Windows Server 2008 R2 is an operating system from Microsoft. It is an update of Windows Server 2008. Unlike Server 2003 R2, this R2 is a fully new Operating System. It is only available in 64-bit versions.
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Truncating numbers from the end of a powershell string [migrated]
Trying to make a powershell script that will run to map printers based on the user location.
Currently we use a scheme like:
ABC1
ABC2
ABC3
Where ABC == The location the users are logging in at.
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Windows Cluster-controlled service started on multiple nodes - how could this happen?
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I have a two-node cluster, and after two years of working without issue, a service under cluster control was started on both nodes, and I want to know how that's possible.
Background:
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Proxy DMZ server to bounce data between sql server and clients
Is this feasible?
I have a sql server that is setup behind a corporate firewall. I have clients that need direct connection to that sql server via ODBC. Instead of punching holes in the firewall I ...
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Windows server 2008, a very small DDoS is able to kill my server
So I have this i7 3.2Ghz 6-core dedicated server running Windows Server 2008, with a 1Gbps internet speed. Everything runs fine and nice, and the machine is strong enough to handle even up to 700 ...
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Should a domain user who owners a folder be able to create sub-folders (Windows Server 2008 R2)
When deploying our server application, on Windows Sever 2008 R2, we create a folder in "C:\Program Files" with an local administrator user and change the owner of the folder to that of a particular ...
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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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SSL Client Certificates and Stores
I am looking to distribute a ssl client certificate to Citrix users.
I know that for each user I could run this:
certutil –f –p 12345 –importpfx C:\cert.pfx
The above would install the certificate ...
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Difference connection security rules and IPSEC [closed]
I'm havin diffuculties seeing the difference between setting connection security rules (translated correct? I'm using a localized version) in a GPO or setting up IPSec in said GPO.
As I can basically ...
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Windows Server 2008R2 - Programs Not Installed in C:\Program Files (x86) Not in “Choose Default Program”
In Windows Server 2008R2 I have installed programs in D:\Program Files (x86) to keep my C: drive as pristine as possible. The problem is that programs not installed in C:\Program Files (x86) are not ...
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how to backup entire windows server 2008 R2 without stoping it? [closed]
I´d like to know which is the best way to backup my windows 2008 R2 server all nights and not need to stop any services. This server is working all the time and needs to be available 24/7.
Thanks.
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Delegate rights to AD security group to Add UNIX Attributes
We have several Linux servers that are AD integrated, all our DC's are Server 2008R2 running at 2003 DFL and FFL with MSSFU installed. I wish to delegate the population of the UNIX Attributes tab to ...
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SeTcbPrivilege not working, RSoP.msc, gpresult show it's enabled, whoami /priv shows disabled
I'm trying to install Cygwin with SSHd on a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller. I have installed Cygwin and SSHd several times on other machines, with no issues.
Being a domain controller, the ...
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Per URI based ACL for IIS?
I have ASPX website running on Windows 2008 R2, I want to limit the access for several interfaces, but not all of them.
e.g I have an interface /admin for website www.contoso.com, but I only want ...
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Ubuntu Server with win2k8 Server VM to Host IIS Site Issue
I have a ubuntu server(host), and a windows 2008 r2 server(client) virtual machine on it.
All my IIS based sites are located on the host machine, in a location which is shared with the client vm.
I ...
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DCPROMO on new remote Domain Controller fails because “the RPC server is unavailable”
I'm helping a (devops) client move their technology stack (VMware, Windows AD, Ubuntu Linux) from their old co-location facility to a new environment. Rather than move the hardware and systems ...
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Network bridge on windows server 2008 not working [closed]
I have the following problem:
I want to bridge 2 networks on Windows Server 2008 R2.
I do this by selecting both interfaces and pressing "bridge connections".
But after this I am not able to access ...
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Sever 2008 R2 Powershell Script runs manually, but not as a scheduled task
I have a Powershell script that runs manually using the Powershell ISE; However, when run as a scheduled task using an administrator's credentials the task does not run with the expected results.
The ...
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Permissions don't appear to be working correctly on a new Windows 2008 R2 server
I have a new server which is joined to our domain. When I try to save a text file in a folder I am getting access denied.
I am logged in with a domain admin account
I have checked that 'domain ...
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Remote Desktop License Server, Credentials Required
I have had a machine, call it Server-1, running Windows Server 2008-R2 for a couple years. We have it mainly to run XenApp. It runs all of its own License Servers (so, for XenApp and windows remote ...
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I had a server (AD DC, 2008r2) a few weeks ago that was giving error event ID 467
I had a server (AD DC, 2008r2) a few weeks ago that was giving error event ID 467
Log Name: Directory Service
Source: NTDS ISAM
Date: 5/3/2013 9:46:10 AM
Event ID: 467
Task Category: Database ...
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Heterogeneous environment “roaming” profiles
By "roaming profiles" I really mean "shared home directories".
So, I set up an AD pair, and shared a folder on \\ad-1\homes. Then set the AD user object to mount H:\ = \\ad-1\homes\%username%. This ...
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Packet Issue on Xen
In one of my Xen pools I am having a bit of an odd issue.
Every now and then, one of my Xen hosts will randomly start having a problem and will truncate any large packets/data sent on it.
For ...
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Do I have to re-install the DNS server after I switch to FIOS router?
HP ML350e - Windows server 2008 r2 - Active directory
I have put the FIOS router on the network to replace the Road runner router.
I have also restarted all the network equipments and server, but I ...
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Task Scheduler: Login to a session at startup and start a desktop app?
ISSUE:
I have a Windows 2008 R2 VM that runs a 3rd party ERP system. They have a utility that will run scheduled jobs to backup the Oracle database and their app data nightly with a 7 day rotation.
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how force pc client to join local specific domain controller first [duplicate]
We have one forest (and one Domian) Active Directory Windows 2008 R2 with 4 physical sites. Each sites have 2 DC.
When we add a PC client to our Domain, it'going to different domain controler first. ...
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Failover cluster wouldn't fail over
I have an active-passive failover cluster on 2008r2 with SQL server 2008 clustered on it.
I go to fail it over for maintenance and the resource failed to come online on either node. Once I rebooted ...
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renaming Server 2008 R2 NLB Cluster
I need to replace an existing web app server with an NLB cluster pair of servers which are already converged under a certain name/IP address. I will rename the standalone server first, then rename the ...
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Printing Issue on RemoteApp
I have a problem on a Server 2008 R2 machine, were running RemoteApp and have an issue with some users who print scanned images. They can authenticate to the server and run their appliction and print ...
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How secure is DFS over site to site replication on AD?
I'm experimenting a little here...
Across the country I have set up 2 sites with one domain. Each site has it's own controller for that domain.
I then have DFS running and replicating files from a ...
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Windows backup error after 20 days
I have a server running 2008R2 and it also has SQL 2008 running on it. There are 8 HDD set up in RAID1 pairs.
Windows backup is set to backup the C (OS) drive and the 2 drives I have the SQL logs ...
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Why does the clipboard not work with RDP through Microsoft's Unified Access Gateway (UAG)?
This one is really driving me nuts...
For one of our customers, we are allowed access using the Microsoft Unified Access Gateway, which provides an HTTPS-tunneled way to (among other things) run ...
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Can DFS replicate across WAN?
I've got 3 servers
DC and File server 1 in one location
File Server 2 in another location
They are all connected to the domain, and running DFS.
When I set up a replication group and try and ...
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How can I create a daily task that repeats every 15 mins EXCEPT between the hours of 12AM - 2AM?
Is it possible to create a scheduled task that runs every 15 min except for a few hours of the day.
E.g. A task that runs every 15 minutes except between the hours of 2PM & 4PM.
The reason I ...
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Windows could not search for new updates?
I have a recently-built Windows Server 2008 R2 system whose Windows Updates started failing suddenly. While I am presented an error code 80072F76, none of the automatic fixes seem to work.
What's the ...
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Perfmon Configuration or Alert Utility for CPU usage over period of time.
I'm familiar with general perfmon configuration. However, is there a way to alert when the CPU goes to say 95%, but only if it stays there for over X minutes?
If not, does anyone know a free/cheap ...
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Server 2k8 Port Issue?
I am having an issue, I have configred wf.msc to allow the following ports through: 80, 443, 3306, 1433, 21, 22, 8889
My report is showing that most are not open and/or listening, let alone ...
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Remote desktop connection taking longer than 20 seconds to connect
When connecting to one of my servers with remote desktop it takes an unusually long time to present me a log in box. After connecting server is very responsive so it doesn't seem like it is running ...
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Server 2008 r2 with XenApp, showing printers in Printers folder is very slow
A have a really odd problem in an Environment with XenApp 6.5 on Windows 2008r2.
When users have several network printers in their profile and opens the Printers folder it takes a long while for all ...
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Does Windows Server 2008 R2 firewall ipsec tunnel encapsulated data in one port?
Today I have the following setup:
All my servers are located in the internet, they are protected by Windows Firewall and Advanced Secutiry using IPSec with certificate. It includes the Domain ...
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Citrix Receiver failed to login [closed]
I have setuped Citrix Desktop Studio Express 5.0 and publish an exe application.
Then I installed Citrix Receiver on my iPhone and windows server 2008 and want to execute the exe application on ...
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Nagios/Icinga check of Windows disk space, wrong -l argument
I'm using NSClient++ on the Windows servers and all other checks are working fine. I'm using the default nt_check config, but these show up as "services unknown"
define service{
use ...
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Can't RDP to domain member as a domain user
I've added a new domain user - who is a member of the "Remote Desktop Users" group, but they are unable to log in to a domain member.
The error in event viewer is
Account For Which Logon Failed:
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Windows Server 2008 R2 (Rdp) Logon Audit trail
Is there a way to to retrieve an audit trail / history of remote/rdp logons for a particular user on a Windows 2008 R2 machine?
We have a server here in our intranet which has a domain-wide user as ...
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what does exactly infrastructure master role do? [duplicate]
The Infrastructure Master role is responsible for updating references from one object to another in remote domain. It compares it's data with the GC. So it is dependent on the GC.
Is it possible to ...
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IIS 7.5 with php on Windows server 2008 R2
I have installed php 5.4.9 with iis 7.5 on Windows server 2008 R2 with web platform installer.
phpinfo() is working file. But when i upload our web pages getting error.
Here I've attached error ...
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How to start a data collector upon high CPU load condition?
I have a Windows 2008R2 server that experience high CPU load for several minutes about once every couple of weeks.
Unfortunately, when these events occurs, logging into the system through RDP or at ...
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Misunderstanding about packet travel over NLB-Network
I'm doing a LAB about NLB(Network load balancing) on Windows Server 2008 - Unicast mode.
But I can't understand how the packet travel across the Network...
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TMG does not always lock preassigned VPN IP address to the specified user
I am using SQL Server 2008 R2 and TMG 2010 Standard.
I have users assigned to be given a specific IP address in Windows Server. These users will connect to our network thru TMG using their DC domain ...
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Powershell “ExpandProperty” doesn't work when saving to CSV output
How do I expand the
$thisPerms = Get-Mailbox username -ResultSize unlimited
Get-ADPermission $thisPerms.Identity
| Where {$_.ExtendedRights -like "Send-As" -and $_.User.ToString() ...
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Connecting to specific session using remote desktop
We have a Windows 2008 R2 server with no active directory, single credentials for all.
It is possible to disconnect from a session without logging off.
Is there a way to connect directly to a ...
