Windows Server 2025 Trust Relationship Failures Post-Upgrade
2025 Trust Relationship KB ID 0001917 Problem Following a full upgrade of all domain controllers (DCs) to Windows Server 2025, organisations may experience trust relationship failures between domain-joined workstations and the domain. This issue predominantly affects clients running Windows 10/11 versions up to 23H2. Notably, environments retaining at least one older DC do not encounter this problem. Symptoms Users unable to log in to...
Windows 11 Bypass Microsoft Account Requirement
Bypass Microsoft Account Requirement KB ID 0001916 Problem Microsoft have been pushing for you to have a Microsoft account to login to windows for some time, originally you could open a shell window and use the oobe\bypassnro command, then they stopped that, but you could still add a registry key to bypass the requirement. But now there’s a much simpler way. Solution : Bypass Microsoft Account Requirement Some site...
Server Manager Error
Server Manager Error KB ID 0001915 Problem I needed to add a role to a Window server today, but when I attempted to do so I got the following error. The request to list features available on the specified server failed. Solution : Server Manager Error This one had me perplexed for a while, I close this dialog box and was looking at Server manager and noticed there was an error ‘large red flag’ so I clicked that and got...
Updating Domain Computer Objects with Last Logon and Machine Information
Last Logon KB ID 0001340 Problem I can’t really take the credit for this, I was at a client’s site a few weeks ago, and they were doing this. I thought ‘That’s cool, I’ll have a play with that when I get the chance”. Essentially, you update the description of the Computer object(s) in AD so that they list; The last user who logged on. What time they logged on. What AD ‘Site’ the machine...
DrayTek Wireless Mesh
DrayTek Wireless Mesh KB ID 0001914 Problem I had a couple of ‘sketchy’ wireless spots in my home, so I wanted to setup a DrayTek Wireless Mesh. I had purchased a VigorAP1060C access point to do all the wireless heavy lifting at home, and say it could act as a MESH ROOT, but it was quite expensive, so I wanted something a little or affordable. A quick search told me the models I could use with it as MESH NODES. And the...