Shielded VM Fails to Start Due to TPM/KSP Initialization Error
A Shielded VM fails to start with the following error: The Virtual Machine Subsystem failed to decrypt the VM state. Diagnostics indicate that the host Key Storage Provider (KSP) is unable to communicate properly with the TPM 2.0 chip. What is the…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | Storage high availability | Virtualization and Hyper-V
nls server detection issue
Hi all May i know if someone here when use remote directaccess inside corporate network have problem where sometime the client fail to detect internal nls server and keep ipsec tunnel active, losing local network access? I don't know if my issue is from…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Business
Manually assigning AD permissions for IPAM cross-domain management
1, Run Provision-IpamServer, Failed 2, Manually assign the required Active Directory permissions in the child domain, Failed 3, Run PowerShell commands to configure IPAM permissions, Failed Access Denied Provision-IpamServer -DomainName…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Enterprise
ICMP Timestamp Request Remote Date Disclosure
How to fix ("ICMP Timestamp Request Remote Date Disclosure") for Windows servers
Windows for business | Windows Server | User experience | Other
Failover Cluster chucked a wobbly due to blocked UDP 3343 (Heartbeat Loss) – Auditing & Remediating Cluster Net Health
Hey legends, We had a pretty nasty incident earlier today on one of our production Failover Clusters. Out of nowhere, the cluster went into split-brain protection and started isolating nodes. Turns out the Network/SecOps team pushed an out-of-bounds…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Enterprise
Locating a failed drive in an s2d cluster
Hi microsoft community, I’m replacing a failed drive in an s2d cluster, but the process is blocked because the slot led command (enable‑physicaldiskindication) doesn’t light up the chassis enclosure indicator. i need to find a way to query the scsi…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Enterprise
refs volume deletion fails to reclaim san capacity
“Optimize-Volume -ReTrim” completes without errors, but deleting several terabytes from our ReFS volume still does not return the freed space to the SAN array. i already tried running ReTrim manually and rebooting the Windows Server, but the…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Enterprise
Access Denied on deduplicated files after domain migration
I want to migrate a deduplicated storage volume to a new Active Directory domain and all deduplicated files become inaccessible, returning Access Denied to end users. How do we reset the System Volume Information security descriptors for DataDedup? What…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Business
Staging folder quota is smaller than replicated files, guidance needed.
Large 50GB+ CAD files fail to replicate via DFSR because the staging folder quota is smaller than the files being replicated. We need guidance to calculate and adjust the staging folder size.
Windows for business | Windows 365 Enterprise
Unable to turn on Microsoft Print to PDF after 25H2 update
This is a fully updated Windows 11 Pro machine: Version 25H2 Installed on 10/24/2025 OS build 26200.7019 Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.265.0 Worked without issue till 25H2 was installed. The upgrade went through without issue. Post…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Business
Intune Remote Help - Copy and paste between machines
Hello, I would like to know whether Intune Remote Help allows copy and pasting between machines? I saw a previous forum post from 2024 that explained Copy and Paste was a backlogged feature request. Could someone please advise if this is usable today…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | User experience | Remote desktop services and terminal services
PowerShell - CommandNotFoundException
I have a strange error with the PowerShell and a simple command: New-LocalGroup -Description "Test Usergroup" -Name Testsusers When I open the Powershell from CMD-box or from Start menu and run the command everything works fine (if I start…
Windows for business | Windows Server | User experience | PowerShell
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | User experience | Other
win32k.sys MEMORY_MANAGEMENT (0x1a) affecting multiple computers in the last 2 months with no clear cause
Hello. Multiple Windows 11 systems entering unrecoverable BSOD loop with MEMORY_MANAGEMENT (0x1A), subtype 0x1015, MiUnloadSystemImage I am an MSP admin with multiple customer environments and have experienced a growing number of Windows 11 systems…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | Devices and deployment | Install Windows updates, features, or roles
remotewebaccess.com Anywhere access broken on Server 2016 Again?
Last year a similar issue occurred and by manually applying the registry edits from these two threads most seemed to resolve their issues: …
Windows for business | Windows Server | User experience | Other
Restoring legacy application compatibility after adprep /forestprep ?
A legacy enterprise application is no longer working correctly after running adprep /forestprep to update the Active Directory schema. The application relies on custom user attributes, but its queries are now returning incomplete or unexpected results…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Enterprise
Active Directory Trust enquiry
We possess an on-premise Active Directory (AD) forest with the domain name abc.xyz.com, and we are in the process of configuring the AWS Managed Active Directory with the domain rds.aws.xyz.com. We require assistance in establishing a one-way trust with…
Windows for business | Windows Server | Directory services | Active Directory
how can we use PowerShell to globally switch Microsoft Entra ID to Managed Authentication during an AD FS outage?
Hello, how can we use PowerShell to globally switch Microsoft Entra ID to Managed Authentication during an AD FS outage?
Windows for business | Windows 365 Enterprise
Windows 11 Check for updates -> 0x80240439; Check online for updates from Microsoft Update -> works
Enerprise PC is configured to use an internal WSUS server named http://wsus for managed Windows Update behavior. Check for updates -> fails with 0x80240439 Check online for updates from Microsoft Update -> succeeds The Windows Update datastore…
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | Devices and deployment | Install Windows updates, features, or roles
TLS handshake (36880) shows "Unknown" with strongest ciphers "0x1301" in windows server 2022
We have observed an issue in our Windows Server 2022 environment while testing TLS handshakes. The TLS handshake completes successfully, and the negotiated cipher suite is one of the TLS 1.3 cipher suites (for example, 0x1302). However, the Schannel…
Windows for business | Windows Server | Directory services | Other
Active directory schema update Breaks legacy application compatibility
Hi Microsoft Community, I am preparing to run adprep /forestprep to update the Active Directory schema in our enterprise environment. The schema update itself is required for an upcoming infrastructure change, but we have discovered that a legacy…