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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How to configure Remote desktop on window server 2008 R2?
I’m trying to connect over internet to my home workstation which has Windows Server 2008 R2 (Web Edition) installed from my PC at work (Windows 7 installed on it) via Remote Desktop. I configure the ...
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Is SharePoint 2010 compatible with Windows 2008 R2 Server Core?
Now that Core 2008 R2 added .net support, I wonder if it's possible to run SharePoint 2010 Web Frontends on it?
Found some articles saying you can't run it on 2008 Core (no ASP.net support), but ...
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DNS on Window Server 2008
Hello everyone in Server Fault, I am a big geek. I have an IBM x306 server at home, and i bought window server 2008 text book and lab book. I am hoping I am asking this question correctly if not I am ...
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Issue resolving names on Hyper-V guest with Routing and Remote Access
I've got a Win2k8 standard server running Hyper-V with a Server 2003 web guest instance running. The host is publicly available on the internet.
I've created an Internal Private network in the ...
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How to change my W2k8 System Partition?
On my Windows 2008 server, my C: is 1.5 TB, and the partition is marked as: Healthy (Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
and somehow I ended up with a 2GB D: that is marked as ...
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An alias (defined as a hosts entry) for a fileserver works only when it is a win2008-box, why?
On a Terminalserver (win2008), we like to have an alias for the real fileservername and therefor we put a line in hosts like:
192.168.0.10 BigFiler
This only works fine for Fileserver under ...
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Win 2008 R2 Server Not Recognizing Second Hard Drive
I just purchased a Dell server, which has two hard drives and no RAID setup. I can only currently see one hard drive... not sure how to get it to recognize the other, as I thought being a new machine ...
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How to configure SCSI hard drives and RAID for Poweredge 2850 web server
I'm trying to set up a Poweredge 2850 as a web server, but as a server novice it's causing me some confusion.
Its a virgin install so no data to be lost as yet, so I'd like to get the best ...
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IIS 7.5 401.3 Access Denied
I am having this weird issue with IIS 7.5 on Windows 2008 R2 x64. I created a site in IIS and manually created a test file index.html and everything worked. When I try to do a deployment, I copy all ...
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how to add solr to run on startup?
I asked this question before, but I think I got answers that were cron job type answers.
I want the solr service to startup if I reboot my computer, and I also want it to run by itself instead of me ...
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How To Setup and Configure FTP on Windows Server 2008 Securely
I just recently launched a new "cloud server" with GoGrid and would like to setup and use FTP for deploying web applications and web sites to the server directly. What is the process of setting up ...
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How can I reduce the size of a partition in Windows Server 2008?
I have a smaller SSD that I'd like to use for my dev server. The SSD is smaller than the current OS partition. I'd like to reduce the size of the partition so that I can copy the image over to the SSD ...
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DHCP Requests Failing [closed]
Clients on our network recently started receiving this error when attemping to acquire an IP Address from our DHCP Server:
"the name specified in the network control block (ncb) is in use on a remote ...
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Windows Server 2008 RAID10
I am building a storage system for myself. I have a 16 bay SATA chasis and right now I have
1 x 500GB SATA for booting
8 x 1.5TB for data.
3Ware 9500S-8 RAID card where these 8 drives above are ...
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Free tool to write Performance Counters to MS SQL Database?
Is there some (free) tool that reads Performance Counters (Windows 2008 Server, but 2003 support is a bonus) and adds them to a MS SQL Server 2008 database?
Doesn't need to be too fancy as in the ...
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Windows Clients: Windows or Linux Domain Controller?
I'm planning to set up a domain controller for our small computer laboratory. I'm a little confused as to what operating system to use for our domain controller.
What's in the lab:
The lab has 25 ...
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How do you manage private queue permissions on a windows server 2008 cluster?
On windows server 2003 there was an option to allow a resource to interact with the desktop, this allowed you to run computer management mmc snap-in on the virtual name of the cluster, allowing you to ...
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What happened to “allow application to interact with desktop” checkbox in cluster manager for server 2008?
The cluster managing software for managing clusters on a windows server 2005 cluster had a checkbox for "allow application to interact with desktop" when creating a generic application resource. This ...
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Tomcat SPNEGO authentication against Active Directory not working
I'm trying to authenticate against AD using the http://spnego.sourceforge.net component with tomcat.
I've created my SPN's "setspn.exe -A HTTP/servername SVCTomcat" & "setspn.exe -A ...
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Do you have to have CAL licences for all user of openVPN on a windows server? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
My company is currently considering buying a new server to use as a shared VPN filestore.
Looking at the licencing, ...
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Has anyone seen .NET 4 RC MVC2 RTM web apps hogging CPU on Win2008 R2?
We have a number of .NET4 RC ASP.NET MVC2 RTM web applications running on a Windows 2008 R2 server. All behave very well except one that we regularly find running at 99% CPU.
It is the most complex ...
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Deploy virtual PC based on snapshot using Hyper-V
I have a server with Hyper-V configured, it is easy to create a new virtual machine using the management tools, but it can take some time.
I often see those hosts that say "We can have your server ...
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Is it safe to delete MSP files from c: drive on Windows 2008 Server?
I have a server (actually it's my development VM) that's quite space-limited, and a significant proportion of the c: drive is being used by Windows to store MSP files. A bit of searching has told me ...
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How to replicate windows server 2008?
We have 2 servers let's call them server A and server B.
Server B is never used unless something goes wrong with server A.
I need a system that can replicate server A to server B but this doesn't have ...
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How can I set Windows Server 2008 juntion points to Every Read Allow?
We have apps running on Windows Server 2003 and now 2008 as well. Unfortunately some of our code relies on inspecting the Documents and Settings directory which no longer exists in Windows 2008.
It ...
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BSOD Dump - EXCEPTION_DOUBLE_FAULT - ON Windows 2008 Server 64bit
My windows 2008 server (datacenter edition) 64bit , has recently created a series of BSOD on different applications. The error message is in general EXCEPTION_DOUBLE_FAULT.
Can anyone please help ...
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Repair .NET Framework on Windows 2008 R2
One of our web servers has become inoperable and after some searching we think the .NET Framework might be corrupted in some way.
The server runs Windows 2008 R2 and uses the 2.0 framework for the ...
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What is the difference between the “Authenticated User” and “user” groups in windows server 2008 (or 2003)?
Hi would like to know the difference between these two, when we are setting up the permissions for an object (folder).
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Windows Server task manager displays much higher memory use than sum of all processes' working set size
I have a 16 GB Windows Server 2008 x64 machine mostly running SQL Server 2008. The free memory as seen in Task Manager is very low (128 MB at the moment), i.e. about 15.7 GB are used. So far, so good.
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How can I view locking on a server file?
We have a database file (foxpro) on a Windows share (2003 server). We're having some problems where the program that writes to this file has to retry as the file is locked. This all happens very ...
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How to set ExecutionPolicy: access to registry key denied
I'm running Windows Server 2008 as admin and I tried to set ExecutionPolicy as Remotesigned for PowerShell v2 like this:
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
But I got this error:
Set-ExecutionPolicy ...
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Mail Permissions on a File Server Resource Manager Server
In 2008 server the File resource manager can be set up to alert users when they go over their quota etc. This is all configured however the email notifications are not working.
They have been ...
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Apache has a 2GB file limit on a CIFS network drive?
Setup:
A Windows and a Ubuntu Server are hosted in VMware ESXi
I have a a 6GB file on a Windows share
The Windows share is mount on Ubuntu with smbmount
A symlink pointing to the 6GB file is created ...
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MDAC 2.8/WDAC 6.0 on Windows Server 2008 IIS 7
What I am trying to do is simple. I have some Classic ASP with include headers like the following referencing MDAC 2.5:
METADATA TYPE="TypeLib" NAME="Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.5 Library" ...
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Windows Server Backup fails because of a FAT32 hidden partition
Windows Server 2008 R2.
What shall we do to make the Windows Server Backup to make Full Server backup on our machine that contains an hidden FAT32 partition called OS (size 2GB)?
Why this partition ...
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Hide usernames shown on Windows Server 2008 Remote Desktop login screen
When I remote desktop to my Windows Server 2008 (a hosted virtual server) I see a login screen showing an icon for each user in the system. I can click on a user then enter a password and login.
This ...
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Debugging Windows 2008 (Roaming Profile) user logon
I would appreciate some help debugging my windows 2008 profile service. Any domain account that logs on to my 2008 machine gets a +- 20 second waiting time on "user profile service"
I am using ...
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Possible to get IIS on Windows Server 2008 R2 to “port-forward” port 80 for certain domains to other ports?
I have IIS set up on my server, but also Apache x2 (other products which comes with their own servers, cannot be integrated into IIS.)
Is it possible for me to "port-forward" certain domains on port ...
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Shared SQL Server 2008
I have a Windows Hyper VPS plan with 1024 MB of RAM. After installing SQL Server 2008 Express, my memory usage went up to 75% without running my site yet. I know that SQL Server consumes a lot of ...
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Dell OpenManage Causing Periodic Slowness
Today we diagnosed the cause of a Periodic slowness issue: see here.
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator seems to have been causing hourly slowness. It would occasionally peg one of the CPUs for ...
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What is the best way to configure windows firewall to open up sql server to lan computers
Should I configure a specific port for SQL Server and open that port up to the lan IP address range or open up the firewall based on the program, and wouldn't this require making a rule for each ...
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Oracle OLE DB provider for Windows Server 2008 R2
I have installed 11G Oracle OLE db provider on Windows Server 2008 Release 2. I can find it in the registry but I can't see it in "create a new ODBC connections" wizard.
Any help please?
Regards
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Configuring subdomains for a machine (Win2k8) in a lan
I am currently setting up a windows 2008 server to host a website with multiple subdomains, all accessible only within the lan. also, there is no active directory.
what I did is :
1 - computer name ...
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Customizing the windows server 2008 RDP login screen possible?
I'm working with RDP sessions quite frequently. As we work in teams and all use the same user account on a particular computer (I know...) I was wondering if there was a way to display from which ...
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Adding Hyper-V Role Errors
I have a Win 2008 R2 Data Center machine, and when I added the Hyper-V role, I got the following errors:
'Hypervisor' driver required by the Virtual Machine Management service is not installed or is ...
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Change my MX record on my server to google MX?
I got a windows server 2008 where I host a site, now I decided to have the email on google apps. I did add the MX records I get from them to my DNS settings on the server but with no luck. I recently ...
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Windows server 2008 r2 unlimiting the allowed number of logon to a single user
i got a server running windows server 2008, and i got a user which everyone can connect to via Remote desktop!
when 2 users a are logged to the server, it's fine.
but when 3 users are logged on, it ...
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new web site on windows 2008 server with IIS7 - does not work
I have a new domain: www.biografica.ro which was bought 3 months ago but never used still then.
I've bought a server with Windows 2008 server instaWeb Server (IIS).
I've added a new site in ...
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How do I backup scheduled tasks in Windows 2008
"once" I did backup my scheduled tasks by xcopy'ing %winDir%\Tasks\*.job
However this does not seem to work in Server 2008.
How do I backub my scheduled tasks using xcopy/7zip/winrar ?
