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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Remote desktop over ssh

I am following the below link to setup remote desktop over ssh using putty. "http://m.desy.de/sites2009/site_m/content/e262/e96318/RDPusage.pdf" But, i am not able to connect to my remote server ...
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RDP over VPN only

I know this question has been asked many a times here. But i want to gain certain perspective here. I have enabled VPN on certain systems and then can access remote system using rdp. However they can ...
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Remote desktop client MAC address

Is it possible to determine client mac-address in remote desktop services session? Clients connect over internet. How can I get it? Server: Win Server 2008 R2 or 2012
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Windows Server 2012 & Exchange Server 2013 CAL's [duplicate]

Trying to build an Exchange server solution for a company and they want me to look into licensing for Windows. I'm going to be purchasing the necessary server licenses for Windows Server 2012 Standard ...
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Create a share on iscsi drive in Windows Server 2012

I am brand new to server administration but I don't belive im trying to do anything to exotic I have a windows server 2012 (standard) and a drobo 800i My goal is to setup company shares on the ...
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Can storage-spaces drives be moved to a replacement server when there is a failure

I have tried to search here and Google, but cannot find a case explaining this. Storage spaces is similar to software raid. If the server fails due to motherboard or some other issue, can the drives ...
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Server 2012 intermittently fails to respond to pings from single host, even with firewall disabled, but responds to non-ICMP requests fine

This one is kind of weird. I've got the following machines involved: DC01 - 10.1.2.42, Server 2012, domain controller & DNS server, physical machine nagiosv - 10.1.2.35, CentOS 6.4, Nagios, ...
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How do I login once I promote my Windows Server 2012 to domain controller in my Amazon VPC?

I am following this guide: http://d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net/pdf/EC2_AD_How_to.pdf to setup my domain controller. I get AD installed correctly, but when I do the promotion to DC, the server ...
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powershell Test-Cluster cmdlet: Access is denied. HRESULT: 0x80070005

I joined two hyper-v servers to a domain and added shared storage to both of them. From what I read I should be able to run the test-cluster cmdlet at this point for it to check the configuration, but ...
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Server 2003 IAS RADIUS -> Server 2012 AD DS

I have googled this extensively but have not been able to find a good answer. Does anyone know if ' Windows Server 2003 IAS RADIUS' will query a 'Windows Server 2012 AD DS' and be able to return the ...
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Windows Server 2012 - SSL Cypher Suite Order Not Long Enough

I want to re-order the cypher suites on our new Windows Server 2012 box to help mitigate the BEAST vulnerability for our clients. I went to Local Group Policy => Computer Configuration => ...
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How to inactive windows users, 1 month after their FIRST LOGIN, instead of defining a solid expiration date for them

We want to give access to some Windows Server users so they can remotely have access to our server and download from a special folder of the server. The licenses we give to users, are time base. ...
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Guest domain access internet

I'm using Server 2012 in our environment, there are 2 Windows 8 computers joined the domain. I enable the Guest domain account in AD. Guest logins is ok but they cannot open Internet Explorer to ...
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Windows server 2012 standard activation fails with 0x80072EE2

I am facing a weird problem trying to activate a virtual server running windows server 2012 standard edition: in the end it ends up with 0x80072EE2 error (which should be a timeout). The key is ...
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Invalid directory pathname trying to back up GPO

DFSR replication seems to be broken in my domain, and before starting to fix that, I wanted to take backups of the current Group Policy Objects. However, I am unable to back up the Default Domain ...
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10 day grace period on my 180 day server 2012 evaluation?

I just installed an eval copy of windows server 2012 (datacenter) core. It says its a 180 evaluation, but checking the licensing info I see this: Is this different for core installs than GUI because ...
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Windows Server 2012: Resource footprint of a server core vs Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra install

Is there a doc released by Microsoft (or another reputable source) that details the difference in resource foot print of a server core install vs the minimal GUI install (Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra)? In ...
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windows server 2012 wont boot after instlling on iscsi device

Windows server 2012 installed on a ISCI LUN. Problem noticed after first reboot. Windows boots only if setup DVD is present(i have to ignore "press any key to boot from DVD" prompt). to present the ...
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Slow search in Windows 2012 R2 start menu

I'm using Windows Server 2012 R2 (full version, not core). When I start to type the name of a program in the start menu, there is a latency of several seconds before results are suggested. I suspect ...
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Server 2012 DFS Replication throttling values

Is there any way, via registry edit or something, to throttle the replication throughput by values other than what is listed in the drop-down menu? I would particularly like a 10Mbps or 12Mbps option.
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IIS App Pool Idle Time-out Action .NET Framework 4.5.1

I recently installed the .NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM on a Windows Server 2012 Standard machine running IIS 8.0. There is a new option to suspend application pools when they time out instead of killing ...
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Error with SQL Server Setup 2012 on Windows 2012

I am trying to install SQL Server on Windows 2012. I was able to finally get the wizard up and running after making some changes on the server, but now it fails no matter what I do with the following ...
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Change Windows Server 2012 color scheme without Desktop Experience feature [closed]

I have a Windows Server 2012, blue is nice... but I'd prefer a less "eyes puncher" color, maybe gray or black... I'm a GNU/Linux sysadmin and just the fact of have the entire GUI on a server is ...
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Installation of Active Directory on separate VM from DNS does not entierly work - not sure why

Not sure what I am doing wrong here. I have a moderately midrange server (16 cores, 2Ghz, 32GB ECC REG RAM, 6TB storage, nothing too extreme) where I am running Hyper-V (Server 2012 R2 Enterprise) in ...
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moving to a new dedicated server and need advice on the new setup [closed]

I currently have a dedicated server that we have outgrown and we are moving to another server. Our current setup was a 8gb W2008R2 server running a W2008R2 IIS virtual machine using VMWare. We are ...
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configuring rds without having a domain

How to configure Active Directory Domain Services Configuration if i dont have a domain. problem statement I have a server and i want to install RDS inorder to have session based virtualisation so ...
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Need to stop SQL Server when using Disk Defragmenter?

Our provider told me today that I should stop Microsoft SQL Server and other database systems like MySQL when using the Windows Disk Defragmenter. Otherwise, the database might get corrupted. Since ...
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Enable IIS directory browsing for specific user or group

At home, I have a small server running on Windows Server 2012 and IIS8 (no AD). I want some of the users on my server to be able to access a shared file directory so they can download it via https. I ...
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Getting Windows Server 2012 R2 to see HP Storage Works SATA Array on a HP Proliant DL585 G2

I have installed Windows Server 2012 R2 on a HP Proliant DL585 G2 Server and everything seems to be loaded fine except the external HP Storageworks SAS SCSI Array. On HP's website they have drivers ...
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Windows Server 2012 WDS and Linux Booting

I've been playing with WDS for awhile now because I want to setup a network based boot system for all my business to make it quicker to load images. We use a lot of Linux based OSes and after some ...
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How to access Apache Tomcat running on Windows Server 2012 (alongside Microsoft SMTP service)

I am running Apache Tomcat as my only HTTP server on Windows Server 2012. Tomcat has been installed as a service and is bound to port 80. The server.xml file has had address="0.0.0.0" added to the ...
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Blocking File and Printer Sharing on Windows domain controller

I have a Windows 2012 R2 domain controller that doesn't need any Filter and Printer sharing ports open, so in an attempt to harden the server I've tried disabling the rules in the "File and Printer ...
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Should I have multiple active directories for my local and remote sites?

I'm setting up a new network, now I need a remote (in our DC) and local active directory for various things. I want the email server to be on the remote server (for redundancy) then route through our ...
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Windows Server 2012: Add/Remove Programs? [closed]

In Windows Server (currently using 2012), is there an interface to uninstall 3rd party applications that have been previously installed by an installer (i.e., files as well as registry settings must ...
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Rename - SQL DB Issues

I set up a Windows Server 2012 virtual machine exactly the way we want it. I shut down the instance, made a copy of the .vhdx virtual drive, then spun up a new VM and attached the copy of the drive. ...
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Windows Server 2012 Sharepoint 2013 Active Directory - what are the user limitations?

I was wondering if you guys know if there is any limitation as far as how many users I can have on my sharepoint 2013 site if I'm running server 2012 foundation, I think I saw somewhere that there was ...
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How can I block this traffic I see in wireshark?

I have an application running on my Amazon EC2 hosted windows Server-2012. The application listens for devices to connect to it on a number of ports. This application (known as s.exe) on occation ...
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How to remove channel?

i'm trying to upgrade a windows 2012 core to windows 2012 gui, but it keeps failing. This is the error from cbs.log: 2013-10-11 03:38:14, Error CSI 00000039 (F) Logged @2013/10/...
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Change server time to trigger schedule task

There is a batch file which is scheduled to run at 11PM everynight. And we saw some issues with it, so trying to simulate the behaviour. For which i changed the Windows Server 2012 timing to ...
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How to keep System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 updated on a disconnected network?

In the past, I've used WSUS 3 in disconnected mode by exporting updates from a server on the public internet and importing them to a server on a private totally disconnected network. Sophos has been ...
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IIS can't find PHP files

I am running Windows Server 2012 with IIS. I have enabled CGI and installed PHP with IIS FastCGI and Multi-Byte strings. It is also the Non-Thread safe version. Though, I have made a PHP file to test ...
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How to get Windows Task Scheduler to resume repeating the task every X minutes?

I'm on Windows Server 2012 and I have a task that runs at startup at task creation / modification Both tasks are set to also repeat every 5 minutes, indefinitely. If I disable the task and then re-...
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Assigning GPUs to HyperV2012

I have followed the instructions provided by TechNet to setup HyperV 2012 (Windows Server 2012 Std) to assign GPUs within the HyperV settings: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/...
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Windows Server and SQL Server Licenses [duplicate]

I have the following servers: PROD: 2 x web servers (content delivery) 1 x cms server 2 x database servers (SQL) UAT: 1 x web server (content delivery + cms) 1 x database server (SQL) I'm a bit ...
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Hyper-V machine on Server 2012 losing connectivity randomly

I have start using Hyper-V on my Microsoft Windows 2012 Server, hosting a 2012 server. But randomly my virtual machine loosing connections, i see it now when i trying to copy data to it from a old ...
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How to make clustered storage available from SAN to Hyper-V for two node cluster

I want to make a 2 node SQL Server 2012 cluster. Both nodes are virtual machines running Windows Server 2012 on Hyper-V. I have a physical SAN available which I can use for clustered storage so I was ...
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Use Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition as Virtualisation Host

Would it be reasonable to run the Standard Server 2012 Edition (as opposed to Hyper-V edition) as a virtualisation host? Obviously there is a performance penalty but I guess it's not that bad - are ...
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Server 2012 hyper-v3 live migration

I am trying to do my first live migration with Windows server 2012 hyper-v 3.0. I have two servers joined into a domain.local domain and both are hypervisors with constrained delegation setup. Each ...
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Determine why logs were purged

We had some issues with a user connecting through OWA. This user used to be a server admin. Upon checking today, all IIS logs have been removed up to and including sept 30 (the day the issues were ...
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Sharing ASP.NET State Service sessions between IIS7.5 and 8.0 doesn't work

I've got a web farm consisting of 5 Server 2008R2 machines running IIS 7.5. All of them share session state using a single, separate, server running the ASP.NET State Service (this one also runs 2008 ...

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