how to Remove Minimum Password Age requirement from Windows Servers for Local Accounts
 
how Remove Minimum Password Age requirement for AD Accounts

how do i clone an existing group policy in active directory

as i need to assign to a new sub -OU

any steps?

What is the best method? Should virtual machines get their time from the PDC that is pointing to pool.ntp.org or from the ESXi host that is also pointing to pool.ntp.org?

are there any tools/features in windows server (2008 R2 & 2012 ) perhaps within the file server resource monitor app, that could help track down files containing personal/sensitive data on a drive/share on the server, or are tools of this nature 3rd party. Before looking further I wanted to double check we are not overlooking any tools that come with Windows Server before researching 3rd party solutions.

I have a powershell script that will kill/end a process on over 1000 servers.  However some servers show RPC is unavailable, how do you skip them automatically?

This is urgent as we are having major problems with our user environement.

I appreciate the help!

(Get-Content 'c:\Temp\Computers.txt') | ForEach-Object {
          Get-WmiObject -computer $_ -class win32_process  -filter "name = 'process.exe'" -credential $cred| %{$_.terminate()} | out-null
        }

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Get-WmiObject : The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)
At line:2 char:11
+           Get-WmiObject -computer $_ -class win32_process  -filter "n ...
+           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [Get-WmiObject], COMException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : GetWMICOMException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetWmiObjectCommand

Hi EE,

A SQL user (Windows AD auth) won't log via SSMS or any method. Below is the error message I initially get:

A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the login process. (provider: SSL Provider, error: 0 - The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted.)

Then when I enable trust server certificate I get:

Login failed for user ''. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 18456)

Troubleshooting so far;

- Delete the user entirely and recreating it no success.
- Make the sure the user has all the CONNECT TO access in Properties -> Securables.
- Set the default database to master.

This is the only login affected by this issue a possible GPO issue.
Any ideas any help is appreciated.

Thank you

I have a virtual 2008 R2 server running on VMWare that got corrupt this morning. I can not open control panel or Explorer. I get the error message “the server process could not be started because the configured identity is incorrect.”

I can’t get to system restore.

I can get to a command prompt. I tried scf /scannow and got an error “Windows Resource Protection could not start the repair service.” I also ran chkdsk but that did not help at all.

I saws a post about changing the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID{Key in the error message I get} to interactive user but that was already set.

Anyone have any ideas on how to recover this?

Do you have to take intermediate steps in upgrading to Windows server 2016, or can you upgrade directly?

Retrieve color printers from Windows Print Server

I have windows print server, I would like to have a script or Powershell command or any tools that can retrieve the Color Printers from Windows Print Server.

Thank you

we plan to migrate our servers from windows server 2008 to 2016 .
I have installed Distibuted file system in my domain on one domain contrller.
how can i configure it to replicate user profile from one server to another .

Hi Experts,

we have old DCs in use and a old PKI. The PKI has two stages.
The DC are with version WIN2008R2.

The new DCs are WIN2016.
Is it possible to migrate all PKI stuff to the new DC ?
Do you have a step by step plan ?

Hi, I am using Windows Server 2008 R2.
When I access through Remote Desktop, it seems a "defaul profile" is loaded (no icons, and so on).
If I open DOS Prompt, my path shows c:\users\temp.
I read some infos on Google but I would like to proceed safely to solve this.
My regedit shows this:


Thank you!

Hello Experts,

I have on server that is not installing updates.  The server is running Windows Server 2008 R2.  The update it is trying to install is the June 2019 security rollup (KB4503292).  Everything appears to install fine.  When I reboot, the updates appear to install up to about 84% and then I get the following message:

Failure configuring Windows updates
Reverting changes
Do not turn off your computer

In going through the windows update logs, I see the following:

2019-06-18      07:36:37:598      8808      2a40      Handler      Completed install of CBS update with type=3, requiresReboot=1, installerError=0, hr=0x0

2019-06-18      07:45:55:364      1336      1184      Handler      FATAL: UH: 0x8007045b: StartSession failed in CCbs::IsCbsPending

2019-06-18      07:53:38:993      1316      550      Handler      WARNING: Got extended error: "Generic Command      ErrorCode      80004005      Executable      bfsvc.exe      ExitCode      112      Phase      38      Mode      Install (upgrade)      Component      Microsoft-Windows-BootEnvironment-Core-MemoryDiagnostic, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, ProcessorArchitecture=x86, versionScope=NonSxS"

2019-06-17      10:06:39:493      1340      1cc0      Report      REPORT EVENT: {66CDBB9E-F362-4A32-9853-BE637B02603D}      2019-06-17 10:06:34:485-0700      1      182      101      {84167563-985E-4B02-AE56-EE75FA01E744}      201      80004005      AutomaticUpdates      Failure      Content InstallInstallation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80004005: 2019-06 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4503292).

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