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What is the procedure to install a CAL (not RDS CAL, just CAL) on a Windows Server 2022 server either in an AD domain and in a workgroup? How can a customer check the use of CALs to be sure not exceding the number of CALs he purchased?SolvedMarius_RomaMar 02, 2025Brass Contributor42Views0likes1CommentCAL an d RDCAL
I aqpologize for the very simple question. When a user connects to a Windows Server via Remote Desktop Services does he require a CAL, a RDCAL or both? Where can I locate detailed documentation about the subject? RegardsSolvedMarius_RomaMar 02, 2025Brass Contributor28Views0likes1Comment
Increase the size of user profile disk in my remote desktop server
Hi all experts. I have a server for remote desktop services purposes, Windows 2016 standard, and domain joined. It is configured using User Profile Disk, and the maximum limit is set to 5GB. I want to increase the maximum limit but I can't do it under the collection's properties because that field is grayed out. My questions: How to increase the maximum limit? Please guide me and let me know how. Can I increase the maximum limit for 1 single user only? If yes, please let me know how. I found some info from the web that this can be done by the Diskpart command, is it true? If I follow the Diskpart method, do all user profiles encounter data lost? I need your guidance and input, I appreciate it. Here are some images:SolvedszuguanFeb 20, 2025Copper Contributor162Views0likes4Comments
Active Directory Functional Level Support
Hi all, This is a first time post for me here but I am struggling to find this information out from MS or MS support themselves. I am currently assisting a customer upgrade some servers from Windows 2012 R2 to Windows 2022 and 2 of the servers are DCs. Now I am well across the recommended upgrade process but I have seen in their current AD that they are running functional level 2008 R2. I am well aware that 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 are no longer supported but what about the AD functional level? Now I have researched this half to death across the MS KBs, tech forums etc. and I am conflicting information. Some MS representatives in forums have said that these functional levels are not supported but they don't supply any official documentation or statement from MS which says this. I just raised a ticket with MS support to ask the question but the responding engineer was confusing as hell and whilst I appreciate English would be their second language, I don't think they understood what I asked. So is there anyone in the discussion forum who knows the answer to this? If you do, can you please point me to the official MS statement backing this up as well. Is AD functional level 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 supported or not supported? Appreciate any help anyone here can provide. Cheers AlexSolvedozzeus76Nov 25, 2024Copper Contributor312Views0likes4Comments
Error Occurred While Enrolling for a Certificate - Certificate Server
I am getting the above error when try to renew or enroll a new certificate. Additional information is The Certificate request could be submitted to the certification authority. Error: The RPC server is unavailable. 0X800706ba (WIN32: 1733 RPC_S_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE) Our CA was on a domain controller where we were getting this error. I moved the CA to it own server, restored the CA but still getting this. I have searched and followed numerous suggestions on the above topic but none have resolved the issue. This is running on a patched Windows Server 2022. Any additional suggestions would be appreciated.Solvedbfry2461Oct 28, 2024Brass Contributor290Views0likes1CommentAD DS Users in Remote Desktop Users group receive not authorized for remote login
Hello, thanks for checking! My AD DS config was lost. I have now built a new PDC for AD DS. I have recreated users and given them remote permissions via remote tab on user details, I have added them to administrators group, and I have added them to Remote Desktop Users group. I have joined "PC1" I can confirm the user can login via console, but when attempting to remote in, is receiving "The connection was denied because the user account is not authorised for remote login." The only user that can use RDP at this time is domain 'administrator'. It was working previously. I have verified that the PC1 has remote desktop enabled, and can connect via domain 'administrator' I would appreciate any insight into this matter!SolvedKevinM905Oct 22, 2024Copper Contributor272Views0likes2CommentsSMB over QUIC Client Access Control is inconsistent
We have set up SMB over QUIC on some Windows 2025 file servers and generally it works well. Unfortunately of course, it is not secure by design since there is no MFA or conditional access in the picture. Thus securing the connections falls to its Client Access Control feature where you can allowlist or blacklist connections using client certificates. We implemented this in multiple environments (different domains) and although it works initially, it then starts failing with no changes having been made. The behavior is always the same across various domains once it starts failing - first the connection shows successful: The SMB connection was successfully established. Endpoint Name: FILES Transport: Quic Server socket address: x.x.x.x:443 Client socket address: x.x.x.x:8205 Connection ID: 0xB1D0039C01XXXXXX Mutual authentication: Yes Access control: Yes Then immediately it fails less than a second later: Quic connection shutdown. Error: Mutual authentication failed. Reason: Server close the connection. Endpoint Name: FILES Transport Name: \Device\SmbQUICIpv4_0006_x.x.x.x Guidance: This event indicates that the winquic connection is shutting down by the server. This event commonly occurs because the server certificate mapping is not created. It may also be caused by the server failed to configure the winquic connections.SolvedWes808Oct 20, 2024Brass Contributor337Views0likes3Commentswof compression not working on Server 2019, compact /exe:lzx
Hi! Got this oddity where it works on some 2019 but not others. It's volumes that support compression. compact /c .\textfile.txt Compressing files in E:\test\ textfile.txt 80510 : 20480 = 3,9 to 1 [OK] Works. But this doesn't compact /c /exe:lzx .\textfile.txt Compressing files in E:\test\ textfile.txt [ERR] textfile.txt: The file system does not support compression. Found another tool that gives a little bit more / other info. https://github.com/wimbrts/WOF_Compress WofCompress.exe /c:lzx /path:textfile.txt Compression using LZX algorithm Error WOF driver missing! Some more info posted as issue at the authors github. https://github.com/wimbrts/WOF_Compress/issues/1 Anyone got a clue why it works on some server and not others? I've compared the output from fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo fltmc filters Not working server: NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0x90e6dd9ee6dd84be NTFS Version : 3.1 LFS Version : 2.0 Number Sectors : 0x00000003feeaefff Total Clusters : 0x000000007fdd5dff Free Clusters : 0x000000000b47a437 Total Reserved : 0x000000000000118d Bytes Per Sector : 512 Bytes Per Physical Sector : 4096 Bytes Per Cluster : 4096 Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024 Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0 Mft Valid Data Length : 0x000000000a9c0000 Mft Start Lcn : 0x00000000000c0000 Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x0000000000000002 Mft Zone Start : 0x00000000000ca9c0 Mft Zone End : 0x00000000000d71c0 Max Device Trim Extent Count : 0 Max Device Trim Byte Count : 0x0 Max Volume Trim Extent Count : 62 Max Volume Trim Byte Count : 0x40000000 Resource Manager Identifier : A36B7921-4B02-11E3-80B9-10604B92980C fltmc filters Filter Name Num Instances Altitude Frame ------------------------------ ------------- ------------ ----- WdFilter 5 328010 0 storqosflt 0 244000 0 wcifs 0 189900 0 CldFlt 0 180451 0 FileCrypt 0 141100 0 luafv 1 135000 0 npsvctrig 1 46000 0 Wof 1 40700 0 Working server: fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0x5674e49574e478df NTFS Version : 3.1 LFS Version : 2.0 Number Sectors : 0x000000000fb557ff Total Clusters : 0x0000000001f6aaff Free Clusters : 0x0000000001356a89 Total Reserved : 0x00000000000013ff Bytes Per Sector : 512 Bytes Per Physical Sector : 4096 Bytes Per Cluster : 4096 Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024 Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0 Mft Valid Data Length : 0x000000003d880000 Mft Start Lcn : 0x00000000000c0000 Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x0000000000000002 Mft Zone Start : 0x000000000061e7c0 Mft Zone End : 0x0000000000622b20 Max Device Trim Extent Count : 4096 Max Device Trim Byte Count : 0xffffffff Max Volume Trim Extent Count : 62 Max Volume Trim Byte Count : 0x40000000 Resource Manager Identifier : 0F1B4301-B8F1-11EB-BBB6-00155D289A03 fltmc filters Filter Name Num Instances Altitude Frame ------------------------------ ------------- ------------ ----- MsSecFlt 6 385600 0 WdFilter 4 328010 0 storqosflt 0 244000 0 wcifs 0 189900 0 CldFlt 0 180451 0 FileCrypt 0 141100 0 npsvctrig 1 46000 0 Wof 1 40700 0SolvedMikaelOct 16, 2024Brass Contributor202Views0likes2Comments
Excel is creating .tmp files in shared folder without security permissions.
Hello. I have a on-prem 2019 DC that has 2012 r2 server in the same forest. Since the end of July, sometimes when Excel that is used in the workstations, the .tmp files that are created when the excel file is saved are not deleted. If I go to .tmp files' properties, there's nothing in Security and I'm unable to take ownership saying I don't have reading permissions. If I restart the server, I'm able to see the information and to delete them. I have checked the file in virustotal.com, it's clean and it is an Office Open XML Spreadsheet. The servers are both updated, the DNS has no errors and the disk is ok. After some research, I did the following: - Disabled the Microsoft Defender on the Server - Gave full control to the shared folder to everyone - Deactivated the heuristic component of the anti-virus that is installed in the server Despite all this, the .tmp files continue to stay now and then in the shared folder as described earlier. I don't know what can I do to solve this?SolvedLCoimbraSep 09, 2024Copper Contributor1.1KViews0likes3CommentsAD FS Role installs but configuration fails with timeout error
I am attempting to install the Active Directory Federation Services role on a Server 2019 VM. The initial configuration wizard fails when installing ADFS (GUI OR PowerShell - same outcome). All checks pass, but the ADFS service takes roughly 75 seconds to start, so the wizard times out failed. The database is built, the service account and certificate are verified, and the service is ACTUALLY STARTED. Once it fails with "timeout" error, it never builds the APP Pool objects in IIS, and it never builds the objects to populate the AD FS MMC. I have verified that the certificate is built correctly per multiple articles. I followed https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-fs/deployment/manually-configure-a-service-account-for-a-federation-server-farm to set up the GMSA service account I have followed the guidance at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/system-management-components/service-not-start-events-7000-7011-time-o.ut-error?source=recommendations to add time for the service to start, but the wizard appears to have its own timeout. I have installed SQL Service Management Studio 20, and used it verify that the WID database and the permissions/roles for the service account match guidance. I have verified the SPN and the permissions for the AD FS GUID for the farm. Is there a way to complete the configuration with the long service start?Solvedpaul1945Sep 03, 2024Copper Contributor655Views0likes2Comments
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