There is a slight but significant difference in setting up your Sophos UTM to connect to Azure via a gateway created in a classic deployment or in an ARM deployment. This article describes perfectly how to setup a VPN connection to Azure using a gateway deployed via the classic deployment. And this article describes how to create…
Hi, On 02/12/2016 Microsoft released a version 2.0 of the KB article “The logon process hangs at the “Welcome” screen or the “Please wait for the User Profile Service” error message window” with which in one case at a customer resolved the issue know by me as the “Unnamed Disconnected Sessions” issue. This issue shows…
!!! UPDATE !!! Microsoft has released the “April 14, 2015 update for Outlook 2013 (KB2965270)” update in which the issue described below has been fixed. There is one manual action a user needs to do which is a bit nasty if a user also has certificates that are romaed. The UEV package needs to be…
There is a fix (KB2896713) available for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) servers that are running Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the issues occur after you have security update 2843638 installed. For AD FS servers that are running Windows Server 2012, the issues occur after you have security update 2843639 installed.…
There is a free eBook called Microsoft System Center: Troubleshooting Configuration Manager available with insider knowledge and real-world field experience from the authors Rushi Faldu, Manoj Kumar Pal, Andre Della Monica, Kaushal Pandey and the System Center series editor Mitch Tulloch. Get it here!
Consider the following scenario: You install a Just a Bunch of Disks (JBOD) array on a computer that is running Windows Server 2012. You create a storage pool for all physical disks. Then, you use the physical disks to create virtual disks. You disconnect certain physical disks. The virtual disks that correspond to the disconnected…
This article lists the hotfixes that are currently available for users who have installed the File Services technologies on a Windows Server 2012-based computer or on a Windows Server 2012 R2-based computer. File Services provides technologies that help you manage storage, enable file replication, manage shared folders, ensure fast file searching, and enable access for…
Consider the following scenario: You use Storage Spaces on a Windows Server 2012-based multi-node failover cluster. Storage Spaces is configured to use enclosure awareness. A new drive is added. In this scenario, only the last added drive has the correct enclosure awareness information, and the enclosure information on all other drives is lost. Read More…
Ever wondered what the meaning is of the registry entries which you can find under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Virtual Machine\Guest\Parameters? Well I did so I started digging! Example Azure Virtual Machine [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Virtual Machine\Guest\Parameters] “HostName”=”RD009CFA1C5432” “HostingSystemEditionId”=dword:00000008 “HostingSystemOsMajor”=dword:00000006 “HostingSystemOsMinor”=dword:00000002 “HostingSystemProcessorArchitecture”=dword:00000009 “HostingSystemSpMajor”=dword:00000000 “HostingSystemSpMinor”=dword:00000000 “PhysicalHostName”=”RD009CFA1C5432” “PhysicalHostNameFullyQualified”=”RD009CFA1C5432” “VirtualMachineId”=”68DDDEBF-E94F-4C3C-9872-35A6BDE52F60” “VirtualMachineName”=”04820db9-7477-4503-9eeb-df46f0969612” HostName The name of the domain name system (DNS) domain assigned to the host…
If you update a windows server 2012 to the R2 version and you have teamed the Network card you could end in trouble. Especially if you run hyper-v. You could find this in your device manager. No way to uninstall the network adapter and even with show hidden devices. you will see the Vnics but…
When running error 2912 in SC VMM 2012 SP1 you might want to read this blog from Mohamed Fawzi. Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact an agent on the Server.Domain.Local server: NO_PARAM: NO_PARAM. Unknown error (0x80072f0d) Recommended Action Ensure the agent is installed and running. Ensure the WS-Management service is installed…
Consider the following scenario: You run Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1 on Windows Server 2012. You have two EMC Storage Area Network (SAN) storage arrays that are managed by one EMC Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) provider. You create one logical unit number (LUN) on the first SAN storage array…
On a computer that is running Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012, there is a limit of 1,000 rules in the Name Resolution Policy Table (NRPT) that the DNS Client service can use. However, this limit is not enforced when you add a rule. Instead, no rules are loaded into memory when this limit is…