I have a weird one and i'm not sure where to go from here.  My account has been getting locked out of our AD controller constantly.  I tracked it down to my SpiceWorks Server (SW-Server) that has been the cause and i have been unable to find where in the server the old credential is cached.

Today i just got another PC and did a fresh load on it.  The original server was joined to the domain and using my user account for the login that SpiceWorks was loaded into.  The new server i just kept as a local user and is not joined to the domain.  I figured since its off the domain there cant be a way for it to lock my account out.  Guess i was wrong.  In the event logs (which are attached) its showing now that Spice-Server is locking my account.

This new server is not joined to the domain so i dont know how it could be reaching out and using my credentials (wrong ones) to lock out my account.  The only thing installed on the PC is the Spiceworks desktop and the restored database from the old Server.  We have Office365 so the SpiceWorks install is reaching to Office365 for the ticket emails not a local hosted exchange. I checked the Spiceworks service and it using the local user account not a domain one.

Attached is the event log from the old server and the new server.  Can anyone help me to figure out how its still locking me out.

Thanks in advance
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Hi,

I am trying to run the MS Access file via task scheduler.  Task Scheduler run on time and MS Access start in Task manager after one minute Excel also started but than nothing. Both process stay at task manager and nothing happen. I waited for hours. Please review the 1st image.
I tried everything adding path into trusted location. Please review 2nd image but same result. I need to End task both applications otherwise it will stay in task manager.

This is my code: If i run this code via command prompt than everything is working fine. If i create a task scheduler as per below code than MS Access/Excel start but stay in task manager.
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Microsoft Access 2010\MSACCESS.EXE" "C:\DbPath\DbName.mdb" /xMacroName
I create batch file of above code and run via task scheduler but same thing happened as I explain above.

Note: We are migrating the applications from Server 2012R2 to Server2016. Same code/procedure is working fine in windows server 2012R2. Means Task scheduler is working fine in 2012R2 but its not working with 2016. Both servers are work group and login user have full administrator rights.
Just let you know that I need to assign the Batch Job Rights to user via this link 'local group policy' " Batch Job Rights otherwise user receive the error. Please review 3rd image.

Please help me to  resolve this issue.

I had this question after viewing tool to generate passwords for active directory users.

I usually use this cmdlets to create users in AD using powershell:

import-csv C:\temp\ADUsers.csv | 
foreach {New-ADUser -name $_.name -displayName $_.displayname 
-OtherAttributes @{'company'= $_.company;'department'= $_.Department;'pager'= $_.pager;'mobile'= $_.mobile;'UserPrincipalName'= (“{0}@{1}” -f $_.name,”test.net”)} 
-Enabled $true }

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My issue is, I couldn't use the password generation cmdlets from the solution in this post tool to generate passwords for active directory users  in my script, I don't know how to make it work with my script, I'm not that professional in powershell.

any other cmdlets are welcomed :)

keep in mind that the password policy in my company is 9 characters at least, 1 capital letter at least, 1 small letter at least, and 1 number at least

Have a client running Server 2016 Standard R2 with Essentials Role. They were purchased by a larger company and are in transition. As part of the change, they are now using the new Owners VPN Solution, so the remote access feature of Server 2016 is not required (and is sometimes confusing users).

Not sure of the best way to remove it - just remove the Remote Access role? Will that remove the Network Connection link and the VPN Adapter from Network Connections (without causing any other  problems)? Or is there a better way of accomplishing this?

I don't care if the Remote Access solution stays in place (as it doesn't work anymore), I just don't want users to see the Link and Adapter.

See screenshot for details.

Is there any way to restrict  memory resource usage on windows server 2016 for each processes?  
I'm looking for a solution similar to cgroup memory restriction on Linux.

Hi Experts,

I like to upgrade to exchange 2019 from 2016.

Is it true ?
The domain level must be on 2012R2 ?

Can you give me article from MS ?

Hi, I have an odd question that would like to know what others are doing these days.  I know keep doing the same thing because that is they way it has always been done, isn't the best choice.

I am setting up a RAID 1 array on a HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 server with Smart Array P408i-a.  In addition, I have 3 HPE 300GB SAS / 12Gb/s HDD's.

So, my intent is to setup a RAID 1 array with a hot spare.

This will be supporting a Windows Server 2016 - Standard domain controller.


With all that being said, what strip size would you use in this scenario?  64KiB?  128KiB?  256KiB?


Currently, the default is 256KiB.


Just curious.


Thanks in advance.

HI,

I'm looking for help writing a batch file.

I want to use it as part of a start up GPO,

Install an MSI silently, if the folder already exists skip the install, report the results to a temp.log.

Can someone please assist - thanks

How to restrict CPU resource usage on windows server 2016?  I'm looking for a solution similar to cgroups in Linux(ex.CentOS).
Because of a environment restriction, I need to deploy two application on a same windows server. I want to restrict the cpu usage for each applications.

Hi,

I am using Server 2016
With dcdiag I get the following error:

Verzeichnisserverdiagnose


Anfangssetup wird ausgefÅhrt:

   Der Homeserver wird gesucht...

   Homeserver = MARS

   * Identifizierte AD-Gesamtstruktur.
   Sammeln der Ausgangsinformationen abgeschlossen.


Erforderliche Anfangstests werden ausgefÅhrt.

   
   Server wird getestet: Default-First-Site-Name\MARS

      Starting test: Connectivity

         ......................... MARS hat den Test Connectivity bestanden.



PrimÑrtests werden ausgefÅhrt.

   
   Server wird getestet: Default-First-Site-Name\MARS

      Starting test: Advertising

         Schwerwiegender Fehler: Fehler beim Aufrufen von DsGetDcName (MARS):

         1355

         Der Server wurde vom Locator nicht gefunden.

         ......................... Der Test Advertising fÅr MARS ist

         fehlgeschlagen.

      Starting test: FrsEvent

         ......................... MARS hat den Test FrsEvent bestanden.

      Starting test: DFSREvent

         FÅr den Zeitraum der letzten 24 Stunden seit Freigabe des SYSVOL sind

         Warnungen oder Fehlerereignisse vorhanden. Fehler bei der

         SYSVOL-Replikation kînnen Probleme mit der Gruppenrichtlinie zur Folge

         haben.
         ......................... Der Test DFSREvent fÅr MARS ist

         fehlgeschlagen.

      Starting test: SysVolCheck

         ......................... MARS hat den Test …

I have 2 VM's running on separate physical machines.  Both are running Windows server 2016.  We will have them running our ArcGIS mapping program but want one to be the main server everyone works off of and the other to only replicate the main server once a day and setup fail over in case something happens on the main.  Any help or advise on accomplishing this would be greatly appreciated.

Windows Server 2016 - How to encrypt date for storing and transporting.

Hi Experts,

I have a problem with a server and the the domain trust.
Some weeks ago the server was joined to the domain and ok.

Now after test-computersecurechannel I get the result false.
When I try to repair it I get the error :

Server is not operational

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Then I have changed the server to a workgroup.

Now I want to join back to the domain but it is not working.
I get the error :

The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.

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How to solve it ?