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Windows Server 2008 R2 is an operating system from Microsoft, and reached End Of Life on January 14, 2020. It is an update of Windows Server 2008. Unlike Server 2003 R2, this R2 is a fully new Operating System. It is only available in 64-bit versions.

Windows Server 2008 R2 is a significantly updated version of Windows Server 2008, which reached End Of Life on January 14, 2020. Unlike Server 2008, 2008 R2 is only available in 64-bit versions. No 32-bit version exists. It is superseded by Windows Server 2012

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Trigger task on USB insert instead of insert and removal

i'm using Windows' task scheluder to trigger a task when a specific USB device is plugged to the computer, problem is the task is also triggered on USB removal. I used custom XML trigger for this task tracking Windows auditing logs for a specific…
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Testing for Active Directory Schema modification (not upgrade)

I am trying to test a schema modification. That is i need to add one of the attributes to global catalog by modifying schema , initially in a lab which is exact replica.My questions are below; -> What tests need to be done post schema change to…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 automated reboot everyweek

I'm rather new with Windows / Windows server administration. I heard that rebooting Windows servers everyweek is required to keep it functioning well. So here, we reboot every Virtual Machine running Windows everyday at a specified time,…
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Transition from GPO to GPP

I have a Windows network with a 2003 server as the PDC, and a 2008R2 server as a DC. We have used GPO sparsely when the majority of our workstations were WinXP, but now we have Windows 7 clients and we're having some issues with printer mapping. I'm…
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doing ODBC System DSN's from Active Directory

2008R2 Active Directory, workstations are Win7 Ent, Office/Excel 2013, Oracle 11.2. Excel fetches data from Oracle using System DSN's. Where can I put ODBC System DSN's in Active Directory? Do I need to do anything special to the Win7 / Excel 2013…
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How to set RDS security layer in Windows Server 2008 R2 via PowerShell

I'm looking for a way to set security layer setting in Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS via PowerShell (other ways to do in programmatically will do also but PowerShell is preferable). Via GUI it can be set through RDP-Tcp properties on General tab (SSL,…
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How to logon with local account? RODC "There are no logon servers to process your request"

I have a site-to-site VPN, writeable DC in the main office, Read-only DC in a branch office. Today the VPN went down, but I couldn't log in to the read-only DC - the error message came up There are no logon servers to process your request. Since the…
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Incorrect ASP.NET session data returned intermittently

I've been given the task of looking into a problem where the session of a user changes between refreshes of a page. Immediately (not knowing anything about the website) I said that it seems like a load-balancing/web cluster configuration issue.…
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Things to consider when migrating from WinSBS2003 to WinSrv2008R2

In the next few weeks I should migrate a SBS2003 DC to Win2008R2 on a different server. I found this guide here: http://demazter.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/migrate-small-business-server-2003-to-exchange-2010-and-windows-2008-r2/ That guide is pretty…
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RDS 2012 R2: Connection broker (or gateway) not working properly

Here's my network... (Link to network diagram: https://i.stack.imgur.com/F9gTF.png) I have three RDSH servers - SVRDS1, SVRDS2 and SVRDS3. My Connection Broker is located on a separate box SVPDC1. Problem: If a user is logged into SVRDS2 and this…
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Removing address bar or Hiding its content from Windows Explorer - Windows Server 2008 R2

I'm currently trying to find a GPO or a registry edit that could either remove the address bar from Windows Explorer or prevent the bar from displaying the full UNC path. The current environment has full restrictions on the C:\ drive as well as…
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Deleting Local Profiles when using Roaming Profiles at Log off

I'm currently building an environment that will host about 5,000 users over 20 AppServer. I have finalized my GPOs but I'm experiencing an issue with the user's local profile when roaming profiles is implemented. The roaming part works perfectly, as…
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Windows Server 2003 r2 vs 2008 r2 - Performance for SQL Server

First off, I'm not a sys admin, just a programmer frustrated by poor server performance… We’re currently running a VM (I believe the host is Win Server 2008) on a newer E5-2650 CPU, 24 GB RAM, at least according to the System Properties dialog. I…
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In the Local Security Policy, how do you avoid putting "IIS APPPOOL\" before "DefaultAppPool"?

Doesn't seem to be a whole lot on the Internet about this. I was tweaking the Local Security Policy of one of our test servers (Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Service Pack 1), when I got this error. So then I used this hotfix, which caused…
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Domain Controller all FSMO roles, AD,DHCP,DNS 2008r2 backup best practice

hello I am looking to back up my 2008 r2 domain controller, we have 1 forest and 2 domain controllers, idomain-1 and idomain-2 idomain-2 is used for failover and idomain-1 replicates to it. having done some extensive reading it looks like system…
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