Windows Server 2008 is a Microsoft server operating system released in February 2008. It is the successor to Windows Server 2003 and is based on the Windows Vista codebase. It was succeeded by Windows Server 2008 R2. This tag should only be used for questions related to Windows Server 2008. If ...
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Should I create zone for each domain that I want to host on my server
I'm setting up a web hosting on my VPS, I want to host several websites on my vps, I have two domains, domain1.com and domain2.com and a website for each hosted on iis, I know that I should add these ...
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Win2008 server replication fails between DC and ADC
Directory Server Diagnosis
Performing initial setup:
Trying to find home server...
Home Server = guis02
Identified AD Forest.
Done gathering initial info.
Doing initial required tests
Testing ...
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Server service fails to start, event 7023, error 1079
Hello,
Environment: Windows Server 2008 R2 fully patched, working as Domain Controller in Win 2003 native domain.
Users started to report problems with share, it turned out that server service won't ...
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How to uninstall all Citrix driver from Windows Server 2008 R2 Guest if BSOD on safe mode?
I use Citrix XenServer 5.5 and on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Guest there is installed Xentools 5.5 after a restart we get a BSOD with Stop Code 7B, it is a problem with the Citrix pv-driver I think but ...
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Windows 2 NICs 2 Networks - Routing Issue
I have a Windows Server Box with 2 NICs sitting in 2 Networks with a Gateway Router to a 3rd:
e.g.:
A: 10.1.1.0/24 - Remote Network
B: 172.1.1.0/24 - "DMZ" with GW Router to Network A on IP 172.1.1.1
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How can I change the task bar position when manipulating the task bar is disabled via AD?
Our users connect to a Windows Server 2008 box using Terminal Services, and one user appears to have triggered a bug that moved their Task Bar to the top of the screen, even though Active Directory ...
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How to disable SSL/TLS compression in Apache 2.2.16?
I have one sever running on Apache 2.2.16. I run the VA scanner on the server. According to the VA report it is recommended that SSL/TLS compression should be off.
I tried to search google, but didnt ...
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Windows Event Viewer is slow on newer versions of Windows
The modern Event Viewer application that you get on all versions of Windows since Vista is so much slower the previous version that was on Server 2003 and XP. I know there is much more functionality ...
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Personal Media Streaming Server on Windows [closed]
Some background, I have a home media server with a few terabytes of media on it, ranging from low quality flash video to 1080p HD matroska video. I have everything set up to stream locally, but I'm ...
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Memory usage on Windows Server
Our server is always very low on available memory. And yet the top processes only take up a portion of what should be available on our server (with 10 GB of memory).
I ran tasklist to get a listing ...
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How do I take my web server offline for maintenance when its a single server
I have a Windows 2008R2 server that hosts Sql Server and IIS for our company.
I need to take it down occasionally for updates and backup.
This is the setup
Dedicated Windows 2008R2 server hosts my ...
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Is there a way to log all files that are created on a W2K8 server?
I've got a W2K8 server with some IIS apps that are creating a lot of files. I would like to monitor what files are created and how big they are. Is there a tool I could use to log all files that are ...
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Abort any POST VERB operation in IIS
I posted this in stackoverflow also. I will remove there, I think we have IIS experts here.
My site is getting DOS attack with POST VERB, my site is a static site and I am trying to stop any POST ...
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CryptSvc does not exists on my server
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 hosting Sharepoint. In the configuration of Excel Services, I have to set the "Cryptography Service" a dependance of "Claims To Windows Token Service".
However, ...
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Remove AD User account with powershell fails
Am trying to delete a list of accounts that are either no longer needed or people who have left our employ. I was thinking powershell would be the easiest and so far have the following script to ...
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IPv4 Address and Domain Restrictions is only working on folders, not files in it?
I've configured IPv4 Address and Domain Restrictions for one of my folders like this,
Then I test from a virtual machine (with ip address 192.168.56.80),
When I access http://win2008/myfolder I ...
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IIS 7.5 doesn't respond when user expires
I have IIS running in two Server 2008 R2, configured in high availability. I had permissions problems to access the web.config file, so I decided to click on Connect As.., and set a local user with ...
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What steps should I take before I retire an old 2003 PDC
I have a Server 2003 in my environment that was a PDC. I want to decommission it but want to be sure it's safe to do so. I have transferred FSMO roles from it to a new Server 2008. I have moved all ...
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Reconfigure from Raid0 to Raid1, is it possible?
currently I have Fujitsu tx140 s1p servers, one Tower and one Rack.
They are both running with the same hardware, configures the same way, so I'll just ask one Q for both.
They have an motherboard ...
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In a Windows Service, will the Start Parameters be preserved if the Start is of type “Automatic”?
Well the title says it, in a Windows Service, will the Start Parameters be preserved after a reboot if the Start is of type "Automatic"?
Many Thanks
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Thin provisioning free space datastore
If you have thin provisioning enabled and A C Drive says it 70GB of 200GB available. IS that 70GB part of the data store Free Space? Or is this allocated to that particular VM? Also If i delete the ...
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Different versions of SQL Native Client in SQL Server 2008 R2
I have this error when I try to connect from a Server called: AplicationServer1 to another server in the same domain Kobl, called DatabaseServer1
SQLSTATE[28000]: [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client ...
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Tips for troubleshooting 2008R2 GPO settings on 2008 servers
I have a 2008-level Windows domain running 5 x 2008 (non-R2) DCs (it's on the roadmap to migrate to R2 or possibly 2012 in the next 9-12 months, but this project needs to be working first), and I need ...
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Vsphere VMware thin provisioning free space
All the VMs that I have created have thin provisioning enabled. I need to create a new VM for upgrade process. Two VMs will be turned off prior to the upgrade and deleted after the upgrade. My ...
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“Element not found” while running credwiz
I'm trying to export user names and credentials with credwiz, I'm running a Windows 2008 R2 as a DC.
When I finished typing the encryption password, I got a dialog like this,
So, does credwiz ...
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how to run remote app using remote desktop service in win 2008 server R2? [closed]
I want to run an windows application installed on the server using remote desktop service in win 2008 server R2 .
Also I want each user has it's user account and session in the app, and no ...
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Network Services Write/Modify Permissions on Inetpub Folder Potiential security issues
I have an asp.net web application that runs as a Content Management system for a website.
It was originally on an IIS6 Server. However the web application was recently moved to an II7 Server. After ...
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How can I add a linux folder to a Windows DFS tree?
Accessing a Windows DFS share from Ubuntu or any other Linux for that matter, is pretty straight forward. However doing it in reverse seems to be not documented.
I have DFS Namespace running on ...
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WDS Service Won't Start
Server 2008 R2
When attempting to start the WDS service we're getting the following error:
Windows could not start the Windows Deployment Services Server on Local Computer. For more information ...
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VM 9.0 with windows server 2008 data center hangs when restarting it [migrated]
I have installed VM workstation 9 on my windows 7 64x, my environment specification are as follow:
windows 7 professional 64x
32 GB RAM
670 GB hard disk
VM workstation 9
create a new VM and I mount ...
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File transfer slows down the server response
We are on Win server 2003 and we transfer the files across the same intranet either using CuteFTP or through mapped drives. The problem here is the file transfers start fast and get slower as time ...
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¿How can I fix this error? “Unable to connect to the NETLOGON share” [closed]
How can I fix this error: Unable to connect to the NETLOGON share! (\Fxxx-AD-DNS\netlogon) [Fxxx-AD-DNS] An net use or LsaPolicy operation failed with error 67........???????
My network enviroment ...
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IIS Site taking long time to show [closed]
I have a website which is hosted on our internal server.
We are using
Server 2008 R2 64bits
SQL server 2008
When I tried to access the site it take 5 minutes but was timeout and in IE it was not ...
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How to fix Solr - Server is shutting down issue?
I was having a running Solr 4.1 on Windows Server 2008 R2. The Solr is deployed on Tomcat. However, today it stops suddenly, and while accessing Solr it gives following error.
HTTP Status 503 - ...
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Certificate error when using IP address after upgrade from WS 2003 to 2008
When I access my site using the IP address (the domain name still works fine) I get a certificate error. This is after upgrading from Windows Server 2003 to 2008.
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asp page request authentication when accessing through ip
I have a webserver running iis7. It works fine when i access through the server name for example; http://myservername, I can get to the page fine, which requires authentication by the way. However, ...
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automatically turn off windows server when no more users are loggen in
I'd like to set-up an automatic turn-off action for our windows server 2008 r2 machine
for example: turn off the machine 5 minutes after the logoff event, when no more users are logged in
some ...
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Active Directory Kerberos issue KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN
We are implementing a system where our clients are Windows XP and our server is Windows Server 2008 R2. Ours clients use DCOM to connect COM+ components in our Windows 2008 Server.
It works fine when ...
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Cross Server Active X IE 9
As part of upgrade testing for IE 9 / 10 we have found that one of the Active X control's we have been running no longer works cross server. We have caspolled the permissions into the system to allow ...
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FTP slows down when transfers are in progress
I'm on Windows 2008 Datacenter edition with its own FTP server and using FlashFXP to upload files via FTP. Recently an annoying issue has started that the server will upload a few files fine then the ...
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multiple jdks on jenkins causes build hanging
I am using server2008 r2, I have set up all of the configurations for java 1.6 to be automatically installed when it is targeted in a build. When I create a test job, and build it, I get the following ...
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Allow IIS_USR to connect to SQL Server
I have a problem to connect to a SQL Server database with a web application that use ADO.
I have one server under Windows Server 2008 with domain controller role and another server under Windows ...
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Why does adding rights to User group affect an Administrator (Server 2008)?
User Foo is logged and a member of Administrators, but not a member of Users - I removed that group and even rebooted. In c:\inetpub\www Foo cannot modify any files even though the Administrators ...
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fine-grained password policy with prompt user to change password before expiration
I have defined the "prompt user to change password before expiration" setting to 14 in the Default Domain GPO and then create a fine-grained password policy "Test Password Policy" with an expiration ...
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Thin client pxe booting into terminal server and WDS conflicting
We have got a WDS running in our environment. Now we are in a process of implementing diskless workstation which will pxe boot into the Windows Terminal Server (2008R2) using a third party tool. But ...
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Lifting the forest domain outside of a tree domain
I had an existing forest/free/domain corp.mycompany.com and recently added another tree new.mycompany.com to the existing forest corp.mycompany.com. AD warned me about potential name resolution issues ...
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Exchange 2010 SP1 Bare Metal Recovery won't start EMC
I have two Windows Server 2008 R2 machines. Server1 is running AD & Terminal Services, and Server2 is running Exchange 2010 SP1. They are both Domain Controllers.
A disk on Server2 suffered a ...
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Windows/IIS - HTTP Service could not be stopped
From what I've found this error is usually caused by Reporting Services, but Reporting Services is not installed on this server. Any ideas why net stop http doesn't fully work?
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Losing mouse and keyboard automation after closing RDP [closed]
Is there a way to keep the keyboard and mouse working, in a server datacenter machine, after closing a RDP session? I've tried using LogMeIn instead. They keep working for a few hours more, but then ...
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How to run a PHP & MYSQL website on windows server 2008 [duplicate]
I have to run a PHP & MYSQL website on windows server 2008.
to do this, simply installed Wampserver (64 bits & Apache 2.4) 2.2E.
I am concerned about server security and server performance.
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