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TLDR; Convert the VHD (GPT disk) into a VHDX and it will work The journey: Just did a disk export of a Azure VM generation V2 disk. The VHD format of the exported disk won't boot in Hyper-V. The Azure portal says it's a V2 VM (This was lifted and shifted from a...

Failing to install on a Domain Controller which his a fresh install of Windows 2019 Server This could be due to no support for TLS 1.2 being enabled. Uninstall Azure AD Connect and then run the enable TLS 1.2 script and reboot and then re-install. Worked for me....

Syntax is: nslookup ip_of_host_to_lookup ip_of_dns_server Example of successful lookup returning server name to IP mapping PS C:\Users\ja> nslookup 10.73.2.21 10.73.2.9 Server: TGN-DC03.TOGGEN.LOCAL Address: 10.73.2.9 Name: srv01.toggen.local Address: 10.73.2.21...

Can you run a Windows 11 Pro Host running VMWare Workstation Pro 17.5.2 running a Windows 11 Pro Guest set to auto-start when the Host boots? Yes! However there are caveats: Unfortunately you can't run Hyper-V and VMWare Workstation Pro the Windows 11 Pro VM Guest on...

I have a license (less than a year old) for VMWare Workstation Pro I migrated my account from VMWare.com to broadcom.com but my license keys, entitlements, downloads are not appearing in the support dashboard. I tried to raise a support ticket but it says I need a...

So I've got the latest version of VMWare Workstation Pro 17.5.2 and running on Windows 11 Enterprise Version 23H2 (OS Build 22631,3880) Host Trying to run a Windows 11 Pro guest encrypted VM results in a consistent "WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR" blue screen in the...

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Just trying to copy everything except a couple of directories from a drive to my NAS This is the secret incantation of robocopy when running in a Power Shell Terminal on Windows 11 robocopy d:\ \\mynas\toggen\DATA\ *.* /XD 'D:\$RECYCLE.BIN' 'D:\.Trash-1000' /E /Z From...

Format the USB using the MacOS Disk Util with MSDOS (FAT) Format and Master Boot Record Scheme Secret sauce https://wimlib.net wmlib-imagex split /Volumes/path/to/sources/install.wim /Volumes/WIN10USB/sources/install.swm Youtube Video...