Questions tagged [windows-server-2012]
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Why are Disk and Network columns disabled in Task Manager in Windows Server 2012?
Compared to Windows 8, Windows 2012's Task Manager has Disk and Network columns disabled.
Why are these columns disabled?
How can one activate them, especially the Network column?
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How can I enable multiple users login at a time in remote system?
Recently we bought dedicated server with Windows Server 2012 Standard.It's allowing 2 people at a time.So I want to allow more people at a time.
How can I do this?
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Auto login Windows Server 2012
Hey all i am hoping someone knows how to set up Server 2012 with auto logon?
I already tried:
But i am unable to find the checkbox that was in 2008 server that said "Users must enter a user name and ...
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Where is my RDP server certificate stored?
Given the recent issues of Man-in-the-Middle attacks, i actually paid attention to the warning i get when connecting to a server:
Selecting View Certificate, i was going to check the SHA1 Thumbprint:
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Disable Windows Server 2012 automatic log off
I have been searching for a while, but I don't find a solution for this anywhere... I'm in a factory and they have Windows Server 2012 with an HMI (HumanMachineInterface) on it. They have computers ...
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How can I figure out what IPv6 to use if I want to set a static IP for my computer?
I recently installed Windows Server 2012 on my desktop. I changed my connection settings to hardcode my internal IP address as 192.168.0.99 (IPv4). Windows Server 2012 warned me that I should also set ...
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Any advantage of using Windows Server 2012 R2 instead of Windows 8.1 for a workstation [closed]
I'm building a new machine which will be used primarily for development and a little bit for photo editing. I am wondering if there will be any benefits in using Windows Server 2012 R2 as my ...
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How to find out how long a process has been running for?
Is it possible to use wmic or powershell to find out how long a process has been running for?
If not, is there any other mean to obtain this information from Windows OS?
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CMD window will not close if folder is closed during execution of bat file
I have a Server 2012 R2 Standard 64 Bit virtual machine that is acting strangely. Bat files work fine and the CMD window closes normally; but if the folder containing the bat file is closed during ...
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RDP connection from Windows 7/8 to Server 2012 is slow
I recently installed Windows Server 2012 for development purposes at our office and noticed immediately that connecting via RDP is slow. It can take 5-10 seconds to connect at times, where as ...
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Taskbar Disappears Over Remote Desktop Connection When Outside Local Network
I've got a machine on my home network running Windows Server 2012 (Based on Win8).
The problem is, my taskbar disappears completely.
When I minimize an application rather than minimize to the taskbar ...
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Error when trying to change the time zone in Windows: "Unable to continue. You do not have permission to perform this task."
It appears that installing Windows 8 on top of XP doesn't give you the option to choose the locale and other settings -- I've got the right keyboard layout restored, and can change the system locale ...
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Remote Desktop Connection can't connect to Windows Server 2012
Mission to Remote Desktop INTO Windows Server 2012 (standalone).
Situation:
Control Panel, System, Remote Settings, Remote Desktop – Allow
All firewalls off
Connect attempt using a known IP address (...
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Enable/Disable device driver via command line
I did a google search and found tools like devcon and devmanview but they are only useful to disable/enable the device not the device driver. What I want to do is be able to disable/enable a ...
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Setting default keyboard layout in Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012
When there are multiple input methods (keyboard layouts) installed, the first one in the list is supposed to be the default. In my case I have two custom keyboard layouts:
US (Customized)
Czech (...
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How do I install Windows Defender/MSE on Server 2012?
On earlier versions of Windows client and server you could install Microsoft Security Essentials, free antivirus from Microsoft. In Windows 8 client, it is integrated into Windows Defender. However, I ...
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How to install Jenkins on Windows Server 2012
This may sound like a trivial question but here is what is happening:
I grab the latest version of Jenkins as native installer for Windows (1.491 in my case)
I set up a Windows Server 2012 (official ...
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Where is the System Restore on Windows Server 2012?
I have Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition and would like to use Windows System Restore. But, I can't find it.
Trying to start it using the Windows Run command restore didn't work. I can't find it ...
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How to change user account picture
Is it possible to change your user account picture in Windows Server 2012?
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Why am I seeing such low SMB transfer throughput?
Ok, there's a bit more to the story than the title implies.
Background and Environment: I'm copying several TB from an older Ubuntu server to a newer Windows 2012 server over SMB. (Technically, it's ...
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How can I make Windows Server 2012 R2 like Windows 8.1?
I installed Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter on my Sony VGN-Z56TG laptop. After I finished installing it, I noticed that some features in Windows 8.1 were missing from it, and some other limitations. ...
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Hyper-V: NAT Port Forwarding [closed]
I rented one dedicated server (Win Server 2012) with one adapter/static IP address. I want to install Hyper-V and guest OS (Win also), that can expose some of its services to the internet. For example,...
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Delete the "Optimize Start Menu Cache Files" task
Many of you are probably familiar with the fact that when a new user logs into a server in Windows, there will be a new task created in the Task Scheduler which is called "Optimize Start Menu Cache ...
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Windows Server store apps not working
I am using Windows Server and create a new admin user.
Now when I run it's open but goes hide after 2-3 seconds. When I check the left-side top then it's still exist.
In Event Viewer I got this ...
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Keep 'Has Stopped Working' windows from popping up
I'm running a server and sometimes one of my apps will crash which shows this dialog
This is annoying because it holds the process open until someone physically jumps on the box and presses 'Close ...
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Can I run games smoothly on a server via RDP? [closed]
Is it possible to run games on a hosted server smoothly via RDP?
I have a dedicated server running Windows Server 2012 R2. It has 144 GB of RAM, an Intel Xeon E5 and GeForce GTX 750 Ti GPU. It's a ...
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"Size on disk" column missing in Windows Explorer?
I decided to use the "compress this drive to save space" option on my backup drive, which simply houses a Windows Server Backup.
I learned that when viewing file properies for files on a drive using ...
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Windows DNS Server - how to find out who made a query?
We have a host in our environment which is trying to get DNS lookup for a known sinkhole address. The DNS server is running Windows Server 2012.
We are unable to locate the host in our environment.
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Virtualbox gives Error code: 0x000000C4 with Windows 8.1 or 2012
Trying to boot Windows 8.1 or Windows server 2012, either a previously installed VM or booting from CS/ISO on virtualbox gives Error code: 0x000000C4.
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How to upgrade from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2 (Standard Edition)?
I've been trying to understand how to upgrade from from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2 (Standard Edition) and I can't find the installer/upgrade to download anywhere.
Does someone know ...
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Remote Windows Server virtual machine: always keep Desktop open (simulate RDP session)
We have got a Windows server 2012 VM running continuously. We log on to the machine via remote desktop.
Is there any possibility to always keep the Desktop open as if a user would be logged on via ...
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Detect user login in Windows Domain Controller
I'm trying to detect a user login event in Windows DC (Win Server 2012), but i'm having the following issues:
The event 4624 is not really certain because it might be automatically generated. For ...
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Cannot resolve websites intermittently (mostly .gov)
We are using Windows Server 2012. Sometimes we are unable to resolve .gov websites. When we check with the following commands, they do resolve, so we know that the .gov websites are available.
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Windows firewall - what order is used?
I setup a 2012 server with some extra bits a few days ago. Seems that there are 17 ports open to the free world now. I want to only permit access to these ports from a specific range of IP addresses.
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Benchmark maximum number of TCP connections on Windows Server 2012
I am wrestling with deploying an application on Windows Server 2012. The problem is that after accepting about ~2000 TCP connections it fails to accept more. And I need much more. We have 8 cores, 16 ...
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Cannot remove read-only attribute from folder in Server 2012
The Read Only flag is half checked for a folder and I'm unable to remove it, (it just comes back) and my .net web application is unable to access this folder.
Attrib command doesn't work.
Taking ...
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Windows permissions - don't allow user to delete file, even if they are the owner
I have a user account set up so that it can create folders/files, but it can NOT delete folders/files created by other users; however, they still can delete folders/files that they have created. I do ...
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Where in task manager can I find information about GDI objects or handles per process
On Windows7 or Windows Server 2008 i could view the total number of GDI objects or handles opened by a process in task manager. I could do this by selecting optional columns in menu: task manager menu ...
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How do I determine optimal Blocksize, Sectorsize, and Clustersize for a disk with millions of files?
I have millions of files on a large disk. I want to minimize the average wasted space by correctly formatting the drive.
Is there any way to optimize the BlockSize, Sectorsize, and cluster size for ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Network Interface Priority on outgoing connections
On a Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials I have two identical network cards. Both cards are connected to the same switch and the two switch ports are configured to the same VLAN. The network interfaces ...
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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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Can Windows Server 2012 run all Metro (/ Windows Store) applications?
I plan to use Windows Server 2012 Standard on my PC as my primary OS.
Can Windows Server 2012 run all Metro (/ Windows Store) applications or are there arbitrary limitations or edition checks that ...
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Set Windows Server 2012 default screen resolution (VM Ware)
I need to set (default) screen resolution to Win Server 2012 hosted in VMWare vcentrum
5.5.0. It is a dedicated server for running automatic GUI tests for Windows applications by Jenkins. When ...
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Is Windows 8 able to read partitions formatted with the ReFS filesystem?
Does Windows 8 read ReFS? Is there a patch available or plans to add support?
My question is motivated by my desire to switch to ReFS due to the better benchmarks but I am hesitant as it may render ...
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Cannot access a remote share which in itself is a symlink to a remote share
I have this scenario:
Domain A:
A file server provided by a third party, which provides a volume available thru CIFS. This file server does not have an external IP address. permissions are set to ...
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Windows Server Software RAID 6
I want to set up a software RAID 6 configuration, but in Windows Server 2008 it only lets me do up to RAID 5. In Server 2012 I saw they have this new thing called "Storage Spaces" which sounds neat, ...
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How does IPv6 and Windows Remote Desktop work?
Say I have a Windows Server KVM with only an IPv6 IP. Do I have to configure anything specifically for the IPv6 address? And when I want to connect to the server via remote desktop connect, would I ...
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How can I get bluetooth to work on Windows Server 2012?
Apparently Windows Server 2012 does not support Bluetooth out of the box? Is there any way to get Bluetooth to work?
I went to the manufacturers' website and found this link: http://www.present-with-...
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bitlocker - how to create recovery key?
I have a w2k12 system on which I enabled bitlocker on my D: drive. I cannot use TPM, because there is no w2k12 driver for that module which fits my motherboard, so I used USB flash to store the key. ...
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How do I add a Microsoft account user to Windows Server 2012?
I am managing a small network with a Windows Server 2012 domain controller. I have usernames of the network users who can access various network drives/files.
In the past, I would open up Active ...
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