Essentials Server Folders Missing
Windows Server Essentials 2016 sometimes reports that most or all server folders have gone missing, even though they haven’t and all shares are accessible.
Connect to Windows Server from Ubuntu under Hyper-V on Windows 10
I’m testing the “Hyper-V Quick Create” version of Ubuntu 18.04 under Windows 10 Pro joined to a Windows domain. Had some difficulty at first connecting to a share on a …
Move a Hyper-V Virtual Machine
I’m doing some housekeeping today on a Hyper-V server. Wanted to move some virtual machine configuration files from one drive to another.
SMBClient 30803 and Non-Existent Machine
On a Server 2012R2 virtual machine, I’ve been getting SMBClient/Connectivity error 30803 every hour for well over a year. The error references an attempt to connect to a machine that …
XProtect Database Errors after System Crash
I’m running Milestone XProtect Essential+ 2019 R2 in a Windows 10 virtual machine. The Hyper-V host is having some issues and crashing periodically, which of course causes the XProtect guest …
Windows Backup Fails after Renaming User
If you rename a user under Windows 10 following a procedure like this, your Windows 7 backup may start failing, unable to find files from the previous username. In the …
GoldMine Named Pipes Provider Error
In an environment running GoldMine on client PCs and SQL on a separate server, I recently started getting this error when starting GoldMine: “Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a …
WID Service Master Key Could Not Be Force Regenerated
Started getting this error on Server 2012 R2, after installing the Remote Desktop Gateway service (part of Windows Server Essentials). I believe this is the first app to use the …
Set Up Group Policy Admin Templates
Here are brief instructions on setting up Group Policy Administrative Templates on a single Server 2012 R2 or 2016 domain controller. More detailed instructions, as well as the latest Windows …
Recurring VSS 8193 and VSS 8228 errors
After migrating a Windows 10 desktop to a new domain, it was throwing multiple VSS errors every day during the Veeam backup: