Category Archives: Windows Server 2019

How to Monitor Network Traffic (Packet Capture/Network Trace) in Windows without installing any Tools

As a Windows Active Directory Administrator, we have to do network trace to monitor the network traffic of the Windows server for troubleshooting the issues, usually, third-party applications like Wireshark been used to capture and analyze, how can we collect the network trace using Windows built-in tools without Wireshark? There is an easy way to… Read More »

Microsoft August 2020 Patch issues and unanswered questions: No Netlogon events in Domain Controller logs after August 2020 Patches

August 2020 Patch (CVE-2020-1472) is fixing Netlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability, we have to patch all the Domain Controllers to secure our environment from this Vulnerability and its two-part rollout stars on August 2020 and Feb 2021, we have many unanswered questions like, is the August 2020 patch will affect the non-secure clients? is there… Read More »

Active Directory Domain Services Forest functional levels and Domain functional levels on windows server 2019

Each Active Directory Domain Services functional level has its own features and compatibility with other Windows Server operating systems on the Domain Controllers, you have to make sure all non-compatible Domain Controllers OS been migrated to supported operating system before raising the functional levels, and why there is no new functional levels for Windows server… Read More »

GPO Update failed with LDAP Bind function call failed error on Windows Server 2016/2019/2012 and Windows 10

If you are forcing GPO Update then you will get LDAP Bind function call failed error on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 and also can’t access Sysvol/Netlogon share and also getting other authentication failure errors Also Read: Group policy is not applying/working after patching (GPO Permission issues) Getting below error on gpupdate /force  Updating policy “Computer… Read More »

Difference between Windows server 2016 and 2019

have already written new features of Windows Server 2019 on my previous article which detailed the list of features available on Windows Server 2019, now want to compare the difference between Windows server 2016 and 2019, will list difference Also Read: Windows Server 2019 Features Comparison of Windows server 2016 vs 2019 Below features are… Read More »