After posting earlier this week about MS16-072, I’ve done quite a bit of investigation and sought advice from fellow MVPs (Jeremy Moskowitz and Darren Mar-Elia) who focus on Group Policy. Jeremy has a good post here that he’s done a lot more explanation on this change. With respect specifically to SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 however, I’ve found that we can run Jeremy’s script but … [Read more...]
Group Policy not working on SBS 2008, SBS 2011 and Windows Server 2008/2008R2 since MS16-072
Further to the blog post I put up yesterday, I’ve now done additional testing and found that the script referenced in the article here is not quite right. Also – I’ve found that there is some specific problems with this on SBS 2011 and likely SBS 2008 as well. Firstly, the script – It turns out there are different PowerShell commands for GP Permissions in 2008/2008R2 vs … [Read more...]
Microsoft Update MS16-072 breaks Group Policy Application in some environments
Microsoft last week released security update bulletin MS 16-072. This upgrade seeks to improve security with Group Policy implementations, however due to the way it works, it actually can break the application of GPO in certain environments. Environments such as SBS 2003 R2, SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 are subject to this problem. The result would be that if … [Read more...]
Blank Outlook Emails since KB3055012 Update
Today whilst working with one of our clients, I was investigating an issue where their customer service team were sending emails out based on Outlook HTML templates they had been using and the end client was receiving them as blank emails. Initially we suspected it was linked to an email migration also going on at the same time as I was moving them from Exchange 2010 to … [Read more...]
What size pagefile should I have on Hyper-V?
I’ve been trying to find specific guidance for some time on the size of a pagefile as recommended by Microsoft for a system running as a Hyper-V host. The theory is that on a Hyper-V host, Windows itself should never really use a page file at all. As a result, I’ve been setting page file to be 4GB – enough in case it’s needed, but not huge as we don’t need to waste … [Read more...]