Category Archives: Windows

NTDS General Event ID 2147486534

You may notice the warning event "NTDS General - The security of this directory server can be significantly enhanced by configuring the server to reject SASL...." in event viewer for the Active Directory Domain Services with regards to LDAP bind.  To get rid of the event warning, you can add a Group Policy to configure all domain controllers to reject unsigned and simple LDAP bind requests. Membership in Domain Admins, or equivalent, is the minimum required to complete this procedure.  Perform the following on a domain controller or a computer that has Remote Server Administration Tools installed.
  • Open the Group Policy Management Console
  • Expand Forest, Domains objects until you locate the domain object for the set of domain controllers you want to configure.
  • Expand the Domain Controllers object, right-click Default Domain Controllers Policy and then click...

One or More Server Folders are Located on the System Hard Drive – Server 2012 Essentials

If you don't use the 'default' shared folders in Server Essentials and are tired of getting the alert warning daily in your logs, you can remove those shared folders by following these instructions.
  • In Explorer, stop sharing the folder
  • Remove the registry entries for the shared folders in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Server\Storage Service\Folders
  • Restart the service "Windows Server Essentials Storage Service"
That should stop the errors....