Category Archives: Windows

Unable to promote a server to a domain controller

During one of the activities with the demo environment I faced an issue that I was unable to promote any server to DC, and was giving the errors:

ADPrep execution failed –> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): A device attached to the system is not functioning.
Check the log files in the C:\Windows\debug\adprep\logs\20220518075032 directory for detailed information.

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Error after completing configuration of the RD Connection Broker server for high availability with windows server 2019 and SQL 2016

I was set up high availability for brokers with 2019 windows server and faced this error:

Could not create the database <DatabaseName>. Please check that the broker server has access to the SQL server, the path for -DatabaseFilePath parameter exists and contains the SQL Server database file, the connection to SQL database is correct and SQL database is online. See the SQL Server and broker event log for more details.
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WSUS Maintenance

Create custom indexes for WSUS Database

The following steps should be used to create custom indexes in the SUSDB database. This is a one-time process, which is optional but recommended, as doing so will greatly improve performance during subsequent cleanup operations.

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