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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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LDAP Can't perform an authenticated bind - Windows Server 2008 R2 Using PHP/Apache

I'm having issues performing an authenticated bind against the server. The issues doesn't appear to be in code however maybe a server issue. Just so you know; LDAP is enabled in Apache/PHP I'm connecting as user@domain.com The domain controller has…
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How to find which local process is sending spam on a Windows Server 2008 server

I am managing a Win Server 2008 system with a number of hosted web sites. Recently I found that something was sending spam through our SMTP server. The logs indicate that the connections were being made to our localhost port 25 SMTP server...which…
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Change AD domain membership of a Server 2008 running MS SQL 08

Is it safe to change the domain membership of a Windows Server 2008 that runs MS SQL 08? Have you already done this and did you experience any problems? I fear that there could be some kind of domain dependencies (accounts,permissions) that would…
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Should I enable BITS on my Sql Server 2008 server?

i have a web farm with iis7 boxes running w2k8 and a single sql server running w2k8 also. all x64bit. We're on a private Gigabite LAN. Should I have BITS enabled for each iis7 box? sql server box?
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Windows Advanced Firewall - adding Authorized Computers breaks rule

How can adding a 'only allow connections to these computers' setting in an an otherwise working IPSec rule break connectivity? Background: I'm setting up a basic set of client rules that restrict outbound SMB access to only go to certain servers.…
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Multiple static IP addresses pointing to same Windows 2008 r2 server

I have a Windows 2008 r2 VPS which I am using for both IIS and Apache. Im looking to have two static IP addresses to point to this server. One for IIS to use and one for Apache. I already have one IP pointed to the server which works fine, but I…
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Migrating Local Users from Server 2003 x86 to Server 2008 x64

I'll try to spare the sob story, but we have an FTP server we are trying to migrate from Server 2003 x86 to Server 2008 x64. This server has hundreds of FTP users, users that ONLY log on via FTP. As you can guess, I'm looking for a way to migrate…
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Configuring VPN on Windows Server 2008 with no DHCP

Please see the revised section at the bottom as the original question seems to have been a little convoluted I have a cloud based virtual machine from my client's hosting company. The sole purpose of the VM instance is for the clients public…
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Distributed File System 2008 Speed Issue

I have setup a DFS system as follows. Office 1 (10MB Leased Line) SBS 2003 Server - Runs the network Windows 2008 Standard Server - Member Server + DFS Services (Namespace server) Office 2 (4 x Bonded Broadband Lines) Windows 2008 Standard Server -…
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Workstation authentication against wrong AD server in multi-site configuration

Having a problem which I've seen before but haven't yet found a solution to, I've got multiple AD sites in one domain physically separated and logically separated by different subnets and AD sites. When a user account is enabled after being in a…
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How do I merge a snapshot in Hyper-V Manager?

I have a VM using Hyper-V on Win Server 2008. I'm using the "Now" snapshot, I want to merge everything so I have only one VM with no snapshots.
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How to use multiple virtual web servers with one 1 public IP address?

I'm working on a solution where we will be setting up 40 virtual web servers on a single server using Windows 2008 w/ Hyper-V. Unfortunately, we only have 3 free public IP addresses to use, so I need to have a basically a single public IP which…
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Remote access to server via service control panel for non-admin user in Windows 2008

I'm trying to configure my Windows 2008 servers so that my developers can view their status without needing to log on to the box or be an admin. Unfortunately, the permissions set in Windows 2008 for remote non-admin users don't include the ability…
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How to get LDAP connection string for my ActiveDirectory

I am trying to get Grails LDAP plugin to work with my Active Directory. The plugin requires a lot of things which I'm not really familiar with as I don't know much about Active Directory. Here are the things required by the plugin: // LDAP…
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FTP/IIS Error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

In IIS 7.5 When trying to get current log files using CMD FTP client it gives error 550 error: "The file cannot be accessed because it is in use by another process" Checked processes using procmon and found that FTP was the only thing accessing it.…
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