Problem It’s time to start planning! Microsoft will stop their browsers displaying the ‘lock’ icon for services that are secured with a certificate that uses SHA1. This is going to happen in February 2017 so now’s the time to start thinking about testing your PKI environment, and making sure all your applications support SHA2. Note: […]
A common problem in Active Directory is identifying the source of account lockouts. If a password is modified and a user account gets locked, it can be a frustrating process to get the AD account re-enabled. You can try the following steps to track the locked out accounts and also find the source of AD […]
Recently one AskVG reader “Jack Kitchen” contacted me regarding following problem: I am running Windows 7 SP1. I have this nagging problem in Device Manager, under Portable Devices. I have 6 items listed: “WPD FileSystem Volume Driver“. In their properties this message is displayed: “This device cannot start. (Code 10)“. I have searched and not […]
Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) is a service that protects sensitive and intellectual documents of an organization from the unauthorized users. One of the major advantages of using AD RMS over other security features such as NTFS permission is that AD RMS permission travels along with the documents. Does not matter how and […]
We will follow the below mentioned steps to create an ADRMS Template 1. Login to any of the AD RMS Server 2. Now you will see the desktop so select any of the below apps 3. If you make it to the old desktop then select the icon mark below 4. If you have opened […]
Windows activation is designed to be as foolproof as possible, so Microsoft’s graphical tools keep it simple. If you want to do something more advanced like remove a product key, force an online activation, or extend the activation timer, you’ll need Slmgr.vbs. This command line tool is included with Windows, and provides options unavailable in the standard activation […]
I ran into this issue…when trying to activate an expired evaluation copy of Server 2016. It wouldn’t let me update the product key. Error “Error: 0xC004F069 On a computer running Microsoft Windows non-core edition, run ‘slui.exe 0x2a 0xC004F069’ to display the error text” Solution Find available target editions DISM.exe /Online /Get-TargetEditions Change your target […]
At my day job, we are getting ready to open a new office. It’s going to be a relatively small office, but we still wanted to have a local domain controller on hand for authentication, DNS, DHCP, etc. We decided that this would be a physical host, and since we weren’t going to run any […]