When connecting using RDP to a Windows 2016 server, you may receive an error message which seems clueless to you: Windows 2016 Remote Desktop cannot verify the identity of the remote computer because there is a time or date difference between your computer and the remote computer. When you manage […]
Often sought on the Internet, rarely complete, here is for a domain controller firewall ports to open so your Windows domain-controller is able to contact the other domain controllers it is depending on for proper replication UDP/123 for time synchronization, as in a domain by default the W32Time of a […]
While joining machine to a domain, multiple errors can occur. In particular Domain Join Error 0x6ba is often present but with different causes. Let’s recap the needed things to properly join the domain: The machine must be able to solve the domain name The machine must be able to retrieve […]
When getting this error message Could not obtain information about Windows NT group/user ‘domainname\username’, error code 0x5 in SQL Server you may be wondering what’s happening. This error message can happen in numerous occasions and while executing different T-SQL Statements, such as xp_logininfo
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Msg 15404, Level 16, State 19, Procedure xp_logininfo, Line 64 Could not obtain information about Windows NT group/user 'domain\user', error code 0x5. |
Or while executing sp_xp_cmdshell_proxy_account while you […]
In this blog post, let’s see what you should do if you get during DHCP Unauthorize: There is no such object on the server error message, DHCP Authorize / Unauthorize As you probably know, a DHCP Server must be authorized in an Active Directory to start delivering addresses. This is […]
When you see Error 1753: no more endpoints in AD Replication, the common mistake is to think about firewall or TCP/IP connectivity issues. The message “Error 1753: There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper” does not mean that you cannot connect at all. It is quite the […]
Issues Although the Lync 2013 / Skype for Business 2015 installation seems simple, there are a few caveats in some scenarios If your forest is made of several domains: You cannot run the initial schema update from a machine which is in any child domain. The following steps must be […]
After our simplistic approach in the 1st part and our discoveries about optimization in part 2, it is time to gather our learnings to lower the total time our script will run: We know that hashtables can be initialized with the number of elements they will approximately contain to avoid […]
Our previous script was simple but not quick. Our second attempt will try to reduce the time it takes to gather all the pieces. First of all we may imagine that our use of the hashtable in Powershell may be inefficient as we start from 0 object and are continuously […]
One of the frequent reports you’re asked to do when you’re administering an Active DIrectory is to know when a user has connected for the last time or how long has a computer account been inactive. In the infancy of the Active Directory, Microsoft faced these requirements too. In Windows […]
