Showing posts with label windows server 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label windows server 2012. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Connect to WS2012 WSUS Internal Database

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To connect to the Windows Internal Database (WID) WSUS, install SQL Management Studio and connect to the server using: \\.\pipe\ MICROSO...
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Active directory or sysvol is not accessible on this domain controller or an object is missing

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I saw this error message on Group Policy Management when I did a status check on the AD replication. All domain controllers were stuck with ...
Monday, May 12, 2014

WS2012 Domain Controllers stop replication after Power Outage

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We had some power outage and noticed newer Group Policy Objects (GPOs) weren't replicated across the AD. After running dcdiag /a diagno...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Rebuilding WID Database for WSUS in Windows Server 2012

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If you're using Windows Internal Database (WID) for WSUS in WS2012 and you think you've screwed the configuration, you can force the...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Direct RDP login into Virtual Desktop Pool with Smart Card (Windows Server 2012)

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In my earlier post, I've explored about Single Sign On for WS2012 Virtual Desktop. Normally, we have to login through the Remote Connect...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Remove active filter drivers that could interfere with CSV operations

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One of my cluster nodes had DPM previously installed on it. As a result, I would get re-directed Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) whenever it is ...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Moving Roaming User Profiles files to another Server using WSMT

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I have tried using "robocopy" and even Windows backup to transfer roaming user profiles (RUP). There would be surely files that I ...
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Monday, September 2, 2013

How to enable Remote Desktop remotely using Powershell

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In Windows Server 2012, remote management is enabled by default but not Remote Desktop. To enable RDP on the server, add the target server t...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Cert Template MMC Crashed on WS2012 whenever Key Archival was enabled

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Cert Template MMC (CertTmpl.msc) on WS2012 crashed whenever the archive key check-box was enabled as shown in red box below. A technica...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Hyper-V (WS2012) Backup on Guest VM (WS2008)

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If you're running backup jobs (e.g. DPM2012) on WS2012 Hyper-V with older guest VMs (e.g. WS2008), you might encounter this error: ...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Failover Cluster Manager Console keeps crashing on WS2012

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If your new Failover Cluster Manager console keep crashing on WS2012 and the error message is something like: "A weak event was creat...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Windows Server 2012 Consistent Device Naming (CDN)

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The new SCVMM 2012 SP1 supports bare-metal host deployment. I was wondering if the host has multiple network connections, how would the righ...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Cloning Virtual Domain Controllers

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A new feature of Windows Server 2012 is the cloning of Domain Controllers. This is a rapid way to deploy new Domain Controllers in virtual ...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

New MS2012 Dynamic Access Control (DAC) for BYOD?

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One major new feature in Windows Server 2012 is the introduction of Dynamic Access Control (DAC). At the first glance, it seems to be repla...
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Monday, February 4, 2013

Moving WSUS Content Store

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The content of WSUS is growing exponentially and the storage is nearly full. To move the existing content to a bigger LUN, Wsusutil.exe is t...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

SQL 2012 Installation: Missing NetFx3

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When I installed MS SQL Server 2012, there was an error "Error while enabling Windows feature: NetFx3". NetFx3 refers to the .NET...
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Monday, January 7, 2013

Powershell: Quickly view installed Windows feature

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To quickly view a list of installed Windows feature using Poweshell on Windows Server: PS > Get-WindowsFeature | Where-Object {$_.Insta...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Hyper-V Network Virtualization Test

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To extend further on my earlier basic testing on Hyper-V network virtualization , I have included cross-sites connection with physical netwo...
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Friday, December 14, 2012

Enabling Hyper-V Network Virtualization to route across IP subnets in Provider Address Space

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I've just tested out the new Microsoft SDN (a.k.a network virtualization) in Hyper-V 3.0. In summary, Hyper-V network virtualization en...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Basic Networking of SCVMM 2012 SP1 Beta

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The new Windows Server 2012 has a new feature that supports NIC teaming natively. After configuring Hyper-V NIC teaming on two hosts, I clu...