Questions tagged [windows-server-2012-r2]
Windows Server 2012 R2 is a server operating system from Microsoft. It was published on May 31 2013, and reached 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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Error adding a new node to Windows Failover Cluster Service - Parameter is incorrect
We are trying to add new nodes to an existing Windows Failover Cluster (WFCS). When we run the Add Node wizard in Failover Cluster Manager, or run the Add-ClusterNode in PowerShell, we get the same ...
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DNSSEC Migration with only KSKs migrated
Short version: If a DNSSec-signed sone suddenly replace both ZSK (and all records related to the old ZSK), and at the same time keep the KSKs (which are referenced to by upstream server). Will it ...
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Executing a PowerShell Script With Spaces in Arguments via Task Scheduler on Windows Server 2012
I'm attempting to create a scheduled task on Windows Server 2012 that will execute a powershell script that will create an archive of a specific directory once per day.
The arguments to execute the ...
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Exchange Server Error ID 15021
My Exchange Server 2013 writes "Error 15021" dozens of times in the Error log. It says, that there is an error using the SSL-Configuration. I googled the error but there seem to be a lot of ...
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File Explorer closes when viewing mapped drives and other SMB Shares
We've been dealing with an issue involving File Explorer closing, seemingly randomly, when viewing mapped network drives and other SMB Shares. The network connection(s) to these locations are not lost,...
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Using AD server as NTP server for non-windows hosts (rhel hosts). ntpstat continues to state unsynchronized but ntpdate works. Is this possible?
We currently have an AD server that we are using as a time source.
Our AD server is setup to host time locally and the windows domain clients sync up to this machine fine. We have the firewall ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 - User Account Single App
I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 with multiple user accounts. One account ("test") is configured in such a way that on logon a program is started and when the program is closed the account is ...
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virtualizing physical IIS box into Hyper-V breaks API, Server 2012 R2
I have a physical IIS server that works just fine but when I convert it into Hyper-V, it seems to break an API I use to activate serial numbers. It just doesn't seem to connect. Everything else still ...
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Windows Server Backup Fails: There is not enough disk space to create the volume shadow copy
We have a brand Dell PowerEdge - Windows Server 2012 R2 is running ,
The server is an Active Directory Domain Controller - two NTFS partitions-C:\ FOR OS : 400 GB - E:\ for data … I connect 1TB ...
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Can I use AD CS to Authenticate Domain Users Instead of a Password?
I have a number of Active Directory Domain User Accounts, which function essentially as service accounts. I'd like to avoid having to rotate the passwords for all of those domain user accounts, and ...
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Windows Server RDP session keeps killing AudioSrv (audiodg.exe) leading to audio startup delays
Running Windows Server 2012 R2 I have noticed an annoying feature on RDP connections:
Windows keeps killing the Audio Service audiodg.exe if it is idle for more than 5 minutes.
The problem with this ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2, Kerberos: Should the SPN "host/localhost" exist?
I noticed that the eventlog "Microsoft-Windows-Security-Kerberos" is filled with the same entry around every minute (sometimes three times per minute, sometimes only after two or three ...
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Domain controller failover fails unidirectionaly
The problem I am having is that if I take one of my two writable domain controllers offline, nobody seems to "fail over" to using the other domain controller like they're supposed to - ...
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Unexpected shutdown of Server (BSOD) with message “WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR”
When we checked the system event log we found that following warning has been logged repeatedly.
Event 17
A corrected hardware error has occurred.
Component: PCI Express Root Port
Error Source: ...
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Adding registry key via GPO creates but not affects to the system?
I could not give a detailed title to my question. But my problem is: I'm trying to add keyboard languages from Group Policy (Windows Server 2012R2) with Registry. I added like below:
Then I check (as ...
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How to create a routing on windows server A lookup
I created A lookup that when someone types the url it resolves to an IP Address(e.g. 18.1.5.9).
Now I would like to put a routing that when the above IP address comes route via another IP(10.1.2.2) ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Upgrade
Does anyone know how to upgrade or has upgraded a PowerEdge R510 Server from Windows Server 2008 R2 to at least Windows Server 2012 OS? I need to get this server's OS upgraded.
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How much free space does Windows really need to be performant?
We have a virtualized file server here whose data resides on a SAN - performance through the SAN is plentiful.
But now the 2TB disk on the virtualized Windows 2012R2 file server is almost full since ...
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Updated VirtIO SCSI driver on my Windows 2012 R2, and now only boots into recovery. How to recover?
I have a Hetzner W2012 R2 Cloud VM, and I updated the VirtIO vioscsi driver on it. Now it only boots into recovery mode and I cannot access the C-drive even from command prompt.
Is there any way to ...
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When do Microsoft Windows Server registry settings like HKLM..SCHANNEL... take effect
When do Microsoft Windows Server registry settings such as these take effect - first boot? As soon as imported?
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\...
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Unable to rename the DN using trusted domain user credentials
I have two AD in which two-way trusts relationship(forest and transitive) exists. Trusted domain are trust1.com and trust2.com.
I created a AD-User(TEST1) in trust2.com using administrator ...
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WSUS drivers supersedence
I have added the driver classification in wsus and now i have 100k driver updates. The supersedence is not specified so i can't easily decline old updates. I see a lot of duplicate versions for the ...
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Unable to swap old server with new one as the switch it's plugged into is unaccessible
Hopefully the title covers this question but, it's pretty straightforward.
At work, we have an old DMZ Server we'd like to replace with a newer model. Unfortunately, when we were ready for the swap, ...
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Considerations for Server OS Upgrade (Win2012R2 to 2019) hosting SQL Server?
I am not a DBA so I am not well versed on the intricacies, considerations, potential issues with in-place upgrading just the OS of an existing SQL Server.
A client has several stand-alone SQL Server ...
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File permission issue - You need permission to perform this action
This is a very strange issue related to a dfs replicated folder.
The share in question is shared with "Everyone" with full access and permissions are applied to sub-folders using ACLs. ...
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Advice needed on migrating shares from a 2003 DC to a new 2012: how can I avoid breaking my software install GPOs?
I've finally virtualized our entire server infrastructure and I'm ready to start migrating to our bought Windows server 2019. Since our current setup is based on Windows Server 2003 we obviously have ...
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Using a Windows Server 2012 R2 Server as a PDC via remote location
Presently, we have a Windows 2012 R2 Server acting as our PDC and it is physically located in our HQ location. It serves the HQ location as well as 5 other branch locations. Our president has inquired ...
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How to create two different networks on Hyper-v
I currently have 2 physicals hosts with windows server 2012 R2 datacenter on each of them.
I have a 10.69.11.0/24 network with several VM's:
2 DC
2 File servers.
I want to test a course that I have ...
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How to remove NIS server role from all domain controllers before upgrading to Windows server 2019
So we are currently have 4 2012R2 domain controllers with IDMU (Identity Management for Unix) and NIS server role installed. For NIS server role, one DC is in master mode, other 3 DCs are in ...
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let teachers reset passwords of students in Active Directory
I am at a school that runs ActiveDirectory (Windows Server 2012 actually) and our teachers want to be able to reset students passwords, they won't use the ticket system in case a student forgets their ...
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NTP Server is setup for ntp keys. How can we configure windows server to communicate to our time server using the keys?
We have an NTP server that was setup with NTP keys. https://docs.ntpsec.org/latest/ntp_keys.html
We are trying to configure our domain controllers to use this NTP server as the authoritative time ...
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IIS 8.5 and 10, max value that can be set for IIS Requests/Recycle?
Per DISA we're required to set the recycling option for requests. I can't seem to track down what the max value for this should be or when the counter gets restarted? If app pools are configured to ...
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copying many folders with not inherited permissions
So we have this folder with hundreds of user folders (not sure what they are used for but there is mostly Desktop, Documents and Favorites). We need to back them up to another disk, but the problem is ...
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Server 2012R2 Remote Desktop all non-admin users are logged off immediately without getting to desktop
I have Windows Server 2012R2 virtual servers connected to an Active Directory domain. The servers accept both domain user/pass and domain Smart Card logins. All administrative accounts/users can log ...
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Server 2012R2 Remote Desktop all non-admin users are logged off immediately without getting to desktop
I have Windows Server 2012R2 virtual servers connected to an Active Directory domain. The servers accept both domain user/pass and domain Smart Card logins. All administrative accounts/users can log ...
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RDS Gateway - how to allow a whole subnet or range of IPs for use?
I've setup an RDS Gateway to allow and control RDP access out of the company and it works. My issues is within the RAP Properties > Network Resources tab, where you add the allowed destination IP, ...
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UDM Pro Site To Site VPN with Domain Issues
I have 2 UDM Pro firewalls setup with a IPsec site to site VPN, the settings are the same for both VPNs (obviously the destination IPs are reversed for each unit) I can ping traffic with IP addresses ...
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Problems trying to access my VM [closed]
I have a VM running on Google Cloud which I access remotely using an .rdp icon.
Starting last week I´m frequently getting the message "Remote Desktop Connection ‘Internal Error has Occurred’"...
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Static routes sync between windows servers
Is there a way to run a "ROUTE ADD -P........" on a single Windows 2012 and higher servers, in a domain environment and have that route populate or sync with another server or servers in the ...
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RDS RemoteApp File Type Association UI is Blank
I am setting up an RDS deployment that shares RemoteApps to replace one shared session host that offered all apps.
There is a single rds gateway and then a couple of session hosts that offer different ...
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Windows AD OU Block (Read/List) Objects from other OU
I have a Root OU that has an OU called "Clients" and under I have multiple OU's and the client's PC's/User Accounts in sub-OU's.
The issue is, my clients can see other groups' user accounts/...
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Unlock GPO enabled "Lock all taskbars" on one PC
I am facing strange problem here. We have GPO that disables "Lock all taskbar" function in Windows 10. One user somehow managed to resize the taskbar and I want to fix this but its giving me ...
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Windows Server 2012 C:\Windows\Installer occupying more than 200 GB
As the title says, I've been having a problem with a production WS 2012 R2 whose C:\Windows\Installer folder takes more than the 85% of the disk space. I tried the solution commented here: Is it safe ...
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How to configure Windows 2012 Server to receive GIT pushes [closed]
I'm new on GIT, and I would like to configure a Windows 2012 Server to be a GIT repository (--bare) so the developers can clone and push updates to this server.
I can't find any documentation to learn ...
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HOW : single VHD shared between 2 different VMs
I need to share single VHDX with 1 large partition containing no OS, just plain files (mainly pictures) and promote it to 2 different VMs with 2different OS at 1time :
VM Windows with stock keeping ...
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How to find out Mirror Resiliency level is 2-way or 3-way in Storage Spaces
How to find the Mirror Resiliency level for Virtual Disks in Storage Spaces using Powershell?
eg. 2-way mirror or 3-way mirror
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PowerShell - Remove User/Group from Security Permissions
I have an AD group called "Admins" and it has specific members but under the Security Tab, how can I use Powershell to remove certain users/groups from the Security list and/or modify the ...
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Hyper-v VM high CPU usage in Windows Server by task manager?
Windows 2012 std host with Hyper-V. Hyper-V guest VM is Windows server 2019 std
Both the host and the VM are setup as separate SQL & IIS application platforms with some light add-on tools such as ...
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Windows Memory I/O error - Windows VM or ESXi host?
We have a terminal server that is getting a reoccurring memory error when users are running a certain application.
Previously the error occurred when trying to launch the application. A reboot fixed ...
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Why aren't my websites configured in IIS using the correct certificates?
My sites are similarly named:
hi.api.domain.tld
hi.test.domain.tld
The .api domain is my api and .test is the webapp that consumes the api.
I've got a certificate for each one but they don't seem to ...
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