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Category: Windows

  • Windows Defender – The threat service has stopped. Restart it now

    Issue Windows 10 Security Centre shows red X next to Virus & thread protection. Status reads “The threat service has stopped. Restart it now.“ Clicking Restart Now button doesn’t help. Following error is displayed “Unexpected error. Sorry, we ran into a problem. Please try again.“

  • Windows Firewall doesn’t save any changes – keeps reverting to defaults

    Issue All changes to Windows Firewall (application, port rules, etc.) stop working and disappear from UI few seconds after they were added. The same happens if Windows Firewall is disabled completely – few seconds later it gets re-enabled. Following Info level event are constantly getting logged in Windows Applications and Services Logs: Event ID: 2032Log…

  • Folder Redirection Fails. Event ID 502 – Access is denied

    Issue Applying folder redirection to Documents and other folders fails when Group Policy is trying to automatically create required folders. Following error is logged in Application Logs on client PCs: Event ID: 502Level: ErrorDescription: Failed to apply policy and redirect folder “Documents” to “\\Server-Name\Redirected\user.name\Documents”. Redirection options=0x1021. The following error occurred: “Can not create folder “\\Server-Name\Redirected\user.name\Documents””. Error…

  • Manage Google Chrome Settings via Group Policy

    If you allow Google Chrome on your network, you can customise and configure various settings via Group Policy.   

  • Remove ads from Viber Desktop

    Recently Viber started displaying ads in Windows Desktop version. I don’t have issues with non-intrusive ads that don’t interfere with user experience, but Viber ads cover a good part of contact panel and often are quite flashy images with questionable content (weight loss pills, Viagra, etc.)

  • ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk The entry is not a supported disk database entry…

    Issue Converting VMware vmdk disks to Hyper–V vhdx using Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 PowerShell module (ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk) fails with error: ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk : The entry 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 is not a supported disk database entry for the descriptor…

  • Resetting Password for APC PowerChute Business Edition

    Issue Server Administrator forgot / lost APC PowerChute password and can no longer access UPS software.

  • Outlook rule action “have server reply using a specific message” doesn’t work

    Issue Outlook rule that performs action “have server reply using a specific message” doesn’t work properly. The reply gets delivered for internal senders, but never reaches external senders. Email server is running Microsoft Exchange 2010.

  • Send Automatic Replies (Out of Office) to external recipients only

    Outlook / Exchange Out of Office Auto-Reply system allows to send automatic replies to either internal senders only (Inside My Organization) or internal and external senders (Outside My Organization). There is no option to send auto responses to external senders only. As a workaround you can use mailbox rules to replicate this missing functionality.

  • Relay via Office 365 stopped working – Client host blocked using Spamhaus

    Issue Relaying email via Office 365 suddenly stopped working. Relayed emails were sent from a Windows 2012 Server using a simple PowerShell script. After logging in to the server and running the PowerShell script in an interactive mode following error was displayed: Exception calling “Send” with “1” argument(s): “Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: 5.7.1…

  • Hyper-V VM move fails with 0x8009030D error (credentials not recognized)

    Issue Trying to move a virtual machine from one Hyper-V 2016 host to another while running Hyper-V Management Tools from a separate management server. Following error is displayed shortly after starting the move operation: There was an error during move Operation.Virtual machine migration Operation failed at migration source.Failed to establish a connection with host “DESTINATION-SERVER”:…

  • Live migrations are not enabled on this computer (Hyper-V)

    Issue Trying to move a virtual machine between Hyper-V 2016 hosts. Following error is displayed: Live migrations are not enabled on this computer.This computer is not configured for live migration of virtual machines. To enable live migration, modify the Hyper-V settings.