Questions tagged [windows-server-2012]
Windows Server 2012 was a server operating system from Microsoft. It was released on September 4, 2012, and reached End Of Life on October 10, 2023. Like its predecessor, Server 2008 R2, it is only available in 64 bit versions. 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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What is the recommended way of deploying a Java EE application in IIS?
I was given the task of deploying a Java EJB application in Windows Server 2012 with IIS 8.
The application was previously deployed to Glassfish 4 on Jelastic. After checking the requirements, I ...
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Suricata: Error opening file threshold.config
I use Suricata 4.0.5 (an open source IDPS) on windows server 2012. It raises the below error when I run it, however, it runs.
Error opening file threshold.config
I searched for this error and find ...
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Protecting SQL Server table data from developer
We have a web server running web application and SQL Server.
Our developers have access to that server with Admin privilege and regularly upgrades the applications and add new stored procedures.
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Testing Windows RemoteApps without Remote Desktop Services
I want to run an app under ReportApps but at the moment I don't have access to a server with Remote Desktop Services working.
Is it possible to make the RDP setup to test RemoteApps on either a ...
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Switch Active Directory from Public IP to Private IP
I have an active directory and some servers running on public IPs
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ADS --> 62.xx.xx.210
Server joined ADS
Team foundation server --> 62.xx.xx.211
SQL Server --> 62.xx.xx.212
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Windows Server 2016 installation hangs on new SSD
I hope Server Fault is the right place to ask, move to Super User if that is more appropriate.
I am trying to do what I thought would be a simple upgrade of Windows Server 2012 to 2016 with a new SSD ...
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Delegate Active Directory rights
I am trying to give a user "minor" Admin rights to setup user accounts in our AD.
We have Windows Server 2012 and I already have a "Local Admin" AD Group which I use to give some users rights to ...
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Deduplication Savings differs a lot between same two volumes
I run this robocopy command to copy all data from the existing volume to my new volume which will replace the old one in the near future:
robocopy I:\ E:\ /E /COPYALL /PURGE /MIR /B /R:1 /W:1 /XD "...
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DFS-R, delete database for replication group without impacting SYSVOL
I have one server, SRVA. SRVA is a Domain Controller and has a SYSVOL type replication group (on the c drive) to SRV1 and SRV2, both also domain controllers. This replication is working fine.
I ...
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Single RDP session and automatic disconnect of pending session group policy not working in Windows Server 2012
Good morning,
I'm working on a client's environment.
The servers are all Windows Server 2012.
There's a pool of virtual desktops which is used by users to connect to their virtual machines and ...
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windows server 2012 tcp window not scaling
I've got 2 windows 2012 servers that limit connection speed to anywhere from 1-3mBps and it seems to be related to tcp window scaling. Both servers have these settings
TCP Global Parameters
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Open Excel files in read-only mode if already open by another user in write mode
I've been all over Google for the past days and I simply can't find a solution to this that would work in this setup.
The setup: Windows Server 2012 R2 (RDS), Office 2016, file server is 2012R2.
The ...
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Sharing symbolic links on networked drive - is not accessible due permissions
We have several windows servers 2012 R2.
And a file server provided by a third party, which provides a volume available thru CIFS/SMB.
I want create symbolic folder on win server to "file server" and ...
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Open folder in another IP Windows Server 2012
My scenario is the following,
I have an application, FreeFileSync, which is able to move all the data from a directory and subdirectories to another location.
I have created a Windows Server 2012 ...
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How can I find out when a server will automatically restart "today"?
When I logged on to a Windows Server 2012 today I saw the message (in red on the logon screen) "Your Computer will restart today to finish installing important updates".
I like to know exactly what ...
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NIC Teaming having a General Failure Error
I'm trying to create a NIC Team for a Windows Server 2012 but I'm getting an error: General Failure.
I tried to restart the server, disconnect all the ethernet cable from the NICs and to deactivate ...
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Windows 2012 Server inaccessible (using rdp) but SQL Server databases are accessible (ssms)
We have a Windows Server 2012 Standard, which runs SQL Server 2012 Enterprise edition. This morning we found the reporting services was inaccessible. We attempted to use Remote Desktop to connect to ...
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RDP connnection IDLE time warning
I am working with one Group Policy setting which is for Session time limits (picture attached). While testing, I found out the warning which shows up at 2 min mark is really subtle.
If rdp ...
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VSS event log error every three hours (System.Writer Access denied)
In my event log (Windows Server 2012) I see this error every three hours, going back a very long time:
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error querying for the
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Cannot rename a Windows server
I used this sequence of netdom commands to rename one of our AD controllers from "A" to "B". The rationale was that the historical name "A" would be much better suited for a new server that we want to ...
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Incorrect currency format for Italy on Windows Server 2008 & 2012
I have noticed that the currency format for Italy is inconsistent across different versions of Windows. Specifically, the position of the currency symbol.
To compare them, I am looking at the ...
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Windows account locked out when scheduled task updated or run
On my Windows Server 2012 Standard instance, whenever I modify or run a scheduled task, it locks out the user account that runs the scheduled task. I've tried changing the user account and it doesn't ...
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HP P410 RAID 0 - Added 2nd Drive Then Deleted 2nd Drive before 1% - Array Broken - Recovery options?
I made a mistake and I wanted to ask some others for best recovery options.
Boot drive in home server was a single drive RAID 0 connected to a HP Smart Array P410 controller. I was attempting to ...
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Compare differences in installed windows 2012 server OS on 2 different servers
Background: We host/run our enterprise application. Application has specific hardware dependency,so its not possible to run on virtual environments.
Problem: We have couple of servers with same ...
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Versions missing from shadow copies on Windows 2012
Our Windows 2012 file server is configured to take shadow copies every hour. The drive is configured with 186GB of space.
I've personally been working on an Access database which I've modified many ...
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IIS stops listening
I have a Windows server that periodically stops responding to requests on a particular IP address. I can find no reason/cause, but I'll confess right off the bat that I'm not a sys/network admin.
The ...
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Why my Windows Server 2012 "server" server for folder sharing crashes?
Last week my Windows Server 2012 "server" service has a daily crash after lunch time.
The effect is that all network shared folders becomes not accessible.
I solved restarting the "server" service, ...
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Change property using URL rewrite - IIS8 - Windows Server 2012
I have a webserver with two domains and both with ssl, I saw a video about how to configure this (SSL) and everything worked well but now my problem is that there is a part about URL rewrite WHERE if ...
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Server cannot access its OWN UNC path share
I have some trouble with a Windows 2012 server(lets assume server name SERVER1)
Using administrator account (Domain Admin), this server cannot access \\SERVER1\C$ or its IP \\10.10.10.1\C$. error ...
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Windows Update - translate Update GUID until Update "Microsoft KB" Number?
Am troubleshooting a complete windows update failure - on a brand new install, standalone Windows 2012 Server Essentials. Zero config, no existing infrastructure, "straight out of the box" setup.
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secondary domain controller did not authenticate users after primary DC went down
Secondary DC did not authenticate users after primary DC went down and Once I get this critical error in secondary dns on secondary dc after pdc down Directly.
Event ID 4015
( The DNS server has ...
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How to keep EC2 instance logged in after RDP is closed
I've done everything I can to try to fix this.
I've tried to do the command
tscon 2 /dest:console
in CMD, which disconnects RDP without you pressing X. It still logs out. I went to the group policy ...
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Reset-ComputerMachinePassword on a Remote Machine
I'm using Reset-ComputerMachinePassword on my domain controller. I need to do this because of a trust issue with the server and the computer. And the local administrator is disabled. Is there a way ...
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Passive FTP connecton not working on Windows Server 2012
I'm trying to configure my FTP in Windows Server 2012, but when I try to connect using FileZilla, it responds Failed to retrieve Directory Listing.
When I try to connect using Windows Command/ftp, ...
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Access denied, despite correct permissions
I tried using robocopy to mirror a folder to a new location; a few files and folders failed with "Access Denied," although I was using an user in the local admin group, which does have access to these ...
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Server 2012 R2 Shared folder read permissions issue
We just migrated a spanned shared volume from a 2003 server to a 2012 Windows Server (migration took place by detaching vmdks from the old vm and attaching them to newer one). This did not effect ...
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Two requests, same destination IP, different gateway
I have 3 routers connected to my local network. Each router has a unique external IP address which is dynamic. I use cUrl to send a request to the dynamic DNS service provider in order to keep up with ...
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VPS IP Grabbing Abuse: VPS using another IP from network by itself
I bought a Windows Server 2012 VPS subscription two months back, and deployed a website on it. Everything went fine for the next month and suddenly i receive an email from providers telling me that My ...
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Restricting Windows server RDP access to VPN
I want to configure a remote server (Windows 2012) to allow only access using RDP via VPN. Therefore I should restrict access to the public IP of the server and only allow the private IP access. In ...
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RDS deployment redirect not working correctly
I have a 2 server 2012R2 RDS deployment.
svr1: gateway,rd web,broker,host,licensing
svr2: host,licensing
If I select svr1 and set it to not accept new connections in server manager, then connect to ...
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Remote Desktop Services Broker - Stuck on Securing Session
Related topic
Ok, So I have searched the site for solutions, and the problem in the related topic seems to match my issue, however, I do not want to hijack the thread with my own issue.
I have ...
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Resource Monitor Showing Incorrect (?) CPU Usage for Services
Resource Monitor on my Windows Server 2012 R2 is showing high CPU usage for process oracle.exe (~75%). However, it also shows that CPU usage is divided among totally unrelated services.
Namely the ...
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Workstations are disconnected from server after 10 hours
We recently had some electrical work done and the domain server went off unintentionally rather than being switched off. Since then, the workstations can only connect to the server for 10 hours before ...
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How does bitlocker drive encryption recognize and accept system changes?
I'm relatively new to bitlocker drive encryption, although I do have a decent understanding of how it works. My question here is that, if I have a system that has bitlocker drive encryption enabled ...
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Mount VHD as ReadOnly
So I have the following scenario - two servers, one is Web server, another is a Backup server. Both running Windows Server 2012 R2
I have a mapped drive on Web referencing Backup I have a VHD I ...
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Windows Server 2012 - Event Triggers Not Working Properly
I'm running Windows Server 2012 on my work's server and running the Windows Backup application daily. I want to receive email notifications notifying me of the success or failure of this backup and in ...
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Should PHP FastCGI be running multiple instances on windows?
Im running PHP under iis 8.5 on Windows Server 2012. The server runs asp.NET without a hitch. Pages are rendering in well under a second, but PHP is not running so well. It takes upwards of 40 seconds ...
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IIS website (.asmx service app) is only reachable by IP, but not by domain/host name
I have a Windows Server 2012 with IIS 8 installed on it. I have just one website configured which is the default web site. It contains an application which is configured as follows:
The physical path ...
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Shutdown Jenkins slave from Master
A Jenkins 1.651 master and slave have been installed on a Windows Server 2012.
I need a way to kill the slave from the master (I already have a job that start the slave).
Could you please give me any ...
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How to disable Null Session Enumeration of the DC?
I am a sysadmin for a company, and we just had a Penetration Test done on our internal network, the team discovered that it is possible to perform query\enumerate our DC (Server 2012) for information ...
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