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Windows: Cleanup files from WSUS which are no longer needed

July 23, 2017 Michael Albert 2 Comments

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Hi,

the content of an WSUS Server crows every month for several GiBytes because WSUS does held all files which has the approval state “install”.
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Windows, Windows knowhow

Windows: Cannot access samba share as Guest

June 29, 2017 Michael Albert 3 Comments

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Hi,

since some later Versions of Windows 10 it is no longer possible to access Samba Public shares with Guest access as Windows User SYSTEM(i.e. from Schedule Tasks).

The error occured is:

The specified server cannot perform the requested operation.
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Windows knowhow

Windows: Renew a machine certificate

June 27, 2017 Michael Albert 1 Comment

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Hi,

in most Active Directory Enviroments the Certificate Enrollment is active which generates and enrolls a certificate for each client. This can be used for Radius authentication or as certificate for an IIS webserver.

Typically the client renews this certificate itself.
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Windows knowhow

Windows: Install Failure: Error 997. Overlapped I/O operation is in progress

June 27, 2017 Michael Albert 4 Comments

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a customer tries to install .NET 4.6.2 and it ends up in error. Errors in the installer log:
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Powershell: Method not found: ‘System.Threading.Tasks.Task System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Run(System.Action)’

June 25, 2017 Michael Albert Leave a comment

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when you tried to start powershell and the window opens and closes immediately.

Open a cmd and start powershell by calling powershell.exe
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