Questions tagged [windows-server-2008-r2]
Windows Server 2008 R2 is an operating system from Microsoft, and reached End Of Life on January 14, 2020. 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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Managing CBS.log files on Windows 2008R2?
Whilst auditing disk space on our Windows 2008R2 farm we noticed that some servers had quite large C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log files (~1.5GB).
I was under the impression that this particular log file ...
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Phones on some switches cannot complete DHCP process
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I have a Windows DHCP server (Server 2008 R2) handing out addresses for several scopes. One of those scopes is for some Mitel IP Phones. The phones are configured to use dhcp option 125 to ...
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Check that a given user has a given privilege
Given a pair of a user and a privilege I need to determine if a user has the privilege on the server. The following is true in my setup:
The server is a part of a domain but not a domain controller
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Would rebooting the server in a schedule be good idea for performance?
I am wondering if rebooting a server in a schedule would be good idea for performance.
Let's say we want to reboot the server at 02:00 AM per 2 nights.
The server here is Windows Server 2008 R2. ...
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Nslookup not using hosts file
So I've set public IP on the hosts file for a certain public IP address, but it picks up private ip from nowhere or from DNS.
Content of windows hosts file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\Hosts
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NTFS - Domain Admins don't have permissions despite being part of the Local Administrators group
As per "Best Practices" staff in our IT department have two accounts. An unprivileged account and an account that is a member of the global Domain Admins ($DOMAIN\Domain Admins) group. On our file ...
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How does CHKDSK /F on locked volume get "scheduled" on reboot?
I've run chkdsk /F many times over the years...and today I had to run it on one of my 2008 R2 servers and I get the normal message:
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process....
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What is the default number of concurrent requests that can be processed by IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2?
And where would I find a setting to change it?
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Windows DHCP Server - get notification when a non-AD joined device gets an IP address
SCENARIO
To simplify this down to it's easiest example:
I have a Windows 2008 R2 standard DC with the DHCP server role. It hands out IPs via various IPv4 scopes, no problem there.
WHAT I'D LIKE
I ...
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why isn't laravel's php artisan serve server being accessible from the WWW on IIS
I have a laravel application running through the laravel artisan server:
php artisan serve
and it works just fine if I go on my localhost:8000.. Further, I added an inbound rule in the IIS server ...
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What are the implications of exceeding 4 GB in a Windows Event Log?
I found this Microsoft KB that covers recommended Event Log setting maximums for operating systems up to Windows 2008/Vista, which recommends a maximum of 4GB, and have seen some other vague ...
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Why does Window's SSL Cipher-Suite get restricted under certain SSL certificates?
Problem: Windows Server 2008 R2 will only support the following ssl cipher suites when using certain certificates on the server:
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
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Windows services not starting automatically?
We've had some nasty time sync problems on our Windows Server 2008 R2 servers lately.
I traced this back to something very simple: the Windows Time Service was not started! The time can't possibly ...
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How did I get this Windows share to prompt for login?
Or: "Is this a thing? And how would I check if it was?"
In an environment without a Domain Controller, when accessing a share on a Windows Server 2008 R2 box, from a remote computer without a ...
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Windows 2008 R2 CA and auto-enrollment: how to get rid of >100,000 issued certificates?
The basic problem I'm having is that I have >100,000 useless machine certificates cluttering up my CA, and I'd like to delete them, without deleting all certs, or time jumping the server ahead, and ...
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Disable history for only one task in the Task Scheduler Library?
I have selected the Enable All Tasks History option in the Task Scheduler Library of Windows Server 2008 R2.
For most tasks, I’d like to have the history kept but I’m wondering if it’s possible to ...
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Turn off server manager on login
In Windows Server 2008 R2 there is the "Server Manager" program that always starts up when I log on. I would like to make it so that this does not start up every time that I log into the server.
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Is it recommended to log off from Windows when finished working on a server with RDP?
Is there any impact on the server performance in case I don't log off after having used Remote Desktop Connection?
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Is there any technical reason why I shouldn't use windows server 2012?
My company is in the process of rolling out Active Directory enterprise wide, with office 365 syncronization, Lync, Exchange, and Outlook.
We currently have no AD (yet); there are 400+ users in 5 ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2, no internet time tab
I usually sync my time on any windows based system with internet time.
To do this...
Adjust date/time, then click the Internet Time tab, and Synchronize with an internet time server.
However that ...
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Move and Change Pagefile.sys size on Windows Server 2008
Does anyone know how to move the page file on Windows Server 2008. Everything seems to be in a different spot on this OS!
Also, I would like to tweak it's size. If you know where that is (probably ...
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How to determine if the last shutdown was due to power failure in windows?
I know I can get logs of shutdowns from the eventlog when the shutdown is proper and initiated by the user or due to software upgrades. But how do I determine if the last shutdown was due power ...
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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 ...
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Program does not run properly as Scheduled Task
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I have a batch script that prepares some files, executes a program (.exe) and then deletes said files.
This task should run hourly, so I'm trying to configure this using Scheduled Tasks. ...
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Anonymous access to SMB share hosted on Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
First off, I have read through this post and a whole slew of non-SF posts which seem to address the same or a similar problem, however I was still unable to fix my problem.
I've got three machines in ...
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Why is 1 of my 24 CPUs Pegged at 100%?
I have an HP ProLiant DL380 G7 system using 2 6-core CPUs, with Hyper-threading enabled, for a total of 24 logical CPUs (as seen by Windows).
When running our application, total system CPU ...
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Remote Desktop Connection Screen is totally black but server is working perfectly
Server is working perfectly but when I do RDC screen is only black. This happened before and I fixed it by powering off the server via KVM/IP, but I don't want do that again. How can I fix this issue.
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How to create an additional domain controller using Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core?
I'm currently running Windows Server 2008 R2, can anyone tell me how I can replicate the active directory to another server which has been installed using Server Core install.
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Why is it called Windows Server 2008 R2? Why not simply call it Windows Server 2010?
I've searched, but I can't find anything that explains why Microsoft started labelling new versions of Windows Server (and now SQL Server) as R2 releases.
If they're new releases, why not simply give ...
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Grant NON-administrator privileges to IIS 7
We are implementing a pseudo-Platform as a Service environment. It's a fairly simple set up that parallels Infrastructure as a Service: basically our clients will each have a access to their own ...
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How to prevent delays associated with IPv6 AAAA records?
Our Windows servers are registering IPv6 AAAA records with our Windows DNS servers. However, we don't have IPv6 routing enabled on our network, so this frequently causes stall behaviours.
Microsoft ...
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Does Win 2008 R2 still have 32 bit edition?
I was looking for the proper version of Win 2008 R2 to download, and cannot find a 32 bit. Is it 64-bit only? I'm still on a 32-bit machine, going to run it under VMWare. Do I need to go back to ...
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ZFS Like Alternatives on Windows
Conceptually, and I don't think I am alone here, I love the concepts of ZFS. You can create one big disk, everything is stored on multiple drives, and you can grow and shrink the pool and drive at ...
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Can't send to compressed (zipped) folder
I'm IT Technician at a Secondary School and our Network Manager is away on long term leave. Currently our student's aren't able to send to - compressed folder. When trying the error 'File not found ...
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How to Protect Sensitive (HIPAA) SQL Server Standard Data and Log Files
I am dealing with electronic protected health information (ePHI or PHI) and HIPAA regulations require that only authorized users can access ePHI. Column-level encryption may be of value for some of ...
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Domain Controller returns LDAP Referral for it's own domain
I have 2 domains, each with 2 Domain Controllers:
company.local
ad.company.com.au
Both domains are in the same forest and have a bi-direction trust setup. We're migrating to the ad.company.com.au at ...
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How to add subnets to Windows Firewall "local subnets"?
On Windows Firewall under an individual rule the scope tab allows you to define which ips are subject to the rule. One of the built in options is "Local subnet".
How can you add an additional subnet ...
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Finding all aliases for a server
Our network admin is away at the moment. I'm trying to find all aliases attached to a given server on our network (actually a number of servers)
After googling around it seems like nslookup might do ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 - RDSH - Registry bloat with Samsung Universal Print Driver
While running multiple Windows Server 2008 R2 RDSH farms we are experiencing an issue where the RDSH servers all are having their Registry bloated to the maximum value 2048MB. Using Sysinternals ...
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Why are only 16 GB of memory usable on our server?
We've recently upgraded the RAM on a Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Standard to 32 GB.
When I open the System panel, it indicates Installed memory: 32.0 GB (16.0 GB usable). Why is that?
I've been ...
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SQL Server express service is not starting [closed]
I've bought my first VPS yesterday, and I have installed Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express on it.
Then I have restarted my VPS. But SQL Server Service didn't start. I've tried to start it manually, ...
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Find out the bottleneck for windows remote desktop server (Terminal server)
I have Windows server 2008 R2 (SP1) installed on my VMware Host to work as RDS server. Sometimes my remote users can see the lagging/delay on RDS server. Can anyone tell me from their experience what ...
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Install .iso file on a remote server without DVD drive access
Is there an easy way to install software located on a .iso file to a remote server which does not provide to me access to the DVD Drive?
I have a license for SQL Server 2008 Web Edition through ...
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Apache 2.4 is unkillable and can't be stopped on Windows Server
We have two Windows Server, one in 2012 R2 and the other in 2008 R2 which uses Apache HTTP Server (httpd) 2.4 in proxy/reverse-proxy mode (usage of ProxyPass, ProxyPassReverse and Virtual Hosts ...
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Allow only RemoteApp, not Remote Desktop
I found the following question, with a similar premise, however the answer to the question, was the question rephrased as a statement!
RemoteApp Prevent User from Running Remote Desktop
How do I ...
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Windows DFSR - Changed replicated directory permissions and now have a 350,000 backlog for more than a week
Question: Is there a way to make this 350,000 file backlog complete faster? For nearly every file the only change was a change to the ACL for each affected file. Some files have changed content, ...
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IIS 7.5 not logging
I have a strange issue with a Windows Server 2008 R2 running IIS: HTTP logging stopped a few months ago (I just found out), and I cannot seem to get it to start logging again.
I have both HTTP ...
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RemoteApp .rdp embed creds?
Windows 2008 R2 server running Remote Desktop Services (what we used to call Terminal Services back in the olden days). This server is the entry point into a hosted application -- you could call it ...
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How can I verify Windows DNS forwarders are working?
I thought I knew how to do this, but I guess not.
Even the d2 debugging in nslookup doesn't show the actual forwarder being queried.
So...let's say I set up DNS forwarders in a Windows DNS server ...
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Installing Windows Management Framework 3.0 basically destroyed WMI, how can I fix it without reinstalling the O.S.?
Related, of course, to this question.
Before discovering it was somewhat... dangerous, I installed Windows Management Framework 3.0 on a number of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 servers, and WMI got ...