ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING (0x80073701) on Windows Server 2019

Update 2024-02-28 From Nate in the comments: If you find the script is not solving the problem for you, purge the contents of C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\, reboot and try running the script again. Original Article We’ve run into a strange problem with our Windows Server 2019 VMs where sometimes when we clone a new VM from our … Read more

Script for detecting potentially vulnerable Log4j jars [CVE-2021-44228] on Windows Server

Update 2021-12-18 – This looks like a much more competent script for detecting this vulnerability and there is a python version for Linux: https://github.com/CERTCC/CVE-2021-44228_scanner Updated 2021-12-17 – Script is v1.4 and looks for .war files now too Original post below Inspired by the one-liner here: https://gist.github.com/Neo23x0/e4c8b03ff8cdf1fa63b7d15db6e3860b#find-vulnerable-software-windows I wrote a script to expand on the command, … Read more

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Service will not start after November 2021 updates

Update – 2021-12-15 – I can confirm that the December Windows Updates have fixed this issue for us.   After installing OS updates on all of our servers in November 2021 we ended up with three servers, all running 2019 Core and all Domain Controllers, where the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Service would not … Read more

Mac OS clients using Microsoft Remote Desktop are unable to connect via Remote Desktop Gateway Servers

Over the summer we build a Remote Desktop Gateway Cluster to provide remote access to workstations for some of our clients. Initial testing worked great for Mac OS, Windows and Linux users. For Mac OS we had clients download the official Microsoft RDP App from the App Store. Right before go-live day we updated our … Read more

Some Microsoft Storage Spaces Benchmarks

My backup server has a ASRock H370M-ITX/AC motherboard in it and at the time of these benchmarks 3x6TB Seagate Ironwolf SATA disks. I run Veeam and used the SATA disks as my backup repository. My original configuration was 2x6TB Ironwolfs in a RAID0 (using Microsoft Storage Spaces) with Bitlocker enabled. This worked perfectly fine and … Read more