If you are looking for a cloud alternative to your onsite Windows file server you should definitely take a look at Azure Files. Depending on your scenario it is pretty easy to set up and has some cool features. What's involved: You'll need an Azure subscription. If you have O365 you already have a free … Continue reading Azure Files
October Windows Update Renders VMWare 2012 R2 Server Unbootable
Windows 2012 R2 Server was unbootable after applying October 2021 Windows Updates. Go into Edit Settings on VM and switch the Windows boot disk to SCSI Controller 0 (it was on 1 which was the paravirtual.) Force VM to boot into EFI Boot - verify it sees the disk nowTry to reboot normally - no … Continue reading October Windows Update Renders VMWare 2012 R2 Server Unbootable
Citrix in a STIGed Environment
I've had the opportunity to work in a locked down environment so am fairly familiar with DISA STIGs and the types of settings that are required to be applied to workstations and servers in that environment. I was recently working on a Citrix implementation and ran into a couple of issues caused by these settings. … Continue reading Citrix in a STIGed Environment
DHCP Failover Issue
Ran into this one today when setting up DHCP failover between 2 Windows servers. On the first screen after selecting Setup Failover the Relationship Name field showed up as "169.254.x.x - Actual Server Name". This was on a functional production DHCP server that was also a Domain Controller. 169.254.x.x is an APIPA address so this … Continue reading DHCP Failover Issue
A single user cannot log into a Win10 Citrix Desktop
Scenario - a user who had been working fine can no longer launch a Citrix Win10 non persistent desktop from any client - Windows or Wyse ThinOS, internal or external. No other users affected. No related errors in the event logs on the Delivery Controllers, StoreFront or the clients. I ended up using Chrome to … Continue reading A single user cannot log into a Win10 Citrix Desktop
Citrix NetScaler VPX Getting Started
Head out to citrix.com and download the version of the NetScaler appliance you need. As of this writing 13.0 is the stable version and 13.1 is the "current version" or feature release. If you need the FIPS version of the appliance currently that only comes with version 12.1 If you need a test environment download … Continue reading Citrix NetScaler VPX Getting Started
RDS Gateway with Azure MFA
I recently worked on setting up an RDS Gateway with the NPS Extension for Azure MFA for remote access. I'm not going to reiterate the steps to get this set up as they are well documented and it is fairly easy to get working. The caveat here is when you move the RDS Gateway to … Continue reading RDS Gateway with Azure MFA
Windows Update Stops Working
I've run into Windows Updates not working on a number of occasions and have usually been able to clear the issue up by stopping the Windows Update services and renaming the SoftwareDistribution folder. I recently ran into an issue where this would not work. I couldn't install updates by manually downloading them and I couldn't … Continue reading Windows Update Stops Working
NDES Configuration
The Microsoft Network Device Enrollment Service documentation seems pretty straight forward, but after installing and configuring it I was faced with a couple of different issues that took me way too long to figure out. Hopefully this will save someone some time. Note: I installed this on a server that was an Enterprise CA and … Continue reading NDES Configuration
Active Directory Based Activation
I got to delve into Active Directory Based Activation today and found that the documentation was a bit confusing. I had to review articles from different sources to sort it all out so here's my summary for implementing this: You can install this on a member server by downloading the latest Windows Deployment Kit from … Continue reading Active Directory Based Activation
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