Questions tagged [windows-server-2019]
For questions related to Windows Server 2019.
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Windows 2019: can't figure out why my drive is full
On a Windows 2019 Server the drive D: is 100% full (500 Gb used):
I'm trying to understand why the disk is full but I can't because both File Explorer and Total Commander reports no more than 33 Gb ...
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Shutdown Event Tracker showing on every login on Server 2019
I took control of a new VM running Windows Server 2019 (Datacenter) recently. Since that time, on each login to the server (via RDP) the Shutdown Event Tracker shows asking for information about an ...
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Automatic installation of updates on Windows Server 2019
On a freshly-installed, non-domain-joined Windows Server 2019 (with desktop experience) VM, the ability to change Windows Update installation settings seems to have vanished, with the "Some ...
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Install Microsoft Edge on Server 2019
The irony of this is off the scale. I'm clearly bored as I know the answer to this but I'm intrigued what's going on here.
Brand new install of Windows Server 2019 evaluation. Only configuration ...
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How to run Linux Docker Container on Windows Server 2019?
There are already very similar Q&A regarding Windows Server 2016, but it remains unclear to me.
We have installed Docker Enterprise in version 18.09.6. We did manage to run Linux containers in ...
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Windows Server Datacenter Edition - Unlimited Virtual Machines [duplicate]
Need some clarification on the following.
Datacenter Edition description lists:
Can be used as virtualization guest: Yes, unlimited virtual machines,
plus one Hyper-V host per license
https://...
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Force a domain controller to re-register AD DNS records without restarting netlogon?
In the past, I've been in a situation troubleshooting the dynamic registration of AD specific DNS records from domain controllers against a 3rd party DNS server. As far as I'm aware, the netlogon ...
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TLS 1.3 support for Windows Server 2019
Is TLS 1.3 supported on windows server 2019?
I found a documentation from microsoft but for some reason the matrix doesn't include server 2019: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthn/...
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Switchless Networking Configuration for Two Directly-Attached Nodes?
I have two Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition servers, each with RDMA-enabled Mellanox ConnectX‐4 Lx 25GbE DA/SFP NICs. I've directly connected them with a 1 meter SFP28 copper cable.
How can I ...
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Windows Server 2019 VPN Error 8007042a After KB4480116
I am running Windows Server 2019 datacenter with router and remote access for VPN access. Everything was working fine until I installed the January 8, 2019 update: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...
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Windows server 2019 install not showing GUI options
I've downloaded the latest ISO (December 2019) for Windows Server 2019. When I go to install on a new server the list of install options only includes the core non-GUI install options.
How do I ...
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HP Smart Array B140i S2D
I try to create a S2D with my HP DL380 Smart Array B140i. I have all bays with SSDs and want to use bays 5-8 for a S2D. I need to configure the array controllor (or the BIOS?) to make the drives ...
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Corrupt (?) ReFS causing blue screen when drive is mounted
On Windows Server 2019, I have an 8 drive Storage Spaces pool that contains many volumes, only one of which is ReFS formatted. (The rest are NTFS.)
My server recently spontaneously started blue ...
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Windows Network Setup Service (NetSetupSvc) service starts and stops every hour?
On a VM running Windows Server 2019 Standard, I see every hour the Network Setup Service (NetSetupSvc) starts and stops
Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Date: 3/2/...
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Microsoft Storage Spaces Write-Back Cache exists on HDD-only single-tier parity disk?
I created a parity storage space on 3x external USB 4tb HDD attached to a Windows 10 1809 machine. I then moved those HDDs to a Server 2019 1809 machine and added 1x additional 4tb HDD.
I noticed ...
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EC2, Windows 10, half of the virtual processors
We run t3.large and m5.large instances, which have 2 vCPUs (as displayed in the EC2 management console). I'm trying to understand why the Windows 2019 (AMI provided by my IT) can only see half the ...
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Can I use Windows Server 2019 Essentials as a Stand Alone WebServer? [duplicate]
I looked around a lot but the only thing I find is the statement from Microsoft: "Functionality is limited on Windows Server 2019 essentials" and comparison Charts comparing the Standard and ...
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How to restrict AD DS, DNS, and FS services to internal interfaces on Window Server 2019?
I have a Windows Server 2019 server, which is running some services itself, and Hyper-V virtual machines with Windows and Linux guests.
To centralize user and machine management, I have setup Active ...
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Running windows container's command prompt in admin mode
I am running Windows Nanoserver in a container.The nanoserver contains only the command prompt and lacks powershell.
I want to execute certain commands inside the container in the command prompt which ...
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Hardening a file-serving Windows Server 2019 instance
I'm in the process of re-configuring and securing a server for the small company that I work for. We use it to store design files and other data with Autodesk Vault. It's running on a VPS from a ...
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ISCSI and Windows Server 2019
I have 2 servers
Main one is acting server the other one is providing HDD as ISCSI to main server.
Purpose of this setup is Media Streaming sometimes there is transcoding involved.
In application I ...
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Very poor network performance with Server 2019
We are having major performance issues with Server 2019. Read and write performance is very poor compared to Server 2016. we installed a number of servers on customer sites to replace old servers and ...
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Best practices for an in-place upgrade from Server 2008r2 to 2016/2019?
I've got several web servers running Server 2008r2 SP2 Standard with SQL Server 2014. What is the best practice / easiest in-place upgrade path to get to Windows Server 2016?
In testing, I'm only ...
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Configuring Storage Spaces for NVMe caching of SSDs using powershell
I am installing Server 2019 Core on a Dell server. These are the drives I have:
Get-StoragePool -IsPrimordial $true | Get-PhysicalDisk | Where-Object CanPool -eq $True
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Windows Server 2019 Core install fonts
Microsoft nuked all the fonts except for Arial in Server 2019 core (see eg. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-releases-new-windows-server-2019-insider-and-sdk-preview-builds).
Makes sense and ...
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Windows Server 2019 randomly changes time and date to incorrect values
In the last two months, we have got quite a few issues with the server time and date occasionally changing to some absolute random values. Sometimes it is a few days in the future or past, sometimes - ...
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Nested Virtualization and CSV issues in Hyper-V server Cluster Failover
I have 3 Windows server 2019 VMs,virtualized on Windows 10 pro. (MAIN HOST)
server 1 is AD/DC/ISCSI target/DNS/DHCP.
server 2 and 3 formed a failover Hyper-V Cluster and this cluster hosts a ...
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How to add Windows 2019 server to 2008 R2 and migrate DC
I have two Windows Server 2019 servers that I need to add to Server 2008 R2 domain.
It is not possible to add 2019 server to 2008 R2 domain without enabling SMB 1.0 client, and I would like to skip ...
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What is the purpose of the System Data Archiver feature?
I am looking to remove unnecessary roles and features from Windows 2019 systems
and there is a new feature named System Data Archiver which is installed by default.
The official description says:
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Storage Spaces Direct and Virtualization Architecture
I'm trying to figure out the best way to architect a 2 node fail over cluster with the Hyper V role installed. I can really use some input and suggestions from others who have already been down this ...
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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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Group Policy application on Domain Controllers
I am building a test Active Directory forest in a virtual environment. I will be part of a team in the future that will build a new Forest for our organization. I don't have experience managing a ...
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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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Attach network disk as direct
Is where way to attach network disk as direct without creating VHD etc? I want to connect drive directly from one computer to other by network by like iSCSI but without creating VHD.
Not acceptable:
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Removing IIS10 Self-signed Certificate "WMSCV-SHA2-webserver"
On my IIS server, there are two certificates. One is issued by a real CA based on my request and is used as the SSL cert on the server's website. The other is a self-signed certificate with the name ...
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Fixing bad network drivers on 2019 DC S2D installation
I am helping to troubleshoot an existing Windows failover cluster on Windows Server 2019 Data Center. The cluster is set up to use Storage Spaces Direct (http://aka.ms/s2d) but there are problems ...
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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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Issues with LAPS
For the past three hours I've sat at my desk ready to smash my Dell R710 in with a baseball bat. After installing all features of LAPS and running import-module AdmPwd.PS, I can't seem to get AD to ...
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Windows Server 2019 ADCS - Unable to Install Subordinate CA Certificate
I am setting up a two tier Active Directory Certificate Services PKI hierarchy with an offline standalone Root CA (Server 2019) and an online Enterprise Subordinate CA (also Server 2019).
I've ...
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Cannot remote connect to Windows 2019 core
I tried to copy files to Windows server 2019 core referring to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt708806(v=vs.85).aspx. But after i ran the commands:
$ip = "192.168.0.100" # replace with your ...
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Windows DNS server: host a zone, but forward unknown entries
We have a split brain DNS scenario in our company where we have the same entries pointing towards different IPs.
Example1:
Internal DNS: email.company.net (A) 172.20.1.1
External DNS: email.company....
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Why aren't inherited scope options replicating between Win2019 DHCP servers in a failover config?
I have 2 Win 2019 DCs, both running DHCP servers with a scope configured for failover. If I explicitly set scope options on one, they properly replicate to the other server. But options inherited from ...
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Can RSAT-ADDS be safely removed after Exchange 2019 installation on Windows 2019 Core?
I'm deploying a new Exchange Server 2019 and using Windows Server 2019 Core as basis.
Accordingly to Microsoft documentation, located https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Exchange-Team-Blog/Deploy-...
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Network Policy Server + RADIUS not listening on any ports for Windows Server 2019
I must be missing something basic - is there some "master" switch for enabling Network Policy Server? It's not listening on any of the RADIUS ports. Detail:
Trying to setup Windows Server 2019 as a ...
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Issues with Multi-resilient volumes (Mirror-accelerated parity) in a regular (not S2D) Storage Spaces configuration
I'm trying to configure Multi-Resilient Volume (Mirror-Accelerated Parity) using "regular" Clustered Storage Spaces (not S2D) on Windows Server 2019. It is worth noting that I've tried the same ...
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Windows Disk Event 11: 'The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR1.' for all offline Cluster Storage Disks
I'm using several Windows Server 2019 Clusters (e. g. Hyper-V, File Server). On all machines that have clustered roles, I get the following errors (with different harddisk numbers):
Log Name: System
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Windows NTFS Data Deduplication and Snapshot Backups
We have a file server (fs00) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP):
Running Windows Server 2019 (with Desktop Experience installed).
One OS / System disk (250GB SSD)
An independent data disk (5TB standard ...
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Can't Disable SMB 2/3 Signing between Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019
I've been having some strange file copy issues between a Windows 10 client and Window Server 2019 system (DC/Fileserver).
I don't want to explain that issue in detail here other than to say it ...
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Free up memory in Windows Server 2019 for SQL Server instance?
We have Windows Server 2019 Standard (x64) with 64GB memory.
The screenshot below shows the memory usage at 96% with the SQL Server Windows NT running and using 344.5 MB.
This is the Task Manager ...
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When will WSL2 to be generally available on Windows Server?
Searching the internet shows that with Windows 10 version 2004, WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux, v2) is now generally available. I use it, and it's great.
All of the information (as at September ...
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