All of sudden, all Windows desktops at work started having this issue when trying to connect to WSUS server for Windows updates. On Windows 7, it states that Windows could not search for new updates Errors found: Code 80244008 On Windows 10, the error message is slightly different. There were some problems installing updates, but we’ll try again later…(0x8024401f) What’s […]
UPD, short for User Profile Disks, is a new disk type for Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 R2. It’s an alternative to roaming profiles and folder redirections for RDS to store user profiles as a separate VHDX disk on dedicated file storage. The disk is mounted to the user session as soon as the user logs into the […]
Here are some PowerShell examples that we can use to count the numbers of user accounts in Active Directory. Total number of user accounts in AD PS> (Get-ADUser -filter *).count Total number of user accounts in an OU PS> (Get-ADUser -filter * -searchbase “OU=Vancouver, OU=MyCompany, DC=Domain, DC=Local”).count Replace the SearchBase with your own OU path. Total number of enabled/disabled accounts in […]
After I manually imported a few hotfixes and optional updates from Microsoft Update Catalog, I noticed that it takes quite times to download from Microsoft website. Is there any way to check the download status so you know when to expect they will be available to be deployed? The bad news is that there is no way to check download status […]
Via Windows Server Blog, This updated guide provides a comprehensive collection of technical articles with practical guidance for IT professionals and server administrators responsible for monitoring and tuning Windows Server 2016 across the most common server workloads and scenarios. With this guidance, administrators can tune server settings in Windows Server 2016 and achieve incremental performance or energy efficiency gains, especially […]
Some of the security updates released on June 13 have been causing quite a bit issues for Outlook, like this and this, for over a week. Finally, Microsoft released the fixes today to end this. But since they are the non-security update that only includes improvements, they were released as optional updates that may not be picked up by WSUS. […]
There are a few ways available to find out what version and edition of SQL Server you are running. SQL Server Management Studio Connect to the server you want to find out, right-click the server instance name and choose Properties. The product line tells what edition of SQL Server this is. It runs SQL Express version in this case. The […]
The Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 IT Pro documentation is now moved from TechNet to docs.microsoft.com. Following are some URLs so that you can replace your old bookmarks and access the new sites. Windows Server 2016 documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-server/windows-server-2016 Windows Server 2016 Networking documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-server/networking/networking Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/windows-10/ /via Technet/