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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Identify which application pool is using CPU / Memory
We have a web server with many Web Sites.
Each web site has it's own application pool.
Currently all application pools use the identity of the same domain user.
When one of the sites starts to ...
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Is it possible to setup DFS without active directory
Is it possible to create a distributed file system without active directory? We have 3 servers to replicate files across. A will be the primary and B & C need to have a copy of the same files. ...
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Windows Server 2008 Mass Ownership Reassignment
A directory with a multitude of subdirectories at a client's office need to have ownership changed to a single Administrator account. Instead of changing the security settings for each and every ...
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APP_POOL_WAS performance counter not appear in Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Standard
i have found the APP_POOL_WAS performance counter in iis7 on "Windows 7" OS. I Check the same counter in "Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Standard" server, but i couldn't find it. server has iis7. I ...
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VPN fails to connect (Error 812)
I am having a problem where normal users cannot connect to VPN (Error 812); however, administrators can connect without any problem.
I have run traces, but no errors appear.
The user accounts have ...
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Cache LDAP users from Server 2008 to Ubuntu
Is there a way to cache user creds from a Windows Server 2008 to a Ubuntu server?
We have 2 internal Active Directory servers on Windows Server 2008 and we have many different applications that use ...
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Replication/USN issue on Domain Controller running Exchange 2010
I am needing help with an issue that just came to my attention. Here's the break down of what has happened:
My company has a virtual server running 08R2 that is a Domain controller AND is also ...
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Unable to get message from Eventlog “System” in Windows 2008 R2 SP2
Could not able to get the message field while reading a windows event log using a powershell command. Is it a known issue in Windows 2008 Sp2 R2 or Is there any hotfix available in microsoft to ...
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Sever networking stops after few hours but works after suspend/wakeup [migrated]
I have an Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop PC acting as my headless home server. I can ping it and access the files and folders on the computer with no issues. But after a few hours of running, its networking ...
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Is there any way to speed up browsing a website locally on the website's webserver?
When we make a delivery to our LIVE webservers we like to test they are working. As we have several load balanced webservers in LIVE we need to browse to each one individually. These are Windows ...
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How to tell the Task Scheduler MMC to remember the column widths of the History?
Using the Task Scheduler MMC on a Windows Server 2008 R2, I'm facing something that is very annoying to me:
The History window of a task does not remember the column widths, thus making it rather ...
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MDT won't apply Computer name
I have a MDT 2010 setup on Server 2008 that deploys an image of win7. Now my deployment used to ask for domain account to log on and then the computer name. Then I accidentally deleted the deployment ...
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MySQL 5.5 (2008r2, 64-bit-thread-safe, not running as service) won't keep its root password
I have inherited a (Windows 2008r2) server which has PHP and MySQL installed and is running a few internal web-apps. The MySQL installation looks to have been done from the installer (as it's located ...
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Problems with IIS 7.5 frequently going down for no good reason
We have a dedicated system (Windows Server 2008) with Hostway that just got deployed and we seem to be having a problem.
Since we started using this server, during the night, our monitoring software ...
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windows server 2008 DHCP ran out of IP addresses
I have a Windows 2008 server with 1 DHCP Scope 10.0.0.X/255.255.255.0 and watchguard firebox for my internet router.
I have run out of IP addresses. I added a second scope to my DHCP server, and I ...
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Why does IIS7 on one server work with my certificate while another has problems?
In the setup I describe, we have two servers, Alpha and Bravo.
Alpha is a server that has been around for years. It is a Windows 2008 server running IIS7. In order to log in to any application on ...
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Measuring network latency
I want to measure performance of the network, especially latency. We are performing stress tests of a system that sends live audio / video data over the network. When there are multiple simultaneous ...
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Migrating from SBS 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2 - not replicating or transferring roles?
We currently have an SBS 2003 domain. I wasn’t part of the initial setup of the domain but am more or less the administrator now. We use SBS for domain controller duties, as a file share server, and ...
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No IP address on Windows SBS 2008
We have a strange problem in our Windows SBS 2008 and it just came over a night.
The problem is that Windows says that we are not connected to any IP4 or IP6 network but it recognises that the network ...
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Cold Fusion 9 Redirection?
I have a CF 9 installed on Windows 2008 R2 with IIS. The server has several IPs. I have created and new site in IIS and adjusted the binding on it to listen on IP other than where CF is configured. ...
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Windows server 2008 R2 error running vbscript from Registry at startup
I have a simple vbscript which runs an Exe program both vbscript and exe program are in the same folder c:\xxx, i want this script to run every time the machine restarts as we have 40 servers and ...
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GPO error 0x80070547 with Server 2008 R2 and XP SP3, but not Win7
I have a Windows 2008 R2 server managing XP SP3 and Windows 7 SP1 clients.
There are no issues with the Windows 7 clients.
However, on the Windows XP clients, I get errors for power options, ...
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Record video of Windows 2008 session without screen/remote console attached
I have a service running on a Windows 2008R2 server that needs to make a screenshot and video. When I issue an API call, the video and screenshot does not work if there is no remote console attached ...
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Determine windows server attack? Should I monitor the server and block IPs all the day?
While Viewing the windows server 2008 event log, I always find many security events 4625/logon as follows:
**An account failed to log on.**
Subject:
Security ID: SYSTEM
Account Name: ...
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DNS Scavenging not deleting stale DNS record
I have set the following DNS Setting for Scavenging so that stale record must be automatically deleted, still it is not working ( Please see the print-screen )
24 hrs has been passed still Stale ...
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Resolving incorrect DFS server when outside of network subnet
I have a number of IP networks in my organization. I am also running a single domain across my organization with DFS servers in two sites - London and Sydney.
My domain functional level is Server ...
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Why is my loopbacked GPO reporting as disabled
Let me start by saying that my experience with GPO is limited to tentatively poking at settings until they fall into place by trial and error. It is entirely possible this will be a very obvious ...
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Sending emails using IIS 6.0 SMTP service without using a relay
I am running Windows server 2008 R2 Enterprise with IIS 7.5 & 6.0 and the SMTP service enabled. Following this guide, the SMTP service was installed and configured to relay outbound emails via my ...
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Why do I not have “Shared printer” within group policy preferences in Win 2008 R2 gpmc?
I have performed some research, and it appears that I can target both XP and 7 clients with group policy preferences to add a shared printer.
This article describes the presence of a Shared Printer ...
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Configure the “Remote Desktop” RemoteApp in TSGateway / RDWeb
We have an installation of TS/RDGateway with the RDWeb IIS installed.
The "Remote Desktop" tab is also configured, but it lacks an option for "/multimon" but DOES let users configure their ...
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Internet Guest Account in Windows 2008 for permissions
I have seen there's no "Internet Guess Account" user in Windows Server 2008.
I am trying to configure permissions over some folders in a website under ISS 7.5 and I am having troubles as I used that ...
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Change start up tune through GPO in AD [closed]
Is it possible to change the windows start up tune through a group policy in active directory? If so how? In case you are wondering why one would ever do this we were thinking about our next aprils ...
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Howto make a Server share aliased rather than just the server
After looking at How to Configure Windows Machine to Allow File Sharing with DNS Alias I was trying to understand if there was a way you could actually alias the shares directly rather than just the ...
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VB Application Crashes, but process continue to run
I have an issue in a Citrix environment in which a legacy VB application is published on the server. A problem I see is that occasionally it crashes, but the process for the application continues to ...
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Windows Server Standard - showing as Windows Vista in Microsoft OS check - What version is it?
So I became in charge of a Windows Server VM.
I can't tell whether this version is Windows 2003 or 2008.
In My Computer system properties, all it says is:
Windows Server Standard
Copyright 2007 ...
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Deleting a large error log file
We have a few PHP sites running on a windows server that are generating errors in the c:\windows\temp directory under a single log file. This file is nearly 30gb at this point. When I try to list the ...
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Hyper-V and CPU Usage
I'm renting VPS that I believe is using Hyper-V. Lately the processor performance of my VPS has been terrible, yet the CPU usage in the task manager doesn't show it struggling. Is the CPU usage in the ...
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Proper network configuration on Windows Server 2008 R2 without internet access
I have a new Winwdows Sever 2008 R2 machine with two network cards. The situation is as follows:
One network card is connected to CompanyLAN_1 (10.0.0.0/24)
Through this card the machine can reach ...
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Mobile Websites blocked on same IP [closed]
I am having an issue with people trying to access websites from a certain location from their mobile device. The websites are on the same IP, while another has a dedicated IP on the same server. The ...
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Virtual installation vs bare metal for disaster recovery
I am part of an service company that has a server solution that hosts different field software to talk to industrial alarms and such. The original implementation didn't make use of any kind of ...
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Apache Server Error The specified network name is no longer available. : winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed
We are facing the following issue on our apache server:
[Sun Apr 14 10:33:26 2013] [warn] (OS 64)The specified network name is no longer available. : winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed
This ...
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Not enough storage space is available
I have just re-installed a Windows Server 2008 Machine and am trying to get it into production, shipped with SQL Server 2008; the problem is, that it requires an application called: Windows Installer ...
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Notification throttling and alert content on SCOM
Our SCOM 2007 server is managed by a monitoring team so I don't have much control over it.I am trying to go through the SCOM alerts in my mailbox to see if I can minimize the amount of alerts we ...
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Preventing logon type 2 and 3 attacks on VPS
Sorry if this was asked before, but I've looked at other questions and couldn't find a match.
I've been getting a lot of Logon Type 2 and 3 attacks on my Win Server 2008 VPS (from different IPs). ...
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IIS and IP configuration - somewhat complicated issue
I am using client - server software called XSockets. I can run it on my local computer, but I cannot on my web server. This is my home configuration (win7 IIS7):
myDomainName.com points directly ...
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Windows Server 2008 - Task Scheduler and Running Scripts every minute
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I need to schedule a task (batch script) to run once per minute, every day.
Looking at the Task Scheduler, I see the minimum repeat interval for a task is 5 minute, which is located in the ...
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Windows Server 2008 GPO for Logon Scripts
I want to change my GPO to have the User logon script point to a different path other than the default NETLOGON share. I would like to put the script on one of my file server shares with the users ...
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NPS as a RADIUS not sending response to firewall
We are trying to setup our DC at a remote site to authenticate VPN connections for the firewall. I have added the role and configured the policy but our clients receive "Authentication Failed".
In ...
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Benchmarking a server [closed]
I have an application that needs strong performances from the server on which it runs.
Usually the application is deployed on one of my servers and then sold to my customers. However, sometimes, some ...
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Has anyone ever ran Terminal Services (Server 2008) over AWS?
I was looking at the AWS pricing guide and it seems very impractical to do this. For even a small-medium deployment (say 15 users), I would assume I need at least 32 GB of RAM (2GB each + the OS). ...
