Windows Server 2025 Print Queues Prompt to Reinstall Existing Fiery Driver
I'm replacing a Windows Server 2016 print server with Server 2025. I migrated the queues with the print migration tool, but queues using the Canon iPR Svr M20…
Windows Server 2025
Windows 11 Clients Prompt for Fiery Driver When Mapped from Server 2025
I've set up a Windows Server 2025 print server to replace an existing Server 2016 system. The print queues were migrated with the print migration tool, and Uniflow…
Should I Upgrade Domain Controllers from Windows Server 2016 to 2022 or 2025?
We currently run Windows Server 2016 as our domain controller platform and are planning an upgrade. Most of our other servers, including on-premises Exchange, have already been migrated…
Sanity Check: Moving DHCP to Windows Server 2025 While Reusing the Existing IP
I'm planning to migrate DHCP from an older Windows Server to a new Windows Server 2025 member server. To avoid changing IP helper configurations on our network devices,…
Should I Upgrade Our Domain Controllers to Windows Server 2025 or Stay on 2022?
We currently run Windows Server 2016 as our domain controller platform and are planning an upgrade. Most of our other servers, including on-premises Exchange, have already been migrated…
FSLogix sessions feel sluggish on Server 2025 despite healthy resource metrics
We're running three RDS session hosts with FSLogix profiles stored on an SMB share. Each host runs Windows Server 2025 with 20 vCPUs and 96 GB of RAM,…
FSLogix sessions feel sluggish on Server 2025 despite healthy resource metrics
We're running three Windows Server 2025 RDS session hosts with FSLogix profiles stored on an SMB share. Each host has 20 vCPUs, 96 GB of RAM, and around…
Why does App Readiness cause a long black screen on a non-RDS Windows Server 2025 machine?
I'm troubleshooting a Windows Server 2025 domain-joined member server that does not have the RDS role, AVD, FSLogix, roaming profiles, or user profile disks installed. Users see a…
Can Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Be Upgraded In-Place to Server 2025 Standard?
I'm planning an in-place upgrade from Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2025. Microsoft lists that version jump as supported, but I've discovered the existing installation is the…
Can I In-Place Upgrade Windows Server 2016 Datacenter to 2025 Standard?
I'm planning to upgrade a Windows Server 2016 installation directly to Windows Server 2025. Microsoft lists 2016-to-2025 as a supported in-place upgrade path, but this server is running…
Why does App Readiness cause a long black screen on a non-RDS Windows Server 2025 machine?
I'm running Windows Server 2025 as a plain domain-joined member server. It does not have the RDS role installed, and there are no roaming profiles, user profile disks,…
RDS session hosts hang after the September 2026 updates—anyone else seeing this?
After installing the September 2026 cumulative updates—KB5122871 on Windows Server 2025 (build 26100.33438) and KB5122882 on Windows Server 2022 (build 20348.5622)—every host in our mixed RDS collection began…
Some Windows 11 computers intermittently lose their Active Directory trust
We have an Active Directory environment with two domain controllers, both recently migrated from Windows Server 2019 to fully patched Windows Server 2025 using a side-by-side setup. A…
Intermittent domain trust failures on Windows 11 clients after moving to Server 2025 DCs
We have an Active Directory environment with two domain controllers, both recently migrated from Windows Server 2019 to fully patched Windows Server 2025 using a side-by-side approach. A…
Are the September 2026 Server Updates Causing RDS Session Hosts to Hang?
After installing the September 2026 cumulative updates—KB5122871 on Windows Server 2025 build 26100.33438 and KB5122882 on Windows Server 2022 build 20348.5622—every host in our RDS collection began experiencing…
Should I deploy Windows Server 2025 domain controllers alongside 2019 and 2022 servers?
Several of our servers running Active Directory are approaching end of life. I was considering purchasing a new server with Windows Server 2025 and migrating Active Directory to…
What’s the safest way to fix duplicate SIDs on two fresh Windows Server 2025 VMs?
I have two Windows Server 2025 virtual machines that somehow ended up with identical machine SIDs. Both were supposedly fresh installations, not cloned or deployed from an image.…
Windows Server 2025 ignores Intune ASR policies while other MDE policies apply
I have a physical Windows Server 2025 Hyper-V host onboarded to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint through Azure Arc and managed with MDE Security Settings Management. The device appears…
WSUS synchronization fails with ImportUpdateError on Windows Server 2025
I'm building a lab with Windows Server 2025 and Configuration Manager 2509. WSUS is installed on the primary site server, and the Software Update Point is configured to…
What’s the safest way to fix duplicate SIDs on two fresh Windows Server VMs?
I have two Windows Server 2025 virtual machines that somehow ended up with identical security identifiers. They were both installed from scratch, not cloned or created from an…