Upgrade Server 2012 (In Place)
Upgrade Server 2012 KB ID 0001802 Server 2012 End Of Life Note: Also See In Place Upgrade of Window Server Windows Server 2012 (and Windows Server 2012 R2) will go end of life on October 10th 2023. Start planning to migrate your productions workloads off this platform as soon as you can. I’ve mentioned before on the site, I’m not a fan of ‘in place’ upgrades, you get to migrate all the ‘broken bits’...
Windows Update Error 80072EFE
80072EFE Error KB ID 0001801 Problem Seen on versions of Windows built from ‘older’ versions of the install media, when attempting to check for updates you may see. Error(s) food: Code 80072EFE Windows update ran into a problem 80072EFE Update Error Resolution At first (because it was a newly build machine.) I thought the problem was incorrect Time zone, Time, or Locale. But thats NOT the problem, you’re stuck in a...
Update PowerShell To the Latest Version
Update PowerShell KB ID 0001800 Problem Whenever you start Powershell, you may see something like, You’ve probably seen that so many times, you don’t even thing about it. So what’s the quickest and easiest way to update it? I like to see what’s going on, so I choose to update with the MSI file. Update PowerShell Solution From within the Powershell window execute the following command. Invoke-Expression...
FortiClient Azure Authentication
FortiClient Azure KB ID 0001797 Problem More and more people are using Azure as their primary identity provider, thanks in no small part to the massive success of Office/Windows 365. So if you want to provide a FortiGate/FortiClient SSL remote access VPN solution then securing it via Azure makes a lot of sense. Multi Factor Authentication: If you have MFA on your Azure accounts then that’s a big box ticked for your...
DC Promotion fails ‘FRS is Depreciated’
FRS is Depreciated KB ID 0001579 Problem Error seen when attempting to add a new domain controller to an existing domain; Verification of replica failed. The specified domain {Domain-Name} is still using the File Replication Service (FRS) to replicate the SYSVOL share. FRS is depreciated. The server being promoted does not support FRS and cannot be promoted as a replica into the specified domain. You MUST migrate the specified domain...
Migrate DHCP Scope(s)
Migrate DHCP KB ID 0001792 Problem If you have a lot of DHCP scopes, options, or reservations, then manually creating them on your new DHCP servers can be a both a time consuming and tedious process. If only there was an easier way? Migrate DHCP with Netsh Below you can see an example, where I have many scopes and lot’s of settings that would be painful to have to recreate from scratch. This example is on Server 2008 R2,but...
Migrate From Server 2012 to Server 2022 Domain Controllers
Server 2012 DC to Server 2022 DC KB ID 0001790 Problem I get asked about this quite a lot. In the past most of the queries were about moving from Server 2008 to Server 2022, if that’s what you are after then simply go here. This article is purely for the introduction of, and migration to Windows Server 2022 Domain Controllers. And it assumes your current domain controllers are Windows server 2012 (or 2012 R2). Adding a Server...
Completely Remove Teams From macOS
Remove Teams KB ID 0001789 Problem I started to notice the performance in my Microsoft Teams was getting ‘very sketchy’, this week while in the office a colleague on the same teams call as myself told me my speech in the call was lagging about 10 seconds behind my actual speech! So I thought I’d remove and reinstall MS Teams, Uninstalling the application is simple as peas! But I wanted to remove EVERYTHING to give...
Windows – Certificate Enrollment Fails
KB ID 0000921 Problem I first saw this problem a few years ago trying to get some Windows clients to auto enrol with server 2008, then this week my colleagues could not get new 2019 Domain Controller to enrol for a Kerberos certificate, and the this was caused by the same problem. Symtoms (RPC Error) 1. Test to make sure the client can see the CA, and is able to communicate with it, issue the following command; certutil -pulse As...
Windows Server 2022 SFTP
KB ID 0001779 Problem Note: This will also work on Server 2019 There’s really no excuse to be using FTP any more, it’s insecure and your username, passwords and data are sent in clear text! So let’s put the secure in FTP and deploy Windows Server 2022 SFTP instead! Note: Yes there’s FTPS as well (and it’s not the same), that adds a secure layer to the old FTP protocol. SFTP is a completely different...