Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 & 2022 How To’s
In this article we explain what defrag is and why it is generally a bad idea to run it on an SSD. But that is a very simple answer to a much more nuanced truth that most websites and forums have wrong. Keep skimming through this article if you want Read more…
Most companies are worried about data exfiltration which is a fancy CTO / CISO way of saying data leaving your company. It used to be that most security and IT staff spent their days focusing nearly exclusively on hacks coming from outside the company, but today we see more and Read more…
We have the explanation the fix for the following HyperV error message: An error occurred while attempting to checkpoint the selected Virtual machine(s) Checkpiont operation failed Could not initiate a checkpoint operation Could not create auto virtual hard disk General access denied From my research, the error MAY occur in Read more…
If you see: The Microsoft Operations Manager Expression Filter Module could not convert the received value to the requested type. EVENT ID 11903 the problem might be that your SCCM agent can not talk to the SCCM server. I my case, the problem was that the SCCM server has been Read more…
If you work with HyperV there will come a time when you need to run some basic PowerShell commands to find out how health your HyperV Virtual Machines really are. 1 – Commands To Determine HyperV Health Easy command to check all of the HyperV VMs at once: In a Read more…
If you work with Windows Server Update Services you know that it is a bit of a black box. Fortunately Microsoft has made some easy command line options available. There are so many things you can do to confirm the WSUS is happy and here are a few. 1: WSUS Read more…
If you are a network administrator responsible for patching, you know that there is no place in the Windows 10, Windows 11 or Windows Server GUI that shows you where a computer is actually getting its updates from. Are updates coming from Microsoft or from your own WSUS server? Fortunately Read more…
If you use Trend Micro’s Worry Free Business Security (WFBS) antivirus and you added exceptions to a policy, you may want to verify those updates have been received and applied on destination machines. Initially I looked for registry entries and ini config files before I looked at the desktop client. Read more…
In the past we have produced several popular articles explaining how to cleanup and fix Windows Server Update Services (WSUS): How To Tell If WSUS Server Cleanup Is Doing Anything? How to Change WSUS To Download Patches Directly from MS and Not Store Updates Locally WSUSPool in IIS Stops Repeatedly Read more…
If you have ever worked with Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), you know that it needs to be cleaned out from time to time. The problem is that it locks up and errors out so frequently with no movement on the progress bar that you often don’t know if it Read more…
If you are new to licensing Microsoft products you are no doubt overwhelmed by the similarity of names Microsoft uses for its cloud products. In someway all of these relate to what the industry calls VDI or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and we have creates a free 30 minute “Zero to Read more…
When working on a Windows Server 2016 for a client in Houston I noticed a bang on the network so I opened the Network and Sharing Center to find The Dependency Service Or Group Failed To Start After some investigation I found Error 1068 – The Dependency Service or Group Read more…
We explain and demonstrate how Folder Redirection from Windows 10 / 11 to Windows Server 2022 works and doesn’t work! We assume you are a newbie and know very little about Windows Server or even Windows 10. We take you through the process step by step. To make this Windows Read more…
Have you ever wondered how Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon and others started developing new products/services at an almost exponential rate starting in the 2010’s? Well wonder no more . These companies all adopted new operating and development frameworks that has given them dramatic results: Image Source: Microsoft Before ITIL (Information Read more…
In this video we demonstrate all of the steps to rename a Windows Active Directory Domain using the rendom command. We also run into and solve two problems: Failed To Prepare DC Failed To find SPN LDAP Error Failed to delete rename script on the DN : Cannot complete this Read more…
If you are trying to tighten up your security by adding Virtualization-Based Security (aka VBS) to your Windows 11 you might find this error: Core Isolation Memory Integrity Incompatible Drivers WDCSAM64_PREWIN8.SYS Driver date: 11/29/2017 Driver version: 1.2.0.0 Published name: oem26.inf This is an old driver that ships with both Windows 10 Read more…