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Hello Susan,

Domain Controllers
Certificate Authorities
Small Companies

Small businesses who use AD, do not typically have the money to have,  A real/virtual server (+license) for  AD server and Certificate Authority server, and perhaps, as recommended by all Microsoft literature, a 2nd Domain Controller server.

Back in the ‘SBS’ server days, the Certificate Authority (CA) was also on the DC itself.
If any techs migrated to a newer MS Server flavor, they might have also migrated the Certificate Authority to that newer server.  I know I have encountered some.

If the AD is NOT PAIRED with a CA, and there is no CA in the domain, do the May updates have any gotchas?   Customers in this situation will not be updating any SID into any OID, as there are no OID without CA.  (And an alphabet soup to you too 😉

Problem resolved.

I have a full image backup – so I deleted partiton #1  ” System Reserved”
Try on win 10 – wont access drive

Restore partition #1  – Delete partition #2
Win 10 then mounts drive just fine

Create and format a partition #2 using a partitioning utility
Perform a FILE Restore from the image backup to the newly formatted #2
Perform a windows boot repair to get the “reserved” pointing to the correct place and also any boot blocks inside partition #2
Win 7 now boots fine
Win 10 will mount and access the drive just fine

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Paul T

Always remember – an untested backup is almost as good as no backup at all. 😉

Test restoring files from within the backup.  I usually test restore ZIP or 7Z files as you can then validate the contents after restoring.

Validate the backup at some other time than when it was performed. (many of the programs mentioned can create a schedule for this)

Use the bootable thumb drive or bootable backup drive created by the backup software – you can validate the backup there also, which is just one step from actually restoring the complete backup.

 

Having never encountered KB 4023057 on a particular PC, how to Pr-Emptively BLOCK it from ever getting installed.

WU Showhide will only show items already pending to be hidden.

 

Do I understand the earlier quotes correctly?

semi-quote: You can buy the licenses but you can’t tell anyone what you paid?  NDA

semi-quote: In Germany at least the price is $50/license?

Is there a bottom line?

Methodology:

Before running a BIOS update:

1. First shut down the system (start->shutdown or equivalent).
2. Turn off power supply or unplug the power cable.
3. Press the power button of the computer as if you wanted to boot it, NOT the power supply.  Why?  This will remove any electricity still in capacitors, or what not, on the motherboard.  The LED for computer booting might even light up for a second, even with no power cable.
4. This will also make sure any motherboard health monitor stops running.
5. Wait 15-30 seconds for ‘Belt and Suspenders’ safety.
6. Now you can turn power supply back on, plug in cable.
7. Boot the system and install the BIOS update.  On a system where all software has just begun running and any later-occurring bugs won’t interfere with the update.

Whether to upgrade BIOS is often debatable.

How to upgrade BIOS I have some suggestions.  As an IT person, I have had to upgrade many a BIOS (had as in requested to by client).  Any problems I had were before I began following these procedures.

The mechanics of what happens during a BIOS upgrade vary depending on manufacturer (software running under windows/linux/bios boot.  Activating hardware that performs the actual erase/write/verify of EEPROM.

Parts of some modern motherboards are running ALL the time as long as power is plugged into the PC and power supply is turned on (motherboard health monitors for example). Every piece of software has some bugs.  Bugs tend to show up more often the longer the piece of software runs.  So install BIOS after full/complete shutdown and then boot.