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 Issue: After Patching a 2012 OS (VMWare) with ReFS File System Drive are not accessible and not able to access. Solution: vSphere Web Client : From a web browser, connect to the vSphere Web Client. Log in with Administrator credentials. Navigate to the virtual machine you want to modify. Power off the virtual machine. Right-click the virtual machine and select  Edit Settings . Click the  VM  Options  tab. Click  Advanced  >  Edit Configuration . Either select  Add Row , or enter the values directly into the provided fields at the bottom. Insert a new row with the name  devices.hotplug  and a value of  false . Power on the virtual machine. Reference: Disabling the HotAdd/HotPlug capability in virtual machines (1012225) (vmware.com)

Issue: Domain Controller Server has currently installed a windows patched and after a reboot, server is not accessible - Not pingable and cannot be RDP. Even you login on Console / ILO it won't accept it and the exact error when you login on this DC MACHINE (2019) is: Actions: First you need to know the DSRM Password. Reboot the server and press F11 (for Windows 2019). Then go to Troubleshoot and put the credentials for DSRM Password. Select command prompt for repair. In command prompt run this: wmic logicaldisk get caption This is to check the drive of your Drive C before. You need to know where the c:\windows c:\User is by typing the dir on each available drive you have.  Once you identify the drive of your Drive C. Type this command: dism.exe /Image:D:\ /get-packages /format:table This is to identify the patched installed. By looking at the dates installed. (Note that drive D: is just an example base on the drive)  Once you identified it you need to save that package name b...

 Scenario:  I am renewing a Service Coms Cert for ADFS and i got the below error message. Also if you are trying to bind the Cert on IIS Manager, you cannot see the cert in Server Cert. But if you check on mmc > Local machine > Personal you can see that Cert and it is present in their. Another issue is when you try to Set the server on Wap Server error apprears. Solution: 1. Export the Certficate to pfx and save and put password in it. You can do this on a server where in you generate the cert. 2. Then Delete the cert on the machine 3. If you have the OLD Cert that you are trying replace run the below command and check the provider. See below screenshot. You need that because you need to put that on the 2nd command on the CSP. 4. Run the below commands            certutil -csp "Microsoft Enhanced Cryptographic Provider v1.0" -importpfx my NewPFXfileyouCreated.pfx Then Boom the new Cert are all good now. you can export the new Cert and i...

Scenario: There is this Email (a script email or a task schedule email) and you don't know where it is coming from or who is generating it. So you need to find out where it is coming from. What Server. Steps: 1. Open that email and go to File > Properties and look for Internet headers.  2. Then copy all that Internet Headers information and Paste it on this site           Email Header Analyzer, RFC822 Parser - MxToolbox 3. Click on Analyze Header. 4. Then the 1st HOP is the Server that has that script generating it.

 ISSUE: When a windows Machine/Server is not directly get into 'Advance Start Up Settings' after BSOD or continuously rebooting after BSOD. But you can go to Recovery Mode or Command Prompt. Even when you press F8 it will continue to BSOD. Then only Option you have are : Launch Startup Repair -> You can go to Command Prompt  Start Windows Normally - BSOD even you press F8 This will not show you: SOLUTION: Since you can go to 'Command Prompt' When you select Option Launch Startup Repair you can type this commands then reboot it. bcdedit /set {globalsettings} advancedoptions true  then reboot it. After the reboot you can now go to Advanced Boot Options and you can Select 'Last Known Good Configuration. This will stopped the BSOD and this one works for me. To disable startup to not go to Advance Boot Option you need to run this command. bcdedit /set {globalsettings} advancedoptions false Reference: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/boot-windows-10-directly-to-advanced-...

 Issue:   -Unable to RDP even port 3389 are open on both end to end Servers. You can Console the Server using domain/local account with no issue. But when you RDP you get this message. and on the Server itself since you can console it when you rdp inside it you get this error message. Action Done to Solve the issue: Enable > ‘Require use of specific security layer for remote (RDP) connections’  Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > SecurityOn the right-hand side, locate the ‘Require use of specific security layer for remote (RDP) connections’ and double-click it to edit it.If it is set to ‘Not configured’, select Enabled and then in front of Security Layer, choose RDP.Click Apply and then hit OK. then restart service Note: My Server is a 2016 and possible Cause of it was because of update/patch. Ref:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/300054/r...