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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GPOs fail to apply; reason: Inaccessible, Empty, or Disabled; Server 2012 R2 and Windows 10
I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain.
Yesterday, a computer’s (running Windows 10 Pro) network drive stopped working.
After further investigation (gpresult /h) it appears ALL group policy objects ...
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Migrate user accounts from Azure AD to on-premise AD?
My company uses Office 365 for Exchange, SharePoint, Lync etc. including the build-in user administration via Azure Active Directory.
Now we want to switch to a local AD on a Windows Server. It shall ...
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Install windows 2012 R2 over KVM-virtualizaton
I'm trying to install Windows Server 2012 R2 over linux KVM-virtualization.
The installation process stops and requires drivers to continue.
I'm trying with virtio drivers from fedora but doesn't ...
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How do I make a connection private on Windows Server 2012 R2
After a restart of one of our servers (a Windows Server 2012 R2), all private connections become public and vice versa (this user had the same problem). Stuff like pinging and iSCSI stopped working, ...
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Using CA certificate for Remote Desktop Connection
I’m connecting over the web to a remote Windows Server 2012 R2 via Remote Desktop Connection for administration needs. It is a single web and database server without an AD etc.
I’m not talking ...
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First request after a while always slow - ASP.NET MVC / IIS 8.5 / Windows Server 2012 R2 VPS
I'm hosting a low-traffic ASP.NET MVC 5 application on a VPS with Windows Server 2012 R2 / IIS 8.5, with 1 GB of RAM.
My problem is that the first request after some time without any requests always ...
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Mixing disks of different sizes in a Storage Spaces pool
I have a Storage Spaces pool containing 2x 3TB disks. A single mirrored volume is created from this pool with a fixed size (not thin provisioned) and is set to use all space in the pool at the time of ...
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Is there a replacement for the removed "Windows System Resource Manager" feature in the Windows Server 2012 R2 release?
Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) has been removed in Windows Server 2012 R2, and I need a replacement.
I'm running a small RDP server on 2012 R2 Standard. It only has 8 GB of RAM and I need a ...
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Setting environment variable for service
I am running tomcat on a windows 2012 machine.
I need to set an environment variable before the service starts such that I can query the variable in Java in the web application like this:
String ...
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How can I get rid of the "Do you trust this printer" message box and add my printer via GPO?
Workstation: Windows 7 (x64) [Install target for printer]
Server: Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64) [Active Directory, Print Server]
I have been bashing my head on the desk trying to get this printer to ...
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Windows 10: Group Policy fails to apply directly after boot, succeeds later
My problem is that Group Policy is not applied when a client is freshly booted. Directly after boot, the client posts an error message in the event log with source "GroupPolicy (Microsoft-Windows-...
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Error adding child Active Directory domain to existing forest
I'm building a test environment containing multiple Active Directory domains in the same forest, but I'm having strange issues while trying to add a child domain to the forest root domain.
All ...
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How do I confirm what my PDC is using for it's time source and how do I setup an external time source?
Server 2012 R2, Hyper-V
I am trying to finalize setting up my first primary domain controller. One of the warnings that always comes up after first promoting the DC is Event ID 12 along with other ...
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Cannot join client to domain (non virtual, DNS issue)
I'm running Windows Server 2012 R2 and have a Windows 7 Professional Laptop (non virtual, all physical) that I cannot join to the domain I created.
I am trying to join the Windows 7 client to my ...
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Windows Server restart / shutdown history
How can I easily see a history of every time my Windows Server has restarted or shutdown and the reason why, including user-initiated, system-initiated, and system crashed?
The Windows Event Log is ...
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Should I still have a physical DC, even post-Server 2012?
Back in the pre-Windows Server 2012 days, the recommendation seemed to be to have at least one physical domain controller sat along-side your virtualised DCs.
One justification for this was because ...
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Force authenticated user immediate logoff (emergency case)
In Active Directory if you want to prevent a user from logging in you can either disable their account or simply reset their password. However, if you have a user who is already logged in to a ...
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Windows Update not working on Windows 2012 R2 Standard
I recently inherited the management of a Windows 2012 server at a remote site.
I checked Windows Update and it has not been updating since March. When I tell Windows to check for updates, it acts ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 runs out of ephemeral ports, though it shouldn't
We are regularly experiencing strange issues with networking on our dedicated server. It runs Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 on Xeon E5620 with 16 GB RAM and Intel 82575EB network adapter.
Please note ...
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Disable update popup on Windows 2012 R2
We have started to deploy more Windows 2012 R2 servers on our network. When we log on to these servers (only admins log on to these servers), we are sometimes presented with a blue banner that says ...
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Event Id 4625 without Source IP
We are using a total of 7 Windows Server (2008/2012) R2 Standard Editions for development and production environments. Last month our servers was compromised and we found many failed attempt logs in ...
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Active Directory Administrative Center Crashes when updating object
DSAC.exe crashes every time we try to update a user object. It will crash in every system we try it on including the servers running Active Directory. It happens on Windows 7, Windows 10, and Windows ...
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Remote PowerShell, WinRM Failures: WinRM cannot complete the operation
When running Enter-PSSession COMPUTERNAME with Enable-PSWSManCombinedTrace, I see the following relevant messages in the Windows Remote Management Operational log:
WSMan operation Get failed, error ...
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Server 2012 deduplication: run on Hyper-V host or guest VM?
I have a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V host with VMs on a dedicated RAID-5 volume. One VM is also running Server 2012 and is being used to serve files. The other VMs are smaller and mostly used for ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 and Visual Studio 2015 Community
So I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2015 Community on my Windows Server 2012 R2 box which will end up being a Jenkins build server. Attempting to do so gives an error saying that I need to install ...
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Hyper-V VM doesn't boot off SCSI hard drive
I've converted a VMWare VMDK to a VHDX. The guest is a Windows 8.1 VM.
When this is attached to a generation-1 Hyper-V VM as an IDE drive, it boots up fine.
When the same VHDX is attached to a ...
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Failed /SetEncTypeAttr : 0xc0000034
I want to set encryption type attribute for the domain
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh240207(v=ws.11).aspx
When i run in Windows Server 2012 R2,
ksetup /SetEncTypeAttr EXAMPLE.COM ...
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"Can't contact LDAP server (-1)" error for LDAPS to Server 2012
When attempting to connect to Active Directory on Window Server 2012 (possibly R2) over LDAPS, ldapsearch produces one of the following errors (at the end of a longer output):
$ ldapsearch -H ldaps://...
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RDP error "The function requested is not supported" after enabling NLA
I'm trying to RDP into one of my servers, which as Network Level Authentication Enabled as well as NTLMv2 being forced. This worked fine until the server had to reboot for updates. Now, I cannot RDP ...
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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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How do I convert a vhd to a wim file?
I just setup and sysprepped a nice new VM, now I need to convert it to a wim real quick, to upload to my sccm server. For some reason, I can't change the VM properties to boot from a legacy nic for ...
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Vendor whitepaper says: 5Mpps no prob. I'm already hitting a wall at 120kpps. Where's the bottleneck?
HP's whitepaper on their QLogic (fka Broadcom) NetXtreme II adapters, which includes the specific NIC that I'm testing, states (page 7) that their small packet performance for packets up to 256 bytes/...
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Windows Server: Replicate folders without DFS?
From reading the DFS documentation, AD appears required.
This is a problem for us because our servers are either stand alone (not in AD), or part of our hosting service AD, and AD is out of our ...
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How can I hide the Recycle Bin on Windows Server 2012?
On Windows 8 you can hide the Recycle Bin (and other icons on the desktop) by following Charms bar > Settings > Personalization. But on Server 2012 this returns an empty window with the message "This ...
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MSTSC: Black Areas on Remote Desktop
I'm connecting from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Hyper-V virtual machine running Windows 8.1 via RDP (mstsc.exe). The VM is hosted on the same machine from which I'm connecting.
Everything was fine until ...
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Event 4625 Audit Failure NULL SID failed network logons
In 3 separate systems, the following event is being logged many times (between 30 to 4,000 times a day depending on the system) on the domain controller server:
An account failed to log on.
Subject:
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How can I use PowerShell to enable NTFS compression, in place, on log files older than x days?
I have an application server, running Windows 2012 R2, which generates a high volume of log files, to the point that it runs the application volume out of free space on a semi-regular basis. Due to ...
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Installing .Net 3.5 on Windows 2012 R2
So I am trying to Install .net 3.5 on a windows 2012 R2 Server. I have tried via the Add Feature and via DISM both fail.
When trying via Add Features GUI I am using the “Specify Alternate Path” This ...
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Run command with a Managed Service Account?
I've just granted permissions for a MSA (Managed Service Account) to some resources.
Can I verify it works, by running a cmd.exe process with the credentials of the MSA account, and check I have the ...
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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 integrate Active Directory with FreeBSD 10.0 using security/sssd?
What are the required steps to authenticate users from an Active Directory running on Windows Server 2012 R2 in FreeBSD 10.0 using sssd with the AD backend with Kerberos TGT working?
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Windows Server Backup Error - Volumes Larger than 16.7TB cannot be protected?
I'm trying to use Windows Server Backup to backup a RAID array on my new server. But, when I do, I run into this error:
The server is running Windows Server 2012 R2 and the array in question is 20TB ...
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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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Windows Server 2012 R2 update stuck after restart at 9%
I installed windows server 2012 R2 on a server with IIS, SQL, TFS and some other Microsoft products. After finished installation, I ran windows update which asked for restart to continue installation.
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How do I remove a group policy without access to the domain (controller)?
I've got a (WS2012-R2) domain controller and a set of (WS2012-R2) servers that are member of the domain.
I accidentally added a group all administrators are member of to the Group Policy "Deny logon ...
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Disable or Uninstall Malicious Software Removal Tool on Windows Server KB890830 Automatic Maintenance
We have a script that declines KB890830 updates for our on-premise Windows Update Server, but we recently found someone approved one of the monthly updates before the script could run and the ...
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Server 2012 R2 Active Directory Domain SRV dns records suddenly disappeared
I have a test domain that I recently configured. All of a sudden, no users can log in except those with cached credentials. The domain includes two domain controllers that are both global catalogs ...
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Inaccessible_boot_device after installing KB2919355 on Server 2012R2
I have a server 2012r2 machine that I just installed KB2919355 (the mega 800+MB patch recently released for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012). Server is a Dell Poweredge R715. Disks are 2x500GB SAS in ...
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windows server 2012 r2 - activation grace period?
I have 3 windows 2012 R2 servers that our sys admin guys are having trouble getting to talk to our KMS server properly.
I'm sure in time they'll work out whatever issue they're having since we're ...
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Better to share File Services role with Active Directory DC role OR with the RDS Terminal Server role?
We are a small business setting up a new server... budget is limited of course.
I have ~500GB of data to share that needs to be stored locally on the single server we have.
Host Server: Dell ...
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