Troubleshooting

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Cluster, Server, and Client Must Do for Troubleshooting: Enable Windows Firewall Logging

When we set up a greenfield Active Directory Forest and Domain we do the following in Group Policy: New Group Policy Object (GPO) Linked & Enforced at the domain Level: Default Domain Security Policy Enable Remote Desktop Inbound: Allow users to connect remotely by using Remote Desktop Enable the Windows […]

Exchange Y2K22 Anti-Malware Services Safety Tweak, not Stopping Fix, and Mail Queue Stall Fix

By now most folks will have found the following fix sent out by Microsoft for the Y2K22 Anti-Malware bug: Microsoft Exchange Team Blog: Email Stuck in Exchange On-premises Transport Queues Queue Safety Tweak Before running the script check the timeout setting for mail held in the queue: Get-TransportServer | Select-Object […]

Printing Woes – Troubles with Drivers and BSODs (Blue Screens of Death)

We’ve been seeing mention of issues with printer and/or MFP drivers being the source of conflict with the current as of this writing Windows 10 20H2 cumulative update. Microsoft has released two out-of-band updates to try and address the problems being seen. What doesn’t seem to be clear is whether […]

Replication Errors: 1127: Hard Disk Operation Failed, 8524 (0x214c): DSA Operation … DNS Lookup Failure – FIX

We ended up with a situation where a workstation lost trust with the domain. When looking into what was happening on the two Domain Controllers (DCs) on the domain it took a while to figure out just where the problem was. The first error was 1127, failing to write to […]

Office 365: Outlook App Error: Something went wrong and Outlook couldn’t set up your account.

When clicking on the Outlook App (2019) to get it set up with our Office365 account we hit this: Outlook: Something went wrong and Outlook couldn’t set up your account. Please try again. Well, nothing worked. With Office365 we can’t set up our Outlook client manually either. Logging in to […]

Windows Server and Windows Desktop: How-To Reset a Local User Profile or RDS User Profile Disk

Once in a while we hit the wall when troubleshooting a problem with an application. After running the troubleshooting gamut with the “problematic” application behaving in any other profile on that system, it becomes obvious that there is some sort of corruption in the afflicted user’s local profile. Windows Server […]

Intuit QuickBooks: Freeze/Crash or Error 6123 When Opening a QB Company File – FIX

We set up a number of new Dell laptops for a client. And, as with anything IT related there’s always a random chance something won’t work somewhere. Well, in this case, one of the several laptops had Intuit QuickBooks 2019 Accountant’s Edition decide that it would not cooperate. When opening […]

AD DS Operation Failed – directory service is missing mandatory configuration – Event ID 2091 – FSMO Role Broken

We went to run a DCPromo on a temporary DC to remove it from a domain and received the following error: Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard The operation failed because: Active Directory Domain Services could not transfer the remaining data in directory partition DC=ForestDNSZones,DC=DOMAIN,DC=LOCAL to Active Directory Domain Controller […]