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How to Extend a Virtual Hard Drive with a Recovery Partition in the Way

When trying to extend the size of your virtual hard drive, you might encounter an issue where the recovery partition is situated between the main partition and the unallocated space. Below is an example of this happening: This guide walks you through the process of safely removing the recovery partition, extending the main partition, and optionally recreating the recovery partition …

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Fixing OpenSSH.exe Issues After October 2024 Windows Server Update

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Recently, after applying the October 2024 updates to a Windows Server, an issue was discovered with OpenSSH.exe. The problem occurred when attempting to start the OpenSSH service after the update. This post will explain the issue in detail and provide the solution. The Issue After applying the October 2024 update, a colleague encountered an issue where OpenSSH.exe refused to run. …

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Enable Windows Task Scheduler History

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How to enable Windows Task Scheduler History information if it is not showing on your computer or server

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Windows Server – Server Manager Refresh Fix

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If you have an issue with your server where you cannot see the roles in Server Manager, cannot install service packs or you see this error on your refresh status in Server Manager: Then this usually means that you have a corrupt Windows Update that has loaded on to your server at some point and it stops you carrying out …

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Domain Controller Meta Clean Up

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Sometimes the worst happens and you have a Domain Controller that might completely break on you with no way of fixing it. This happened to me recently with an old Domain Controller that was still on physical equipment, whereas most of our servers these days are on AWS and Azure. Domain Controller However, the failure of this Domain Controller did …

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KB4457139 – Windows Server 2008 NIC Issues

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We have over the last week or so had problems with Windows Server 2008 servers where, although they seem to be connecting through the network without any problems, like filestores, the servers could not be remoted onto and when running an ipconfig would return no data. You can see the number of Microsoft Updates that have been problematic for Windows …

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Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) v1.2 for Windows 10 Released – Full Download and Installation Guide

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Microsoft have released the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 version 1.2. There does not seem to be much information on what is updated in version 1.2 and we have installed it and cannot find any differences either, maybe just some security flaws fixed. You may also notice that DHCP is not included, but you can get the DHCP console …

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Dot Net 3.5 Offline Installers for Windows

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You may come across a requirement to have the full offline installers for Dot Net 3.5 for Windows 8, 10 or Server 2012. This can be for older applications that require Dot Net 3.5 or 2.0. You may also need offline installers if you have WSUS in your environment and you cannot install the added features using Windows Update. So …

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How to add a Secondary Domain Controller to an Existing Domain

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If you have a requirement to add a secondary domain controller to your existing domain, then the video guide below should show you exactly the steps you need to take to carry this out. Comments If you have any questions about setting up your secondary domain controller, then please feel free to leave a comment below using our comments system.