(That’s what I like to call “Title Gore”! Hope the SEO was worth it!) We have a Windows Server 2019 environment that hosts a number of isolated Virtual Networks. One of those Virtual Networks is home to 2x IIS web servers, serving up some APIs and webapps on HTTPS (443). Both of those IIS virtual […]
If you’ve used VMM in the last decade, there is no doubt that you’ve run across this gem of an error: This error may appear when you do any sort of Hyper-V host management (adding servers to VMM for management or deploying VM templates). For me, it randomly started to appear one day out of […]
If you ever had to install private hotfixes from Microsoft, you most likely had to enable Test Signing (aka – Debug Mode) to install the binaries. Once done, you must uninstall the hotfix, reboot, then disable Test Signing and reboot again. But sometimes, the Windows desktop’s wallpaper will keep the watermark. What gives?! Let’s check […]
As I’m sure most people have experienced, there is always that one piece of software that cannot function on anything other than ancient hardware or an unsupported OS. In my example today, I am dealing with an ancient piece of physical hardware, sitting under someone’s desk, running Windows XP Pro. Before the spinning rust blew […]
One of my biggest pet peeves when installing software is when the installer outright says to you “you cannot change these values after otherwise you’ll need to reinstall”. It’s like the developer is speaking to their grandfather assisting them reset their WIFI – “unplug it and plug it back in”. With SPF, you’re prompted during […]
Another day, another hiccup in the usually amazing procedure of using WDS for quick mass deployments of OS images. Today’s annoyance comes courtesy of using an Intel NUC that only has USB 3.0 ports and no way to force them into USB 2.0 mode. Why is this an issue? Because after deploying a Windows 7 image […]
I was having issues getting a desktop to install updates recently from my company’s WSUS server. Being that I was in a time crunch and needed these updates installed within the next 24 hours, I decided to take the desktop off the domain and grab the Windows Updates directly over the internet from Microsoft. Spoiler […]