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Domain computer account trust relationship failed after connecting system with old hard drive to network

As others have said already, the old operating system can't authenticate to the domain anymore, because the computer account has been reassigned to the new one; the only solution is to join the domain ...
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Domain computer account trust relationship failed after connecting system with old hard drive to network

The computer objects authenticates with a password, just like any other user. The trust relationship fails when the computer can't authenticate anymore towards the domain. In your case, you overwrote ...
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Domain computer account trust relationship failed after connecting system with old hard drive to network

Same name? Then yes, it is the same computer account and you just overwrite the keys for the trust relationship as they are stored under the computer in AD. There is nothing you can do now - really. ...
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How does the random delay option work?

Your understanding of the random delay is correct, you can find more details in the documentation: Task Scheduler - get_RandomDelay says: The specified random delay time is the upper bound for the ...
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Using Set-MpPreference to schedule Windows full and quick scans doesn't work

According to the documentation for the Set-MpPreference cmdlet, the -ScanScheduleTime parameter: Specifies the time of day, as the number of minutes after midnight, to perform a scheduled scan. On ...
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Edit C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts in Windows 10

The simplest way to work with hosts file is to run your editor as Administrator and then open hosts file for edit.
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How to start wireguard client on windows, in the background?

I found instructions for this at https://r-pufky.github.io/docs/services/wireguard/windows-setup.html Start-Process 'C:\Program Files\WireGuard\wireguard.exe' -ArgumentList '/installtunnelservice', '...
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Windows 10 Offline files synchronization monitoring

Start Event Viewer and go to Applications and services logs > Microsoft > Windows > Offline files. Then go to the View menu and choose Show analytic and debug logs which will give you some ...
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How to get name of BUILTIN\Users & BUILTIN\Power Users

To get the actual name of the BUILTIN\Users group, you may query for the Well-Known SecurityIdentifier (SID) that is always assigned to the group. Note that the group name may be anything, as it can ...
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How to restrict Outlook users not to modify rules

You can use Group policy for each users to disable users to modify/create the rules.(Because there isn't AD in your enviroment, it means you need to add it the GPO on each computer manually.) ...
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"Unknown token received from SQL Server" errors since recent Windows Updates

Sorry not answer, but not enough rep to comment. Same issue here. Affected a 2012R2 RDS deployment to a legacy app that uses ODBC's SQL Driver. All this is related to https://msrc.microsoft.com/...
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Clone a domain machine, rename the PC, join to the domain error

Windows is using machine IDs (the "SID") to join other security contexts, not (only) the name. Windows uses SIDs to represent not just machines, but all security principals. Security ...
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Laptop disk swap HDD to SSD

In case anyone else is coming up with the same issue. I fixed it with the following: Boot your computer from the Windows installation media. Press Next at Language options screen. Choose Repair your ...
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VMWare Workstation - Changing subnet settings for host-only network from Class C to Class B ( 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.0.0) on Windows Host

The error message is pretty clear: according to your subnet mask, you have 16 bits for the network address and 16 bits for the host address. However, your Subnet IP has some bits in the host part of ...
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How can I pull Minimum Password Length policy from Windows 10 registry?

Windows does not use the registry for storing and managing security policies. Security policies are stored in the security database. You can export them with the below command, and search for the ...
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Set up Wireguard Tunnel in Windows 10 With IP Forwarding

As it turns out, enabling the forwarding on both interfaces involved using Set-NetIPInterface -ifindex <interface index> -Forwarding Enabled from the above-mentioned article suffices, as I ...
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Windows-10 shared folder permission

Since you do not have a DC or you do not have any account manager implemented on your network, use the local SAM of that Windows that hosts the network share folder ("file server"). Create ...
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Stuck with 15 mins login-in message "Please wait for the User Profile Service" or "Welcome" on Windows 10

1 Logon as administrative user, then 2 download and run procmon, then 3 disconnect the session and switch to your problem user (procmon keeps running, since you only switch users, you don't logoff ...
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How does the random delay option work?

5x5 is 25, right, but... 1st run at 0:00 2nd at 05:00 3rd at 10:00 4th at 15:00 5rd at 20:00 Which would leave even 4 hours for the randomized delay, which is RANDOM, so it is between 0 minutes and 2 ...
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Having Trouble Identifying TCP Congestion Control Provider option: Default

Run in Powershell Get-NetTCPSetting | Select SettingName, CongestionProvider Congestion Provider can only be modified on windows server OS
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Folder/source code sharing options between linux guest and Windows host

How about use SMB or NFS? Both of them are windows features and can be set up easily. You can mount SMB or NFS folder on Linux VM.
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How does one configure Windows not to execute tampered binaries on Windows 10

Windows Defender Application Control might be the solution for you. It's the successor of AppLocker. I state that as the fact you use pro device make it hard to deploy AppLocker as you would need to ...
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How to start wireguard client on windows, in the background?

I found maybe easier option by: https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-windows/about/docs/enterprise.md wireguard /installtunnelservice C:\path\to\some\myconfname.conf
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What is the Windows "OneSettings service"?

This policy setting controls whether Windows attempts to connect with the OneSettings service to download configuration settings. The recommended state for this setting is: Enabled. This service ...
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One remote RDP user often gets stuck on "Please wait for the local session manager" from a shared virtual Windows Server 2019; others work

I have found the temporary solution. You may reboot remote host without RDP-login to it from other windows machine in domain. 192.168.111.11 is the remote IP address: shutdown.exe /r /f /m \\192.168....
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Why do some VPN clients slow down the network connection even when they are not it use?

Had the same problem... For the ease of use to enable/disable FortiClient NDIS Packet Filter Driver I've made two Powershell commands: Enable: powershell -Command "Enable-NetAdapterBinding -Name ...
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How do I debug crashing application from inside docker and prevent it from terminating?

You can, i needed to add single package to existing docker for my Python app to work and didnt want to wait for build time. docker run container_name tail -f /dev/null Then get in via docker exec -it ...
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Can I use always on VPN device tunnel on Windows 10 Pro

Currently supported and recommended solution is to use Enterprise edition to have Device Tunnel with fallback to User Tunnel. As I know it is possible to configure Device Tunnel for Profesional ...
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Connect to Postgres running on the Windows host from WSL2?

I had to do the following for it to work in my environment (Windows 11, WSL2 - Debian). On the Linux file system: Open or create the file ~/.bash_profile Add this line: export WINDOWS_HOST=$(cat /etc/...
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Install OpenSSH client in Windows without internet access

I know this is a very old post. But in case anyone is still finding it, there is now a very easy way to install the SSH server offline. Download the latest msi from Microsoft's github. The latest when ...

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