Category Archives: Windows knowhow

Howto do some things in Windows

Windows: certutil command line examples

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Windows has a builtin tool for dealing with x509 certificates, certificate stores and much more.
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Windows Remote Desktop Gateway: Resouce authorization policy store is corrupt

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when you try to open the Remote Desktop Gateway Management Console and you get the following error:

The Remote Desktop resouce authorization policies (RD RAPs) cannot not be read. This problem might be due to a corrupted store for the RD RAP.

The Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Gateway/Operational log contains errors with EventID 642:
The RD Gateway server cannot open the resource authorization policy store on Authorization Manager (Azman). The following error occurred: “11”.

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Windows: Reset, enable and configure Powershell remoting

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here are the steps to reset WinRM service and start from scratch.
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Windows: Update builtin openssh to the latest version

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when you have install openssh by

PS D:\> Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name OpenSSH.Client~~~~0.0.1.0

then the installed version will never get updates.

Some older version (8.x.x) might have scp performance issues and therefore an update makes sence :-).
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Windows: Removing Appx failed with 0x80070032: This app is part of Windows and cannot be uninstalled on a per-user basis.

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since the latest Edge updates an Appx Package Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge is installed on a “per user basis”.
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