Questions tagged [windows-server-2008]
A version of Windows for servers based on Windows Vista. The original version became generally available in February 2008, and an updated 2008 R2 version was released in July 2009. Questions about administering Windows Server systems that are specific to a business environment are off topic for Super User; please consider asking on Server Fault instead if your question is on topic there.
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How to purposefully exclusively lock a file?
I want to hold an exclusive lock on a file so it cannot be read or written by anything else. Is there a simple Windows tool or command to do this?
I suppose the tool or utility would implement the ...
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Why do I get "General Failure" when pinging host name on a Win 7 node on the network?
This is a very peculiar problem with a station on our network. The client pc is running Windows 7 Pro. What makes this problem interesting is that this client is the only node on the network that ...
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Detect Windows Server version 32/64-bit in CLI
What's the best and quickest way to detect whether you're running a 32 or 64-bit version of Windows Server from the command line?
(Cygwin is installed)
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How to prevent long file name error copying from an external drive?
I have an external hard drive with many files (800 GB). I want to copy the entire contents of the external hard drive to my local drive. get many errors about long file name or long file path. ...
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How can I run a scheduled task as SYSTEM
I can't add SYSTEM account in task scheduler. When I try to add it becomes MYDOMAIN\SYSTEM and I get invalid user error.
Can I use SYSTEM account to run a scheduled task?
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How can I display host name on windows desktop
I do a lot of work on Windows Server 2008 remote desktops and often lose track of which host I am currently logged on to.
Is there a way of displaying (without installing any non-standard apps) the ...
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Can I run Mac OS X as a Hyper-V Virtual Machine?
I would like to know if it is possible, (not from a legality standpoint, but from a technical standpoint), to run Mac OS X on a Hyper-V VM. This would make testing so much easier as I would not have ...
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How to run a program with admin privilege
I need to run a program as a different user + make it run with admin privileges (Run as administrator).
I use the 'runas' for running the program as a different user
How can I run the program as ...
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Difference between Power user and Administrator
What would be the differences between a power user and administrator user?
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How can I automatically convert PowerPoint to PDF?
I need to convert .ppt/.pptx files to .pdf files (or images) through the command line using a 3rd party product.
I'm using this for a Windows 2008 server and I can't use any GUI or website as this ...
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Run As Administrator Settings Under Shortcut
There are two checkboxes for Run As Administrator in the Properties dialog for a shortcut in Windows 7. One is under the Shortcut tab in the Advanced Properties dialog, and the other is under the ...
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How to make network drives appear even if disconnected?
Windows 7 and Vista laptops in my company domain has network drives set up by Win2k8 Server GPO. Normally, when the laptops has ethernet cable plugged in before boot, the network drives connect and ...
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Getting "System error 1067" when installing OpenSSH
I try to install this OpenSSH package on windows Server 2008 R2.
I applied all steps (except the firewall one) and all passed succesfully.
When I try this command
net start sshd
I get this error:
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Windows Server 2008 R2 as a desktop OS?
I get Windows Server 2008 R2 for free through the DreamSpark program, so I thought I could save $30 and use Windows Server as my OS and not get Windows 7. I found this website, which makes it seem ...
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FileZilla not working on Server 2008 R2
I'm battling to get FileZilla working on Server 2008 R2. Until this morning, I had one 2008 and one XP machine, and always just used the XP one for FTP. I now have two 2008 machines and no FTP client. ...
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takeown /R not applying to hidden files
I'm running a batch command to take ownership of a set of user folders and I'm finding that the ownership is not being pushed down to hidden files, such as ~normal.dot
I'm using the following command: ...
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Windows Update error 80246008 windows 7 Sp1 x64
Background Intelligent Transfer Service is Missing & Not listed
The steps I've found and tried have not helped
Microsoft FixIt, (says it can't repair)
sfc /scannow (found nothing)
Add BITS to ...
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Folders named as the current month by command line
I have this code :
xcopy "C:\30*.zip" "C:\Folder\"
what i want is to copy the zip files to a new folder, this folder named as the current month
ex : March , April
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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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How to grant remote desktop right to a user in Windows Server 2008?
I create a user and add it to group Remote Desktop Users but I cannot still remote using mstsc. The error message said the user/group doesn't have the right to remote.
My question is how can I grant ...
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How can I make sure that users log out of Remote Desktop sessions instead of just closing the RDP window?
We have a bunch of servers that our engineers remote desktop into, but each server has a two connection limit. We will often attempt to RDP into these boxes and we will see the "This machine has ...
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Why does copying over RDP sometimes not work? [duplicate]
I was copying some files over an RDP session earlier, and all working fine.
Now, all of a sudden, the "Copy" and "Paste" functions to and from the RDP session have simply stopped working! If I "copy"...
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How do I find out what service is using a certain port?
Port 22 specifically. I installed freeSSHd on a Windows Server 2008 box that only runs IIS. When I try to start the SSH Service, it tells me that the port is already being used. How can I find out ...
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Run application or script on Windows RDC connection
I checked another thread (Automatically run a script when I log on to Windows), but it did not solve my exact problem.
I need to run a script on when a connection is made across my network using ...
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How do I remap Shift + Del on Windows to mean Delete instead of Cut?
Shift+Del on my Windows computer is interpreted as cut to the clipboard. How can I make it no different than just Delete alone?
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When to use a RAM disk?
I know that RAM disks are fast, faster than any disk, but they lose their contents on a shutdown of the operating system. The capacity is limited to the RAM. Is there a useful implementation on a new ...
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Why would you use Windows Server as a desktop operating system?
I've noticed quite a few people using Windows Server as their main desktop operating system. Why? I've never used it, so I don't know if it has some productivity features that aren't available in ...
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Set environment variables from command line - and make them stick globally [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are PATH and other environment variables, and how can I set or use them?
In Windows 2008 Server R2, once I set an environment variable in the command line, how can I make ...
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Do RAID 1 drives have to be exactly the same size?
Do drives have to be exactly the same size for RAID 1?
The RAID option is greyed out—some research says that the drives need to be the same size, but do they have to be exactly the same size (to ...
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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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Creating one big continuous space from 4 disks
I am assembling file server for home use. I wonder if it is possible to use multiple disks in a way that they will be visible in network as one continuous space? More less like JBOD. I am using SATA ...
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In Windows 8.1, how to force prompt for credentials when accessing a shared folder?
I have a computer with Windows Server 2008 ("R1") SP2, which I use as a home server, and another with Windows 8.1 ("Home"), which I use daily. There is no domain controller in the network. I'm logged ...
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Cannot create checkpoint on Hyper-V (0x800423F4)
Host Machine:
Intel Core i3 3120M @ 2,50Ghz 2,50Ghz
12GB RAM
Windows 10 Enterprise 64Bit
750GB HD
250GB SSD
Virtual Machine:
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
4 virtual processors
8GB RAM
I'm ...
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Windows Task Scheduler Chart?
Does anyone know if there is any utility/tool that can make a chart of all tasks in Windows Task Scheduler based on time and date, so I will know if there is any overlap at certain point of time ...
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What prevents copied/renamed/moved notepad.exe from running in some Windows editions?
Test Environment:
Windows 10 professional edition x64, True
Windows Server 2003 R2 x86, False
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise x64, False
Windows Server 2008 R2 DataCenter x64, True
There are 2(or ...
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Disk Usage Bar not showing in Windows Server 2008
In my Windows Server 2008 R2 system disk usage bar is not showing, when am using tiles view in My Computer.
Earlier it used to show the bar. In details view its showing total size and free space.
I ...
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"Access is denied" to Admin when using Sysinternals Contig to defrag the $LogFile metadata file
I have folders with hundreds of thousands, to over a million files and subfolders in each parent. I'm reading that the NTFS log file may be responsible for slow file creation and other actions.
How ...
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Component Services Error Log - SQL Server Distributed Replay Client
I am getting the following error on a Windows Server 2008 x64 R2 Virtual Machine install:
Log Name: System
Source: Distributed COM
Event ID: 10016
Level: Error
Date: 2/20/2013 8:22:14 AM
The ...
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Change permissions on folders (mass)
I've had some problems in my server and now I need to give some write-permissions on some folders, but I have a lot of folders to do it.
My server is Windows Server 2008, and if I select all folder ...
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what physical disk is referenced by Event 7, Disk error "The device, \Device\Harddisk2\DR2, has a bad block." [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I determine which HD is involved in the Event Viewer?
NOT a duplicate
well, maybe the general premise is a duplicate, but the linked question is not answered, only has ...
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what are some possible reasons why my company's DNS server sometimes fails to resolve the host name of some of my VM's?
I'm in charge of a group of VMs that are used by members of the group that I belong to for accessing web apps, web services, build servers, and stuff of that nature. IT is in charge of the DNS ...
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Swapping hard disk to new PC causes blue screen with Windows Server 2008
Just taken out a hard disk with Windows Server 2008 on and plugged it into a different PC and tried to boot it - it is blue screening and I can't even tell what the message says as it reboots ...
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Copying a folder on Windows Server 2008 gives "Error 0x80070057: The parameter is incorrect."
I'm using remote desktop into a Windows Server 2008 machine. On that machine I use a shared drive on the local network for some development. I can use those files just fine in Visual Studio, but ...
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Remove all saved USB drive letter assignments
Is there a location in Windows that can be used to reset all of the USB assignments, and start from scratch in Server 2008 R2?
Edit: This question involves systems that I do not own, as was to ...
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NTP sync... doesn't
Following the instructions here, I've manually configured the Windows Time service to use an external time source.
As I noticed the server's clock drifts very fast (1s per 40min), I set the ...
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Problems with FTP file access to VirtualBox guest running Windows 2008 Server R2 x64
I'm on OSX 10.11 and have a VirtualBox guest running Windows 2008 Server R2 x64 (with NAT networking) running IIS with FTP on port 21.
My problem is: I can login to FTP from the host, but can't see ...
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Prevent cut and paste from/to RDP client
Is there a way to ensure a windows remote desktop client does not have access to cut/paste from/to the host machine from the host OS?
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Saving space in a windows server 2008 workstation
Related Question:
Why does the /winsxs folder grow so large, and can it be made smaller?
My server 2008 installation drive is eating space like anything. Specially the winsxs folder.
Trying ...
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Access database error: The module name xxx is misspelled or refers to a module that doesn't exist
We are using Access database 2003 (I know, too old) with Win server 2008 in my company. We have one .mdb file split into two.
A couple of days ago we had a problem trying to open modules. It all ...
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"localhost:8080" works fine but "localhost" doesn't
"localhost:8080" works fine but is it mandatory to give the port number always, because it doesn't work when I just type "localhost"