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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 It is superseded by Windows Server 2012

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Open Windows Firewall to all connections from specific IP Address

Is it possible to "whitelist" an IP Address in the Windows Firewall and allow all connections from that specific address?
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Configure WinRM using a .bat file without yes/no prompt

I want to configure winrm in all my clients using a bat file. after running bat file winrm quickconfig command there's a prompt for a yes/no answer. I don't know how to answer "yes" in the batch file.
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Windows 7 search not showing results from mapped Server 2008 R2 share

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 network share setup as a map drive in Win 7 x64. I want to search it via Windows 7 but I always get "no items match your search". It's as though it's not even attempting to search. The File Server role with Windows…
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Phones on some switches cannot complete DHCP process

Background I have a Windows DHCP server (Server 2008 R2) handing out addresses for several scopes. One of those scopes is for some Mitel IP Phones. The phones are configured to use dhcp option 125 to get configuration information. When a phone…
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Managing CBS.log files on Windows 2008R2?

Whilst auditing disk space on our Windows 2008R2 farm we noticed that some servers had quite large C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log files (~1.5GB). I was under the impression that this particular log file would be periodically compressed into…
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Check that a given user has a given privilege

Given a pair of a user and a privilege I need to determine if a user has the privilege on the server. The following is true in my setup: The server is a part of a domain but not a domain controller There are several domains with trust relationship…
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Disable IPv6 on Loopback address (Localhost, Computer name, ...)

We tried installing a 3rd party software product on a new Windows Server 2008 R2 machine and found that everything works except for accessing local services through loopback addresses such as localhost or the computer name (ex: VPS-Web which…
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How does CHKDSK /F on locked volume get "scheduled" on reboot?

I've run chkdsk /F many times over the years...and today I had to run it on one of my 2008 R2 servers and I get the normal message: Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be…
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Windows DHCP Server - get notification when a non-AD joined device gets an IP address

SCENARIO To simplify this down to it's easiest example: I have a Windows 2008 R2 standard DC with the DHCP server role. It hands out IPs via various IPv4 scopes, no problem there. WHAT I'D LIKE I would like a way to create a notification/eventlog…
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Windows Event Viewer is slow on newer versions of Windows

The modern Event Viewer application that you get on all versions of Windows since Vista is so much slower the previous version that was on Server 2003 and XP. I know there is much more functionality in the newer version but most of the time I just…
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NTFS - Domain Admins don't have permissions despite being part of the Local Administrators group

As per "Best Practices" staff in our IT department have two accounts. An unprivileged account and an account that is a member of the global Domain Admins ($DOMAIN\Domain Admins) group. On our file servers the Domain Admins group is added to the…
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Would rebooting the server in a schedule be good idea for performance?

I am wondering if rebooting a server in a schedule would be good idea for performance. Let's say we want to reboot the server at 02:00 AM per 2 nights. The server here is Windows Server 2008 R2. Mainly, SQL Server and IIS 7.5 (nearly 15 apps…
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why isn't laravel's php artisan serve server being accessible from the WWW on IIS

I have a laravel application running through the laravel artisan server: php artisan serve and it works just fine if I go on my localhost:8000.. Further, I added an inbound rule in the IIS server like so: Control Panel -> Administrative Tools ->…
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How did I get this Windows share to prompt for login?

Or: "Is this a thing? And how would I check if it was?" In an environment without a Domain Controller, when accessing a share on a Windows Server 2008 R2 box, from a remote computer without a matching user account on the server, (and connecting by…
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