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May 17 2018

Browser Driver has Received Too many Illegal Datagrams

Published by under AS400

I was getting tons of events ID 8016 labelled “bowser” in the Windows system event log. These might be generated by IBM i (AS400) servers: “The browser driver has received too many illegal datagrams from the remote computer AS400 to name DOMAIN on transport NetBT_Tcpip_{356179F8-4CA4-48CA-92C2-AFEA87D1F884}. The data is the datagram. No more events will be generated […]

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Apr 22 2017

Managed Service Account Fails after Reboot

Published by under Windows

Windows services can be started with a Managed Service Account (MSA) for the sake of security and easy management. It is working just fine until I initiate a server reboot. The service would not start. Opening the service and wiping out the password field makes the service start again, until the next boot. What could […]

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Apr 06 2017

Configure Windows Managed Service Accounts

Published by under Windows

Windows Managed service accounts (MSA) appeared in Windows 2008 R2 Server. MSA provide dedicated accounts for each service without the hassle of managing password assignment or reset. Less management, more security.However, a single account cannot be used across multiple servers. This could lead to many service accounts within a domain but this is not a […]

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Mar 21 2017

Powershell Count Returns Incorrect Values

Published by under Windows

Powershell provides a “count” method that comes first to mind when you have to count lines, files or objects. I was astonished to observe PowerShell would display nothing when it should count 0 or 1. Here’s a screenshot where I retrieve the number of Active Directory accounts and showing count is unreliable. Instead use the Measure-Object […]

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Mar 09 2017

Move RDS profiles to Another Volume/Drive

Published by under Windows

You’re in charge of a Remote Desktop Services (RDS) server but unfortunately, the C: drive starts running out of space, user profiles being on that same volume.Lucky enough, a huge amount of space remains on the D: drive, but how shall I move RDS profiles? Set Path for New Profiles You can set up a […]

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