There seems to be a bug in vSphere 6.7 that whenever you update you vCenter appliance, that the e-mail notifications from vCenter no longer works. You had previously set-up alarm definitions that sent an e-mail to a recipient when the alarm is triggered, but you don’t receive the e-mail message. There are no error messages […]
Read More →Please be aware of major issues with the March Monthly Rollup for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7. (KB4088875) and March 13, 2018—KB4088878 (Security-only update) After installing this update, your computer might lose it’s virtual network adapter or network settings. I’ve experienced this on multiple virtual machines running Windows 2008 R2 on VMware vSphere 6.5 that […]
Read More →Today, I ran into some problems with our vSphere 6 environment in that the domain authentication was no longer working. We use the machine account for AD authentication. We got the following error in Single Sign-on Configuration: ‘The name of the identity source does not match the existing Integrated Windows Authentication identity source’ Normally, this […]
Read More →Please be aware that after installing KB3178690: security update for Microsoft Excel 2010, you might experience Excel freezing during calculations. In the company we work for, we experienced this issue on multiple Remote Desktop Session hosts that were running 32-bit version of Excel 2010. (x86) After removing KB3178690, Excel worked fine again. A reboot was […]
Read More →When adding a new Published App using Remote Desktop Services on Windows 2008R2, I sometimes experience that it takes forever for the new published app to appear on the Remote Desktop Web Access page. After double-checking that the user was in the right security groups to see the published apps, I resolved this by recycling the RDWebAccess […]
Read More →Just to let you know, I noticed the following when using either Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Manager or Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager, Enterprise Edition: When using Remote Desktop Connection Manager v2.7 to access a console session of a Windows 2012 R2 RDS collection member, it’s not working as expected. I used to be able to connect […]
Read More →After installing the Windows Updates on my 2012R2 WSUS server, I found out that WSUS was no longer working. I couldn’t open the MMC anymore (unexpected error) and clients were also unable to check for updates with the WSUS server. When checking the event log, the following errors were logged in the Application event log […]
Read More →Windows 10 is a great Operating System, with loads of new features, like PowerShell v5 🙂 However, when working with VPN connections, you might notice some strange behaviours, like: Unable to modify the TCP/IPv4 properties of the VPN connection. You can click on the button, but nothing will happen… When you try to resolve an […]
Read More →I’ve made a script to update all the Zabbix agents on Windows servers in a domain. The script does the following: Qeries Active Directory and searches for all Windows Servers in a Domain. Tests for each remote server queried by Active Directory if the specified folder. exists on the defined path. If the path exists […]
Read More →This week, I was asked to create a PowerShell script that could find all EFS encrypted files on a Windows 7 computer and decrypt them to prepare the computer to be removed from the domain. As EFS encrypted files are encrypted using a private key that is stored in the user profile, they would otherwise […]
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