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Windows Server 2012 R2 is a server operating system from Microsoft. It was published on May 31st of 2013, and will be End Of Life on Oct 10, 2023. It contains many substantial changes over it predecessor, and substantially streamlines the number of available versions, which are down to four: Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter.

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Windows Server 2012 R2 is a server operating system from Microsoft. It was published on May 31st of 2013. It contains many substantial changes over it predecessor, and substantial streamlines the number of available versions, which are down to four: Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter.

The editions and their features are laid out in a table at Wikipedia, but substantial new features and changes include:

  • Metro, a new Graphical User Interface (based on Microsoft's Metro design language) which is also present in Windows 8.
  • A new FileSystem, ReFS (Resilient File System)
  • A new role, IP address management (IPAM)
  • A new IIS version (IIS 8.0)
  • Simplified and updated Active Directory functionality
  • A new version of Hyper-V (Microsoft's virtualization technology)
  • Much expanded PowerShell commandlet library: over 2300, compared with approximately 200 in Server 2008.
  • The ability to switch between Server Core and full modes without a full re-installation, and the addition of a new installation option that excludes most of the GUI.

Minimum system requirements for installing and running Server 2012 are:

  • 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 32GB disk space

Maximum hardware scalability in Server 2012 is also improved, currently:

  • 640 logical processors
  • 4 TB RAM
  • 64 fail-over cluster nodes
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Microsoft AD Server Migration - Two Servers Shutting Down One(Avoiding Server Demotion)

I have two servers, one old AD server (server A) and a brand new server (server B). I am trying to migrate from old to new so I setup my second server following these instructions and add the second server as a domain controller within the same…
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GPO account lockout policy not applying but other policies in GPO do

I have a GPO that defines password policies and a logout policy after a set amount of invalid attempts: I have ensured that this GPO is applied at domain level. Password policies apply fine and function correctly. How come Account Lockout Policy…
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Shared drive, copy permissions to new accounts to view files in old domain server

Ok this is a bit of a hard scenario. We are in the middle of a domain migration, we aren't doing it all at once which means gradually we will move users over at a time. This means that we need to be able to have the users permissions for the company…
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Serverview Raid Manager does not show GUI

I am relatively new to servers and recently bought an Fujitsu Primergy TX 150 S7. I installed Windows Server 2012 on a temporary HDD as I could not figure out how to set up the included Raid Controller with 2 SAS HDDs. I tried using the tool of…
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A temporary profile created by service if User Profile Disk of RDS collection is enabled

I configured Remote Desktop Service on Server 2012 R2, and enabled User Profile Disk on the RDS collection. Then I configured a Windows service and assign a user account (say MyUser) as the logon user account for the service. Then reboot the PC.…
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802.1x - automatic fallback from EAP-TLS to EAP-PEAP for Windows 10 clients?

802.1x authentication is enabled on our switch access ports and wireless APs. RADIUS requests are sent to a Server 2012R2 NPS server. This NPS server has two network policies configured: Authentication via EAP-TLS (using a machine certificate that…
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Difference when mounting NFS using either net use or mount within Windows

I'm currently looking at mounting an NFS to use within a load balanced environment. The host is Ubuntu and the clients (using client for NFS) are using Windows 2012 R2. I was wondering which command is better to use either 'net use' or the 'mount'…
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Exchange upgrade fails due to a replication issue

I'm trying to upgrade an exchange 2013 server to CU18, but it's currently failing. The error is... The server side error is: 0x21a2 The FSMO role ownership could not be verified because its directory partition has not replicated successfully…
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Unable to connect to non-primary ADFS farm member

We have had a 2012 R2 ADFS farm deployed for some time. When changing the web theme for the ADFS config today, I have noticed I was unable to connect to the secondary server in our farm from my workstation using its FQDN. The primary server I can…
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How often should a WSUS server be rebooted?

I've not been able to find info on this one. All my searches come up with info on rebooting the servers or computers that get their updates from the WSUS server, but not rebooting the WSUS server itself. I'm just trying to figure out what would be…
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Breaking RAID 1 on Windows Server

I have a Windows Server 2012 storage box which has 4 drive slots (not counting the internal OS drive). The system tray shows a Western Digital RAID utility, where you can perform various RAID operations. I’m assuming this is a hardware RAID…
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Create share inside another share in Windows Server

What is the proper way for creation a share inside another? I need to share subdirectory of share to another division (div2). And I have to secure it from change name of this directory by div1... Finally it should looks like that: \\ad\share…
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Setting up DHCP on Windows Server 2012 R2. How to share Server's connected networks with all clients?

My office requires a connection to a private corporate cloud and also the internet. Up till now i have used dual network cards on all client machines and then added static routes through command on each of them. It works well but now the number of…
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How to Find out who deleted files windows server 2012 R2

I have windows server 2012 R2 Essentials installed in my local to use it as a file sharing server for local usage. I have created users with windows server essentials dashboard and also created server folders with the same. Recently some one tried…
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Disable Saving files and folders on desktop by group policy

I am using Windows Server 2012 R2 (AD, DC). 20 computers are joined with DC (Users are on Win 10 OS). I want to disable desktop file saving through group policy, and in this regard, I tried following it worked for users but denies administrator. (I…
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