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issue when trying migration via Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
I want to migrate my Esxi VM from on promise to Azure cloud. I've found solution which provides it to me. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter, provides migrating to Azure Cloud.
During migration ...
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How to deal with Microsoft and Google agressive spam policies?
Introduction: I have run my own mail server for more than 10 years, and I never had any problem with Gmail, so far. But I needed to complain regularly (like every year) to Hotmail, because they were ...
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Support staff can reset some User passwords but not all?
In our environment we have two AD-accounts per person, one user level account and one admin level account.
Our support-staff can only reset user level accounts, which is good but I can't figure out ...
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Microsoft SDN service templates deployment and editing
I’m playing around SCVMM 2016 SDN Express to see if I’d be able to deploy VMM SDN within my lab using PowerShell scripts. I don't have much practice in things like these, so please bear with me 😊
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How to install Microsoft IPP Class Driver for printer?
I am deploying a network printer for our office users using CUPS 2.2.7 on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. Tests on my machine (Windows 10 20H2) run fine from my computer when I use the printer driver ...
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Microsoft RemoteApp via TS Gateway initial connection load very long (over 2 minutes)
The Enviroment
We do have a RemoteApp Terminalserver, based on a Windows Server 2016. Latest Updates are installed. We have provisioned multiple apps through this server. There is one Session ...
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Active Directory setup with multiple branches
I am looking to get started with AD, only used it briefly before.
Our business currently does not use AD at all, however, we are thinking of setting it up. We have one head office branch, and then ...
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To reverse proxy Exchange or not
Currently I run Forefront TMG to reverse proxy Exchange 2010 to the outside world.
I am now preparing an Exchange 2016 environment and with Forefront TMG getting obsolete, I want a solution without ...
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Difference Between Build and Release Agents - DevOps
Could somebody please explain the difference between build and release agents in the simplest of terms? This relates to Azure DevOps. I find info on build agents from Microsoft but I haven't found ...
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OneDrive on RDS Windows stuck listing folders and files
This is a bit awkward because I've already wasted tons of hours with no result, this is my last chance.
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OneDrive sometimes (90%) is stuck on loading folders and files, but just listing them. ...
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DNS anycast on Windows Domain Controller
Is Windows 2016/2019 DC DNS (AD integrated zones) capable of supporting anycast? Can workstations perform secure dynamic update on anycast DNS? Thanks!
Already read the below article but didn't ...
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Offline Server update
I have 3 machines that are completely shielded from the internet (Air gapped). I have a LARGE list of KBs from Microsoft that I need to download and install (Something like 200). I can NOT put the ...
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Windows unattended setup failed - 'specified image file does not exist'
I am trying to do an unattended install of Windows 10 Professional using an answer XML file I created. I'm booting off a USB, and receiving the error:
Windows could not collect information for [...
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Is there a tool or method to see if a Windows DNS server is answering DNS requests from clients?
I need to decommission a 2008 server that was one of 4 DC's in the domain within the same subnet/site location. I was able to decom 2 others without issue for the most part but the last one I did ...
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Enterprise Root CA and Firefox only SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER error
So, I went down the route of setting up an enterprise CA in my domain so we can enable SSL on our internal web apps. For my test base, I am using XAMPP on Windows with a .local FQDN. I am using ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Freezing in multiple boot modes
We have a Dell R220 running Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard that has begun freezing during the boot process after doing a routine reboot. Specifically, once the Windows logo with the black background ...
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How to add CPU core licenses (I've already purchased) to Windows Server Standard 2019?
I have purchased a 24-core server (Dual 12 core CPU's). I installed Windows Server Standard 2019, which comes by default with 16 cores.
I want to use the additional 8 CPU cores, so I purchased two ...
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Microsoft Telemetry Data
I work at a large company and started digging through firewall logs to get my head around the network and what is going on. I noticed a HUGE amount of traffic going to 72.21.81.240. I cross-correlated ...
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Defender ATP public IP addresses
Does anybody know the IP addresses Microsoft uses for their Defender ATP Service?
I can find the associated domain names but not a reliable source of the IP addresses being used.
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Get-ADUser WhenChanged and WhenCreated are empty for some users
I've built a PowerShell 5.1 script to export all the users in the DB and save all the data in to a CSV file. The script allows you to set a date back in time so you can decide since when you'd like ...
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Only allow a certain drive when using RDS drive redirection
I have an RDS farm setup on Windows Server 2012R2. The clients that use this RDS farm all come from the same network. There's a shared drive (let's call it \\shared) on this network that all the ...
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Failover SQL cluster to DR site using replication
I am attempting to fail over a SQL cluster with 2 nodes using Zerto replication. I am running Server 2016 Standard and SQL 2017 standard.
My network is not stretched, so I need to failover using a ...
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Upgrading SQL Server (2014) Express to Standard
I have a server running SQL Server 2014 Express Edition that is fast approaching the 10GB limit for a database.
I've now purchased SQL Server 2014 Standard and wish to use it. SQL Server is no longer ...
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How to remove AdmPwd Permission from BUILTIN\Users (MS LAPS)
I've deployed MS LAPS to manage local admin passwords and all is working fine, except that non-privileged users are able to access the local admin password, in both Powershell and LAPS UI.
Running the ...
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Conditional Forwarder being ignored
It seems that DNS conditional forwarders are being ignored on a Windows 2012R2 server and I can't figure out what is going on exactly.
Situation as is explained:
There are two sites A + B with two ...
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Good Reasons for Not Disable the Windows SMB Service by Default?
Apart from File Sharing what are good reasons to not disable the Windows SMB service by default on a corporate environment?
This protocol seems to have a lot of security vulnerabilities and been ...
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TLS 1.2 with RSA vs ECDSA Ciphers
Microsoft has reported that it will only support TLS 1.2 with at least one of the following ciphers:
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
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What determines the CRL expiration date and validity in PKI?
I'm working with Microsoft's Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and I'm interested to know more about how the expiration date of a CRL is determined and how it can be adjusted in a Microsoft PKI ...
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Windows 10 Expired Releases
In the Microsoft link below, are the Windows 10 releases listed with an expired "End date", still covered by the Windows patching cycle?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/...
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Microsoft Outlook Autodiscover With Private Email Server
I have a linux based mail server (not Microsoft Exchange) at mail.example.com
I host email for multiple domains at this server: example1.com, example2.com, example3.com, etc
I have a mail client ...
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How to remove Exchange log files?
How to remove Exchange log files?
These files really eat up my storage.
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Microsoft hosts domains that redirect to mine. Is there an innocuous explanation?
Facebook alerted me that some SSL certificates have been issued that potentially phish one of our domains:
The detailed view for one of these entries is as follows:
When I access one of these ...
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MS Azure AD connect & Exchange hybrid deployment
I have a MS Small Business Server 2010 server with Exchange. We have looking to migrate to O365.
I deployed a new Windows 2019 server (the SBS machine's UI was painfully slow) and promoted that to the ...
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Check if Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) is installed
There are different instructions online to show that you have Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) enabled as a dependency to install WSL 2 and Docker. The simplest way is to run "systeminfo....
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Could Intune be the cause of unwanted restarts?
I have an Intune environment that I am currently working on pushing out an endpoint protection profile. There was an older endpoint protection profile that only pushed app control as "audit-only&...
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AD Mail enabled security group explained
Need an explanation of how the "mail enabled security group" work compared to "security group", when giving fullaccess and sendAS permissions on a shared mailbox.
Since giving fullaccess with a "AD ...
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Query regarding Azure SQL database setup
I am new to Azure and I am required to create a Azure SQL database. So far I have created a Azure SQL server and post that sql database.
Now my main concern comes as to how to access that database? ...
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PHP performance benchmarking between Windows and Linux [closed]
I'm trying to look around for any reliable PHP performance benchmarking test between Windows Server vs Linux. To be specific, this is what I'm going after:-
PHP 7.2
Windows Server 2012
Linux Ubuntu
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MS Azure VM drive mess
I'm new to Azure and I already hate it :D
Anyway, I'm trying to do a simple task - create a VM with 8 cores, >=8GB RAM, 128GB drive (gonna run Ubuntu server on it). Just ONE OS drive. Nothing else.
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Migrate to two-tier PKI (Microsoft)
Currently, I have one online enterprise root-ca (and issuing certificates - default templates) that installed on DC (yes, yes I know - worst case scenario). I set another offline not joined to a ...
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How to get infromation about disk location (like in diskmgmt.msc) via Powershell?
could you please help me how to get disk location number which can be found via Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) for future VMware SCSI Disk devices assosciation via PowerShell or any other native ...
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Best way to handle Leavers? - Office365 Enterprise E3
I manage a tenant of about 30 users.
I have three accounts that belong to past employees, and I don't know what to do with them. They have long since left, but our firm has a Data Retention Policy ...
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Domain integration with Active Directory
Am new to Microsoft Active directory and tried referring the guides for one of the activity. But still not clear how we can achieve it. Scenario goes as below..
Our company has an Active Directory ...
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Troubleshooting issues joining computers to a new'ish domain - meaning when built six months ago joining worked
I'll begin with a cold-start with some background at the end.
While adding a computer to domain 'MyDomain.local' an error occurred:
An Active Directory Domain Controller (AD DC) for the domain
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Unable to create a script that list shared link for SharePoint that I am not owner or member
I am looking for a script that lists all shared links for one (or all) SharePoint sites, got one that you can specify the site, put your credentials and it generates a CSV report. Works fine, but I ...
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GPO VBS Script does not run at startup
I need to setup a GPO that execute a VBS script at Startup.
I already create a script and test it without GPO and works perfectly, but when I do gpupdate /force and restart computer, nothing changes.
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Web application - Integrated windows authentication issues with layer 4 load balancer
Evening folks
We currently have an internally developed web application that is hosted on IIS using Windows Authentication.
Our users use Edge in IEMode to connect to our web app - currently they don’...
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Exchange 2016 CU23 giving error "upgrade the discovery mailboxes to R5 version"
We have a hybrid 2016 Exchange setup that needs cumulative update 23. I have been stuck on this same error for some time now. In my research I have found that the issue has to do with needing the ...
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MS server 2016 terminal gets freezes during user login with profiles disk
We have Hypervisor and there are a few vms, one of them is MS server 2016 with last updates as terminal server. We use profiles disk for users. Lately we started to get enormous freezes at this ...
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Extending Managed Microsoft AD to on-premises Servers
I'm researching the possibility of extending Managed Microsoft AD to a secondary Active Directory creating a basic replication structure between primary AD (GCP) and secondary AD (on-prem). Apparently ...
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