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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 readingRecently i had a situation where a user with a shared mailbox which had a ludicrous number of items. He recently started in the role and wanted to "start fresh" - but items could not be deleted. A quick investigation found that litigation hold had been enabled for the mailbox (in addition to our org…
Continue readingAfter the Crowdstrike BSOD's on 19/07/2024 - we have seen a significant uptick on clients not refreshing group policy. The machines in question can be identified via: The last update file date on C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\registry.pol being on or around 19/07/2024 (some were on the 20th or 21st for us) Event ID 1096 in the system event…
Continue readingRecently - i have had the following scenario: RDS Farm with 2 x DNS-RR brokers and approx 30 session hosts, all server 2022. Some session hosts, seemingly randomly, after a reboot will all look ok, but won't accept any connections. cycling the session host to not accept new connections/accept new connections would bring the server…
Continue readingDogs.... just fluffy balls of awesomeness right ? Just like we have health insurance, i got pet insurance for our first Golden Retriever - who turned 11 a last month, through Pet Insurance Australia... as they seemed to be ok-ish based on the online reviews... acknowledging that its incredibly difficult to discern a real review…
Continue readingMy Synology 2413+ 12 bay NAS recently died after 12 years of service. This NAS was primarily used as: an iSCSI backup target for Veeam Video recording for home security cameras Media storage Overall, i was pretty happy with the unit itself - but as per most companies these days, support was non-existent.... so when…
Continue readingFor a while i have had a niggling issue where on a DC that is used by a number of in-house coded applications, WinRM would fail intermittently with the following: Log : Microsoft-Windows-WinRM/Operational EventID : 142 Event Message: WSMan operation Enumeration failed, error code 2150859046 There isn't much to go on for this error when…
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 readingA while ago i joined an organisation whose MS estate was in need of a significant amount of love, time and effort. Getting them off of 2012 R2 DC's and onto 2022 DC's, upgrading the forest/domain functional levels and getting replication times down were the obvious first jobs... but once they were done - there…
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…
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