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Windows Server 2016 is a server Operating System from Microsoft, released in 2016, and end of life in January 2027.

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Restrict downloads on Windows 10

I am a bit new with Senior IT support and GPOs, so please be patient. I want to restrict downloads/access to all folders (Desktop, Documents, Pictures, Videos etc.) except Downloads for users using ...
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VMware 6.7 Mount NFS from Server 2016

I have a 2016 server that has a iSCSI drive from QNAP shared as a NFS Mount When I run the command from the VMWare cli: [root@localhost:~] esxcli storage nfs add -H 192.168.1.20 -s vmwaredatastore -v ...
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Validation Failed On Windows Failover Cluster Access Denied

i have 2 node will be setup windows failover cluster. every node already connect to Active Directory. when i validate on windows failover cluster, still failed on List Disk error message like this
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Strange image rendering issues on Windows Server 2016. RDP changes font rendering? How to reset rendering subsystem?

I've got a strange issue with our automated test system. This is a Windows Server 2016 VM that runs various automated functional tests around our business application. In some tests, we produce image ...
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Windows Server 2016 - L2TP VPN local network issuse

we configured VPN access to our server via L2TP with preshared key to tunnel our RDP admin connection. Everything works fine if we need to just connect to the server - We are behind NAT from out ISP ...
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upgraded server from 2016 to 2019 with storage pool. Should I run Update-StoragePool to upgrade the version?

I in-place upgraded a server 2016 box with a storage pool to server 2019. Everything is running fine though the pool version is "Windows Server 2016". Should I run the Update-StoragePool command to ...
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Decreasing OS drive free space on Azure VM running SQL Server 2016

Recently I noticed that drive C: is decreasing in free space on my Azure VM running Windows Sql Server 2016 (doing daily azure VM backups in Recovery Services Vault). Drive C: keeps adding 100-250mb ...
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Creating scheduled task from powershell using xml

I was able to export all of my scheduled tasks using: All i need to be able to do is import the scheduled task from the xml file I have about 100 of these so any help would be appreciated. $...
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Windows 2016 deduplication and application compatibility

I'm re-evaluating Windows 2016/2019 deduplication engine, which is way better (faster/more capable) than what shipped in previous Windows versions. I understand how it works (sparsifying files via ...
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Windows not collecting logs. Error: The WinRM service is not listening for WS-Management requests

I am getting this error The WinRM service is not listening for WS-Management requests. User Action If you did not intentionally stop the service, use the following command to see the WinRM ...
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How can I add a folder to the root of the default user?

There is a program we have that needs to be set up after the user signs in. This change is the same for everyone and only needs to be done once. We are trying to present that app in Citrix and are ...
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Windows Server 2016 VPN / RAS Connection fails

Sorry for the screenshots being in german. Environments: Server: Windows Server 2016 Client: Windows 10 Pro My goal: Running a VPN Service on the Server Connecting to it from the client ...
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Merging VHDS checkpoint files that won't merge

I have a VHDS file that I took a checkpoint of, but I can't merge the checkpoint file. I have tried the GUI (Hyper-V Manager->Edit Disk) and Powershell (Merge-VHD), to no avail. It gives the error "If ...
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Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10: Cannot set up Windows Event Forwarding via HTTPS

Alright so I've been trying to set up Windows Event Forwarding via HTTPS for a while now and in the process, I've hit my share of errors that I managed to address one by one, but now I've been stuck ...
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AWS CloudWatch Log Being Hammered with 'multilineStarter is missing in logevent'

I have installed AWS CloudWatch Agent on one of my instances (windows) and I get in the agent log file this message: 2019-04-14T16:10:53Z W! multilineStarter is missing in logevent. multilineStarter: ...
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Unable to upgrade edition of Windows Server 2016 (Standard -> DataCenter)

I am trying to upgrade my Windows server 2016 from Standard to DataCenter using the command dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerDatacenter /ProductKey:MY-WORKING-MSDN-KEY /AcceptEula . Unfortunatelly ...
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Recovering software Raid 1 Data in Windows Server 2016 Ess

Have a Windows 2016 ESS R2 server with Mirror RAID 1 on OS & Data Disk, spread over 2 x 2 TBs disks. (Disk 0 & Disk 1). Hardware is a HPE MediaSmart server for home business use. RAID 1 is ...
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Network Location Awareness Not Working Correctly

I have 2 domain controllers running Server 2016 and all using Static DNS records. When domain joined computers connect to the network they show as being connected to an Unidentified Network instead of ...
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Skype for Business Server 2015 and .local domain

I am having some issues getting our SfB server running when connected outside the company network. We have a standalone SfB server with a hostname: hostname.domain.local The SIP domain looks like ...
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Disable access to Windows Update for users on 2016 RDS Server

I've recently replaced Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS Servers with 2016 Servers and ran into this issue. It seems that the GPO option to "Allow Non Administrators To Receive Update Notifications" (...
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Can't query logged on users on terminal server | qwinsta.exe: Access is denied

On a Windows 2016 terminal server I can't query the logged on users (even as domain administrator). In task manager the users tab is empty. Using qwinsta.exe I get: Error 5 getting sessionnames ...
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Viewing Permissions in Mac OS on a Windows Server 2016 using Active Directory

I am logging into a Windows Server 2016 server and then accessing several volumes. While browsing directories in terminal, all file permissions appear as being owned by the PAM user I am logged into ...
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NIC team not load balancing

I'm trying to achieve a load-balanced NIC team on a Windows Server 2016 machine. This is a ProLiant using a 4x 1Gb 311FLR interface card which as of yesterday has the latest driver installed (100.20.0....
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Windows server 2016: Service not restarted

I configured for a service two restart actions and a reset period of 60 seconds: sc failure SPOOLER reset=60 actions=restart/1000/restart/1000//1000 The expectation is, that when the service has ...
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hyper-v failed to start worker process: ran out of memory 0x800700E

I have a Windows Server 2016 DataCenter with 0.5TB of RAM (there is a 497GB of RAM currently available) and I have three hyper-v virtual machines there. They have been running perfectly until we added ...
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Self-extracting executable not extracting other archives

** Problem We are attempting to run a self-extracting executable (SFX) to install an Oracle product, Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.2. The installation starts, works for a short while, and then quits, ...
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Windows Server 2016 how to know if a service is going to start or not

I've a lot of service in Windows Server 2016. Some of this service have a delayed start or a dependency. I waited 20 minutes after server starts. There are 20 service still stopped. Is there some ...
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Managing Windows LTSB on SCCM: software update installation

Here's a quick overview: We have several Windows 10 LTSB 1607 deployments running and we want to manage them using SCCM. The main goal is that we want to push security updates from SCCM onto the ...
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Getting error 0xC00CEF03 when I try to add a tracing rule in IIS

I've installed the IIS failed request tracing rules feature on my server (Windows Server 2016), and I'm trying to add a new rule. When I click "Finish" to add the new rule, this error pops up: I can'...
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How to remove stale routes during Windows Cluster RESTART?

BACKGROUND I have a Windows Cluster (2016) with four nodes (3 NICs each). When I try to restart any of the cluster host server, the whole cluster going down and other nodes are randomly failing. ...
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Disable auto-lock in Windows 10 (domain account)

I have just installed Windows 10 1803 and joined the computer to my domain. A short while after the display goes into power save mode, the computer also locks so that I have to type the user's ...
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Stop server core 2016 prompting to install Silverlight?

I have a server 2016 core set up as one domain controller, there's a second DC which is a full server 2016 with GUI. Almost every time I log on to the 2016 core machine, it prompts about available ...
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How to properly configure IIS to have requests go to a web service 2 folders down

I'm moving an old .Net 2 web service from a Windows 2008 R2 server to a new Windows 2016 Datacenter server. It has something else set up on the Default Web Site, but I have created an additional one ...
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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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How to set a PromiscuousMode on Network Adapter using Powershell in WIndows Server?

It's easy to check state of the PromiscuousMode for a physical network interface using PowerShell: Get-NetAdapter | Select InterfaceDescription, PromiscuousMode However how to set (enable/disable) ...
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IIS 10 404 error with minified JS and CSS files

I am setting up a website on Server 2016 with IIS 10 and any minified files (.min.css or .min.js) are returning a 404.0 error. It looks like the ".min" portion of the URL is being stripped out for ...
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Windows server 2016 unable to complete update KB4103723 (roll back on 99%)

i'm on a strange problem for the last 12 hours unable to update the KB4103723, it rolls back every time. I have tried all of these: sfc /scannow: finish 100% but with error for windows protection ...
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Hyper-V 2016 doesn't shut down guests on host restart / shutdown

I am running an Hyper-V host with Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. All guests are configured to be saved at host shutdown and automatically startet again at host startup. This worked for a long time, ...
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Windows Server Backup and System State size

I am currently using Windows Server Backup (on a Windows 2016 DC server) for daily backups of System State to a local network folder - ie the network folder is shared by the very same host I am ...
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Cant remote manage server "Access is denied"

Im trying to work with performance monitor on windows server 2016 core. I have my PC a VM a new or was atleast new Installation of server core and i got some other VMs running. All im trying to do is ...
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Docker for Windows Windows: Keep linux container running after logout

I've installed Docker for Windows on Windows Server 2016 using Hyper-V as Hypervisor for linux containers. The docker service starts automatically when I login to my account. I start my docker ...
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Windows server 2016 does not accept incoming WebSocket connections

I have started a websocket server with nodejs on my windows server 2016. The nodejs application started listening on port 1337 and I can initiate websocket connection to my localhost:1337 from browser ...
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MS server 2016 strd mstsc shadow undefined error after Jan update

4x Server 2016 standard edition running as VM's on Hyper-V. None of the Servers are in the domain. I was using cmd/powershell "mstsc /control /noConsentPrompt /shadow: x" to shadow local users ...
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802.1x WiFi computer (cert) auth against 2008 R2 or 2012 R2 NPS succeeds, fails against 2016 NPS

We have a Meraki wireless infrastructure using 802.1x to authenticate Windows clients against MS Network Policy Server using certificates issued by our internal root CA. The root cert and wireless ...
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Server 2016 - Backup 517 error

For the last week one server is failing backups to a NAS with The backup operation that started at '‎2017‎-‎12‎-‎17T23:37:47.558318200Z' has failed with following error code '0x807800C5' (There was a ...
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windows server 2016 core missing vpnclient powershell module

I have a fresh install of Windows Server 2016 (without Desktop) and I want to use the Add-VPNConnection powershell command to connect to a VPN network. Apparently Add-VPNConnection is a command of the ...
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How to configure IIS with IPv6

Recently one of my apps got rejected by the App Store because it didn't work on an IPv6 network. I think my problem is located at API level on my windows server. Apple tells you to run tests on the ...
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Intermittent "Access denied" error running iisreset in Windows Server 2016

I'm seeing some very strange behavior on some Windows Server 2016 EC2 instances. In rare cases, iisreset fails with the error message: Attempting stop... Restart attempt failed. Access denied, you ...
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No services reachable on RRAS server after successful VPN dialin

We have the following configuration in place: --LAN SIDE Local Clients #N Local Server A (DC + RRAS) Local Server B (DC + RRAS) Local Servers C...Z ---ROUTER/FIREWALL --PUBLIC SIDE Foreign ...
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Remote Desktop connection error Remote Desktop Services is currently busy

I'm using remote desktop from windows 10 to connect to my remote server that running windows server 2016 but many times error occurs returning me the following message The task you are trying to do ...
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