Windows Server 2008 R2 is a significantly updated version of Windows Server 2008. Unlike Server 2008, 2008 R2 is only available in 64-bit versions. No 32-bit version exists.
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Keep getting the password complexity error for a OU that should have it disabled
I have a specific Organizational Unit in my Active Directory domain that needs to have weak password settings. I set up my GPO and created a new policy for the OU OU=Limited ...
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C Application crashes using GetOpenFileName. DEP stops the crash
We have a C application which is using the GetOpenFileName common dialog to get the user to select a file. We have been having crashes on Windows2008R2. I figured out that if we put an DEP exception ...
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Terminal Server Excel export
I have an application I have exported as a RemoteApp via a 2008 R2 (recently upgraded from 2008) terminal server.
Ever since the upgrade the excel export function of this app (which actually opens a ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 shares inaccessible
We have a windows 2008 R2 server (File / Print server). All share are accessible but with no reason the shares are not accessible anymore for windows 7 clients / printing isn't possible also. After we ...
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Copy two remote folder into one local folder
I try to merge two folder (from remote Server) into one local directory. It is a deployment issue, on one Server there are two folders \server1\folder1 and \server1\folder2, now i try to merge both ...
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Can't ping a DNS zone on windows server 2008 R2
I´ve just configured a windows server 2008 r2, but got a lot of problems on DNS role.
Let me talk about the server configuration:
name: fdserver
IP address: 192.168.0.10
I have a DNS zone called ...
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Is there guidance to optimise W2008R2 threading performance?
I want to make sure that my W2008R2 box has least possible interrupts and context switches on the CPU threads.
I have 4 cores / 8 HT threads CPU. I am running a single application which uses only ...
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Windows 2008 R2 - how to optimise performance monitoring?
It seems there are quite a few "default" monitoring threads running.
I have W2008R2 and when I opened Performance Monitor I can see 6 Event Trace Sessions in the System collector sets.
This is ...
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Server 2008 R2 denies permission on share when user has explicit access to folder, but not base directory
OK here's a bit of annoyance. This works perfectly in Server 2008 so I'm not sure what's different in 2008 R2.
C:\CompanyData\IT\Deployment\ <- GP Software Deployment Packages
The share ...
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Windows Mail Server with an api [closed]
I am looking for an mail server for windows with an api, the reason for this is that i want to let my uses be able to add new accounts and such forth to the mail server, but i have not really been ...
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Strange Lync 2010 Issue
I am working on troubleshooting a Lync 2010 deployment and have hit a snag. I have just about everything working except for the external meeting piece and don't really know where to look.
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Data transfer between servers extremely slow
I have an application running on a Live environment with a Web Server which is running Windows Server 2008 R2 with a QuadCore Xeon processor with 8GB of ram and a Database Server with the same ...
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SBS2011 Standard Shares not showing up to date shared files for Server 2008 on same network
I have a SBS2011 Standard server with a number of files shares in place. On my Server 2008 R2 database server, I am connecting to \SBS2011-Server\IT\Installers\SomeFolder. I can see two files in that ...
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New Primary Domain Controller won't start Active Directory unless Old DC is booted
I'm no Active Directory Wizard. Here's what I did:
Old W2003 R2 PDC needed to be replaced with a new server
Rolled out W2008R2 and used DC Promo to add it the domain
Due to some DNS issues, had a ...
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Cant request computer certificate
Using MMC with the snaping of certificate I am requesting certificates from a brand new installation of a CA.
Requesting User certificates, I works perfectly.
Requesting Computer certificates it ...
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Windows 2008 R2 Network Connection requiring Local Service as Administrator
I have a windows 2008 r2 server. It will not connect to the network with dhcp. I am trying to not make this complicated, but we had a policy, we do not know which one that did something to the ...
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Office network and guest network - manage with separate physical servers or a VM on the office server?
I have a beefy server (dual Xenon & 16GB RAM with RAID5) I use as the domain controller and file server for an office network on a dedicated internet connection.
I also have a guest network with ...
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Windows 2008 R2 RAS service stopping when logging of from remote desktop?
I've setup Routing and RAS on a hosted Windows 2008 R2 server for VPN access.
Everything is working fine until the remote desktop user signs off.
It seems that at that time, the Routing and RAS ...
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Windows 2003 R2 file permissions
I have an existing Windows File server running Windows 2003 R2. I want to upgrade this to Windows 2008 R2. The server has a lot of other unnecessary software installed, so I thought the best way for ...
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Routing table issue RRAS VPN
Running RRAS SSTP VPN and NAT on Win2008 R2, one NIS, no domain.
The problem is that I need to forward traffic from vpn-client to demand-dial interface via static route.
VPN address pool ...
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Removing an orphaned AD domain: “a referral was returned from the server”
Note: the problem has been resolved, the admin of the parent domain managed to remove the DC object. I gather he used ADSIEdit.
I'm working with an AD forest (in an isolated test environment, ...
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Is there any way to authenticate a SCO login to an Active Directory user?
I currently have a SCO OpenServer 6 server. I also have a Windows Server 2008 R2 server, controlling an Active Directory domain and doing a mighty fine job at it. On any given day, users are ...
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Restarting my HyperV Host
A real quick question! I have a physical VHOST which hosts several VM's for different purposes - they are all set to automatically load when my VHOST first boots at staggered times.
Now if I apply ...
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No TCP connections to hosts behind VPN server (SYN, SYN-ACK, but no ACK), UDP, ICMP works
I'm probably doing something incredibly stupid, but I just can't seem to figure out what. Here's what I'm trying to accomplish: I want remote users to be able to log into our network, so I set up a ...
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Is there a way to manually provide virtual memory?
Virtual memory is disabled by the hoster in one of the Windows VServers I use to avoid heavy disk access. At the same time, the RAM provided is only 1GB, which is insufficient for an application I'm ...
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Set up a trial of Server 2008r2 with a separate webserver on local ip address
Ok so the server which is acting as the Router for the internal network (ICS) if you can tell me how to set this up with RRASS successfully because I only have problems when trying to set it up that ...
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Domain Name does not resolve to site's DC
I am facing a puzzle:
My company has several branches, each branch's subnets have been defined in their own respective site, and each branch has its own RODC.
However, when pinging to the domain ...
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Server configuration notation
What is the industry standard to specify Virtual machine configuration in a summary format?
I have seen notations like these:
4 CPU x 8 GB RAM VM
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How to monitor DFSR backlog more efficiently than dfsrdiag
Is there a way to monitor the DFSR backlog in a manner more efficient than using dfsrdiag.exe backlog?
I wrote a program that just slurps in the backlog count via dfsrdiag.exe backlog /smem:alpha ...
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Unable to apply Windows Updates as domain administrator
I cannot install Windows Updates on any server while logged in as the domain administrator.
The domain controller was recently migrated from a Server 2003 machine to a Server 2008 machine. This ...
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Security implications of using a publicly available Windows AMI [closed]
I have used a publicly available Windows AMI, and have created a Micro Instance from it. Does that mean my EC2 instance is not secure? I am new to using AWS.
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How IPMI works on Dell R210 server?
I have Dell R210 1U server (W2008R2 Enterprise).The box is currently in another country on colocation. I am thinking of moving it to another colocation.
I was told that if my box supports IPMI I ...
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Could not display DNS Resolver Cache in Windows Server 2008 R2 in Hyper-V environment
Currently I had a Windows Server 2008 R2 running in Hyper-V, previously it still able to access any kind of website with domain name. Recently, it failed to do that any more, and I found out that I ...
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Is there a way to lower the priority of a specific IP address to IIS 7.5 so it serves slower?
We are using Amazon.com Product Ads and have around 150,000 products. Unfortunately, every time we upload our feed Amazon's system hits our server with 150,000 requests. There probably isn't anything ...
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Windows DNS doesn't resolve local records to different subnet without domain suffix
I have a domain with a windows DNS that works great for every computer in that subnet. Today I setup a remote office and joined them to the network through a VPN tunnel and so those computers are on ...
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How to invoke the Server Manager to cache results?
In Windows 2008 R2 Server, it usually takes very long until the Server Manager shows the items under the Roles node on two of our servers. However, once that has been done the first time after a ...
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Adding extra processor post-installation versus installing on two - 2008 R2
I have a Windows Server 2003 installation which is getting pretty long in the tooth, so I have decided to install Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard instead. I have verified that the server is capable of ...
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How do Windows DFS referrals work for laptops away from the office?
How do Windows DFS referrals work for laptops away from the office?
The rest of this text is just background for your interest or entertainment.
I was under the impression that the laptop would ...
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Cisco ASA blocking traffic from DNS server
I have a client who has a Cisco ASA 5505 device. I am not familiar with these devices at all.
The client has a problem where it allows outbound from traffic from an old DNS server (10.236.72.100), ...
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Domain Admin requires admin elevation with UAC turned off?
I have a Domain Admin User that logs on via RDP to a w2k8 r2 server, UAC is turned off locally at that server.
Whenever I try to access certain folders, I'm getting the following prompt: "You don't ...
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Broadcom Teamed Connections Fails if One NIC is Disconnected, Why?
I have a cluster of servers that are all running either with BCM5716C NetXtreme II cards or BCM5709C NetXtreme II cards. All servers have their cards teamed by the BACS3 software as:
Smart Load ...
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Create subdomains in windows 2008 R2
How do I create and make subdomains like aaa.domainname.com and bbb.domainname.com?
I want them to redirect to one url. I found similar question Here. Can anyone explain the steps how to achieve ...
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Should my WSUS provide update information before it is fully synchronized?
I recently installed WSUS in a network and am now waiting for it to download all the updates I want to provide to other clients.
The updates are already approved. The installation is set up to ...
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ShadowProtect and Image Replication with ShadowStream
I'm not sure if anyone here has made any real use of ShadowProtect software, more specifically, the ShadowStream server that can be used to replicate images and incremental s over the web to your ...
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Multiple rdpthread.exe Processes Using 100% CPU
I have recently created a new virtual machine (running on VMWare ESXi) running Windows Server 2008 R2. I have noticed that the machine has been running slowing and looking in Task Manager I see about ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 - DHCP Failover
We currently have 2 domain controllers for failover running Windows Server 2008 R2.
Is it possible to mirror DHCP scopes on both DC's?
Also how do I go about finding what settings were originally ...
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WinHttpCertCfg not importing certificate
I need to setup a deployment script that imports an SSL certificate that my service uses. I have tried importing with WinHttpCertCfg and with CertMgr to no avail.
Here are the command-line arguments ...
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w3wp.exe error in IIS 7 [closed]
I am running IIS 7.0 on Windows server 2008 R2 and created 1 Application Pool per site and I have several site which is causing the application pool to stop.
This shows several times for every ...
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WDS and multiple subnets subnets
Goal: To allow my one WDS server on Subnet A to accept client PXE boots from subnets B, C, D, and E.
Setup: Currently, WDS is installed and configured with default settings on my Deployment (Server ...
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The Name cannot be resolved. The operation failed. When connecting RPC over HTTP (exchange 2010)
I am getting the error "The Name cannot be resolved. The operation failed." for users of a certain database on our Exchange cluster for our tests to a new server migration with a Client Access Server. ...
