DoD STIG CAT II: Windows Server 2019 manually managed application/service account password must be of sufficient length to prevent being easily cracked. It must be at least 15 characters in…
I am remediating the Nessus findings relating to weak protocols and cipher suites. Basically disabling TLS 1.0 protocols and 3DES-CBC3 cipher suite. This will serve as a note for me…
I am in the process of migrating file server from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2019. Previously I used Robocopy for this purpose. Windows storage migration is a…
I am in the process of migrating Windows Server 2012 R2 to Window Server 2019. While trying to remove a CA role to migrate to Windows Server 2019, server threw…
CA server name is not the same as the FQDN of the server hosting the CA. Default common name naming scheme in ADCS is <Domain Name>-<CAHostname>-C . For example, Contoso-w2k12r2-CA…
Way back in 2015 and 2016, I successfully migration all applications and servers from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2. Since DCSA approved deployment of Windows Server…
While running sysprep on Windows 10 1909, encountered following error:"Sysprep was not able to validate your Windows installation. Review the log file at %WINDIR%System32\Sysprep\Panther\setupact.log for details. After resolving the issue,…
Although GPO is set properly, still the windows firewall C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\Firewall\pfirewall.log showed blank. Solution: Provide NT SERVICE\MPSSVC account with Full Control permissions on the C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\Firewall folder and restart the workstation or the server.
Find AD user accounts with account expiration date set, sort and display user's name and expiration date. Get-ADUser -Filter "AccountExpirationDate -ne '*'" -Properties AccountExpirationdate | Sort-Object -Property Name | Format-Table…
Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -MinimumVersion 2.8.5.201 -ForceError: Install-PackageProvider : Unable to find repository with SourceLocation ''. Use Get-PSRepository to see all available repositories. PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-PSRepository PackageManagement\Get-PackageSource : Unable to find…