Remote Desktop Gateway Service – register NPS
I struggled with getting a new Server 2016 Remote Desktop Gateway Service running. I followed the official documentation from Microsoft, configuring two servers...
Tag: Troubleshooting
Windows 10 Wi-Fi – No Internet
SOS!! 22 hours with no wifi!!!! In the past 48 hours, two different family members in different households have reported problems with their Windows 10 laptops&...
Outlook MessageHeaderAnalyzer and Unsubscribe
Microsoft and other providers have published add-ins that provide additional functionality within Outlook and Outlook for web. We have enabled two add-ins which...
Scheduled tasks, PowerShell’s -file parameter, and array values
I wrote a script that accepts a comma-separated list of values, and the script worked just fine from the command-line. However, when I tried to configure a sche...
Renaming directories with invalid names
Somehow, a client managed to create several directories with names that ended with a period. However, File Explorer and other tools (i.e., backup) are unable to...
Troubleshooting Offline Files
My previous post describes the normal operation of Offline Files. And most of the time, “it just works.” But there are times when it won’t, an...
Folder Redirection and Offline Files
The following information is not new. We are in the process of making changes to our Folder Redirection policy, though, and I thought it might be helpful to hav...
GUID Chase – Group Policy troubleshooting
It started with an alert from System Center Operations Manager about a failed scheduled task. Of course, the alert references a task name that looks like a SID....
String arrays and mandatory parameters
I have been working on a function to convert the output of NET SHARE <sharename> commands into usable PowerShell objects. In the course of my work, I was ...
VSS diagnostics
For the past eight month, I’ve been working with EMC and Microsoft to diagnose a problem. Several time a month, during the backup of our primary Windows 2008 ...