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My Homelab consists of 4 Windows Servers. They were all initially running Windows Server 2019 (2 GUI, 2 Core) which were at some point upgraded to Windows Server 2022 and then again to Windows Server 2025. After the latest in-place upgrades to Server 2025 my two GUI based installs had no problem installing Windows Updates … Read more
We have a A5 licensed tenant at work and yet despite paying Microsoft a significant sum of money every year we still see advertisements for their above and beyond offerings throughout the M365 Apps we use day-to-day. I’ve received multiple notifications in my Teams to sign-up for a PowerBI Pro trial license. Most recently we … Read more
Surprisingly Microsoft does not appear to alert when you are running low or out if licenses in M365. At least, not as far as I can tell. There is also no historical data in M365 around license usage which could be very useful in budget planning and forecasting. I dug through PRTGs built-in sensors and … Read more
This requires a fairly specific configuration to occur but I didn’t see this documented anywhere so I figured I’d write about it. If you run your own Enterprise Certificate Authority using the Active Directory Certificate Authority and have used the default ‘Domain Controller’ template you may run into this problem. By default, it does not … Read more
Update 2025-02-13 In the event this script is not finding errors to correct and/or not working for you, you might want to check out this post and see if it’s that issue instead of this one. Update 2024-02-28 From Nate in the comments: If you find the script is not solving the problem for you, … Read more