Common Server issues – FAQs and answers from those in the know
Microsoft Teams Search Bar Not Showing Results
30 May 2026 @ 1:04 pm
We are currently using the free version of Microsoft Teams Destop app and are experiencing an issue in Microsoft Teams.
Issue Description:
In Microsoft Teams, while searching for users/members using the search bar, the application shows the message "Failed to load users".
The issue occurs when typing either the first name, partial name, or full name of users.
The search results do not populate, and users cannot be selected from the member list.
Observed Behavior:
Typing any user name in the member search field does not return results.
Sometimes the loading spinner appears briefly and then displays "Failed to load users".
The issue is affecting normal user/member selection operations.
Environment Details:
Application: Microsoft Teams
Platform: Desktop and Web
Issue Started On: 26-05-2026
Number of Affected Users: Multiple users
Troubleshooting Already Performed:
Restarted Microsoft Teams
Tested on another system/browser
Request:
Keytab creation with ktpass fails on Windows Server 2025
29 May 2026 @ 9:29 am
We have quite a few service accounts that utilize keytab files. Our keytab files are created with the same command every time.
ktpass /princ [email protected] /pass ******** -setpass /kvno 3 /crypto ALL /ptype KRB5_NT_PRINCIPAL /out service.keytab
While this command worked fine on previous Windows versions and returned a keytab file, in Windows Server 2025 I get this error instead.
** 0xe KerbHashPasswordEx failed.
Failed to create key for keytab. Continuing...
Failed to add entry to keytab.
How to make the command work on Windows Server 2025?
Microsoft SQL Server on NVMe drive
29 May 2026 @ 4:45 am
I'd like to install MSSQL 2025 on top of Windows Server 2025 Standard. There is nice tweak which switch from SCSI drivers to native NVMe and gives significant storage boost.
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Policies\Microsoft\FeatureManagement\Overrides /v 1176759950 /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
But then the disk driver changes and the standard hotfix used for years doesn't work anymore, probably due to using nvmedisk.sys instead of stornvme
fsutil fsinfo sectorinfo D:
LogicalBytesPerSector : 512
PhysicalBytesPerSectorForAtomicity : 4096
PhysicalBytesPerSectorForPe
How can I Enable-OrganizationCustomization in Microsoft 365 after organization stuck in upgrading state for over 3 days?
29 May 2026 @ 12:23 am
I am trying to run Enable-OrganizationCustomization for my new M365 organization but I keep getting the error below for over 3 days now. What should I do to fix it?
PS> Enable-OrganizationCustomization
Enable-OrganizationCustomization: ||Enabling customization is not allowed
because the Organization is currently being upgraded. Please try again
after the Upgrade is complete.
Creating a dump file from a Task Manager process fails with the error "The system cannot find the path specified"
28 May 2026 @ 8:02 pm
I have a Windows Server 2022 VM occasionally experiencing lockups due apparently to some software that has a CPU leak. The software vendor recommended collecting a system dump file of the process while it is experiencing this runaway CPU leakage as part of the troubleshooting process, but when I go to Task Manager and right-click the runaway process and select "Create dump file", I get an error message:
The operation could not be completed.
The system cannot find the path specified.
I understand this normally means a missing or incorrect system path/environment variable... but unfortunately the process doesn't seem to specify which path it is trying to use for writing the dump file.
I tried "Open file location" on the offending process (it's a "CO
The operation could not be completed.
The system cannot find the path specified.
I understand this normally means a missing or incorrect system path/environment variable... but unfortunately the process doesn't seem to specify which path it is trying to use for writing the dump file.
I tried "Open file location" on the offending process (it's a "COHow to install and configure strongSwan on Ubuntu 24.04 for Windows/Linux/Android/IOS/MacOS with login/password authentication [closed]
28 May 2026 @ 6:27 pm
I have VPS with Ubuntu 24.04 installed, and domain connected to it.
Need to install and configure strongSwan on it for own use.
It must be configured to allow me to connect from Windows/Linux/Android/IOS/MacOS.
Authentication supposed to be using login/password (without need to import SSL-certificate).
I tried using AI to help me with that, but always fail.
So now asking for your help.
Intermittent 10–15 second delay before logon in domain environment
27 May 2026 @ 2:49 pm
I am troubleshooting a Windows domain logon delay affecting client workstations.
Symptoms
About 10–15 second delay before the login screen appears
NETLOGON Event ID 5719 during startup
GroupPolicy events 1058 / 1129 / 1503 observed
When enabling “Always wait for the network at s
Apache2: Virtual hosts (htttp, https) and Directory directive
27 May 2026 @ 12:40 pm
We have a legacy server that needs updating. During this process I noticed some peculiar bevahior. Again this thing is ancient and internal only. It was http-only but some new part required https so I do have a certificate now and ssl setup.
There are 2 virtual host: for port 443 and 80.
Now the strange thing is one of the legacy websites using a Directory directive and only configured in the port 80 (http) virtual host works just fine on https even though it is not configured in that virtual host.
How is this possible?
How to create an item or something similar in Zabbix where i can read the service being run by an specific host?
27 May 2026 @ 11:44 am
In my company they have a Zabbix with more than 500 hosts. They are behind bastions and more. The point for access is only through the Zabbix API. I need a list of the services running and their versions, for each host, service agnostic. There are templates for Windows and Linux separated. I asked the senior sysadmin and they have podman containers and also some virtual machines.
How can a configuration be made for an Item of the template to return this?
They suggested that I look into Hosts inventory but I don't see how that solves the problem.
Apache server behind reverse proxy redirecting incorrectly
26 May 2026 @ 7:54 pm
Let's say I have a reverse proxy server (proxy) and a backend server actually handling the traffic (backend). I use a reverse SSH tunnel to send the traffic to the backend server.
So I setup the proxy server like this:
ProxyPass "/" "http://localhost:8080/"
ProxyPassReverse "/" "http://localhost:8080/"
I enabled the correct Apache modules, and all was good.
However, I noticed an issue. If I specified a redirect like so:
Redirect permanent /index.html /w/index.php
Accessing the backend server without the proxy causes the redirect to work correctly (e.g. http://backend redirects to http://backend/w/index.php), but accessing it through the proxy server causes it to redirect to http://localhost/w/index.php instead, which shouldn't be happening.
My SSH tunnel runs on the backend server, and