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Mysterious login attempts to windows server

I have a Windows 2008R2 server that is reporting failed login attempts from a number of workstations on our network. Some event log details: Event ID 4625, Status: 0xc000006d, Sub Status: 0xc0000064 ...
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130s timeout when accessing service exposed on HTTPS through HTTP

I have windows client application and windows service hosting a web service over HTTPS (on behind it uses standard http.sys). Everything is ok except the situation where user makes a mistake and uses ...
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Connect to Windows Server 2008 running on ec2

I have an instance of the default micro AMI for Windows Server 2008 R1 x32 running on AWS. I can remote in to it, but I can't seem to ping it or connect to a server running on port 25565. I have ...
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Windows Server 2003 R2, SMB, alternative port?

How can I setup SMB on my server to use an alternative port? I'm attempting to use something other than port 445.
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DFSR: Break large replication group into multiple smaller replication groups?

Is there a way to break a very large replication group into smaller replication groups while avoiding a huge backlog while it re-syncs or verifies the files in each smaller replication group? I have ...
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How to use remote desktop to a proxy server that's using Forefront TMG?

I need to get a proxy server going and I have a VM with Forefront TMG installed on it. Problem is that to access the proxy server (which I can't see, ping or access through the network) is only ...
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Exchange 2010 DAG DAC mode would prevent having some databases active on secondary site?

If I have a two nodes Exchange 2010 DAG stretched over two sites with DAC mode enabled and all databases active on primary site, I would still be able to activate some databases on the secondary site ...
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Limited user requires admin rights for plug and play printer?

I have a small fleet of laptops that aren't part of a domain running Windows XP Pro SP3 as limited users. They are used for printing different shipping documents. I have a script that runs when they ...
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Windows 2008 R2 Terminal Server - RemoteApp - Option "Start in" available?

we have set up a Windows 2008 R2 Terminal Server. On this server, we want to run an application which needs another path for the option "Start in" than the application itself. In a shortcut, this is ...
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Script adding domain groups to local groups fails 50% of the time

We have a script that automatically adds a freshly imaged computer to the domain. The functionality of joining the domain is always successful. However, when the script attempts to add the domain ...
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Connect to workgroup computers by name behind ASA 5505 with VPN

We have a Windows workgroup sitting behind an ASA 5505. All clients receive their IP assignment from the ASA. VPN is set up and we can connect to the local LAN and connect to the machines by IP, but ...
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What does sysprep do on Win2k8 with /audit?

Windows 2008 R2 host running Hyper-V. I meant to run "sysprep /audit /reboot" on one of the virtual machines, but ended up running that on the host (doing this through 2 layers of RDP - bad idea). The ...
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Effect of native mode SCCM site server signing certificate RENEWAL on non-domain computers

We have a native mode SCCM installation on our network. For security reasons, we have two servers that are NOT domain joined, but have the native mode SCCM client installed (and functioning nominally)...
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case-insensitive SCOM Rule expression

I have a Rule watching the Application Log for Event 17137 (database starting up). A minor annoyance is that, whenever an instance is failed over, we see alerts fire from both the node and the ...
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View Desktop of all currently logged in Users on Windows Server

We're running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise in a small research project at home. We need multiple users running Software in the background. For Monitoring purposes I'd like to have the ability to ...
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Good Perfmon Counters for Initial Troubleshooting

I increasingly deal with users who complain there "computer is slow" or that "it takes forever to load" on the laptops we provide (fairly standard build of Windows 7 32-bit with Office 2010 and a few ...
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AccessEnum recursion depth

I'm putting together a quarterly audit script and I'm trying to provide information to data owners about the groups they administer. The most difficult aspect of this operation is determining to ...
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Windows Updates icon for Domain Admins

I've got a bit of an odd problem for which I haven't quite found the answer to yet. We've got a server running Server 2008 R2 64-bit with WSUS and group policy objects configured to manage Windows ...
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Can't install Tortoise SVN 1.7.3 on Windows Server 2008 R2

I'm trying to install just the Tortoise SVN client on my windows server 2008 R2 and get the following error message: Could not create key: \Software\Classes\Folder\shellex\ColumnHandlers\{3035-1349-...
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How to enable logs for execution of multiple URLs through cscript.exe & *.vbs bat file

I have multiple URLs to execute. I am currently using below method I am creatving a vbs file with below content Option Explicit Dim objIEA Set objIEA = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") ...
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Windows Server 2003 DC sends Gratuitous ARP requests with wrong IP

Hello and excuse me for my English please. ;-) Two server seems to be involved with this problem. Our DC (domain controller, 2003) an the VMware VC-Server (2008 R2). After capture "some" network ...
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Apache & Tomcat & mod_jk SSL redirection on certain pages only

We have a single Windows server running Apache and Tomcat with mod_jk enabled. The Tomcat app runs perfectly fine as does the separate PHP app (under Apache). We installed a commercial SSL cert ...
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Firewall management in Windows Web Server 2008

I've been trying for hours to block a single port(sql server) from remote access. In linux a single line of iptables command would be enough. In 2008 i couldn't manage to make it happen. The ...
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what is the difference between 'NT Authority\Service' and 'NT Authority\Network Service'?

I am configuring a SQL Server Express 2008R2 instance, and I want the current logged in user to be able to access SQLEXPRESS. Which one should I add at the Database engine configuration step of the ...
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mod_perl (2.0.x) on apache 2.2.x on Windows - abandoned?

mod_perl2 on Windows? It's sometimes beneficial (at least for me) to have a recent Apache http server plus mod_perl2 (and PHP) running on the development (desktop) box to try out some ideas. This ...
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How to fix "SignTool Error: IStore2::Load returned error: 0x80090345"

I have a Jenkins job running the signtool utility on a remote node, the console log looks like so: Started by user anonymous Building remotely on vm-builder [VE] $ cmd /c call "C:\Documents and ...
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IIS 6.0 logging an unknown value for IP address

My IIS 6.0 webserver is logging many thousands of entries that contain "UNKNOWN" in the the IP address field, that is the; Client IP Address (c-ip) option in IIS logging properties. I would say that ...
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Temporary Windows 7 or Linux via PXE for examns

I am working in a university and we have some computer studios, in which some exams are done on computers (e.g. for working with office software, etc.). The exam obviously requires a clean system, so ...
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How to connect to DB2 when the password ends with '!' in Windows

I am facing a problem to use the DB2 tools when using generic account with a generated password which ends with the Bang sign '!' to connect to DB2 database. I am not allowed to change the password ...
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how to find from which site, we got redirect request on iis 7

can you please tell me how to find from which we got redirect request. Is there any way to find programmatically.
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query group policy settings across all group policy objects on an AD server

I'd like to find if a single Group policy setting has been applied on a specific domain / AD server. In the simple case of modifying the the default group policy I can look up the policy setting via: ...
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Setting up Bind DNS on WIndows 7

I have Apache running on Windows 7. Now I'm trying to get Bind DNS working. Here is my db.eg.com.txt file ; ; BIND data file for local loopback interface ; $TTL 604800 @ IN SOA ns.eg.com. root.eg....
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Shortcuts to Networked Locations Disappear

I manage the network of a small business and am having a peculiar issue. One of the employees likes to make shortcuts on her desktop to network location. Every couple of weeks or so, the icons ...
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Win 2008 - "Pin to start menu" doesn't show up as a right-click option

A couple of us in our organization have new VMs with Win 2008, and the "Pin to Start Menu" doesn't show up as an option when we right-click a program. Also, the start menu is entirely empty. Any ...
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Which is the most reliable means of copying archives using binary deltas across Windows SMB shares?

I've been searching for the quickest way to copy some WAR and JAR files for huge software deployments between Windows systems. Clearly, multithreaded robocopy or any rsync protocol implementation will ...
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Windows Server 2K3, Domain Controller Update Error Code: 0x80070005

I had several Server Win2K3 machines with the same error. On all but one, the reset.cmd fixed the issue. The one it failed on is a DC and the primary. Any ideas on how to get around this failure? I'm ...
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SQL Server Web Edtion Failover Cluster

Is it possible to run an SQL Server Web edition in a Windows 2008 R2 Failover Environment? I want to host a Website with backend database but keep it failsave with a failover cluster (install it on ...
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OpenVPN GUI keeps disconnecting/reconnecting on Windows 7

I'm having an interesting issue with Windows 7 where several customer's OpenVPN clients are constantly connecting & disconnecting to my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server. I'm able to connect to the same ...
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Windows SBS 2008 user unable to RDP in even though it is in the correct groups

Problem: A user was accidentally deleted from a Windows SBS 2008 server running Active Directory and we have been unable to grant it RDP rights - the error message states that the account needs to be ...
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can SECEDIT.exe be used to only add 1 group to 1 security policy? example?

I am assuming based on my research for using SECEDIT.exe -- that a template would be added to the exisitng security .SDB file. That this template would be very tiny... only naming the security policy ...
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File Server in External Harddisk

I know how to configure Web Server in Linux/Windows but now the problem is with hosting files. The files I need to host is around 200 MB each and there are around 1000 files. In this scenario, can ...
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Oracle ODBC: DB on Windows Server 2003 – Windows 7 Client Connection Problems

I have an Oracle DB on a Win 2k3 Server (64-Bit). I have to access the database from a Win7 (64-Bit) machine. I have downloaded Instant Client and the 64-Bit ODBC driver, and have apparently ...
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Sysprep rearm set to 1 and shouldn't have been. Any workarounds for automatic activation prior to the 30 day period?

I work for a fairly large school. We are deploying 850 tablet PCs to students starting tomorrow (Windows 7 Enterprise with a MAK). We have imaged all of these machines with our standard student image ...
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Windows mail server that supports username wildcard aliases?

Is there any free mail server (in this case POP3) for Windows that supports aliases? e.g. User name: iboyd Aliases: [email protected] ian.*@serverfault.com amanda@...
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Outlook Addin Best Practice - Where to store the configuration when you deploy the addin from a server?

I've seen some posts about this, but i have a specific requirement. What is the optimal solution to save the configuration for an Outlook (2007/2010) Addin when you want to also make sure that the ...
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IIS windows integrated Auth

I have a one way trust with a foreign domain, they access my web application hosted in IIS using windows integrated auth.. problem i am seeing for every new request iis does the auth agains the DC ...
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how to configure machine settings for all users for IE windows server 2008 IE 9?

I have code that should make a screenshot from IE WebBrowser control so when I set the IE settings for from the security tab in internet options it seems to be separated per each user. So I decided ...
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Windows GPO "Allow Remote Shell Access", where to set 'False' once you enable it?

OS : Windows 7 64 bit Under Local Group Policy Editor > Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Remote Shell > there is a policy ...
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Server 2008 DHCP problem - Can't join a domain

I have just installed Server 2008 and have set up DHCP and it seems to be working fine, until you go to join a computer to the domain. It will allow you to type the credentials in to join the domain ...
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After a week of smooth running, my Dell t310 servername reverted to the service tag and screwed everything up!

Has this happened to anyone else? Began having a tremedous amount of problems with our brand new Dell SBS 2011 T310 server and after nearly 15 hours will Dell support, they determined that the server ...
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