Create Azure Az VM Using Existing UnManaged VHD
The days change, but sometimes the issues stay the same. This is a redux of an existing post where there was an issue back in 2016 when I was not …
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Azure Firewall Rule Not Working – Orange Triangle
The below is from a customer situation where an Azure Network Security Group (NSG) firewall rule entry was not working as they expected. This was was created to allow RDP …
Faulting Module Name NTdll.dll
One of my hosted lab environments ran into series of issues, and after unplanned maintenance there were multiple problems to resolve. The below error with a faulting ntdll.dll module was …
Intermittent Azure DNS Resolution Issues With With New Domain Controller
The default option for DNS resolution on an Azure virtual network is to use the Azure DNS service. This is perfectly fine for regular Internet requests, if you need …
QuickTip – Removing IE11 Via Command Line
Now that multiple services have stopped supporting IE11 coupled with the end of support for legacy Edge, it is imperative that we transition to an updated browser on all …
Unable to Install Windows Updates or Windows Components
The below post initially stemmed from an Exchange Risk Assessment which noted that all of the customer's Exchange servers were missing critical Windows updates. The customer's security team were slightly …
Unable To Install PowerShell Modules – Unable To Download From URI Error
When you try to install a PowerShell module or connect to the PowerShell Repository you may get the below error messages:
WARNING: Unable to download from URI 'https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=627338&clcid=0x409' to …
Microsoft Teams High CPU – Using Hardware Acceleration with the Microsoft Teams Client To Lower CPU Load
One of the benefits of Windows as a service is that we receive constant updates, security enhancements and additions to the OS. One of the new features in the 2004 …
QuickTip – Which Managed Availability Components Are Unhealthy?
Exchange 2013 introduced the Managed Availability feature, so Exchange can self monitor and perform recovery actions upon itself. While this has greatly helped Exchange become more self-healing, one of the …
How To Set NSLookup to Use TCP
One of the great things at Microsoft is the interaction with very smart colleagues. A question was posed regarding DNS. Most admins will know that DNS uses port 53, but …