Disable Recovery Agent Environment First, you should check if the recovery agent is using this drive as the recovery environment. You can check this by running reagentc /info from an Administrator Command Prompt: C:\Windows\System32>reagentc /info Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration Information: Windows RE status: Enabled Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition4\Recovery\WindowsRE Boot Configuration Data (BCD)…
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Windows Server 2025: Incorrect network profile on domain controller
Original article: https://www.frankysweb.de/en/windows-server-2025-wrong-network-profile-on-domain-controller/ Domain Controller under Windows Server 2025 currently have the problemthat an incorrect network profile is loaded. After restarting the server, the network profile “Public” is loaded, although it is a domain controller. Here is a screenshot from the GUI directly after starting the operating system And here is a screenshot from the…
Automating Dell Command Update
@echo off TITLE Running DELL Command Update… REM Checks for updated DELL Drivers using DELL Command Update CLI “C:\Program Files\Dell\CommandUpdate\dcu-cli.exe” /configure -silent -autoSuspendBitLocker=enable -userConsent=disable “C:\Program Files\Dell\CommandUpdate\dcu-cli.exe” /scan -outputLog=C:\dell\logs\scan.log “C:\Program Files\Dell\CommandUpdate\dcu-cli.exe” /applyUpdates -reboot=disable -outputLog=C:\dell\logs\applyUpdates.log
All Microsoft Admin Portals
From: Administrator Portals | Microsoft Portals (msportals.io) Administrator Portals Welcome to this community driven project to list all of Microsoft’s portals in one place. Microsoft 365 Admin Portals Microsoft 365 Admin Center https://admin.microsoft.com • aka.ms Old 🔗 Alt Microsoft 365 Apps Admin Center https://config.office.com Exchange Admin Center (EAC) New https://admin.exchange.microsoft.com Exchange Admin Center (EAC) Old https://outlook.office365.com/ecp/ Kaizala Management Portal https://manage.kaiza.la/ Microsoft…
Best Practice to Secure Office 365
Best Practice to Secure Office 365
Troubleshooting Windows Hello for Business
https://github.com/onpremcloudguy/WHfBChecks Implementing Windows Hello for Business, as outlined in my previous blog, is not so much difficult as it is tricky to get all of the little pieces in place. Often it comes down to one simple checkbox, setting, or configuration, and wham! it starts working. In this blog, I will outline the most common issues I’ve…
Renew SSL Cert vCenter
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | | | *** Welcome to the vSphere 6.8 Certificate Manager *** | | | | — Select Operation —…
Fix authentication issues in Office applications when you try to connect to a Microsoft 365 service
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/troubleshoot/authentication/automatic-authentication-fails In this article Symptoms Cause Resolution Symptoms Authentication automatically fails in some Microsoft Office applications and Outlook may go into the “Need Password” state without any interaction. Additionally, when you make a Web Account Manager API call to FindAllAccountsAsync, you may see error code “-2147024809” in the AAD logs or Office Client logs. Important This…
Best practices for Synology-based iSCSI in VMware vSphere environments
So I recently got a Synology NAS which I was intending to use to provide iSCSI LUNs out to my ESXi hosts. Upon initially configuring it I was having terrible performance and was ready to switch over to NFS. Googling this topic resulted in finding lots of posts about how a Synology-based iSCSI implmentation could…
Getting started with PowerCLI
#Set the participation to false and ignore invalid certificates for all users Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -Scope AllUsers -ParticipateInCeip $false -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore #Connect to our vCenter Server using the logged in credentials Connect-VIServer PAC-vCSA01 Ignore Invalid Certs: Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore -Confirm:$false Useful commands: Get-Task – Shows currently running tasks Get-VM – Lists all VMs To list all snapshots and…