If you have multiple Windows Deployment Servers provisioned in the environment, you will need to enable the WDS server selection feature as below; Simply go to (this needs to be done on the WDS role running instance): HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\WDSServer\Providers\WDSPXE\Providers\BINLSVC and set AllowServerSelection to 1. Then restart the Windows Deployment Service. After doing this you get the…
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How to Enable & Trackdown user actions concerning files and folders access
It is important to audit all user actions concerning files and folders access. In this article, the process of enabling files and folders auditing on Windows Server Systems have been explained. On Windows Server Systems, auditing file and folder accesses consists of two parts: 1. Enable File and Folder auditing which can be done in…
How to Get SID of user
In Windows environment, each user is assigned a unique identifier called Security ID or SID, which is used to control access to various resources like Files, Registry keys, network shares etc. We can obtain SID of a user through WMIC USERACCOUNT command. Below you can find syntax and examples for the same. Get SID of…
Troubleshoot Hyper-V using the Event Log
Hyper-V logs a lot of useful information if you need to diagnose a problem, so I thought I would put together a little post explaining where you should be looking. The first thing to know is that all Hyper-V event logs are stored in the Event Viewer under “Applications and Services Logs”, “Microsoft”, “Windows”: There…
Can you run Windows Server 2012 R2 on Windows Server 2008 R2?
The Answer is simple – NO That is why Server 2012 is not listed under the supported Operating Systems. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/cc794868(v=ws.10)
After partitioning file system displays wrong disk size in Windows
“I extended the Hard disk size in VMware / Hyper V. Then I extended the Disk size in the Disk Management tool. All without any problems. But when I was checking the disk size in the Windows Explorer the size was incorrect. The old size was still showing” This is an issue on most Operating…
How to Track Software Installation and Removal Using Event IDs 11707, 11724, and 592
There some requirements, you may need to trace software installations and removals along with the user account details. Under the events you can look for in both the Application Event Log and Security Event Log that will help you do this. In the Application log, setup packages that use the Windows Installer to install themselves…
How to Resize User Profile Disks – The easy way
To enlarge the drive is very simple if you have Hyper-V installed. If you are running the VM on a virtual environment, it is not possible to have Hyper-V role installed. To overcome this issue, you can simply add the Hyper-V role on Windows 8/8.1/10 workstations. The Steps are as follows; The affected user have…