Questions tagged [windows-server-2012-r2]
Windows Server 2012 R2 is a server operating system from Microsoft. It was published on May 31st of 2013, and will be End Of Life on Oct 10, 2023. 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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Both LOCAL SERVICE and SYSTEM users are changing server time on DC
Odd one for you, our DC's time keeps changing by an hour, but it doesn't just go down by an hour it also go up. I've been monitoring the event logs and I can see that there are usually two entries ...
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enter-pssession not working over Wireguard
I have multiple computers in a LAN and a Windows Server 2012 R2 in another city. They are all in a Wireguard VPN. I can use SMB file shares, PSexec, RDP and such things, but can't make WinRM enter-...
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Migrating Windows Server 2012r2 DC to 2019 DC with new domain name
Background: My project is to setup new DC using Windows Server 2019, with same configurations as my old DC, which is 2012r2. I need to keep both DCs running for 2 months in seperate network.
I have ...
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Configure Windows Firewall to block IPs listed in Spamhaus.org
Since having suffered a hack twice on my email server, the last one VERY severe, I have been VERY proactive in monitoring my logs and taking appropriate action when I see attacks. I've installed ...
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NTLM Authentication Failing once Domain Controller was upgraded to Windows Server 2016
NTLM Authentication Failing once Domain Controller was upgraded to Windows Server 2016. Application server is running Server 2012 R2. We have one domain controller left on 2012, NTLM works fine on ...
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How to delete a domain user with associated folder rights?
Right now when I delete a user from the domain I get left with these folder rights remnants that I have to remove manually. I've noticed this on both Windows and Linux driven data servers. Is there a ...
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AWS EC2 auto-scaling Windows server: how to set the hostname ("computername")?
I have an elaborate framework for autoscaling UNIX servers to configure their hostname with a script on launch (startup) using an NFS (EFS) where they look up what their hostname should be, then set ...
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Could not establish WMI connection access is denied
I set up a lab to test domain joining multiple computers with a script from Microsoft.
After I ran the script it came back with could not establish a WMI connection with the computer with the ...
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"ps -aux" or "top" equivalent for Windows Server
I need to check which processes are running on a Windows Server instance, I'm looking for something similar to top or ps -aux, but I'm only finding references to use Task Manager with GUI.
What is the ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 lost ability to browse the Internet after RRAS setup
I have a Windows 2012 R2 server that is set up to be our VPN server. Company workers use this server to connect and gain access to the company's network. This part is working fine, no issues here.
The ...
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specified network name is no longer available - admin shares
I have a win2k12r2 SharePoint server, I cannot access its admin shares c$ admin$.
SMB 1.0/CIFS installed,
SMB2 enabled
Can ping, and resolve hostname
UDP ports 137 not open and 138 not, and TCP ports ...
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Intermittent Inbound Traffic Blocked Windows Server 2012 R2
We manage a number of pcs running Windows Server 2012 R2 on various hardware (computers have differing network cards etc.). These machines are connected at different physical locations to a physical ...
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Registry key not found migrating dns zones at Windows Server 2012 R2
We are trying to migrate all DNS zones to a new server. The old server is Windows Server 2012 R2, the new one is running Windows Server 2019.
We are following the steps: Microsoft Guide
We cannot find ...
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Why is Windows Restarting my Service which I've Manually Stopped?
We have three servers - Windows 2012 R2 - in Azure, running a variety of our own custom developed services. These services are configured to start automatically, so naturally, on startup or after a ...
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Unable to find how to update the Network speed in Windows
I want to understand where the value of Network speed is found in Windows and the options to change it.
I am using the Windows Sysinternals bginfo, which generates desktop backgrounds that include ...
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Configuring DHCP Split Scope via PowerShell
In Windows Server DHCP console (GUI), having two servers available, it is simple enough to "Split-Scope" and create an 80/20 situation:
Right-click over any scope on the first server (of two)...
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How can I find out the activation details from the internal KMS server?
I have any internal KMS server running on Server2012R2 and We are using it to activate Office internally, Is there a way that I can output a list of details of the activation like UserName, ...
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Domain workstations randomly get "desktop is not accessible. you might not have permission to use this network resource"
In our local network, based on a Microsoft Active Directory Domain, running two servers and multiple Windows 10 clients(from a broad range of of producers/models), users are noticing an increase of ...
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How to run PowerShell scripts remotely on old servers (2012 and 2012 R2)?
I've been running remote scripts on newer VMs (2019 and 2022) but now I have to run my scripts remotely on older VMs as well. It looks like PowerShell Direct is not available on older Windows Server ...
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How to keep website live during server restart?
We host our website on a dedicated windows server. Every time the server restarts, we lose around 5-6 minutes of traffic. We are using .Net Architecture (MVC).
A separate dedicated server would be ...
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On some servers, my users have to use <username>@<domainname> to login and on other servers they have to use the domainname\username ormat
On some servers, my users have to use username@domainname to login and on other servers they have to use the domainname\username format. All the servers are in the same domain, and running Windows ...
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Server crashing every 14 days, no bugcheck
Every 14 days one of our Windows servers crashes. We have been trying to figure out what causes this but to no avail.
Today we noticed a pattern in the shutdowns of the server, happening every 14 days ...
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Program error in windows 2016 2019 but not in windows 2012 r2
I just want to migrate from windows server 2012r2 to windows server 2016 or 2019, but I have the following problem with a service.
If I query the service in 2012r2, everything works and I get Events ...
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Windows folder share permissions
I suppose this is straightforward but can't get a solution for it. When i share a windows folder (server 2012) and set its permissions (share or ntfs) then if someone from the network writes "\\...
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My IP is being blocked in windows server 2012 R2
My IP from my home is being blocked by my server (Windows Server 2012 R2). Where can I find and turn off this block? I believe it happened while working on a custom IP protocol for a program I was ...
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Openvpn ldap configuration
I have installed openvpn and i have configured LDAP with microsoft active direcoty. Eevrything is OK.
But now, I want to setup encrypted connection to this Active Directory server.
When I turn on TLS ...
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I would like to understand RAID 1 restore
So, I have a situation here and I'd like to hear some tips about it.
I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 and I'm going to upgrade it to Windows 2019. The server has two HDD's in RAID 1.
To be on the safe ...
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Logon Local User In Windows Server Without Password Inside Active Directory
I Just made a new windows 2012 r2 server and joined it to the domain. I've been asked to create a local user without password inside that server. I keep getting "The password does not meet the ...
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Let user in AD set date/time by hand
Under a 2012 AD, as usual, users cannot set date/time on their computers as this is managed by organization. For specific purposes, we need to let one of the users set date to past but options are ...
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PDF file on IIS site is not accessible when opened from a browser
I am creating a PDF file with IIS (with some code) and save it to a folder which has IIS anonymous authentication enabled.
When I try to open it through its URL, IIS gives me a 401 "Unauthorized&...
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Member servers pull Group Policy from only 1 (of 2) domain controllers?
Environment overview: AWS
DC1 = Win2k12 instance in region1 - AZ1
DC2 = Win2k12 instance in region1 - AZ2
~ 60 Member servers = all within region1
Replication set up between the two DCs for GPO, DNS, ...
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Site to site IKEv2 VPN between two Windows Server 2012 R2 machines only working in one direction
We are trying to set up a Site-to-Site VPN with IKE v2 using Windows Server 2012 R2 machines as the tunnel endpoints on each end. We are able to PING and get replies in one direction, but we are not ...
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VMware Setup on BL460C G7 performance [closed]
Considering this setup:
ESXi 6.5 on HP ProLiant BL460c G7 in an HPE BladeSystem c3000
2 x Intel Xeon CPU E5645 @ 2.4GHz
96 GB Memory
Partnered with SB40c Storage Blade (6 x 240 GB SSD) with HP Smart ...
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Local administrator temporary profile after add server to RDS session host group
Two weeks ago we have to install a new server (Windows S. 2012R2) as terminal server. There was ServerA ; ServerB; and now ServerC
We tried to clone the ServerB to ServerC but because of issue with ...
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Add Node to Fail-over Cluster Failing to Communicate over 3343
We have an existing Windows 2012 2 node cluster with file witness, but are replacing them with 2019 servers. So we can just reuse the existing cluster object, we're adding the 2019 servers to the ...
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Remote shutdown with a shutdown reason code
I'd like to power off a remote machine by Stop-Computer command in PowerShell. Is there any way to send a shutdown reason code (like Hardware: Maintenance (Planned)) as if choosing during local ...
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MACs in DHCP reservation are changing randomly
For the second or third time now our dhcp server forgot parts of its reservations and made up random MAC addresses. Why?
We have 2 dhcp servers in failover mode. Everything worked well for years. But ...
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Mac's searching Windows Shares yield no results
We have a couple of clients running Macs (Ventura v13, but this was occurring since they got their M1 Mac's last year on an older version of macOS).
They can search their PC's in Finder/Spotlight ...
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Can't find NT SERVICE\MSSQLSERVER to give it Read privs on a cert
I've got SQL Server 2016 happily running under the default account NT SERVICE\MSSQLSERVER. Now, though, I need to give that pseudo-account read priv on a newly installed SSL Certificate.
The pseudo-...
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"Unknown token received from SQL Server" errors since recent Windows Updates
I posted a question to Stack Overflow about this error when it started occurring for our older Delphi 7 applications on Windows 10.
It is now happening on Windows Server 2012 R2 systems that had these ...
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Setting up site to site VPN with IKEv2 on Windows Server 2012 R2
We are trying to set up a site to site VPN on Windows Server 2012 R2 with IKE v2. It was originally set up for IKE v1 but our partner no longer supports IKE v1. The parameters are as follows:
Phase ...
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Hourly fatal windows alert
On one of my windows server 2012 R2 (going to upgrade), my event logger has been filled with
Event ID 36887 A fatal alert was received from the remote endpoint. The TLS protocol defined fatal alert ...
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GPO Create Scheduled task to run only on specific network
I created a scheduled task over GPO and this one is available on a test machine. On my computer i am able to specify a specific network connection to execute the task. On our server, I can only select ...
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Cannot Start Remote Desktop Connection Broker
I'm trying to publish a remoteapp, but when I select the option, I get the response the server which I'm using, where the remoteapps are published, isn't available.
I'm pretty sure the reason is ...
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Resolving Linux Hostname on a Windows Server Network
I have a Microsoft network. I have Active Directory, DNS, DHCP etc servers.
I also have a Linux computer (ubuntu).
I want to resolve this machine by name and not by IP address.
Example: ping name-my-...
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Migrate WinServer 2012R2 to 2022 + Exch 2013 to 19
Friends, I have an environment with Windows Server 2012 R2 + MS Exchange 2013. I need to migrate 2012R2 to 2022 and migrate Exchange 2013 to 2019. Is it possible to migrate 2012R2 to 2022 and then ...
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Issues with Imagick / PHP / Windows
I'm setting up a project on a Windows server and having an issue with ImageMagick. I'm from a Linux background and struggling to get it working.
I have downloaded from http://pecl.php.net/package/...
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How to know if my server is good for windows server 2022 version? [closed]
I have inherited several old windows servers (6-13 years old, from DELL and Fujitsu).
I now need to update (win2012 EOF) them to a newer Windows Server version.
How can I check if these servers can be ...
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RDP to Virtual Machine now asking for user sign in
We have a Windows Server 2012 VM that I installed a product on: Smart Bear TestExecute(v15.43 - latest): https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/other-tools/testexecute.html
I was trialling ...
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Chrome ignoring local dns replies
Am having a local network with about 300 devices some is domain connected and some are not
I have windows server 2012r2 sith dns role
Domain connected users can access local iis webpage while others ...
