Questions tagged [windows-server-2008]
Windows Server 2008 is a Microsoft server operating system released in February 2008 and reached End Of Life on January 14, 2020. It is the successor to Windows Server 2003 and is based on the Windows Vista codebase. It was succeeded by Windows Server 2008 R2. This tag should only be used for questions related to Windows Server 2008. If your question is about Windows Server 2008 R2, please use the Windows-Server-2008-R2 tag.
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IIS aborts request thread with Win32 status 995
We have a site where we have trouble on our production server, but not on my dev machine with request beeing aborted (hence, zero response).
It fails after exactly 1:19 minutes each time, and the ...
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Could not continue scan with NOLOCK due to data movement during installation
I am running Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition R2 x64 and I installed SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition. All of the preliminary checks run fine (Apart from a warning about Windows Firewall and ...
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Shadow Copies not growing to maximum
I have a 2008R2 and 2012 servers that has been in production for quite some time, running smoothly - I have never paid attention to VSS.
Various volumes with Shares are setup to capture shadows ...
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FTP Error 530, User cannot log in, home directory inaccessible
I've been tasked with setting up an FTP directory for a client of ours. I'm working from a Windows 2008 Server with IIS 7 installed.
To create the FTP user directory I've followed this eHow tutorial.
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Passive FTP on Windows Server 2008 R2 using the IIS7 FTP-Server
During the last few days I have been setting up a Windows Server 2008 R2 in a VMware. I installed the standard FTP-Server on it by using the Webserver (IIS)-role.
Everything works fine with accessing ...
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Timer_EntityBody, Timer_ConnectionIdle and Connection Closed Unexpectly
We have a windows application, it connects to a web service (XML web service hosted on a Windows 2008 Server IIS 7.5, no antivirus) and fetches some data to the client. But sometimes (around 5%-10% of ...
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PsExec.exe- The network path was not found
While trying to run a batch file present on a remote machine.
.\PsExec.exe \\<IP> -u <username> -p <pass> sample_bat.bat
I am encountering below error
Couldn't access : The ...
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"ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer" error trying to connect to OpenSSH on Windows machine
I'm trying to set up an SSH server on my Windows2k8 server. I used the instructions found here. Here's the verbose output:
steves-air:~ steve$ ssh [email protected] -v
OpenSSH_7.9p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3
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Windows Deployment Services Fails After Reboot [RPC Related]
I have installed the Windows Deployment Service as a role on our main Domain Controller, which also has the File Services and DHCP Roles installed on it.
During a routine maintenance update for ...
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Can I disable Windows Event Logging for a certain service?
We have a legacy application running on a Windows Server 2008 VM from Azure that is spamming our windows event log every minute or so. I do not have access to the source for the bit of code that is ...
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Developing on Windows Server 2008 vs Developing on Windows 7
I mostly develop .net web applications and sometimes client apps on wpf.
Now I use Windows 7 as a development environment on my laptop. I am thinking of installing Windows Server 2008 R2 to my other ...
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How to use HAProxy as a load balancer with SSL for Terminal Server Environment?
I've been working to implement a load balancer using HAProxy and use the load balancer as a bridge to backend(Terminal Server Windows 2008 R2), so that remote session between client to the load ...
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Update environment variables from the command line (Windows 2008 Server Core)
Fairly straightforward question. I need to update my PATH environment variable in Windows Server 2008 Core. Considering there's no GUI, how is this done from the command line?
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AdsmClientService Event ID 4099
I'm getting a bunch of this erorr message in our server:
ANS4987E Error processing
'\FE01\c$\Windows\System32\config\RegBack\SECURITY': the
object is in use by another process
The server has ...
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windows security log - failure reason startswith %%
Please help - do You have the list with descriptions of failure reasons eg. %%2313, %%2307... I've researched Net and nothing.. :(
Mainly I see it in ID 4625 in Windows security logs.
On http://www....
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Lync 2010 Endpoint was unable to register
So after deploying a Standard edition of Lync 2010, When testing the outside connectivity I'm getting an error: The endpoint was unable to register.
I make sure everythins was properly in place: DNS ...
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Disabling LDAP Signing on Windows PDC in Local Policy
I just tripped over my own feet it seems.
Playing around on a Windows 2008 R2 server (set up as domain controller), I was intrigued by certain warning event (event id 2886) which says:
"To enhance ...
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Hyper-V virtual machine unable to get IP address from DHCP server running on same physical box
We have a Windows server 2008 R2 with two network cards running AD, DHCP, DNS and Hyper-V
The first nic is setup with a static IP address and DHCP, WDS, and DNS are bound to it.
The second nic is ...
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ntrights equivalent/replacement for Server 2008
Does anyone know what or if there exists a replacement utility for the Server 2000/Server 2003 command line tool ntrights on Server 2008? More info on this utility (for those that don't know what it ...
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Terminal Server 2008 (32 bit) fails to load profile (sometimes)
I'm having an issue with a virtualized Terminal Server running Windows Server 2008 (32-bit). It doesn't seem to be affecting any users connecting with HP Thin-Clients, only with my test accounts which ...
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how to find the "Remote Desktop Connection Broker" server in a Windows Server envrionment?
I am about to setup the licensing for the Remote Desktop server and point it to the licensing server. Problem is, I am not sure if this environment even has a connection broker server installed or do ...
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Why is DNS Forwarder not resolving/working?
I just installed a Win 2008 Remote DC in one of our sites. For the DNS setting, it's using 127.0.0.1 as it's Primary and 10.1.1.2 (this is our AD/DNS in the Main HQ) as Secondary. We have some ...
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EventID 1058 Code 5, Sysvol is subdir of Sysvol - how to fix?
I have been trying to resolve this error, like many others:
The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows attempted to read the file \domain.local\SysVol\domain.local\Policies{3EF90CE1-6908-44EC-...
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Any benefit or detriment from removing a pagefile on an 8 GB RAM machine?
I'm running Windows 7 on a dual core, x64 AMD with 8 GB RAM.
Do I even need a page file?
Will removing it help or hurt performance?
Would it make a difference if this is a server or a desktop?
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Can someone please explain Windows Service Principle Names (SPNs) without oversimplifying?
I have wrestled with service principle names a few times now and the Microsoft explanation is just not sufficient. I am configuring an IIS application to work on our domain and it looks like some of ...
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Search AD by GUID
How do I search Active Directory for objects by GUID? In other words, what would be a good way to find what objects belong to specified GUIDs?
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Jetty Service on Windows Server 2008 using Procrun: Missing service ImageFile
Xe want to run Jetty as a service on a Windows 2008 Server Virtual Machine. Therefore, I configured Jetty as a Windows Service using Apacke Procrun, following this short description: https://...
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Windows Server: Only allow running one concurrent instance of a program?
I am on a Windows Server 2008 R2. Is it possible to limit the number of concurrent instances of a program/an executable file for a user?
An example: I would like to prevent the users from starting ...
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how to have gpresult on remote comupter outputted as xml or html?
I'm on a Windows 2016 server and I'm trying to get the RSOP from a Windows 2008 remote computer using the command GPRESULT. However when I use the command:
gpresult /S 10.0.52.234 /U Administrator /P ...
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Find the GPO name with an GUID?
I'm monitoring ad logs, when someone modify an AD Object, I could see a log, but only the GUID of that Group Policy was provided in the line.
So given an GUID of a Group Policy, is it possible to get ...
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Wrong IP address registering in DNS
I've just taken over a small business network with 2 Windows servers. SRV2 (Server 2008 R2) is primarily a data backup for SRV1 (Server 2003); they're both DNS servers as well.
Our primary LAN ...
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Script To Query Local Policy Windows Server 2008
this is my first time auditing and hardening a Windows 2008 server.
I thought that i could query the registry settings on the box using a command like reg query <registry name> . However i didn'...
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DNS alias for old path/server *redirection maybe*
We have an old Windows Server 2008. This was end of life in 2020 and needs to be shutdown.
We have an replacement Windows Server 2022 host.
On the old server we have an \\servername\share.
On the new ...
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Alternative to Windows Server?
At work there are over 30 PC, some of them are Windows Vista Home and Windows 7 Home.
I just realized Windows Server is not worth it because it require to connect "Domain" on the clients PC. Windows ...
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Unable to bind OSX 10.9 to Active Directory 2008
I am struggling to bind OSX 10.9 to a 2008 r2 Active Directory. I can join the domain fine when I boot into Windows from the same machine. From OSX I can find the domain controller successfully and ...
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Is MSIZAP still useful, or is it obsolete?
I update flash using MSI files installed by group policy. However, with every update, about a third of the workstations fail to update (Windows Vista and Windows 7 32/64-bit editions). In the event ...
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How to make AD highly available for applications that use it as an LDAP service
Our situation
We currently have many web applications that use LDAP for authentication. For this, we point the web application to one of our AD domain controllers using the LDAPS port (636).
When we ...
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Convert Physical Server 2008 R2 to VM
I need to convert a Physical Server into a Hyper-V Virtual machine. I used the "Disk2vhd" Tool, but when uploading the image, it does not recognize the Operating System. I also used the &...
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Setting up multiple domains in Exchange as different Organizational Units?
I some questions regarding the above a few months ago, and was pointed to the tutorials below. I have followed the tutorials, but have a few more questions for you experts.
http://technet.microsoft....
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Windows 2008 Web Enrollment Fails The RPC server is unavailable. 0x800706ba (WIN32: 1722)
I am setting up an RA and a Subordinate CA who is also an AD.
I can issue certs through certutil and the mmc snap-in with no problem.
But when I try using Web Enrollment in the RA, it fails saying "...
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VSS writer NTDS State 11 failed and other writers state 5
We use Altaro VMBackup V7.0.20.3 to back up some VMs hosted on a single Hyper-V Host running Windows Server 2012 R2. One of the VMs running Windows Server 2008 gets the following error after the ...
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Remove AD User account with powershell fails
Am trying to delete a list of accounts that are either no longer needed or people who have left our employ. I was thinking powershell would be the easiest and so far have the following script to ...
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Is there a way to Remote Desktop to a local session in Server 2008, without being restricted to a single session?
The usability of the /console and /admin switches for Remote Desktop sessions has been removed after Windows XP/2003. Microsoft claims that the functionality of connecting to a local session in newer ...
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CA Offline Standard publish Active Directory
I have a hierarchy of one offline CA (standard) and 2 subCAs (enterprise).
The offline CA is not published in Active Directory and the 2 SubCa's are published in AD.
Can the offline CA be modified to ...
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Request Certificate CA
I have a Windows server configured as a Certificate Authority (CA).
When requesting a certificate via https://server/certServ and choosing the template to request (Request Certificate->Advance ...
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How to copy IIS configuration from a server to another?
I have an already configured IIS on a Windows Server 2008 SP2.
I would like to replicate the same configuration on a brand new IIS installed on another 2008 SP2 server. Of course the hostname and IP ...
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Limit number of concurrent user logins in Windows Server 2008 Active Directory
Is there the possibility to limit Active Directory users' max concurrent login sessions?
I've read many articles and discussions about the solution, but none of them seem to be working.
Many had ...
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How can I remove specific events from the event log in Windows Server 2008?
Do I need a third party tool for this?
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Negotiation timed out - issue with windows IKE2 VPN
This is a complete new one for me.
We've got a VPN (cert based) running happily on the domain. However after a while of working ok (and usually after I get to home to the other side of town) I find I ...
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Task Scheduler runs as hidden, how to make it visible?
This small but really annoying thing worked well on the Windows Server 2003 machines. After upgraded to 2008 and it's new flawless Scheduler, the scheduled Console Applications are running in hidden ...
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