Windows Server 2019 – shutdown event tracker shows at every login when RDP to server

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While I was building a new server in which I was using storage pools I rebooted the system to check that the drives auto mounted, while doing this I found that I kept getting the shutdown event tracker when I logged in and it did not go away (this even occurred when using restart option) I look online for other things and found that someone else had this issue for 2016 and 2019, The solution open registry go to \HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Reliability backup .\DirtyShutdown .\DirtyShutdownTime Then delete those values...
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Failover Cluster manager – get list of Vm’s and if a VM has a DVD (iso file)

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Powershell Get-ClusterGroup -Cluster 19-hv | ? {$_.GroupType –eq 'VirtualMachine' } | Get-VM | Get-VMDvdDrive   19-hv is the cluster name I have created VMName ControllerType ControllerNumber ControllerLocation DvdMediaType Path ------ -------------- ---------------- ------------------ ------------ ---- 19-RDSH SCSI 0 1 None 2016DC-1 SCSI 0 1 None 2019 SCSI 0 1 None Android IDE 1 0 ISO \\fs1\OS\Linux\android-x86-5.1-rc1.iso AzureADConnect2 SCSI 0 1 None CentOS-G1 IDE 1 0 None Domonitor SCSI 0 1 None exchange IDE 1 0 None FireflyIII IDE 1 0 None G2-testboot SCSI 0 1 None GMVault SCSI 0 1 None GW2 SCSI 0 1 None JenkinsTestServer IDE 1 0 None LanSweep SCSI 0 1 None leSSL1 IDE 1 0 None MCS2(Toms Server) IDE 1 0 None MCS3 SCSI 0 1 None MCS4 SCSI 0 1 None Mgmt1 SCSI 0 1 None MineOS-G1 IDE 1 0 None Observium SCSI 0 1 None ODSPSync SCSI 0 1 None PFsense SCSI 0 1 None PFSenseG1 IDE 1 0 None Proxmox-G1 IDE 1 0 None SharePoint 2019 SCSI 0 1 None Sharepoint1 SCSI 0 1 None SQL SCSI 0 1 None Steam-Cache SCSI 0 1 None SYSDeploy SCSI 0 2 None SYSDEPLOY1 IDE 1 0 None SYSWebM1 IDE 1 0...
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Permissions error when installing dropbox

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Hit Windows + R 2. Type regedit and hit enter 3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Cryptography\Protect\Providers\df9d8cd0-1501-11d1-8c7a-00c04fc297eb 4. In the folder, right click and hit New > DWORD (32 Bit) Value 5. Name it 'ProtectionPolicy' 6. Right click 'Protection Policy' 7. Hit Modify and change the value to 1 and select Base: Hexadecimal Reboot then install dropbox ...
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Create windows admin account via bat file

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open notepad Paste the following @echo off net user Username Password /add /comment:"Admin" /passwordchg:NO wmic useraccount where "name='Username'" set passwordexpires=FALSE net localgroup "Administrators" Username /add PAUSE   Replace Username with the username you want to use Replace Password with the password you want to use...
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Issue detecting hard drive that was in a raid

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I recently had an issue with 2 hard drives I had setup in raid on my server. I stopped using them on the server in which I deleted the virtual disks that were created, and plugged them into another pc without raid card, on this pc I had windows 10 and it did not show the hdds in device manager, in BIOS sata config page under software presence it mentioned "unknown" To get it working I booted in a Windows 10 install USB, then in the parition section the drives shows up and I was able to create the partitions on the drives. Once I was back into windows those partitions showed as raw in device manger so I deleted them and created new partitions....
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