This one has been annoying me for some time. For some reason, we have some Windows Server 2019 servers that are not reporting periodically to the WSUS server. The WSUS dashboards shows a warning saying “This computer has not reported status in xx or more days“. When checking manually for updates (I usually use sconfig […]
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A weird one, which I can’t really explain yet, but wanted to share in case someone else experiences the same. I was having these weird Outlook issues on Windows 10 when working on WiFi, but not when I was working on Ethernet. Symptoms were hanging/freezing of the Outlook app, Outlook having a hard time connecting […]
Read More →This one caught me off-guard when installing my PC with a fresh image of Windows 10. The issue: After installing a Module for PowerShell using Install-Module, I wanted to see all the installed modules with Get-InstalledModule. When I hit Enter, I got the following error message: Cannot convert null to type “System.DateTime” Cause and solution: […]
Read More →I ran into this issue this week when logging in to Remote Desktop Web Access. As soon as I entered my password and logged in, I got an Error 500 page: Server Error in ‘/RDWeb/Pages’ Application. Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the […]
Read More →Just something we ran into this week. We have a customer with a Windows 2012 R2 Remote Desktop (RDS) environment that still had some users that use Windows 7 client computers to connect. They were able to login to Remote Desktop Web Access successfully, but when they tried to launch a Publised App, they kept […]
Read More →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 […]
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