Questions tagged [microsoft]
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Freezing in multiple boot modes
We have a Dell R220 running Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard that has begun freezing during the boot process after doing a routine reboot. Specifically, once the Windows logo with the black background appears it freezes and won't move past that…

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Conditional Forwarder being ignored
It seems that DNS conditional forwarders are being ignored on a Windows 2012R2 server and I can't figure out what is going on exactly.
Situation as is explained:
There are two sites A + B with two domains X + Y.
Site A:
Domain X / Network:…

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Failover SQL cluster to DR site using replication
I am attempting to fail over a SQL cluster with 2 nodes using Zerto replication. I am running Server 2016 Standard and SQL 2017 standard.
My network is not stretched, so I need to failover using a different vlan.
I am only attempting to bring up…

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Get-ADUser WhenChanged and WhenCreated are empty for some users
I've built a PowerShell 5.1 script to export all the users in the DB and save all the data in to a CSV file. The script allows you to set a date back in time so you can decide since when you'd like your users to be exported.
After some testing a…

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Upgrading SQL Server (2014) Express to Standard
I have a server running SQL Server 2014 Express Edition that is fast approaching the 10GB limit for a database.
I've now purchased SQL Server 2014 Standard and wish to use it. SQL Server is no longer available by boxed copy, so, I purchased it on…

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Only allow a certain drive when using RDS drive redirection
I have an RDS farm setup on Windows Server 2012R2. The clients that use this RDS farm all come from the same network. There's a shared drive (let's call it \\shared) on this network that all the clients can use.
Currently I have a GPO policy Windows…

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How to install Microsoft IPP Class Driver for printer?
I am deploying a network printer for our office users using CUPS 2.2.7 on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. Tests on my machine (Windows 10 20H2) run fine from my computer when I use the printer driver Microsoft IPP Class Driver.
The problem is: I can't find…

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How to remove AdmPwd Permission from BUILTIN\Users (MS LAPS)
I've deployed MS LAPS to manage local admin passwords and all is working fine, except that non-privileged users are able to access the local admin password, in both Powershell and LAPS UI.
Running the command below shows me that in addition to the…

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Is there a tool or method to see if a Windows DNS server is answering DNS requests from clients?
I need to decommission a 2008 server that was one of 4 DC's in the domain within the same subnet/site location. I was able to decom 2 others without issue for the most part but the last one I did caused issues with a few static devices 'losing…

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How to add CPU core licenses (I've already purchased) to Windows Server Standard 2019?
I have purchased a 24-core server (Dual 12 core CPU's). I installed Windows Server Standard 2019, which comes by default with 16 cores.
I want to use the additional 8 CPU cores, so I purchased two additional 4-core licenses for Windows Server 2019…

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The resource type could not be found in the namespace 'Microsoft.Network' Error
Currently, my team trying to automate ExpressRoute provisioning and configuration using Azure Management API and we are experiencing the error
The resource type could not be found in the namespace 'Microsoft.Network' for api version '2019-07-01'.
We…

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AD Mail enabled security group explained
Need an explanation of how the "mail enabled security group" work compared to "security group", when giving fullaccess and sendAS permissions on a shared mailbox.
Since giving fullaccess with a "AD Security group" won't automap the mailbox in…

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Give members of dynamic distribution group full access to shared mailbox
For one of our costumers I have created a new shared mailbox on their exchange server. The users that they want me to give full access are already filtered in a dynamic distribution group. I have tried to look up ways to add these members with full…

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Query regarding Azure SQL database setup
I am new to Azure and I am required to create a Azure SQL database. So far I have created a Azure SQL server and post that sql database.
Now my main concern comes as to how to access that database? do we really require a virtual machine for that?

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Advantages of Microsoft Enterprise Mode Schema v.2 over v.1?
Title explains it really. The company I work for is considering changing their Enterprise Schema from v.1 to v.2. I am aware that there are structural changes to the coding, however I am not aware of any prominent advantages.
From a performance…

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