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In Place Upgrade Of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard To Enterprise Or...
If you need to upgrade a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard to either the Enterprise, or Datacenter editions, it’s possible to do so online, without re-installing Windows. Open an elevated...
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Adding Domain Users To The Local Administrators Group Using Group Policy
Adding AD users to the local administrators group on multiple computers is simple using Group Policy. In this post I’ll describe the process. Create a fresh group policy object (GPO) and link it to a...
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Create A Dedicated Account To Join Computers To A Domain
This is a quick post to describe the process of creating a dedicated account for joining machines to an Active Directory (AD) domain. This is useful for things like System Center Configuration Manger...
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Fully Disable User Account Control In Windows Server 2012 & Windows Server...
Disabling User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Server 2012 & Windows Server 2012 R2 should be simple; open Control Panel -> User Accounts, click on Change User Account Control settings, select...
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Hyper-V VM Stuck In Backing Up… State
In this post I’ll show how to resolve the issue of a VM that’s stuck in the “backing up…” state as shown by Hyper-V Manager, without having to reboot the virtual host. If a VM is stuck in the backing...
View ArticleRemotely disable Network Level Authentication (NLA)
If you try to RDP to a machine, but can’t because you receive the error below, you can use PSExec to remotely disable the requirement for NLA. “The remote computer that you are trying to connect to...
View ArticleDisabling WPAD on Windows Server 2012 R2 for SCDPM, Azure Backup Server and...
When using SCDPM 2016 with an Azure Recovery Services Vault I needed to bypass the web proxy for data transfer from SCDPM to the Azure Recovery Services Vault. I also needed to bypass the proxy for...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 – VSSAdmin Waiting for response & VSSAdmin List Writers is empty
On a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster I had an issue whereby backups were failing with VSS errors. When running VSSAdmin List Writers I received the response: “Waiting for responses. These may be...
View ArticleThe volume shadow copy provider is not registered in the system
On a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM protected by Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam’s application aware processing was failing with the error below. Retrying snapshot creation attempt (Could not create...
View ArticleWindows cannot install required files error 0x80070570
I recently encountered an issue where a server wouldn’t install any Windows Updates, whether directly from Microsoft, or if downloaded from the Windows Update Catalog. The error message received was...
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