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Windows Server 2008 is a Microsoft server operating system released in February 2008 and reached End Of Life on January 14, 2020. It is the successor to Windows Server 2003 and is based on the Windows Vista codebase. It was succeeded by Windows Server 2008 R2. This tag should only be used for questions related to Windows Server 2008. If your question is about Windows Server 2008 R2, please use the Windows-Server-2008-R2 tag.

Windows Server 2008 is a Microsoft Server Operating System released in February 2008. It is the successor to Windows Server 2003 and is based on the Windows Vista codebase. It was succeeded by Windows Server 2008 R2.

Windows Server 2008 Introduced the following new features:

  • Server Core installation
  • Read Only Domain Controllers
  • Hyper-V

It is available in the following editions:

  • Windows Server 2008 Standard (x86 and x86-64)
  • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (x86 and x86-64)
  • Windows Server 2008 Datacenter (x86 and x86-64)
  • Windows HPC Server 2008
  • Windows Web Server 2008 (x86 and x86-64)
  • Windows Storage Server 2008 (x86 and x86-64)
  • Windows Small Business Server 2008 (x86-64)
  • Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (x86-64)
  • Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems
  • Windows Server 2008 Foundation

Server 2008 is the last 32-bit Windows Server version Microsoft plans to release.

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DFS linking to a target folder within another target folder

Windows Server 2012 - Attempting to setup a file server using DFS I have the following scenario: Namespace: \\domain\resources Folder without targets: Files > \\domain\resources\files Folders with targets: Clients >…
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What is the recommended disk setup for hyper-v on Windows Server 2008

We have two new servers running Server 2008 Standard: Dual Xeon E5430 @ 2.66 16 GB RAM 6 Seagate 146GB 15,000 RPM 16MB Cache SAS on RAID 5 (4+1) with hot spare for total of 544 GB hard disk We have this setup on our current Windows Server 2003…
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How fast can a Windows 2008 CIFS client write to SAMBA server using 10Gb NIC?

We are experiencing a performance problem using Windows 2008 CIFS client. We have a FreeNAS server that delivers 1.3GB/s on ZFS write. We have 10Gb network connecting NAS server and CIFS clients. Using two Linux CIFS clients, we can get around…
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Terminal Server CPU usage at 100%

I'm running a terminal server with around 50-60 users,and every so often the server will go from > 40% usage to 100%. I took a closer look an it seems every time this happens, a different user or two seem to be caught in a loop and end up using <…
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New sites on new Windows 2012 Server (IIS 8) returns 404 from Windows 7

I have a brand new install of Windows 2012 Server, and trying to set up a simple web site. I'm able to hit the default web site (returns the IIS 8 home page) using the IP address. But I'm getting a 404 on a newly created site containing a single…
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Advice for Hyper-v deployment on windows server

We just bought two new servers that have windows server standard 64 bit sp2 on them. Relevant Hardware: Dual Xeon E5430 @ 2.66 16 Gig Ram 6 143 GB 15,000 RPM SAS SCSI on Raid 5 for total of 544GB Hard Disk We are attempting to consolidate 6 old…
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change the expiration date on self-signed certificates?

I have a client that is using self-signed certificates (to sign InfoPath forms). The certificates are created using the certificate service built into Windows 2008. They said the certicates always expire after one year. How does one chage the…
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How to enable Kerberos Authentication Service auditing on 2008 server

I have a 2008-level Windows domain running 5 x 2008 (non-R2) DCs (it's on the roadmap to migrate to R2 or possibly 2012 in the next 9-12 months, but this project needs to be working first), and I need to enable Kerberos Authentication Service events…
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what does local group policy do in Dc?

when you have a dc, in fact you don't have LSD because it has migrated to GSD .But if you type Gpedit.msc in Run box it will open local group policy console . I've read that policies you have set in through this console neither work on dc and…
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Memory usage on Windows Server

Our server is always very low on available memory. And yet the top processes only take up a portion of what should be available on our server (with 10 GB of memory). I ran tasklist to get a listing of all of the processes and added up the total…
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DFS-R NTFS Permissions Not Working?

I have two Windows 2008 Standard servers running DFSR okay. I can create a file on one server and it is replicated to the other okay, etc. I have the namespace shared folder on each server shared with Full Control for Administrators and Modify…
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Identify which application pool is using CPU / Memory

We have a web server with many Web Sites. Each web site has it's own application pool. Currently all application pools use the identity of the same domain user. When one of the sites starts to use 100% of CPU we cannot see which site is…
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How to determine hardware abstraction layer in Windows Server 2008

I'm investigating a bug which only seems to be reproducable on some single processor machines. I want to know if this is related to the HAL. Prior to Server 2008, it was possible to select a specific HAL .dll using device manager as described here -…
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Howto make a Server share aliased rather than just the server

After looking at How to Configure Windows Machine to Allow File Sharing with DNS Alias I was trying to understand if there was a way you could actually alias the shares directly rather than just the server We have currently got 1 server hosting a…
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Windows Server Standard - showing as Windows Vista in Microsoft OS check - What version is it?

So I became in charge of a Windows Server VM. I can't tell whether this version is Windows 2003 or 2008. In My Computer system properties, all it says is: Windows Server Standard Copyright 2007 Microsoft Corporation. Service Pack 2 when using…
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