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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Compute Engine VM clock runs fast and gains 15 seconds per hour (or about 1 second per each 4 minutes)

I have a 2 vm instances in GCE that do not keep correct time in spite of the server OS being set to sync with NTP every 24 hours. The OS clock gains about 1 second of time every four minutes (or ...
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Windows Server 2008 Shared Folder Access

I have a Windows Server 2008 with a folder shared. When i try to access the shared folder from within the network i get this Audit Failure: An account failed to log on. Subject: Security ID: ...
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Evidences for VMWare Snapshot restoration from Guest OS

I have few VMWare servers managed by an external company and I suspect a snapshot restoration happened on one of my server (MS Windows 2008 Server). I suspected this because there was a windows ...
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How to expose HTTP port on azure VM

I am trying to expose port 7445 on my azure VM (Windows server 2008) for HTTP (not HTTPS) requests, I have added an inbound rule for this port still cant access it. Dose any one have idea what I am ...
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Windows Performance Monitoring - "Packets Received Discarded" Never Changes

I wrote the following short PowerShell script to help diagnose some performance issues on a server: $counters = @("\Process(*)\% Processor Time","\Process(*)\Working Set","\Process(*)\IO Read Bytes/...
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Add an account from a trusted domain to Domain Admins

Our domain is trusting an external domain (not in the same forest) and we need to add a group from the external domain into the Domain Admins group of our domain. I understand that the Domain Admins ...
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Access Denied issue, SQL Server LocalDB on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

Running SQL Server LocalDB 2012 and 2014 on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 VM I have some bizarre issues which don't happen when running on Windows 7 or Windows 10. I can create databases, save data to ...
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How to restrict a IIS7 WCF service to a specific IP

I'm trying to enable one IP adress from accessing and consuming my WCF service. How can i do it ? is there a way to do it with IIS ?
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active directory - taking out the nonexpiry value on accounts provided in csv

i have been triying to run a simple script to select and set as nonexpiry some accounts in my domain with this script: Import-Csv "C:\temp\ne.csv" | ForEach-Object ($samAccountName = $_."...
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All DCs fail VerifyEnterpriseReferences and DNS RReg Test - Everything else works including replication to a brand new DC

So, we recently added a new DC to our domain (Win 2008 R2 Enterprise) with the idea to replace our Win 2008 R2 Standard DC with a second Enterprise one - which will give us the 2 DCs on 2008 R2 ...
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Cant access Windows Server via NetBIOS but FQDN works

2 Windows 10 machines. Machine1 can access \\Server1 via NetBIOS. Machine2 can not. However Machine2 can access \\Server2 via NetBIOS and Machine1 can not. If you use the FQDN it works without issue ...
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Attempting to reconfigured DC that was tombstoned and is offline - 'Delete Domain' in dcpromo?

We have a DC (BDC2) that a former SysAdmin was trying to set up so we could decommission an older DC. This DC was mostly set up, and then abandoned (IE, it was sitting shelved on a VM that was turned ...
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Shared Windows Folders - Subfolder Permission Issue

Windows Server (any version), shared folder with subfolders, something like this: Department1 Jim John where Department1 is the network share, and Jim / John are subfolders. What I want ...
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Making an HTTP Request for an ADFS IP, Getting "There are no registered protocol handlers"

I am trying to use the passive requester protocol defined in http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsfed/federation/v1.2/ws-federation.html To do this, I am making the GET Request: curl -X GET -k -i 'https://...
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Enable TLS 1.2 on Windows 2008 for 32-bit applications

I'm trying to enable TLS 1.2 for outgoing connections from a classic ASP site running on IIS. I have tried adding the registry settings outlined in the questions below but this hasn't helped. Check ...
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Windows Service: specifying a custom stop command

We have a custom application that messes with a LOT of 3rd party resources. When terminating, we need to gracefully "give up the lease" so to speak. The app itself is written in .NET Core (and ...
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Automate setting Update Server settings for non domain servers

I am trying to automate setting about 40 non domain servers to use a WSUS server. I've read posts like Can I use Powershell to configure Local group policy settings in windows server 2008 r2 and I've ...
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how to have multiple nginx apps without using docker

I am using Windows Server 2008 as my server and I have installed cygwin on it. I have installed nginx on cygwin and it is working fine. I am running 2 projects on this server and each one has its ...
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How to switch from Trial to Licenced CAL Windows Server 2008

I have finaly purchased my RDS CAL licences and now need to switch user from Trial to Licence but even if I remove from registry trial info from server or client the client still get Trial 120 days. ...
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Cannot RDC a Win10 client machine

In our Windows SBS 2011 network with about a ten Windows 10 1803 client machines, we cannot connect to one of them using Remote Desktop Connection. The error is the following: Here are the Firewall ...
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Exchange 2010 queue viewer not working in Exchange Management console

I recently agreed to help my works network admin with the exchange 2010 server (seeing as I have experience in 2016 which were migrating to at the end of the year), but when trying to administer it, I ...
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Windows 2016 File Server - NTFS Permissioning issues

We are migrating 4 shares from NetApp to Windows 2016 File Server using following Robocopy command. 'Share Perms' on both sides are 'Everyone, Full Control' and expecting Robocopy to copy over 'NTFS ...
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ADFS 2.0 -> 2016 Migration And Service Accounts

I inherited a migration of ADFS 2.0 on Windows Server 2008R2 to ADFS on Windows Server 2016. The task had been started manually, but not completed. I am using the MS scripts, and exported ...
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Install Antivirus on Windows Server 2008 R2

So, I have a CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 - Level 1 image that needs to have an Anti-Virus installed and set to scan every day. This must be done with PowerShell so I can fit it into the ...
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Server 2008 R2 - Migrating SYSVOL to DFSR stuck at Migration has not yet reached

Scenario: DC01 - Windows 2008 R2 - DC DC02 - Windows 2003 - DC I wanted to migrate active directory to 2016 server. First I removed the 2003 base DC successfully without any error messages, then ...
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Enabling TLS 1.1/1.2 on Windows Server 2008 SP2 still not possible

first for those of you, who might think, this question has been asked so many time before so it is a useless duplicate... I cannot (yet) comment on other questions, so my only option on this is to ...
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Not able to create DFS namespace in a completely new forest

Not able to create DFS namespace in a completely new forest OS: Windows server 2016 DFL: 2003 FFL: 2003 DFS role on member server creating very first namespace server - Errors in : The object ...
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symantec endpoint protection geo blocking

How can I create a firewall rule that will only allow RDP connections from my country (on specified port) ? All the rest will be blocked. I am using Symantec Endpoint Protection 14.0 RU1 build 3929....
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How to copy windows servers 2008 domain users to 2012 server?

How to move new server with all current users? I have windows server 2008r2 then I have to move to new server with 2012. Is it possible?
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GCE - Windows Remote Desktop - No Remote Desktop License Server

Having Windows Server instance in Google Compute Engine. Used to connect using Remote desktop and it was working fine. for Last few days cant able to do Remote Desktop via Mac and Windows machine. It ...
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Windows AD domain - Server 2008 level - How to forward DNS requests for a single subdomain only to an external DNS server?

Internally, our AD domain is contoso.com, and our internal DNS servers present that domain authoritatively. We're at Server 2008 forest/domain level. Externally, contoso.com is a domain owned and ...
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Pointing specific users or OU's to specific DC's for logon authentication

I have around 200 users. 50 are in Asia, 50 in southern and Eastern Europe and around 100 in Western Europe. I would like to point the 50 users who are in Asia to our DC in Asia, and currently it ...
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Unable to install GoogleCloudSDKInstaller on windows 2008 R2 standard

I am getting an error which says the following when trying to install GoogleCloudSDKInstaller on windows 2008 R2 standard server. Download failed: HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden Output folder: C\Program ...
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Access denied connecting to a share using Windows 10

On a Windows 2012 R2 computer a folder is shared, let us call it 'SharedFolder'. A Group called 'AccessSharedFolder' containing me has Read-Access to this folder on NTFS Level. Shared Level is: ...
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VM loses LAN Connection

I've got an SBS 2011 with Hyper-V. It has 1 Server 2008 VM as Terminalserver on it. When someone starts a Web Browser or opens a link from an e-mail. All users lose connection to the VM. It doesn't ...
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Domain service account fails to login locally before successfully logging into the Domain Controller

We are currently seeing an issue in our environment where domain service accounts are attempting to validate against a machine locally. These attempts fail, generating Event 4625 with Sub Status ...
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Power Supply Information

Is it possible to view power supply information of a remote Windows (2008) server? It's a Dell Poweredge R720 The physical server is in a remote location and I only have RDP access. I can't see ...
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Why restarting windows server is so important? [closed]

I work on Windows Server 2008 R2. This is very busy server. I use SAS on this server and often get 'OUT OF RESOURCES' message. I restart the server to solve the problem. I want to understand in detail ...
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How to clean up old connections before mapping a new drive?

I have scripts on Windows Server 2008r2 that access specific resources on other server systems using limited credentials. If a person or other script has also accessed that system from this server ...
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Source for ACPI Power State: soft-off

We suffer from unpredictable server shutdowns (Fujitsu, 2k8 R2). The only unusual message in the logs are: 2018/06/29 13:14:13 [03006A] ACPI Power State: soft-off (S5 - by override) (INFO) CSS: no ...
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How does Windows Service Control Manager Work?

This is the Microsoft Document https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/cc756379%28v%3dws.10%29 Service Control Manager transmits control ...
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On windows server core, how can I copy file located in my local computer to the windows server?

On windows server core, how can I copy file located in my local computer to the windows server ?
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How to tell who is accessing my server by IP instead of FQDN (SFTP)

Long story short, we have 100 or so clients. Some access us by IP (1.1.1.1), and some access us by IP ftp.contoso.com. We use Bitwise SFTP server if that is helpful. Is there any way we can detect ...
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ERROR: The version of the .NET Framework Configuration Provider (machineConfig64) are different on the source (2.0) and destination (4.0)

First I'll start by saying that this question is similar to this question: Cannot use msdeploy to sync 2 websites - ERROR_FRAMEWORK_VERSIONS_DO_NOT_MATCH. Actually my use case is different... but ...
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Windows Error reporting stopped one service?

I have the problem with one service in win2k8 One of my service terminated unexpectedly while going through event logs i have following logs Event 7036 Source - service control manager The Windows ...
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IIS 7.5 Domain Restriction working but not IP

We have a web service that we are trying to impose access restrictions on in production. This web service lies on LAN based internal server. It is called from web applications sitting on the same ...
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Issue accessing remote web service port from a Windows Server box

I have an issue where every laptop and phone I have access to can access a 3rd party remote URL (which contains WCF service) at an address like: http://example.com:17001/ServiceName.svc This can be ...
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MongoDB is not connecting through window server?

When I am trying to connect mongodb server which is running on google window server. It is giving error Network is unreachable. I check the firewall port is open for all connection. mongodb is ...
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Local domain access issues

I moved our DHCP from a windows small business 2008 server to our sonicwall firewall. when I try and domain a computer to the local domain on the server I get an error."That domain couldnt be found. ...
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Windows services not starting automatically without login as admin

I am using a software Ozeki on my Windows server 2008. From Services I make Ozeki service Startup Type: Automatic. But when I restart my server I need to login as administrator, otherwise my service ...
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