Category Archives: Windows Server 2012

Microsoft August 2020 Patch issues and unanswered questions: No Netlogon events in Domain Controller logs after August 2020 Patches

August 2020 Patch (CVE-2020-1472) is fixing Netlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability, we have to patch all the Domain Controllers to secure our environment from this Vulnerability and its two-part rollout stars on August 2020 and Feb 2021, we have many unanswered questions like, is the August 2020 patch will affect the non-secure clients? is there… Read More »

GPO Update failed with LDAP Bind function call failed error on Windows Server 2016/2019/2012 and Windows 10

If you are forcing GPO Update then you will get LDAP Bind function call failed error on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 and also can’t access Sysvol/Netlogon share and also getting other authentication failure errors Also Read: Group policy is not applying/working after patching (GPO Permission issues) Getting below error on gpupdate /force Updating policy “Computer… Read More »

Powershell script to add computer to SCCM collection

Simple Powershell command/script to add computers to SCCM 2012/2007 collections, we use to have many collections in our SCCM platform to control the patching, how we want to push the patches like daily collection or hourly collections with different maintenance windows configured, its easy to add servers manually if we want to add a single… Read More »

Difference between windows 10 hyper v and windows server 2012r2 hyper v

Difference between windows 10 hyper-v and windows server 2012r2 hyper-v? One in Windows client version and one in Windows server version, Hyper-V on Windows 10 is replacement of Microsoft Virtual PC, it has its own limitation, will try to explain in detail Hyper-V on Windows 10: Hyper-V on Windows 10 is mainly used for Lab… Read More »

Group Policy Setting not applying on Windows 10 computers

GPO on Windows Server 2012R2 is not working with Windows 10 computers, one of my friend has setup-ed a new environment with domain controller and Windows 10 workstations, users have no access to the desktops, they cannot even delete the icons on their PC, even local admin access has not fixed the issue and they… Read More »

Difference between Windows cumulative update and native Microsoft Windows update

How Native Microsoft Windows update works: Microsoft use to release Operating system and application patches on second or fourth Tuesday of every month, each fix and improvement as a separate patch/update segregating from critical, security, and improvement updates, companies validate and pick the updates as per there requirement, like only install critical update as this will impact the… Read More »

Windows Server 2012 Active Directory Trust Relationship Problem

You use to get the error message “The security Database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship.” or shows “Login ID or password incorrect” while the time of logon on Windows Server 2012 R2, most recommended solution is re-join toActive Directory Domains or rebuild the server to fix… Read More »

Windows cannot connect to the group policy client service error on Windows 10

User can’t login to Windows 2012 R2 domain from Window 10 desktop client, getting the error “Windows cannot connect to the group policy client service.” While the time of logon, Windows 10 system performance degraded and not working properly after this error, and service did not respond to the start and control request Also Read: Domain… Read More »

Windows Server showing wrong disk size/usage in Explorer and disk management console

We has a weird issue in our Windows server 2008 R2 and Windows server 2012 R2, have extended the disk size in VMware vSphere from 200 up to 300 GB size, there is no issue while doing this and Disk Management Windows GUI showing the disk size correctly, even DISKPART and Disk Manager report the correct size with… Read More »

Domain Account unable to log-in with cached credentials on Windows 10

If you are newly upgraded the server to Windows Server 2012 R2 and user are can’t to log-on from home with Domain user account, use to get “there are no available logon servers to handle your request.” Event ID: 5719 and this happens intermittently, sometime user able to logon with same credentials and sometime not. Looks… Read More »