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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Effective Permissions in Windows Server 2008 R2
So I created a VHD for testing some permissions on a computer attached to a domain
The VHD is mounted as E:\
Inside of E:\ I have created a folder called web (so e:\web)
I right click on the web ...
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unable to set local admin password using GP
I'm updating our local admin script which does not include server 2008 r2.
Because 2008 and Windows 7 have same version Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] so I can't do a version search.
I have ...
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Install VNC Server via RDP on Windows 2008 Server
I have a need to allow multiple users to view the same remote session on a Windows 2008 server. The server is cloud-based and is virtual. I have no physical access to it. I've tried several different ...
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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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Online Windows Server Virtual Hard Drive Images for Use with VMWare Server 1.0
I have a remote Server running the VMWare hypervisor. I want to create a virtual machine running Windows Server. However I can't upload mine since my internet connection is slow (would take me days to ...
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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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Windows Server 2008 Create Symbolic Link, updated Security Policy still gives privilege error
Windows Server 2008, RC2. I am trying to create a symbolic/soft link using the mklink command:
mklink /D LinkName TargetDir
e.g. c:\temp\>mklink /D foo bar
This works fine if I run the command ...
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PowerShell script to re-install printer, set to default if it was default
We have a printer at work that is giving us problems. We have tried a few different solutions but when a user goes to print to this printer Windows 7 will sometimes display something like:
Windows ...
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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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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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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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Is there any way to install Windows Server 2003/2008 on HP MediaSmart Server EX495?
Is there any way to install Windows Server 2003/2008 on a HP MediaSmart Server EX495?
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Rotate desktop 90/180 degrees in Windows Server 2008 R2?
I Windows 7 and so can you rotate your desktop 90, 270 degrees. Is there any way to do this in Windows Server 2008 R2? I did find some software that works with 2003 servers...
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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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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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Cannot remove folder redirection
I enabled folder redirection for a single account to test it out and see how I liked working with it on a day-to-day basis. After some testing, I realized it won't work in my environment and thus ...
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Can access Windows share by IP or FQDN address but not by hostname
One of the lab computers at the school I administer is not able to access a any shares under the \\ad\data$ directory. I can access it from any other computer on the network. If I use the IP ...
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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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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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mmc could not create the snap-in. CLSID: FX:{18ea3f92-d6aa-41d9-a205-2023400c8fbb} error
MMC Snap-in will not load most processes and throws an error on Windows 2008R2 x64. It gives the error: mmc could not create the snap-in. CLSID: FX:{18ea3f92-d6aa-41d9-a205-2023400c8fbb} when opening ...
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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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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 is not showing DHCP-Server configuration in Server-Manager
I've successfully installed the DHCP server role on my Windows Server 2008 R2. After configuring everything, DHCP is working just fine.
I can configure the DHCP server via Start -> Programs -> ...
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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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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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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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Can't connect to samba
Windows 7, connecting to Samba shares
I have a follow up question from the link above.
I am running Samba 3.0.23d on FreeBSD is release 7.1
I changed the policies as described above but still ...
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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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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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Configure SMTP server windows
I am configuring a local network and for some reason I can't get server to send an email. I already install the SMTP server and configured using this tutorial ...
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Change path of Internet Explorer temporary downloading files
I'm downloading a large file on Windows server and as you know Internet Explorer first stores files into C Drive then copies it to the correct location. I don't have enough space in C Drive, so is ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Remote Desktop fails after VPN connection
The local computer (comp 1) is connected to a remote computer (comp 2) with Remote Desktop. On the remote computer (comp 2), I try to establish an VPN connection to a different remote computer (comp ...
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How do you download files on a Windows server?
Related question: Native alternative to wget in Windows PowerShell?
The question might sound stupid, but this is often a major issue for me. Consider the following scenario:
The customer has a fresh ...
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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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FTP server not working properly
I am using Macbook as local host and Windows server 2008 as virtual remote host. I configured FTP server on virtual windows and working fine. I could do FTP from my Mac os x to Windows 2008. But when ...
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Access xampp outside localhost
I have created a xampp page on Windows server 2008. I am successfully able to load the xampp page and other php pages that I have created using localhost:8080/.
Firstly : I want to know how can I ...
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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 ...
