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How can an inactive reserved IP address be used by another device on Windows server? Shouldn’t it be reserved?

I freshly set up DHCP server on Windows Server 2022 and create in advance IP reservation for devices. At this stage, all devices concerned by this reservation are not yet connected, so IP reservation ...
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Changing user passwords while off network with a domain joined laptop (and no VPN access available)

Environment: 2019 Win Server VM - DC/DNS/DHCP roles; has a backup in healthy replication Sophos NGFW with SSLVPN configured Remote Desktop works but not via gateway; reliant on SSLVPN connection ...
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Can not access share from one of 3 domain controlers

Setup: 3 DC's in the Samen VLAN network. DC1: Windows server 2016 DC2: Windows server 2019 DC3: Windows server 2019 Problem: All company data is op DC3 I have added myself with full control using ...
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Windows Server Scheduled Drive Optimization (defrag/TRIM) drives list is empty

I want to setup scheduled drives optimization on Windows Server 2019 (defrag HDDs and TRIM SSDs). The Optimize Drives main window lists my drives properly. But when I want to select the drives that I ...
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Windows File/Folder Sharing - custom network path

I'm trying to simplify/shorten a windows shared network folder so that it's easier for my users to access. On the host computer where the path resides, I would like to share an entire drive to the ...
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Filter Windows Event Viewer based on information inside the event itself

I have a large number of events like: Category: Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Database.Command EventId: 20101 Executed DbCommand (2ms) [Parameters=[], CommandType='Text', CommandTimeout='30'] SELECT ...
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How to run windows server on macOS with apple silicon?

I'm trying to run Windows Server on macOS with Apple Silicon. Parallels can't install any x86 versions(windows server don't have arm versions out in the wild, only for OEM) I tried installing it on ...
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Best method for connecting user applications (which relly on SQL) over VPN

Two questions here: 1.  I'm trying to get some end user applications in a functional state at a remote office.  We have a decent site-to-site VPN and most programs work without issue (file explorer ...
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Is explorer.exe always in the "C:\Windows\" folder?

I'm writing a program that needs to find explorer.exe, but I don't know if it's always in the same folder or not. I know on all modern versions of Windows you can find explorer.exe in the C:\Windows\ ...
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Why does my Windows Server 2019 say it is not connect to the Internet?

I have set up a Windows Active Directory Server 2019. When logged in to the console, the server displays the not connected to the Internet icon at the lower right corner of the screen in the task bar. ...
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How to install AMD display (graphics) drivers on Windows Server 2019 standard?

We've got the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (with integrated graphics) on the ASROCK X670E Steel Legend motherboard. The problem is that either ASROCK's or AMD official drivers do NOT work - they refuse to ...
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Increase display resolution using Microsoft Basic Display Adapter on Windows Server 2019 due to lack of AMD drivers

Please, any way to increase the display resolution while using Microsoft Basic Display Adapter on Windows Server 2019? It runs on 800x600 only, I need to get onto 1024x768 at least. We've got the AMD ...
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backing up an AD DC whose Windows Server (2019) installation has died or fixing a 0xc00002e2

I have a Windows Server 2019 AD DC where it's just that one and no backup DC (I know, I know) which died yesterday after doing Windows Updates. now whenever it tries to boot it BSODs with 0xc00002e2 ...
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Error with SSL and TLS on Windows server 2019

After I updated the windows server 2019, it is not possible to connect to the server using remote desktop connection. Also the sites which are hosted on https on this server can't be opened and the ...
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How do I reset file ownership at the command line when the files are owned by users from a dead domain?

I feel like telling a story, so if you want to get to the meat of the question, skip down to the horizontal line. Original title: Zombies from a dead domain won't give me my files! I ran into a ...
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Windows server not assigned with ip address before login

I am having this weird problem where a physical hp server cannot be seen on my network after an unplanned shutdown/restart, I have to log in manually, and only after that, I can be ready to use ...
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Put VM on real hardware

I've just bought a new PC. My old one has 16GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD. I want to turn it into an NAS server. I have put Windows Server 2022 into a virtual machine, and configured everything to my liking ...
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Recover Machine Key that was not marked as exportable upon creation

We have a machine key that is located in: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys that was probably generated using the command aspnet_regiis "MyKey" -pc. The key works fine although ...
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How can I add a timestamp to a monitored command (like "netstat") in Windows commandline?

Using netstat -aon | findstr /I "1234", I can monitor that this port is open, but there is an issue: this is what the result looks like: UDP 0.0.0.0:1234 *:* 5064 UDP 0.0.0.0:...
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Can't see files/directories in a Windows shared server on my Mac

I'm trying to connect to my corporate work shared server on my Mac (I use windows on my work). I have to connect with the VPN and then I'm writing the route it shows on the Windows PC in to the "...
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Hyper-V Virtual Switch Generic failure

I installed Hyper-V on my Server (Windows 2022) but it did not create a virtual network adapter. I tried many possible fixes like uninstalling and installing it again and running netcfg -d but this ...
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Windows Server incorrectly detecting wired network as "metered", even though it's set not to be

I have a weird issue where Windows Server 2022 is detecting my ethernet (VMware powered) as "metered" despite my not setting it as metered, and the system being on a Verizon FiOS Business ...
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"Do not allow drive redirection" not available for non-administrative user policy

I'm trying to define a local group policy to prevent non-administrator users from moving data off of a cloud VM. I added the Local Computer\Non-Administrators Policy snap-in via MMC, but when I drill ...
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IIS 10 WebDAV Windows client gets 403 error while Android works

I have Windows Server 2019 with IIS 10 WebDAV share. I access to this share on Windows 11 notebook and Android with CxFileExplorer. There were updates on both notebook and Windows Server 2019. Now ...
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route external IP hostname to Windows Server 2022 internal IP

My server has a single NIC with 2 IP addresses. 192.168.1.8 and 192.168.1.9 1.8 is for Apache 1.9 is for IIS From inside the network everything works fine, but from outside I get redirected to the ...
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Windows RDS - Make each users use specific NIC

I have the following situation: I have one Windows Server, configured as RDS for 5 users. These users need to use this RDS to access a specific website, accessed with Pulse Secure. For multiple ...
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After Adding then Removing Active Directory/DNS Server Roles to Server, All User Accounts were Deleted

I used to have 6 user accounts other than Administrator, and after removing Active Directory and DNS Server roles, the accounts are missing from lusrmgr. The data still exists in C:\Users, and I can ...
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Why a unlocking a locked out local account on a Windows Server immediately gets locked out again?

There's a Windows Server 2022 with two administrator local users. This is not Active Directory topic. One of the admins got locked out. I go ahead and uncheck the locked out status in the Local ...
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Windows guest OS Power Plan on vmware: is there any real difference?

I've been doing some research but cannot find any evidence or KB online about this topic. Basically as title says: for a Windows Server machine hosted on vmware is there any difference between the ...
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Remove/hide One Drive folder in file explorer

I have a mapped drive which redirects user's local folders to the mapped drive. I wish to hide the One Drive so users utilize the mapped drive instead of the OneDrive. I've attempted to uninstall One ...
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Can one make window server VM's use system RAM for file caching?

When using Windows Server 2019 as a virtual machine for serving files, is it possible to convince it to use system RAM for caching to improve performance? We're running several file servers on a box, ...
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How to make the user interface of Windows server stay active after disconnecting the server

I'm facing the issues of losing user interface session of the server after disconnecting the server. The reason why I want to make the user interface session stay active is because I need to run some ...
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is there a script i can use for task scheduler to recycle iis application pool?

I'm looking into creating a task on one of my servers to recycle the application pool in IIS every night at a certain time automatically. any help would be appreciated. thank you.
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How can I download Windows Server 2022 Standard ISO not Evaluation? [closed]

I download Windows Server 2022 Standard from Microsoft but it's Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation edition: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2022 When I enter ...
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When is a Windows-Server more vulnerable [closed]

Context Sometimes when a new update for a windows-server comes available it would be possible for me to install the updates but can't restart the server. For restarting the server I need to be present ...
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Cannot edit file on windows server through RDP as domain admin

I'm new to windows administration. I've set up an Active Directory and created a user who is member of Domain Admins. I've created another windows server, and logged into it in RDP with the Domain ...
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Remote work by "Streaming" windows file server files

So, you know how cloud storage services like Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, Sharedrive, etc. all allow a user to "stream" files? Essentially, the cloud storage mounts as a drive on the client ...
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Can I recover from a corrupted boot sector on a running system?

I accidentally ran a program the overwrites the protective mbr and all the gpt headers as admin, which means my system will die as soon as i restart it. I don't want to lose all my data, so is there a ...
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Cannot ping Windows Server Wireguard Interface

I've a Windows Server 2019 Std. running wireguard in listening mode on the Internet. Another Windows client at home also runs wireguard. I can ping from server to client, but not the other way round. ...
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Admin rights required to access serial connection

I'm just getting started with Active Directory and stuff and created a WS2012R2 domain controller and created a new user with admin right.However it seems that now I can't access the serial connection ...
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Saving files on shared folder removes all permissions

We have a shared on a windows 2019 server. If a user has the shared map as a network drive and then open a file and overwrite it. All permissions to that files are removed. Parent folder has ...
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Can ApplicationPoolIdentity be used to read/write files from/to a folder over network?

There was a need to be able to read/write files from/to a network folder from the server with IIS. Now I did not set it up at first so I don't know why - but a new user was created in the Application ...
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Can I install Outlook Mail app on windows server 2019?

This app comes with windows 10 as standard. I'd like to install it onto windows server 2019. Is this possible?
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Azure VPN Client Windows Server 2016R2

Is there any way to get the Azure VPN client to work on Windows Server 2016R2? At the time of this post, the latest version was 2.2159.179.0 (Jan 12, 2023) and it said the minimum OS requirement was ...
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Attached files from Outlook 2013/2019 on Windows Server 2016 are blocked when downloaded. "This file came from another computer..."

I have a virtual machine with W. Server 2016 Std. to which several users connect via RDP. Some of these users are having problems downloading any type of attachments from Outlook; when they download a ...
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Multiple disks on different locations in Vagrant

I have a Windows Server on which I want to create 3 virtual machines with Vagrant. Each one should have two disks attached: the primary one - SSD with 50GB of storage space and another one - HDD with ...
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Windows Server 2016 slow boot (Over 15 minutes in Boot-PreSession Init-Phase)

we are currently having problems with a Windows Server 2016 who takes approximate 20-30 minutes to boot. Most of the time the server is in the Boot Pre Session Init Phase and shows the following ...
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User receiving "Remote sign in" error on login but the user is signing in directly

Server 2022, Active Directory on a HyperV VM. 1 Windows 10 host as well. The VMs are on an internal Virtual net so theres no other traffic to worry about. I have created a test lab for GPO tests for ...
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Cannot Start Windows Process Activation Service On Windows Server 2019?

I have searched high and low and can't figure this one out. I made a new VM on which Windows Server 2019 Standard was installed. If WAS is started from Services it gives the following error: Error 50: ...
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How to launch process through SSM command as a non-background process?

I want to launch Google Chrome (chrome.exe) on my AWS EC2 server using the SSM Api for launching Powershell commands. I run the powershell command through the C# SSM API: ...
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