Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 & 2022 How To’s
We recently had a client with DHCP errors appearing every hour as shown below: PTR record registration for IPv4 address [[172.16.5.xx]] and FQDN cal2-e0cbbc90df.domain.com failed with error 9009 (DNS server not authoritative for zone.) It there are two known causes for this problem, both with easy fixes: 1 – Wrong Read more…
If you restore files and folders from a Microsoft Azure Backup (MABS), but did not have permission to the file / folder you want to access, you will likely see a series of popup errors culminating with “You have been denied permission to access this folder. To gain access to Read more…
If you are trying to RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) to a remote computer or use SMB (Small Message Block) to connect to a remote share on your home network, using your Microsoft Account, you may be frustrated that you cannot connect. The problem is most likely that you are not Read more…
If you want to run Microsoft Edge browser as a different user, the short answer is to hold the SHIFT key and right click on it. We will show you two different ways to do this if you are still confused. Let’s explain that a bit more. It is normal Read more…
We had a client who needed to delete their aged IIS log files without human intervention. To do this requires two steps: 1 – Script To Delete Files Older Than X Days In the example below we are deleting from C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1 that have not been modified for more than 90 Read more…
This error is telling you that there is an account that was most likely deleted from Active Directory but is still mentioned in a Group Policy. You have to find that group policy and look for an entry that contains only a SID (a hash of numbers and letters), but Read more…
The short answer is yes, Scavenging that should be configured on each of your DNS servers. That is also what Microsoft recommends. What is DNS Scavenging? DNS scavenging simply automatically deletes old DNS records. If you don’t enable DNS scavenging, you can have your DNS records with the same IP Read more…
Yesterday we were troubleshooting an error we found in our server monitoring tools that uses WMI queries to detect problems. It was reporting: File Server Errors LogonThe host {Server} is now in state warn as it has 1.2067 logon errors per second. This could indicate a password cracking attempt. The Read more…
We recently deployed some tools that require Windows Remote Management (WinRM). One of the servers had no problems starting the WinRM service but it had problems communicating and we found: Eventsource: Windows System Event LogWindows Event ID: 10150Message: The WinRM service could not use the following listener to receive WS-Management Read more…
One of our new clients had a server with error 7023 “An error occurred while using SSL configuration for endpoint 0.0.0.0:443”: A quick investigation showed, this error has been occurring for months (likely years, but the logs had been overwritten), the server had no certificates at all in the PERSONAL Read more…
If you use the Microsoft Authenticator frequently it can be really annoying to have it not popup prompt you for the code when you’re trying to sign into something. Recently we added a new client and we were presented with “Enter The Code Displayed In The Authenticator App On Your Read more…
Today we had a very cool problem with a client who was trying to add a service account to a Windows Active Directory Group. the problem was that after the service account was added to the group, it would magically be removed from the group within a few minutes. This Read more…
If you use Microsoft Azure Backup (aka MABs) you may see “You have used x% of maximum disk space on x allocated for shadow copy storage: Fortunately there is a very easy fix; expand the amount of disk VSS is allowed to use. To expand the Volume Shadow Copy allowed Read more…
ACCOUNT UNKNOWN User Profiles are most likely just chewing up disk space on your computer. They are the profiles from users that have been deleted in Active Directory or on your local computer. If you run an RDS server or have had alot of administrators, you can have a lot Read more…
There are some very confusing things about the Windows Recycle Bin that even experienced administrators don’t understand. When looking at Advanced System Properties > User Profiles it is important to note that the size of the profile listed does not include that user’s Recycle Bin and if you delete a Read more…
We recently had a situation in which all we had was a user’s SID and we needed to figure out exactly who that was before making a change. Fortunately, the command to query Active Directory and return user information is quite easy: Get-ADUser -Filter {SID -like “{SID}”} For example: Get-ADUser Read more…