Though there could be numerous reasons for Print Spooler service stopping unexpectedly. Sometimes, it stops as soon as you start it or it stops (crashes) when a user gives a print command. The incident I am going to share here…
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Accessing print server remotely with an alias name or the CNAME record throws the following error: AD Object Ensure that we do not have a computer object with the Alias name. For example: If the server name is SERVER01 and its…
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By default communication between storage account and cluster node happens on port 443 using TLS 1.0 which is vulnerable solution and block at most the servers. If TLS 1.0 is blocked then you will get error for cloud quorum setup…
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Generating and Installing certificate on Nutanix Prism is easy depending on whether you’re going to generate a self-signed certificate or import one from your Certificate Authority. Below are the highlight of the steps for generating and installing certificate on Nutanix…
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As move functionality has been removed from azcopy so there is no direct command which we can use to cut blob from container and download it on server. If you want such for log shipping of Database you can use…
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Azcopy 6.0 does not support /mov. You can use script to upload the files to blob/file storage. Once the data is copied the same type of file will be deleted from source path. It also has resume functionality that means…
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Mission critical application VMs should be in an availability set with OS disks for each coming from 2 different storage accounts so that a connectivity loss to storage does not impact both machines. Same can be achieved with use managed…
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Azure file storage (AFS) supports both SMB 2.1 and 3.0 for file share access. The port 445 should be opened between source and AFS storage. There is a limitation when it uses SMB 2.1. Windows server 2008 and windows 7…
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The below PowerShell command finds all the CNAME records pointing to a specific A record. It is assumed that you have DNS PowerShell modules already loaded (by installing RSAT or DNS management tools) Get-DnsServerResourceRecord -ZoneName DNSZone -ComputerName DnsServer | where{$_.hostname…
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To manage Azure infrastructure via PowerShell, we need to import the Azure RM extension in PowerShell. There are two ways: Download from the Microsoft Download Link and run the Web Platform Installer. Or, via command line: 1. Launch PowerShell…
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