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https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/windows-server-update-services-wsus-deprecation/ba-p/4250436 Not really surprising - there hasn't been any meaningful updates to WSUS for a very long time... there are improvements that could be made - but no appetite to make them.... i imagine because the cloud solutions have a direct cost (and are therefore revenue producing) whereas WSUS does not. The argument could be…
Continue readingScenario After updating the internal CA root certificate, AlwaysOn VPN stops working with an error (at the user end) of " A Certificate could not be found that can be used with this Extensible Authentication Protocol " In this case, we were using an Enterprise integrated CA and renewed the root using the same signing…
Continue readingAt the moment im cleaning up a very poorly designed and implemented file server structure. and before you say it - a large amount of data has been moved into teams/sharepoint/onedrive etc already - but the storage costs were getting excessive - so there is still plenty of data on prem. One of the issues…
Continue readingWhen using SConfig on a server core install, i was getting the following error had similar issues when trying to configure the NIC using powershell. Thanks very much to Mike and his post @ https://mikeconjoice.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/windows-server-core-error-swbemobjectex-invalid-index/ for pointing out that it was because IPv6 was not bound to the adapter. Using the following powershell worked for…
Continue readingYes, i know... no-one should be running Server 2012 anymore.... but due to this clients ludicrous outsourcing agreement, upgrading servers is simply too expensive - so they still have some 2012 (non-R2) Hyper-V hosts. Anyway - quite a specific issue In short - A server 2019 guest sitting on a Hyper-V 2012 (non-R2) host will…
Continue readingThis post is written in August 2022 - and may or may not current by the time you read this! Recently i was was refreshing a larg-ish RDP farm to newer OS's/version ready for an upgrade of the core business application. As part of this, new Server 2019-based RD Brokers were to be setup…
Continue readingGot a call from a client who was having issues with the SQL instance on their SCCM server - and investigation showed that the SQL service was crashing due to various memory errors (event log and SQL logs) - but the descriptions weren't overly helpful. The SQL exception.log shows errors such as 09/12/19 12:23:58 spid…
Continue readingIt's important that Windows time is set correctly - but how Windows time works seems to be a poorly understood area. In this article, I'll try to clear up the concepts and explain what is, in my opinion, the best way to implement time services throughout your domain(s). Background Windows, by default, will automatically set…
Continue readingAs a follow up to my article a few days ago on Always on VPN vs DA - http://www.hayesjupe.com/always-on-vpn-and-da-a-comparison/ - an employee of mine was having a test with some spare time today and came up with the following findings. Configured and tested the VPN server using L2TP/IPSec + PSK, User/Pass using MS-CHAP-V2 Attempted to…
Continue readingDate: 04/09/2018 For a while now, Microsoft salespeople have been telling customers that Direct Access is old technology and that Windows 10 always on VPN is the way to go. There are a number of points which are widely acknowledged when it comes to DA vs Always on VPN, most of which can be found…
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