Unanswered Questions
1,427 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Unable to bind OSX 10.9 to Active Directory 2008
I am struggling to bind OSX 10.9 to a 2008 r2 Active Directory. I can join the domain fine when I boot into Windows from the same machine. From OSX I can find the domain controller successfully and ...
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IIS aborts request thread with Win32 status 995
We have a site where we have trouble on our production server, but not on my dev machine with request beeing aborted (hence, zero response).
It fails after exactly 1:19 minutes each time, and the ...
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Replacing windows extra large cursor file with one that is 30% larger (Server 2008 R2)
Currently have a client that has poor eyesight and needs everything on his screen larger than standard. The issue is when running a Citrix application [Xenapp], the mouse is not scaling properly.
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What is the Task Scheduler syntax for returning the "ComponentStatus" contents in a Windows Server Backup Event
I have created a Task Scheduler event that emails me on EventID 14 in the Microsoft-Windows-Backup event log (note this is a new , style (Vista and up) log. I exported this and after some grubbing ...
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DHCP Server Not Offering to PXE Client
DHCP Server Not Offering to PXE Client
BACKGROUND:
I'm in the process of adding PXE services to an existing SCCM 2007 server. The SCCM server is separate from the DHCP server (Server 2008 x86) and ...
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View free space on offline mapped network drive
We provide all of our users with a mapped network drive (H:) which we have re-directed my documents to. Using FSRM on the file server, each user is restricted to 5GB of disk space.
Windows ...
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Is RSS (receive side scaling) in Windows considered unstable?
When asking a customer to enable RSS in their data center to improve network performance (very high UDP packets-per-sec rate), I was told that they generally turn it off, because after various ...
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Active Directory: Server 2008 and RHEL 5.10
Apologies if this is a re-post. I've been googling and researching the topic for over three weeks now and I've come up against the same problem over and over again and I haven't managed to get around ...
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Windows Task Scheduler cannot access EFS encrypted folder despite running as a user with access
I have a batch file set to run via Task Scheduler in Windows Server 2008 R2. The batch file is being used to rotate and compress MySQL logs, and the folder containing these logs is encrypted using ...
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Tomcat/CF10/IIS7.5 Connector Tuning Help (503 Errors)
Problem: After a undetermined amount of time, all websites running in an application pool return 503 errors as IIS has stopped pool due to Rapid Failures from the pool. Increasing the number of ...
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Corrupt General Tab in Event Viewer
Whenever ASP.NET reports a dangerous query string value to the Application log and the request contains a certain combination of characters; the event viewer will not show the error information and ...
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Glassfish connection pool don't work after restart server
I have a connection pool in Glassfish 3.1 to connect to SqlServer 2008 Express, this pool works fine, but when Glassfish is restarted, the connection pool can't ping and stops working. To work again, ...
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Assign static IP to Users that access using Terminal Services (Remote Desktop)
For a project I'm working on I'm looking for the ability to assign a specific ip to users when they start a terminal service session.
I'm using Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and I tried using Remote ...
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EC2 Windows: Certificate for local system with Thumbprint ... is about to expire or already expired
I regularly see this error in the Windows Error Log on one of my EC2 instances:
Certificate for local system with Thumbprint aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa is about to ...
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Tidy up old Windows Server Backup snapshots
I'm running wbadmin from a scheduled job, backing up my C: and D: drives to my E: and (I believe!) including the system state:
wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:e: -include:c:,d: -allCritical -...
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Active Directory Certificate Services cannot publish revocation list after renewal with new private Key
In summary:
I had a working offline root CA and an AD integrated CA working fine
I renewed the certificate with the same private key and all was good
I then renewed the certificate with a new ...
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Bunch of Connection_Abandoned_By_ReqQueue once per day
We are seeing tens of Connection_Abandoned_By_ReqQueue errors in HTTPERR file every day (and once that day) fired in quick succession for our ASP.NET WebAPI application running in IIS 7. We think ...
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Why does RDS login screen vary by user and PC?
I have two identical Lenovo laptops running Windows 10 with all updates. Call them Left and Right. On the backend I have a domain controller and a Remote Desktop Server, both running Windows Server ...
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Add Startup and shutdown scripts to Local Group Policy using Powershell
I am trying to automate adding startup and shutdown scripts to Local Group Policy (gpedit.msc). One solution is to write to registry directly as pointed out in http://ccm.net/faq/3358-execute-a-script-...
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Investigating Citrix app server "slowless"
Currently have a client stating that the 5 users on a 2cpu, 4gb mem app server are experiencing slowness and often, locking up for moments at a clip.
Framework is a VM running in vSphere 5.5 [intel ...
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How does Windows 2008 specifically select ephemeral ports (does it test to avoid conflicts)?
I have a server application which uses permanently connected incoming ports within the range that W2k8 now uses in the IANA recommended range of ~49000-65000. (For legacy reasons it's extremely ...
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Configure Web Deploy Publishing - Unable to grant user
I have an IIS7 Web Site configured with a physical path pointing to a UNC Share. This works fine. However, when trying to configure Web Deploy for this site (Right Click on site -> Deploy -> Configure ...
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Windows Server 2008 automatic shutdown before reaching login screen
I have a Windows Server 2008 machine on a domain that will not stay powered on. During startup I see:
"Applying Computer Settings"
then "Applying Registry Policy"
then "Applying Group Policy Registry ...
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CSC folder data access AND roaming profiles issues (Vista with Server 2003, then 2008)
I'm a junior sysadmin for an IT contractor that helps small, local government agencies, like little towns and the like. One of our clients, a public library with ~ 50 staff users, was recently ...
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Mounting whole-disk filesystems in Windows 2008?
I am booting a Windows instance in an OpenStack environment. OpenStack can use a "configuration drive" to pass information into the instance. This drive is formatted as a whole-disk MS-DOS ...
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Zone transfer Windows Server DNS from NSD
I have a NSD server being primary server for a zone and want a Windows Server (2008 and 2012 RC) box to be secondary for that zone. Everything is configured and working EXCEPT:
When Windows receives ...
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DeltaCopy (Rsync for windows) giving an error on task run
I was suggested DeltaCopy to set up a nightly backup between two Windows 2008 R2 servers.
After setting up the server side (Amazon EC2 instance where files will be backed to) and setting up the ...
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Jetty Service on Windows Server 2008 using Procrun: Missing service ImageFile
Xe want to run Jetty as a service on a Windows 2008 Server Virtual Machine. Therefore, I configured Jetty as a Windows Service using Apacke Procrun, following this short description: https://...
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php-cgi.exe and/or php5.dll crashing - PHP 5.2.17, Win2k8 & IIS7
A specific part of my PHP script crashes randomly and I'm not sure why. The only difference on this page and the rest of the pages, is that I'm doing a PDO SQLSRV call. But 80% of the time there are ...
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Git post-receive hook not firing on Windows Server
I am trying to setup Git on my server so I can push my website changes. I am using git-dot-aspx and the push is working just fine. The problem is that the post-receive hook does not fire.
I renamed ...
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Single Sign On through Citrix
I have a webserver running Windows 2008 R2 with IIS 7. The server is a member of the domain "mydomain.com". What I am trying to achieve is a SSO connection between the AD users and the web server. The ...
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"ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer" error trying to connect to OpenSSH on Windows machine
I'm trying to set up an SSH server on my Windows2k8 server. I used the instructions found here. Here's the verbose output:
steves-air:~ steve$ ssh [email protected] -v
OpenSSH_7.9p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3
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Can't import self-signed CA into vCenter 6.0 for Windows
I have a self-signed CA (root certificate) I use in our LAN to sign SSL/TLS certificates for other things such as pfSense itself, our HP iLO interfaces, and so on. Everything works fine here and we ...
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Task scheduler startup bat script not running on AWS EC2
I have an EC2 WindowsServer2016 image with a scala project on it. I want it to start when I spin up an instance without me having to log in or do anything. I have a .bat script with the following:
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Folder Redirection only applies if I run gpupdate /force - File Server Migration
We have just migrated the home shares of approximately 2300 users to a new file server. For some reason folder redirection is not updating the paths for any existing user profiles (we don't use ...
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Computers lose trust relationship - disappearing from domain controller
This happens very seldom but lately a computer lost the trust relationship with our domain so I wanted to reset the computer credentials.
Looking at my main DC (Server 2008 R2) I wasn't able to find ...
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Set "rdp-tcp#0 Administrator" permanently to Session 1
Steps to reproduce:
- Login to a Windows 2008 R2 via RDP
- Open a "Command Prompt"
- Type: qwinsta
- Get:
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE
services ...
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Too Many Audit Failure in Event Viewer Windows Server 2008
I have a dedicated server and last week server has been hacked. I changed all of paswords to strongly and Change RDP Scope to my ip addresses.
When i enter the Event Viewer Security tab it is showing ...
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W2K3 CA server gone offline, how to clean my AD?
We have decommissioned an old W2K3 DC server, on which was a CA installed.
The CA wasn't really used (no PKI infrastructure), just was here as a test.
After the server 's gone offline, I have several ...
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ASP.NET Temporary files taking up too much space
I have approximately 900 applications running on the server where each one points to a folder that contains content that is about 215MB in size.
When I noticed that my server's hard drive was almost ...
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Slow conversion of VDMK to VDI - Virtual Machine Converter 3.1
So I am trying to migrate from VMWare to Hyper-V and I'm using the MS tool Virtual Machine Converter 3.1.
However, the VM conversions are going super slow. Like 2MB a second which means that a 300GB ...
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Giving users of an OU permission to enable and disable users of their own OU
I want users of an OU to have access to enable and disable user accounts in their own OU.
I believe in order to do this I need to grant the Read and Write userAccountControl property to the SELF ...
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How to Manage Server-pushed Printers on Individual Workstation (Printer Properties Issue in Programs)
I'm troubleshooting a print issue on a particular workstation, Windows 7 Pro. I can open Devices and Printers and access all the info, like Printer Properties, Printing Preferences, etc., from there. ...
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2008 ServerCore, Local Administrator Password Reset, Still Can't Login
Running Server 2008 Server Core and I cannot login via the local administrator account. Since it wouldn’t take my “correct credentials”, I reset the local administrator password using other known ...
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Use 2008 R2 and 2003 server domain and LDAP with Windows 8.1 and Windows 10?
I have two server domain one with Windows Server 2003 server and other Windows Server 2008 R2.
With this can I use Windows 8.1 and 10 clients to connect with domain and apply policies?
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Using Basic Authentication with IIS Manager Authentication
For a website I would like to add a Basic HTTP 401 Challenge so the visitor will be asked for a username and password before entering the site. Just like in Apache you can use htpasswd and htaccess.
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ESXi build with SSD's and storage sharing with HDD
So the plan is to convert 4 boxed servers into all virtual servers with a new server. The 4 servers now don't require much horsepower to do much, so only looking at the Xeon E5-2470 (8C, 2.4ghz, iirc) ...
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Windows Diskpart: How to select disk based on LUN ID
I have multiple LUNs attached to my Windows 2008 server from a SAN storage controller. Each LUN has a unique ID. However, it has no correlation to the disk number in the Windows. For example in the ...
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Server 08 Print server deploying to server 03
Server 08 R2 setup as a printer server with 300+ printers installed.
I created an empty GPO and enforced it on the OU containing a few servers that are server 03 that I need the printers to be ...
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IIS7.5 periodically stops serving static files
I have a website with an index.html file (that contains an html/javascript application) that leverages a json rest api(asp.net webapi in the same website) for data. Periodically, IIS will start ...
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