Hi,

So our networking team asked me what version NTP our domain controllers are servicing and I thought it would be a walk in the park looking up a compatibility list for this but to my surprise that is nowhere near the truth so it seems.

I have run into vast amounts of this question and almost all are answered with the links to how you setup NTP in your environment but those do not answer the initial (seemingly) simple question, WHAT version NTP is exactly being used by which server version.

Closest to an answer was this article: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0df05dd7-3a4a-40d5-874e-6b909695f816/ntp-version-in-windows-server-2013?forum=winserver8gen

But the text used in this article comes from another link and in there the exact text that should point out that NTP version 3 with parts of NTP version 4 is used has been removed from that article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2003/cc773013(v=ws.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

I have found the same article for Windows Server 2016 but there is also no mention of what version exaclty is used, the same text applies there: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/windows-time-service/how-the-windows-time-service-works

In the second and third article the text has possibly been changed to NTP version 3 with backwards compatibility to SNTP. NTP version 4 is not mentioned at all in those articles. And even if it would be there what version would 3 with parts of 4 be, 3.5, 3.5.7?

So is there anybody that can point me in the direction of an answer to my question? What exact version NTP is used by which Windows Server version?

The server is getting shutdown every week due although we have only 25 active users in DC. The same license used in hyperV host and Domain controller (VM). Any idea?

I am trying to fix unknown device, it turns out it is Microsoft KM-Test Loopback Adapter. I get the same error when using update driver software and adding KM-Test Loopback Adapter. The error messages as below.

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Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it.

Microsoft KM-Test Loopback Adapter

The data is invalid

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Does anyone know how to fix it? Thanks!

I'm using Robocopy to copy Symlinks from Windows (7/10) to a Synology Nas via SMB.

Robocopy seems to work ok within Windows i.e. copying the symlinks from one partition/disk to another disk.

When I change the path to a network location (\\nas\folder) the symlinks don't copy correctly. Only the file names and directories copy, but the new symlinks don't point to the correct path and the files are blank - 0 bytes.

I tried Robocopying to a different Windows system on the network (\\pcs\folder) with the same result, so it's not Nas specific.

The command used (run as admin):
robocopy "D:\MARK\CPAF\MOBI\MH\WEBBS\ " "\\nas\a\test " /s /sl

Wandering if it's permissions or even some kind of OS limitation?

I try to update windows server 2008 but it's failed as an error occurred " Failure Configuring Windows Updates Reverting Changes. Do Not Turn Off Your Computer". I try to turn off and restart windows updates, run dism command, run windows troubleshooter tools etc but still the same problem persists. Kindly please advise. Thanks

-Ramanathan

Malaysia

When I delete the old machine certificate in cert:\localmachine\my it comes back after I restart certsvc. Where can I find out where this old certificate might be coming from? I've searched the registry and deleted all values that match the old cert ID. Is there a configuration file somewhere I need to modify?

Thanks

Hello everyone, I wanted to take a moment and discuss an environment where there is a single certificate authority established in an Active Directory environment.  There are multiple Active Directory sites and multiple domain controllers.  The certificate Authority happens to be installed on one of the domain controllers which is not the primary FSMO role owner.

In this scenario, all domain controllers seem to automatically be receiving a certificate.  From what I have read this happens automatically when the CA role is installed on a domain controller.  Here is the issue we're running into..

Anything in the environment that does LDAPs authentication against a domain controller with a valid internally issued certificate doesn't work unless the root CA is online.  After researching, I believe this is because the root CA was deployed with default settings and the only CRL destination is itself.

The "Extension" settings are as follows..

Question 1: Can anyone confirm I am on the right track, is this likely the cause?

Question 2: Can anyone provide step by step instructions for adding additional CRL destinations?  From what I can tell this will also require that new certificates be issued throughout the environment.  Currently the internal PKI system is only being used for LDAPs capabilities, so we're only concerned with issuing new certificates to each domain controller.

Question 3: If certificates need to be issued to domain controllers again with new CRL settings, what does this process look like?  Do you delete the existing certificate from the local "computer" repository and wait?  How long does it take?  Can you force the re-issue somehow?

Question 4: If a RootCA was to be established on a member server only, how would you still automatically deploy certificates to domain controllers?  I assume this would be via GPO in some way, but please provide step by step instructions.

Question 5: I've also found information that discusses adjusting the "CRL Publishing Parameters" on the RootCA can stop the LDAPs client from checking the CRL as often.  Which may allow the only CRL server to be offline for a time and still allow Domain Controllers to authenticate over LDAPs, please confirm?  Does this also require that certificates be issued again?

CRL publication interval

Publish Delta CRLs

Hi experts,

  I have one SAP Jobs folder it always contains millions of files. It takes like half hours to delete them.

I already use "DEL /F/Q/S *.* > NUL" in command prompt but it still take so long(more than half hours). Is there any commands or tools which can delete millions of files instantly in Windows Server 2008 R2?

https://www.ghacks.net/2017/07/18/how-to-delete-large-folders-in-windows-super-fast/

this message appeared when start setup of windows server 2016 to upgrade 

setup couldn’t start properly. please reboot your pc and try running windows 10 setup again

and after restart , trying again still appear 

I have version 1904 of Windows Admin Center installed on my Server 2019 server. Windows Admin Center has been installed on this server for about 10 months and now it seems the certificate for Windows Admin Center is expired.

How can I get a new certificate that is not expired for Windows Admin Center?  If I install the newest version of Windows Admin Center (version 1910) then will this give me a new unexpired certificate?

I need to be able to activate Windows Server 2019 but getting error.

cscript slmgr.vbs /ipk 12345-12345-12345-12345-V4QMY

Error: 0xC004F050 The Software Licensing Service reported that the product key is invalid

The key is downloaded from VLSC for our organization.

I have a KMS host on Windows Server 2012 R2 with July 2016 Quality Roll Up KB3172614 installed.

According to doc I have the prerequisites for this Windows Server 2012 R2 to be able to activate Windows Server 2019.  Currently we are activating Windows Server 2016 from this KMS host.

Please tell me how I can troubleshoot and fix this problem.

Here is the same error in the Application event log:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP
Date:          11/6/2019 2:37:40 PM
Event ID:      1017
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      corp-dc02.corp.xxx.com
Description:
Installation of the Proof of Purchase failed. 0xC004F050
Partial Pkey=V4QMY
ACID=?
Detailed Error[?]

Had a recent update on the application and now it will crash after a few minutes, curious if there is anything I can do on my end or just wait for the game to be fixed.

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          11/6/2019 1:47:22 PM
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      DESKTOP
Description:
Faulting application name: ModernWarfare.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5db8fd66
Faulting module name: ModernWarfare.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5db8fd66
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000071255e
Faulting process id: 0xc18
Faulting application start time: 0x01d594e2dedb29cd
Faulting application path: D:\Call of Duty Modern Warfare\ModernWarfare.exe
Faulting module path: D:\Call of Duty Modern Warfare\ModernWarfare.exe
Report Id: f0149a07-0566-4db0-920f-1dc10667797e
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Application Error" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>100</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-11-06T20:47:22.670267900Z" />
    <EventRecordID>3395</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>DESKTOP-QQIFVGA</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>ModernWarfare.exe</Data>
    <Data>1.0.0.0</Data>
    <Data>5db8fd66</Data>
    <Data>ModernWarfare.exe</Data>
    <Data>1.0.0.0</Data>
    <Data>5db8fd66</Data>
    <Data>c0000005</Data>
    <Data>000000000071255e</Data>
    <Data>c18</Data>
    <Data>01d594e2dedb29cd</Data>
    <Data>D:\Call of Duty Modern Warfare\ModernWarfare.exe</Data>
    <Data>D:\Call of Duty Modern Warfare\ModernWarfare.exe</Data>
    <Data>f0149a07-0566-4db0-920f-1dc10667797e</Data>
    <Data>
    </Data>
    <Data>
    </Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Hello,

I think I found a very serious bug which causes NTFS file system corruption. Please let me know if this is somehow known issue and how to fix this.

Product: Windows Server 2008R2 Standard (but probably will not be related only to this version)

We have file share servers and Windows and Linux clients using it. Linux clients are able to create files which names are not supported by explorer.exe. These files can not be deleted from Windows server itself and in case file system check is required, chkdsk fails with unspecified error.

For me it looks like VERY SERIOUS bug, probably caused by bad design. It seems file names are not checked at NTFS level but at exlorer.exe level, so ANY program not using it could cause it.

How to reproduce it:

1. Create file ending with space, dot or having more than allowed number of characters or having more than allowed PATH length. You can create this file on shared folder from Linux client or from some older programs on Windows client.

e.g. files with names "test ", "ttt...", "somestringlongerthan1000charsctersforexample" ...

2. Run explorer.exe and try to delete this file. Explorer will write "file not found" or similar error messages.

3. Run "chkdsk DISK: /F", it will fail with "unspecified error (696e647863686b2e dee)" during checking of indexes

4. Delete the problematic file from Linux client or install cygwin on Windows server and delete it with this tool. This will work, but chkdsk will still fail with unspecified error. So NTFS IS CORRUPTED WITH NO WAY TO FIX IT.

How can I be sure it is caused by file name characters?:

1. We have 2 file share servers - shareserver1, shareserver2. Lets run chkdsk on shareserver2, chkdsk will succeed.

2. Copy problematic file from server shareserver1 to server shareserver2 using robocopy. Lets run chkdsk on shareserver2 again, chkdsk will FAIL.

3. Remove the problematic file from server shareserver2 using cygwin. Lets chkdsk on shareserver2, chkdsk will also FAIL. So NTFS IS CORRUPTED.

How can I report this issue without having Microsoft support? Is there any known fix to this? Why the hell is only explorer.exe checking the file names and not the NTFS layer itself?

Regards,

Vaclav.

Hi All,

we Could see Unexpected behavior in task scheduler jobs on Windows server 2012 R2. we have multiple schedule task jobs configured on the server. Each job has more that 2 triggers on different times.

Recently, few schedule task jobs behavior is weird and these running out of the trigger schedule time/sometimes runs twice on same time. Its not for all the jobs only few jobs behaving like that.

Could you please suggest if any idea on this to troubleshoot further to fix the issue.

I have deployed a Windows 2016 server as a Hyper-V host.  However the server manager is always showing Red for Local Server and All Servers under Services.  The services are Sync Host_3d6a513 and Downloaded Maps Manager. 

I can start the Sync Host service but the Downloaded Maps Manager starts then stops.  Does not seem to be causing issues but I would like to see a Green status in my Server Manager.  Can I just set these to manual?  Do I even need them?

Hi,

So our networking team asked me what version NTP our domain controllers are servicing and I thought it would be a walk in the park looking up a compatibility list for this but to my surprise that is nowhere near the truth so it seems.

I have run into vast amounts of this question and almost all are answered with the links to how you setup NTP in your environment but those do not answer the initial (seemingly) simple question, WHAT version NTP is exactly being used by which server version.

Closest to an answer was this article: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0df05dd7-3a4a-40d5-874e-6b909695f816/ntp-version-in-windows-server-2013?forum=winserver8gen

But the text used in this article comes from another link and in there the exact text that should point out that NTP version 3 with parts of NTP version 4 is used has been removed from that article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2003/cc773013(v=ws.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

I have found the same article for Windows Server 2016 but there is also no mention of what version exaclty is used, the same text applies there: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/windows-time-service/how-the-windows-time-service-works

In the second and third article the text has possibly been changed to NTP version 3 with backwards compatibility to SNTP. NTP version 4 is not mentioned at all in those articles. And even if it would be there what version would 3 with parts of 4 be, 3.5, 3.5.7?

So is there anybody that can point me in the direction of an answer to my question? What exact version NTP is used by which Windows Server version?

Hi.

Before i describe my situation, I apologize for the inaccurate translation of error messages etc. I have a system in Czech localization.
In our small company we use 1 server based on Windows Server 2012 Foundation. This server has instaled this features and roles: DNS, AD domain services, file management service, NET Framework 3.5 and 4.5, internal windows database, Media foundation, function for remote administration, support for WoW64 subsystem, CMAK, handwriting support service, SNMP, group policy management, user interfaces and infrastructure, windows PowerShell and server backup. On server is defined total 11 domain users ( noone use RDP acces to server except domain admninistrator ).

So problem is with this error: The server did not finish checking the license compliance. If the server is joined to a domain, make sure that the server can connect to a domain controller. If the license compliant check cannot be completed, the server will automatically shut down in… 
I have tried some instructions from google, but everything is unchanged.
Here are event log errors when problem started.

System:
ID 4231 TCPIP The request to assign a temporary port number from the global TCP port space failed because all of these ports are in use.

ID 1054 GroupPolicy (Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy) Group Policy processing failed. Windows did not obtain the domain controller name. This may be due to a failure to resolve IP addresses. Make sure DNS is configured correctly and working properly.

ID 4227 TCPIP TCP / IP failed to establish an outgoing connection because the selected local endpoint was last used to connect to the same remote endpoint. This error usually occurs when outgoing connections are opened and closed at a fast pace. As a result, all available local ports are used and TCP / IP must reuse a local port for outgoing connections. To minimize the risk of data corruption, TCP / IP requires a minimum period of time between consecutive connections from a given local endpoint to a given remote endpoint.

Errors in Server Infrastructure Licensing\Operational:
ID2 Server Infrastructure Licensing The forest trust check in Licensing failed because of error 0x80004005 in fe6. Unspecified error

ID38 Server Infrastructure Licensing The forest trust check has detected a condition in the environment that is not compatible with licensing policies. If this problem is not fixed within 9 days, 23 hours and 0 minutes, this server will automatically shut down. Try looking for other events that the Forest Trust check should resolve.

ID70 Server Infrastructure Licensing User check failed because error 0x80004005 in function f7. Unspecified error.

ID50 Server Infrastructure Licensing Root domain check failed because error 0x8007203A in function f1981 [FNYS]. The server is not functional.

I can remotely login to server, on server i try ping to server name - OK, ping to domain name - OK, ping to google.com - OK, but internet not working.
I can not run netdom query fsmo, netdom resetpwd, domains and AD trust relationships, AD users and computeres ( it displays something about the old level domain 2000, but it is 2012).

When i reboot server, everything is fine for 3 -7 days.

Can anyone help me?