Control Inter-VLAN Communication with the UniFi USG Firewall
You have a UniFi Security Gateway (USG). You want to allow your LAN to talk to all VLANs, but VLANs cannot talk to the LAN or to other VLANs. How …
Outlook 2016 Cannot Add to Dictionary
Recently I added a non-admin user to my computer and migrated my user profile with the excellent Profile Wizard 3.12 from ForensIT. Almost everything came over flawlessly, but one idiosyncrasy …
CrashPlan Causes Windows Server Backup to Fail on System State
I recently migrated to Server 2016 with the Essentials role. The server runs as a Hyper-V virtual machine. Windows Backup writes to a drive hosted on a VHDX file. Almost …
Windows 10 Won’t Search from Start Menu
I’ve frequently had an issue with Windows 10, even after the most recent 1703 update, that when I open the Start menu and start typing to do a search, nothing …
Kerberos Event 19 after Server Migration
I recently migrated from Server Essentials 2012 R2 to Server 2016 Standard with the Essentials role. Both of these machines run a self-signed Certification Authority (CA). The old machine has …
WordPress Update Shrunk SQL DB
I do a daily backup of my WordPress SQL database and was concerned when, after a recent auto-update to WordPress 4.7.5, the size of my SQL backup file shrank from …
Filter the System Log by Correlation ActivityID
I’m trying to figure out why my new Server 2016 with the Essentials role is getting System events 36874. In particular, if this is a certificate issue between a client …
Fix Bad Drivers in Windows 10 1703 ADK
I blogged in 2014 about setting up client restore service on Server 2012 R2 Essentials. I wanted to do the same thing for Server 2016 with the Essentials role. I …
Fix COM Error 10016
After upgrading or migrating to Server 2016, I was getting errors about Distributed COM not being able to activate certain certain AppIDs from either the SYSTEM account or from a …
Set a Static IP Address Pool for Your 2016 VPN
I’m in the process of migrating from Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials to Windows Server 2016 Standard with the Essentials role. It is astonishing and somewhat concerning how poorly documented …