of Death) with STOP CODE FAT_FILE_SYSTEM The problem our client had turned out to be caused by a memory stick that was plugged into Read more…
If you need to find out when a user in Active Directory last changed their password, it’s not very hard to do. How to Enable Advanced Features in Active Directory? The first thing you need to do is to turn on advanced features, which is what turns on the attribute Read more…
Windows Server 2008R2 introduced the notion of Hyper-V Dynamic Memory and added a registry entry to (HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\MemoryReserve) to make sure that you did not oversubscribe the RAM, leaving the host operating system short. That allowed you to easily add up the amount of RAM your host need to run and Read more…
Expanding a volume in Failover Cluster Manager involves a few steps. Here is a general overview of the process: Note: The steps may vary slightly depending on the version of Failover Cluster Manager you are using and the configuration of your cluster. It is always recommended to have a full Read more…