Category: Microsoft Windows

Your Credentials Did Not Work For RDC

In this article, I will show you how to fix the “Your Credentials Did Not Work” error while using (RDP) Remote Desktop Connection feature in Windows 10/8/7.

In Windows 10, we can use the remote desktop feature to connect systems remotely. This blog talks about an issue in which one is related to credentials used in Remote Desktop connectivity.
Genuinely, while connecting systems remotely, recently I received the following error.
Your credentials did not work
The credential that was used to connect to did not work. Please enter the new credentials.
The logon attempt failed.

In this issue, I was sure that the credentials were correct. Even it worked fine with other computers but one of my machines start throwing this error.

Using Security Policy Snap-in

1- Select Windows search bar, type local security policy and then select it.

3- Windows Local Security Policy, expand the Local Policies, choose Security Options.
Search for policy setting named Network Security: LAN Manager Authentication level. This is set to Not Defined, by default. Double click on it.

4- Choose from the drop down list “Send LM & NTLM – use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated” and then click ok.

Using Group Policy Snap-in

1- Select Windows search bar and type gpedit.msc and then click on it.

2- Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System selects Credentials Delegation.
Double click on Allow delegating saved credentials.

3- Select Enabled, Under Options, click on Show button.

4- Type TERMSERV/* and then click OK – OK.

5- Select option Allow delegating saved credentials with NTLM-only server authentication.

6- Select enable and click show.

7- Enter TERMSERV/* and then click OK – OK.

8- Double click to open Allow delegating fresh credentials with NTLM-only server authentication.

9- Choose enable and then click on show.

10- Type TERMSERV/* and then click OK – OK.

11- Open Allow delegating default credentials.

12- Select enable and then click show.

13- Type TERMSERV/* and then click OK – OK.

Please make sure the Deny delegating saved credentials GPO setting at the same path mentioned in step 2 is set to Not Configured.

14- Close GPO snap-in and open command prompt. Type gpupdate /force command or reboot your system to make changes effective.

Now you can check your Remote Desktop Connection is working.

For more details click here

Also, read this article: CredSSP Encryption Oracle Remediation

15/10/2020
How to Upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10

Are you still running Windows 7? It’s time to upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10. Here are the instructions that you will need to keep files and apps without any issues.

Before you start the process, make sure that your Windows 7 installation has been activated. First, checkthatr Windows 7 has been activated right-click on the My Computer icon and then select Properties. You can see the Windows Activation status.

Backup your files. The Windows Media Creation tool permits you an option to keep your current files and settings after the upgrade and it works too but it is always better to be safe rather than sorry.

Read thie article: How to Login with Windows 7 Automatically.

Media Creation Tool

Download and then run the Media Creation tool.

1- Double-click on MediaCreationTool.exe to launch the Windows 10 setup wizard.

2- Click Accept to the licensing agreement.

3- Select upgrade this pc now if you want to upgrade the current Windows installation or if you want to create installation media (USB or DVD) for a different system, and then click Next.

4- Please check “Use the recommended options for this PC” is selected. If you would like to manually configure language, edition, architecture, you can uncheck it. Click Next.

5- Make sure that your USB flash drive is connected to your PC if you want to create USB media. I am selecting the ISO file option, so later I will create DVD or USB bootable media, and click Next.

6- Select the location where you want to save the ISO file and click save.

7- The Media Creation Tool will start downloading. This is the long waiting periods you will encounter during the upgrade. The files are now downloading and it can take up to 1 to 2 hours on a moderately fast connection.
Once the process is finished, and try to upgrade Windows. Burn this ISO file to USB or DVD.
You can use ultra ISO software to mount this ISO file.

Upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10

8- Open drive

9- Run the setup

10- Select check box I want to ……. Click next.

11- Accept the license agreement.

12- It will tell you if you want to keep all your files and apps after the upgrade. By default, it will remain everything however, if you are looking to start fresh with no apps or files, click the “Change what to keep” option. This Windows tool will give you three options- keep files and apps, keep files but not apps, & keep nothing. Choose what you want to do and click next.

13- The rest of the update is divided into three steps the first of which is copying files.

14- Your computer will restart after copying files and then you will move to the next step, “Installing features & drivers”.

15- Windows upgrade takes time and several times Windows upgrade will tell you it is preparing something and that it will only take few minutes for it to do. It can actually take several minutes to do that so don’t worry and happy upgrading!

16- Windows 10 working on updates

17- Select accept

18- Successfully upgraded.

19- Open your local C drive you can seed (windows and windows.old)

20- Now you can see my file are there after upgrading to Windows 10.

21- System properties, Windows is activated.

03/10/2020
How to Login with Windows 7 Automatically

In this blog, I will explain how to login with windows 7 automatically. Passwords are there to obstruct unauthorized use of your computer. Only those who know the password they can access the computer. However, if the customer is always in your custody without anyone else having physical access to it then you can set Windows 7 to log-in automatically without asking for the password. For PCs running in a home environmental, you can easily change the setting using the User Account Wizard.

Login with Windows 7 Automatically

This procedure applies to all computers that are not part of a domain network, for example, Home Computers running Windows 7.

1- Right click on computer and select manage.

my computer right click

2- Expand local users and groups, select users, right-click on username the one you want to login with automatically, and then select a set password.

computer management users

3- Select proceed.

set password for admin proceed

4- Click OK

set password for user

5- Click OK

the password has been set

6- Select Windows Key + R, run dialog will open enter netplwiz and then click OK.

Run netplwiz Command

7- User Accounts window will open. Under the Users tab, select the user on which you want to configure automatic login and uncheck the box beside “users must enter a username and password to use this computer” and click ok.

Uncheck users must enter a username, password to use this computer

8- Automatically Log On dialog will open, click OK.

Enter Password for Automatic Log-in

Please read more: How to Upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10.

For more details, click here

How to Login Automatically with Windows 10

02/10/2020
How to Login Automatically With Windows 10

Login Automatically With Windows, by default, when a user logs into Windows 10, they must enter their credentials in order to proceed further as a security measure to prevent unauthorized access. Although, circumstances vary & many of us do not want to key in the password every time we turn the computer/laptop on or if we have a Virtual Machine setup on our computer.

In Windows 10, the process to automatically log in is very easy and there are two methods to do this. If you are using Windows 10 at your home or in a small office setup where your computer is not a part of Domain, then follow the below steps.

Before starting with the article, there are few things to note. You should have access to the Windows administrator account to makes changes and you must login as the administrator and if you ever decide to change password for the account set to automatically login, then you will want to re-do the steps.

How to remove windows user password

1- From your desktop, right-click on this PC and then select Manage.

2- Expand local users and groups, select Users
Right click on the user and then select a set password

3- Select proceed

4- Click OK without typing passwords

5- Click OK

Allow Automatic Login via User Accounts

1- Log in with your administrator account. Hold Windows key + R. In the run dialog, enter control userpasswords2 and then Press Enter. Click Yes if you get User Account Control warning message appears.

2- In the User Account window, uncheck the checkbox Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer and click OK

3- Click OK

The specific account will now automatically login when your turn your computer on.

For more details automatically logging in with Windows, please visit Microsoft.

Read more: Enable or disable Windows 10 Secure Sign-In.

15/09/2020
Fix Vpn Connection Error Remote Computer Could Not be Established

Fixed: VPN Connection Error

We usually use a VPN for our offices networks or to establish an increasingly secure connection with the internet. Whereas setting up a VPN connection is a wind, there can also be problems connected with it. Many users experience an error whereas connecting to a VPN network (which has been working previously) saying, “A connection to the remote computer could not be established in Windows. You might need to change the network settings for this connection.

If you are moreover experiencing this VPN connection error, no need to worry as this can be fixed easily. Interestingly this has nothing to do with the VPN service you are using but is a networking issue. Please keep the below steps to fix it.

Solving – Using Device Manager

1- Press the Windows key + X key together on your keyboard or right-click on the Windows start button and then select Device Manager from the context menu.

2- On the Device Manager, scroll down & expand the Network adapters. Now, right-click on WAN Miniport (IKEv2) and then click on the Uninstall device from the menu.

3- Uninstall device wan miniport (IKEv2), click uninstall

4- Reiterate the same process as shown in # 2 to Uninstall the device for all the WAN Miniports are listed below one by one.

5- Now, Select the Action menu at the top of the window and choose Scan for hardware changes from the context menu. Or right-click on network adapters and then select scan for hardware changes (see in the below 2nd diagram)

6- After scanning the hardware changes this will re-install all the WAN Miniports (IP, IPv6, L2TP, Network Monitor, PPPOE, PPTP, SSTP) again as it was previously. So, essentially, it installs them afresh and now your VPN should work back again.

04/09/2020
CredSSP Encryption Oracle Remediation (Solved)

CredSSP Encryption Oracle Remediation
Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP) Protocol is a security support operator that helps to securely representative user credentials from a client computer to a windows server by using Transport Layer Security (TLS) as an encrypted pipe.

Why the Windows update

The Windows update in May is made to correct how CredSSP validates demands throughout the authentication process. Microsoft updates have found a CredSSP error in RDP and found a fix for the vulnerability by mandatory requiring to update both the client and server computer to work properly.

Remote Desktop Connection

An authentication error has occurred.
The function requested is not supported.

Remote computer: IP Address or Computer Name
This could be due to
CredSSP encryption oracle remediation.
For more information, see the Link
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=866660

This error is because of the windows update not installed either on the server or on the client computer.
How to fix CredSSP

To fix the issue, we want to uninstall the Windows update and roll back to an older version. But rolling back to an old version is not a best practice. We can fix this by modifying the group policy in the local computer to use the vulnerable setting

1- Press (Win Key + R) Go to Run
Type gpedit.msc and then press Enter

2- Expand Computer Configuration and then select Administrative Template.

3- Expand Administrator templates and then select System

4- Expand System and then select Credentials Delegation

5- Double Click on Encryption Oracle Remediation to open.

6- Select Enable and change protection level to Vulnerable and then click Apply or OK.

7- Press (Win Key + R) Go to Run
Type cmd and then press Enter

8- Type gpupdate /force command

9- Group policy successfully updated

Now your remote desktop connection will be working fine.

For more details please visit Microsoft

Read more: Your Credentials Did Not Work for RDC.

20/08/2020
Generalize the Windows VM using Sysprep

Generalize the Windows VM using Sysprep, Using Sysprep command removes all your personal account & security information, and then prepares the machine to be used as an image.

Please make sure the server roles running on the machine are supported by Sysprep

Important Note:

After you run the Sysprep on a Virtual Machine that VM is considered generalized & cannot be restarted. The process of generalizing the windows Virtual Machine is not reversible.

Generalize the Windows VM using Sysprep

For more details visit Microsoft

To generalize the Windows Virtual Machine, follow the below steps:

1- Sign in to your Windows VM.

2- Open the Run command by pressing Windows key+R button. Change the directory to %windir%\system32\sysprep and then hit Ok.

3- Double click on sysprep.exe file to run the setup.

4- In the System Preparation Tool Wizard dialog box, choose Enter System Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE) under system cleanup action and then select the Generalize checkbox.
Under Shutdown Options, select Shutdown and then select OK.

5- Processing generalize phase Sysprep plugin.

When Sysprep completes, it will shuts down the Virtual Machine. Please do not restart the VM.

01/07/2020
How to install System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019

System Center Virtual Machine, in the article I will guide you on how to install Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019 (SCVMM).
If you run Microsoft’s Hyper-V as your virtualization platform then you probably want a way to manage your Hyper-V hosts as well as the virtual machines that reside on this.

What’s new in SCVMM click here

What’s new in Hyper-v Manager click here

SCVMM System Requirement

In this four part series

1- SCVMM Installation click here

2- Configure SQL Server SCVMM 2019 click here

3- Configure Virtual Machine Manager click here

4- Virtual Machine Libraries Configuration click here

Install System Center Virtual Machine Manager

I am using a trial version of SCVMM which we can download if from the Microsoft Website

1- Browse the windows explorer to install SCVMM. Double click on SCVMM_2019.exe to start the installation.

2- The SCVMM install welcome screen, click next.

3- Accept the SCVMM license agreement and then click on next.

4- The SCVMM installer needs to extract the downloaded files. Please select a destination folder location and make sure you have enough free disks space (approximately 28GB) then click on next.

5- Confirm the settings and folder where you want to extract then click on Extract.

6- The installation files start extracting. This will take a few minutes to complete the extraction process.

7- Now the extraction of SCVMM is complete. Click on finish button.

Open your Hyper-V manager console and connect to your SCVMM host.
Now we need to build a new VM for the System Center Virtual Machine Manager server.

8- Right click on host then click new and then Virtual Machine.

9- New Virtual Machine Wizard, click the next button to proceed.

10- Type your VM name (SCVMM) and select where to store the VM files. Click Next.

11- Choose Generation 1 and then click next.

12- The minimum memory recommended 4GB so as this is just a test lab, click on next.

13- Select a virtual switch you want to deploy this VM to then click next.

14- This is one of the most important parts of the System Center Virtual Machine install process, make sure to change the virtual hard disk to Use an existing virtual hard disk and browse to the extracted location of the SCVMM download. Select SCVMM_2019 VM and then click next.

15- Review the Summary of System Center virtual machine and then click on Finish.

Configure System Center Virtual Machine Manager

16- Hyper-V manager console and browse through your virtual machines the one we newly deployed System center virtual machine. Right-click on SCVMM and then click connect.

17- Virtual Machine window opens click the start button.

18- System center virtual machine starting Services.

19- Now we have run through the Windows 2019 server installation. Select your country/region and then click next.

20- Click Accept.

21- Type a local administrator password and then click the finish button.

22- Windows 2019 server successfully installed, log in to the server with the local administrator credentials.

Now we need to join the System center virtual machine to a domain. Click Here

In the next article, we need to start the installation of the SQL Database. On the desktop of Server 2019 VM, we can see Microsoft has placed two icons for me to use to start the SCVMM installation.

Read more: How to Install System Center 2019 Virtual Machine.

27/05/2020
How to Install Windows Assessment and Deployment KIT

Install Windows Assessment and Deployment KIT. In this article I will cover the steps to install the latest version of Windows ADK for SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager). Windows ADK is an external dependency when you install SCVMM. There are 2 ways to install the Windows ADK. Via GUI and via command line.
We have to download ADK – Windows PE and install them one by one. We install Windows ADK first and then add Windows PE to our ADK installation.

Download Windows ADK and Windows PE click here

How to Install Windows ADK for SCVMM

1- To install Windows ADK for SCVMM, download adksetup.exe. and then double click to run file.

2- Windows Assessment and Deployment kit install wizard.

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Select the Install Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit and then click next.

3- If you want to send or not to send anonymous usage data to Microsoft, then click next.

4- Windows assessment and deployment Click accept the license terms.

5- To install Windows ADK for SCVMM, Select the features you want to install and then click on Install.

6- Windows assessment and deployment kit installing features.

7- The Windows ADK installation is complete. Click the close button.

Install Windows PE Add-on for Windows ADK

8- In the above steps, we installed Windows ADK. Now we will install the Windows PE add-on for Windows ADK. Download adkwinpesetup.exe and then double click on it to run.

9- Select Install ADK Windows Preinstallation environment add-ons and then click next.

10- To accept license terms, click the Accept button.

11- Now you can see there is only a feature that is included which is the Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE).

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Click the Install button.

12- Installing Windows preinstallation environment is in progress.

13- The Windows PE installation is complete. Click the Close button.

26/05/2020
How to Restore Ntbackup .bkf in Windows 10, 12, 8

Restore NTBackup BKF File, To install the Windows Server 2003 Ntbackup program on Server 2008, Server 2012 and Windows 10 Windows computer you would like to follow the below steps.

Restore NTBackup .BKF File Windows Server 2008

1- Click the Start button and click Run, type (or paste): servermanagercmd -install Removable-Storage and click ok.

2- Command prompt auto open.

3- Click start and select Ntbackup-RestoreUtility.

4- Welcome to the restore utility advanced mode and choose the Restore Wizard (Advanced).

5- Click Next.

6- Select Restore files and settings and click on next.

7- Under What to Restore, select Browse.

8- Click Browse and choose the .bkf files that you simply want to revive and click on ok.

https://xpertstec.com/Oldbackup/backup_recovery/veritas/back-up-job-files-to-disk-in-veritas-backup-exec/9- Left side Expand the things to revive then select the files or folders which you would like to revive and click on next.

10 Select the Advanced button.

11- Under Restore files to select Alternate location.
Under Alternate location Select the folder where you want to restore and click next.

12- Select Leave existing files (Recommended) and click next.

13- Select the options you want to use and click next.

14- Click Finish to complete the Backup wizard.

15- Restore completed.

Restore NTBackup BKF File

Windows Server 2012 and Windows 10.

Download the nt5backup.cab Click nt5backup.cab

extract the rar file

ntbackup.exe
ntmsapi.dll
vssapi.dll

1- Right-click on NTBackup.exe and choose Run as Administrator.

2- A popup message for removable storage not running and click on ok.

3- Click Next.

4- Select restore files and settings and click on next.

5- Under What to Restore, select Browse.

6- Click Browse and choose the .bkf files that you simply want to revive and click on ok.

7- On Left side Expand the things to restore, select the files or folders which you would like to restore and click on next.

8- Select the Advanced button.

9- Under Restore files to select Alternate location.
Under Alternate location Select the folder where you want to restore and click next.

10- Select Leave existing files (Recommended) and click next.

11- Select the options you want to use and click next.

12- Click Finish to complete the Backup wizard.

13- Restore completed.

23/06/2019
How to install Microsoft Windows 10.

Install Microsoft Windows 10, First, we need to make sure our computer is set to boot from CD/DVD drive or from USB. Insert your CD/DVD or USB installation disk and restart your PC.

System Requirements.

Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor

RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 gigabytes for 64-bit

Hard disk space: 32 GB

Graphics card: DirectX 9 or higher

Display resolution: 800 x 600, a minimum diagonal display size for the first display of 7-inches or larger.

A Microsoft account and Internet access

Download Windows 10 ISO

How to Create a bootable flash drive (USB) for installing Windows. Click here.

Install Microsoft Windows

1- Insert your DVD or USB installation disk, restart your PC and set boot option from computer bios to DVD drive or USB.

2- Press any key else from CD or DVD…………

3- Select the language, time and currency format, and Keyboard or input method and click next.

4- Widows setup wizard, click Install Now.

5- Enter the product key for Windows 10 or click skip.

6- Select I accept the license terms and click on next.

7- Select Custom: Install Windows only (advanced).

8- Select partition where you want to install Windows or Create partition click new select size click apply and click next.

9- The windows setup takes some minutes to copy all the required files.

10- Select Use Express Settings.

11-After successful installation, provide your details, email address, etc. This won’t take long Setting up your apps.

12- Now you are ready to use your clean-installed Windows 10.

13- For Desktop icon Settings > right-click desktop click personalize.

14- Select themes select desktop icons Settings, select your desktop Icons click apply and click ok.

15- How to rename computer > right-click this PC and click properties.

16- Under Computer name, domain, and workgroup settings select Change Settings.

17- To rename this computer, click change and type a computer name and click OK.

18- Click ok and click restart now

Read this article: How to Disable/Enable AutoPlay in Windows 10.

Read more: How to Setup and Configure File History Backup for Windows 10.

28/05/2019