Tag: windows

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Windows 10 | re-appearing undead deleted network printers

My situation: I did run into ab massive windows boot thirty minute “please wait” issue. After hours and hours i did track this down to an issue with an re-appearing deleted network printer. This printer was installed on these machines and replaced by a new network printer. The old printer was deleted with a gpo […]

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Deploying windows printserver printers to windows machines | installing drivers via powershell

Standard stuff: On Server install your printer and printer driver. Then run printmanagament.msc and do Deploy with Group Policy. Have an eye on the drivers section. Know the exact name of your driver, thats important for deploying drivers to local machines. Your brandnew Group Policy should consist of (i) computer >> policies >> windows settings […]

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Windows Server 2022 Evaluation | Activation

Microsofts Windows Server 2022 Evaluation ISO is the basis your installaion was built on. Now you want to end the evaluation ad did buy a correct license. You did go to ACTIVATION, typed that ney key in and got that 0xc004f050? Thats because your key was (ie) issued for Windows Server 2022 Standard and NOT […]

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Windows | strange DNS resolve problem

Situation: Your machine lives in a corporate environment and uses your corporates own DNS resolver who’s located in your own LAN/IPsubnet. You didn’t define a default gateway in your IPv4 settings for security reasons. Resolving names via nslookup works fine, but windows himself (i.e ping) and third party software (like datev) run into resolve problems […]