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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 It is superseded by Windows Server 2012

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Nslookup not using hosts file

So I've set public IP on the hosts file for a certain public IP address, but it picks up private ip from nowhere or from DNS. Content of windows hosts file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\Hosts 210.210.210.10 my.domain.com …
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Why is 1 of my 24 CPUs Pegged at 100%?

I have an HP ProLiant DL380 G7 system using 2 6-core CPUs, with Hyper-threading enabled, for a total of 24 logical CPUs (as seen by Windows). When running our application, total system CPU utilization is good, but one of the 24 CUPs is pegged at…
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Domain Controller returns LDAP Referral for it's own domain

I have 2 domains, each with 2 Domain Controllers: company.local ad.company.com.au Both domains are in the same forest and have a bi-direction trust setup. We're migrating to the ad.company.com.au at present, however having some issues with systems…
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Why is it called Windows Server 2008 R2? Why not simply call it Windows Server 2010?

I've searched, but I can't find anything that explains why Microsoft started labelling new versions of Windows Server (and now SQL Server) as R2 releases. If they're new releases, why not simply give them new names? Or is there something going on…
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How to prevent delays associated with IPv6 AAAA records?

Our Windows servers are registering IPv6 AAAA records with our Windows DNS servers. However, we don't have IPv6 routing enabled on our network, so this frequently causes stall behaviours. Microsoft RDP is the worst offender. When connecting to a…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 - RDSH - Registry bloat with Samsung Universal Print Driver

While running multiple Windows Server 2008 R2 RDSH farms we are experiencing an issue where the RDSH servers all are having their Registry bloated to the maximum value 2048MB. Using Sysinternals Registry Usage (ru.exe) we were able to determine…
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Grant NON-administrator privileges to IIS 7

We are implementing a pseudo-Platform as a Service environment. It's a fairly simple set up that parallels Infrastructure as a Service: basically our clients will each have a access to their own servers, we will maintain the OSes while our clients…
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How to add subnets to Windows Firewall "local subnets"?

On Windows Firewall under an individual rule the scope tab allows you to define which ips are subject to the rule. One of the built in options is "Local subnet". How can you add an additional subnet to this for windows to understand it is a trusted…
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How to create an additional domain controller using Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core?

I'm currently running Windows Server 2008 R2, can anyone tell me how I can replicate the active directory to another server which has been installed using Server Core install.
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How to Protect Sensitive (HIPAA) SQL Server Standard Data and Log Files

I am dealing with electronic protected health information (ePHI or PHI) and HIPAA regulations require that only authorized users can access ePHI. Column-level encryption may be of value for some of the data, but I need the ability to do like…
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ZFS Like Alternatives on Windows

Conceptually, and I don't think I am alone here, I love the concepts of ZFS. You can create one big disk, everything is stored on multiple drives, and you can grow and shrink the pool and drive at any time. Plus, the disks don't need to be same…
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Remote Desktop Connection Screen is totally black but server is working perfectly

Server is working perfectly but when I do RDC screen is only black. This happened before and I fixed it by powering off the server via KVM/IP, but I don't want do that again. How can I fix this issue. OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Edition SP1
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Does Win 2008 R2 still have 32 bit edition?

I was looking for the proper version of Win 2008 R2 to download, and cannot find a 32 bit. Is it 64-bit only? I'm still on a 32-bit machine, going to run it under VMWare. Do I need to go back to the original Win 2008 (i.e. the one before R2)?
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Apache 2.4 is unkillable and can't be stopped on Windows Server

We have two Windows Server, one in 2012 R2 and the other in 2008 R2 which uses Apache HTTP Server (httpd) 2.4 in proxy/reverse-proxy mode (usage of ProxyPass, ProxyPassReverse and Virtual Hosts configuration). Both servers uses Apache 2.4.27 x64…
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How can I verify Windows DNS forwarders are working?

I thought I knew how to do this, but I guess not. Even the d2 debugging in nslookup doesn't show the actual forwarder being queried. So...let's say I set up DNS forwarders in a Windows DNS server and then query using nslookup (or something else?)…
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