Questions tagged [windows-server-2012]
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Server Keeps shutdown time to time [closed]
My Terminal server keep shutdown time to time, it happens always close to midnight, mostly on monday (but not every)
From the Event logs as close I could find are these logs, which offcourse tells you ...
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Windows server IP address
Currently, I'm using Oracle Virtual Box 7.0.12. My Windows 10 Server has a static IP address of 192.168.10.10/24. The roles I added were Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, and IIS services. However, it is ...
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Can't delete file and folder with strange filename on a REFS Server Volume
I have an odd problem on a 2012 Server with a ReFS Volume - Can't delete file or folder with strange filename. It's our Project Shares there and I think that this problem occurred during a lot of copy/...
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How to test localhost:PORT website by amending the hosts file?
Windows 11 + all updates.
Visual Studio 2022 + all updates
I have a website which can run on https://localhost:44313/ in my CMS i have configured it to use a test domain.
I have set a test domain set ...
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Time Synchronization not working on Windows domain
I work at a dental office (and am not an IT professional, hence this post haha), and we have several computers using Windows 10 on a domain using Windows Server 2012. The time is right on the domain ...
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Client PC not downloading WSUS updates on Server 2012
I have a client pc on windows 10 that can ping the WSUS box and vice versa but the updates are just not coming down despite the windows firewall being off and the antivirus being off.
This is a unique ...
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WSUS updates were pushed to local host, but PC is not updated
I consider myself a self-learner in the vast ICT Forest, always eager to acquire new knowledge and skills. Today, a friend of mine has approached me with a request to push updates on a WSUS Server to ...
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Test-Path on multiple computers of an AD
I'm trying to find out how to make a Test-Path against a list of computers via PowerShell and receive a "false" or "true" for each computer.
For example, to do something like this:
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How can I unblock the "Status Blocked" error message in my Dell R710 server's PD Mgmt?
How can I resolve the "Status Blocked" error message that is appearing in the PD Mgmt section of my Dell R710 server?
I don't have any idea about this, I just bought yesterday and its still ...
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Windows server 2019 VM (Hyper-V) no access to internet
I have a Windows server 2012 computer hosting a Windows server 2019 server with Hyper-V but the Virtual Machine can't connect to the internet. The guest adapter is set up as External. I have other VMs ...
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Screen goes black randomly
The screen of a Windows Server 2012 Essentials with version 6.2.920000 randomly turns black and the system seems to be frozen, forcing us to physically reboot the machine.
It happens completely by ...
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Windows Server - Disk full but isn't?
Never had to ask on a forum about Windows before but this one has my head scratching.
The issue is the error message 'There is not enough space on [NETWORK SHARE]'. The server has 10TB disk space and ...
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Disable password expiration while joining AD
I want to create a local user without password expiration on a Windows Server 2012 VM using a powershell script.
In the moment when the user is created, the machine is not in AD. The problem is, that ...
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Blocking Powershell with GPO
My manager has told me that they want Powershell to be executed only in servers with the admin account, so I created a GPO that blocks Powershell.exe and Powershell_ise.exe with "Don't run ...
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Windows server's task sheduler not working after few months
I am using windows task scheduler to run few tasks. But the tasks stop running time to time. May be after few months. Can I know why this happens?
dose this happen because of user password expiration?
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Best way to sync windows services between two servers?
I'm wanting to bring an older company server back in the deployment loop and was looking at the Robocopy cmd. So of course it can easily sync files and all that good stuff, but I'm wondering if ...
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SMB File share is reachable through ping but its not accessible from file explorer
A specific SMB share hosted on an Azure VM used to be accessible from File Explorer on all on-premises servers, however the share is no longer accessible on almost all servers, even though no changes ...
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Disable WMIC on servers
How to block WMIC on servers, but WMI should remain enabled.
And how we can test that WMIC has been disabled, we want to disable WMIC from GPO via domain controller.
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What file in the Windows boot Manager loads the disk driver to then load windows on the c:\
we had a Nutanix Windows VM boot directly into the recovery partition as it could not see its system partition.
After a quick google which came up with this troubleshooting guide, I can see that I ...
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Windows server 2012 hands out DHCP addresses without DHCP server - cannot disable
I have a Windows 2012 R2 server on my network which seems to be handing out DHCP addresses.
The addresses it hands out are on a subnet which does not exist on our network (ex: 192.168.30.0).
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Creating a clean WIM/ESD file out of my current Windows Server 2012 installation
Here's my scenario:
We have an old Dell PowerEdge Server with an OEM Windows Server 2012 Foundation license. The machine is working perfectly and there's currently an OS deployment running on it, ...
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Could in-place upgrade of Server 2012 to 2019 affect firewall rules or IIS sites?
An application I support has been installed on Windows Server 2012. The server is to be upgraded to Server 2019 in an in-place upgrade. This is to be done without being tested first.
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Adding AD group to another AD group powershell script
When a server gets created an AD group gets created that has the server name in it (xxxServerNamexxx).
I have a pre-written script to install IIS locally on the server.
At the end of the install I ...
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Print job in queue but nothing prints
Brother L5850 connected via TCP to Server 2012 R2.
When I write to the print spooler to the UNC (\server\BL5850) the print job shows up in the print queue, then disappears quickly as if it printed, ...
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Task Scheduler runs the task but does not execute PowerShell script
Just as the question states.
I am trying to schedule a PowerShell script to run every hour using the Task Scheduler on Windows Server 2012R2. This is a remote server.
The Task Scheduler runs the task ...
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Scheduled Task Launch Failure - 2147944309
There is a scheduled task that executes a script. It was running fine until one day it started to fail with 'Task Scheduler failed to start "Task" task for user "domain account". ...
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Why does Windows resolve all IPs of all NICs with the hostname?
I´m having diferents problems with TCP/IP aplications that works through HOSTNAME. The Server where this aplications are installed(WIN Server 2012) have 4 NICs and Windows,resolve his own hostname ...
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Size of all files whose path fulfils condition
I would like to calculate the total size of all files in a given directory that fulfil the condition:
The path of the file (or, equally good, the directory of the file) contains the string DEV_
The ...
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Executable console group on Windows using PowerShell Remoting
I have a Windows application that generates the following (cryptic) error when I try to run via PowerShell Remoting or PsExec (same result).
Could not locate executable console group for user/process
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Windows Command Line/PowerShell Arguments/Options
I cannot believe this is not documented somewhere but the Internet seems unable to provide the answer so far so I'm hoping an actual person can.....
I'm trying to get a command to work using Windows ...
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SMTP always fail on first attempt
I tried PowerShell to test SMTP, but the first attempt or first few attempts will always fail and receive the same error
Send-MailMessage : Unable to read data from the transport connection: ...
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Routinely Back Up Single Windows XP Folder to Network Drive
The company I'm at is using a piece of hardware running with a Windows XP program called OldXpProg. Looks to me like the program has hard-coded C:\OldXpProg... callouts throughout it (installs outside ...
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Specific users cannot open Excel 2010 on Windows server 2010
I have a Windows Server 2012 installation with multiple users. They are mostly identical and serve the same purpose - and are therefore members of the same groups (administrators included).
Whenever ...
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ECC RAM Data Width showing 72
I have installed ECC RAM and I would like to know why Data Width is showing 72 instead of 64? I have googled but can't find any related answer at all.
Thank you in advance.
Microsoft Windows [Version ...
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The number of connections to this computer is limited - Remote Desktop Windows Server 2012 DS R2
I am facing a weird problem with my Windows Server 2012 R2.
The number of connections to this computer is limited and all connections are in use right now. Try connecting later or contact your system ...
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Silently Uninstall .Net Framework On Windows Server using any script
I need a method which uninstalls .net framework SDK and runtime versions(preferably 4.5 or lower version) without user interaction from windows servers. msiexec /x /qr is unsuitable because it puts up ...
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Why would multiple process launched from the same .exe be faster when launched from different copies of the .exe in windows
I am seeing some strange application behavior on some win 2012 servers.
A service launches up to 8 instances of someApp.exe. as the process terminates the service launches another so there are always ...
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Connection to webserver - TCP reset from server
http://example.domain.com/test
This link is accessible within our LAN but not when a user on distant is using Direct Acces.
It worked until about 10 days ago, then suddenly the webserver refuse ...
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W2K12 R2 - Windows update fails to install newest patches. DISM doesn't work either.(Error: 0x800f0906)
as I mentioned in tittle I have problem with installing newest patches, it fails everytime.
NFC /SCANNOW doesn't finds any corrupted files.
CHKDSK is also fine.
DISM - online\image 0x800f0906\...
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Verify a digital signed document by fetching public key from local CA at the time of verification
Is it possible for a user (say A) to verify a digitally signed (by user B) document without having public key of user B in local system and fetching key from the server (local CA) at the time of ...
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Powershell always exiting with exit code 1
I'm having an issue on multiple machines for one customer: when running any PowerShell script, the process always exits with exitcode 1, unless an exitcode is explicitly specified in the script (e.g. ...
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All Reboots Prompts Advanced Boot Options
I have a Windows 2012 Server (Not R2) and every time it reboots, regardless of cause (for example power outage, rebooting from the server, updates, etc all produce the same problem) it goes to the ...
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Clicks "restart" in RDP -> Brings back to my local PC -> I don't know when the RDP will fully wake up -> Whenever it's wake up it login automatically [duplicate]
I have 2 programs in the RDP -- 1)A.bat & 2)B.exe
Execution process of A.bat is something like -
Step1: Download a file from internet using the command --
powershell -c "Invoke-WebRequest -...
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Win 2012R2 Screen Lock Change
I have environment where lock screen image is embedded in user32.dll,LockWorkStation and would like to change it. Unfortunately whoever used this approach did not use change via GPO "...
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"Site can't be reached" when trying to query database from webapp page in IPSEC infrastructure
things are like this:
VM with Windows Server 2012 for asp.net webapp - APPServer
VM with Windows Server 2012 for sql server database(different from 1 - but same network) - DBServer
CLient1 - Another ...
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Connect two networks with different subnets
The ISP cable is connected to a Netgear router (main router, DHCP enabled). From this router goes out two cables, one for a server with static IP 192.168.1.3 (Windows Server 2012, with 2 NICs) and ...
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Delete these files10 million+ files in Windows server 2012, no pattern in the filenames
I have windows 2012 server and it has 10M+ files in a directory from 2016 need your help to know how i can delete these files prior to OCT 2020.
Also I don't see anything common in filenames all have ...
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How to decide server requirements to suit my system?
How to calculate what kind of server I need for my system. System: moodle Functionality: nothing unusual for moodle Max users online: 100
I know minimal moodle requirements but I don't know how it ...
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Cannot install Windows System Resource Manager, must specify installation type
When I try to install Windows System Resource manager
downloadable from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8120
on Windows Server 2012 R2, I get this dialog
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Using SSH on windows
I have Windows 2012 R2 server and I have some commands and operations to execute over there concerning a service that runs permanently.
My PC is using Windows 10 which has the feature of OpenSSH ...
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