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You are searching for updates, but the update errors out with the code 0x80240438. This means you have or had WSUS configured in your environment and the computer that has the error is configured to search for that server via GPO or something else.
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An important skill to have when you manage Citrix VDI instances. When the write cache becomes full, users will notice this with things like freezes or black/grey screens happening. Without knowing where to look for it can be quite hard to troubleshoot this issue.
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When you change the GPO with your Folder Redirection settings to a different file server, no matter how many times you run GPupdate the settings will never apply.
This is because if you manually do a folder redirect on the local machine, it will ask you if you want to move the files over to the new location. The GPO can't do this when you change paths and will never process it.
Read more: Folder Redirection Folder Change in GPO not Updating
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Windows only allows you to extend an existing partition if there is free unallocated space directly next to it. This is most noticable when you try to extend the C:\ drive but the option isn't available because there is recovery partition right next to it and the extended partition right next to that.
Read more: Windows extend disk with no adjacent free allocated space
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When you try to use application aware backups in Veeam with the Hyper-v hypervisor on Ubuntu servers you will notice it doesn't work and will always give you a Failure. This is because the integration service for Linux isn't installed by default unlike Windows machines.
Read more: Veeam: Collecting guest OS info: Error failed to get VM's IP addresses