Windows Admin Center v2 with Certificate Cannot Load Site

Microsoft released a substantially upgraded Windows Admin Center with build 2410. Microsoft has offset it as “v2”. You can read the release announcement on the Windows Admin Center blog. You can download Windows Admin Center from aka.ms/windowsadmincenter. This article explains how to fix a condition when you use a true PKI certificate and cannot access the Windows Admin … Read more

Moving Windows Recovery Partition Correctly

Disabling The Windows Recovery Partition The reagentc /disable command will disable the recovery partition and will move the recovery partition into a file named Winre.wim and will be located in C:\Windows\System32\Recovery (you have to enable showing hidden system files if you want to see it) DiskPart Pro tip from Matt in the comments, if there’s a * in the column for … Read more

Troubleshoot Netlogon

nltest /dbflag:0x2080ffff Net Stop Netlogon Net Start NetLogon after you restart Net Logon, Net Logon-related activity will be logged to %windir%\debug\netlogon.log Note: Nltest is included as part of Windows Server 2008 and is also available as part of the Support Tools packages on the installation media for Windows Server 2003 And After you finish debugging, … Read more

Fix white page icons

To refresh and reset the icons cache, go to the following folder: C:\Users\AppData\Local\ To see the hidden AppData folder, go to Organize -> Folder and Search Options -> View tab, and select “Show hidden files, folders and drives”, and uncheck “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)”. Once inside the folder, delete IconCache.db. Create a new … Read more

Setting up a reverse proxy with IIS

Create a empty folder somewhere on your system (will be the webroot resp Physical Path for the later site) Create a SSL certificate using the IIS Server Certificates feature (just choose “Create Self-Signed Certificate” and use the name of the site as name). Create a new site in IIS and fill in the site name. In the Binding section, choose Type: https. … Read more