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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Windows Server 2012 R2 application installation slowness
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Windows Server 2012 R2 as host fully up to date
Windows Server 2012 R2 as guest fully up to date
Whether I am running it as a host or guest, whenever I am installing an application ...
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Setup windows 2012 AD in Hyper-V for a Test environment
Im trying to setup a Windos 2012 R2 test environment on my work computer (a laptop).
I have a AD, DHCP and DNS server on server A, and a client connecting to the doman and that works. The client can ...
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Can storage-spaces drives be moved to a replacement server when there is a failure
I have tried to search here and Google, but cannot find a case explaining this. Storage spaces is similar to software raid. If the server fails due to motherboard or some other issue, can the drives ...
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How to install ADFS 3.0 in standalone mode?
I've installed Windows 2012 R2 and enabled the ADFS (3.0?) feature. After installation, it asks to configure ADFS, but this step requires a user account that is a domain administrator, as it wants to ...
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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 do I restore a Windows Server 2008 R2 bare metal backup to a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V instance?
I have been trying to find a simple way to migrate a physical Windows Server 2008 R2 installation over to a virtual machine hosted on Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition /w Hyper-V.
I came ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Unable to Access File Share
I have a newly installed Server 2012 R2, Physical Host. Joined to the Domain. When I try to access a file share on a different (older, not sure how old but it might be 2008 R2) DFS File share I get ...
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Mouse cursor on vps win server 2012 R2 not working
i have server with hyper-v manager on network (Windows server 2012).
But after installing i can't click nowhere, the keyboard works but the mouse is not.
Google did not tell me anything.
The mouse ...
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Installation of Active Directory on separate VM from DNS does not entierly work - not sure why
Not sure what I am doing wrong here. I have a moderately midrange server (16 cores, 2Ghz, 32GB ECC REG RAM, 6TB storage, nothing too extreme) where I am running Hyper-V (Server 2012 R2 Enterprise) in ...
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Server 2012 (R2) - mirroring the boot drive... what is the state?
I struggle to find modern documentation here.
So far we have been booting our servers from the main RAID controllers. Worked nice, but not we get the first of a new generation that hs in the back 2 ...
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Does a full Windows Server backup also backup "previous versions" created by VSS?
Let's say I have volume C:\ with VSS enabled, and there is some file C:\somefile.txt, which has been around for a while.
Today, I remove C:\somefile.txt. Since VSS is enabled it's still contained in ...
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Hyper-v on 2012R2 startup gen1 vm causes the host to freeze up
I've searched a lot to resolve the following issue, but nothing helped me.
My problem is, that starting up a first-gen vm locks up the whole host. Only a hard reset helps. Second-gen vm starts and ...
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Can't get virtual desktops to show up on RDWeb for Server 2012 R2
UPDATE: I rebuilt the entire system with the retail release of Server 2012 R2 instead of the preview, I also more closely followed the Test Lab guide, but I am still having the same issue.
I built a ...
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How can I tell if a certain IIS configuration key has been imported?
I'm building some configuration management scripts that need to be idempotent. I need to check if the IIS keys for the web farm have been imported on a server and if not import them.
I've got the ...
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Open a new cmd console on Windows 2012 Server core after closing the last one?
On my new test server, which is a Windows Server 2012 core server, I've closed the only open cmd console with the exit command.
How do I open another prompt now? Am I going to be forced to reboot the ...
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