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Windows Server 2012 is a server operating system from Microsoft. It went RTM on August 1st of 2012, general release on September 4, 2012, and reached End Of Life on October 10, 2023. Like its predecessor, Server 2008 R2, it is only available in 64 bit versions. 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 is a server operating system from Microsoft. It went RTM on August 1st of 2012, and to general release on September 4, 2012. Like its predecessor, Server 2008 R2, it is only available in 64 bit versions. 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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Lockdown Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows Remote Desktop Services

I've installed Mozilla Thunderbird 31.3.0 on a Windows Server 2012 R2 which has the Remote Desktop Services role. I want to configure the Thunderbird program and set each user's email account etc and then I need to lockdown the program, so that…
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How to fallback to out-of-site login server - ActiveDirectory

I pretty much spend all of my time on Linux\Networking however I am trying to set up a multi-site AD configuration. There is no root site or anything like that, I simply have two DCs in SiteA and one DC in SiteB. They all replicate to each…
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How do I configure the Hyper-V virtual switch to share internet without bridging on the host machine?

I'm setting up windows deployment services for LiteTouch Deployments in my home but what I realized was that if I take my actual LAN NIC that is connected to the internet and bridge it to the Hyper-V virtual switch, the VMs that utilize that virtual…
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User Account Not Listed in Gateway / or expecting IP address?

I’m trying to connect to my first VM that I've created on Azure. These are the steps I went through: When trying to connect I get this screen: It correctly lists the remote computer address as mymachine1231.cloudapp.net but for some reason the…
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Allowing a CGI-EXE app to access the registry

I have an exe app that I run on IIS (from C:\inetpub\wwwwroot in DefaultAppPool) and needs to access the registry, but it doesn't work, it seems like it doesn't have permission. What's weird is I ran it on Windows 8 and it works fine, but on Windows…
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MDT Deployment Issue-Driver not loading (i217-LM on MDT)

I have been testing a replacement imaging system to replace our limited Ghost deployment system for a good portion of the last year. We bought a new batch of machines (HP Workstation Z230) which have the Intel i217-LM NIC. I have had a significant…
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WDS "Configure Server" fails. "Share name is already in use on this server"

I had WDS installed on this particular server (running Server 2012 Standard), removed it for various reasons, and am now trying to reinstall it. When I go through the initial configuration process for the server, I keep getting the error "The share…
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Can't access share sometimes and some strange performance issues

I'm getting error 0x80070043 "The network name cannot be found" when accessing \\dc01 (the root), but can access shares via \\dc01\share. When I get that error I also didn't get the network drive on hosted that server set via Group Policy, it fails…
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Kerberos Event 4 servername showing username

We have a .Net Windows Service that uses a Httplistener and authenticates requests using Kerberos. When users are connecting via their browser, an error in the users event log shows a Kerberos Event ID 4: The Kerberos client received a…
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Strange Disk Benchmarking results for our storage, how to explain?

I recently tested the storage we got from our hosting provider. I don't know what raid config or how many disks the storage contains of. I used Atto Disk Benchmark which sends smaller and bigger files, please see the attached image. I was expecting…
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AWS - EC2 unable to detect EBS drives

after an unexpected restart on a windows server 2021 r2 server, the server is unable to detect the EBS drives. i have attached about 4 drives but they are invisible/not detected in device manager/disk manager, i.e., only c drive is visible in the…
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How do I use a wildcard certificate with SSRS?

I am trying to setup SSRS access via SSL, and I have followed the instructions here; however, I do not receive a clickable url in the Configuration Manager to click on and test. The url shows as https://+:9443/ReportServer. Based upon this…
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Is .Net Framework 3.5 installed on this Windows Server 2012 already?

I am running an installer of a third party app. I am baffled by this message from the installer. Here is the screenshot of the dialog box: However when I check "Add Roles and Features", I can see Does it mean the .Net Framework 3.5 is already…
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Google Chrome Returns err_connection_aborted, all other browsers display site

We're hosting a website with IIS on Windows Server 2012. Normally, the site is accessible from any browser. We're seeing the site intermittently accessible on campus when using Google Chrome. The chrome error is: err_connection_aborted. A user that…
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Server 2012 Can't Ping Local Network

I have four Windows Server 2012 servers hosted on ESXi 5.5. The first one is the firewall box with two network adapters. One with an external connection to the internet, that is shares its connection with the second internal network adapter with no…
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