DevOps Write-Information missing in 2008R2/2012R2 In PowerShell versions less than v5 you'll notice that the friendly Write-Information cmdlet doesn't exist. That's fine, until you write a PowerShell script that uses Write-Information (or any other command that doesn't exist).
Operations HP Universal Print Driver Alternative Well, this was an annoying issue. I pushed out TCP/IP printers using group policy and pointed them to printers on a print server to pull the drivers and settings. This worked awesome, except for the 45 seconds per printer overhead. I narrowed it
Operations DNS Intermittently not resolving domains We've run into a problem where some domains would stop resolving from Windows DNS. They would work fine for about a week, then they would stop. I couldn't find anything on the internet, and MS's support people had me try changing the CacheLocking stuff
Operations Nested group file permissions not taking effect Alright, here was my problem. I have a 2008r2 file server, tons of files, and we are removing everyone's full access rights and doing 3 groups for each root folder, a full control, modify and read only. We ran into a problem where if
Operations Server manager not displaying roles/features There was an event log error entry every time I tried in the Application event log. It was: Faulting application name: TrustedInstaller.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bc4b0 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5be02b
DFS Temporary file attributes and DFS(R) We are using DFS-R on our servers to replicate DNN content between multiple servers. It works really well, except for some of our system create PDF documents with the temporary file attribute set. Turns out that DFS will not replicate files with the Temporary