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Windows DNS not updating

Published by Jeremy on November 8, 2020

Recently came across an issue where DNS was not updating on a windows client in a domain. The event logs only logged a standard error After going around Google and trying things with no solutions. I finally decided to investigate things with a WireShark and thats when I found my issue. Typically DNS is using …

Mysterious Account Lockouts

Published by Jeremy on April 20, 2020

TLDR: Use PsExec and run “cmdkey /list” on affected systems. Occurs from a combination of saved credentials, DFS/domain accessing when installing software. This was a case of a very odd account lockout that lead me to a cause I’ve never seen from Windows. Normally account lockouts are fairly simple to resolve, usually it is a …

The SysVol Permissions for one or more GPOs are not in sync

Published by Jeremy on January 28, 2019

Been working on a issue on some of my Domain Controllers receiving the following error The SysVol Permissions for one or more GPOs on this domain controller are not in sync with the permissions for the GPOs on the Baseline domain controller In researching and testing this, I found that modifying a clean GPO would …

Fix: A BINDING-ACK message with transaction id for DHCP Server

Published by Jeremy on January 25, 2019

I have been getting this error for a while on my Server 2012 R2 DHCP cluster. Every time it syncs or replicates hundreds of errors are generated. Some information around the web indicates I needed KB 2919393, KB 2919355 and KB 2955135 installed. KB 2955135 was not my scenario here, however it was installed. All …

Dynamics CRM notes change ownership unexpectedly

Published by Jeremy on February 25, 2013

I stumbled across a weird issue with Dynamics CRM 2011. I thought it was due to Rollup 12 as it only recently started happening, but it appears to be default behavior (whether I noticed it before or not). Basically the steps to reproduce this are very simple. User A Create a case with some basics …

Hyperlinks in CRM 2011 Rollup 12 do not work in Safari

Published by Jeremy on February 14, 2013

One of my co-workers who use Safari way more than I do pointed out today that he couldn’t click links in Safari on his Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion. I was able to reproduce this as well in my Safari. Starting my debugging I noticed if I opened the developer console the links worked, which …

Chrome closes with CRM 2011 Rollup 12

Published by Jeremy on February 8, 2013

Doing more testing with CRM 2011 Rollup 12, I found out that Chrome was self closing when I logged into CRM. This is very annoying, but having worked with CRM before in IE, I knew what this was. By chance I was able to verify it by going to the CRM url and changing the …

Using Chrome on CRM 2011 Rollup 12 will repeatedly show login prompt

Published by Jeremy on February 8, 2013

While testing out CRM 2011 Rollup 12, I noticed that I could not get it to log me in for Chrome. After checking my security log and resetting Chrome back to defaults, it still didn’t shed any light onto why this was happening. After much searching, I happen to find the article explaining this. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2709891/en-us?sd=rss&spid=15707 …

The specified storage repository scan failed

Published by Jeremy on December 25, 2012

This one has been bugging me for a while. I had a CIFS based ISO share. For some reason the share would fail to update now and then with the error message “The specified storage repository scan failed”. A restart of the CIFS system would fix it, but none the less it wasn’t a solution. …