Windows-Server

A batch of Windows Server 2025 machines, all deployed from the same image, started failing the latest cumulative update with 0x80073712. The network was fine and the update client was fine. DISM /RestoreHealth didn’t help, because the real problem was a corrupt en-gb language pack baked into the golden image. Finding that took far longer than it should have. So I built a toolset that works the problem in a fixed order and points at the actual cause instead of sending you round a blind repair loop. ...

First ever repo committed to Github. After troubleshooting Powershell scripts that upload and download with sftp as scheduled tasks over the years I decided to put together a toolset that would make creating and maintaining these scripts/tasks a lot easier. https://github.com/tobiastillstam/Sftp-Scheduled-Task-Toolset A PowerShell toolset for unattended SFTP file transfers on Windows, run as scheduled tasks. Includes a WinForms GUI for creating and managing transfer jobs. Built around the WinSCP .NET assembly. Designed for sysadmins who need reliable scheduled SFTP transfers (downloads, uploads with local archive, or both), without writing a one-off script per server. ...

Experimenting and updating my Server 2019 “skills”. We been running O365 and Azure for some time now, but haven’t used OnPrem Domain Controllers in my homelab. To get some hands on training with the new server version I set up two DCs and three other servers. Servers for print, NVR and backups. Synced the forest with Azure and enabled SSO. Everything worked pretty smoothly with some problems requiring a little bit of reading through Microsoft’s Docs. ...