Run a Pi-hole securely in Azure
In my home network I wanted to install some extra security by implementing a Pi-hole (more info can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi-hole). There a several options to do this but I wanted to try using …
Category: Microsoft
Azure AD Connect: An internal problem has occurred during installation
Background Recently I was asked to help with a Office 365 deployment that had an issue that they couldn’t get Azure AD Connect to work. They couldn’t get Azure AD Connect installed in their environment. …
Identity of the remote computer cannot be verified when using RDP
Problem As most IT-pro’s encounter multiple times per day/week when you use Remote Desktop connection (mstsc.exe) to connect to a remote server/workstation via RDP you get this annoying popup: You can tick the don’t ask …
Error importing devices in Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune)
Recently a we ran into a strange problem when we tried to enroll an older laptop in Microsoft Enpoint Manager Autopilot. The fun began when we exported the device serial number and tried to import …
Unlink unused directory from Microsoft Azure subscription
Problem When logging into an Azure tenant you have the option to switch to another directory (if available). Sometimes you have directories connected there that are not relevant anymore (because of testing etc.). To check …
Adding Teamviewer to Azure Intune instance
Microsoft advices to use Teamviewer as the tool for remote assistance when using Azure Intune for managing endpoint devices. The setup process is fairly simple and you can use a trial subscription from Teamviewer for …
Windows 10 Godmode :-)
Most of you might already know of a little undocumented feature Microsoft implemented in Windows 10 (and Windows 8.1) called Godmode. with this feature you can unlock (and centralize) around 260 settings to change! Most …
Error installing .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 2012 (R2)
I frequently get questions from people about problems with installing .NET 3.5 features on Windows Server 2012 and 2012R2. Most problems are solved when adding the sources directory from the Windows installation media (so mount the …
Windows 2012R2 and slow VFP (Visual FoxPro database) applications
We recently had a customer where we implemented a Windows 2012R2, Citrix XenApp 7.5 environment to replace a Windows Vista/2008 client server environment. After implementing the new Citrix XenApp environment the customer found a strange phenomenon where several applications …
Error starting SQL instance after fresh install (error %%945)
After doing a fresh installation of SQL2014 Express on a Windows 2012R2 standard server i got an error while connecting to the server instance. After looking in the eventlog i found these messages stating that the …