Is Microsoft downplaying support for ECC certificates?
Hi folks, does anyone have any insight into this statement Microsoft's trusted root program requirements page that was updated in Feb? Signatures using elliptical curve cryptography (ECC), such as ECDSA, are not supported in Windows and newer Windows…
Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Azure Edition VM deactivated in MS Azure due to lack of "Azure Stack Hypervisor"
Multiple Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Azure Edition VMs started to give the following pop-up We are a bit puzzled as all the servers having this issue are in located in MS Azure (East-US). We checked the connectivity to KMS and we are able to…
Server Essentials 2016 client machines show as removed
I've had to reinstall the Essentials experience on my WSE 2016 system due to some network issues with remote access. Everything is now back up and running, but all devices show as Removed in the dashboard, which means they aren't available for remote…
OU permissions
Hi All I have an Organizational Unit (OU) with 250 Active Directory (AD) groups. I have a few users and I want to grant them access to these 250 AD groups, specifically allowing them to add/remove members from the AD groups. Besides this access, I don't…
cURL Update
Are there any Microsoft solutions to address the finding below: Curl Use-After-Free < 7.87 (CVE-2022-43552) Nessus Plugin: 171859 PUBLISHED: Feb 23, 2023 LAST MODIFIED: Sep 1, 2023 IAVA:2023-A-0008 Path : C:\Windows\SysWOW64\curl.exe …
Is there any particular KB that would take care of curl update to 8.4.0
Is there any particular KB that would take care of curl update to 8.4.0 if yes what is that KB number?
Unable to change NTFS permissions regardless of Full Control access
Hello There's a folder on a server to which I have full control permissions. I need to add new security group to the folder. It should inherit permissions from parent folder, but it doesn't, I receive message " Failed to enumerate... Access…
Windows Server 2019 cannot write data despite having insufficient disk space
On my Windows Server 2019 machine, I'm unable to write data to a disk because of insufficient disk space even though Windows says I still have available space. This isn't happening with any other disks and I'm not sure why, or how to fix it. Can someone…
Adding and removing printers via Group Policy
I've got a legacy server (Server 2012) that had the company printers share on it. I want to remove if from the network. The printers, there are only 2, are currently shared on the new (Server 2022) server. So I went into GPME on the new server and set…
Driver update with a wsus server
Good morning, We have a WSUS server, I have carefully selected the drivers in the classifications. But I don't have any drivers coming down in updates. It created a "Pilot" entity but I only have cumulative updates in it. Is this normal? Thank…
Using Get-Certificate with a Microsoft CA
I would like to use Get-Certificate with a Microsoft CA. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/pki/get-certificate?view=windowsserver2022-ps The documentation doesn't really show many examples. Does anyone know how to do this?
Windows Backup failed to get an exclusive lock on the EFI system partition (ESP) - Symantec Endpoint Protection
Hello everyone. I have 30 odd Windows 10 & Windows 2019/2022 Servers that get this error randomly when performing a Bare Metal backup using Windows Backup to internal and external hard drives. Error: Windows Backup failed to get an exclusive…
LAN manager authentication level (NTLM) version and GPO problem
Hello My company running 1 AD forest and a few number of DCs.100 User PC. Domain functional level 2016, DCs are 2016 or 2019. Clients are at least Win10. Our audit found some NTLM v1 traffic (event id 4624) and suggest to disable it. I check our DC GPO…
PKI - Certification Authority (CA): IssuingCA, certificate with "unknown error"
Hi everyone, I have a couple of CAs that I manage, they are Enterprice CA with Root Server in workgroup (not in domain). I have an error in the IssuingCA regarding the certificate and I think it happens when the Root CRL expires, if I copy the Root…
Windows Server 2022 Backup intermittently fails with error "Failed to get an exclusive lock on the EFI partition. Access is denied."
Windows Server 2022 Backup intermittently fails with error "Failed to get an exclusive lock on the EFI partition. Access is denied." Happens on various live and test systems. I believe this must be a bug relating to Server 2022 as all our…
Website not working in production server but works in development machine
I'm using .NET Framework 4.8 and runtime 4.8 on production server running on Windows Server 2022 Standard. I've deployed our website to the production server using Web Deploy 4.0 without any problem. The website works fine on the development machine (no…
ASP.NET MVC area issue on IIS 10
I have an existing ASP.NET MVC application (on .NET 4.8), and I have recently added an area to the application (area is registered and the route is mapped). When I deployed the app to IIS, it works as expected on the local server (server-localhost:port),…
windows server remote Desktop User ID cannot be reused
We currently have a server providing remote connections for users to perform data queries. Recently, there have been issues with connecting to the server. Upon checking Task Manager, it was noticed that whenever the ID in the USER field approaches 900,…
remotewebaccess.com Anywhere access broken on Server 2016 Again?
Last year a similar issue occurred and by manually applying the registry edits from these two threads most seemed to resolve their issues: …
According to Microsoft, "i7-6500U Processor" *IS* Supported Under Windows 10, Version 21H1 ???
Here's something I wish someone can explain for us. So far, this makes no sense, & I'm puzzled. Here are real screen captures (provided that this format allows inline photos), as well as Microsoft's own documentation. Seeing should be believing?…