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Currently my smb is wide open to the internet, I can simply key in my server up address on file browser and I can access these files ; without VPN connection. How can I close the smb to the internet and only users whom are connected to the server using VPN and LAN can access these files? How do...

I'm running a Windows Server 2019. It is very slow. Is this why? My memory is all used up? What should Memory % be for a server? What is the optimum or expected value to make a server run smoothly?

Hi , I have created a scheduled task using an account with admin privilege in 2019 server and task is running fine. But just noticed that other non -admin domain users are not able to see the task in task library. I have tried below options , but no luck . Please let me know if anyone have a...

Windows server 2016 10.0.14393 X64 standard: The performance tool of the server manager fails to read the total amount of memory (RAM), As per the screenshots, the machine has 16GB RAM. However, the performance tool of the server manager reads only 8GB What could be the issue here?

Hi All, I have a windows 2012 r2 server with iscsi drives configured. Server is experiencing slowness during data copy between iscsi drives after server reboot . In order to fix the issue , I need to disable and enable iscsi configured NIC card after server reboot . It looks server is not able...

Windows Server 2016: Why the C drive of a server gets full while neither data nor heavy software are stored or installed in it, I couldn’t figure out why the C drive of a server gets full while neither data nor heavy software are stored or installed in it as per the screenshots below

After trying to convert my Supermicro motherboard bios to use UEFI instead of legacy boot, I was not able to boot to windows server 2019 and my disk partition style is indeed GPT. I had to revert back to legacy. Should I re-install windows, I would really like to avoid this if possible. This is...

Hi there, So I'm new in this topic and I'm going give it a try since I've got some serious problems about the last update for Windows Server in January 2022. There are last updates availabled : Windows Server 2012 R2 : KB5009624 Windows Server 2019 : KB5009557 These update are fatals for...

Hi We have a 2016 Server acting as ADC and hosting a number of applications for our domain. It has bee rock solid for several years. The server is instaled as a virtual machine on a HyperV 2016 server. We wanted to make some changes to who is allowed to use remote desktop and established a...

I am getting the below error on server 2019 when try to install the patch manually on the server:-1: Windows update “Update for Windows (KB5005625)” could not be installed because of error 2147943409 “The configuration registry database is corrupt.” (Command line...

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I have been tasked to find out why our NEC Videowall (4 x NEC MultiSync X464UNV 46" Large Format Displays), driven by a PC running Windows Server 2012 R2 continues to switch off, needing a user to log back in to restart the displays ... This happens regularly, but not at consistent time...

When i am trying to login to windows server 2019 for file copy '(\\xxx.xx.xx.xx)' i received "Access denied" message please see the below logs and help me to correct the issue. My PC version : Windows 10 PRO with latest patch update Server version : Windows server 2019 DC (Last patch level...

I have a server and it don't have backup so I need to run my custom batch script to get files from sftp then archive it. But I need it to run like a schedules, but everytime the schedules start the batch files. I allway open up the command prompt window. Is anyway to hide that window? Like...

I can get recycle bin and device connect, disconnect and fail working. I can also get the System start up sound working via vbscript and a login task. But no other sounds like error, exclamation, asterisk, notify etc. Is this normal for Server? My WIn 2012 R2 the sounds work ok. I compared the...

Hi All, I've been working in a clients server we manage at my role and we are having issues importing users from their Office 365 tenant to their Server essentials Dashboard. Either when we try to import the account OR create an account on the essentials dashboard and then assign a License...

Hi, I have two PC's running Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition. Except for the CPU, they are almost identical. They are both serving the same AD Domain. In Settings -> Network & Internet -> Sharing Options, both have "Turn off network discovery" selected, and I cannot turn it on. That is, I...

I am running security and vulnerability scans against a few Windows Server and I cannot figure out how to resolve or mitigate DCE/RPC and MSRPC Services Enumeration Reporting issues. Here is the scan result slightly altered to protect my network:

I recently created a Windows 2019 Server instance on AWS and wanted to install a few applications for remote access for some users. The "Install Application on Remote Desktop Server" was not available in Control Panel > Programs. I tried to change to "Install" mode by typing ... "change user...

Hello, I decided to write a post because I can't deal with the problem on the w2k2012r2 server. Logging into the server on the remote desktop, I am using applications based on net framework 4.0 and when I try to compile the plugin, I get an error related to the lack of dll files for compilation...