Server 2025 Network Profile Wrong After Reboot
May14

Server 2025 Network Profile Wrong After Reboot

2025 Network Profile KB ID 0001918 Problem If you have a domain controller running Windows server 2025 you may find that after a reboot the network profile changes from Domain to Public. This can cause a myriad of problems. 2025 Network Profile Group Policy Failures Symptoms: Group Policy Objects (GPOs) may fail to apply or update. Reason: The system doesn’t recognize it’s part of a domain, so it won’t retrieve policies from the...

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Group Won’t Accept Mail From ‘Outside’
Jan10

Group Won’t Accept Mail From ‘Outside’

KB ID 0001771 Problem Exchange has been this way for a long time here’s me explaining this very problem with older versions of Exchange. If you create a ‘Group’, be that a Distribution Group, or a ‘Microsoft 365′ Group, the default setting is to NOT ALLOW mail from anyone outside your organisation. If you attempt to send mail to that group you will see errors like these; Errors; 550 5.7.133...

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XenServer: Enable SNMP
Dec17

XenServer: Enable SNMP

KB ID 0001629 Problem We had to enable SNMP on a XenServer today, I’d never even logged onto one, but it turns out, much like ESX, it’s just a Linux server, at least the good folk at Citrix included nano on there so I didn’t have to struggle with the vi editor! Solution First from the web console ensure that SSH access is enabled > Remote Services Configuration > Enable/Disable Remote Shell. SSH into the host...

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Remote Desktop Web – Session Timeouts (Altering)
Jul04

Remote Desktop Web – Session Timeouts (Altering)

KB ID 0001215  Problem Timeouts for the RDWeb portal are defined by the choice you made when you logged in, if you selected ‘private’ or ‘public’ on the PC options, this sets the timeout. The default is 240 mins for private, and 20 minutes for public connections. Solution To alter these values you need to make changes in the ‘Internet Information Services Management Console’ on the RDWeb server....

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Direct Access – Error While Running The Remote Access Wizard
Nov17

Direct Access – Error While Running The Remote Access Wizard

KB ID 0000839  Problem Seen on Windows Server 2012, when configuring direct access, while running the ‘Getting Started Wizard’ you have to choose the network topology. You have a choice of edge, behind an edge device (with 1 NIC), or behind an edge device (with 2 NICs). Each choice you make will present you with one of the following errors. An external adapter with a public IP address, IPv6 enabled and without a domain...

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