Questions tagged [windows-server-2012-r2]
Windows Server 2012 R2 is a server operating system from Microsoft. It was published on May 31 2013, and reached End Of Life on Oct 10, 2023. It contains many substantial changes over it predecessor, and substantially streamlines the number of available versions, which are down to four: Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter.
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Disable file locks on a read-only Windows File Share
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On a Windows Server (2012R2 or 2016), I want to configure a file share offering a following functionality
some users, publishers group, have a write access to the share; these users are ...
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Delegate session management on RemoteApp 2012
We've built a rather large RemoteApp environment on 2012 R2, fully patched. Everything is working fine, so now comes the time to offshore and delegate tasks to the first line team.
We would like to ...
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Office 2013 Slow to Open/Save with Folder Redirection
We recently deployed folder redirection for a few individuals in the office. We are using a DFS Namespace share on a Server 2012r2 VM. We are redirecting Desktop and My Documents only. Clients are ...
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Hyper-V Manager - Use HTTPS with WinRM
I've successfully configured WinRM on my Hyper-V server to use HTTPS. I am able to connect to it and execute commands from my client PC by using the same local username and password on both (they are ...
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Windows server 2012 r2 network speed to computer is limited to ~30mbps
We have recently installed Windows Server 2012 R2 in our school.
I noticed, that bandwidth to one client is somehow limited to around 30mbps.
This server is gateway to internet.
When we had UNIX ...
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Correlating volumes and physical disks through WMI
I'm trying to correlate volumes (as enumerated from win32_volume for those where DriveType = 3) back to win32_physicaldisk instances. Everything that I've seen in my research points to the answer ...
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Browsing DFS share keeps moving up a folder
I have a DFS-R namespace with three nodes. Two of the nodes work just fine, but a third node does something very strange.
When you are browsing the node through the namespace, when you change into a ...
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WSUS Error 8000FFFF
Two issues with our WSUS
Some of our Servers (2008r2/2012r2) and Win 7 got error 8000FFFF when installing security updates from WSUS. For most of servers and desktops are just working fine.
From ...
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Painfully slow network when routed through Windows 2012 R2
I have a Windows 2012 R2 server with two network adapters, on-board 1G one for the LAN and a 100M D-Link 530T connected to the internet. Internet Connection Sharing is set up on the latter. Client ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 in AWS EC2, change resolution beyond 1280x1024
I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 instance running in EC2 performing some UI tests while nobody is connected to it. I use the following script to disconnect from Remote Desktop:
for /f "skip=1 tokens=3"...
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I can't find information on 2012 R2 Event ID's 257, 258, 265 Win32K errors
2012 R2 as a Hyper-V host only
Last night this machine began running very slowly. I shut down the VM's and then the host. That also took forever.
When I restarted the vm host machine it operated ...
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Installing MSA (Managed Service Accounts) using Windows deployment tools
I have to install several new application servers (2012R2) for a project which will run IIS and MSMQ. I need to script the complete install, so I need to be able to change permissions on IIS ...
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Providing High Availability for NPS
I need to ensure high availability for RADIUS service in Windows Server environment so it can withstand loss or even temporary downtime of any particular server holding NPS role.
Most of technet ...
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Silent in-place upgrade, Server 2008 R2 to Server 2012 R2
I am working on a process to upgrade over a hundred Server 2008 R2 boxes to Server 2012 R2. My client wants to do an in place upgrade so they don't have to reconfigure roles and features etc. This ...
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Internal DNS TTLs
Four-site company using Windows Domain and DNS servers. Minimum of one DC/DNS server per site. One site is HQ and hosts most companywide servers and services. DNS records for Windows servers are ...
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AD migration 2008 r2 to 2012 r2 - must've missed something
I finally went through with this the other day. Got DNS/AD setup, seized FSMO roles on the 2012 server, migrated DHCP etc. I thought I was ready to go so I turned off the 2008 server yesterday. ...
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.NET application fails after Windows Update KB4457034
Just installed the following Windows Update:
Security and Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, and 4.7.2 for Windows 8.1, RT 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 (KB 4457034)
as part ...
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Server 2012 R2 - Hangs at shut down or restart
We have an odd situation with some of our servers where they don't appear to be able to shut down or restart without having to hard power them off manually.
At first I assumed it was just a one-time ...
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Denied permission of a symbolic link to a shared folder
I use Microsoft Remote Desktop to connect my Mac to Microsoft Azure VM. I follow this thread (apple.stackexchange.com/a/140506/20747) to share a Mac folder named Music with the VM. It works fine, here ...
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Questions about ktpass/kerberos with Active Directory
I got a few questions about Kerberos with Active Directory, specifically about the ktpass tool.
The example AD I'm using (everything is on 2012R2 level):
Active Directory Domain Name: ad.example.com
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Schannel Error - Random
I'm currently experiencing an issue on a Windows Server 2012 R2.
In the event log is an Error for the Source "Schannel". The error description is:
"A fatal alert was generated and sent to the ...
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Strange NTFS Permissions issue on Windows Share + Win 8.1 Clients
Server 2012 R2 file server -- the share is exposed over a DFS namespace.
I have a group called "share" that all the users are members of. This group has read/write access to the root of the DFS share ...
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SERVER2012 R2 Core access denied when deploying domain controller from remote system
I have installed Windows Server 2012r2 Core edition and want to promote it to my first domain controller. I intended to do this with a Server Manager installed on a client computer.
I connected to ...
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How to modify maximum RAM usage in vCenter 6.0
I'm using VMware vCenter 6.0 on Windows server 2012 R2 and I'm looking for a way to decrease RAM usage of it. In previous vCenter versions there were options to change # Maximum Java Heap Size in C:\...
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Issues with demoting a DC, remnants of failed SBS2011 DC still in directory
So, an environment I'm new to, is having some problems that I'm trying to correct.
Old config: Single SBS2011 server, a second 2008 R2 DC was added at some point. SBS failed, roles were seized and ...
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Get-Process not working against remote Windows 7 clients
I have been trying to run Microsoft's GetNetworkStatistics script against remote computers to enable us to track what processes are using bandwidth along with other tools.
I am unable to run the ...
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Remote Desktop Gateway MMC not showing some connections under "Monitoring"
This is a short question: I have a Remote Desktop Gateway server on Windows Server 2012 R2. It is working for users. However, not all of the connections show up under "Monitoring". I can connect to ...
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MSDTC is unavailable, but only in one direction?
I have DTC enabled on 2 servers - a web server, and a database server. There are a few places in our web applications where we need to use DTC (via a TransactionScope) to manage transactions ...
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EVENTCREATE fails with "ERROR: Access is denied" -- how to fix
I have also asked this question in a Microsoft Forum, but no answers there yet.
I am in the process of building out a Windows 2012 server to replace a legacy Windows 2008 server. I am testing a ...
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services - Android
We have recently started testing Remote Desktop Services. We have deployed the environment using the latest server, Windows Server 2012 R2. We have deployed the Web Access Roles, RD Gateway, ...
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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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Multihomed Windows Server 2012R2 splitting network traffic on both interfaces
TL;DR: Multihomed Windows Server 2012R2 seems to use both interfaces for traffic to a specific network - routing table looks good, tracert behaves like expected. When all other routes to this network ...
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Blue question mark on SQL server and SQL server agent?
I just installed MS SQL server 2017 on MS Server 2019. All installation process were fine. Using SSMS 18 access SQL server locally was fine, no issue at all.
But when I use SSMS 18 connecting SQL ...
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How can we avoid an unstable work of Windows on Google cloud instance?
I created an "Instance" in Google Cloud (Windows server 2016 with RDP). On this server, I launch a console application (written in C ++), the simplest example of a web server. The web server ...
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Remove-WindowsFeature error "Required privilege not held"
Okay team, I'm trying to remove the Powershell 2.0 Core engine from my server using the command below:
Remove-WindowsFeature PowerShell-v2
The error we get is:
A required privilege is not held by ...
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What's the difference between "Open Mode" and "# Locks" in Open Files section of Shared Folder Management?
In the Shared Folders Management Console, most sysadmins are quite familiar with the "Open Files" section, but I've never really felt the need to distinguish between the "Open Mode" column, and Number ...
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Pushing RD Gateway Authentication to a 3rd Party
The company where I currently work have a mix of SaaS and older thick client applications, which customers still use, however they want these to be run offsite. As a result, we have a hosted platform ...
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Can't enable Event Log
Hi I have a Windows 2012 Server and would like to do some event logging.
But when I go to the event logger I am unable to Enable Logging for the desired events. (I'm logged in as the Administrator ...
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Network share Bare Metal Restore not seeing images
My 2012 Essentials R2 server is backed up to an ISCSI drive. Yesterday both disks in my RAID0 decided to die, so I am having to do a BMR from the backup. Steps I have taken:
New RAID0 logical drive ...
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'net view' generates error "The service has not been started"
I have a problem in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager where by the computer browser to do a remote push install has randomly stopped working showing the error message
Network Provider: Microsoft ...
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Issue affecting general performance in Server 2012 R2
Back in 2016, We deployed a solution for one of our customers that was an Windows 2012 R2 RDS solution with 2 session host servers, a web server, a couple of file servers, a SQL server and an exchange ...
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How can a user traverse directories to a file but hide all other items while traversing subdirectories Windows server 2012
How can a user traverse folders to a file that he has rights to, but not show other files or directories that he doesn't have rights to while traversing all other directories to get to the specified ...
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PowerShell high CPU usage in Windows Server 2012 R2
I'm facing this problem recently:
My server gets very slow, I went to check and see one instance of PowerShell using a lot of the CPU. I force the task to end and after some hours it comes back.
The ...
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UNC Path Issues: One Way Only
So I have an interesting issue where I have a stretched Server2012r2 domain (all servers running Server2012R2 and fully up to date) that spans two data centers; let's call them SiteA and SiteB. The ...
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robocopy wierd behavior for /copyall
When I use robocopy with /copyall flag, the 1st attempt for the files will be display as "New Files" and the output will display the number of new files copied and other transfer/bytes information.
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DSC pull schedule randomly stops working
I am using DSC to configure 30 servers.
They are configured to pull with ApplyAndAutoCorrect.
This generally works great, but randomly, servers will stop all DSC activity. The servers never ...
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Configure NLA to not use client-side credentials check
Situation: Using a Windows 10 workstation, that's in the domain OFFICE, I initiate a RDP connection using smart card logon and certificates to a RDS gateway in a foreign domain REMOTE. The foreign ...
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How to enable RSS on a virtual NIC created on a HyperV host?
I created an "Internal virtual switch" to allow the Hyper-V virtual machine to communicate with the host. This step creates a virtual NIC on the host.
This virtual NIC however does not have the ...
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Set default application for file extension
I try to set the default application for .pdf files depending on the users group with a GPO. We have Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and Adobe Acrobat DC installed on a Windows Server 2012 R2 terminal server. ...
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Why is this DFS replicated folder status "uninitialized" and how do I resolve it?
We have a DFS infrastructure with 3 servers and 93 replicated folders. When I run a health report from the DFS Management console, the status of one of these folders is listed as "uninitialized". This ...
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