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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 It is superseded by Windows Server 2012

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Do I have to enable TLS 1.0 in windows 2008 R2?

Do I need to enable TLS 1.0 in Windows Server 2008 R2, or is it enabled by default? I did search and found out that TLS 1.1 and 1.2 is supported but disabled by default. How about TLS 1.0? I tried googling and wasn't able to find a concrete answer.
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Windows DNS not picking up change to external website A record

I have pointed an external website to a new IP address. When I query the domain from an non-networked computer or device it picks up the change. I've run dnscmd /clearcache on both DCs several times now and they keep getting the old IP. There is…
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IIS Site breaks after disabling SSLv3

I am trying to disable SSLv3 on a 2008 R2 web server that runs IIS 7.5 but as soon as I disable SSLv3 and reboot, the website is no longer reachable. I ran a packet capture with SSLv3 still enabled and my client is establishing a TLS 1.2 connection…
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AD cross forest trust logon workstations

Our business unit has been bought out by an external entity. We are running 2008 R2 AD, they are running 2012 AD, the domains are not joined or trusted. They have servers including domain controllers in their head office data centre (domain A). We…
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Windows DNS Server Export

Is there a way or a tool that I can get a csv (or even tab delimited) list of all Forward Lookup Zone records and zones in a Windows 2008 R2 DNS Server? The DNS Server is the built-in Windows one, and shows as version 6.1.7601.17514 I did notice…
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Detecting duplicate IP address from improperly cloned virtual machines

One of our production servers was "cloned" to make a secondary test environment. The source server is a virtual machine (VMWare vSphere environment) joined to a domain and with a static IP address. When the cloned VM was powered on, the virtual…
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gpupdate fails, access denied - event ID 1055

I became aware of this issue yesterday after pushing out GPO for Software Policy Restrictions. I am unable to push out MSI installations to certain computers. I went to look at the one of the machines, and it is affecting computers that are not…
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Backup microsoft SQL server 2008 to OneDrive

Is there an option to automate a backup to Microsoft Onedrive every night? The machine is a Windows server 2008 R2. I would like to to able to automatically upload my backups to OneDrive. I was wondering if there is an option to do so…
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How to create user profiles before logging in first time?

We have an upcoming demo of some software we've developed in a classroom setting. In order to demonstrate it, we are going to have the participants log in to one of our windows servers running 2008 via Remote Desktop. In order to make things…
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Non-FQDN Intranet Subdomain

I have a production server and a development server. Each has their own CNAME record so employees don't have to type in the NetBIOS name of each machine. Lets say they're myapp and myappdev. I've set up IIS with a number of virtual hosts so I have…
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Windows Server set multiple Gateways and metrics

I would like to configure my DHCP Server (Windows Server 2008 R2) so that it assigns to each host two gateways. The client should use the gateway which is closer (less number of hops). I can do this manually on the client itself by setting the…
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Store cached credentials on terminal server

Is it possible to store cached login credentials on a terminal server, allowing users to login if the domain controller is unreachable? If it is possible, can you set a time limit? E.g. DC authentication will be needed after X days. Terminal Server:…
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Desktop Wallpaper through group policy for Windows 8 client

I Have Windows 2008R2 server with active directory. All client systems are Windows 8/8.1 Pro. I need to push corporate wallpaper through AD GPO on client system, I have created a shared folder on server with .jpg file in it and given its shared path…
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Possible to override a GPO that doesn't have an 'Enabled' or 'Disabled' option?

I have a GPO that is directly under the domain in the tree in group policy manager. Meaning it applies to all OUs in the domain. (This wasn't my doing) The "Interactive logon: Message text for users attempting to log on" policy contains a security…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 logon screen with both smart card and username/password options

I have a farm of Server 2008 R2 RD hosts that our staff connects to using HP ThinPro clients. Currently, we are using ThinPro 4.2. We would like to update to ThinPro 5.0, but we have run into a snag. Currently, when a user connects to the RD host,…
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