Questions tagged [windows-server-2016]
Windows Server 2016 is a server Operating System from Microsoft, released in 2016, and end of life in January 2027.
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Disable file locks on a read-only Windows File Share
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On a Windows Server (2012R2 or 2016), I want to configure a file share offering a following functionality
some users, publishers group, have a write access to the share; these users are ...
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LongPathsEnabled Setting ignored on Windows Server 2016
I need to be able to create a path structure that is longer than 260 characters on a Windows Server 2016 system.
After thoroughly reading through various sources, I understand that Windows Server 2016,...
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Adding features to Windows Server gets slower the more features you add
I'm troubleshooting an issue we're seeing with all of our Windows Server 2016 servers. The more features we add to the operating system, the slower the features are to add.
For example, execute Add-...
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Windows Server sometimes has wrong date
Having a Windows Server 2016 (hosted at Amazon AWS EC2) that is running successfully for years.
Since some month I'm experiencing that the Scheduled Tasks (e.g. a task that is configured to run daily) ...
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Newly installed programs in Server 2016 can't be clicked from the start menu
I created a new instance of Windows Server Datacenter 2016 on AWS (Version: 1607 OS Build 14393.321). When I install a new application and try to click on it from the start menu it does not work.
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MS-RDS sporadically slow redirect
I've setup a 2016 RDS farm with 1 RD Connection Broker (RDCB), 40 RD Session Hosts (RDH), no Web Access and no Gateway. There are about 4000 connections (mostly reconnects) per hour. The connections ...
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Unable to RDP into Server 2016 after adding custom RDP certificate
We have a Server 2016 running AD Certificate Services. Our team was asked to create a new RDP certificate so that the self-signed certificate errors would go away when RDP'ing into the system. Went ...
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Microsoft IIS HTTP/2 Vulnerabilities Registry Keys Recommended Values
Microsoft "fixed" the HTTP/2 vulnerabilities recently discovered. The updates add the ability to create the registry keys to stop the vulnerabilities, they don't actually fix the vulnerabilities ...
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DISM: "The specified package is not valid Windows package"
I'm running a Windows Server 2016. When executing Dism /online /Get-Features on the power shell, I get this output:
Version: 10.0.14393.0
Image Version: 10.0.14393.2457
Error: 0x800f0805
The ...
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Windows server 2016 {Access Denied} A process has requested access to an object, but has not been granted those access rights
I'm running some selenium c# chrome driver test with the latest version of chrome driver and chrome.
On my desktop Windows 10 PC it works fine, however, in production Windows server 2016 I'm getting ...
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Hyper-V 2016 DDA issue: a VM boot fails when a drive is connected to an opposite NUMA node
Brief description: the host is Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Build 14393 (UEFI) running Hyper-V role. SR-IOV and Intel VT are enabled. 4x Intel® Optane ™ SSD 900P 280GB PCIe NVMe 3.0 drives are ...
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Server 2016 Not Rebooting at Scheduled TIme
My Organization has a maintenance window between 4-8am every Sunday Morning. We have an OU structure setup to spread our production servers out for reboot during this scheduled time (example Reboot4-5,...
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Windows DHCP Server not responding to relay requests
I have a Windows Server 2016 (Datacenter Core) running DHCP server role which is not responding to DHCP requests which come from a DHCP relay but is responding to DHCP requests on the local network.
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User Rights Assignment for IIS APPPOOL
I need to deploy an IIS based web application in an environment that uses Group Policy to apply standard user rights assignment for all computers in the Active Directory domain. When the application ...
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How do I fix 'Missing stored keyset' through a remote powershell session (without also being RDP'ed in)
I'm trying to script the installation of our on-premise CI/CD agent. Part of that is installing some certificates
Powershell
Import-Certificate -FilePath self_signed_CA.cer -CertStoreLocation cert:\...
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Windows 2016 Server - Start Menu Layout - Get-StartApps - Different APPID's
In our Windows Server 2016 Terminal Server Farm I tried to make a default start layout. After some research, it finally works how I want it to.
However, I have a question about the different kind of ...
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Windows Server 2016 failed to boot on ESXi
I have 2 similar DELL Poweredge servers (ESXi 6.0 2809209).
My servers contain some Windows Server 2008/2012.
I can add an Windows Server 2016 Standard Desktop Experience normally on my first ESXi (...
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Windows Server Failover Clustering - cannot choose desired subnet when creating
I'm setting up a new WSFC cluster, intended for SQL HA, but that's not actually important as yet.
Node A has:
An IP in Subnet 1: this is where the machine's "primary" IP is, set by the hoster.
An ...
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How to restart or cycle IIS App Pool when it reaches certain CPU percentage?
I would like to automatically stop/start or recycle the app pool when it reaches 80% of CPU usage for a certain period of time.
I see that under app pool Advanced Settings, there is a CPU section ...
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Unable to start golang executable as windows service
I want to start a windows service written in golang on my Windows server build 1803. The golang script uses the service wrapper found here: https://github.com/kardianos/service
The service is located ...
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win10 RDP multiple desktops feature
I'm frequently using remote-desktop with a windows 10 server and access the multiple desktops feature (i.e. similar to linux, in windows win+tab, right-hand corner: new desktop). However if I connect ...
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How to fix alerts in server manager for Tile Data model server service?
I manage a small collection of Windows Server 2016 Standard instances, virtualized on VMware and joined to an Active Directory domain. In Server Manager, I commonly see alerts on these servers for the ...
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Docker on Windows Server 2016: The process cannot access the file
I installed Docker 18.09.1 on multiple Windows Server 2016 (1607) and they all fail to pull images.
The error is always "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process....
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How to recognize and repair malformed shortcuts (.lnk files)?
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We have lots of not working .lnk files on a Windows Server 2016.
Example:
Clicking on the shortcut 91205248__Orig.lnk causes the error:
Problem with shortcut - the drive or network ....
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Cannot manage Remote Desktop Services from Server Manager any more
Below, all error messages etc. are given here as translated by myself from German. The English original may differ
We have the following setup
Server A: Windows 2016 with RDP Session Broker and RDP ...
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How do I serve a Flask app using HttpPlatformHandler?
I'm trying to use the HttpPlatformHandler module in IIS on Windows Server 2016 to serve a basic application written in Python using Flask. The Python environment is managed using pipenv, and the Flask ...
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Detect privilege escalation attacks where user gains SYSTEM account privileges - Windows
We have an audit requirement from a client to be able to monitor for "User obtained SYSTEM privileges".
We are running a Windows Server 2012/2016 environment in Azure and using Azure Log Analytics ...
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Windows Server 2016 Dropping Packet Retransmissions
We've come across an issue where we're able to narrow down root cause and hoping the collective here can provide insight.
We have an AWS EC2 instance, c4.8xlarge, that is dropping tcp retransmits ...
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RD Connection via RDGW to Session host is not connecting
I'm building a new RDS solution with a Gateway/Connection Broker and a pair of session host servers etc.
This isn't the first time I've done this and I've not hit this issue before; I'm hoping its ...
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how to prevent windows server 2016 share from holding file locks after a disconnects?
I have a Windows Server 2016 server with a file share that clients have write permissions to. Sometimes clients disconnect while the client has file locks that are not released.
Here is a view using ...
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How to set up system-drive RAID1 on Server 2016 with two HDD larger than 2TB?
Foreword: As much as I tried to search the internet, most of the tutorials are for regular smaller than 2TB drives. And there are tons of forum posts that say "use hwraid". And I found a method that ...
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"We can't sign into your account" is shown after restart on terminal server 2016
We installed a complete new server 2016 environment with 5 terminal servers in a farm. We also use User Profile Disks for the profiles.
The fault:
When the domain administrator is logged on to any ...
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RDS 2016 session limits
We have a single RDS (W2K16) which hosts all roles (Broker, Gateway, Session host). On the collection settings, we specified all session limits as "never". Still all users are logged off 6 hours after ...
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Task scheduler startup bat script not running on AWS EC2
I have an EC2 WindowsServer2016 image with a scala project on it. I want it to start when I spin up an instance without me having to log in or do anything. I have a .bat script with the following:
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Folder Redirection only applies if I run gpupdate /force - File Server Migration
We have just migrated the home shares of approximately 2300 users to a new file server. For some reason folder redirection is not updating the paths for any existing user profiles (we don't use ...
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Do I break anything by having a regular share targeting a DFS share's folder?
I have DFS installed on a single file server - I wanted to use DFS now so I don't have to migrate later when I get a second file server.
I'm trying to integrate third party sharing software and I ...
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Can't access remote shares on L2TP VPN
I've set up a L2TP VPN for my (Microsoft Surface Pro 4) tablet when I am at work so I can still access my files on my local server.
However when I'm connected to the VPN I can't seem to access my ...
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How to manage on-premise servers using Azure AD credentials?
We run a small business and have begun to use Azure AD to manage our users. Our Windows 10 workstations are connected to the Azure domain via "Connect to work or school" setting, and that works nicely....
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How do I determine the current leasing mode of an SMB share?
I am preparing to migrate files from a Windows Server 2016 server to a new Windows Server 2022 server. There is a complicated set of NTFS and Share permissions that I need to replicate. I have found ...
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Windows Server 2016 - Folder Redirection for Start menu -> right-click Windows PowerShell: "Windows cannot access ...Windows PowerShell.lnk"
When I run this, PowerShell opens as expected:
"\\Win-FileServer\Folder Redirection\myUsername\AppData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Windows PowerShell\Windows PowerShell.lnk"
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Windows Update failed to check for updates with error 0x80072EFE
I am unable to Download/Install Windows update on my Windows Sever 2016 Std. Version 1607 OS Build 14393.5501
Windows Update failed to check for updates with error 0x80072EFE
Most of the Solution are ...
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Can't connect to DC from workstation using File Explorer
Here's a small piece of my topology:
SERVER2 - ePDC (SERVER 2016 Essentials)
SERVER3 - Peer DC (SERVER 2022 Standard)
RECEPTION - Workstation (Windows 10 21H2)
SERVER2 is down ...
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Numerous Programs don't appear in Windows Start/Search
On Windows 2016 Data Center, I click the "Start" or "Search" button in lower left. I type for example "BizTalk" and none of the BizTalk utilities show up. I don't want ...
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Lsass.exe high CPU usage on Windows Server 2012 R2 for HTTPS request
Recently we faced CPY spikes on our production servers & our web applications runs on Windows Server 2016 as well 2012 server. It looks as follows:
IIS with 10 applications running with SSL:
MVC ...
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Unable to connect to ESXi NFC (902) from one particular LAN segment
I have an issue with Veeam Backup & Replication backups failing because the Veeam proxy servers cannot connect to the ESXi host over port 902 (NFC). The ESX hosts are on VLAN65 and the Veeam ...
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How to remove the shutdown button from a Windows VM (on Azure)
I have an a Windows 2016 VM on Azure that several users are RDPing into. The users are complaining that the VM shuts down at random times. When I check the logs, it shows that the shutdown has been ...
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Event ESENT 508 on an Azure VM
My monitoring system informed me about the following event log entry on my Azure VM (Windows Server 2016 Datacenter):
Catalog Database (1180) Catalog Database: A request to write to the file "C:\...
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Group Managed Service Account access to network share on remote server
We've got a service running using a Group Managed Service Account on a Windows Server 2016 host (HostA).
We're extending the functionality of this service so that it runs an R script which needs to ...
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Lsass.exe high CPU usage on Windows Server 2016
My website runs on Windows Server 2016. It looks as follows:
IIS with 3 applications running with SSL:
MVC website (.Net Framework 4.7).
Two .Net Core 3.1 Api's.
MS SQL Express 2019.
If the ...
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Windows Server 2016 - How to install Lotus/IBM/HCL Notes 11
We need to install the Notes client (version 9, 10, or 11) on a Server 2016. This is a clean install of the client. No previous versions were ever installed on this box. The server is also not running ...