Windows VM server 2016 crashing after updates are applied.
Hi, Can someone please help/advise. We have 2 VM's but have updates ready to be installed, these are - KB5054006 Servicing stack update & KB5053594 Cumulative Update for Windows, every time we apply these updates and restart the VM's they are stuck…
WinRM service could not start
Hi, our domain joined windows 2019 standard server is unable to start WinRM service. There is an even in system eventlog 10119: The WinRM service is unable to start because of a failure during initialization. Additional Data The error code is…
Microsoft Desired State Configuration 3.0
Hi, I know that Microsoft Desired State Configuration 3.0 is still in preview, but I am interested in some documentation where I can find how to do things now (push config to remote servers, configure periodic checks for config drifts now when LCM is no…
Hyper V - SR-IOV Virtualisation Passthrough - WindowsAdminCenter
Hi all, I'm off my meds and had some time. After a caffeinated deep dive, I now have diarrhoea but no answers, so am crawling cap in hand to the community! Mission statement/desired outcome: It has been a hope to get Hardware Decoding/Encoding working…
Windows Event Forwarding
I am trying to configure Windows Event Forwarding -source initiated event forwarding- using two Windows Server 2016 Version 1607 computers(Source) and Windows Server 2019 Version 1809. I completed the following steps, but it seems collector server…
Block Notepad
Hi All, We have requirement from Client that we need to block only JavaScript file (.JS) to be open using notepad. Can anyone please let me know if this is achievable or not , if yes, how can we achieve it. Thanks

WFC failover
Hello! I have a two-node WFC which is used for the AlwaysON AG. I'm used to monitor cluster failovers by 1641 events from FailoverClustering source: it usually displays something like "Cluster role "Role1" is moving from NODE1 to…
Windows Server Firewalling Internal Networking and CLients
Dear community, good morning. As I had this discussion before with someone here, but can at present not find the appropriate thread, I re-create the discussion with this post. Firewalling is enabled by default. Which is a good thing. But it is totally…
After DC change, internet dns resolve problem
Hello. We are a small business with 20 clients and 2 Windows Server 2022. Before that we had 2 Windows server 2016 and replaced by 2022. Old DC1: gasvr 192.168.128.1 Old DC2: svr2016 192.168.128.2 New DC1: gasvr24 192.168.128.3 New DC: svr2022…
Win2022 RDS creating UPD for admins not even in a collection
Hello Community, I just created a simple Remote Desktop Services (RDS) setup and enabled User Profiles Disks (UPD). When I connect directly to a session host (mstsc /admin) with a domain admin which is not member of any collection, it creates a UPD. I…

Domain issue with / and The “Trust Relationship Between This Workstation And The Primary Domain Failed”
Hi, We have a domain with Windows 2022 Server and many machines that all joined that domain. Sometimes the user cannot login to the domain (with RDP or locally) and getting the Error Trust Relationship Between This Workstation And The Primary Domain…
Avoid or minimize performance-resources when copying large files from one Windows Server onto another different Windows Server?
Hello, I have the following two Windows Server VMs: WindowsServer2019_Production WindowsServer2022_Archive Both server names in my above examples are what they're serving as. I have a PowerShell [CopyFiles.ps1] script file that resides and will run…
application issue after windows server 2019 win update
Greetings we have our inventory software running on 3 locations 3 networks 2 location application hosted on local server windows 2016 and we have no issue the problem the 3rd location we replaces and install new server windows 2019 and when we run the…
GPO WMI Filter for Non-Activated Windows and Office
What is the correct WMI filter to use in a Group Policy Object (GPO) for targeting non-activated versions of Windows and Office in a domain environment?
How do I modify the id_token content generated by ADFS? For example, I want to change the "sub" field. Or how do I add a field, for example, I want to add an "on_premises_account" field
I modified the claim rules in the trusted party trust in ADFS so that access_token can be changed, but id_token cannot be changed.
Activating Windows Server Version 1607 (OS Build 14393.693) with the key of Version 1607 (OS Build 14393.2273)
I purchased four copies of Windows Server 2016 Version 1607 (OS Build 14393.2273) in 2019 and installed them on four servers. Recently, I formatted two of these servers. Unfortunately, I no longer have the original installation DVD for this version. To…
Unable to RDP to Azure VM
Hello, I have RDS server configured and I was able to RDP into the server. However, not sure what has changed but I'm no longer able to connect. I see the following error when attempting to connect. The connectivity test all comes back as successful but…
Activating Windows Server 2022 Standard Edition Evaluation
I am trying activate windows server 2022 standard edition evaluation on an air-gapped network. I installed Windows Server 2022 from an ISO and configured it as the desktop experience, and I skipped the product key step. At the moment, there is no product…
how do I mount nfs per system persistent and share as windows share
I'd like to share an NFS share writable to SMB clients. I need to mount an NFS3 folder persistently to get re-shared to windows client via standard "net share".
Server Manager problem: Online - Data retrieval failures occurred
I have two brand new servers running version 2025 std. On server DCB01 I cannot retrieve the data from DCB02 in Server Manager and On server DCB02 I cannot retrieve the data from DCB01. Any thoughts on how to fix this? All other servers I have running…