Windows Server 2025 Trust Relationship Failures Post-Upgrade
May06

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...

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Windows – Firewall Group Policy
May01

Windows – Firewall Group Policy

  Firewall Group Policy KB ID 0000979  Problem For everyone who simply does not disable the Windows firewall, then you need to be able to manage what ports are open on your machines. The simplest way to do this is via firewall group policy. This week I had to open TCP port 9503 on the local firewall of my McAfee Move Offload Servers. Below I will open that port on all my machines, but in production I will only apply the GPO to...

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Windows Displaying a Logon Notice (legal notices)
Apr29

Windows Displaying a Logon Notice (legal notices)

 Logon Notice KB ID 0000328 Problem It’s been a while but when I was asked my notes were seriously out of date .Should you with to enable this feature then do the following. Solution : Logon Notice Logon Notice Option 1 – via Domain Policy 1. On a domain controller, Start > administrative tools > Group Policy Editor > Either edit an existing policy or create a new one (Remember its a computer policy you need to...

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Windows 11 Bypass Microsoft Account Requirement
Apr28

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...

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Updating Domain Computer Objects with Last Logon and Machine Information
Apr09

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...

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Fusion Windows 11 ARM – Network Driver Missing
Mar10

Fusion Windows 11 ARM – Network Driver Missing

Fusion Windows 11 ARM KB ID 0001910 Problem: Fusion Windows 11 ARM  I finally got annoyed with my Windows 11 ARM Insider Preview, nagging me to replace it, So I installed the latest version of Broadcom Fusion (13.6.3 itself quite a task!) Downloaded the latest version of Windows 11 ARM, and ran the installer, to get this. Normally, I’d take the ISO and inject the driver directly, but there’s an easier solution. Solution :...

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