Tech Encounters

Server Essentials 2012 Web Interface How to Hide Folders in web view for users who have no permission to a folder By default server essentials shows folders in the web interface even when a user is denied access, to adjust this feature: 1. Log into the server and go to Administrative Tools -> Server Manager. 2. Under Roles -> File Services, click Share and Storage Management.  Select the folder share which points to the web interface root folder and in the right pane, click Properties. 3. Click Advanced and check the box "Enable access-based enumeration."  With ABE enabled only web interface folders the user account has permissions to will be shown.

The system cannot access one or more event logs because of insufficient rights The Problem: Configuration refresh message. The system cannot access one or more event logs because of insufficient rights, file corruption, or other reasons. For more information, see the Operation channel in the ServerManager-ManagementProvider error log on the target server. Problem occurred on Server 2012 servers that have been upgraded to Server 2012R2 servers. Servers are also clustered. The Solution: Following the event logs leads to a few registry keys. You can eliminate the messages by: 1. Export the following registry keys (for safety) 2. Delete the following keys: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WINEVT\Channels\Microsoft-Windows-DxpTaskRingtone/Analytic HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WINEVT\Channels\Microsoft-Windows-IME-Roaming/Analytic HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WINEVT\Channels\Microsoft-Windows-IME-SCDICCOMPILER/Analytic HKLM\SOFTWARE\Mic...

Locked out by Firewall for Remote Desktop connection Server 2012 R2 Snookered, I had a 2012 R2 Server operating in a remote data center with a network card which had reverted to Public.  The Public setting had no rule to permit remote desktop. Remote management using the GUI server manager did not have an option I could find to enable the firewall rule. THE FIX On another server, on the same domain  Right-click and open Powershell as Administrator. At the Powershell prompt: # This opens a remote powershell session PS C:\> Enter-PSSession remoteservername-or-ipaddress # This creates a rule to permit RDP access PS C:\> New-NetFirewallRule -Name Custom_Allow_RDP -DisplayName "Custom Allow RDP" -Description "Custom Allow RDP TCP port 3389" -Protocol TCP –LocalPort 3389 -Direction Inbound -Enabled True -Profile Any -Action Allow # Now connect to the server and deal with the problem at hand PS C:\> mstsc Done!

Virtual Machine failed to start worker process: Incorrect function. (0x80070001) Configuration Hyper-v Server 2012 with 4 VMs. One VM running the others would not start. Error message popup when starting VM. Further in the event logs "The authorization store could not be initialized from storage location". Cause An earlier test restore had replaced the key entry with a now redundant location. Solution Edit registry key as below [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Virtualization] Problem Key shows an invalid location: "StoreLocation"="msxml://D:\\Restore Test\\Host Component\\C_\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Hyper-V\\InitialStore.xml" Change key to correct location: "StoreLocation"="msxml://C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Hyper-V\\InitialStore.xml" Then restart Virtual Machine Service from Hyper-V console