SOLVED: How To Fix A Corruption Was Discovered in the File System Structure...
If you are seeing this error message in your event log, there are most likely one of two solutions: Windows System Event LogA corruption was discovered in the file system structure on volume...
View ArticleSOLVED: What is DismHost.exe & Why Would Windows Controlled Folder Access...
We have used DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) tools for many years but were surprised to see this message popup on a users Windows 11 desktop: App or process blocked:...
View ArticleSOLVED: Users In Remote Offices Cannot Access DFS Namespace
We’ve recently had a situation in which users in most offices could connect to our DFS namespaces without any problem at all, but users in two of the remote offices would just receive connection...
View ArticleSOLVED: WS-Management Service Cannot Process the Request. The Computed...
Today we rebooted some servers and found this error: About The Maximum Envelope Size in the WS Management The Maximum Envelope Size in the WS Management service in Windows refers to the maximum size of...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Delete a User Profile On a Remote Computer Using PowerShell
We recently had a customers server have several User Profile issues and we were not able to log onto the server. The solution was to delete the user profiles remotely using this simple PowerShell...
View ArticleSOLVED: How to Force Sync Azure Entra Connect Using PowerShell
If you have an on premise Active Directory and you’re trying to use Microsoft Office 365 or Azure services, you’ve probably already set up Azure Entra Connect (formerly Azure AD Connect, and sometimes...
View ArticleSOLVED: What Is Modern Setup Host?
Modern Setup Host, also known as SetupHost.exe, is a core component of the Windows Operating System. It’s a system process which prepares your computer for updates and facilitates the system setup when...
View ArticleSOLVED: Where Domain Member Server is Getting Time & Other W32tm FAQ’s
If you’ve worked on a domain, you know how important it is to have all of your servers and clients running at exactly the same time. When they get out of sync things get ugly. You can use the w32tm...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Set WSUS SERVER CLEANUP To Run On a Schedule
Anyone that’s worked on WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) knows that you need to run the server cleanup wizard from time to time. Strangely, however the WSUS GUI does not provide a mechanism to...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Determine if .PEM File Contains Private Key
.PEM files (Privacy Enhanced Mail) are often used to store cryptographic keys. They can contain a private key, a public key, or both. It’s important to note that if a .pem file contains a private key,...
View ArticleSOLVED: What is The Windows PagePool & NonPagePool
It is not uncommon for users and even newbie techs to think that files are on your computers’ hard drive are being processed directly by the CPU, but they are not. The CPU cannot work on files from...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Block A Windows Update
We recently dealt with a series of clients who were having difficulty installing a January 2024 Windows Update KB5034441 because it inquired required the Windows Recovery Partition to be at least 200MB...
View ArticleSOLVED: Windows Update Error 0x80070002
Windows Update Error 0x80070002 Generally means that there is a corrupt file in the windows update download cache. Easiest way to fix this is to simply stop the Windows Update service and then delete...
View ArticleSOLVED: Script to Delete Specific Files Folders From Each User Profile
We recently had a client that removed Microsoft teams from a server and they wanted all of the residue from each user profile deleted. A quick check showed that there was three folders under each user...
View ArticleSOLVED: Error Occurred Attempting to Join The Domain. This Device is Joined...
If you see the following error when trying to rename a computer or join a computer to an Active Directory Domain, there is a simple fix: “The following error occurred attempting to join the domain....
View ArticleSOLVED: PowerShell MFA Popup ‘We can’t sign you in. Javascript is required to...
If you are seeing this message when working on a PowerShell script that is trying to connect to a Microsoft service requiring MFA (multi factor authentication), you may notice that the window is...
View ArticleSOLVED: How to Download & Install The Latest Powershell 7
PowerShell 5.1 will co-exist nicely with PowerShell 7 and the PowerShell 7 install does NOT require a reboot so you can safely upgrade during business hours
View ArticleSOLVED: What To Do About Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server Being...
Many companies have been notified that the Azure Multifactor authentication server is being retired and for the vast majority of those companies there is absolutely nothing they should do, because they...
View ArticleSOLVED: Should NetBIOS Be Disabled & How To Do It
In a word, yes, NetBIOS should be disabled. As always there are some scenarios in which this is not the case but it would be extremely rare to still be using NetBIOS on Windows desktops and servers....
View ArticleBehind the Scenes: How ISPs Use and Protect Your Data
Your ISP might have more information about your personal life than you expected. Of course, the data you provide when you sign up for an internet plan is already revealing. It’s certainly enough for...
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