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Windows Server 2019 RemoteFX COM port redirection does not work, Windows Server 2012 it works

Have Windows7 workstation with a USB COM port device installed. From this Windows7 workstation I RDP to Windows Server 2012 terminal server and all devices are redirected through RDP correctly. If I ...
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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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Changing name/ip of Domain Controller/DNS/DHCP Server after migrating from 2012 to 2019

We are prepping a migration of our AD server (DNS/DHCP/Print/Azure AD Connect) from 2012 to 2019. I can't find a definitive answer on changing a DC's ip/computer name post-migration. Prep: spun up ...
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New DC - AD Domain Services did not perform an authenticated remote procedure call (RPC) to another directory server because the desired (SPN) f

I recently added a Windows Serevr 2019 DC to my domain which already has three DCs across two sites. The three existing DCs are Server 2012 R2 and the Domain and Forest levels are 2008 R2. The new DC ...
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How to delete a domain user with associated folder rights?

Right now when I delete a user from the domain I get left with these folder rights remnants that I have to remove manually. I've noticed this on both Windows and Linux driven data servers. Is there a ...
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Add Node to Fail-over Cluster Failing to Communicate over 3343

We have an existing Windows 2012 2 node cluster with file witness, but are replacing them with 2019 servers. So we can just reuse the existing cluster object, we're adding the 2019 servers to the ...
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Migrating Windows Server 2012 to NEW 2019 Server

I need to migrate a clients Windows 2012 server to a new hardware server with Windows 2019. The old server is a domain controller and also a file server. I have already stood up the new server with ...
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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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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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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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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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Domain controller failover fails unidirectionaly

The problem I am having is that if I take one of my two writable domain controllers offline, nobody seems to "fail over" to using the other domain controller like they're supposed to - ...
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When do Microsoft Windows Server registry settings like HKLM..SCHANNEL... take effect

When do Microsoft Windows Server registry settings such as these take effect - first boot? As soon as imported? Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\...
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Considerations for Server OS Upgrade (Win2012R2 to 2019) hosting SQL Server?

I am not a DBA so I am not well versed on the intricacies, considerations, potential issues with in-place upgrading just the OS of an existing SQL Server. A client has several stand-alone SQL Server ...
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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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Hyper-v VM high CPU usage in Windows Server by task manager?

Windows 2012 std host with Hyper-V. Hyper-V guest VM is Windows server 2019 std Both the host and the VM are setup as separate SQL & IIS application platforms with some light add-on tools such as ...
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Server 2012R2 Foundation with 2019 Standard

We have done a FSMO migration from a Server 2012R2 Foundation to Server 2019 Standard. After uninstalling the ADDS from the foundation server we started having a licensing issue with this popup: "...
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After windows server 2019 update- my domain is not reachable any more

well as I do not know where is the problem, I will explain every thing. And as I do not have any experience with server managing, I will show some screenshots and please help and if you have an answer ...
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Local Security Policy "Lock pages in memory" set on my user account - why?

I have a bit of a mystery that I am hoping the community can help me with. I have 5 different servers: 3 Windows Server 2019 Datacenter VMs, joined to a corporate domain 2 Windows Server 2012 R2 ...
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Migrating from IIS 8.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2 to IIS 10 on Windows Server 2019

I want to ask you a suggestion about how to proceed in migrating an entire IIS (version 8.5) in Windows Server 2012 R2 to IIS (version 10) on Windows Server 2019. I need a nearly automatic procedure ...
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DFS Replication 25000 Event 4308 per minute

TL;DR in bold Hello, I have set up a new DFS Namespace and Replication for a software and user share from an older 2012R2 server to a newer 2019 server that we wish to migrate to. I've left the ...
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Changing Windows Domain from subdomain.example.com to just example.com

Hello and thanks for taking the time to read and respond to this. We have a Server 2012 R2 domain, that is setup with domain/forest like subdomain.example.com. We would like to smoothly move, if ...
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SCHTASKS Task Failure - Remote server

I'm trying to run SCHTASKS from a 2012R2 server that starts a task on a remote server (server 2019). Running C:\Windows\system32>schtasks.exe /run /s [remote servername(server 2019)] /TN "Folder\Task"...
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Opening a folder with a certain files forces a return to the parent folder

I have this unbelievable behaving in this constellation: Windows Server 2019 Standard Desktop running in the trial version the 2nd day. A fresh copy, without additional software. Just added the ...
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How to in-place-upgrade Windows 2012 R2 connection broker to 2016/2019?

I have a 2012R2 RDS infrastructure. Connection Broker, Webinterface, Gateway Manager are running on the same machine with Windows 2012 R2. Session Hosts are both 2012 R2 and 2019. Database and ...
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Renaming domain controller during migration

We're looking at replacing an aged server for a client, and as we installed this server, it adheres to our naming convention (namely, SVR-DC as it's the only DC on the network). Now that we want to ...
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Migrating 2012R2 RDS to 2019 RDS by in place upgrades?

I have a working 2012R2 RDS infrastructure with following hosts: 1 2012R2 DC 1 2019 DC 1 2012R2 Host as RDS Gateway, RDS Broker, RDS Webaccess few 2012R2 Session Hosts few 2019 Session Hosts ...
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Re-sharing a Windows 2012r2 share as read-only

Looking for a Windows based solution. Background: A standalone WS 2012R2 located on NETWORK A is sharing a folder with R/W access through a local user. A segregated NETWORK B contains user PCs, some ...
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Offline Windows DHCP

My company is needing to switch over from our current DHCP server to building out a new virtual machine Windows 2016/2019 DHCP server. The question I have is, can I build the server and configure ...
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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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Do we need to update Active Directory, When we upgrade windows 7 to windows 10

There are 500 Computers on my network We have planned to upgrade all Computers to windows 10. Currently we are using windows 7. Our Microsoft Partner suggest to upgrade our active directory OS to ...
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