Symptom

When you try to start a computer in PXE from a WDS server, the following error is displayed when loading the image:

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer.
2. Choose your language settings, and then click “Next.”
3. Click “Repair your computer.”
if you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.
Status: 0xc000000l
Info: A required device isn’t connected or can’t be accessed

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In Windows, go to Start and select Run. Type in cmd (Windows 2000/XP) or command (Windows 98/ME) into the Open: field. Hit the enter key or click OK. The DOS prompt should open. At the DOS prompt, type in ping www.yahoo.com…

This post is about how to shadow a user session if the Windows Remote Desktop Server is not connected to a domain. If the server is connected to a domain, you can go to server manager, RDS Manager, and right click on current sessions to shadow and connect. When the server is in Workgroup mode (not connected to domain) the Remote Desktop Services Manager page is not accessible in Server Manager. To shadow another user’s sessions in Windows Server 2016 in Workgroup mode, use the following steps:

Command’s.

qwinsta

mstsc /shadow:3 /control

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Prerequisites: Office 365 Subscription, Exchange Online Plan

This article explains how you can send email from devices and business applications when all of your mailboxes are in Office 365. For example:

• You have a scanner, and you want to email scanned documents to yourself or someone else.
• You have a line-of-business (LOB) application that manages appointments, and you want to email reminders to clients of their appointment time.

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How to Disable windows update It seems that SCONFIG tool allows Window 2016 updates to be disabled. See screenshots below.

Get device information To get the required device information, I’m using the latest version of the Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo PowerShell script. That script is the easiest method to get the required information, especially for…

In this article I’m going to show you the commands you need to convert your .PFX Certificate file to a seperate certificate and keyfile. This article can come in handy when you need to import your certificates on devices like Cisco routers/loadbalancers etc. where you probably need to import the certificates and keyfiles in plain text (unencrypted). My tool of choice (but there might be others) is OpenSSL for Windows, which can be downloaded here (more…)

About This Guide

In this text, I teach how to create a network share via Samba using the CLI (Command-line interface/Linux Terminal) in an uncomplicated, simple and brief way targeting Windows users. (more…)

After fresh system installation the root login on the Debian Linux is disabled by default. When you attempt to login as root user to your Debian Jessie Linux server the access will be denied eg.:

$ ssh [email protected]
	
[email protected]'s password: 
Permission denied, please try again.
[email protected]'s password: 
Permission denied, please try again.
[email protected]'s password: 
Permission denied (publickey,password).

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Configure a Static IP From the CLI

For the command line, you’re going to need to make a few changes. First, disable and stop NetworkManager.

# systemctl stop NetworkManager
# systemctl disable NetworkManager

This next part isn’t strictly necessary, but it’s helpful. Install resolvconf.

# apt install resolvconf

Now, use your favorite text editor to open /etc/network/interfaces. By default, this file is really sparse. That’s because it really isn’t used in conjunction with NetworkManager. (more…)