https://kb.unixservertech.com/ 2026-04-14T08:36:52+00:00 https://kb.unixservertech.com/ https://kb.unixservertech.com/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2025-05-25T06:24:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/adduser_powershell?rev=1748154289&do=diff Add/Update User with PowerShell Discussion We needed a way to automatically update a local user on a bunch of systems which were not on an Active Directory configuration. We had remote access, and the ability to run PowerShell scripts as an administrator. text/html 2023-12-15T03:16:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/autostart?rev=1702610214&do=diff Windows Autostart Folder Microsoft products have a folder which contains commands to be run for each user as they log in. Commands in these folders automatically run on login. Commands in the global startup directory run every time any user logs in. text/html 2022-11-14T09:15:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/cleantemp?rev=1668417316&do=diff Clean Temp Files Any windows machine will fill up with temporary files, and many applications do not clean up after themselves very well. We have had times when a Windows Workstation had over 300 Gigabytes, just in the Windows temp directory (C:\Windows\Temp), and Microsoft has no text/html 2019-01-29T08:05:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/clone_disk_using_linux?rev=1548749127&do=diff Clone an NTFS disk using Unix Unix based rescue disks can be used to efficiently move an existing NTFS file system to a new disk using the common utility ntfsclone. ntfsclone only copies individual partitions, not the entire disk, so additional utilities will need to be used. Reasons for using this setup are: text/html 2025-08-24T07:34:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/dns?rev=1756020889&do=diff Windows DNS integration with DHCP Windows DNS is a requirement for the Domain Controller on a Windows Domain. However, integrating that with a DHCP server is not well documented. This will give instructions for a setup where an opnSense Firewall/Router running ISC DHCP will send updates to a Windows text/html 2020-01-03T04:38:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/fix_corrupt_system_files?rev=1578026337&do=diff Fix Corrupt System Files Occasionally, Windows systems files can become corrupted. You may notice that you get weird errors when running programs, or things may be very slow. Microsoft has the Systems File Checker (sfc) which, when run with administrative permission, checks and optionally repairs files. To run this, start an elevated command prompt by right clicking on cmd and selecting Run As Administrator, then execute the following command. Note that this can take a while. text/html 2019-01-11T22:53:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/installproblems?rev=1547247234&do=diff Installation Errors Computer Restarted unexpectedly I was doing an install of Windows 7 Pro as a Xen hvm and ran into this problem. It took a while to figure out, and I finally found this is not an Xen issue but a well known issue with Windows for Windows 7 and 10. text/html 2017-10-14T19:17:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/network_discovery?rev=1508008675&do=diff Windows Network Discovery Windows Network Discovery is a robust way of discovering devices and their capabilities on a network. It scans the network for any used IP addresses, then uses Windows Domain Services, DHCP, DNS and SNMP to attempt to discover the capabilities of each device found. text/html 2025-03-27T05:45:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/nfs_client?rev=1743054355&do=diff Attaching to NFS Server from Windows Microsoft Windows can attach to NFS Shares with no problem, though you must use the command line to do it. You also need to install the NFS Client Role (Server) or package (Workstation) as it is not normally turned on. text/html 2022-11-14T09:36:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/officefails?rev=1668418600&do=diff Installation of Microsoft Office Fails We purchased and tried to install Microsoft Office LTSC Standard on a Windows Terminal Server 2019 for a client. It failed with an error 0-2054, which is a general purpose error message that doesn't help at all. Nothing in any of the logs, just a message saying text/html 2023-08-06T07:18:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/printer_error?rev=1691306315&do=diff Printer Error Sometimes, you can get a print job stuck in the print queue and nothing else will print. Following is basic troubleshooting to clear this up. * Open the print queue * delete the print job which shows the error (or all print jobs) text/html 2021-05-16T20:29:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/quickbooksservice?rev=1621196952&do=diff Quick Books Service Dies Problem Intuit Quickbooks runs a database server as a Windows Service. When it dies, it is not automatically restarted. When a user starts Quickbooks, it is fine; QuickBooks notices and restarts the service. However, if the user is not an administrator, it fails with the message text/html 2021-07-22T23:12:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/rdp_pass?rev=1626995520&do=diff Change Password in RDP Session Microsoft does not make it easy on some of their releases to change your password from a Remote Desktop (RDP or Terminal Server) session. The following appears to work in all scenarios as of this date (2021/07) Basically, we start the On Screen Keyboard and use it to send a ctrl-alt-del to the remote system. text/html 2024-07-15T06:46:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/recycle?rev=1721026016&do=diff Recycle Windows Computer Sometimes you want to give a computer away, or even just take it to your local recycling center. You can always use DBAN (<https://dban.org/>) and securely nuke the hard drive, but what if you have a good Windows 10 machine and don't want make someone have to reinstall and, in some cases, purchase a new license. text/html 2016-09-06T00:36:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/start?rev=1473122210&do=diff Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is one of the most widely used workstation operating systems. Daily Data manages and maintains a wide variety of Microsoft products, so we will keep notes here, even though this is the Unix Server Tech Knowledge Base. text/html 2025-07-01T21:28:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/ts_shadow?rev=1751405281&do=diff Remote Assistance via Terminal Services We need the ability to remotely help windows clients. Prefer to not use things like GoToMeeting or something, especially as Microsoft appears to have something like this already. Following are the notes. Remote Assistance text/html 2020-09-03T03:02:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/updateissues?rev=1599102171&do=diff Windows 10 Update Issues Hardware fails after Update Occasionally, a Windows 10 update will cause one or more hardware items to fail or be erratic. When this occurs, the following procedure may fix it. Basically, you are reinstalling the driver for the failed device. Following procedure assumes the wireless interface has failed. text/html 2020-08-16T16:03:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/usb_install?rev=1597593787&do=diff Install Windows from USB Drive Install Windows Server from USB * Download from <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2019> * Then, put on USB via one of the following * <https://www.diskpart.com/server-2019/windows-server-2019-iso-to-usb-1984.html> * <https://www.itechguides.com/burn-iso-to-usb/> * If using Windows 7 to create, need to mount ISO (Win8 and greater already have) * <https://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/download/> text/html 2020-03-24T19:36:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/win10samba?rev=1585078565&do=diff Windows 10 can not locate Samba server Windows 10 will occassionally have some issues where it can not connect to a file server, with only a general “unknown” error of 0x80004005. I found an excellent article at <https://www.techjunkie.com/windows-cannot-access-computer-error-0x80004005/> which helped me with it. I'll summarize here. I'd recommend looking at his article as it is much clearer than I expect to do here.