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Having issues in upgrading the Oparating system from Windows Server 2016 Standard to WIndows Server 2025

Hi Team, I am getting a error when am trying to upgrade the OS from Windows Server 2016 Standard to Windows Server 2025 Standard. Please find the screenshot and let us know the solution. We have more than 32 GB free space 2 CPU and 4GB RAM in Vmware…

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asked 2025-06-18T13:07:34.5266667+00:00
Pramod J 5 Reputation points
answered 2025-10-11T21:38:52.5166667+00:00
Darrell Gorter 2,901 Reputation points
1 answer

If I have a large scale gaming application accessing a server, how much RAM should the server be equipped with to optimize speed?

If I have a server that is running a large scale game and I want to optimize it for speed, how much RAM should each server be equipped with? I am tempted to max the server out, but that might be too costly once I add in all the servers affected. Thank…

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asked 2025-10-11T15:56:16.9433333+00:00
Del Ventruella 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-10-11T18:28:15.15+00:00
Tracy Le 230 Reputation points Independent Advisor
6 answers

How to I remove and/or reset an administrator password from a standard/local account?

I was given this laptop from my late relative who said I could keep it for myself. He already had an account created for me on the laptop with my own password. Everything was fine until I was unable to install certain applications/updates I needed…

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asked 2024-01-15T19:07:06.3866667+00:00
Levon'te Scott 85 Reputation points
commented 2025-10-10T20:24:18.9266667+00:00
Michael Chinecherem 0 Reputation points
2 answers

Issue with Remote Credential Guard on Windows 11 24H2 Connecting to Server 2022 RDS Hosts

Issue with Remote Credential Guard on Windows 11 24H2 Connecting to Server 2022 RDS Hosts I am experiencing issues when using Remote Credential Guard to connect from a Windows 11 24H2 client to our Windows Server 2022 RDS hosts. When using a Windows 10…

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asked 2025-03-05T11:51:13.9766667+00:00
OLA FRANSSON 20 Reputation points
commented 2025-10-10T06:35:40.27+00:00
NC_GLIP 20 Reputation points
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Virtual desktop for small business in different locations

Using Azure for my small business is too expensive. I am looking for the cheapest solution to create a virtual desktop. I have an employee at a different ___location and want to set up a low cost virtual desktop. This virtual desktop should include data…

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asked 2023-01-26T22:51:53.47+00:00
ALAN 0 Reputation points
edited a comment 2025-10-09T12:02:25.9366667+00:00
Vasileios Karalis 0 Reputation points
5 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

WSUS displays all Windows 11 clients as Windows 10

Dear All, We have a Windows Server 2016 configured with the WSUS role. The server is up to date with all the patches. However, we see that the Windows 11 devices appear as Windows 10. We appreciate your assistance in resolving this issue, as we have…

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asked 2024-05-16T08:22:21.6433333+00:00
Ashan Dissanayake 21 Reputation points
commented 2025-10-09T11:24:37.04+00:00
Adam J. Marshall 10,376 Reputation points MVP
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Troubleshooting for Event ID 7031: "The Intel FAST Connected Intel Cloud Agent service terminated unexpectedly"

Dear Microsoft support team, I have an query with the Event ID 7031 ( The Intel FAST Connected Intel Cloud Agent service terminated unexpectedly ). I am facing this issue on Windows Server 2022. Anyone can help me on this?

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asked 2025-07-28T05:39:13.7266667+00:00
Jessie Shen 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-10-09T08:27:23.02+00:00
Zafer KAYA 330 Reputation points MVP
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Contact support

Does anyone know of a way to contact Microsoft support other than the telephone number listed? We paid for a support incident on the 12th of last month and after hearing nothing for a week (other than a "Your question was successfully submitted to…

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asked 2025-10-08T09:31:50.51+00:00
MGrundy 25 Reputation points
accepted 2025-10-08T13:08:15.4+00:00
MGrundy 25 Reputation points
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Can't delete Failed Requests on MS CA.

Hello, I'm trying to delete failed requests on my company's CA server. I see many failed requests in certsrv.msc and want to delete them. When I delete expired certificates - everything ok. certutil -deleterow 01/01/2023 cert certutil finds rows and…

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asked 2023-10-06T14:43:51.7866667+00:00
Ivan Ryabtsev 5 Reputation points
answered 2025-10-08T10:15:07.8533333+00:00
Harry Phan 7,145 Reputation points Independent Advisor
2 answers

Upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 11 in Domain Joined Environment

I have a scenario where an organization is currently running: Windows Server 2016 (Version 1607, OS Build 14393.7969) Forest/Domain Functional Level: Windows Server 2008 R2 Client Devices: Windows 7 No SCCM or WSUS configured To migrate from an…

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asked 2025-10-07T08:52:11.29+00:00
Huzaifa Hanif 0 Reputation points
edited an answer 2025-10-07T18:18:08.9633333+00:00
Marcin Policht 61,230 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
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Event message 10016 but the user has permission

I'm getting messages about the runtime broker not having local activation permission, but the user in question DOES have those rights. The full message is: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM…

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asked 2025-10-06T13:48:00.59+00:00
Jeremy Heymann 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-10-06T15:56:19.1633333+00:00
Jeremy Heymann 0 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

ndfapi.dll's NdfRunDllDiagnoseWithAnswerFile and NetworkDiagnosticsSharing API call Description

Good Day! I have been searching online regarding the API calls NdfRunDllDiagnoseWithAnswerFile and NetworkDiagnosticsSharing but the results were being pointed to **NdfDiagnoseIncident function (ndfapi.h) **which i am not sure if this is the updated…

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asked 2025-02-17T15:56:41.9733333+00:00
Cre Ate 20 Reputation points
answered 2025-10-06T14:12:08.1466667+00:00
GlennGagn-2395 77 Reputation points
12 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Unable to join ___domain – ‘The network path was not found’ & Adding ___domain controller fails

Hello, I'm getting the attached error while adding the new tree newdomain.com to Forest (___domain.com). Even I tried to join the computers which are in sub-branch network (192.168.10.0) to our Main branch ___domain still facing the same…

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asked 2021-01-09T04:28:31.153+00:00
Ramanjaneyulu Butharaju 421 Reputation points
answered 2025-10-03T16:22:54.6566667+00:00
mostafa moaz 0 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

WMI Async callback and Active Directory

Hi, Could you please help me? I faced a problem with event registration in Power Shell. I'm trying to register event by WQL to know if VM state has been changes (Power On/Off). I tried to run that script from Windows based computer that isn't registered…

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asked 2025-10-03T10:54:09.8133333+00:00
TT Firm 100 Reputation points
accepted 2025-10-03T10:57:41.44+00:00
TT Firm 100 Reputation points
1 answer

Cant connect with Indirect Resellers

Hello I am trying to locate Indirect resellers to contact but the link provided in help doesn`t contain the list Just Sign-In button Please help https://partner.microsoft.com/en-CA/partnership/cloud-solution-provider/find-a-provider

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asked 2025-10-02T15:57:49.0266667+00:00
Evgeni Teplitsky 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-10-02T17:32:51.28+00:00
Evgeni Teplitsky 0 Reputation points
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Critical Hyper-V SET Switch Bug: Switch Randomly Changes to Internal After Reboot on Windows Server 2025

Dear Microsoft Learn community, I'm facing a critical and highly concerning issue with the Hyper-V Switch Embedded Teaming configuration on my Windows Server 2025 failover cluster. After rebooting the Hyper-V virtualization host, the SET switch…

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asked 2025-02-15T20:25:53.4533333+00:00
Krasimir Rangelov 265 Reputation points
commented 2025-10-02T11:59:22.0466667+00:00
M Luthfi Mukhlis 0 Reputation points
9 answers

NTFS permission

Hi I'm trying to assign permission for users in a specific group where they will be able to see folder and file names without being able to open them. I'v used list folder content but this doesn't show file names. Thanks

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asked 2020-08-14T15:35:54.273+00:00
manox 1 Reputation point
answered 2025-10-02T11:56:28.5+00:00
M Ramzan LGS 0 Reputation points
2 answers

Product key not recognized

I have a Windows server 2022 std (ROC) bought with the hardware and created 2 vm's. I want to activate them but the product key is not recognized. How do I overcome the issue?

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asked 2025-10-01T10:10:12.63+00:00
Λεωνίδας Σίνος (ADM) 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-10-01T11:11:21.08+00:00
Joseph Tran 2,520 Reputation points Independent Advisor
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Windows Server 2025: Firewall Blocks All Traffic from a specific routed subnet when Network Profile is 'Private', despite explicit 'Allow' and IPsec Bypass rules.

I. Problem Summary A clean installation of Windows Server 2025 (Standard, non-___domain-joined) on a virtual machine (Proxmox VE + VirtIO drivers) systematically and repeatedly blocks all network traffic from a specific, correctly routed VPN subnet…

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asked 2025-06-09T19:47:48.3033333+00:00
Karol Boguski 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-09-30T20:59:10.78+00:00
David Levine 1 Reputation point
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EST Enrollment over Secure Transport Solutions for Windows CA?

Hi, I wanted to find out if there were any solutions to implement EST for the Windows Certificate Authority role? We currently use SCEP but we are starting to see some things move towards using EST. Is there a solution out there that can utilize EST…

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asked 2023-05-05T17:05:48.5666667+00:00
JBerg712 6 Reputation points
commented 2025-09-30T14:23:07.02+00:00
pragati singh 0 Reputation points