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Get all computers running specific Windows OS
I'm currently in the process of upgrading all Windows 2012R2 and 2016 servers to 2019. I would like to run a Powershell cmdlet that will get all the computers on the domain that are powered on, and ...
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Remote Group Policy Update failed (Access Denied) for Domain Admin
My first question in ServerFault heya :)
In our domain manage all server and client machines with Microsoft Active Directory. We have 13 Vm Server. Domain\administrator user is Domain admin. I use it ...
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Java Application (Tomcat) unable to locate license file after Windows Server 2016 in-place upgrade
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Hello ServerFault community,
We recently performed an in-place upgrade from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2016, on which Apache Tomcat 8.5 is running. After the upgrade, we ...
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NTLM Authentication Failing once Domain Controller was upgraded to Windows Server 2016
NTLM Authentication Failing once Domain Controller was upgraded to Windows Server 2016. Application server is running Server 2012 R2. We have one domain controller left on 2012, NTLM works fine on ...
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How to delete a domain user with associated folder rights?
Right now when I delete a user from the domain I get left with these folder rights remnants that I have to remove manually. I've noticed this on both Windows and Linux driven data servers. Is there a ...
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On some servers, my users have to use <username>@<domainname> to login and on other servers they have to use the domainname\username ormat
On some servers, my users have to use username@domainname to login and on other servers they have to use the domainname\username format. All the servers are in the same domain, and running Windows ...
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Program error in windows 2016 2019 but not in windows 2012 r2
I just want to migrate from windows server 2012r2 to windows server 2016 or 2019, but I have the following problem with a service.
If I query the service in 2012r2, everything works and I get Events ...
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Windows Server 2012/16/19 upgrade
I am running tests for the work related to upgrading the operating system while maintaining business apps intact. I'm facing troubles while doing the upgrade from Windows Server 2016 Evaluation ...
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Cant set correct .Net version in IIS Server Pool
I am trying to setup a .Net based RestApi that should be hosted on a Windows Server running IIS. But for some reason i have no luck getting my pool configured as needit to make it work.
Here is the ...
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Lsass.exe high CPU usage on Windows Server 2012 R2 for HTTPS request
Recently we faced CPY spikes on our production servers & our web applications runs on Windows Server 2016 as well 2012 server. It looks as follows:
IIS with 10 applications running with SSL:
MVC ...
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Unlock GPO enabled "Lock all taskbars" on one PC
I am facing strange problem here. We have GPO that disables "Lock all taskbar" function in Windows 10. One user somehow managed to resize the taskbar and I want to fix this but its giving me ...
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SMB Connection to non-domain server
I have a service that needs to establish a SMB connection to several servers. There is no issue with domain-joined computers using a domain account with access. However, I need it to connect to a few ...
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Server 2012 R2 in place upgrade to server 2016 or 2019 error after first reboot
I'm trying to do in place upgrade from server 2012 R2 to server 2016 or 2019. After installation part and after first restart I get error
The installation failed in the FIRST_BOOT phase with an error ...
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SFTP hangs when listing a large directory from a Windows Server 2012R2 VM
I have two machines on the same ethernet network segment:
VM running Windows Server 2012R2 [sftp client]
Physical server running Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS [sftp server running openssh-server 1:7.2p2-...
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Upgrading Windows Server 2008 Standard (32-bit) to Windows Server 2016 Standard (64-bit)
I’m trying to upgrade my windows server 2008 standard 32-bit version to windows server 2016 standard 64-bit version. The server is currently running as a secondary domain controller as the primary has ...
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Raising Domain Functional Level
In my environment, I currently have three domain controllers. My main DC is running on 2012R2 and the other two are running on 2016. The current domain functional level is 2008R2 and the Functional ...
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Does Default Domain Policy always win? Different password policies in production domain
All the time I thought the Default Domain Policy overwrites other policies as it is the most important. I also known that having 2 Password GPO is not correct. The way to have different policies is to ...
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NTP sync over 500 devices
Daylight Saving Time is coming soon so I would like to face with problem with NTP.
I've got around 500 devices which should be synchronized through NTP.
DST is good oportunity to perform it becouse of ...
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Task scheduler can't running after update in same day
i have one task scheduler with 2 action.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<Task version="1.2" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2004/02/mit/...
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Monitoring Windows Server 2016 Servers with SCOM 2012 R2
I have an instance of SCOM 2012 R2 running in a client environment. We are currently monitoring 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 servers with it. We had to migrate two of the 2012 servers to fresh instances of ...
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How to in-place-upgrade Windows 2012 R2 connection broker to 2016/2019?
I have a 2012R2 RDS infrastructure.
Connection Broker, Webinterface, Gateway Manager are running on the same machine with Windows 2012 R2.
Session Hosts are both 2012 R2 and 2019.
Database and ...
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Should I install Microsoft Redistributables not marked as "Supported"?
I have a requirement to upgrade one of our Operating Systems from Windows Server 2012R2 to Windows Server 2016. The hosted application requires numerous ODBC Drivers that in turn require a bunch of ...
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How to configure Windows Server for "Enhanced RDP Security"
According to Microsoft's Open Specification, there are two "flavours" of RDP security: a "Standard" and "Enhanced RDP Security". How can I configure Windows Server to use "Enhanced RPD Security", ...
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How to re-apply original inherited permissions to files created while being administrator?
I hope someone can answer this once and for all, this is driving me mad for months now.
Platform:
Windows Server, any version. This problem doesn't happen on a workstation.
Problem:
In a folder, ...
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How to undo applications installed “as admin”?
On Server 2016 installed an application by running setup 'as admin'. Now that the app is up and running, I'm really wishing I hadn't installed it as admin. Aside from uninstalling/reinstalling, is ...
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Required Microsoft RSAT dlls and exe files
I've got to script some Active Directory actions (remove computer object) but will be limited to using a batch file; I'm tied to a product that is looking for a specific batch file. I'll place my ...
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Zerto Failover - Win 2012/16 Servers Get Stuck on "Getting Devices Ready"
We are using Zerto to replicate our VMs to an offsite datacenter. During our failover tests the VMs have a tendency to "hang" from 15 minutes to several hours on "Getting Devices Ready." I have read ...
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Passwordless auth for WinRM
I need to connect to a list of windows servers and update certificates from a certificate host.
The certificate host is running certbot on linux. All hosts are connected to the domain and the linux ...
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How re-enable Windows Firewall when the service has been stopped and disabled without cutting yourself out?
As every Windows system administrator should know in 2019, the "Windows Firewall" service is a critical component of the Windows network stack, and it should never, ever be stopped end disabled; the ...
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Unable to set RDS timeouts, Server 2012/2016
Experiencing unable to set timeouts and logoff times in GPO for Windows RDS Server 2012 and 2016.
Working with 2008 this works fine but the same settings do not get applied on 2012/2016.
Looked at ...
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Access denied to IPC$ share on Windows Domain Controller when SMB session is setup with Kerberos 5
I am writing a system which performs user login and provides single-sign-on access to SMB shares within the network.
User login is done with Kerberos 5 to verify the user's identity and get a TGT ...
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Offline Windows DHCP
My company is needing to switch over from our current DHCP server to building out a new virtual machine Windows 2016/2019 DHCP server.
The question I have is, can I build the server and configure ...
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Windows Server 2016: Restoring from back-up (2012 r2)
Trying to restore from back up on a Gen8 Microserver running Server 2016, from a offsite 2012 r2 back up, It won't see the back-up I am assuming that server back ups are non backwards compatible,
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Using a replica VM as main VM on replacement server - Hyper-V
I need to migrate a number of VM's to a new server and was wondering if it is possible to use the approach of replicating the VM's to the new server with the new server acting as the replica ...
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Possible to upgrade the RSAT in Server 2012 R2 to manage Server 2016 properly?
We recently migrated to Hyper-V Server 2016 (the non GUI version) as our hypervisor host, however, our guest VMs are still running Windows Server 2012 R2.
We found that the remote management tools (...
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Unable to create tasks in Windows task scheduler - Permission denied
I have few servers facing same problem- I am unable to create task scheduler jobs. The problem seems to be exactly same as this and this.
However, I have checked group policies, and made sure that ...
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Can I turn a computer into a network switch/router?
I have 3 computers that I want to connect via 100Gbe network connections. 2 of the computers/servers are equipped with Mellanox ConnectX-4 single adapters and one computer is equipped with a dual ...
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Runas combined with taskkill different in Server 2016 than in Server 2012 R2?
GD,
I have used the following command succesfully in Server 2012 R2, but it does not work in Server 2016:
runas /noprofile /user:DOMAIN\administrator "taskkill /f /im name_of_service.exe"
Anybody ...
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Hyper-V Host OS Compatibility
I have 2 unclustered Hyper-V Hosts:
HV01 (Windows Server 2012) Dell PowerEdge R720
HV02 (Windows Server 2012 R2) Dell PowerEdge R730
I want to upgrade both hosts to Windows Server 2016, and my ...
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Restoring a bare-metal backup fails (0x80070057 error) on Hyper-V
I'm trying to create a backup of our one of our domain controllers in case of a catastrophic failure, and I'm looking into ways to make one effectively.
So far, I'm been very unsuccessful in getting ...
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Migrate Windows Server 2012 R2 Data Center to a physical Windows Server 2016
I am assisting a client to move from Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition to a physical machine. The server is also running SQL Server which also needs to be migrated.
Anyone can suggest the ...
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RDS Session host server disconnecting all user profile disks intermittently
I have a Windows RDS solution utilizing user profile disks which are stored on a file server.
There are two session host servers which the RDS Gateway loadbalances between.
I'm seeing an issue ...
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Test-CsExStorageConnectivity Results in Error: "The Request Failed With An Empty Response"
I am attempting to integrate a Skype for Business Server 2015 (running on Windows Server 2016) with an Exchange Server 2016 (running on Windows Server 2012 R2). I was following the guide here and ...
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How install SSL certificate for RDS on windows server 2016?
I installed windows server 2016 for a small company, so I don't need to have domain controller on this installation and for RDS I only need RD Licensing and RD Session Host roles. But only with that ...
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Not able to create DFS namespace in a completely new forest
Not able to create DFS namespace in a completely new forest
OS: Windows server 2016
DFL: 2003
FFL: 2003
DFS role on member server
creating very first namespace server - Errors in : The object ...
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How to set a PromiscuousMode on Network Adapter using Powershell in WIndows Server?
It's easy to check state of the PromiscuousMode for a physical network interface using PowerShell:
Get-NetAdapter | Select InterfaceDescription, PromiscuousMode
However how to set (enable/disable) ...
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2012 rds 2016 domain controller
So we have a few 2012 R2 Terminal Servers at my company that were working fine until we started the process of replacing our Domain Controllers with new Windows 2016 Servers.
Since then our users are ...
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How to handle cipher suite mismatch between two servers
I have an IIS website running on two servers. One server is Windows Server 2016, the other Windows Server 2012. Under certain circumstances these two servers need to talk to each other.
The ...
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Can you raise the domain functional level to windows server 2016 and have DFS running on windows server 2012 r2?
I have 2 DC's that are both Windows Server 2016.
We have one DFS server running Windows Server 2012 R2 but all of the namespaces are 2008 compatability mode.
Our Domain Functional Level is at ...
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Using Windows Defender on Windows Server 2012R2 & 2016
We have to renew our Anti-Virus licensing with McAffee.
However, we only have a handful of Windows Servers (2012R2 & 2016) that are running as a DC, Exchange, Backup and File server.
Would it be a ...
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