SOLVED: What Is Microsoft Exchange Notifications Broker & Why It Is Stopped
If you are working with Microsoft Exchange 2016, On-Prem, you weill find a new service named, Microsoft Exchange Notifications Broker. The Notifications Broker service is set to start AUTOMATICALLY by...
View ArticleSOLVED: 4 Ways to Reset Firewall Settings to Default in Windows 10 & 11
Recently I locked down a PC to allow a customer to remote into our office and run a single app. To make it secure I made a number of firewall changes to block internet and even LAN access. The...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To List, Manage and Delete Printers in Active Directory
Did you know you can see a list of printers on each server in Active Directory Users and Computers? The key is to view Users Computer Groups and Computers as CONTAINERS. This lets you see what each...
View ArticleSOLVED: 5 Easy Ways To Determine Who Last Logged Into a Computer & When
Its a bit frustrating to find that by default Active Directory does not record the username of the last person who logged onto a computer. As such if you need to know who is logging into computers,...
View ArticleSOLVED: Everything You Need To Know About Video Cards in Remote Desktops RDP...
Does RDP Provide Each User With Their Own Microsoft Remote Display Adapter? Yes, when connecting to a computer using Remote Desktop Services on the RDP protocol, each connected user gets their own...
View ArticleSOLVED: PowerShell Command To Convert SID to User Name
We recently had a situation in which all we had was a user’s SID and we needed to figure out exactly who that was before making a change. Fortunately, the command to query Active Directory and return...
View ArticleSOLVED: Everything You Need To Know About the Windows Recycle Bin, but Don’t...
There are some very confusing things about the Windows Recycle Bin that even experienced administrators don’t understand. When looking at Advanced System Properties > User Profiles it is important...
View ArticleSOLVED: VIDEO: PowerShell Script To Delete Only Account Unknown User Profiles
ACCOUNT UNKNOWN User Profiles are most likely just chewing up disk space on your computer. They are the profiles from users that have been deleted in Active Directory or on your local computer. If you...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Expand VSS Shadow Copy Space To Fix Azure Backup Insufficent...
If you use Microsoft Azure Backup (aka MABs) you may see “You have used x% of maximum disk space on x allocated for shadow copy storage: Fortunately there is a very easy fix; expand the amount of disk...
View ArticleSOLVED: User Accounts Being Deleted / Added From Groups Automatically
Today we had a very cool problem with a client who was trying to add a service account to a Windows Active Directory Group. the problem was that after the service account was added to the group, it...
View ArticleSOLVED: Microsoft Authenticator Not Popping Up Approval Prompt
If you use the Microsoft Authenticator frequently it can be really annoying to have it not popup prompt you for the code when you’re trying to sign into something. Recently we added a new client and we...
View ArticleSOLVED: An Error Occurred While Using SSL Configuration For Endpoint 0.0.0.0:443
One of our new clients had a server with error 7023 “An error occurred while using SSL configuration for endpoint 0.0.0.0:443”: A quick investigation showed, this error has been occurring for months...
View ArticleSOLVED: WinRM Service Could Not Use the Following Listener
We recently deployed some tools that require Windows Remote Management (WinRM). One of the servers had no problems starting the WinRM service but it had problems communicating and we found:...
View ArticleSOLVED: File Server Errors Logon The host {SERVER} Is Now In State Warn As It...
Yesterday we were troubleshooting an error we found in our server monitoring tools that uses WMI queries to detect problems. It was reporting: File Server Errors LogonThe host {Server} is now in state...
View ArticleSOLVED: Should Scavenging Be Configured On All DNS Servers and Zones?
The short answer is yes, Scavenging that should be configured on each of your DNS servers. That is also what Microsoft recommends. What is DNS Scavenging? DNS scavenging simply automatically deletes...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Troubleshoot Source SceCli Event 1202 Security Policies Were...
This error is telling you that there is an account that was most likely deleted from Active Directory but is still mentioned in a Group Policy. You have to find that group policy and look for an entry...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Automatically Delete Files Over X Days Old
We had a client who needed to delete their aged IIS log files without human intervention. To do this requires two steps: 1 – Script To Delete Files Older Than X Days In the example below we are...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Run Microsoft Edge Browser as a Different User
If you want to run Microsoft Edge browser as a different user, the short answer is to hold the SHIFT key and right click on it. We will show you two different ways to do this if you are still confused....
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Sign in Remotely Using a Microsoft Account
If you are trying to RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) to a remote computer or use SMB (Small Message Block) to connect to a remote share on your home network, using your Microsoft Account, you may be...
View ArticleSOLVED: Microsoft Azure Backup (MABS) Restore Problem “Unable To Set New...
If you restore files and folders from a Microsoft Azure Backup (MABS), but did not have permission to the file / folder you want to access, you will likely see a series of popup errors culminating with...
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