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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Failed applying updates in Windows Server 2016
I am trying to install the 2021-04 cumulative update for Windows Server 2016 (KB5003197) to a standalone server that runs a SAP application. The server accepted Security Stack Update (KB5001402) and ...
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Windows server 2016 services stop / start during night multiple times
We have an odd issue on one of our servers (Windows Server 2016) that started to occur 2 weeks ago (worked without issues for the past 4 years).
The issue is very simple, software services like SQL ...
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Win2016 DNS Manager nslookup returns Default Server: Unknown
I have a Windows 2016 server running as a Tertiary Domain Controller and the issue I'm seeing is that when I run nslookup from the DNS manager it returns 'Default Server: Unknown' with the correct ...
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Windows Server 2016 slow and interrupted file transfer
A default installation of Windows 2016:
No domain.
RRAS Service on 2 network adapters (default configuration).
DHCP on local adapter.
Local Adapter as private network (PowerShell cmdlet).
Internet ...
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Install-AdServiceAccount The server has rejected the client credentials
I have two servers.
AD Server (ADServer.adqa.myDomain.com, machine name ADServer)
Web Server (Linked to that AD server, machine name WEBSERVER)
My goal is to create a managed service account on AD ...
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Network performance issues between Windows/Hyper-V and remote Linux VM
I'm in the midst of migrating an application away from a Win2k16 server but it seems the win server doesn't agree to the plan.
When migrating the data, I realized that performance is incredibly bad, i....
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Should I take Windows Server 2016 offline when applying MS updates?
I know I should apply updates in an appropriate time window but is the server still fully operational while it is being patched?
I also realize that all patches may not take effect until the server is ...
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How to Configure Sync Center / Offline Files within a IIS Shared Configuration Environment to sync when user is logged off?
We've been scratching our heads at this and we are not sure if this is a design limitation of sync center or are missing something on our server.
Our environment consists of a cluster of WS2016 boxes ...
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MegaRAID: New SSDs blink red
Last week I installed two new SSDs for a customer. It's an Server 2016 Standard Core with Intel Xeon @ 3.70 GHz, 4x32GB RAM and LSI RAID-Controller 9341-8i.
I created a RAID 1 with 2x1TB SSDs via ...
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AWS Server Stuck In Unreachable State - Service Become Stuck in "Stopping/Starting" State
I have a development box that is (nearly every night) experiencing the same symptoms:
Can't RDP due to the "Black Screen of Death"
Can't issue remote powershell commands because the "...
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Is there a way for a user inside a domain to reset their password by themselves without contacting the administrator
Everytime a user has problem with their password they have to contact the administrator to reset the password for them.
Is there a way or a policy that provide the ability to reset their password ...
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optimize-storage pool fails, cluster upgrade in process
I have a windows failover cluster running Server 2016 for a SQL 2017 Enterprise Availability Group. We have no shared disks on the server, just separate storage on each machine for the SQL AG. On both ...
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ADFS error: Failed to register SSL bindings for Device Registration Service: An item with the same key has already been added
I'm running Windows Server 2016 Active Passive ADFS server, the primary ADFS server ADFS01-VM has been set up fine using the steps in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-fs/...
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Windows 2016 NIC Teaming does not allow higher throughput
We have several servers on our rack. All of them running Windows 2016 or Windows 2019. We always do nic teaming. For example, by combining 4 NICs we get speeds at 4Gbit (400mb/sec or so) between ...
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Windows 2016 server restart some web sites not restarting
I am having a Win 2016 server restart issue, when it restarts, some hosted sites are not coming back up. It seems like it is one collection that exist on some IPs while others do restart just fine. ...
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Windows Server Essentials: Server can be pinged, but domain not found
I am trying to set up a small test domain using Parallels Desktop VMs.
I have a freshly installed 180 day demo of Windows Server 2016 Essentials, which has been through the wizard setup procedure and ...
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Troubleshooting event 5393 from Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering
A Windows Server 2016 cluster is somewhat regularly registering the following event:
EventID: 5393
EventLevel: Information
EventSource: Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering
MachineName: xxxx
Message: ...
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Allow Windows Server 2016 user account to run Scheduled Task that was set up to run as another account
I've created a Scheduled Task via schtasks.exe so that it runs as an elevated account [A]. However, my reduced privilege account [B] can't manually trigger the task to run through the Task Scheduler ...
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Windows Server Firewall Ports - Unidirectional or Bidirectional?
I want to configure open ports for a firewall (3rd Party Product) to allow communication between a Domain Controller (DC) and a client (and vice versa). OS: Windows 2016/2019. The documentation from ...
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LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy being reset to 0 at boot
I am trying to use the Windows 2016 STIG AMI from Amazon with Packer. I am able to get WinRM to successfully work by setting the LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy setting to 1 (disabled), but as soon as I ...
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Win Server 2016 - Event ID = 300, X509 store location WindowsPowerShell is not valid
I have a Windows Server 2016 (Build 14393) that I'm running NPrinting on (possibly not relevant). I performed an update on Friday night, and I am seeing EventID=300 errors. Below is the full text of ...
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INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE on Windows Server 2019 after Windows update installation
Was doing routine updates and one of our Windows Server 2019 hypervisors didn't come back up afterwards. Instead it gives the error "INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE".
I've followed various guides ...
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Access to Windows Security Log denied from Powershell
I have created a Powershell script that retrieves information from the Security section of the Windows Event Log:
Get-EventLog -Log "Security" -EntryType Warning,Error,FailureAudit -After (...
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powershell user data script run on restart of the Windows instance
We have windows servers that do application initialization which takes almost 3-4 hours for servers to be online. So to avoid downtime we use autoscaling group lifecycle hooks. Now we want to shut ...
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When a gMSA password is automatically reset by AD, does it loose its access to network resources?
I have many instances of an application installed on a bunch of application servers that consists on an IIS Site (.NET application), a Windows Service and an SQL Database hosted on separate SQL ...
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Weird cluster file share behaviour
I have a windows server 2016 cluster. Depending on where the file share role is hosted, I am unable to access the unc path of the file share on the node where the role is hosted, but I am able to ...
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Task scheduler can't running after update in same day
i have one task scheduler with 2 action.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<Task version="1.2" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2004/02/mit/...
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Error Uninstall SMB1
I tried to execute this command in powershell
Uninstall-WindowsFeature -Name FS-SMB1 -Remove
but encountered error message
Uninstall-WindowsFeature: The request to add or remove features on the ...
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Cannot Install SSL Certificate. Certificate keeps disappearing in IIS
I am trying to install godaddy's SSL certificate on Windows Server 2016. I did everything on the MMC console and everything looks right. I followed all the steps from this website https://ca.godaddy....
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How can I find what is using all of the server memory and record a log of it for analysis afterwards?
I am running Windows 2016 Server on IBM Cloud.
Today the server crashed as in it became unresponsive and the websites stopped responding as well as the Microsoft SQL Database server instance.
Normally ...
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Limit access on network share to a specific computer, Device claim under DAC not working
There are certain confidential data and we want to make sure that is does not get copied by user and eventually leaked out of organisation.
For achieving the same, we have defined a restricted windows ...
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Hyper-V virtual switch experiment
I recently learned that windows generally, server 2016 in my case can make use of the hyper-v virtual switch on the host machine as a way to tap into different vlan's.
I have a repurposed gigabyte ...
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How can I kill a process remotely on a windows server when the server has exceeded its memory limit?
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I use and manage* a windows server at work. It is used for general computations by up to 5 users at a time via RDP.
The server has 128GB of RAM which is sufficient for the work we do on it.
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Redirect all traffic from IP alias to hyperv virtual machine
I have a Windows server 2016 instance with one nic and two IP aliases. It's possible to route all traffic from one IP to a virtual machine running on hyperv? The virtual machine is running Ubuntu with ...
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High Usage of Non Paged Memory on Windows Server 2016
Good day,
I have been trying to troubleshoot a high non paged memory error from Solarwinds Remote Monitoring Management software it reports 664mb non paged usage on the Host OS and 145mb non paged ...
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Monitoring Windows Server 2016 Servers with SCOM 2012 R2
I have an instance of SCOM 2012 R2 running in a client environment. We are currently monitoring 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 servers with it. We had to migrate two of the 2012 servers to fresh instances of ...
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Variance in memory reported with perfmon vs Task Manager in Windows
I am recording Memory\% Committed Bytes In Use with perfmon every 15 seconds but I see that it doesn't always tie to task manager's reported memory %. They almost always tie but when memory starts to ...
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What hash function is used to cache credentials on Windows 10?
I am looking for the hash function used by Windows to cache user passwords locally on a computer. The client machine would run Windows 10. The AD Controller would run Windows Server 2016.
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How to in-place-upgrade Windows 2012 R2 connection broker to 2016/2019?
I have a 2012R2 RDS infrastructure.
Connection Broker, Webinterface, Gateway Manager are running on the same machine with Windows 2012 R2.
Session Hosts are both 2012 R2 and 2019.
Database and ...
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You do not have administrative privileges on the server Failover Cluster
I am trying to setup a 3 node Failover cluster in Azure. The below is my configuration:
Region: West Europe
VM Size: Standard D2s v3
Storage: Premium LRS
Data Disk: 2 numbers, 128 GB
OS Disk: ...
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0x800f0831 Activating Windows Server 2016 from trial to standard
for some reason i cannot activate windows server 2016 from evalution to standard with the standard activation through settings it post error that this version cannot be upgraded.
With powershell ...
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Hyper-V - Unable to delete multiple Checkpoints
We have two Hyper-V servers running on Windows Server 2016. One is one main server, the other one is the replica server where the main one replicates to.
We took down the replica server for ...
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Mapping a network drive from Windows 10 to Windows 2016 Server
I can ping the IP address of Windows 2016 server from my Windows 10 local computer. I can also connect remotely to Windows 2016 server as an Administrator with full privileges. I created a folder ...
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WS2016 Firewall: Still blocking program from sending packets after creating in/outbound rules for said application
Starting config: Firewall has been set to block both in/outbound traffic by default. Minimal Core Networking rules have been enabled for NIC to get auto configured. Every other rule is disabled. So ...
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Having issues with mkdir, robocopy, to date\time folders in a looping batch file
I have searched everywhere but cannot find a solution.
Im unsure what is going on here but I desperately need some help in regards to this issue,
Im running a batch file (Script for a game Server ...
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SSH auth to the Active Directory environment
I'd like to know how you do it in your environment. My environment consists mainly of Linux machines. Authentication is via SSH keys. Additionally I have a small Windows environment (Win2k16 Std.) ...
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Zerto Failover - Win 2012/16 Servers Get Stuck on "Getting Devices Ready"
We are using Zerto to replicate our VMs to an offsite datacenter. During our failover tests the VMs have a tendency to "hang" from 15 minutes to several hours on "Getting Devices Ready." I have read ...
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Prevent Anonymous logons on windows-server 2016
I can't figure out how to entirely disable anonymous logon on Windows Server 2016 which is not a domain controller (regular instance). With the settings currently set I'm truly surprised to see such ...
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Windows Server 2016 Disk Issue When Pausing Updates
I decided to pause updates Via group policy for all Windows servers to prevent updates from getting installed while on vacation. Normally, updates get installed as soon as they are released. When I ...
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Anyway to check what scheduled server reboots are?
The server reboots almost around the same time every day and system event log 1074 says:
The process C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe (SERVERNAME) has initiated the shutdown of
computer SERVERNAME on ...