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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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Remote Desktop Services - VPN or Web Gateway?

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 box running RDS and a remote system that needs to connect to it. It seems like I have two options to open it up to the world: Use the RDS Web Gateway Setup a VPN to my remote site Does it really matter which option…
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Use a separate Teredo server and Teredo relay in Windows

All documentation (including microsoft's) about Teredo mentions the existance of Teredo Servers and Teredo Relays (and host-specific relays). Microsoft itself even runs public Teredo Servers (but no relays). But when I try to configure Teredo in…
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Highly available and scalable SQL Servers with read-only databases?

I've been thinking about building a website which could potentially get a lot of traffic. It would be a research site of sorts with wiki capabilities. So users would be able to edit information on the site. However, 99% of users would probably…
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Remove Computers added to WDS database without a name

We run WDS on Server 2008 R2. We have a large stock of Loan Laptops that we reimage when they come back from loan. these machines all used to have a generic name (LoanLT) which was specified in the answer file. We have since decided to barcode all…
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Win2K8 R2 Scheduled Task Fault Tolerance

I have two identical servers running Windows 2008 R2. I am using DFS Replication to keep a few shares in sync between the two servers. Each server is a Domain Controller and each server can function in the event the other becomes unavailable…
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Unable to update user policy via VPN

One Domain user with laptop is gone abroad. I had change some user policy for that Domain User. I have connected his laptop via internet through VPN to my Local Network. I am getting the following error, when i am trying to update the policy,…
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LDAPS being redirected to 389

We're trying to perform an LDAPS bind to a server which blocks 389 with a firewall so all traffic must travel over 636. In our test lab we're connecting to a test ldap (located on the same server) which does not have this firewall so both ports are…
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Windows 2008 64bit permissions and Lotus Domino 8.5.x

I have an application running on a Domino Server (8.5.3) on Windows 2008 64 bit O/S. Since the recent upgrade to 2008, the agents with OLE integration to MS Word no longer run when the Domino Server runs as a service. This does work when it's run…
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Can I log in as another user without their password in a Windows Server 2008 environment?

I recently changed the network at my job so users log in to the domain and have their settings and files hosted on the server, where previously they logged in to local accounts on each computer and had permissions to access server files stores. The…
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Storing valuable high-resolution images before root

I have a busy celebrity stock photo website and I am trying to hide the photos behind the website root, so they can't be accessed via URL, but my ASP script can read the photo and sends it to he browser in binary. I'm using Windows Server 2008 R2. I…
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How to detect robocopy's failure to delete from source?

On my SQL Server instance I use SQL Agent to run a daily backup job in two steps. One of the steps uses Robocopy to move local backup files to network storage. The command to move the files looks like this: robocopy M:\backups…
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How do I get Windows Domain Controller and Ubuntu dnsmasq to play nicely?

I've inherited "ownership" of a network which has a Windows 2003 Server running as a Domain Controller and file server (no IIS or DNS running). We also use an Ubuntu server running dnsmasq as an internal Name Server. This setup doesn't seem to have…
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Active/Active vs Active/Passive cluster

First time setting up a clustered environment, and have a few questions. From a windows cluster perspective what determines if it is an Active/Active cluster vs an Active/Passive cluster? Is it the configuration of the windows cluster or the…
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Changing printer preferences when a printer is deployed through AD GPO

I am deploying a printer through Group Policy. The deployment of the printer works great. The problem I'm having is, I made same changes to the printer preferences from the server. I changed things like the page size, roll paper width, changed the…
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How to monitor a Windows process' working set greater than 4GB?

Apparently the .NET framework has a bug that prevents working set values above 2GB from accurately being determined. Between 2 and 4GB one can apply some xor-ing calculation to obtain the value, but there's no means of obtaining working set values…
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