I’ve noticed on Windows Server 2016 with WSUS Server Role installed, that the WSUS console will often go into the “Reset Server Node” screen. I feel that I’ve noticed this more frequently on WSUS 4.0 which runs on Windows Server 2016 than ever before to be honest. I spent a little time investigating it so I could find a solution. Here’s what I found. I found that initially … [Read more...]
What have QNAP done about the data corruption issue?
Since I posted my original blog post just over a week ago about the issues we had with QNAP devices and data corruption after a failed disk, there has been a flurry of activity over at QNAP which has resulted in some very promising outcomes for their product and the community. Here’s a summary of what is happening. 1. QNAP have listened to our concerns and created a new … [Read more...]
QNAP fails to reveal data corruption bug that affects all 4 bay and higher NAS devices
There's no other way to put this, QNAP do not believe that a bug which risks corrupting your data on your QNAP NAS is worthwhile mentioning in their release notes at all. Starting in January this year, we began investigating what I suspected was a bug in the QNAP firmware on their NAS devices. Previously we had seen random corruption on a number of QNAP NAS devices owned by … [Read more...]
Error applying Network Adapter changes on Live Migration or Hyper-V Replica
Recently I setup a new Windows Server 2016 Server with Hyper-V in my home lab environment. I configured Hyper-V Replica to replicate some of the VMs from the older Windows Server 2012R2 system over to the new 2016 Server. Replication went fine and today I attempted to failover to the new system so I could repurpose the old server hardware. Planned Failover went fine and when … [Read more...]
The following RemoteApp program is not in the list of authorized programs on Windows Essential Server
I’ve seen this error twice this week on two Windows Servers with the Essentials role installed. One was 2012 R2 Server and the other was 2016 Server. When you run the Dashboard app from a client computer, you get the error below Windows cannot stat the RemoteApp program. The following RemoteApp program is not in the list of authorized … [Read more...]