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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Telephone Server, Telephones, Printers, PCs & Servers on Individual VLAN's, DHCP clashing
Stuck at work tonight with a big issue. As a requirement for being taken over by a corporation we have been asked to stop using a firewall (juniper ssg-140) to separate our telephone system from the ...
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Is there a way to hide Share Folder size status on Windows 7?
I'd like to hide shared folders size status in users side. The status shows like this:
And this makes users to put more data's on the shared folders instead of using dedicated place's. Is there a ...
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How to set VSS (Shadow Copy) Retention
I am in the process of optimizing the VSS on our Windows Server 2008 SP2 machine.
I would like to do the following:
Run a snapshot at 11:59 AM and 11:59 PM every day
Keep a retention of 30 days ...
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Interactive scheduled tasks without logging in
We have a scheduled task that runs periodically and causes PDFs to be printed. The process is relatively simple and works fine on Windows Server 2003. The task must run whether or not the user is ...
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Is there a way to keep the selection in Windows 2008 Explorer when changing the sort order
I nice feature of Windows Explorer up to Windows Server 2003 at least (I don't have easy access to Vista or Windows 7 to know when this was lost) was that you could select multiple files (or folders) ...
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After NAT how to setup VPN in windows server 2008 r2?
We have one windows server 2008 R2 with about 10 Hyper-V virtual machines.
We've used wizard that comes when you enable RRAS to setup NAT, so that virtual machines can connect to internet (and to ...
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Search content of files with unknown extension
i have the problem that Windows Server 2008 does not seem to search through the content of files with a unknown extension(csv). How can i change this?
I had already installed the indexing service Role ...
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Windows Server 2008 RAID 1 failed. How do I fix it?
I have two 1.5TB drives, set up via a 4-bay external HDD case. It connects via eSATA and USB 2.0.
I had it configured as a mirrored RAID 1 in Windows Server 2008. I transferred some data to it and ...
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Use another machine as a proxy server for my computer
I'm not able to connect to most of the websites from my machine (Win XP) due to the blocking done by administrators. But the same websites are allowed in one of our servers (Windows Server 2008). Can ...
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Moving Windows Server to Azure Virtual Machines
We have standalone Windows Server 2008 and we would like to move it to Azure Virtual Machines.
What is the best way to do this?
It's possible to upload VHD image to Azure. But how to create it from ...
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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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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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Map Drive Username and Password required
I have a Microsoft server 2008, under that i have different folders to map drive for different users. My question is how could i make the map drive to have a username and password required when ...
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How to redirect output from schtasks taskeng.exe
We're running Sikuli app from a CI tool Hudson.
A scheduled task is configured on our windows server 2008, named test
When Hudson job kicks off, it triggered the command schtasks /run /tn test.
A ...
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Mac roaming profile on a Windows 2008 domain
Have been pointed here by the guys at ServerFault - hoping this is the right forum (it seems to fit in with the guidelines).
I'm setting up a home network with Windows 2008 R2 server. I've configured ...
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How to auto-sleep and auto-wake Windows Server 2008?
I've installed Windows Server 2008 on a Mac Mini. Now I want to put the computer to sleep and wake it up from sleep state at a scheduled time.
Are there any internal tools on Windows Server 2008 that ...
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How can I connect OS X 10.8.2 to Windows Server 2008?
I'm trying to connect from my Mac OS X 10.8.2 to Windows Server 2008.
I've tried
smb://ServerName/ShareName
smb://DOMAIN;User@ServerName/ShareName
mentioned on the Apple docs, but it keeps ...
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Activating HP iLO license from Windows command line
Is there any possibility to enter licence activation key to iLO3 in Windows command line? Or any other tool that will allow me to do that on about three hundred servers (HP Proliant ML110 G7)?
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Whitelisting HTTP traffic on Windows Server/IIS
I'm deploying an ASP.NET application in beta and would like to limit HTTP access to a few select IPs. Given the configuration of our environment, the easiest way for me to accomplish this is through ...
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Hardware Acceleration on Windows Server 2008
Does Windows Server 2008 have hardware acceleration?
I tried to use WPF to make over 20,000 drawings. It only cause around 40% CPU in windows 7.
However, I run the same program on Windows Server ...
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Amazon EC2 Windows Server 2008 + “Instance Status Checks failed”
I have Windows Server 2008 launched on Amazon EC2 Instance.
While doing some configuration I changed IP address to the private IP address of Amazon EC2 instance.
As soon as I changed IP address, ...
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Virtualbox Networking - Accessing VPN & Guest OS
I'm using VirtualBox 4.1.22 on a Windows 7 (64bit) host, with a Windows Server 2008 (64bit) guest OS. The VM is configured with 4 network adapters in the order of NAT, Bridged (LAN), Bridged (WiFi), ...
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use power shell to know if apache server is responding on a win 2008 x64 box
We have an apache server that stops responding randomly and I would like to use a power shell script to test for a response and do a restart until we find the problem.
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Local hostname fails to resolve only in browsers
I am having an issue on Windows Server 2008. Basically the problem is that whenever my local hostname is used in a browser it fails to resolve.
As far as I can tell the name is correctly set, I can ...
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Read-only access to MMC functionality
Does anyone know of a Windows Server 2008 role(s) to allow readonly access to MMC (MS Management Console) facilities - i.e. we would like to be able to remotely view (not add/update/delete) ...
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How can I get a Windows 2008 print server to deploy to child domains?
I am setting up a print server for our company that has a parent domain and 2 child domains. The print server is on the parent domain and I have no problems getting the print server to deploy printers ...
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File in use when it's really not
I am running Windows 7 Professional 32 bit on a Server 2008 network. I am getting a weird issue with an excel document where I open it up one morning, update it, save and close, the next morning I ...
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Disabling Autorun For Multiple Remote Desktop Connections On Windows Server 2008?
I have a few programs that run at startup.
But it becomes very annoying when another client enters to the session with Remote Desktop Connection. The server starts to run the same processes. This is ...
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Jump List for Word 2007 disappeared in Windows Server 2008
There is no %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations folder in Windows Server 2008 R2, for users to delete large or corrupted files to fix missing jumplists. Where is it located, if ...
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Create a GPFS Administrative account
i try to install GPFS on Windows Server 2008 R2, after successfully install GPFS i want to use the GPFS Command Prompt. But when i type in some Commands there comes a error: "mmstartup cannot execute ...
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Benchmarking for Windows 2008 R2
Does somebody know products to benchmark new hardware for servers 2008 R2 ?
The goal is to validate server for future purpose like Exchange,SQL, ...
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How do I know if my server / server application can multi-cast videos?
May I know how do I know if my server (e.g. Ubuntu Server, Windows Server 2008, etc...) / server application (e.g. IIS, GlassFish, etc...) can multi-cast videos (or do multi-cast streaming of videos)
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NTFS : The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation
In my OCZ 240GB PCI-Express SSD, I create huge files and after write about two files 45GB and 45GB the software throw exception "The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system ...
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Networking problem in dorms
So I recently got a headless Server box running WHS with a E2000 router w/dd-wrt big for media and whatnots. But I am having some trouble getting everything working the way I want it to.
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How to disable “Open File Security Warning” using GPOs?
I have a domain controller (Server 2008 R2) running on my home network. I want to use a group policy on my Server 2008 box to disable the "Open File - Security Warning" prompt when running EXE files, ...
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Proxy software for all outgoing connection
I am working in an office, as our private requirements, we need to make all connection to specific domains must be sent via a proxy server. This is my issue for now, does anyone know a solution for ...
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Customize Image Unattend Files for Windows Server 2008?
what`s the easy way to create , edit, "Image Unattend Files" for Windows Server 2008 ?
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Can I install Visual Studio Team Foundation Server on Windows Web Server 2008 R2?
I am wondering whether or not I can install Visual Studio Team Foundation Server on Windows Web Server 2008 R2? This because that's the OS offered by my VPS provider.
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Server 2008 File and Print Services fails after a period of time
We have replaced several Server 2003 file and print servers with Server 2008 Enterprise. The file and print services work fine for a couple of weeks then suddenly, nobody can access the network shares ...
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How to fix Windows fileserver with scrambled permissions?
I have a windows file server wich has several terabytes of data that was rsynced from a unix fileserver. Somehow the acls have been created in such a way that I can't view or delete many things. I ...
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Auditing logs for a folder on network
I need a create a folder and put auditing for a user or a group, when user or group make changes within this folder I like to log it.
I have tried this microsoft knowledge base article: Security ...
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Cannot Map a drive to a shared folder from a system connected by VPN. same setup works for everyone else
This one is about to drive me off the edge. Same system had same problem a while back. We thought we had tracked it down to a problem with their ISP. And may still be.
They are using a laptop and ...
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How can I prevent Java from redirecting to download an update?
Each time I go to a page that uses Java, I am redirected to the Java download page because my version of Java is out of date. While I'd happily download the newest version of Java, I'm on a Windows ...
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Windows 8 laptop network connection to Windows Server 2008 freezes
We recently bought a new laptop for one of our managers (HP Envy-6, Windows 8 x64 Home Premium). Network use on the laptop is difficult because it is constantly freezing. The manager uses RDP to log ...
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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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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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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 ...
