I had a large customer where all clients stopped downloading updates in November 2016. Even after building a new WSUS server, clients would...
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Showing posts with label Windows Server General. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows Server General. Show all posts
WSUS Console Freezes when the Server Cleanup Wizard
A common administration task of maintaining a WSUS server is cleaning up old legacy updates no longer required running the Server Cleanup Wi...
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Error 0x800f0922 attempting to reprovision DHCP Server
We needed to re-provision a DHCP server running Windows Server 2012 R2 which was recently demoted and the role removed. When attempting to ...
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Disable RC4 on Windows Servers
The 13 year old RC4 cipher exploit is enabled by default on Server 2012 R2. If you have a IIS server using a digital certificate facing the...
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How to Patch Windows Server 2003 with Error 0x80072EFF
I have a customer who has 3 forests all running Exchange 2003 on Windows Server 2003... yes in the year 2016 (almost 2017). Before moving t...
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Direct Access Server not displaying Connection Statistics
A customer of mine had an issue with a Direct Access Server not displaying connection statistics. My clients are connecting to the server w...
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The Danger of the Local Administrator Account
The local administrator account resides on every Windows Server and is usually in an enabled state. This account is a major security vulner...
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Error downloading unsupported File Types with IIS
A customer of mine was complained that when users attempted to download unknown file types, they received a "404 - File or directory no...
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DFSR Event ID 6404 - The Replicated Folder has an Invalid Local Path
I was attempting to add a new DFSR node to an existing DFSR Replication Group consisting of 17 file servers. When adding the server the fol...
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