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 2012/16/19 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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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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CNAME (pointing to the same server) asks for credentials
Let's say I have two Windows Servers:
dc1
dc2
And I have a CNAME record:
MyFileServer (pointing to dc2)
If I from dc1 opens share \\MyFileServer\c$, then it works fine.
If I from dc2 opens share \\...
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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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Windows Server 2012 R2 - network unresponsive until reboot
since 29th of April every day past midnight my Windows Server 2012 R2 networking hangs - AD isn't working, DNS isn't working, print server isn't working and so other services. I have to reboot server ...
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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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Can't access folders with special characters on mounted windows cifs share
I've got an issue on a Debian(11.3) server we host, I mounted a windows server share through cifs and fstab but when I try to access or list a few folders which contains special characters like "...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 TLS 1.2 Issue
I am facing issues with TLS 1.2 on my Windows Server 2012 R2 (application web server,IIS), where I am unable to access https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json via Internet Explorer even after I see that ...
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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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Temporarily stop Server 2012 from Sleeping
Need to somehow stop a 2012 R2 Server from entering Sleep mode whilst running a batch file. When batch has finished it would be good to restore the server it's previous power settings. Is there ...
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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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Windows server in different timezone than it's domain controller
My question is, can we run a windows server in a different time zone than it's domain controller? All my searches came up with results for time syncronization, but that's not what I'm interested in.
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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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Migrating Old Active directory Forest with two domains
We have single AD forest with two domains as follows:
Domain A:
Contains nearly 30 servers (7 physicals and 23 VMs) all hosted on Microsoft Hyper-V server
Nearly 500 Active user accounts
A huge file ...
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Fine Grained Password Policy Not Taking Effect - have to wait for next password change?
I have set a Fine Grained Password Policy with maximum password age of 180 days along with other settings that are similar to existing password policies.
I set the precedence number to a lower number ...
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Non-working Windows server 2003 Enterprise CA removal
Amongst a bunch of server, I have a Windows 2003 server, domain controller, Enterprise CA installed, cannot start CA service, because "a required certificate is not within its validity period ...
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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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Hyper-V virtual machine management service stuck at ‘Stopping’
After installing the KB5009624 monthly rollup from Microsoft, we are experiencing a problem wherein suddenly both the Hyper V instance and the Host Machine become unreachable using the virtual switch.
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Copying large file with robocopy during VMWare storage vmotion
if I copy massive files via robocopy during storage vmotion then is there any negative impact ?
thanks,
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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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Windows NTP Server Registry Configuration
I inherited an environment with a Windows 2012R2 Domain Controller (serverA) set as the NTP server. This server is going to be retired shortly for a new (separate) 2019 instance. The domain controller ...
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Why is member server not able to find domain controler on its site, showing events 2084 and 2085 in event viewer?
This is raised at a point where I need to uninstall Exchange 2010 from a member server after migrating to a newer server. Uninstall fails with error "Could not find any available Global Catalog ...
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Laptop asking for "action needed" on NPS Computer auth WiFi connect, despite valid Server Thumbprint
I have configured computer authentication on WiFi connect to company network, using the microsoft nps server, group policy certificate auto-enrollment and group-policy wifi config.
Has been working ...
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How to mount a Windows UNC Path on ubuntu using PowerShell Core
Background: I have an ubuntu machine that hosts a couple applications that I am in charge of and I want to automate the backup of the database that powers these applications. I noticed that ...
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Cannot change NTP Time Source on a 2012 R2 DC Server
So I have seen dozens of people with this issue on various websites and forums, but here I am asking again. No matter what I try so far, nothing has fixed the issue which I will describe below in as ...
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Upgrading Windows Server + Domain Controller to Windows Server 2019 - Fails On "ADPrep.exe"
I'm am using the instructions here to upgrade my Windows Server 2012 AD Controller to Windows Server 2019. This server is a isolated AD controller that has no other server/clients connected to it in ...
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Hyper-V stopped working after January 2022's Patch Tuesday (2022-01-11): The operating systems boot loader failed with error 0xC00000BB
I only just noticed this now, but apparently since 2022-01-11 ("Patch Tuesday" in January 2022) my home network's dev-server's Hyper-V hypervisor has been unable to start.
The box is a 6 ...
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How to reserve a processor in Windows Server for Remote Desktop
Windows Server 2012 R2, every once in a while a runaway process will take up all the CPU and my RDP session will either take forever to start or disconnect after a long wait. Is there a way 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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Unable to connect to MySQL through port 3306 Windows Server 2012 R2
It looks like weird happening, I've followed and fixed all the possible things but still MySQL port 3306 is not accessible remotely.
Here's my setup:
Machine: Windows Server 2012 R2
MySQL Server: 8.xx
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Is it OK to rename server name after configuring the domain controller in it?
I have Windows Server 2012 R2 and there is domain controller inside of it. Now I need to rename the server name, is it OK rename it directly ?
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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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Always-On VPN profile does not add custom route
My server is 2012R2. I deployed AOVPN according to Microsoft manual using PowerShell for clients deployment. It all works except custom route just does not appear on a client (tried on multiple ...
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How to scan for log4j on Windows Server
I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine. What is the best way to search for log4j. Is it enough with a simple file search or can these files be used from inside a container. I have done a file search ...
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How to add users and computers back to server 2012
I have windows 2012 server which I had to nuke due to virus issue, which has active directory setup with users and computers. Now I have installed fresh windows server and setup ad & dc with same ...
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Can windows server be upgraded from a mounted iso?
I have a windows 2012 server raw metal dedicated server hosted in a datacenter. (OVH)
It appears I can mount an ISO to be viewed as a CD with a drive letter, but if I mount a server 2016 or 2019 ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Upgrade to Server 2012 R2 issue
Windows Server 2008 R2 upgrade to 2012 R2 issue. Hoping someone can shed some light on my issue. I am trying to update a Poweredge T410 running Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2. It ...
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In-place upgrade Server 2012 R2 to Server 2019 promised, but not available?
Bought licenses for Windows server 2019 because Microsoft documentation claims you can upgrade from Windows Server 2012 R2 directly in-place. Please note, this IS what we need to do so discussions ...
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Backup (SeBackupPrivilege) and restore privilege(SerestorePrivilege).for domain user
How do I verify the if the domain user has backup (SeBackupPrivilege) and restore privilege(SerestorePrivilege)? I tried added the domain user to backup operators group. But Whoami /priv command ...
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Why PSFTP script is failing when ran as system? [closed]
I have a Windows cmd batch file that should retrieve listing of files that are on an FTP server via sFTP using PuTTY PSFTP exe and use that for further processing. The cmd is:
echo ls | psftp -l ...
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Directory-Service-SAM Error
In the Windows System event log, there are errors from Directory-Services-SAM. It is saying "The request for a new account-identifier pool failed. The operation will be retried until the request ...
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Copy a file via SCP to target but move directory structure upwards?
I need a script for my Java project (on Ubuntu) to deploy the .jar file to a remote windows server using scp.
This is what my script looks like:
scp build/libs/app.jar [email protected]:test/
The app....
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SSL certificates apparently confusing different websites
My VPS contains a dozen or so websites, with several SSL certificate including the following.
*.railtrax.com
*.insiderarticles.com
Currently, all the *.railtrax.com websites are working fine. But ...
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Windows DHCP not showing the accurate leases
In Windows System Event log, there are DHCP server warnings that IP address range of a scope (10.40.0.0) that available is low.
Windows Event Log
But in the DHCP program, the Address Leases is only ...
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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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Retrieve parent folder size for each IIS site
Im trying to get a list of sites from IIS (8.5) to include the folder size but cant get this to work.
Below is the current code i have that is working without the size
Import-Module webAdministration #...
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Cannot Apply Network Settings to MDT - Cannot hit deployment share
I can hit my deployment share from any computer on the network, but cannot hit it from the computer I'm trying to image. I added a step to the Task Sequence "Apply Network Settings," but it ...
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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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So many TCP packets to domain server from domain clients
I have Windows Server 2012 R2 which controls my LAN. Everything was working fine (Shared Folders, Folder Redirection and so on) for a two months. But suddenly, there occured delay on communication ...