Unanswered Questions
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Unexpected and unexplained slow (and unusual) memory performance with Xeon Skylake SMP
We've been testing a server using 2x Xeon Gold 6154 CPUs with a Supermicro X11DPH-I motherboard, and 96GB RAM, and found some very strange performance issues surrounding memory when compared to ...
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connect to tightVNC in a windows container
There are plenty of resources online about using VNC with a linux container, but none that I can find for windows containers, so I thought I'd give it a crack.
I can get the tightVNC server to start (...
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How to export Cisco AnyConnect preferences and certificates to another PC
I have two computers (PC and MAC) connected to different organization VPNs. I want to be able to connect from MAC to the same VPNs set on PC. So I need to export VPN list and certificates, etc to my ...
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Azure AD Connect Password Sync
Windows 2012 R2, fully updated/activated
Roles: ADDS, ADFS
Installed Azure AD Connect latest version (only software installed other than updates)
Other applicable services: Office 365 (Business ...
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DNS and Active Directory configuration for a branch office
We've got a branch office with no on-site services at the moment, and we'd like to change that. The biggest goal is to setup some file servers but faster logins and DNS resolution will be welcome as ...
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Configure Windows RAID-5 "drive failed" timeout?
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When a hard-drive controller detects an error, and needs to remap a sector, the drive normally becomes unresponsive for the seconds (or possibly minutes) it takes to try to complete the re-...
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Joining a server to AD via AWS cloudformation
I want to use cloudformation to automatically join new instances to AD.
When I googled this it looks like many people just use scripts in there cloudformation templates and pass in credentials- I don'...
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Hyper-V Manager - Use HTTPS with WinRM
I've successfully configured WinRM on my Hyper-V server to use HTTPS. I am able to connect to it and execute commands from my client PC by using the same local username and password on both (they are ...
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msi for Web Deploy 3.6 for Hosting Servers... where to find?
On Win2012-R2
The Web Platform Installer offers an option (that I need...): "Web Deploy 3.6 for Hosting Servers"
I would like to get this into my dsc script, but cannot find the discrete msi(s) on ...
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Safe to change NTFS ACLs on an active file system?
We're adding a lot of new groups to the permissions on our companies shared drives. Some of the folder trees can contain millions of files and TBs of data. As is, changing the ACLs on these folders ...
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How do I get as much debugging info as possible out of the Network Policy Server (ias) service?
We are trying to authenticate a client on remote vpn, through a Meraki Z1 teleworker appliance. The Z1 is sending a proper request, the Network Policy Server (ias) service is apparently ...
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What are the minimum permissions to read the WMI class 'MSSerial_PortName'?
I am configuring a local application user (part of BUILTIN\Users) on a Windows 7 kiosk. The kiosk has a special USB device running on a virtual COM port. The user needs permission to read the WMI ...
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Mysql change ft_max_word_len bug
So, I have MySQL installed on my machine, and I need to change the ft_max_word_len, the maximum word length that MySQL will index. However, when I set it up via the tools provided, and query it, it ...
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How do Windows DFS referrals work for laptops away from the office?
How do Windows DFS referrals work for laptops away from the office?
[Edit 2014-11-26] I already understand how sites are defined by subnets, etc. But what I want to know is what happens to users ...
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How to use Windows 10 OpenSSH ssh-agent service with Cygwin?
I'm using the Visual Studio Code Remote - SSH extension on a Windows 10 laptop to access a bunch of Linux development servers. I followed these instructions to set up the Windows built-in ssh-agent ...
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