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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Windows Servers on ESXi 100% CPU at year rollover
We have a number of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 servers running on ESXi servers. At year end rollover 2014 to 2015 the CPUs go to 100% and the machines hang.
The solution appears to be a hotfix (...
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Exchange 2010 send from multiple domains
We have a Windows 2008 Enterprise R2 SP1 server with multiple accepted domains configured on our Exchange 2010 console.
Configuration of exchange 2010:
In exchange console, under organization ...
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Sunsetting Microsoft Identity Management for Unix the right way
I'd like to make sure that we don't have any connections to our AD controllers before sunsetting, but some run Microsoft Identity Management for Unix / Server for NIS. I'm having a dog of a time ...
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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?
[Edit 2014-11-26] I already understand how sites are defined by subnets, etc. But what I want to know is what happens to users ...
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Enter-PSSession on localhost is failing
I am attempting to execute the following Powershell command:
Enter-PSSession -ComputerName localhost
The server in use is running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 64-bit. The server is on a domain. I am ...
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Windows server 2012 r2 network speed to computer is limited to ~30mbps
We have recently installed Windows Server 2012 R2 in our school.
I noticed, that bandwidth to one client is somehow limited to around 30mbps.
This server is gateway to internet.
When we had UNIX ...
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What does event BEX64 mean?
Recently I had to deal with the situation where an application would crash with problem signature like:
Problem Event Name:BEX64
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Fault Module Name:StackHash_1dc2
Fault Module Version:0.0.0.0
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how to find the event where someone ejected a hot pluggable device
I got a Win Server 2008 R2 on a VM. I think someone accidentally ejected the NIC card that is presented as a hot pluggable device. But I am trying to find proof of that in the windows event logs and I ...
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Server 2008 R2 NIC in "Unidentified Network" state after connectivity loss is restored
I am having trouble with 2 servers, both with the same symptoms. When they are reconnected to the switch after losing connectivity, they stay in an "unidentified network" state. Only after cycling the ...
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Access to message queuing system is denied MSMQ?
My problem is a little confusing. I have 2 servers (Windows Server 2008 R2) with MSMQ installed and I want to use Server B to consume a MessageQueue on Server A. When I try to Receive it always ...
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OS X clients ignoring Windows print server permissions
I'm in the process of testing a Windows Server 2008 R2 print server for a mixed OS X/Windows environment.
Any security permissions (AD groups) I set for the printers on the print server are not ...
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Why do weekly tasks created via PowerShell using a different user fail with error 0x41306
We have some scripts that create scheduled jobs using PowerShell as part of our application. When testing them recently, I noticed that some of them always failed immediately, and no output is ever ...
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WSUS Error 8000FFFF
Two issues with our WSUS
Some of our Servers (2008r2/2012r2) and Win 7 got error 8000FFFF when installing security updates from WSUS. For most of servers and desktops are just working fine.
From ...
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Blank sent to default printer on RDP Win2008R2 with mapped printing
I’ve got an issue with a terminal server running Win2008R2 Enterprise SP1.
My users have remote print mapping enabled (as it is imperative for their day-to-day duties). When they log in, RDP will ...
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Windows Server wbadmin recover with commas
I want to do a recovery of files with commas in their names from the command line, ala:
wbadmin start recovery -version:10/01/2013-12:00 -itemType:File -overwite:Overwrite -quiet "-Items:C:\Path\To\...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 hangs when Editing folder permissions
Background:
The server in question is a member of a domain.
This is a brand new server, freshly installed.
I can log into this server using any domain user (which tells me that on some level it is ...
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server 2008 r2 - wbadmin systemstatebackup - system writer not found in the backup
I am trying to manually run a systemstatebackup command on my server 2008 r2 box and I am getting an error code '2155347997' when I view the backup event log details. The command line tells me that I ...
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Firewall "Connection Security" when there is no trust and NATing between the two computers
First a little explanation of my network topology.
I have a internal domain, and edge network domain. There is no trust between the two domains (and IT will not allow a one way trust to be set up ...
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Assign static IP to Users that access using Terminal Services (Remote Desktop)
For a project I'm working on I'm looking for the ability to assign a specific ip to users when they start a terminal service session.
I'm using Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and I tried using Remote ...
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W2K8 R2 ApplicationPoolIdentity and gigs of data filling up drive
I run an IIS7 web server and use ApplicationPoolIdentity with 'Load User Profile' and my primary hard drive is filling up fast.
The C:\Users directory is filling up with temporary data.
For example, ...
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windows server 2008 R2 Standard - Stop Anonymous Logon
On Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard ED. We have tons of ANONYMOUS LOGON logged under Event Viewer
How to stop this ? How to disable ANONYMOUS LOGON ?
Copy of messagge:
An account was successfully ...
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Cannot access server shares via VPN
I have set up a my server to accept VPN connections. My users primarily use VPN to access the server shares files. Everything was working fine until one day I was doing some work on the file system ...
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Silent in-place upgrade, Server 2008 R2 to Server 2012 R2
I am working on a process to upgrade over a hundred Server 2008 R2 boxes to Server 2012 R2. My client wants to do an in place upgrade so they don't have to reconfigure roles and features etc. This ...
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AD migration 2008 r2 to 2012 r2 - must've missed something
I finally went through with this the other day. Got DNS/AD setup, seized FSMO roles on the 2012 server, migrated DHCP etc. I thought I was ready to go so I turned off the 2008 server yesterday. ...
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Interpreting WPR traces in trying to better network throughput
In trying to analyze a 3thparty application's throughput we have collected a WPR trace on two systems. One has Symantecs Intrusion Detection System enabled, the other one has not.
Following ...
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Active Directory Certificate Services cannot publish revocation list after renewal with new private Key
In summary:
I had a working offline root CA and an AD integrated CA working fine
I renewed the certificate with the same private key and all was good
I then renewed the certificate with a new ...
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GPO Preferences - Local Admin from Trusted Domain
I have three domains, DomainA, DomainB, and DomainC. There's two way forest trusts between DomainA-DomainB and DomainA-DomainC with forest wide authentication.
I want to add groups from DomainA to ...
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Deploy Printers To Non-Admin User Through GPO
Trying to deploy printers to Windows 7 x64 computers for NON-ADMIN users. Server is a 2008R2 running Print Management. 3 Printers are HP LaserJets installed on the print server.
I have used Print ...
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Issue installing IE11
I've been using WSUS to roll out IE11, there's a few stranglers that IE11 will not install and I've started looking into. Here's what I've done.
Confirmed all prerequisite updates have been done.
I'...
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EC2 automatic windows updates disabled by default on Windows Server 2008 R2 - why?
I spun up an Amazon virtual instance for Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition and when I went into Windows Updates in control panel, automatic updates were turned off. I turned them on and checked for ...
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Windows NFS Client Tools Doesn't Follow manage-gids
I am running into an issue with the Windows NFS Client tools, it seems that when I attempt to access a folder on an NFS share that has read permissions for a group that user is member of - but not the ...
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Local DTC is missing on server 2008r2
I've recently had an issue where MSDTC was unable to start up.
The error in the command line when running net start msdtc indicated that there were configuration issues.
I went into the registry and ...
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Issues with demoting a DC, remnants of failed SBS2011 DC still in directory
So, an environment I'm new to, is having some problems that I'm trying to correct.
Old config: Single SBS2011 server, a second 2008 R2 DC was added at some point. SBS failed, roles were seized and ...
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Secure channel trust verification fails
Working on an issue with setting up a trust between two domains with several firewalls in between, and a pinhole routing between two servers in them.
newdc.newdomain.com is a 2012 server in a brand ...
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Inconsistencies in RDP connections to similar servers
We have a bunch of Windows 2008R2 servers used as RDP servers that are (or at least should be) essentially identical in configuration (and are arranged in a RDP farm).
When administrating from home, I ...
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psping to localhost - improve throughput
I'm using following psping command to measure the bandwith throughput for localhost on a physical server
psping -4 -b -l 8k -n 20000 localhost:1234
The throughput is around 150MB/s wich isn't all ...
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2008 R2 RDS Client Printers Disappearing?
So my issue is something I can find nothing on and is very hard to track down. I am working with Microsoft and Citrix support but am getting nowhere and my client is becoming frustrated on the lack ...
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Server 2008 R2 WMI problems
I get error "1065" from Group Policy when trying to run GPUpdate, and Group Policy is specifying that it cannot process the WMI query. I can successfully run some queries manually, but WMIDiag ...
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My PowerShell $profile path has no $HOME prepended
I have PowerShell installed on two different Server 2008 R2 systems. On one system, $HOME is prepended to $profile, but on the other nothing is prepended:
Server 1 (PowerShell 2)
PS C:\> echo $...
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Trim Azure VHD size in Windows 2008
I have an azure virtual machine and due to a broken backup script, it has previously used the entire 127GB of space. My virtual machine is now only using 20GB however I'm still being charged for the ...
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Non-admin users can't run MMC on Windows Server 2008 domain controller
I have created some delegated privileges for IT administrators. One of the groups of people has some Active Directory permissions but is not server administrators or domain administrators. They also ...
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Fixing "server unavailable" login problems in exchange 2013 and outlook 2010
We've been facing some problems pertaining to expiring user passwords, causing "server unavailable" login problems for Outlook Outlook 2007 and 2010 clients on exchange 2013. The quick fix to this was ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Shared Folders MMC: open mode "no access"
Can somebody explain what does "no access" open mode mean in Open Files node of Shared Folders MMC snap-in in Windows Server 2008 R2?
Title of column "Open Mode" and value "no access" looking a bit ...
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Tuning performance in Windows Services for NFS -- slow write performance from client to server
Background: I'm using a NFS datastore in esxi5.1 to do some ghettoVCB backups. The NFS share resides on a Windows Server 2008R2 box, using Windows Services for NFS to distribute the share. Writes to ...
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Windows Server 2008 ARP Cache Poisioning
Recently ran into a very strange problem.
Several applications were having issues communication through our F5 Load-Balancer. When we looked into it we found that the router had an incorrect ARP and ...
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iSCSI issue; "the media is write protected"
i've got some serious issues with w2k8 r2 standard and iSCSI controller. i'm running dell server, connected via ethernet to synergy NAS, which is handling LUN via iSCSI. i'm using ms iSCSI initiator ...
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Problems with DTC and IBM MQ
I've just run DTC Ping to try to find the cause of a MQ problem.
It says the following:
++++++++++++Validating Remote Computer Name++++++++++++
10-18, 10:30:31.508-->Start DTC connection test
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Windows Server 2008 R2 DNS - Syncronizing changes to TTL
I apologize if this has been asked. My searches have not been successful.
If I have 2 DNS servers in my Domain and add an A record to 1 server, that record is successfully propagated to the second ...
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Windows Restore fails with "The Volume ID could not be found" error, what to do?
On my server with 3 disks, one disk died and I'm trying to do a restore. The server looked like this:
[DISK1] | C:, main system drive <-- this one died
[DISK2] | D:, data disk
[DISK3] | ...
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RPC error when requesting computer certificate
I am using MMC with the certificate management snapin. I am requesting certificates from a brand new installation of a CA.
Requesting User certificates works perfectly.
Requesting Computer ...