Question Error \Windows\system32\winload.exe status 0xc0000428 In previous QA #24 and QA #25 I posted how to solve two issues regarding Windows Server 2008 R2 boot: BOOTMGR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart Windows Server 2008 R2 booting always into Recovery Console I solved both problems but there was third one: …
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Question Windows Server 2008 R2 booting always into Recovery Console In previous post I talked about problem with Windows Server. Instead of booting it goes into black screen with error “BOOTMGR is misssing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart”. I successfully solved that issue. You can find that story here. Unfortunately it …
Question How troubleshoot BOOTMGR is missing error After perform bare metal server restore I noticed error during first boot. System didn’t loaded properly and after POST goes into black screen. There was error saying “BOOTMGR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart”. I checked restore logs and seems that process was …
Introduction Microsoft Project Honolulu. Manage Hyper-V with web interface Internet is full of questions like “if it’s possible to manage Hyper-V servers with some platform independent tool?” and it’ good question. Vmware ESXi in free version can be managed by also free vSphere Client or even HTML5 based vSphere Web …
Question How change or remove login credentials in Remote Desktop Connection Manager Remote Desktop Connection Manager is a great and free Microsoft tool to organize Remote Desktops in your environment. It’s free and you can download it from Microsoft Download Center. One of RDCM advantages is a possibility to save …
Reminder Microsoft Project Honolulu. Installation, functionality After checking what exactly is Microsoft Project Honolulu in my previous post, now I would like to install them and check on my own environment. Tool seems to be really nice and I can’t wait to find out how to manage Windows servers, clients …
What is Honolulu? Microsoft Project Honolulu. Introduction, Overview Honolulu is capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Hawai’i… (Wiki source) Wait! Not exactly this Honolulu I would like to talk about 🙂 Microsoft Project Honolulu is web based local installed tool designed for managing Windows Server environment. …
Background Spectre CVE-2017-5715 Meltdown CVE-2017-5754. Install Windows Server Patch Finally on 4th of January 2018 Microsoft released patch for processors vulnerabilities. If you’re not sure what is background of that security issue check my last two posts: Vulnerabilities summary for Spectre CVE-2017-5715 Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 – LINK How to check with …
Introduction Spectre CVE-2017-5715 Meltdown CVE-2017-5754. Check system vulnerability To check if your system is susceptible to Spectre and Meltdown you can use Powershell Module released by Microsoft Security Response Center. It allows you to find out about exactly: CVE-2017-5715 (branch target injection) CVE-2017-5754 (rogue data cache load) Information about those vulnerability you can …
Problem? Intel processors vulnerability. Process sensitive data dangerous Yes! Unfortunately serious one. Data which is stored in processor cache memory can be known by user. This is Intel processors vulnerability. Process sensitive data dangerous is high. Why so serious? Example 1. Let’s imagine that you have disk encrypted in your …
Windows Server services security Windows Server services security. Interactive user account Sometimes if you’re installing some application, additional service has been also created. Unfortunately it can’t work on standard permissions and you decided to give them local administrator account privileges. It works but it’s a really bad thing. It’s first …