by Rocky Beaven | Aug 16, 2021 | Microsoft 365, Office
By default when you install Office (365 or 201x) it joins the ‘monthly’ update channel where you will receive all updates, both security and feature, as soon as they are released by Microsoft. Generally having the security updates applied immediately is a...
by Rocky Beaven | Jul 24, 2021 | Miscellaneous, Server 201x
We added a larger virtual disk to a Hyper-V file server and copied over a shared folder to the new location. The folder also had a number of subfolders that were shared independently. The quick way to move the share permissions etc is via the registry (i.e. without...
by Rocky Beaven | Jul 12, 2021 | Microsoft KB, Patching/Security, Server 201x
A Server 2016 VM was stuck at 0% attempting to download updates. Neither a manual restart of the Windows Update service, nor a server reboot, rectified the problem. Even tried to manually download the latest servicing stack update and cumulative update from the...
by Rocky Beaven | Jul 6, 2021 | Miscellaneous, SBS 200x, Server 201x
If you use the native Windows Server Backup utility you may on occasion see it seemingly pause for a lengthy interval at the ‘Preparing media to store backups’ stage. This part of the process relates to the checking and consolidating of the existing...
by Rocky Beaven | Jul 3, 2021 | Miscellaneous, Windows 10/11, Windows 7/8
There is a comprehensive article on the Windows OS Hub that discusses administrative shares and how they can be tricky to access in a non-domain environment. I needed to run psexec against a standalone machine and the solution for that was to add an entry to the...
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