Windows

Hyper-V time is off

26th June 2025

I didn’t realize Hyper-V hosts force their time onto the Guests Client has guests that are domain controllers. Normally i set time sync on the DC and it sync’s time…

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Windows Maintenance Tool fixes common problems

13th June 2025

https://github.com/ios12checker/Windows-Maintenance-Tool/releases/tag/Latest

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Windows AD can’t delete a DHCP

9th June 2025

Symptoms: when deleting a DHCP address, the address disappears when deleted, but comes back when refresh is clicked. My environment had 2 replicating DHCP servers but unsure if that’s important….

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RDWeb Gateway Vulnerability

19th May 2025

The article does NOT list a fix for Windows 2012 so upgrade immediately or use a service like FreeMyIp to implement DNS allow list. Windows Remote Desktop Gateway UAF Vulnerability…

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Windows Directory large WinSxs

13th May 2025

Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore this will ask you to reboot if it cleans up some backups Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase The above will remove all previous versions of updates…

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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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