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How can I fix this Mysql login?
I have installed MYSQL community edition on Windows server, I also added the Environment variable to execute the mysql command.
The scenario is: When I try to connect to mysql using the CMD I get the ...
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IBM Cloud Portal does not reflect updated OS after in-place upgrade Windows Server 2012 R2 to 2019
Hello ServerFault Community,
IBM Cloud recommended way is to upgrade any OS via OS reload method.
When we tried OS reload, everything was reset like a clean installation.
In-place upgrade suits us, ...
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Windows Group Policy Management - Session host limit group policy doesn't work as expected
I have created a group policy to end the sessions which are disconnected automatically & the settings of RDP session timeouts are located in the following GPO section Computer Configuration -> ...
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Data corruption when disk write caching is enabled
I've recently learned that enabling disk write caching can significantly improve system performance. However, I'm concerned about the potential risks of data corruption or loss in case of a sudden ...
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Possible to mirror DNS forward lookup zone to second TLD? (Windows Server)
We recently started using a new TLD for our company, but are still maintaining the old TLD.
On our local DNS server (Windows Server 2012) we have internal DNS records set up as subdomains of the old ...
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Advanced tab missing in Network Adapter properties after installing 28.2 version of Network Adapter Driver
I recently updated my Intel X540-AT2 Network Card on a Windows Server 2012 R2 system to the latest version 28.2. This update included both the driver package and the Intel® PROSet package, which I ...
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How to Exclude Files and Folders from Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) Backups
I've been using Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) to create backups of my files and folders. However, I've encountered a situation :
I need to exclude specific files and folders from Microsoft built-in Volume ...
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Active Directory LDAP logon failure
I'm at the end of my wits with this issue and I'm hoping some genius here can assist. Background: We have a client (a hospital) with 3 sites in AD and two DCs at each site. These DCs are 2012 and we'...
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Company Servers Unable to Communicate Between One Another (On Same Network)
I want to make sure and provide as much detail as possible to try to get this resolved or at the very least, figured out. If you need more information, please let me know and I will happily provide 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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"ps -aux" or "top" equivalent for Windows Server
I need to check which processes are running on a Windows Server instance, I'm looking for something similar to top or ps -aux, but I'm only finding references to use Task Manager with GUI.
What is the ...
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specified network name is no longer available - admin shares
I have a win2k12r2 SharePoint server, I cannot access its admin shares c$ admin$.
SMB 1.0/CIFS installed,
SMB2 enabled
Can ping, and resolve hostname
UDP ports 137 not open and 138 not, and TCP ports ...
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Unable to find how to update the Network speed in Windows
I want to understand where the value of Network speed is found in Windows and the options to change it.
I am using the Windows Sysinternals bginfo, which generates desktop backgrounds that include ...
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How can I find out the activation details from the internal KMS server?
I have any internal KMS server running on Server2012R2 and We are using it to activate Office internally, Is there a way that I can output a list of details of the activation like UserName, ...
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PDF file on IIS site is not accessible when opened from a browser
I am creating a PDF file with IIS (with some code) and save it to a folder which has IIS anonymous authentication enabled.
When I try to open it through its URL, IIS gives me a 401 "Unauthorized&...
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Can't find NT SERVICE\MSSQLSERVER to give it Read privs on a cert
I've got SQL Server 2016 happily running under the default account NT SERVICE\MSSQLSERVER. Now, though, I need to give that pseudo-account read priv on a newly installed SSL Certificate.
The pseudo-...
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Hourly fatal windows alert
On one of my windows server 2012 R2 (going to upgrade), my event logger has been filled with
Event ID 36887 A fatal alert was received from the remote endpoint. The TLS protocol defined fatal alert ...
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Issues with Imagick / PHP / Windows
I'm setting up a project on a Windows server and having an issue with ImageMagick. I'm from a Linux background and struggling to get it working.
I have downloaded from http://pecl.php.net/package/...
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RDP to Virtual Machine now asking for user sign in
We have a Windows Server 2012 VM that I installed a product on: Smart Bear TestExecute(v15.43 - latest): https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/other-tools/testexecute.html
I was trialling ...
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Working on Printers GPO
Please bear with me, when it comes to printers, I'm probably about as useful as a bull in a china shop on top of the fact I Inherited a pretty chaotic setup that I am overhauling.
I have a printer ...
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Windows Server 2012 RDS - How to add new Domainuser
So far I never had much to do with server administration, so this question might be very basic to some people.
I have to manage a Windows Server 2012 R2. There are around 8 users who use it. They all ...
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IIS Redirects to multiple subfolders then errors when I use different rule name
I have a very strange issue which I couldn't figure out. In the IIS under URL rewrite module I have a redirect rule, which works absolutely fine when it is under a specific rule name, however, when I ...
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DNS suffix works only when no subdomains are added
We have a DNS suffix for our domain ourdomain.local and it works whenever we have one additional DNS component e.g. test1.ourdomain.local or graphs.ourdomain.local, so that means we only have to type ...
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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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upgrade windows server 2012 R2 to windows server 2022
we want to upgrade our windows server 2012 R2 to windows server 2022, looks like we would have to do a clean install.
I have some hard drives (HDD & SSD) which have data, if we remove all the data ...
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Windows 11 PC is ignoring domain GPO to allow inbound ICMP
we have joined a Windows 11 machine for the first time to our domain, however something is not working as expected. For instance, the machine cannot be pinged, although the domain GPO sets a rule in ...
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Is there some way to change windows disk size without actually increase it?
What I mean is, for test purpose, Can I change the disk size showed for Windows without actually increase it.
For example, in "this computer", the real disk size is: 50gb, but I'd like to ...
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No User exists for 'query user'
I have one weird issue on the virtual machine. When I do 'query user user1' is not showing the active session of the user. It says 'No User exists for user1', though there is active connection. ...
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What is the easiest way to create an image of an existing running Windows 10 or Windows Server system?
For the purposes of, let's say, moving it to a cloud location?
I do recall doing it for a client, transplanting them to Azure, but I don't recall how they created an image.
Azure simply had an ...
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Handle exception with long paths in Powershell
I am new here and I facing issues with my powershell script whith long paths.
This script aims to get relative path and hash from files/folders and its subfolders. It works with some with others I get ...
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Windows Server Command Line for Remotly Measure Data Disk IOPS,CPU,RAM Monitoring
I want to measure data usage like IOPS, CPU, RAM ,Capacity ,Bandwidth ETC from Remote Server.
I Know, that it is possible to measure it localy with the Typeperf Command.
However, again, i want to ...
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Printer GPO Error Code '0x80070bcb'
When trying to deploy label printers via GPO, I am receiving the error of
Group Policy Object did not apply because it failed with error code '0x80070bcb The specified printer driver was not found on ...
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DNSSEC Migration with only KSKs migrated
Short version: If a DNSSec-signed sone suddenly replace both ZSK (and all records related to the old ZSK), and at the same time keep the KSKs (which are referenced to by upstream server). Will it ...
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Executing a PowerShell Script With Spaces in Arguments via Task Scheduler on Windows Server 2012
I'm attempting to create a scheduled task on Windows Server 2012 that will execute a powershell script that will create an archive of a specific directory once per day.
The arguments to execute the ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 - User Account Single App
I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 with multiple user accounts. One account ("test") is configured in such a way that on logon a program is started and when the program is closed the account is ...
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Windows Server RDP session keeps killing AudioSrv (audiodg.exe) leading to audio startup delays
Running Windows Server 2012 R2 I have noticed an annoying feature on RDP connections:
Windows keeps killing the Audio Service audiodg.exe if it is idle for more than 5 minutes.
The problem with this ...
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Unexpected shutdown of Server (BSOD) with message “WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR”
When we checked the system event log we found that following warning has been logged repeatedly.
Event 17
A corrected hardware error has occurred.
Component: PCI Express Root Port
Error Source: ...
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Updated VirtIO SCSI driver on my Windows 2012 R2, and now only boots into recovery. How to recover?
I have a Hetzner W2012 R2 Cloud VM, and I updated the VirtIO vioscsi driver on it. Now it only boots into recovery mode and I cannot access the C-drive even from command prompt.
Is there any way to ...
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WSUS drivers supersedence
I have added the driver classification in wsus and now i have 100k driver updates. The supersedence is not specified so i can't easily decline old updates. I see a lot of duplicate versions for the ...
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How to remove NIS server role from all domain controllers before upgrading to Windows server 2019
So we are currently have 4 2012R2 domain controllers with IDMU (Identity Management for Unix) and NIS server role installed. For NIS server role, one DC is in master mode, other 3 DCs are in ...
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NTP Server is setup for ntp keys. How can we configure windows server to communicate to our time server using the keys?
We have an NTP server that was setup with NTP keys. https://docs.ntpsec.org/latest/ntp_keys.html
We are trying to configure our domain controllers to use this NTP server as the authoritative time ...
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RDS RemoteApp File Type Association UI is Blank
I am setting up an RDS deployment that shares RemoteApps to replace one shared session host that offered all apps.
There is a single rds gateway and then a couple of session hosts that offer different ...
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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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Windows Server 2012 C:\Windows\Installer occupying more than 200 GB
As the title says, I've been having a problem with a production WS 2012 R2 whose C:\Windows\Installer folder takes more than the 85% of the disk space. I tried the solution commented here: Is it safe ...
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Having issue with applying CU23 onto Exchange 2013
I am new to this forum. I need to update my exchange 2013 because of the recent microsoft vulnerability and also because it needs to be updated for the migration to office 365. My exchange is 2013 and ...
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Windows page file best practices in regards to dump file?
Last night we had a critical server go down. Running Windows 2012R2. It appears to have been a random blue screen but we can't find much in the logs. We do not seem to have a dump file. Investigating, ...
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Windows page file best practices in regards to dump file?
Last night we had a critical server go down. Running Windows 2012R2. It appears to have been a random blue screen but we can't find much in the logs. We do not seem to have a dump file. Investigating, ...
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How to find recently joined computers in ActiveDirectory through a PowerShell command?
How can I find recently joined computers in ActiveDirectory with a PowerShell command?
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Missing Network Adapters. Only showing vEthernet
We had an older server at one location, and it was online and backing up online fine. And when the local ISP started charging per gig of usage. So we shut it down. Fast forward a year later, we have ...
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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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