Microsoft seems to add new bugs more than features to new Windows Server releases. If you are having a static picture after logon in Windows Server 2025, this GPO might help you. We do not really know why it happens, but this was a solution that worked for me.
Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components/Remote Desktop Services/Remote Desktop Session Host/Connections > Select network detection on the server > Use both Connect Time Detect and Continuous Network Detect
Some have suggested to set this configuration to “Turn off” but that did not help me out.
Storage Sense is a new feature that came with Windows 10 and tries to delete temp folders or unused OneDrive data. The feature is good but sometimes some programs, probably not that good designed programs create files in the user’s temp folder and do not function properly after those files get deleted by Storage Sense feature.
So in order to disable the feature, here are some registry keys and GPOs that might help you:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\StorageSense\Parameters\StoragePolicy DWORD 04 Value 0
Group Policy:
Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Storage Sense > Allow Storage Sense Temporary Files cleanup and set to disabled.
This Monday, 13th of January 2025 was a bad day for sysadmins. Outlook and other Microsoft 365 / Office Apps would crash upon start because of a new update pushed by Microsoft. The message says something about react-navis-win32.dll missing. The only fix is to install the December 2024 Updates to fix the issue.
This configuration XML File install the December 2024 updates. Beware: This configuration is for Windows Server 2016 RDS and note that automatic updates are disabled.
If you want to publish your Web App to the internet, you ideally should not directly NAT port 443 (or you custom HTTPS port) to you internal server. Instead, there should be a Reverse Proxy in a DMZ that accepts requests and then routes them to the internal server. You need to configure a Reverse Proxy with nginx or IIS.
Here is how you can do it with IIS.
Install IIS Role in Server Manager (Add Roles and Features > Web Server (IIS)
Download and install URL Rewrite and Application Request Routing (ARR)
If your users are having issues logging in to your OpenSSH Server for Windows Server after the latest October 2024 Windows Updates, this might help you:
Firstly, configure logging so that you can see what is happening:
Change the config file:
C:\ProgramData\ssh\sshd_config
SyslogFacility LOCAL0
Restart OpenSSH Service
In my environment i saw this error:
userauth_pubkey: signature algorithm ssh-rsa not in PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms [preauth]
The solution is pretty straight forward. Add this line at the top of your OpenSSH config file: