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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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SQL Server 2008 remote logins fail, local succeeds, remote logins enabled?

I'm running SQL Server 2008, with remote connections enabled, and mixed Windows Authentication and SQL Server Authentication enabled. The logins I have setup (Windows and SA) work fine from the server. However, when I login from a remote computer, I…
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Export/Print all Roles & Features

I have putting together a guide on how to install a certain application. I know its working perfect on the servers current configuration so I thought it would be a easier to do an export from Server Manager or something similar. Has anyone done this…
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PHP session files are not being deleted (IIS 7)

Our website isn't displaying because the C:\Windows\Temp directory can't be written to, because C:\ is now out of space. The reason: tons of sess_230498230493240 [random hash] files. Like, thousands. php.ini is set to use C:\Windows\Temp for temp…
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Permissions Issue? Putty + Plink + Pageant + Powershell + Scheduled Task

Background I have the following components: A windows server 2008 R2 box An administrator account (mine) A service account on the domain that is an Administrator of the box An installation of Putty (including plink for command line and Pageant as…
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How to enable DFSR between Windows Server 2008 servers that aren't part of a domain?

I'm configuring two server as IIS web servers on Windows Server 2008 in load balancing mode. I want to enable DFS replication for synchronizing web content files and IIS configuration data (via IIS 7 shared configuration.) The servers are not in a…
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Windows Server 2008 No Desktop or Start Button on User Login Server Manager Launches

I'm working at a small company and since I worked tech support about 8 years ago (and have been a Software Engineer for most of the time since then), I'm responsible for all things computer related. I've inherited the current network/server…
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MS Lync on Terminal Server

Is there a way that I can install (hosted) Lync on our terminal server and when a user logs on, it automatically inserts their email address and the correct manual SIP settings so I don't have to log on to each profile manually?
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Certificate issue causing code to fail

We have some code that connects to a website to call a web service. When I run the code on our server under my account (local admin) the code runs fine. When I run the code under a different user the code fails and complains that it can not…
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Remote Computer Patch Info

I'm looking for a program that can remotely show me (From a server counsel) all the patch info and programs of the computers on my network. And whether it shows it to me via GUI or through a report, either would be helpful for me to see that all…
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How Do I Change the Active DIrectory Auditing Events Maximum?

We recently starting testing the ADAudit tool and turned on some new auditing features in AD. I have an LDAP Modify action in a custom program I've written that updates very large memberships for groups in AD (10,000+). It looks like it has…
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Specifying Username/Pass as part of a UNC path or map network drives for a windows service

I have a service that I need to be able to write to a network share on another machine using a local account on that machine. To do this I either need to map a network drive that can be seen by the service (logging in as the user the service runs…
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Windows Fileserver Allow users to manage permissions on folders they create

I have a Windows 2008 R2 Fileserver serving Win and Mac (SMB) clients. I have say 5 folders: Happy Sad Lonely Stinky and Grumpy. All of the folders should be public to domain users except Happy and Sad, which should be restricted to the Happy and…
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Is there any chance to get Hyper-V enlightened I/O inside Windows 2008 R2 recovery DVD?

I'm fiddling with Windows Server Backup in Hyper-V virtual machines, testing backup and recovery time. While ( full ) backup time is pretty good, Bare Metal Recovery time using recovery DVD is 5 times longer. Here is backup ... ... and there is…
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Robocopy exclude directory in recursive file structure

This seems to be a popular question on the net, but everyone else seems to be OK with being able to specify only a portion of the full path in order to achieve a sort of wildcard. I need to be more specific, I think, as I've got a recursive file…
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Get User Rights Assignment values in Local Computer Setting using VBScript and WMI

I'd like to get all the values of User Rights Assignment in Local Computer Setting using VBScript and WMI. Is there a way I can do this with VBScript and WMI? Thanks.
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