Questions tagged [microsoft]

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issue when trying migration via Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter

I want to migrate my Esxi VM from on promise to Azure cloud. I've found solution which provides it to me. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter, provides migrating to Azure Cloud. During migration procedure application wants " Subsciption ID and…
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How to deal with Microsoft and Google agressive spam policies?

Introduction: I have run my own mail server for more than 10 years, and I never had any problem with Gmail, so far. But I needed to complain regularly (like every year) to Hotmail, because they were sending me directly to their Junk folder. So I…
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Support staff can reset some User passwords but not all?

In our environment we have two AD-accounts per person, one user level account and one admin level account. Our support-staff can only reset user level accounts, which is good but I can't figure out why. This is the ADUC permissions on top…
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Microsoft SDN service templates deployment and editing

I’m playing around SCVMM 2016 SDN Express to see if I’d be able to deploy VMM SDN within my lab using PowerShell scripts. I don't have much practice in things like these, so please bear with me This article I’ve…
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Microsoft RemoteApp via TS Gateway initial connection load very long (over 2 minutes)

The Enviroment We do have a RemoteApp Terminalserver, based on a Windows Server 2016. Latest Updates are installed. We have provisioned multiple apps through this server. There is one Session Collection with all app's in it. This server has no…
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Windows unattended setup failed - 'specified image file does not exist'

I am trying to do an unattended install of Windows 10 Professional using an answer XML file I created. I'm booting off a USB, and receiving the error: Windows could not collect information for [DataImage1] because the specified image file…
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Offline Server update

I have 3 machines that are completely shielded from the internet (Air gapped). I have a LARGE list of KBs from Microsoft that I need to download and install (Something like 200). I can NOT put the machine on the internet or connect it to WSUS or…
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To reverse proxy Exchange or not

Currently I run Forefront TMG to reverse proxy Exchange 2010 to the outside world. I am now preparing an Exchange 2016 environment and with Forefront TMG getting obsolete, I want a solution without it. I now have pfSense and HAProxy as first line of…
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Enterprise Root CA and Firefox only SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER error

So, I went down the route of setting up an enterprise CA in my domain so we can enable SSL on our internal web apps. For my test base, I am using XAMPP on Windows with a .local FQDN. I am using Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services for the…
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Microsoft Telemetry Data

I work at a large company and started digging through firewall logs to get my head around the network and what is going on. I noticed a HUGE amount of traffic going to 72.21.81.240. I cross-correlated this IP with one of our network monitor tools…
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Defender ATP public IP addresses

Does anybody know the IP addresses Microsoft uses for their Defender ATP Service? I can find the associated domain names but not a reliable source of the IP addresses being used.
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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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