Questions tagged [windows]
Windows is the brand name for a series of operating systems from Microsoft. Current versions are Windows 10 22H2, Windows 11 23H2, Windows 11 24H2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022, and Windows Server 2025. Instead of tagging a post "Windows", try to use a tag for a specific version.
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Visual Studio Community Edition in Service Provider License Agreement environments [duplicate]
We are an MSP and provide an IAAS platform for our customers and also provide the licenses for everything Microsoft related via Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA).
Our FinOps tool discovered ...
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Insufficient memory copying large files with Robocopy
When copying a 23 GB file using Robocopy, the following error occurs:
2025/11/25 08:53:58 ERROR 1450 (0x000005AA) Copying File C:\Virtual hard disks\VM.vhdx
Insufficient system resources exist to ...
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Adding disk in failover cluster manager fails due to no disks available [closed]
No disks suitable for cluster disks were found.
For diagnostic information about disks available to the cluster, use the Validate a Configuration Wizard to run Storage total tests.
What should I do?
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Windows File Search in Explorer - 2 digits found, add a 3rd digit, no results [migrated]
So, I have a support client who is experiencing the following in Windows 11:
Let's say we have a folder with a file in it named "1234.doc". If the user searches for "12", the file ...
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Dynamic port assignment / Skip ports already in use
The client ports an application uses when establishing a connection to a server are assigned dynamically by Windows, using a default pool of 49152-65535. The OS should not use ports which are already ...
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Requirement of Active Directory in Windows Server Hyper-V Failover Cluster on Windows Server 2022
I am planning a Hyper-V Failover Cluster on Windows Server 2022 for a customer. They have HP ProLiant DL380 Gen11 servers and MSA2060 FC SAN with required licenses and cables.
I requested Active ...
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Poor Windows device performance across the organisation
The problem: We have new HP ProBook 460 16 inch G11 Notebooks, 16 GB RAM, running Windows 11 Enterprise at an organisation with low device workloads of Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, pdf forms, minimal ...
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How to clone Windows Dynamic Volumes for use in a VM?
I had the following issue, resolution is not obvious and I want to share.
Problem: there's a Windows 10 machine that was setup with Dynamic Disks/Dynamic Volumes that I needed to virtualize in Proxmox ...
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Postgresql critical autovacuum permission denied errors and server crashes on Windows
We have PostgreSQL 14 on Windows Server 2019 where autovacuum processes crash the database server. This is affecting our production environment with 80+ daily users, and I need urgent assistance.
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Connection refused from Windows Docker container with process isolation on Windows Server 2025
I'm using a default nat network created by docker and with hyper-v isolation everything works fine:
> Test-NetConnection -Port 80 ...
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Why is PHP 8 slower than PHP 7 on Windows?
I'm working on moving a site from PHP 7 to PHP 8. All seems to be going quite smoothly, but I've noticed that performance is slower on PHP 8. I'm not fussed about performance being massively better on ...
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Microsoft CA delta CRL URL incorrectly generated
I'm running IIS webserver and ADCS CA on a Server 2022 machine.
I'm trying to configure a CRL/Delta CRL distribution point on my IIS webserver. Using Entreprise PKI snap-in, I can see that the CRL ...
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LDAP and HTTP CDP locations work, but UNC network locations fail
I'm setting up CDP and AIA on a Windows Server certificate authority. It works with HTTP and LDAP locations, but it fails to obtain CRLs from a UNC network path like \\<server name>\CRL$\<...&...
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Winrm cannot complete the operation from one server to another, but can connect to others
Not a duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39917027/winrm-cannot-complete-the-operation-verify-that-the-specified-computer-name-is
Also, I posted question in StackOverflow here: but it ...
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Could not load file or assembly error on ASP.NET IIS sites
I am trying to deploy two IIS sites to a new server.
The sites are both running fine on another server, and were copied directly. I tried both via web deploy and simply setting up sites and copying ...