Questions tagged [windows]
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Cannot connect to localhost in Windows [migrated]
I'm trying to run the docker getting started server but when I connect to localhost:8080 I get a timeout error. I have Windows 11. My %systemroot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts looks like this: # ...
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How to Disable off site mail relaying
I am relatively new to server management. My web server(server 2019) is being scanned with a remediation tool and is showing a remediation of "Disable offsite mail relaying". What I have ...
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Error: unable to connect to terminal server, RDS broker not distributing
I have a RDS terminal farm, broker, license, gateway. Connecting to the RDS broker results in this fault. The Remote Desktop Connection Broker client failed to redirect user domain\user. Error: NULL ...
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How to identify a process occasionally calling a suspicious IP address?
I need to find the process responsible for calling a certain IP address rated as suspicious by my ISP. A connection to that address is made occasionally from my Windows 11 machine and I don't know ...
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How do I provision a secure (SHA256128/AES256) IKEv2 VPN using a Provisioning Package?
Using Windows Configuration Designer I am able to make a package to deploy a VPN as per https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/wcd/wcd-connectivityprofiles#vpn. This VPN defaults to ...
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Is it safe to change system regional settings on a production DC to alter DNS log timestamps?
I need to change the timestamp format of the logs in C:\Windows\System32\dns\dns.log to include the complete year in the logs timestamp. Since the time stamp format in this log file is based on Region ...
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IP Networking to local network fails unless WSL2 is started
I have a Laptop set up to connect to Internet using our corporate network, and to servers on local subnets including a local Linux server (for SVN) and our own products acting as https and ssl servers ...
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Changing owner and managing permissions on an NTFS directory
How can I efficiently take ownership of an NTFS directory that is restored from backup and manage permissions on it? The directory is large with 10+ levels of subdirectories and varying permissions ...
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Copy Scheduled Tasks to another server
The following script: (copied from copilot response): Get-ScheduledTask | ForEach-Object { $taskName = $_.TaskName $taskPath = $_.TaskPath $exportPath = "C:\Tasks\$($taskName).xml" ...
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No Endpoints Available Error When Trying to Setup Distributed Transactions (DTC) Between Domain and Non-Domain SQL Servers
We have a primary database SQL Server 2022 Enterprise cluster using Always-On Activation Groups running in our domain and a small SQL Express 2022 running on a standalone Windows Server 2022 non-...
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Is it impossible to mount an Azure File Share on an Azure VM?
I am trying to set up a Windows 11 Azure Virtual Desktop that has access to an Azure file share via a mapped drive letter. I created the File Share and can connect to it just fine from my own ...
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Unable to connect to C socket server via public IP on Windows (Tenda D301 router, PPPoE)
I wrote a server in C running on Windows using network sockets. The client connects to the server using the server public IP address. When I attempt to connect from the client, the connection times ...
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Drag and drop on Python script does not work, works on bat file
Trying to drag and drop onto a Python script does not work. Dragging over it does not show anything and ('consequently') dropping is not working. Dropping a file on a bat file works. Also dragging ...
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Windows clients connect to Samba shares using machine identity rather than user identity
I have an issue where some but not all Windows clients connect to Samba shares using the device SID rather than the user SID. Naturally, the device is not granted permission, so Samba cannot perform ...
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Microsoft Windows Load Balancer Issue - Only works when one node was converged instead of two nodes
I'm new for the Microsoft Network load balancer setups. Currently I facing issue when setup windows load balancer with two nodes with multicast approaches. Below are the summary of setups/issues: ...
