In part 1 of this series, I covered how to configure basic SSH on an Azure Arc-enabled server that allowed us to connect to any machine from anywhere in the world without needing a VPN or exposing that machine to the internet. Azure Arc blog overview: 1. Modern Server Management
What is Azure Arc Azure Arc is a Microsoft service that extends your Azure management and governance capabilities to your resources outside of Azure, and this can include on-premises servers, virtual machines, and other cloud environments. With Azure Arc, you can centrally manage, secure, and automate workloads across hybrid and
In this first Azure Arc Remote Management focused blogpost, let’s cover the OpenSSH extension and how it can be used to get a remote PowerShell connection over SSH and even a Remote Desktop Session, all without any direct network connectivity. The best part: It costs absolutely nothing! Join me in
Have you ever experienced unexplainable changes to your Windows Servers system time before? We sure have! And Microsoft has recently changed their recommendation on Secure Time Seeding which seems to be the root cause for these strange behaviors as described here. Microsoft has identified potential timekeeping issues in Windows Server
Today, Tuesday, October 10th, 2023 marks the end of service for Server 2012 (R2). Are you prepared and ready to go with Extended Security Updates? If not, read this post to get up to speed with the details of ESU’s. This blog post serves as a follow up to my
What’s Happening? Windows Server 2012 (R2) is approaching its end of support (EOS) date. Microsoft has officially set the clock, marking October 10, 2023, as the day when support for this trusted operating system will come to an end. This means no more security updates, patches, bug fixes, technical support,
Hi there. You might have heard of Microsoft Defender for Endpoints (MDE). It is a service that detects and responds on risk that has been discovered worldwide. I can wholeheartedly say the system works amazing and I am blown away of its reach and way to detect and respond immediately.
When playing around with RDS in your LAB, you might run in to the problem that you have exceeded your grace period. The RDS server will show the message: Remote desktop licensing mode is not configured. Remote desktop Services will stop working because this computer is past its licensing grace
You might see this warning on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 or when working with RDS/XenApp servers and libraries: Some library features are unavailable due to unsupported library locations. click here to learn more. Windows 7: Windows 8.1: And Windows 10: You will see this warning if you have
When using roaming profiles and Windows 10 you will notice that it creates V5 (version 5) profiles by default (.V5 extension) You might ask why version 5 but there is a good explanation: Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 could create V3 and V4 if a hotfix were used and a
Still working with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 Not that long ago I needed the KMS keys for Windows 2008 R2, but realized that I only had posted the keys for Windows 2012 and Windows 8.1 on this blog. http://larslohmann.blogspot.dk/2013/10/windows-81-and-windows-2012-r2-kms-keys.html Time to change this. The default KMS keys used
I often need a quick way to see how long a Windows box has been running, or actually when it was last restarted One way is to use the command net statistics workstation and find Statistics since: And of course PowerShell is nowadays also an option: Get-CimInstance -ClassName win32_operatingsystem |
In Windows 2012 R2 we have a very nice feature in the Group policy Management Console were we are able to run GPUpdate on all computers in a OU. On a OU holding for example RDS or Citrix servers this is very useful. But there is just one problem, users
In some test situations I need a fast way to have a SMTP host relay mail using a Gmail account. this is for example the case if I don’t have access to an internal SMTP host. First install the Feature SMTP Server: Start the Internet information Services (IIS) 6.0 Manager:
When you try to install Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Windows server 2012 R2 you might get the error The request to add or remove features on the specified server failed. The operation cannot be completed, because the server that you specified requires a restart. Restarting the server does
You might not be able to logon to your computer and Windows will sat that The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed. Typical this will mean that the secure channel with the domain is broken, as explained in this post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/asiasupp/archive/2007/01/18/typical-symptoms-when-secure-channel-is-broken.aspx Nowadays we are able to
Some times I need to install a printer driver silently, this could for example be in a SCCM Task Sequence. One way around this is to use the build-in tools in C:WindowsSystem32Printing_Admin_Scripts Lets try to install the HP Universal Printer Driver this way, by using the command: cscript “C:WindowsSystem32Printing_Admin_Scriptsen-USprndrvr.vbs” -a
Microsoft has released new version of RSAT for Windows 8.1. Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8.1 enables IT administrators to manage roles and features that are installed on computers that are running Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 from a remote computer that is running Windows 8.1.
Microsoft has released an update to existing KMS servers. (KB2885698) This update extends the Key Management Service (KMS) for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 to enable the enterprise licensing of Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. KMS
The default KMS keys used for volume licensing editions of Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 has been updated. KMS Client Setup Keys Operating system edition KMS Client Setup Key Windows 8.1 Professional GCRJD-8NW9H-F2CDX-CCM8D-9D6T9 Windows 8.1 Professional N HMCNV-VVBFX-7HMBH-CTY9B-B4FXY Windows 8.1 Enterprise MHF9N-XY6XB-WVXMC-BTDCT-MKKG7 Windows 8.1 Enterprise N TT4HM-HN7YT-62K67-RGRQJ-JFFXW Windows
The default KMS keys used for volume licensing editions of Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 has been updated. KMS Client Setup Keys Operating system edition KMS Client Setup Key Windows 8.1 Professional GCRJD-8NW9H-F2CDX-CCM8D-9D6T9 Windows 8.1 Professional N HMCNV-VVBFX-7HMBH-CTY9B-B4FXY Windows 8.1 Enterprise MHF9N-XY6XB-WVXMC-BTDCT-MKKG7 Windows 8.1 Enterprise N TT4HM-HN7YT-62K67-RGRQJ-JFFXW Windows
lately I have noticed that some of my customers is unaware of the hotfix rollup Microsoft has released for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 2008 R2 SP1. The hotfix includes many of the fixes needed in an enterprise environment, so it might be a good idea to take a closer
This is a short vbscript to pin programs to the taskbar. The script can for example be used in a login script. Set objShell = CreateObject(“Shell.Application”) Set oShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) Set ofso = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) strFile = “C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice12OUTLOOK.EXE” PinToTaskBar strFile = “C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice12WINWORD.EXE” PinToTaskBar
After cleaning yet another Windows 2003 Terminal server for Excessive Registry Entries in the users HKCU caused by the HP universal Printer Driver, we noticed that the ntuser.dat file in there roaming profile still was very large up to 20 MB. The reason for this is that even though we
Another error that has shown up lately is this error: Event filter with query “SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 WHERE TargetInstance ISA “Win32_Processor” AND TargetInstance.LoadPercentage > 99″ could not be reactivated in namespace “//./root/CIMV2” because of error 0x80041003. Events cannot be delivered through this filter until the problem is
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