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Now that we have a new version of Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan), I wanted to list out some of my initial thoughts and upgrade experience as I did encounter a couple of minor bumps. Please add a comment if you are running into issues as well please.
Like many other administrators, I heavily used RDCMan 2.2 and 2.7 over the last 11 years. This was my primary tool for managing a wide r… Read the rest “Updating to RDCMan 2.8”
Finally we have good news for all fans of the Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) tool! It has risen from the ashes, and is now part of Sysinternals.
Over the years RDCMan built up a strong user base as it was a simple but powerful utility to manage connections to multiple machines. Sure, if you have three or four servers to manage you can get by with saved .rdp files or use the Universa… Read the rest “Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.81”
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 able to easily re-create a VM in a different Availability Set. As you can see in Create Azure RM VM Using Existing VHD – 250 Hello (rmilne.ca) PowerShell was used to re-create the VM as it allowed all of the resources to be specified.
The original VM was… Read the rest “Create Azure Az VM Using Existing UnManaged VHD”
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 connectivity for some of their test servers.
However they were not able to connect to the server, and were being blocked by the NSG.
Ideally we do not want to allow RDP to our Azure VMs are there are more secure methods such as cli… Read the rest “Azure Firewall Rule Not Working – Orange Triangle”
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 something I recall seeing many years ago with a Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) deployment where the MOM agent simply would not start. On every single attempt to start the service it would crash with the erro… Read the rest “Faulting Module Name NTdll.dll”
Exchange 2010 SP1 introduced the concept of block mode or granular replication. This minimised the time taken for transactions on the active node to be replicated to passive nodes. Since the feature is enabled by default and is self-managing, there is a good chance that you are benefiting from it without being fully aware of it.
See also understanding High Availability and Site Resilience
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 the capability to register internal DNS records for Active Directory then you will typically need to run your own DNS service. This is the case here and is also something observed with multiple customers. In each of these cases the … Read the rest “Intermittent Azure DNS Resolution Issues With With New Domain Controller”
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 of our devices. IE11 is already unsupported for multiple Microsoft services, and the list will grow over time. For example Microsoft Teams support ceased on the 30th November 2020, and overall Microsoft 365 support ends on the 17t… Read the rest “QuickTip – Removing IE11 Via Command Line”
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 upset as they believed (mistakenly) that all assets were properly updated. This was not the case. When we looked into the details, the monthly Windows Server 2012 R2 updates had been failing to… Read the rest “Unable to Install Windows Updates or Windows Components”
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 ''.
WARNING: Unable to download the list of available providers. Check your internet connection.
For make most glorious benefit engine of search:
PackageManagement\Install-Packag… Read the rest “Unable To Install PowerShell Modules – Unable To Download From URI Error”