Questions tagged [windows]
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Win7 scheduled task minute settings?
I must process a bat file for every minute but win7 scheduled task not allow per minute. Lowest 5 minutes. Can I set scheduled task win7 for per minute?
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How do I scale EC2 and push out code / data to my instances?
I currently have a T1.micro for development running Windows with SQL server 2008.
The system allows students to come to our site to search for a mentor, update their profile with pictures and ...
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Migrating ODBC information through a batch file
I am a desktop support technician currently working on a large scale migration project across multiple sites. I am looking at a way to transfer ODBC entries from Windows XP to Windows 7. If anyone ...
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BAD stripes in controller and windows utility to remap bad blocks
Ok, here is my story. I have 3 disks raid 5, one of the disks made a few surface errors and I didn't know. I tried to repair the corrupted database table in mysql and the machine froze on write. I ...
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OID (directory service) Installation and configuration on Windows 2003 R2
I need your help in installing and configuring Oracle Internet Directory service on Windows 2003 R2 server machine, I was wondering if anyone can provide any useful tutorial links on the same. I did ...
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Read access to Active Directory property (uSNChanged)
I have an issue with read access to the uSNChanged property when doing LDAP searches.
If I do an LDAP search with a user that is a member of the Domain Admins group (UserA), I can see the uSNChanged ...
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Having XP VM use my host OSX ssh tunnel to connect to a remote site? [closed]
I am using Mac OSX and have Windows XP running on VMWare Fusion. I'm creating an ssh tunnel from OSX to a remote server, and then trying to have Windows XP use that tunnel (I actually use a program ...
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RDP Windows 7 to Windows XP
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WarningMsg
10/16/2012 2:34:05 PM
RDP disconnected!
Remote Desktop can’t connect to the remote computer for one of these reasons:
1) Remote access to the server is not enabled
2) The ...
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Backup/copy open files from network share on a NAS device
We have several network shares mapped via DFS (Windows Server 2008 R2) on external NAS. That NAS is simple and doesn't support snapshots. We are making backup from the NAS via robocopy but from time ...
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use correct-resolution background desktop image
I have a desktop background image (a picture) in a half-dozen different resolutions, that I'd like to deploy to a disparate collection of computers with different monitors and video cards and whatnot. ...
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Is there a visual tool running on Windows that lets me display CPU load etc on Windows and Linux machines?
I would like to have a real time visual status screen displaying the current CPU usage (and possibly memory consumption) for a number of remote machines. These machines will be reachable only using ...
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Win Group Overlap: Authenticated Users and System
I'm seeing some weird behaviour with a few of my ACEs at the minute, particularly when denying the Authenticated Users instead of the usual Domain\Domain Users. As a consequence of this, I can only ...
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Windows Installation cancelled because a required driver could not be installed
I'm installing windows directly to an iSCSI target and I'm getting this error:
Windows Installation cancelled because a required driver could not be installed
How do I get around this? Is there a ...
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User authentication on multiple PC with the same username and password
In our institute we would like to setup a system for the student. All the PC's are Win7 and we would like to achieve that the user don't have to sit always in the front of the same computer, but I it ...
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Plesk Updates Overwriting my PHP.ini [closed]
This may be more relevant on stackoverflow, if so please migrate it :-)
I have had to disable automatic updates in Plesk on my Windows server as everytime an update is installed, my php.ini ...
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Fonts doesn't render in Chrome or IE in Windows Server 2008
When I visit, for example, http://www.bolagsverket.se from a user account on this Windows 2008 Server, Chrome displays the site but all the text is gone. When I try in IE it's even worse, it doesn't ...
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Utility for notifying a user that their roaming profile is getting too large to copy before shutdown?
My users are having an issue with their roaming profiles getting too large and then their roaming profile is lost. I believe this is because this is because they are storing too much in their roaming ...
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What special configuration is needed to have a domain controller with DNS on a VM in Hyper-V?
I have a server running Windows Server 2012 and it only has the Hyper-V role.
I have a VM also running Windows Server 2012 and it has the Active Directory: Directory Services and DNS ([example.com]) ...
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Hyper-v dynamic memory client machines always use maximum memory
When I create a virtual machine in Hyper-V and set it up to use dynamic memory, the virtual machine will always use the maximum memory within the virtualized OS. Hyper-V will show the assigned memory ...
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How to speed up the Kubuntu installed on virtualbox running on Windows 7?
I've Windows 32 bit OS with 4GB RAM and installed Linux Kubuntu on virtualbox on it. The entire memory has been split up between the two. Both Windows and Linux running on 2GB RAM simultaneously which ...
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Cannot connect to nginx on EC2, when it's configured on port different than 80,8090,443
I am trying to connect Nginx on EC2 instance (Windows 2008) by using a port "1234".
While nginx configured on port 80, 443, 8090 it works fine, but when I use some different port - I could not connect ...
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How do I use Group Policy on a domain to delete Temporary Internet Files?
I have a domain controller running on Windows 2008 Server R2 and users login to application servers on which Windows 2003 Server SP2 is installed. I have applied a Group Policy to clean temporary ...
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Windows Vista on AWS [closed]
I've only found details about running Windows Server on AWS, is it possible to create my own Windows Vista VMWare instance locally and upload the image to AWS?
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VPN LAN-to-LAN via software?
First of all, sorry my lousy english.
How can one setup a VPN LAN-to-LAN using only software?
On one side I have a Server 2003 R2, on the other ends, simple XP and W7 machines.
I have my software ...
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how change nginx temp & log folder or disable logging completely
I'm running nginx 1.3.5 under windows seven, I need to execute nginx directly from a read-only media (CD or DVD), but when I want to run it, it fails with this error:
nginx: [alert] could not open ...
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How can I easily test connectivity to external sources with WinHTTP?
I've got an server application that uses Winhttp to fetch information from an external source. Occasionally, I'll need to troubleshoot connectivity issues and I'd like an easy way to test connections ...
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Why doesn't my web page load completely every time?
I have an intranet website running on IIS 7. When I try to load my site, it reacts differently every time. Here are the following different scenarios that occur when I try to load my site:
The site ...
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Batch file to uninstall windows update?
Is it possible to make a batch file to uninstall a specific windows update (eg. KBxxxxxx)? We use 20 year old web based software to enter hours where I work and a new update is causing the program to ...
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Can gpresult query the default user template on a standalone machine?
On a standalone machine I can query the local policy using gpresult and specifying the desired user account like so:
gpresult /USER username /h C:\report.html
How could I do the same thing, but for ...
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Reaching machine from another network (having RDP to another machine in the same network)
Lets say there is Machine A (Ubuntu) in Network A and Machine B in Network B. There is also Machine C (Windows 7) in Network B and I can access it through RDP from Machine A.
What I need is to be able ...
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LAN queries not resolved in BIND
I have a public url like app1.wifi.com,so that I can access my url from anywhere. Now I want to set that same url to my local machine. If I type app1.wifi.com from my LAN, it should routed to local ...
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Active Directory Replication - One way street?
I have two Windows Server 2012 Virtual Machines with Active Directory Domain Services installed. They are both Domain Controllers on the same domain, and both are running DNS servers.
When both ...
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What is the minimal setup for a file server supporting file permissions connected by a handful of client machines
In the past our small firm has been file sharing via a Windows Workgroup with a mix of <10 XP, Vista and Win7 machines.
I understand the basic concept of a Workgroup vs Domain and the advantages ...
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CPU under heavy load with simple file copy on windows VPS on ESXi host
I recently bought a VPS and am in contact with their support about this issue, but I would also like to get an expert opinion from here.
It's a fully updated Windows Server 2008 R2 VPS hosted on ...
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"Internet Explorer 8" autocomplete password encryption method
Internet Explorer 8 encrypts form autocomplete passwords and stores them in the Registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IntelliForms. I understsand that the URL of the site ...
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Pantech UML290 Verizon Driver
Is there a separate driver available for Pantech UML290 4G LTE USB Modem? I would prefer not to have to install VZAccess, but use the default Windows DUN support.
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Installing Asp.net 3.5 sp1 on windows 2008 web server edition
I am trying to install sql server 2012 on windows 2008 web server edition but failing as asp.net 3.5 sp1 is missing.
I cannot add asp.net 3.5 on this version as there is no 'Application Server' role.
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Windows 7 uses always IPC$ as path when connecting to a samba share
I have a smb share : \mysmb\www
When connection from Windows XP all runs fine. When connecting from Windows 7 I got an error like 'wrong password'.
In smbd log I can see :
Invalid username/...
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Exchange certificate questions
I got the following message The STARTTLS certificate will expire soon. Now I tried to create new certificates, but currently the old ones are still used.
Questions:
Can I backup the old certificate ...
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rackspace cloud windows server vpn connections between servers using RRAS
I have 2 soon to be 4 servers in rackspace cloud, they are windows 2008 64 bit r2 machines. I am trying to set up a private network with which I can VPN into. I have a proven working model of this ...
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coldfusion 9 and IIS 7.5 windows authentication security pass through
We are using Windows 2008R2, IIS 7.5, Coldfusion 9 and our websites are virtually hosted. A number of websites use windows authentication protected folders to limit access.
We are finding that html, ...
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excecute batch command over MSI Package
I have a huge network of PCs that are all in a same domain (active directory). I want to enable WMI service and relative port, then set the domain's administrator credentials to WMI credentials over ...
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Disable speakers on Windows client machines?
I am looking for a way with which I can completely disable Windows-audio-output on on a group of computers that our students use.
Ideally, I would like to disable it only for students and enable it ...
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Windows Tool - SFTP to Multiple Server [closed]
does anyone know of any tool available.
I have around 100 servers and i'd like to transfer a single file into each of them.
Is there any windows tool that does this?
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Decommissioning PKI - How do I set a CRL Next update to null?
I am planning on deploying two Windows 2008R2 PKIs: One for legacy devices that don't support SHA-2 / ECP and another one that does support it.
When the time comes to decommission the SHA1 ...
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Task scheduler not running (Server)
I have written a simple bat file to copy .txt files from one drive into another one. I want this to run everyday at this time but the problem is when I'm not logged in to the server the task does not ...
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Can't ping a DNS zone on windows server 2008 R2
I´ve just configured a windows server 2008 r2, but got a lot of problems on DNS role.
Let me talk about the server configuration:
name: fdserver
IP address: 192.168.0.10
I have a DNS zone called "fd....
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Using squid to capture https - how to do non transparent proxy?
The root of the problem: I need to block access to https://somewebsite.com/folder/index.php; but allow access to the rest of the site. I thought the best way to accomplish it would be through a proxy ...
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Migrating a small office away from an Active Domain setup
I'm helping a small charity move away from an Active Domain setup. They will be using Google Apps and Dropbox to replace the main functionality and their new office will just have a router providing ...
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Windows equivalent for ip route show cache
What is the Windows equivalent for
ip route show cache
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ip route show 172.16.225.53 table cache
On linux it shows cached route for the host:
172.16.225.53 from 172.19.55.150 dev tun0
cache ...