Windows Server 2008 is a Microsoft Server Operating System released in February 2008. It is the successor to Windows Server 2003 and is based on the Windows Vista codebase. It was succeeded by Windows Server 2008 R2.
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CentOS 6.4 on Hyper-V memory exhausting issue
I am having an issue where the RAM on the virtualised machine is becoming exhausted after periods of time, the machine itself has 4GB RAM assigned to it and it always seems to be reporting around 15% ...
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Scheduled Task in Server 2008 standard wont run automatically
I have a simple program that I want to run automatically(in this case at 7:30am). I have created the task and if I run it manually, right click the task and select Run, it works fine. When the task ...
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Win08r2 server core install IIS
I'm trying to find an easy way of installing IIS on a 2008r2 server core. It is for a competition where internet access isn't allowed, and neither are notes of any kind or usb-sticks.
The command I ...
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Should I create zone for each domain that I want to host on my server [migrated]
I'm setting up a web hosting on my VPS, I want to host several websites on my vps, I have two domains, domain1.com and domain2.com and a website for each hosted on iis, I know that I should add these ...
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Server 2008 $Recycle.Bin has folders for non RDS users. How did that happen?
While pruning the $Recycle.bin folder on a Server 2008 system, I found that there were two folders for domain users that don't have remote desktop privilege to that server.
This puzzles me as to how ...
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How do you stop file renaming in file server?
I have installed windows server 2008 r2 and configured FSRM role properly. I have enabled file screening there and blocked all types (*.*) of files to be saved there and have created an exclude lists ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard - Event logs not being generated
I have deployed an ASP.NET MVC website on my web server, which is IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard edition.
When browsing my website, I get a 503 (Service Unavailable) status code after ...
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How to pick the role of a power button for the default user in Windows Server 2008?
I don't remember how, but I know that there is a convenient way in Windows 8 to specify the role of power buttons for the default user (i.e. in the context when there are no logged on users on the ...
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VM 9.0 with windows server 2008 data center hangs when restarting it
I have installed VM workstation 9 on my windows 7 64x, my environment specification are as follow:
windows 7 professional 64x
32 GB RAM
670 GB hard disk
VM workstation 9
create a new VM and I mount ...
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SSL Client Certificates and Stores
I am looking to distribute a ssl client certificate to Citrix users.
I know that for each user I could run this:
certutil –f –p 12345 –importpfx C:\cert.pfx
The above would install the certificate ...
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Ubuntu Server with win2k8 Server VM to Host IIS Site Issue
I have a ubuntu server(host), and a windows 2008 r2 server(client) virtual machine on it.
All my IIS based sites are located on the host machine, in a location which is shared with the client vm.
I ...
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Can I create a single ftp to access multiple network locations
I have an ftp server setup using FileZilla Server and 5 application servers which each have a backup folder that is shared.
On the ftp server I have setup symlinks in the root ftp directory that ...
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What does “@path\” mean on the command line?
This may be a nubish question, but I am Googling around for this and do not see the answer so far. Take the following command:
at 12:00 /EVERY:Su Forfiles.exe -p C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1 -m ...
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Why is there a remaining PPP adapter after removing Routing and Remote Access
I have removed Routing and Remote Access off of one of our servers. It is a Windows Server 2008. After removing the role, I am still showing a PPP adapter, and people can still VPN into the server. ...
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Why does adding rights to User group affect an Administrator (Server 2008)? [migrated]
User Foo is logged and a member of Administrators, but not a member of Users - I removed that group and even rebooted. In c:\inetpub\www Foo cannot modify any files even though the Administrators ...
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Pingdom Website Speed Test: Connect time is too long
My e-commerce website was performing poor and I decided to find out the cause.
A real good application came in help for me Pingdom Website Speed Test.When I analysed website with this, report was some ...
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Alternative to Remote Desktop Connection to clean C drive
We have some issue in connecting the server via Remote Desktop Connection. It is not at all connecting
As the server got low memory space in c drive we are unable to connect.
I would like to know is ...
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Network Device not getting Detected after Windows System Restore
I have been trying to setup a pair of systems to be Primary and Secondary Servers for the Fail safe systems. I prepared both the systems with Windows Server 2008 32 Bit. For replication, I have took a ...
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Reveal all outlook email passwords on windows 2k8 server
Is there anyway I can find out all the outlook email passwords on our server? It has windows server 2008. I've tried various programs, but none of them seem to work. It also has outlook 2010.
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When drag and drop a file on a network share I received the warning described below but when copy and paste is fine without warning
When I try to drag and drop files I get the warning:
"These files might be harmful to your computer". When I click OK, the drag and drop operation goes through. Has anyone experienced this?
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.vbs won't execute anything at all
I created short script to run .bat file on background but when i execute .vbs file, it seems like it is not reading my script at all.
.Dos windows pops up and shutdown right away but my batch file is ...
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Password dialog when using Remote Desktop Connection
Sometimes when I connect to a Windows Server 2008 machine using Remote Desktop Connection a window pops up on my computer asking me to enter a username and password. Other times, I am connected to the ...
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Windows Server 2008 defrag log?
Is there a log file for Windows (Storage) Server 2008 built in defragmenter? I can not find a log file, event ID, or anything that gives a reference to the status of the defragmenter.
From the ...
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Sever networking stops after few hours but works after suspend/wakeup
I have an Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop PC acting as my headless home server. I can ping it and access the files and folders on the computer with no issues. But after a few hours of running, its networking ...
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Large files fail on transfer
When transferring files larger than ~17GB to/from a Windows Storage Server 2008, user gets error along the lines of "Could not complete transfer, do you want to try again?" Trying again always fails. ...
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Why is my loopbacked GPO reporting as disabled [migrated]
Let me start by saying that my experience with GPO is limited to tentatively poking at settings until they fall into place by trial and error. It is entirely possible this will be a very obvious ...
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Deploying IIS website via command line HTTPS using Appcmd
I need help deploying a number of websites via command line, I know I can do this with the following code, but need the sites to be HTTPS and their certificates specified which have already been ...
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How to get ‘services for Unix administration’ and ‘telnet client’ under SUA
I am not sure this is the right place to ask this question. I had a Windows Services for Unix(SFU) installed in XP system , so that contains C shell, korn shell, services for Unix administration and ...
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Windows Server 2008 Firewall - Allow RDP (3389) only from specific IPs
I have a Windows Server 2008 which I would like to access via RDP on port 3389. I make a forwarding on my router, but I would like to allow only my IP to access the port 3389 on the Windows Server.
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Label taskeng.exe console windows
At my job, we use a lot of console applications to run various processes. We kick them off from the Task Scheduler on a regular and overlapping basis - at any time there could be anywhere from 3 to ...
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Adding a web cam feed in to remote desktop connection for Expression Encoder 4 to live stream
How do I give a remote connection access to my local web cam so that Expression Encoder 4 installed on my remote connection is able to adding my local camera as a Live Source for Smooth Live ...
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How to get webmin working in Server 2008(X64)
I have installed webmin in server 2008(howto) plus its dependecie activeperl(howto) under virtualbox,
but I can not get it to work. Thit is what i did so far:
As per the activeperl(howto) I briefly ...
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Windows server network drive can't run exes
I have a domain run by a Windows Server 2008 R2 with Active Directory. I have a program on the server which I created a mapped drive to on each of the client computers. All client computers are ...
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Server 2008 requires authentication to access shared drives and folders
The server in my office was changed from MS Windows Server 2003 to MS Windows 2008. Since we had the new server put in place, we have to manually authenticate our logins to the servers or shared ...
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Windows Server 2008 Task Scheduler Job status shows running after job is done
I 'm having a problem while getting to run a .exe with windows task scheduler(I'm using Windows 2008 R2)
Even after its tasks is finished, scheduler still shows status of "running".
I want to get the ...
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VPN Server On Windows Server 2008 R2 Bandwidth Throttling [closed]
I have set up a PPTP VPN Server in Windows Server 2008 R2 to share the Internet access with about 10 client PC.
Is there any solution to set the bandwidth throttling separately to each client?
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Why is the add user or group button not available on the group policy editor for Remote Desktop Services Properties?
I have a Windows 2008 R2 Server, and I'm trying to give a domain user who is NOT domain admin the rights to login to this box via RDC. I'm logged in as a domain admin. Here's where I am:
When I ...
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VirtualBox windows guest can't connect to bluehost email smtp
I have a Windows Server 2008 guest on Windows 7. I can receive emails from all my accounts. I can send email from all of my accounts EXCEPT my bluehost account (personal email). Can't connect to ...
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Windows Event Forwarding between two computer out of a domain
I've got two computers and I want to set up event forwarding between them.
Source computer is out of a domain, another is in some Domain. I tried to configure source initiated event subscrption but it ...
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what is this command doing in batch file?
I have this command in .batch file.
Can someone explain me what it is doing?
ftp -d -s:c:/somefolder/file_xfer/ftpcmds.txt > c:/somefolder/file_xfer/xfer_prt.txt
I need to know because I am ...
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RRAS PPTP VPN Connected but not get ping my local LAN
Two days back i had configure RRAS VPN server on Windows server 2008 Std R2 with two (LAN (192.168.100.173 with 255.255.255.0 subnet, without gateway,no DNS -- only ip Address was there) / WAN ...
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Finding space of drives in remote servers
How can I find out how much disk space is available/used/free remote Windows servers using a .bat command?
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How to tell if command prompt is working?
Another life ago I used to build PCs, but have been a Mac girl for so long now... this question is almost embarrassing but it's driving me nuts.
I'm using command prompt findstr to search website ...
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Why add computers to Active directory domain?
I have been playing around with windows server and Active directory for quite some time. One can simply add a new user in AD and then add the client to the domain. this will create a domain account ...
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Unable to contact a DHCP server. The Automatic Private IP Address will be assigned to dial-in clients
I am trying to set up Routing and Remote Access on my cloud VM hosted site. The VPN ports are open: 1723 TCP and 500 UDP.
I have set up a DHCP server from 192.168.1.2 - 192.168.1.50
When I try to ...
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Turn off disruptive dialogues in Windows 2008 Server on Continuous Integration environment
We are running web testing in our Continuous Integration process.
We have win 2008 Server with a desktop and everything since we are using proper browsers where we run our tests.
But sometimes things ...
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How to (re)enable clipboard on WinServer2008 VM (VirtualPC)
At some point yesterday, the clipboard on my VM stopped working.
The VM is a Windows Server 200 Standard SP2 running in Windows VirtualPC, itself running on Windows7 Enterprise.
I can "copy" and ...
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Win Server 2008 Ping with wait command
When use -w option with Ping command then Ping command should wait for the given time period before giving time out or destination host reachable error
I tried following command ping 192.168.151.45 ...
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Turning a peer domain into the functional domain controller
Quick question
I'm swapping an old domain controller for a newer system. The existing server is an x86 install of Windows Server 2k8 and I am moving all of the company's system to an x64 2008 R2 SP1 ...
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Windows scheduled tasks fail with 0x1, don't log errors
I have three Python scripts running overnight as scheduled tasks on a Windows Server 2008 VM. I can run them manually with no problems. But when I look at the Task Scheduler each morning, the first ...
