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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…