Windows

Print Server 2024

6th November 2024

How to build a secure and reliable print server separate print server and file server? File + Print services is well known to be insecure. there is an argument for…

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Group Policy check for UAC

4th April 2024

Group Policy that checks for UAC may NOT pop up a dialog asking if the user want to proceed, it may give the error “a referral was returned from the…

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Synology NAS no file shares from Win11

21st March 2024

You can see the error log atMain menu, Log Centerclick logs on the left and connection logs in the top right Fix here Involves setting the Win11 pc to send…

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Can’t Activate Windows over StarLink

3rd October 2023

I have not had any success activating Windows over Starlink. Could be that Starlink is IPv6 only After switching to a Local ISP, Activation works. Weird

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Domain Controller STS time guessing OFF

28th August 2023

Domain Controllers may use the time field in SSL connections to guess at the time when other time sources are unavailable. OpenSSL puts random values in this field. Steve Gibson…

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Power Saving settings on remote PCs

17th January 2023

Took me a while to find this.If you look after remote PCs, or do updates after hours, you may be interested in the following commandsyou can set the power profile…

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What to do when a Windows Update won’t install

16th January 2023

cancel installationOpen command prompt or PowerShell as Administrator; sfc /scannow the above could take 1-2 hoursdelete everything in the directoryΒ C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Downloadrestart PCstart installation and now it should run.

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Group Policy Template Updates

Why would i want a template update? The original Group Policy Templates installed are based on the OS of the domain controller and they do NOT get updated with OS…

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Event Logging Group Policy for Wazuh or AlienVault

6th September 2022

Do NOT turn on Audit Privilege Use = FAILURE or you will Denial of Service yourself with the flood of useless events. Chrome.exe creates multiple events per minute while working…

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PRTG WMI monitors error Access Denied

29th June 2022

This commonly happens when you try to monitor a PC that isn’t part of a domain Open a Command Prompt as Administratorwinrm quickconfiganswer y to all the prompts

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