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Server 2016 Compliants

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Hi,

I recently downloaded Server 2016 from my VL portal, got it installed/configured for testing, and I just thought I would share my discontent with the product (or unimpressed is likely a better wording). This does not require any input from anyone, or have any questions that need to be answered.

I dislike that they removed the ability to convert from GUI to Core, or Core to GUI. That was a great feature! Sorry I am not a PowerShell guru, but these feature allowed me to be flexible. Add this back in! I read your reasoning online. Find a way to overcome it; it worked before, you can make it work again.

Why all the extra services installed by default (even if disabled / set to manual)?

Xbox Live Game Save
Xbox Auth Manager
AllJoyn Router
ActiveX Installer
MapsBroker (download service)
Windows Mobile Hotspot Service

...the list goes on. Why? Just why? This isn't needed... All you need is what is required. Even the print spooler service, why is still even there by default? Trim the server install down to what is required to run itself. Let me install what I want from there. I don't even want to see it as an item/service/other, unless I install the feature/role.

My next complaint isn't huge, but why would you include IE11, but not Edge by default? This isn't an issue, just a source of confusion since it is in Windows 10 by default for both.

When will you stop doing what you want, and focus on doing what we, the admins, want?

Just me complaining. 




BSOD when changing VM memory online (hot-add)

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One of the new features of Hyper-V in Server 2016 is the ability to increase (or even decrease) and otherwise perform memory management on a running VM.

However, BSOD happened twice on different machines for me.
Stop Code: Memory Management.

Guests are Server 2016.
VM is Gen 2.
VM Configuration version is 8.0.

Anyone else experienced similarly ?
Simply buggy and should be reported on ? (how ?, Where ?)

Task Scheduler - Last Run Result 0xFF.

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Hi.

Does anyone knows if there is some documentation even from Technet, or MSDN explaining about the 0xFF message inside the Last Run Result column at Task Scheduler, from Windows Server 2008 R2?

Because I have one task with one action that is to just start an exe file and it's getting this message, although telling in the history tab that the task was completed...

youtube video play in full screen freezes in windows 2016 server

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I've just tried windows server Datacenter edition 2016.  When I play youtube video in full screen it always freezes in few seconds. I can still hear the audio running but screen won't refresh and remain frozen. I can only see youtube video in windowed mode. 

I don't have similar issue in windows server 2012 R2 (datacenter edition). It seems Microsoft has degraded something in windows 2016. I'd love to know if anyone of you tried 2016 and had similar issues with it. 

Product: Windows Server 2016 Datacenter

Issue: Playing youtube video in full screen mode freezes

Browser: Google Chrome

Workaround: Tried IE which seems to be running with super lag. Video plays 2-3 seconds later than audio

Please let me know if you had similar experience with windows 2016 server or found any fix for this issue.

Thanks,

How to burn CD with Windows 10

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Hi!

I have a folder of pictures in Corel PaintShop 7 - .jpg files - and a large file from Publisher 07 that I want to store on CD's.

How do I do this? Skysinger

Language settings keeps changing after screensaver or screen lock

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Hi Folks,

I need your help to troubleshoot one of the issue in our Windows 2012 R2 STD Active directory server + Terminal server.

We installed this server in US english and then changed input as well as display language to Norwegian (Norke).

Now when user takes RDP of this system it works fine and use gets Norwegian language as input language at first login but when they lock their system or when they access it again after screensaver occurs / unlock screen it start taking input language as US english.

I checked almost all the way to troubleshoot this issue but no luck.

Can someone assist me to troubleshoot this issue.

Thank You,

Regards,

Mahi_Nix

Mapped File High usage memory

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Hi ,

we have a file server with win2k12 r2 , today am facing with memory issue . i used ram map tool to identify the high usage as mapped file , how to fix this issue .

"Out of Memory" issue occurs when WMI Query Call made to find all Installed Updates on Windows Server 2008 SP 2

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"Out of Memory" issue occurs when WMI Query Call made to find all Installed Updates on Windows Server 2008 SP 2 from Application.

We are finding all installed updates details by making WMI query call from our application. That Operation gets completed but after few further line of execution when system goes for download of Patch it gives "Out of Memory" error. If we remove WMI call and do execution without that then it's working fine.

Also to mention system have sufficient memory to process all request.

Is there any Hot Fix or KB available to fix this issue?.

Please revert with your suggestion.


Remote WMI Issue

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Have an issue with accessing WMI remotely on one of our production servers (Windows 2003 x64 R2). Key points as follows:

1. On the server in question the WMI service works as expected when used locally.

2. The exact error received is "The RPC Server is unavailable" (0x800706ba)

3. Have eliminated firewall / network connectivity issues. i.e. can see the request arriving at the server.

4. Have checked WMI / DCOM permissions against a known working server.

4. When trying to access the remote service a Security Event Log entry is made as follows:

Event ID 537

Category: Logon/Logoff

User NT Authority\system

Logon Failure 

Reason: An error occurred during logon

User Name: SmithA

Domain: As expected

Logon Type:3

Logon Process:Kerberos

Authentication PackageKerberos

Status Code0xC0000078

Substatus Code:0x0

Source IP: Is the client where I'm running the WMI query from

Source Port:The dynamic port that has been assigned to the WMI query i.e 63462

All other aspects of the servers appear to work as expected.

Can anyone offer any assistance?

Many Thanks

Windows server disk offline event ID

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hi,

Do we get the event ID when the disk goes offline in physical , virtual  and cluster servers ? If yes , could you let me know all the event ID , we need to set up the motioning.

Senthil


senthil

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard getting Error Code 8000FFFF when searching for updates

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I've already checked on the services and deleted the software distribution folder. Can someone tell me how to fix this?

CLR Optimization Service Odd Behaviour

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Hey All,

I wasn't exactly sure where to place this since it fall sunder .NET more than anything.

So the background, I have this one Windows Server 2008 R2 VM I was using for my backup server. It been a great server. So lately it was determined that we were having some extreme difficulties managing to monitor our SAN. Due to technical deficiencies within the design of the firmware. So we decided to take a simple approach (at least for simple network moniroting of our Storage network.

Since this backup server was the only server to have network legs in these locked down network segments we decided to add PRTG's Remote Probe software, then have the backup server have ping sensors in place to check each IP in said subnet. This work around provides at least active alerts on hose networks, but doesn't help much with other monitoring requirements. Anyway!

I noticed after I installed the Prob I would get this very odd spike in my CPU usage, and I would only catch it when I'd leave teh console open and not use it, just have task manager open. To which I discovered it was a process mscrosvw.exe which from googling shows its part of this CLR optimization service. After more research and analysis I figured it was normal as the way I'd catch the usage spike. However!

This is where it gets weird after a couple days I noticed the processes wouldn't go away, unlike what was said about the process once it was done optimizing it would go away. I kept seeing the same CPU spike, all the time, almost as if it would trigger, and something would seem to fail and cause the process to be stuck repeating. I attempted to reboot the server and to my dismay it still happens.

So Looking at this and this

I decided to see what I could do to resolve this and get that pesky process out of my task manager once n for all (well at least till patch Tuesdays, or manual trigger) A couple things to note..

1) In my Windows Dir I have multiple instances of .NET version installed. 

(1.0.3705, 1.1.4322, 2.0.50727, v3.0, v3.5, v4.0.30319) based on the folders under the framework DIR.

2) I wasn't sure which version the remote probe used or had as a dependency and have reached our to Paesller support for comment. Since I had no "proof" of this issue before the remote probe install they seem to not want to be the ones to take blame. Also cause .NET isn't managed by them, it's MS. So here I am....

Anyway... reading the second blog I attempted to clear all queried items manually. here were my results ( I assumed .NET 4 as being used by PRTG as its the most current one on the system)...

"

Microsoft (R) CLR Native Image Generator - Version 4.0.30319.36365
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Failed to load the runtime. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131700). Assembly c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\DTS\Binn\Microsoft.SqlServer.ForEachFileEnumeratorWrap.dll requires version v4.0 of the runtime to run.

Assembly will be compiled once the correct runtime is installed.

Failed to load the runtime. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131700). Assembly c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\DTS\Binn\Microsoft.SqlServer.SQLTaskConnectionsWrap.dll requires version v4.0 of the runtime to run.

Assembly will be compiled once the correct runtime is installed.
Uninstalling assembly C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn
\ManagementStudio\Extensions\Application\Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Reports.
pkgdef because of an error during compilation: The given assembly name or codeba
se was invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131047)."

This was not the results I was expecting. Can anyone provide me some help as to what i can do to resolve this issue? and get the CLR Opt service to bugger off?

Windows Update Error 80244019

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Hi Everyone,

My Boss has me redoing servers from scratch with new installs of Server 08 R2 .. one server keeps giving me trouble though ..

Everything works fine but now for some reason I keep getting the Windows Update error 80244019 ..

I have tried stoping and starting the services, I have run scans on it and everything checks out ..

Any thoughts or advice ??

thanks ..


I should also note that the server only has the remote users role installed on it .. nothing else ..

KMS external access?

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Is there any reason a KMS server & an internal CA server (these are 2 separate servers) need internet access?  Thx

Windows Server 2016 -- what can be managed remotely??

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I'm hoping to get Win2k16 Server toward upgrading domain controllers and file/print server.

What parts of Win2k16 can be managed remotely?? -- without rdp'ing/logging into server?? And how do we do this?? RSAT??

I'm looking to have the DCs be Core servers with DHCP, DNS, Active Directory, Terminal Services/RDS licensing and Group Policy...plus perhaps Services, Computer Management...keep these servers small and maintain security...

For the file/print server I probably need the GUI version?? -- so shares and printers can be managed etc.

Can I manage all this remotely on the servers?? If so, how??

WSUS?? Probably not??

Is it possible to flip Win2k16 Server between Core and GUI without rebooting??

Thank you, Tom


Cannot join PC to domain - HELP - HELP - HELP

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Hello Everyone,

I just upgrade my domain controller from Win 2003 to Win2012R2.  Our domain name is "ABC" (I believed this is Netbios domain not FQDN domain.  Will change it to FQDN next month to AD.XYZ.COM)

I can join any computers (within the network that DC located) to the domain without any issue. (IP range 192.153.24.x to 192.153.27.x and SUBNET 255.255.252.0)

But can't join computers that locate at different location ( IP: 192.168.5.x and sub: 255.255.255.0)

From the computer that I can't join, I can ping the DC and the DC can ping the PC fine.

I already input the DNS and WIN DC/IP into this PC but still can't join.

Please HELP to fix this problems.

THanks

KEY

See below for error log

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The domain name "ABC" might be a NetBIOS domain name.  If this is the case, verify that the domain name is properly registered with WINS.

If you are certain that the name is not a NetBIOS domain name, then the following information can help you troubleshoot your DNS configuration.

DNS was successfully queried for the service location (SRV) resource record used to locate a domain controller for domain "ABC":

The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.ABC

The following domain controllers were identified by the query:
abccomvsvrdc2.ABC
abccompsvrdc1.ABC


However no domain controllers could be contacted.

Common causes of this error include:

- Host (A) or (AAAA) records that map the names of the domain controllers to their IP addresses are missing or contain incorrect addresses.

- Domain controllers registered in DNS are not connected to the network or are not running.

Help with local users environment tab starting a program on login

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Just a little background on how my company uses Local Users and Groups on a typical Server Deployment....

We do not use Active Directory Domain Services.  Generally we are deploying a server to sites with 5-10 users.  The server is used to house our software (Point of Sale) and host RDP connections.  When a user RDPs to the server using their credentials (as specified by Computer Management-Local Users and Groups-Users-(user name.....something like POS1), they automatically land in our Point of Sale software.  The way we have always done this is to pull up the properties for the local user on the server (POS1 from now on in our example), click the environment tab, check "Start the following program at logon:" and there we specify what to start and where to start it. 

So in a normal world for us POS1 pulls up Remote Desktop Connection on their local PC (or thin client), connects to their respective RDP user (local user on the server) and pops directly into our software. 

But......

I brought in 4 new Servers to configure and ship out this week.  I've installed Server 2016 on all of them.  They are activated, RDP licensing installed, and everything looks great.  Except one thing.

The environment tab is setup as we would normally do (stated above), but when a user logs in they are brought straight to a desktop experience.  Not the program specified.  This makes no difference if you RDP in or if you log out of administrator and log in physically with a different user on the server.  Also it makes no difference what the program is (tried to start notepad).

On the surface it looks exactly like every other Server deployment we have ever done.  Microsoft Tech support has been ZERO help.  Over the past 3 days I've spent around 6 hours on the phone with them remoted into my machines.  Yesterday the tech told me not to expect to hear back until at least next Tuesday......that would be over a week since the initial call.  I need these Servers out ASAP.  

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.  Thanks 


KMS Client activation - the count reported by your KMS is insufficient

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Hello,

I'm having problems with activation of Windows 10 Enterprise. I have one KMS Host and 5 Clients. When trying to activate a client, I get the following error:

I configured the KMS host as follows:
- I opened up an elevated command prompt
- I installed the KMS key by running the command: slmgr /ipk <key>
- I activated windows by running: slmgr /ato
- I opened port 1688 in Windows Firewall (I enabled the two existing rules)
- I restarted the Software Licensing Service with: net stop sppsvc && net start sppsvc
- Windows was successfully activated

The, on the rest of the computers I configured the Clients like this:
- I uninstalled the existing KMS key with: slmgr - upk (see the end of this message for details)
- I installed the KMS Client Setup Key: slmgr -ipk NPPR9-FWDCX-D2C8J-H872K-2YT43
- Then I manually assigned a KMS host to the KMS Client: slmgr /skms 192.168.1.25:1688
- Finally, I tried activating the Client with slmgr /ato which returns the error seen above.

Running slmgr /dli on the host gives me the following

Current count is 5, which is correct (I set up 5 computers/hosts). As soon as I configured a new KMS client, the current count increased, which is good. Total requests received also increases every time I try activating a client, which means that the host is receiving the activation requests.

I read somewhere that you're supposed to have at least 5 computers/clients in order for KMS to work. I have 5 clients but they still can't be activated. The error 'count reported by your KMS is insufficient' appears on all 5 clients.

If it's of any importance: I installed a fresh retail version of Windows 10 Enterprise on all computers (the host and 5 clients). All computers are in a domain, but I haven't made any DNS configurations. Auto-discovery is disabled on clients (it disables automatically when you manually assign a KMS host).

One more thing: at first, all the computers were basically activated as hosts. Because I didn't know how the KMS works, I installed the KMS host key on all the computers. All of them activated without problem. Then, when I tried to activate the 7th computer, I couldn't do it anymore. Further investigation gave me information about a max of 6 KMS hosts. That's when I went into detailed research on how to set-up KMS clients. Only one KMS host exists now. On the other 5 computers I uninstalled the KMS host product key and installed the client key. Still - activation not successful on the clients.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Renaming folder resets NTFS permissions

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Hi

I have installed a new file server, running Server 2012 R2. I have created a shared folder and set the NTFS permissions. I then renamed the folder and noticed that the NTFS permissions had ben removed and reset.

I have never seen this behavior before, and I find it a bit worrying???

Lasse


/Lasse

sever 2012 will not authenticate

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Hi Guys ,

have a weird issue that just popped up on a client site , server 2012 and exchange 2013 

cannot authenticate using IPV4 so basically i can log on to the windows 7 Pro PC's using the network credentials

if i click on search and put in the server IP i'll get prompted for a username and password

if i log into outlook it prompts me for a username and password , upon entering the username and password i simply get prompted again , this is the only server in the environment . 

if i put the ip of the pc in to the server using the ip unc path it works perfectly,

it pings the server using IP 6 on the FQDN and also will reply on a ping on IPV 4 using 192.168.0.29 (which is the server IP ) 

i have connect a single PC to the back of the server as to discount IP overlap or routing and still get the same issue , I have turned off windows firewall , I have turned on network discovery on every machine , I have checked all the exchange components , I have tired to run windows update that fails on a number of updates . 

I have checked the even log and nothing seems to be standing out as a issue ]

I have run DCDIAG  all test complete ok 

checked services and all seem to be running fine , certificates for exchange are all in date 

tried exchange without cached mode on and also with it on , taken out the need for certs and turned ntlm both on and off.

at this stage i'm starting to run out of ideas, so any help would be fantastic 

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