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Hello Everyone, my name is Moni and I am a Support Engineer in the Windows Devices and Deployment team here at Microsoft. In this post, I’ll be discussing an issue where the Server Cleanup Wizard for WSUS 3.0 Service Pack 2 times out when attempting to delete computers that have not contacted the server in 30 days or more.
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Details of the error are as follows:
The WSUS administration console was unable to connect to the WSUS Server Database.Verify that SQL server is running on the WSUS Server. If the problem persists, try restarting SQL.System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException — Access to table dbo.tbDownstreamServerClientSummaryRollup is blocked because the signature is not valid.Source.Net SqlClient Data ProviderStack Trace:at System.Windows.Forms.Control.MarshaledInvoke(Control caller, Delegate method, Object[] args, Boolean synchronous)at System.Windows.Forms.Control.Invoke(Delegate method, Object[] args)at Microsoft.UpdateServices.UI.SnapIn.Wizards.ServerCleanup.ServerCleanupWizard.OnCleanupComplete(Object sender, PerformCleanupCompletedEventArgs e) 

Source : SUS Blog
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When Active Directory replication breaks, IT is in trouble. PowerShell comes with a few cmdlets that allow you to test if Active Directory replication is working properly.


Source : 4sysops
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Just Enough Administration (JEA) is a new extension in the Windows Management Framework that allows you to restrict the rights of IT admins in remote PowerShell sessions. In this first part of my JEA series, I will give an overview of the basic concepts.
Source : 4sysops.com
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Occasionally you may find that you want to start over in WSUS with a fresh database (SUSDB). There can be any number of reasons for this, but typically I see people doing this if their SUSDB is rather old, has a ton of unneeded updates in it, and maintenance has not been done on the SUSDB in years. In those cases you can find that a rebuild may be faster and easier than fixing the problematic SUSDB. Typically speaking, I see people wanting to recreate the just the content dir if they accidentally unchecked the “download update files to this server only when updates are approved” and ended up with a hard drive full of unneeded files. Whatever the reason, here are the steps for recreating the SUSDB and the WSUS Content folder for a Windows Server 2012 based WSUS computer

Source : SUS Blog
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In this article, I'll show you how to create a tool in PowerShell that will allow you to update multiple SQL servers in one swath with a single command.

Source : 4sysops
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The Problem
From time to time, various users have complained to the IE team that they’re unable to log into assorted websites and services that they care about: Hotmail and GMail are two common examples. They report that after entering their credentials into the login page, the page seems to get caught in some sort of redirect loop, redirecting from the login page to the site back to the login page. This pattern either continues endlessly or until an error message is displayed.
Source : IEInternals
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The Security Compliance Manager (SCM) is a free tool from Microsoft that enables you to quickly configure, and manage the computers in your environment using Group Policy and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. This version of SCM supports Windows 10, and Windows Server 2016.

Source : Microsoft Security Guidance
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LGPO.exe is a command-line utility to automate the management of local group policy objects (LGPO). Version 1.0 was released last January. The PRE-RELEASE LGPO.exe v2.0 is attached to this blog post, and adds support for Multiple Local Group Policy Objects (MLGPO) and 64-bit REG_QWORD registry values. It also adds support for /e mnemonic options to enable the GP client side extensions for LAPS, Credential Guard, and Device Guard.

Source : Microsoft Security Guidance
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As you may have seen, there has been an update to the extended support lifecycle for WSUS 3.0 SP2 (WSUS 3.2). We received feedback that ending this product’s life in July 2017 would cause a significant disruption for those Windows Server 2008/R2 deployments that planned to rely upon it until January 2020. As such, the end of life for this product is now January 2020.

Source : WSUS Product Team Blog
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Storage Replica is a new feature in Windows Server 2016 that allows us to do storage-agnostic block-level replication of data.

Source : 4sysops
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Hi all,
I’m Jeff Patterson, Program Manager for Work Folders and Offline Files.
Jane wrote a blog last year which covers how to use Folder Redirection with Work Folders. The blog is great for new environments. If Folder Redirection and Offline Files are currently used, there are some additional steps that need to be performed which are covered in this migration guide.

Server Storage at Microsoft
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On August 18, 2016,  the PowerShell Team announced that we were now providing PowerShell as an open source project on GitHub, available on Windows, Linux and macOS! The official announcement blog can be found here and the PowerShell Webinar is here.

CANITPRO
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VSCode is the primary way to edit and debug PowerShell scripts on Mac OS and Linux. If you do not have it yet, follow these instructions on GitHub on installing VSCode on Mac OS/Linux/Windows and adding its PowerShell extension.

Source : Dmitry's Blog
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As you have probably heard by now, Microsoft has just open-sourced PowerShell and made it available for Linux and Mac OS X. In this blog post, I will take you through the steps to download, install and run PowerShell on a Mac.

Source : Dmitry's Blog
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As you can see this announcement is huge – not only you can freely read and change the code of the PowerShell itself, you can build it and run it almost anywhere.
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The Connect app in Windows 10 Anniversary Update gives smartphone users the ability to “cast” their screens to a PC or laptop running Microsoft’s latest version of its ever-evolving operating system. Let’s call this feature the “poor-man’s Continuum.” But, more importantly, it gives Android users something that has been solely constrained to Windows devices – the ability to mirror smartphone and tablet screens to Windows 10. Notably, this feature doesn’t work for iOS and the host device must support Miracast.

Source  : SuperSite for Windows
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Excellent tool to search for WordPress vulnerabilities !
Advanced search in search engines, enables analysis provided to exploit GET / POST capturing emails & urls, with an internal custom validation junction for each target / url found

Source : GitHub - googleinurl/SCANNER-INURLBR
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Although Microsoft provides Windows Defender as an integrated part of Windows 10 they do not mandate that as your only option.

Once you install your favorite third party anti-virus/malware solution Windows Defender gets out of the way and is turned off so it does not cause any conflicts with your scanning/protection software of choice.

In the recently released Windows 10 Anniversary Update there is a new option for those of you using third party security software that allows you to take advantage of the years worth of research Microsoft has invested into protecting systems from viruses and malware.

Source : SuperSite for Windows
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This article covers the differences between the PowerShell versions.

Source : 4sysops
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So as many of you may know, yesterday Microsoft released a security hotfix that changed the behavior of Group Policy. Put simply if you have a security group filtered User Group Policy Object and you also removed the “Authenticated Users” group from the policy it will no longer apply after you install MS16-072.

Source : Group Policy Central
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