Questions tagged [windows-server-2008-r2]

Windows Server 2008 R2 is a server operating system produced by Microsoft.

Windows Server 2008 R2 is a server operating system produced by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing (RTM) on July 22, 2009 and launched on October 22, 2009. It is built on Windows NT 6.1, the same kernel used with the client-oriented Windows 7.

It is the first 64-bit-only operating system released from Microsoft. Version enhancements include new functionality for Active Directory, new virtualization and management features, version 7.5 of Microsoft IIS Web Server and support for up to 256 logical processors.

There are seven editions:

  1. Foundation
  2. Standard
  3. Enterprise
  4. Datacenter
  5. Web
  6. HPC Server
  7. Itanium and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 (Essentials Edition).

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WCF .NET 4.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2

In Windows Server 2008 R2, I cannot activate WCF Http/Tcp Activation windows features for .net 4.5 from Server Manager Server manager in Windows Server 2008 R2 does not support .net 4.5, even though .net 4.5 can be installed and used in IIS in…
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PHP Error Logs on IIS 7.5/Windows Server 2008

I'm confused about where I should be looking for a log file containing php errors on a Windows 2008 Server running IIS 7.5 (I'm more familiar with the Mac OS X setup for this). In my php.ini file I have log_errors set to "On" but I'm not seeing any…
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Missing IUSR account on Windows Server 2008 R2 / IIS7.5

I've been given the job of installing PHP5.4 on this machine. One of the manual installation steps is to configure the IUSR account to have specific permissions. The problem is, I see the IIS_IUSRS group, but no IUSR account. The only users listed…
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ASP.Net cannot create/shadow copy in PRODUCTION

We've recently updated a fairly large ASP.NET website (~1500th alexa traffic ranking) to use VS2010 and .NET 4.0 running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Since then, when we deploy new versions of the site we occasionally noticed the same error in this…
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How to set TimeZone using Powershell

How can I set TimeZone using Powershell, on a Windows Server 2008 R2 target machine?
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Error # 1045 - Cannot Log in to MySQL server -> phpmyadmin

We have installed PHPMyAdmin on a windows machine running IIS 7.0. We are able to connect to MySQL using command-line, But we are not able to connect using PHPMyAdmin. The error displayed is: Error #1045 Cannot log in to the MySQL server. Can…
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Log4net works in Debug but fails in Release build

I've been using log4net for a while so I'm not quite new to it. But this was my first larger .NET 4.0 solution deployed on a Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit machine. Of course I searched first and found similar topics. One topic sounds quite the same…
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How to create windows service to run a powershell script?

I have infinite loop PowerShell (Testing purpose) script, which I want to run as a Service in Windows Server 2008 R2 (Standard). I'm using the following command to create the Windows service, sc.exe create "My PS1Service" binPath= "powershell.exe…
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How to write in a registry key own by TrustedInstaller

In order to install a new property page into the Active Directory SnapIn, I need to write into the following registry key of W2K8 R2 (as documented by…
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Got "Access is denied" when I tried to install 64-bit mongodb in Windows server 2008

All I did is to run below script: D:\Tools\MongoDb\bin\mongod.exe --dbpath D:\MongoDb\data\ Then I got exception: Error connecting to the service Control Manager: Access is denied. (5) I was using administrator account to operate this, I already…
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Not able to start elastic search service

I am trying to start the Elastic Search service on a Windows 2008 R2 server, but it's failing to start. It had previously been running for several months without issue. In services, I get the message: "Windows could not start the Elasticsearch 1.7.2…
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How to set custom headers with web.config?

I have the following in the web.config, but after it's published to IIS 7.5 on the server, they couldn't be find under IIS -> HTTP Response Headers. What I found is that the web.config on server doesn't have those entries either, but they were there…
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Windows Authentication not working in ASP.NET MVC 5 web app

I have an ASP.NET MVC 5 app and am trying to enable Windows Authentication. The development machine is Windows Server 2008 R2, IIS Express 8.0, Visual Studio 2013 & .NET Framework 4.5. I get a 404 Not Found error when ever I browse the app. The app…
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MySQL unable to connect with remote server

We have a MySQL server in one of the remote Virtual Machine (Windows Server 2008). Till yesterday we were able to connect to the MySQL server, with the help of workbench installed in our local machine. Yesterday there was a restart to the machine…
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Windows could not start service on Win Server 2008 R2 SP1 (Error 1053)

This issue seems to be widely discussed, but I have problems with finding the solution in my particular case. My service is set up to be running under Local System account. On my first machine with Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit) installed, everything works…
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