Questions tagged [windows-server-2012-r2]

Windows Server 2012 R2 is a server operating system from Microsoft. It was published on May 31 2013, and reached End Of Life on Oct 10, 2023. It contains many substantial changes over it predecessor, and substantially streamlines the number of available versions, which are down to four: Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter.

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Installation loop: "The specified service already exists" and "The specified service does not exist as an installed service"

When installing an in-house developed service on a Windows Server 2012 R2, the system has somehow come into a state where InstallUtil.exe thinks a service both exists and does not exist. Upon ...
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zip files before copying from Windows Server

20,000 small files takes forever to copy. Is there an easy way to zip files on a Windows Server before copying to a client desktop? It must be simple enough for a novice user to do it from the client ...
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How install SSL certificate for RDS on windows server 2016?

I installed windows server 2016 for a small company, so I don't need to have domain controller on this installation and for RDS I only need RD Licensing and RD Session Host roles. But only with that ...
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Some Windows services not visible remotely

I'm struggling to figure out what is going on, but it has a pretty widespread effect on a system I'm working with. I originally asked this on stack overflow and It was recommended I check here. OP ...
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Server is listening in Port 110 and I can't find any way to disable or block it

I have a Windows 2012 R2 server used as web server, with ports for web (80, 443, and 8080) open for public sites hosted on it. Doing some security checks on it, I found it's listening on port 110 too: ...
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Unable to configure Web Application Proxy in Windows Server 2012 R2

While configuring WAP in the server I am getting the below error. Both WAP server and ADFS server are in the same Azure region and network. Powershell error
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DNS Server on AD logging queries even when disabled

I have two Server 2012 R2 DCs running DNS. The DNS server has Debug Logging turned off in the GUI, however I am getting daily 500MB dns#TIMESTAMP#.log files in C:\Windows\System32\DNS\Logs\ I ran ...
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How to remove a disk using PowerShell

I've inserted a removable disk to one of the physical servers, then I ejected it, but it is still appears, as shown below: I've restarted the server multiple times, but it did not work. Is there any ...
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iSCSI Target is not visible on Windows Servers

I've recently installed a synology NAS in a business environment. After setting up an iSCSI target, I went to one of the Windows Servers, launched the iSCSI initiator and could not discover the ...
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How to prohibit users from installing specific software in windows system in an AD

I've different OUs for different Departments. For Example Mechanical OU and Programmers OU. I don't want to block the users entirely from installing and Uninstalling software. For example users of ...
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Mouse not captured in Remote Desktop session on 2012 R2 guest in Hyper-V

After restarting a Hyper-V host (Windows Server 2012 R2) I had serious problems with one of the guest VMs (also 2012 R2). The VM was set to save the state, but when the host came back up the VM had ...
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Firewall refuse my connection to DB

We are working on software that require to connect to database on the server (Win2012)(LAN), after activating windows firewall, we couldn't connect to DB. I've set a rule for inbound and I Excluded ...
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SSL Certificate installed successfully but website not accessible

I have installed Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate on a windows-server-2012-r2 machine running iis-8.5. It is an ASP.NET 4.5 website running on an Azure VM. The installation was successful and I can see ...
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How to query LDAP via port 636 from powershell?

I use adsi to connect to AD and measure the latency of the connection. For same query when i replace server with server:636 , it fails. What is the easiest way to do a ldap "find" through 636 port?
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Not able to create DFS namespace in a completely new forest

Not able to create DFS namespace in a completely new forest OS: Windows server 2016 DFL: 2003 FFL: 2003 DFS role on member server creating very first namespace server - Errors in : The object ...
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Apply New Password Policy via GPO Gradually

I want to make changes to the password policy in our domain (for example, include password complexity) but I want to apply it gradually, to some OU's or users group first. As far as I know the ...
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smb with dfs on mac

I currently work a Mac client enviorment, where all users have macs, but they insist on running windows servers. they are currently running acronis file sync to avoid smb, but since they are going to ...
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Poor website performance [duplicate]

I have a website where the number of visitors is increasing and it is facing a poor response time. I am not a server specialist and for this reason I want to expose my issue here to receive some ...
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Best way to Sync files from Windows server 2012 R2 to another Windows server 2012 R2 with only local admin privilege

My IT dept give me 2 servers (Windows server 2012 R2), the first one have 4TB data, the 2nd one have an empty 5TB partition. I have admin privilege on both servers. I have to move all data from server-...
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Not Allow Download from Windows Server Network Share

I have a network share (SMB) on our file server (Windows 2012 R2) that will be holding sensitive data. I am trying to figure out how I can limit access to not allow anyone accessing the share to ...
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Is iSCSI across network wise?

I need an opinion in regards to mapping a QNAP iSCSI LUN in Location A to Server in Location B and find out if its wise to execute this plan or will I end up bottle necking my VPN connection between ...
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wds pc name based on previous ad pc name

we have an ad wich has computers named WS1234 all the way up to WS1801.(this was done by hand with the person that worked here before me)We now get 50 more pc's. I have an wds image with an ...
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MS Azure AD Connect health service high CPU usage

We're experiencing a windows server high CPU usage since some few last updates. The process that is causing it is the MS Azure AD Connect. Does anyone knows what is the root cause and how to get it ...
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How to resolve "MMC cannot initialize snap-in."

Windows 2012 R2. I have at least two snap ins which will not load, eventviewer and DFS management. I have tried; SFC scannow DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth Delete registry key/reboot. ...
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Share a folder on server with a workstation

Suppose we have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter (MS Virtual Machine), than we access remotely via RDP to edit some files in a folder (say, "D:\MyProject"). The problem is that we have a team of 3 ...
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So does MediaWiKi support MSSQL or not?

So I am trying to install MediaWiKi 1.31.0 on a machine running IIS 8 on server 2012 R2. We are running MSSQL server 2012. I followed the instructions on the media wiki page to install for MSSQL, but ...
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Server 2012 SMTP Server

I've stood up two SMTP servers using windows server 2012 r2, they send out email just fine but when an email does fail and we get a bounce back. Is that stored in a file somewhere so that I can use ...
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Setting a Windows Non-Interactive User Account

Does anybody know how I can, or if it's possible, to set a Windows domain account as a "non-interactive" user. I would like to set specific Windows domain service accounts as "non-interactive" so ...
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What's the difference between Start-Service and Set-Service -Status Running?

I was changing a service from a disabled state to a running state with the startup type as automatic on a bunch of servers, and I was poking around online on how to do it remotely, and using Set-...
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TONS of 4625 events. Failed login attempts. No IP, no username

I have a server that gets keeps getting failed login events (4625). They occur roughly every 20-30 minutes daily. Also appears to be on a schedule. I've tried deleting stored credentials. ...
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OSname equals Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard but AdfsVersion equals 2.0. How can this be? What to do?

Excerpted results from PowerShell query: PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-AdfsSystemInformation OSVersion : 6.2.9200.0 OSName : Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 ...
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Reboot Removes any Local User and Domain Changes

Last Saturday I had one of the Citrix servers in my cluster start complaining about losing the trust relationship with the domain. While this is not really common, it's not unheard of. Usually, the ...
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Windows DHCP server audit activation with analytical logs

I'm trying to activate DHCP server auditing logs on a Windows Server 2012 R2 using the DHCP analytical logs. Until now, I was using the former method using TXT files (see image below). This was ...
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Is it possible to move the "Primary Hierarchy" Public Folder mailbox in Exchange 2013?

We want to delete one of our mailbox databases but before doing that, all mailboxes need to be moved/migrated to a different database. One of these mailboxes is a Public Folder mailbox and it also ...
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Hard Disk not shown

I'm trying to install windows server 2012 on a new HP proliant ml350 gen10. There's two hard drivers in it, but they are not shown in the installation list (the screen where I have to pick a hard ...
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Domain Controller time won't sync with NTP server

I'm having a problem with a domain controller which won't sync with a time server. I've tried everything I can think of and I've already googled many fixes, but nothing seems to work. This is a ...
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Azure load balancer

I have an on prem web server we want to make high availability. We was looking at iis arr. if we setup another iis web server at a different site and setup dfs to replicate content, i would like to ...
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How to forward selective web traffic to the VPN tunnel in Window SSTP VPN while the split tunnel is on?

I am trying to setup SSTP VPN with split tunnel, and I want to allow some web traffic to go through the VPN tunnel. Is there a way to specify what traffic go through the VPN tunnel and what go through ...
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Access denied connecting to a share using Windows 10

On a Windows 2012 R2 computer a folder is shared, let us call it 'SharedFolder'. A Group called 'AccessSharedFolder' containing me has Read-Access to this folder on NTFS Level. Shared Level is: ...
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The W3SVC service on Server2012R2 failed to stop in the timeout period

Our Devs are trying to do a "push" and it is failing on a single IIS server (running Windows Server 2012 R2) because the push is unable to stop the WWW Publishing Service (W3SVC). We have been ...
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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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Why is this checkbox disabled in Windows DHCP server range policy / vendor class management?

I manage several Windows 2012 based DHCP servers and on one of these I came across a peculiarity that I cannot explain and do not know where to correct: In DHCP manager*, expand [server name], then ...
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Microsoft Azure AD Connect Health Agent for sync 3.0.164.0 high CPU usage

We're experiencing 100% CPU usage from the process Microsoft.Identity.Health.AadSync.MonitoringAgent.Startup on our Domain Controllers that have Azure AD Connect installed, since yesterday. According ...
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Applying Group Policy By Subnet

Is there a way to apply a group policy by subnet? I have three sites/offices - Washington, Texas, and California. When we (IT) puts a new desktop on the network and add it to the domain, the ...
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Have freeRadius/Linuxcooperate with DHCP-Server/Windows

We have freeRadius for authentication on a Ubuntu box, but the DHCP allocation is handled elsewhere, specifically by a Win2012R2 DHCP server. Is it possible to configure freeRadius in such a way that ...
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How to copy user permissions in Windows server 2012 r2?

I have windows server 2012 r2 and two storage drive. lest say A and B. I have created users and given files and folder access in drive A but now it is crashed and now I want to give all the same user ...
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WSUS installation user

I am currently in the process of installing and configuring a WSUS server for my company's local network, I have one doubt though regarding the installation process. I've not been able to find ...
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How to investigate intermittent Windows Server "logon failure" problems?

I am currently working on a project for which the Apache web server is preferred, but Windows is mandatory. I have not used WAMP for some years, but I believe these days that it works well and is ...
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How to set a PromiscuousMode on Network Adapter using Powershell in WIndows Server?

It's easy to check state of the PromiscuousMode for a physical network interface using PowerShell: Get-NetAdapter | Select InterfaceDescription, PromiscuousMode However how to set (enable/disable) ...
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Cannot use port 80 twice with different ip addresses?

I have an interesting problem right now. On a Windows Server 2012 R2 I have two IP addresses, say 192.0.2.1 and 192.0.2.2. On one address e.g. 192.0.2.1 a web server runs on port 80, which is ...
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