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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Image Capture Removes Internet (NIC) Adapter Driver

I am running Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) on Windows Server 2016. I am trying to capture a Windows 10 v1809 reference image from a Lenovo M710q NUC. I edited the unattend answer xml file and added the following attributes to generalize and…
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Any way to customize/limit/set Microsoft Remote Desktop Licensing service port?

Recently I had a weird problem on one of the Windows Server 2016 servers where Microsoft Remote Desktop Licensing service / TermServLicensing occupied port 1541 & prevented another critical 3rd party service from starting. Is there a way to…
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Good Reasons for Not Disable the Windows SMB Service by Default?

Apart from File Sharing what are good reasons to not disable the Windows SMB service by default on a corporate environment? This protocol seems to have a lot of security vulnerabilities and been using extensively for malicious lateral moves within…
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Migrate to two-tier PKI (Microsoft)

Currently, I have one online enterprise root-ca (and issuing certificates - default templates) that installed on DC (yes, yes I know - worst case scenario). I set another offline not joined to a domain server, 2 IIS servers under LB and 2 enterprise…
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How to get infromation about disk location (like in diskmgmt.msc) via Powershell?

could you please help me how to get disk location number which can be found via Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) for future VMware SCSI Disk devices assosciation via PowerShell or any other native scripting language from Microsoft? Example: From…
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microsoft exchange removal. Is it possible?

I have a 2013 server with exchange installed that I want exchange removed, I only use this server for it's active directory function to control login to connected pc's and as a file server. I no longer use or want the email services, How can I…
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Best way to handle Leavers? - Office365 Enterprise E3

I manage a tenant of about 30 users. I have three accounts that belong to past employees, and I don't know what to do with them. They have long since left, but our firm has a Data Retention Policy that requires all emails kept indefinitely. I have…
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Mac OSX Sierra, Out of the blue, User logs into the domain, and everything in the account is gone

Never have seen this before, but just had a user log into his domain account, and it's like he is logging into his account for the first time? This user has been logging in for months now with no problem. Usually when this happens, it creates a…
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Domain integration with Active Directory

Am new to Microsoft Active directory and tried referring the guides for one of the activity. But still not clear how we can achieve it. Scenario goes as below.. Our company has an Active Directory environment with Root Domain as abc.com and then…
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Reading windows nltest /server /domain_trust output

I'm looking to get a quick accounting of how many trusts we have in our AD environment so I used nltest /server: /domain_trusts /all_trusts It's easy enough to figure out where the 1 and 2 way trusts are but I can't find…
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Exchange 2016 CU23 giving error "upgrade the discovery mailboxes to R5 version"

We have a hybrid 2016 Exchange setup that needs cumulative update 23. I have been stuck on this same error for some time now. In my research I have found that the issue has to do with needing the HomeMDB attribute to updated. Go to the properties…
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MS server 2016 terminal gets freezes during user login with profiles disk

We have Hypervisor and there are a few vms, one of them is MS server 2016 with last updates as terminal server. We use profiles disk for users. Lately we started to get enormous freezes at this terminal server during process of user's…
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Extending Managed Microsoft AD to on-premises Servers

I'm researching the possibility of extending Managed Microsoft AD to a secondary Active Directory creating a basic replication structure between primary AD (GCP) and secondary AD (on-prem). Apparently it is not possible to configure this extension,…
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Downgrade Rights with Windows Server 2019 Standard RETAIL (FFP) Licensed edition

According to the actual RETAIL Full-Package Product (FPP) licensing EULA both online and on disk (C:\Windows\System32\License.rtf) from recent installs I have (Activated and Licensed) of Windows Server 2019 Standard Retail channel…
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Microsoft Outlook Autodiscover With Private Email Server

I have a linux based mail server (not Microsoft Exchange) at mail.example.com I host email for multiple domains at this server: example1.com, example2.com, example3.com, etc I have a mail client running Outlook 2019. When the user adds a new account…
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