Is it not possible to remotely manage XP sp2 PC from another XP sp3 computer using WMI where both of PC are in a work group? I have run wmimgmt.msc right click WMI control the connect to another PC. I have also used WMI Tools which I downloaded. I have Administrative account on the remote computer. I tried everything I found on the net
including:
Remote enabled WMI on the remote computer
It must not be firewall issue as I tried everything including disabling it ( the firewall).
Gave my account all permissions to the root and root\CIMV2 names paces on the remote computer
Created the same administrative account( Same user name and password) on local computer (not remote) as suggested by some people on the net.
and others
But I keep getting error like
Access denied
The RPC server is not available
I set up security event log on the remote computer and I got the clue that the account requesting is not my account . This way I guess that it not possible to manage my PC this way but I should set up my network so that both PC's are in the same domain. But I don't want this to happen now.
Is my guess right? If not what is wrong with me?. I am a newbie in this area.
Sorry everybody. I answer the question my self.
It is possible. The problem I was having was not creating the accounts correctly
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First post on this forum,
I work on an offline network with a lot of computers on an active directory. I would like to automatically update Windows on all of them. I found WSUS offline but it only works on a single computer. I also found WSUS Server but from what I understood, it needs to be connected to another WSUS machine with Internet (which is not possible for me).
What I wish to do is a mix between them: being able to download updates on a computer, transfer them manually to a WSUS Server, and change the windows update source through GPO to my WSUS Server.
I've found other software like batchpatch or autopatcher but none of them could do that.
Does anyone know if it is possible ?
Yes, you can configure a WSUS server to operate offline, check the MS documentation regarding this:
https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/security-updates/windowsupdateservices/18127442
Hope this help
I'm working on a legacy project that is basically 2 windows PCs on a local network.
PC 1 is running a C++ application that as part of it's start up calls
RegConnectRegistry(l_oAddr, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, &l_hRemoteBaseKey);
On PC2
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winreg/nf-winreg-regconnectregistrya
All 3 pcs are using strictly local accounts with admin privileges locally. PC1 is able to make that call successfully to PC2.
I've got PC3 that I'm trying to set up as an Impostor PC1, basically running the same application, with the same static IP on that network. PC3 gets plugged in, PC1 is removed. When I run the code on PC3, I get a Permission denied error.
The PC2 registry permissions for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE do not allow anything other than local admins to edit it. allowing all users full control of that key and it's children, also does not work. I'm certain the PCs all talk to each other just fine and no firewall is running on PC2.
Any thoughts on what permissions I am missing?
So, as it turns out, if both PCs have the same user name and password. even if those are local to each pc, this will work fine and PC3 Will have access to PC2s registry.
I just created a VM instance on Google Cloud for the very first time,
4 vCPUs
15GB Ram
Windows Server 2016 Datacenter
SSD 50gb
Access scopes - Allow default access
Firewall - Allowed bot http/https
Created
After that when am trying to connect thru RDP
(downloaded the rdp file and put the created password)
its saying
"The user name and password that were used to connect to the remote PC didn't work. Try a different account."
[am using Microsoft Remote Desktop on Mac]
I already tried creating new account & password... still no good..
Please help what could be the issues or solution.
Am using Google Cloud for the first time..
Thanks in advance
After you create a Windows Instance, you will first need to generate a password. Once you generate the password, paste it to a text editor. From here, you will need to install the RDP client for Mac. From here, you can follow these instructions which will explain how to connect to the Windows Instance using the RDP client you just installed.
I have problem signing into Microsoft account from my local account on my machine. This used to be my work laptop I have bought it after I left company. I could sign in on my domain user without any problems. Since I left domain I lost this account.
I am trying to "Sign in with Microsoft account instead" option in Accounts->Your info. After I enter my Microsoft account credentials and insert my local user password I get message "Oops something went wrong. Whatever happen it was probably our fault". Good one Microsoft.
Also similarly when I try to add account to Calendar app I end up with same problem, but here I got more information: "You will need the internet for this. It doesn't look like you're connected to the internet. Check your connection and try again. 0x800704cf". This led me to check Network troubleshooter and this error came up:
Your computer appears to be correctly configured, but the device or
resource (www.microsoft.com) is not responding
Contact your network administrator or Internet service provider (ISP)
Completed Windows can't communicate with the device or resource
(www.microsoft.com). The computer or service you are trying to reach
might be temporarily unavailable.
I have tried many ways how to fix this. (Flush DNS, reboot router etc..), but I am pretty sure that my problem is not with my internet connection. It works perfectly fine, also note that I was able to check this with 2 internet providers with same result. Also another thing is, that this works perfectly fine with other devices in our household.
For me it looks like system don't see microsoft.com. Only thing I am able to work with is One drive.
I am pretty sure I would be able to fix this by resetting Windows 10, but I don't want to loose my installed programs (and licenses).
Any advice will be appreciated. I really ran out of options.
After doing many many thing, only thing that helped was resetting PC. It always does help.
I am trying to install an MSExchange 2016 in an EC2 instance from scratch without success. By from scratch, I mean I start from a new EC2 instance without any AD yet installed.
I am not very familial with Windows Server. I got a lot of problem during the installation. By digging the web, I fixed a lot of them, but I think there is something I miss to succeed in my installation. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Here is the procedure I followed:
I created an EC2 Windows Server 2012RC2 instance
I created a simple Active Directory in AWS.
I provided the AD DNS to my Windows Server (via Network and Sharing Center, properties of Internet Protocol v4)
I joined the server into that AD (Via Control Panel > System and Security > System, change computer workgroup to the domain defined in my AWS Simple AD)
Restart computer
Log into the server as Administrator, with the AD domain
Download Exchange from here
Set-up the active directory, as in this procedure: https://judeperera.wordpress.com/2015/07/24/step-by-step-guide-for-installing-exchange-server-2016-preview/
The Step 4.1. of that procedure indicates to execute the following code
Setup.exe /PrepareSchema /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms
When I execute it, I get the following error:
I do not understand what I need to do/fix to continue the installation.
Thanks in advance for your help!
The issue you are encountering is that Simple Directory is not an Active Directory product, it is powered by Samba v4. What you need is to setup a Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition) or Microsoft AD, which is powered by Windows Server 2012 R2. The Simple AD is powered by Samba v4 and is simply Active Directory compatible but does not support the added schema features which are needed by Exchange Server 2016.
The other option is to back away from hosting your own instance of Exchange server and instead take a look at AWS WorkMail. It is an exchange like service which supports active sync with Outlook 2007+ and all current mobile smart devices such as Android and iOS. I currently use this and it took a lot of the headache out of managing my own mail server as the complexities are offloaded to the AWS environment and all you need to do it add mail accounts and group addresses.
Either option should solve your issue.