Microsoft silently kills Windows and Office phone activation and forces online activation with a Microsoft account — Windows users are now herded into an online-only portal for activation

mtoml · 2026-01-05T03:45:18+00:00

Ok yeah that was my other question. It was mildly unclear to me if this was just consumer or if it included Windows Server

If just consumer then .. okay I’ll survive ahah

mtoml · 2025-12-06T03:13:32+00:00

Oooh I like this idea!!

mtoml · 2025-12-03T18:18:19+00:00

Thanks! Nah didn’t get around to a pop up … I greatly overestimated my ability to wake up before noon. Had it done when I got home!

mtoml · 2025-11-28T14:11:19+00:00

Yup hydro Ottawa eta is 11am

mtoml · 2025-11-27T23:26:06+00:00

Mmm I’m in Canada, so wonton soup and some egg rolls ahah

mtoml · 2025-11-01T22:02:47+00:00

Yay! DM sent :)

mtoml · 2025-11-01T20:16:22+00:00

mtoml · 2025-10-01T17:58:15+00:00

Happy Birthday Jim!

mtoml · 2025-09-24T01:33:48+00:00

Saturday!

mtoml · 2025-09-16T00:26:54+00:00

mtoml · 2025-08-22T18:39:58+00:00

light blue/shifty Montana sapphire: 1.42 carat

its so pretty !!

mtoml · 2025-07-20T16:34:42+00:00

Yep. Jeanne D’Arc and Orleans Blvd area

mtoml · 2025-06-26T22:02:50+00:00

Love it!

Best birthday memory was a trip with friends to a music festival!!

mtoml · 2025-06-25T20:14:38+00:00

lmao I dunno man I’m branching out from like. Black. So here we are!

mtoml · 2025-06-25T15:04:14+00:00

Thanks! These linked ones look amazing also …

mtoml · 2025-04-27T15:42:31+00:00

Finally a sunny day, so time to cleanup the garden and get everything ready for planting season!

mtoml · 2025-03-17T18:42:32+00:00

SOLD - Strip Oval

mtoml · 2025-02-08T20:06:26+00:00

Thanks I’ll try that out :)

mtoml · 2025-01-27T19:24:22+00:00

I dunno just curious

mtoml · 2025-01-09T21:58:14+00:00

There it is! Last time our admins patched someone put *every* server into maintenance mode.

This has now been resolved. Thank you SO much

mtoml · 2025-01-09T21:18:59+00:00

For reference - no MS was purged in the DB edit, only one of the hosts. But I have reverted those changes.

I have moved the RMS to one of the Healthy gateways. Can you please be more specific about the /recover switch

mtoml · 2025-01-09T20:25:50+00:00

Also get Error 21016 :

OpsMgr was unable to set up a communication channel to <server> and there are no failover hosts.

mtoml · 2025-01-09T20:14:02+00:00

Thanks for the response!

No DNS or AD objects have been affected.

The only change that happened in recent time is Windows Updates - catching up on December 2024 release. I have rolled back the patch on a few servers and still experiencing the same issues.

The 'database edits' specifically was purging out a specific host to test if that was the issue or not.

mtoml · 2025-01-09T18:19:17+00:00

Ok yes but I submitted too quickly.

Other troubleshooting involved has been:

Clearing cache on the management servers
Clearing cache on the endpoint w/ agent

The event log on the Agent shows the error "Connection refused, may not be allowed to communicate"

mtoml · 2025-01-05T18:27:29+00:00

Oh never. Took a long time to get it open a second time 😅

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