System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) is a very popular tool to deploy software updates. Usually I can setup a deadline to force the computer to install software updates then reboot automatically. But I have a unique situation that there is another team need to take a long process which includes many maintenance steps to make…
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Recently I install 2 new MacBooks pro for domain users and met some issues. Problem: Network accounts are unavailable After binding the MacBook Pro to the Windows AD, the login interface still showed Network accounts are unavailable and I can’t login with a domain account. Solution: Unbind the computer from the AD, and rebind it. …
In last round of server patching, I had more than 40 servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard SP1 failed to install KB4093118 which is 2018-04 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4093118). I worked with Microsoft support with one server and solved the issue. PROBLEM: Failed to Install KB4093118 on…
When I was trying to delete a decommissioned remote desktop server from Active Directory I received the following message: Object %COMPUTERNAME% is a container and contains other objects. Are you sure you want to delete object %COMPUTERNAME% and the objects it contains? This operation could take a long time if %COMPUTERNAME% contains a large number of objects. To determine…
I have different Device Collections for servers in different AD group. One collection called Server Pilot contains a group of pilot servers. I usually deploy security updates to this collection before we deploy updates to production servers. The membership rule is simple which is to query the AD group and put device in the group into…
The PowerShell Active Directory module offers a variety of cmdlets that allow you to remotely manage Active Directory. Many guides exist on the Internet that explain how to install the PowerShell Active Directory module. Unfortunately, I don’t find any guide for Windows Server 2016. I’ve tried the installation procedures in this article, so you shouldn’t run into…
I started to take over the responsibility of server patching after a server admin left recently. We use SCCM 2012 to patch servers. I met a few servers had the SCCM client certificate none issue. But not all fixes are same. The below screen shot shows the issue. Server A had this issue after I updated the SCCM client. There is another server B had…
I had this issue on several servers running 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 standard edition. It happened when I manually run IE11-Windows6.1-x64-en-us.exe to install Internet Explorer 11. I followed the Internet Explorer Troubleshooter page and checked Prerequisite updates for Internet Explorer 11. I have downloaded all required updates and run the files to install. Most…
This is an wired issue I had recently when I was working on a Windows domain decommission project. Let me use company.local, ad.company.local and abc.com as the example. ad.company.local is the child domain of company.local. There are two way trusts between abc.com and company.local domain. abc.com is the old domain. All most all computers are in ad.company.local…
I was working on a PowerShell/PowerCLI script to build a VMware VM from a template, assign IP address, default gateway, DNS, join it into the domain and install some software. I knew Netsh command can be used to configure IP address, default getaway and DNS servers. I did not remember the details how could I…