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You may notice when running SConfig to make changes to Windows update on Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server 2025 that you are unable to make changes. You may see the error: Failed to configure update settings. Registry access is not allowed. This is because SConfig is not being run Read more…
Installs and upgrades usually require more space than the install will need when it is done, and that can be a problem. We had a client that needed to upgrade a program installed on their servers C:\ and while the disk had enough free space to run the program, it Read more…
We had a client who wanted to know how much space each user profile was consuming on their EdgeSoft folder. We determined the path was C:\Users\{UserName}\AppData\Local\ES and then ran this script to do the calculations: If you want to find the amount of data used for a different folder, just Read more…
One of our clients had a Java uninstall go “badly” and now the install is broken. Java is a significant security risk so the client asked us to manually remove it. We tried: but all failed, so we had to go very manual. How To Uninstall Java Manually 1 – Read more…
We had a client who wanted to clean out a Java uninstall that had gone badly. Java was still showing in APPS AND FEATURES (aka PROGRAMS AND FEATURES) but it had been uninstalled already. We knew that the uninstall registry path was HKLM > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > Read more…
Today we had a client asking if their LogicMonitor software uses Java and if they can uninstall Java from their LogicMonitor collectors. The answers are, yes LogicMonitor uses Java but it is a fully embedded version that does not appear in APPS AND FEATURES. Any version that appears in APPS Read more…
A month ago we had a client that had a successful attack on their infrastructure and to protect themselves one of more than 100 changes included auditing a few folders. Specifically they wanted to have a listing stored somewhere every time someone accessed a particular folder. To enable folder auditing Read more…
We had a client with an odd partition configuration. As you can see in the screen shot to the right, the recovery partition appears after C: drive volume with data on it. The question is, it is safe to delete the Recovery Partition to all the C:\ to be easily Read more…
Time synchronization especially between Domain Controllers often comes into question with our smaller clients, who do not have it setup correctly. The simplified version of the configuration is that the domain controller which holds the PDC emulator FISMO (lets call is DC01) should be set to sync with some external, Read more…
If you are a Microsoft partner you will probably have become aware that in January the Microsoft Action Pack that has been around for the better part of two decades is going away. There are several options but for most small partners the replacement is called the Partner Launch Benefits Read more…
Last week we had a customer with a Proxmox hyper-converged cluster to run their virtual machines who had notable performance problems. If you are not familiar with Proxmox just think of it as a free version of VMware, or Hyper-V with SCCM VM Manager. The fundamental issue was that even Read more…
We recently detailed the top 100 Windows Services because our technicians frequently need to know where they came from, what the default user is, and what those services really do. However, the IaaSVmProvider service did not make that list and it has come up a few times in meetings, so Read more…
One of our clients recently noticed a setting in Windows Defender > Virus & Threat Protection > Dev Drive Protection and asked us what the heck that is. This is what we told them: What Is a Dev Drive? Microsoft introduced Dev Drives at the Microsoft Build conference in May Read more…
Manage service provider that we help out from time to time called us with a curiosity today. It turns out that they just signed up a new corporate customer and our moving them off of ESET antivirus in favor of Windows Defender. The problem is they can’t uninstall ESET because Read more…
We recently had a client with several Windows Server presenting this error message when admins were attempting to RDP to them: REMOTE DESKTOP CONNECTIONThe remote computer that you are trying to connect to requires Network LevelAuthentication (NLA), but your Windows domain controller cannot be contacted to performNLA. If you are Read more…
Last week we had a client who wanted to delete ALL disabled user accounts because they had been hacked and wanted to reduce their attack surface. The two problems we had with this is that there are accounts that are disabled but may be needed in the future, and there Read more…