Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 & 2022 How To’s
If you are seeing this message when working on a PowerShell script that is trying to connect to a Microsoft service requiring MFA (multi factor authentication), you may notice that the window is actually Internet Explorer: The solution is to set all of the Microsoft pages to be Trusted Sites Read more…
If you see the following error when trying to rename a computer or join a computer to an Active Directory Domain, there is a simple fix: “The following error occurred attempting to join the domain. This device is joined to Azure AD. To join an Active Directory Domain you must Read more…
We recently had a client that removed Microsoft teams from a server and they wanted all of the residue from each user profile deleted. A quick check showed that there was three folders under each user that we needed to delete in order to reclaim the space on the server Read more…
Windows Update Error 0x80070002 Generally means that there is a corrupt file in the windows update download cache. Easiest way to fix this is to simply stop the Windows Update service and then delete the entire windows update cache before attempting the Windows Update again. Try you Windows Update again. Read more…
We recently dealt with a series of clients who were having difficulty installing a January 2024 Windows Update KB5034441 because it inquired required the Windows Recovery Partition to be at least 200MB in size and they just didn’t have it. If you’re working on physical machines, it’s not a problem Read more…
It is not uncommon for users and even newbie techs to think that files are on your computers’ hard drive are being processed directly by the CPU, but they are not. The CPU cannot work on files from hard drive, because it is far too slow. To manipulate files, the Read more…
.PEM files (Privacy Enhanced Mail) are often used to store cryptographic keys. They can contain a private key, a public key, or both. It’s important to note that if a .pem file contains a private key, it should be kept secure to prevent unauthorized access. The .pem file format is Read more…
Anyone that’s worked on WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) knows that you need to run the server cleanup wizard from time to time. Strangely, however the WSUS GUI does not provide a mechanism to schedule the WSUS server cleanup wizard to run. Fortunately you can easily do this through command Read more…
If you’ve worked on a domain, you know how important it is to have all of your servers and clients running at exactly the same time. When they get out of sync things get ugly. You can use the w32tm command-line tool to diagnose problems occurring with Windows Time. From Read more…
Modern Setup Host, also known as SetupHost.exe, is a core component of the Windows Operating System. It’s a system process which prepares your computer for updates and facilitates the system setup when you upgrade your OS newer version (i.e. Windows 11 20H1 to 20H2 or Win10 to Win11). What Is Read more…
If you have an on premise Active Directory and you’re trying to use Microsoft Office 365 or Azure services, you’ve probably already set up Azure Entra Connect (formerly Azure AD Connect, and sometimes called Azure Entra ID Connect) on one of your servers to sync your directory. One of the Read more…
We recently had a customers server have several User Profile issues and we were not able to log onto the server. The solution was to delete the user profiles remotely using this simple PowerShell command which was:
Today we rebooted some servers and found this error: About The Maximum Envelope Size in the WS Management The Maximum Envelope Size in the WS Management service in Windows refers to the maximum size of a packet that can be sent or received by the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service. Read more…
We’ve recently had a situation in which users in most offices could connect to our DFS namespaces without any problem at all, but users in two of the remote offices would just receive connection errors. It is recommended that you have at least one DFS server in each site but Read more…
We have used DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) tools for many years but were surprised to see this message popup on a users Windows 11 desktop: App or process blocked: DismHost.exeProtected folder: \Device\Harddisk\Volume3Blocked by: Controlled folder access Most companies and users are not using Controlled Folder Access feature in Read more…
If you are seeing this error message in your event log, there are most likely one of two solutions: Windows System Event LogA corruption was discovered in the file system structure on volume \?\Volume{0014fd0c-0000-0000-0000-500600000000}. The Master File Table (MFT) contains a corrupted file record. The file reference number is 0x200000000e88d. Read more…