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Hi,

Please excuse my naivety in the question but I have never really worked in Active directory admin nor have I set up a working one from scratch.

I have a simple 2008 domain with one DC and several application servers attached to it. For one of my servers and the application sitting on it I need to create a secure SSL certificate for it. The problem is when I create the certificate it is asking for the following information

C=<countrycode>

S=<Province>

L=<Location>

O=<Organisation Name>

OU=<Department/Organisational Unit>        (Can be more than one)

CN=<Common Name of you’re server>         (Full DNS Server Name)

However  and I have found this on goolge if I run dsquery computer -name SERVERNAME on my Domain controller it returns the common name but nothing else. Is this because I have set any of the other stuff up and if so can someone explain how I do that? If all that stuff isn't set I can't request the needed certificate.

Thanks in advance for your help

Andy

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Issue using DTC over VPN

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I cannot seem to use MSDTC over a VPN connection. our network administrator and myself traced it to something to do with an unsigned packet...

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I.W Coetzer

No Key Management Service could be contacted.

September 19, 2014, 10:11 am

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Background story : Firstly, it was fine when i use my OEM laptop previously and i reformatted it. After reformatting, They prompt that the it is somewhat expiring.(i am not sure about this) After this i got a water mark in the desktop background and keep forcing me to activate windows. After this, i tried tons of ways to activate windows but to no avail. 

Error: No key management service could be contacted. 

Any idea how to solve this?

Is it possible to resume a Technet Akamai Netsession Download?

January 7, 2014, 4:32 am

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I was trying to download the evaluation copy of Server 2012 R2, to do this you have to install Akamai NetSession Interface once installed the download starts in the actual Technet webpage i.e Akami doesnt seem to have a Windows GUI anymore.

Now halfway through I had to restart my PC for unrelated reasons, is there a way to resume my download?

I have the partial download sitting in my docs folder and I have tried starting the download over again through the website but it seems to start from zero. Any help would be great.

You can see the screenshot of the browser based download interface attached.

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MSDTC connection manager is unable to register with RPC

September 20, 2014, 3:53 am

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  I am using the Windowserver 2012.  We mount a WCF application , the server is working fine.. sundenly this error occurred in production environment. what might be the reason. What should i check in my server? how to fix this ? I navigate to components and click distributed coordianator nothing comes in the list like LOCAL DTC. I am very confused. it is not happening in any other sites. This server is database server for my application

Thank you.

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-MSDTC
Date:          9/20/2014 9:00:41 AM
Event ID:      4358
Task Category: MSDTC Proxy
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      IO-DB1
Description:
The MS DTC Connection Manager is unable to register with RPC to use one of LRPC, TCP/IP, or UDP/IP.
Please ensure that RPC is configured properly. If "ServerTcpPort"
registry key is configured(DWORD value under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSDTC for local DTC instance or under cluster
 hive for clustered DTC instance), please verify if the configured port is valid and the port is not already in use by a different component.
 Error Specifics:hr = 0x8007000e, com\complus\dtc\dtc\cm\src\iomgrsrv.cpp:2597, CmdLine: "C:\Windows\system32\mmc.exe"
 "C:\Windows\system32\comexp.msc" , Pid: 956
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-MSDTC" Guid="{719BE4ED-E9BC-4DD8-A7CF-C85CE8E4975D}" EventSourceName="MSDTC" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">4358</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>10</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-09-20T02:00:41.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>19391</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>HIS-DB1</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="param1">hr = 0x8007000e, com\complus\dtc\dtc\cm\src\iomgrsrv.cpp:2597, CmdLine: "C:\Windows\system32\mmc.exe" "C:\Windows\system32\comexp.msc" , Pid: 956</Data>
    <Binary>4D005300440054004300</Binary>
  </EventData>
</Event>

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Hotfix for .V3 and .V4 Roaming Profiles

September 20, 2014, 4:21 am

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Hi

Before I arrived the setup was as follows. There was windows 2008 and windows 2012 RDS servers with the remote desktop services profile and the profile each  going to a separate share. This set-up was working fine until the server that hosted the two shares died.

The shares were recreated on a new server, the data copied across and the both of the profile settings were updated.

Since then the windows 2012 profiles have not worked and come up with a message saying that it can no longer access the server copy, using a local copy and that the changes can not be saved.

I have done some research into this issue and have found

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2887239/en-gb

When I looked at the profiles they have .v2 which I take it are the windows 2008 version and not the .v3 which is the windows 2012 version.

Now I'm almost ready to apply the hotfix and follow the document above.

The question is do I.

A) just apply the hotfix to the windows 2012 terminal servers.

B) Apply the hotfix just to where the terminal profiles are being stored, on a windows 2008 server

C) apply the hotfix to both the windows 2012 terminal servers and the place where they are being stored.

The document is not clear on what should be done.

Cheers

Jason

Hyper-V

September 20, 2014, 3:34 am

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Hello,

I have 2 Physical Servers in my Production Environment, Server 1 and Server 2 are Windows 2008R2 installed and Both servers config hyper v role. In Hyper V

Server 1 - Sec AD Server, ERP Server, Lync Server, Exchange Server and another ERP Server.

Server 2 - Primary AD(PDC), File Server, Kaspersky Server, System Log Server, Help Desk Server, Call Capturing SMDR Server.

My question is, i wants to format Server 1 (Physical Server) and re-install Windows Server 2008R2, Before that i wants to move all the Hyper-V Machines to Server 2 (Physical Server) without losing data. What are the best solution for my requirement?

Regards,

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How to prevent automatic display of "Server Manager" in Win Server 2008 R2

September 20, 2014, 1:34 am

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Beginner's question:

How to prevent the automatic loading of "Server Manager" inWindows Server 2008 R2 ?

Thanks

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Windows Server 2008 R2 180 Day Trial License

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Hi,

I'm running the Windows 2008 R2 Trial on VMware Player.  As you can see from the link below:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=11093

...it says it's a 180 day evaluation.  But further down on the page there is no trial key.  All there is is a mention that it can be activated 5 times at 10 days per activation.  When it pops up saying that my copy is illegal, it takes me to a website selling Windows 7 licenses.

I've read other articles on this and there doesn't seem to be an answer as to where the trial keys are, or what process you follow to get your 180 day evaluation?  Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers,
Adrian 

DHCP Subnet Mask change

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Hello all, I was following the advice at:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/8484.how-to-easily-change-a-dhcp-s-scope-subnet.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

  and have run into an issue. After successfully exporting the scope configuration and changing the subnet mask in the text file I ran the netsh exec c:\dhcp.txt command which resulted in a few errors including "DCHP Server Scope Add IP Range Failed" and "The specified DHCP client is not a reserved client." I only have one scope so I read on other forums I should try recreating the DCHP.mdb file but had no success with that. At this point I have restored to my backup but still need to change the subnet mask for the scope and would rather not have to rebuild it from scratch. Any suggestions? 

Thanks!

Microsoft Silver Light

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Jeg har installeret Netflix og jeg bliver bedt om at installere Microsoft Silver Light, som allerede ligger på computeren, men gjorde det alligevel og fik svaret, at det havde jeg allerede, men det virker ikke. 

Jeg afinstallerede Microsoft Silver Light - genstartede pc - installerede Microsoft Silver Light, men det virker stadig ikke, kan I hjælpe mig?

Mange hilsner

Marianne Rosa Wahl

Deploying Windows Server for a class Project

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I have downloaded Windows Server 2008 with no difficulty, however when I go to install it I run into issues.  It loads into either one of two locations, 'C' Drive, disc 0 which it says is not compatible, GTP format or Disc 4 on my external HD.  It will not load from this second location because it says program is not bootable from a USB port.  Is there a work-a-round?

LEO

 

August TechNet Guru Winners!

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The results for August's TechNet Guru competition have been posted!

http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/09/16/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-august-2014.aspx

 

Congratulations to all our new Gurus for August 2014!

We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.

Post your September contributions here:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/26444.technet-guru-contributions-for-september-2014.aspx

Read all about September's competition, hopefully in a stickied post, at the top of this forum.

 

Below is a summary of the medal winners for August. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.

Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.

Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.

 
 

BizTalk Technical Guru - August 2014

	Sandro Pereira	BizTalk Server 2010: Step-by-Step to implement Unit Testing in Schemas and Maps	Ed Price: "Fantastic detail on this step-by-step guide! Great job on the code commenting!" Mandi Ohlinger: "Unit Testing - Long overdue. Another great addition from Sandro!"
	Tord G. Nordahl	BizTalk Server: Debatching XML with envelope	Mandi Ohlinger: "Can I get tea instead of coffee?! Well-explained from one of the best BizTalk Admins. " Ed Price: "This is incredibly straightforward and very helpful!"
	Johns-305 [boatseller]	BizTalk: Deploying Custom Pipeline Components in BizTalk Server 2006 and Higher	Mandi Ohlinger: "John - you make it look so easy. Thank you for posting this topic!" Ed Price: "I love how you start off with the Confusion section. Fantastic article!"

 

Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - August 2014

Ike Ugochuku

FIM 2010 R2: Metaverse Attribute Flow Precedence and dealing with Blank values

Ed Price: "Ike, good article! I like the concept of the Case Story, Solution Requirement, and Solution Design! Could benefit from a little more explanation of the code and from a See Also section. Great approach to this article!" PG: "This is an unnecessary complex procedure to solve the null import flow. THe issue can be simply solved in a 2 step solution with even less code. More details in comment added to article. "

  

Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - August 2014

	Alex Mang	Azure Search Client Library for .NET Framework	JH: "Two words: Love it! Outstanding article about an awesome service." Ed Price: "Fantastic explanations of the goals and code! Great article!"
	Manuel Meyer	How to Set up the Adventureworks Database on Azure Sql in a Couple of Minutes	JH: "Good work for a first article on TN Wiki." Ed Price: "Great How-To article with helpful images!"
	Abdul Rehman Aftab	Server Side Validation & Modification in Microsoft Azure Mobile Services	Ed Price: "Good descriptions. Please make sure you're not just writing a new version of existing documentation. We want to see your own personal experiences. Thanks for the contribution!"

 

Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - August 2014

Dan Christian

Build Visio 2013 diagram for SharePoint Online

Ed Price: "Another astonishing article from Dan! The visuals tell the story in a clear and engaging way, and every step is described and explained! To top it off, Dan shows it all to you in two videos! Legendary article!" AH: "Its really good article where each step is explained and screenshots are provided, Good amount of details are provided and even has references to the tutorial videos. Pretty good." GO: "This article has already been judged in the SharePoint section"

Miscellaneous Technical Guru - August 2014

	saramgsilva	Creating framework documentation with Ghostdoc	Ed Price: "Great extension exploration from Sara! Good use of images!" Margriet Bruggeman: "Good article that show how to create documentation using GhostDoc." TGN: "I have never heare of GhostDoc before, I wonder why. This tool rocks, and so does the article too." Richard Mueller: "Helpful links, but the "See Also" should have links to Wiki articles."
	Brian Nadjiwon	How to add a Powershell GUI event handler with parameters	Richard Mueller: "Very well explained. Needs a See Also and/or References." Ed Price: "Great image and explanations from this one in the series that also covers praameters. Could benefit from code formatting and more of an explanation of what the code's doing. Good job!" TGN: "great mashup. and great additions to the TN Wiki" Margriet Bruggeman: ""
	Ike Ugochuku	PowerShell Scripting: Using and querying Datasets directly in PowerShell	Ed Price: "Good code snippet and code formatting! Could benefit from a third person voice (less personal), more explaining the code, and a See Also section. It's a helpful addition to our TechNet Wiki community library!" Margriet Bruggeman: "I was just looking for something like this! Great article!" TGN: "nice addition, good work." Richard Mueller: "First person should be avoided. Would it help to use Csv cmdlets?"

 

SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - August 2014

	Geetanjali Arora	Step by Step Guide to Configure Environment for Creating your first SharePoint Hosted App	Margriet Bruggeman: "Enormous detailed article!! A good step by step guide!" Ed Price: "Great article with visual imagery! Great troubleshooting steps!" GO: "WOW! Great article. This article has the 3 "C" in one. Clear, clever and clean. Well done!"
	Dan Christian	SharePoint Online with Visio Services	GO: "This is absolutely the gold medal winner! Thank you Dan, for this great article..!" Margriet Bruggeman: "Good walkthrough for getting started with Viso Services." Ed Price: "Incredible article! Great use of images and video!"
	Vipul Kelkar	SharePoint 2013/Office 365 : Working with Result Sources to limit search results.	Margriet Bruggeman: "Very interesting article, gonna try that one out myself." Ed Price: "Very good article! Good descriptions! Could benefit from a See Also section. Great job!"

 

Small Basic Technical Guru - August 2014

Nonki Takahashi

Small Basic: How to Use MSDN Forum

Ed Price: "I love it! This is a fantastically thorough overview of using the Small Basic forum! Great job!" Michiel Van Hoorn: "This is a excellent post by Nonki and a very usefull introduction for beginners to use the MSDN forum. Really good guidance."

SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - August 2014

	Visakh16	Import SSIS2012 Project From Catalog Using T-SQL Script	Ed Price: "Great formatting on code and images. Great descriptions! Could benefit from a TOC and a See Also section. Great job!" PT: "Thank you for a very useful post on this newer feature. I think others will benefit from this information. The language and graphics are a little rough and can use some polish but the information is very good." RB: "Great explanation that could be the starting point for some automation"
	Jan D'Hondt	SSIS 2012 new REPLACENULL function	Ed Price: "Short and sweet. Good example. Could use more explanation and a See Also section."

SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - August 2014

	Andy O'Neill	SQL General: Pragmatic Denormalisation	DRC: "This is a very nice article and can be published It discusses about DE normalization which is very much implement in real time scenarios It also provides various reasons why we should consider denormalization. Explanations provided are good but feels little complicated in few part of article (Level 300) " AM: "Nice article but lacks of examples about why denormalization is handy in certain cases." GO: "One of the clearest article on the WIKI. That great. Thank you!" Ed Price: "Great job on the descriptions! To quote Samuel from the comments: "Great content and deep examples!" It could benefit from a See Also section. This is a great article!"
	Durval Ramos	Freezing a Table on SQL Server	GO: "I have been always a huge lover from SQL server. Especially if it comes from Durval Ramos! Thanks buddy! Well written." Ed Price: "I love the code formatting! The images help a lot. And it's a very useful and practical topic with good depth! The References section helps! And it even has a Portuguese version!" Samuel Lester: "" AM: "I suggest incorporating new features like partitioning to raise the level of the article." DRC: "This article provides details about READ-ONLY filegroup"
	Ike Ugochuku	SQL GENERAL: Select records from one table based on fields in another table	AM: "It would be helpful having table schema and sample data to be able to compare to other solutions. Also, how does it compare to a simple query using NOT EXISTS and OR operators." GO: "Well written! Thanks" Ed Price: "Short and sweet! It could benefit from a See Also section that points to other Wiki articles. Good case overview and code formatting!"

System Center Technical Guru - August 2014

Nathan Foreman

Integrating a CMDB with Operations Manager

Ed Price: "Nice article! It's got a download, a whole lot of depth, good code formatting, and some helpful images! Great job!"

Transact-SQL Technical Guru - August 2014

	Ronen Ariely	Transact-SQL: Return DBCC output in a View	Jinchun Chen: "Nice. Sometimes, it is asked to include DBCC result in a SP's return result." JS: "Nicely formatted article with a very good coemmnts section within the code. Very helpful for many people." Ed Price: "Great topic, descriptions, code formatting, code commenting, and the resources section is astounding! As Saeid says in the comments: "Great content and deep examples!" Amazing article!" Richard Mueller: "Excellent references, well formated code with comments"
	Durval Ramos	Adding work days using T-SQL	Richard Mueller: "Excellent article with code and references. Try to avoid using firsst person." Jinchun Chen: "Good" JS: "You should also mention the SET DATEFIRST setting." Ed Price: "This is a good article for less advanced T-SQL users, and that's an important audience (possibly the most important)! Great job on a clearly written article that helps with the basics! "
	Andy O'Neill	T-SQL: How to get the Latest Costs	JS: "A good example, could be better by comparing the different options as well as including new techniques like WITH statements. But nice work of showing your way through." Ed Price: "A good topic that's superbly written with descriptions and fantastic code samples! And a link to get the code in the Gallery! That's great!" Richard Mueller: "I needed better explanation the issue and of the relationships between the tables."

 

Visual Basic Technical Guru - August 2014

	Nonki Takahashi	Versions and Tags for Visual Basic	Ed Price: "Nice! Good formatting on the table! Although this isn't a technical article, it's a great resource for the community!" Richard Mueller: "Good information in a nice table."
	Nonki Takahashi	Visual Basic Portal	Richard Mueller: "A wonderful collection of Wiki articles. It would help to categorize them, if possible" Ed Price: "Very helpful for the community as well. Good job!"

Visual C# Technical Guru - August 2014

	saramgsilva	Analyzing C# code using NDepend	Ed Price: "Truly epic. I love the use of bold and bullets to explain concepts. The depth is astonishing. Great job!"  Peter Laker: "Love this a lot, nice work saramgsilva! "
	Jaliya Udagedara	Expression Trees - Accessing Nested Properties	Ed Price: "Fantastic descriptions, thorough coverage, and strange comments! Who could ask for anything more?" Peter Laker: Nice work Jaliya, another scorcher of an article.
	Andy O'Neil	C#: Passing parameters	Ed Price: "Great job taking us through these steps!" Peter Laker: "Top Tip as always Andy! Well worth a medal."

 

Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - August 2014

	Durval Ramos	Office 365 Portal	Ed Price: "Whoa! Woh! Wow. Wow. This is incredibly helpful! This just keeps going with great Wiki resources!" Margriet Bruggeman: "Great collection of technet wiki articles about Office 365!" Richard Mueller: "Excellent collection of Wiki articles, well formatted."
	Muhammad Ehsan	Dynamics AX Portal	Ed Price: "Good portal. Thanks for getting this started!" Margriet Bruggeman: "" Richard Mueller: "Another great addition to our collection of Portals."

Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - August 2014

	Carmelo La Monica	Geolocation Services on Windows Phone 8.	JH: "Great article with a lot of code and pictures." Ed Price: "Incredible detail. Great formatting with bullets and bold! And great job linking to the full code on the MSDN Gallery! Good feedback discussion in the comments!"
	saramgsilva	How to add marketplace review using the Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit (using MVVM)	JH: "Good article about an important point in app development which is left out sometimes." Ed Price: "Great topic! Very well written!"
	mcosmin	How to fix fatal exceptions when doing intensive file IO in a windows runtime app	JH: "Love how-to-fix articles, but this one is missing something such as a small code snippet or example." Ed Price: "This is a very helpful look at this problem. Thanks for the contribution!"

 

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - August 2014

	Magnus (MM8)	WPF: Adding Right-Aligned Row Numbers To a DataGridRowHeader	Ed Price: "Although it's a complicated approach, this is a well-written articel with lots of detail, well-formatted code, and images. Great Additional Resources section to read more about the contexts!" Peter Laker: "How very useful Magnus! Nice work!" KJ: "agree with other comment: seems complicated"
	Manuel Meyer	How to Get the Default Template of a Control in XAML?	Ed Price: "Good topic, but it would be helpful to break up the code and explain it more. Helpful contributions. Thanks!" Peter Laker: "Sweet tip Manuel! When you haven't got Blend, this is a great tool. Dig deeper here." KJ: "classic"
	Andy O'Neill	WPF DynamicResource ObservableCollection	KJ: "good sample" Ed Price: "Another well-written contribution with great explanations on the code snippets and fantastic formatting!" Peter Laker: "Nice tip sheet Andy! I have something similar here if anyone's interested."

 

Windows Server Technical Guru - August 2014

	Mr X	How to join UNIX / Linux to Active Directory	Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I like to learn new way to do it. I would maybe add a link to how to do it with samba (net ads join ...) I would love to know whats the advantage of powerbroker too over the samba method. (Like does the product offer group policy or such configuration as samba does not at this time)" GL: "I had to figure this out once myself and it wasn't easy, so thanks for the tips." JM: "This is a great article and will be very helpful to System Administrators" Richard Mueller: "Great information with a good explanation of the steps."
	Darshana Jayathilake	How to downgrade domain and forest functional level(windows 2012R2/2012/2008R2)	Philippe Levesque: "Good information to know." GL: "This could be very useful information. Thanks for providing it!" Richard Mueller: "Good explanation of the steps to downgrade FFL and DFL. We could use discussion of when someone might want to do this." JM: "This is a very good article. Suggestions for improvement: Clean up screenshots, explain why you might want to downgrade, and revise for correct grammar"
	Mr X	How to measure the response time of your Domain Controllers when running an LDAP query	JM: "This is a very good article" Richard Mueller: "Excellent concept to measure query performance." Philippe Levesque: "Good method to test out for AD delay in the server. A lot of product just run ping and monitor service to be sure they are not at off to see the health of the server." GL: "This seems useful but I'd like to see a scenario stated for using it."

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A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to August's competition.

Hopefully we will see you ALL again in September 2014's listings?

If you haven't contributed an article for this month, and you think you can create a more useful, clever and better presented wiki article than the winners above,here's your chance! :D

Best regards,
Pete Laker

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hi frinds

i have some workgroup windows 2008 R2 servers.

what is the advantage of being member of same workgroup ? does it have any effect in communications?

thanks in advance

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Beginner's question:

How to display the "Program Files" directory and its content onWindows Server 2008 R2?

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I  am not sure if this the appropriate location for this question but anyway...  I am trying to refresh an old evaluation server with a valid license. 

I perform the upgrade  to the existing O/s with the CD1 of win2003R2.  Part way through the install I get dialog box:  "the file 'install.exe' on Windows 2003 disk 2 is needed". However,  there is no "install.exe or "install.ex_" on the(win2003R2) CD 2.

Now,  I know from a bit research that this is a known issues with a work around of uninstalling .NET2.  I just wondered if this was really the best approach as I have also .NET 3.51 on the server and various apps which makes uninstalling .NET 2.0 a bad move.....

 

Daniel

How to monitor the Windows Time skew of hundreds of servers?

September 16, 2014, 2:42 am

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Hi,

I have hundreds of servers and I need to monitor if all servers are in sync or - if not - how much they are drifting.

Is their any log in Windows that would allow me to find this info or - if not - any script that would allow me to gather those information on all servers?

Thank you

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How to create ODBC 3.5 Compliant Connection in Win2008 Server

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Hello There,

We have a requirement to create ODBC 3.5 level compliant ODBC connection on Windows 2008 Server but i don't see any option on the ODBC for this, please suggest.

Regards,

Maqsood

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Maqsood Mohammed Senior Systems Engineer MCITP-Enterprise Admin & ITILv3 Foundation Certified

Loss of DNS services

September 22, 2014, 4:21 am

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Since the 20th Aug 2014 all the machines at one of our clients has a seeming random network disconnect once/sometimes 3 to 4 times a week and the only thing that fixes is a server reboot (only one DC). Seems likely to be a DNS or a DHCP issue?

Small Business Server 2011 x64 (windows updates up to date)

14GB Ram

28Gb free on 136Gb disk

Installed software

SQL 2005/2008

Exchange 2010 sp2(Baseline analyser advised applying SP3 which I plan to do next)

Sophos Endpoint Enterprise 5.2.2

Sophos Puremessage 3.1.1.0



App events

8230-VSS

System events

Dcom 10009/10016 - Time Service 47 - Schannel 36888/36887(42) - Service ctl manager 7031/7022

Win remote mgmt 10154 - DNS client 1014 -DHCP Server 1056 Winint 11 - TermDD 56 - SRV 2012

Strangely Between 20th and 26th aug some related events i.e. E100B 4 (Network adapter link down) would also occur at this time but now dont. We updated drivers and tried different NICs but this made no difference.

The RAM is also maxed out permanently although I believe that this is common on SBS servers.

Can someone assist in diagnosis please. As I said I will update Exchange to sp3 and see how that goes.

Gratefully

Peter

vss event 12290 GetDiskFreeSpaceEx

September 22, 2014, 5:16 am

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I am trying to back up a win2012r2 file server with Appassure 5.4.2.192.  The server backed up all drives successfully for a week and then the D: of the server grayed out in Appassure.  I spent a week with Appassure tech support and they have concluded that it is a VSS issue.

The tech did all manner of VSS testing, removing/adding, I am not sure what all.

VSSadmin list writers shows all Stable.

We are transitioning from Backup Exec to Appassure (trying to anyway), so the server runs both the Appassure agent & the BE agent, however so do the rest of my servers and they are having no issues.

The only VSS event I have is 12290:

Log Name:      Application

Source:        VSS

Date:          9/20/2014 5:32:33 AM

Event ID:      12290

Task Category: None

Level:         Warning

Keywords:      Classic

User:          N/A

Computer:      DATA2.city.nc

Description:

Volume Shadow Copy Service warning: GetDiskFreeSpaceEx() for \\?\Volume{710b4730-1063-429a-8900-fad57f736481}\ failed with 0x00000005. hr = 0x00000000, The operation completed successfully.

Operation:

   Automatically choosing a diff-area volume

   Processing EndPrepareSnapshots

Context:

   Execution Context: System Provider

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

  <System>

    <Provider Name="VSS" />

    <EventID Qualifiers="0">12290</EventID>

    <Level>3</Level>

    <Task>0</Task>

    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-09-20T09:32:33.000000000Z" />

    <EventRecordID>5895</EventRecordID>

    <Channel>Application</Channel>

    <Computer>DATA2.city.nc</Computer>

    <Security />

  </System>

  <EventData>

    <Data>GetDiskFreeSpaceEx() for \\?\Volume{710b4730-1063-429a-8900-fad57f736481}\ failed with 0x00000005</Data>

    <Data>0x00000000, The operation completed successfully.

</Data>

    <Data>

 

Operation:

   Automatically choosing a diff-area volume

   Processing EndPrepareSnapshots

 

Context:

   Execution Context: System Provider</Data>

    <Binary>2D20436F64653A2053505250524F564330303030323436322D2043616C6C3A2053505250524F564330303030323238302D205049443A202030303030323637322D205449443A202030303030323934302D20434D443A2020433A5C57696E646F77735C53797374656D33325C737663686F73742E657865202D6B2073777072762D20557365723A204E616D653A204E5420415554484F524954595C53595354454D2C205349443A532D312D352D313820</Binary>

  </EventData>

</Event>

Any suggestions as to what I could look at next before I call MS support?

Thanks