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...
Windows Server – Sysprep
KB ID 0000729 Problem I don’t deploy large amounts of servers at once, so Windows Server sysprep is not as important as it is with the client operating systems I deploy. But I do need to create virtual machine templates, (mostly for testing), but some clients like to have server templates. I prefer to manually sysprep and shutdown a server then either convert or clone it to a template. Thankfully sysprep is in the same place as...
Windows Server DHCP Failover & Load Balancing
DHCP Failover KB ID 0001488 Problem Applicable to: Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 Even though we have had this functionality for a while, I’m still seeing people deploy DHCP scopes (split 80/20) across two servers? You can deploy multiple DHCP servers to serve the SAME DHCP scopes, in either load balanced, or hot standby deployment. Solution: DHCP Failover I’m assuming you already have one DHCP server setup and, with a...
Event ID 1030 and 1058
Event ID 1030 KB ID 0000119 Problem Event ID 1030 and 1058, Windows cannot query for the list of Group Policy objects. A message that describes the reason for this was previously logged by the policy engine. and Windows cannot access the file gpt.ini for GPO CN={31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9},CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=<domain name>,DC=com. The file must be present at the location <<domain name>sysvol<domain...